While I've dabbled in Russian Circles music over the years, it wasn't until seeing them live with Young Widows last year that I really "got it." Hearing this new track from their forthcoming album Nine, out August 28th on Sargent House. Pre-order HERE.
This is heavy. As. F*CK!
The book I am most looking forward to - Geoff Darrow's Shaolin Cowboy returns with a new series! Every panel of every issue of every series so far has been a work of unparalleled art, and I expect The Shaolin Cowboy: Staying A.I. Alive to be no different.
Ordained is an action movie in comic form (already been optioned) and it has not disappointed me yet. Who isn't up for watching a Priest beat the tar out of a bunch of mobsters?
Jeff Lemire's Minor Arcana returns to start a new arc!
I'm not a regular FF reader, but my good friend and Drinking with Comics co-host Mike Shin picked this as a book to watch out for a few months back when the solicitation dropped, and here's why:
The Event Horizon prequel marches on, and the depravity continues. Loving these covers and the art in general, and I'm looking forward to how this arrives at the starting point of the film.
NCBD:
Great week! Let's get into this right away, as the first book is one I've been waiting on with gritted teeth and several others have felt a long time coming!
"Johnny Storm has had some incredibly bad ideas in his time, but every once in a while he also has an incredibly good idea too. Unfortunately, it's hard to tell which is which until you're neck-deep in their consequences, and by then it's usually too late. We mention this only because in this issue, Johnny convinces his sister Sue to go along with a scheme to use her powers to turn the flesh of his skull invisible, so that when he flames on he can pass himself off as the Ghost Rider and settle some old scores. What could possibly go wrong?"
Now does that sound fun or does that sound fun?
Last but not least, I'd all but forgotten about Gabriel Hardman's Batman/Green Arrow/The Question prestige format book Arcadia, but here it is, the final issue. Overall, I think this will read better as a trade, but I'm a sucker for the prestige format, so I'm looking forward to a full reread before cracking into this final issue.
Watch:
A trailer for Robert Eggers' Werwulf dropped two days ago and, as per my custom, I am posting it here but not watching it. This one releases on Christmas - CHRISTMAS! - and we already have a trailer? This is bound to get beaten to death well before the film lands, so I am doing my best to avoid all contact for now.
Nothing this man has done has disappointed me in the least, so I want to preserve as unspoiled an experience as I can with this one.
Playlist:
Infinity Frequencies - Between Two Worlds
The Caretaker - Theoretically pure anterograde amnesia
Boards of Canada - Inferno
The Atlas Moth - The Old Believer
John Carpenter - Lost Themes IV: Noir
Throbbing Gristle - Once Upon A Time
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: A Dialogue with the Stars
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturian Poetry
Russian Circles - Station
Card:
From Jonathan Grimm's Bound Tarot Deck, which you can buy HERE.
• Eight of Cups
• Two of Swords
• 01: The Magician
Eight of Cups - the glasses start to spill, the vitality is threatened: Time for a recharge before the spark of creativity returns.
I'm in the midst of a recharge from writing after doing a pretty straight stint, day in, day out. That is the goal, but it definitely feels like it's time to fill the well.
