You need the new album by The Cinematic Orchestra because J. Swinscoe's put together a thing of beauty this time. An alternate soundtrack to Dziga Vertov's Man With A Movie Camera, this is the sort of record you've been waiting to hear for ages and just didn't know it. Spy-jazz, deep groove, and an uncanny sense of melody gel to form a cohesive whole that, while you may have heard TCO before, you've never heard this.
Powers does not feature monkey ass this time, but the new Noble Causes book, Extended Family, brings together a wide variety of comics writers and artists with Jay Farber's soap-opera-with-tights and pulls it off nicely. Of some note is the fine art in one tale by Mitchell Breitweiser, who did a very nice sketch of Krypto for me a few months back at the big dumb Boston comics and sci-fi con.
Powers does not feature monkey ass this time, but the new Noble Causes book, Extended Family, brings together a wide variety of comics writers and artists with Jay Farber's soap-opera-with-tights and pulls it off nicely. Of some note is the fine art in one tale by Mitchell Breitweiser, who did a very nice sketch of Krypto for me a few months back at the big dumb Boston comics and sci-fi con.
