{"id":940,"date":"2009-07-24T23:31:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T06:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/?p=940"},"modified":"2009-12-29T14:06:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T21:06:07","slug":"life-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/life-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><i>Life Sucks<\/i><\/h3>\n<p><b>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessicaabel.com\/\">Jessica Abel<\/a>, Gabriel Soria, and <a href=\"http:\/\/warrenpleece.wordpress.com\/\">Warren Pleece<\/a><\/b><br \/>\n[cover name=lifesucks]<\/p>\n<p>Dave has one of the worst jobs on earth. He&#8217;s the night manager at the Last Stop convenience store, but that&#8217;s not why his job is so awful. The real problem is his boss Radu, who happens to be a vampire. Radu is big into things like team spirit, so to make Dave a better employee, Radu made him a vampire, too.<\/p>\n<p>Rosa, the woman Dave has a crush on, thinks that being a vampire must be wonderful &#8211; eternal life, vampiric sex appeal, the charming company of other vampires, money, power, and other fine things like that. Unfortunately, Dave gets nothing of this. He&#8217;s got no money. He rides a bicycle to and from his dead-end job, and he&#8217;ll probably work at the Last Stop for all eternity. Also, Dave has a thing about blood. Plus, even though he&#8217;s a real vampire, the goth women he interacts with seem more interested in goth guys with expensive capes and boots rather than real vampires with name tags that say &#8220;Shift Manager.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another thing that makes Dave&#8217;s life miserable is that he has to interact with Wes, a psychotic surfer vampire who is also a servant of Radu. When Wes finds out Dave is interested in Rosa, he decides to be interested in her, too. This is bad, since when I said Wes is psychotic, I mean he likes killing or enslaving people. Thus, Dave has to try to save Rosa, but keep in mind that Dave is a big old loser.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&#038;friendID=92159514&#038;blogID=384022302\">read the first eleven pages<\/a> at MySpace or <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/entertainment\/2008\/04\/comics_lifesucks.html\">read a different thirteen pages<\/a> at New York Magazine&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>[starratingmulti id=&#8221;1&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3>Where to Find It<\/h3>\n<p>[librarylist]<br \/>\n[librarydate]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life Sucks <\/p>\n<p>by Jessica Abel, Gabriel Soria, and Warren Pleece [cover name=lifesucks]<\/p>\n<p>Dave has one of the worst jobs on earth. He&#8217;s the night manager at the Last Stop convenience store, but that&#8217;s not why his job is so awful. The real problem is his boss Radu, who happens to be a vampire. Radu is [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,23,7,75,14,29,4],"tags":[78,187,44,59],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-contemporary-fantasy","category-fantasy","category-fiction","category-graphic-novels","category-humor","category-manga","tag-latino","tag-romance","tag-supernatural","tag-vampires","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}