Ryan Black's Tension #1 Rocks!

I do a post Tension #1 release interview with Ryan Black in this week's Thee Comic Column on Joup. (essentially a sequel to my interview with him from May which can be found here).

The book is a fantastic independent debut. There's espionage, reality-based super powers (main character draws Dark Matter for his power! How awesome is that?), accommodating stewardesses and dirty black ops government agencies!

Sunday It All Comes Apart

I don't want it to but I need this to end. It is devastating me. However, at the same time the writing is so good that I'm pretty sure I can actually feel myself becoming a better writer just watching it.

I'm going to cry.

American Horror Story: Coven Intro

I cannot wait for this.

Annotations for Grant Morrison's Batman

image courtesy of http://blogs.villagevoice.com/

No, I didn't write them, but I list them and give the massive props due to those brave souls who did in this week's Thee Comic Column on Joup!

JSBX

In honor of the fact that Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is playing a free show tonight in NY (see Brooklyn Vegan here if you're there and want to try your luck at attending) I thought I'd post my all-time favorite song by the band. Of course, it's not quite the same when r i got soul doesn't bleed directly into get over here, but what can you do?

Deltron 3030 Ft. Mike Patton

You had me at Mike Patton, however despite my pervading prejudice against a lot of hip hop I dig this quite a bit and the video is fantastic. Very urban ex., steampunk, dystopian visuals and great low budget costume design.

Ghost - Papaganda Episode One: The Olde One

My good friend Tori is the one who turned me on to Ghost back when Opus Eponymous was released. I dug the album but there was something that kept me from really loving it. There seemed to be a certain... I don't know if lethargy is the exact right word, but it's the word I always think of when I listen to or contemplate that album. When the hype started for the band's second album, this year's Infestissumam Tori told me she thought the band had switched singers. This intrigued me, however once the album came out and I found that it did everything so much better than the previous one did I found it hard to reconcile the idea of the singer having been changed. Well, unless this is an elaborate hoax - which it might be - this video show's that Tori was completely correct.