Monday, January 6, 2025

Ask the Rust About The Last of Us

 
You know, I never really gave Nothing's 2020 album, The Great Dismal, the chance it deserved. I wouldn't say I didn't like it, but before recently, I'd never bonded with this one like I did some of their others. That's changed, and this song resonates as a perfect album closer. Very MBV, but not, if you know what I mean. Here's Nothing's Bandcamp HERE or their site (which is really well-made) HERE.
 


Watch:

F*ck. Not sure I'm ready to go back to this world...

 
Well, we have until April. Gonna have to look at A LOT of cat pictures to prep.
 


Read:

Now that issue three of Rafael Grampa's Batman: The Gargoyle of Gotham is out, I sat down over the weekend and read all three. Holy smokes. This is seriously one of the best Batman series I've read, and even though I don't read all that many Bat-Books, I've read my share of the classics. I think this will sit amongst them. One of the reasons for that? The villains.


I've talked on Drinking with Comics about how I feel Bruce's standard rogues gallery is one of the major issues keeping from reading Bat-books. I rejoiced at Morrison's run when Prof. Pig and the Black Glove were introduced. Anything to get the same stupid, overdone bad guys out of the spotlight. I mean, yeah, I like a good Joker story here and there, and I loved Max's Penguin, but it's how you approach it. For the purposes of a Batman comic that's going to hold my interest, I need something new. And Mr. Grampa has certainly done that. Cry is fantastic (if that is actually their name), and whoever this is that showed up at the end of issue three blew me away. Let's not forget the weird, hallucinogenic psychic chick. There's just so much NEW going on here, and I absolutely reveled in it while reading. Can't recommend this one enough; I just hope it doesn't take the better part of another year to get issue four. If it does, it's worth it, but man - it would be tough just waiting a month or two.




Playlist:

Windhand - Split E.P.
Windhand - Eternal Return
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Nothing - The Great Dismal
Nothing - Guilty of Everything
Laylow - .Raw
Hangman's Chair - Saddiction (pre-release singles)
Hangman's Chair - A Loner




Card:

From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.


• Page (Princess) of Swords
• XVI - The Tower
• II - High Priestess

The Earth of Air, the Earthly realms of intellect. In other words, you can be as smart as you like, and it won't mean spit if you're not street smart. The Tower tells me I'm not as smart as I think, and High Priestess suggests nurturing, so I'm reading this as a direct rebuttal to the nearly crippling self-doubt and imposter syndrome that's been hammering on the inside of my skull for the last few days. I'm not as smart as I think - meaning I've misread everything and should chuck all that baggage in the bin. 

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