Desdemona Photo Gallery
All photos courtesy Steve Heile unless otherwise noted. Also, please click here and here for more Desdemona coverage. ANNIE APOLLO UP APPLES IN STEREO (photos by Mackenzie McAninch) ENON FIERY FURNANCES [...]
It’s getting hot outside. Too hot for me, really. This time of year, I seek comfort in a light breeze, watching the sweat run down the outside of my pint glass, and an occasional outburst of a thunderstorm. And I suppose my music choices reflect that… The Garden, the third album from Zero 7, wraps [...]
Wish You Were Here #2: They Found the Car
Wish You Were Here is a quarterly comic series from Fantagraphics in their new Ignatz collection – internationally-produced comics that are halfway between graphic novels and single-issue comic books. The first issue dealt with a reformed punk taking his nephew to meet an old friend who has just been released from prison. This second [...]
Desdemona: Success in the Sun
The inaugural Desdemona Festival took place at Sawyer Point in downtown Cincinnati, OH this past weekend. Celebrating the diversity that the indie-rock music world has to offer, the festival spanned three days and featured more than thirty bands. The following is Randomville staff writer Mackenzie McAninch’s daily log of the sites and sounds he took [...]
X-Isle #1
Boom! Studios is a relative newcomer to comics, but with the launches of X-Isle, Tag and Talent, they are starting to make a name for themselves as publishers of good character-driven fiction. That X-Isle involves creepy lamprey monsters from a monster island doesn’t hurt. Dr. Alex Keller is a professor of marine biology who, [...]
Casanova #1
In light of my Dallas Mavericks failing to win an NBA title this year, I’m a little too depressed to write a review for Casanova #1. Which is a shame, because it’s a damn good comic. Instead, I’ve arranged to have my friend and ABC color commentator Hubie Brown bring his unique insight to Image [...]
Desdemona Preview: An Interview with Forget Cassettes’ Jay Leo Phillips
Jay Leo Phillips is perhaps one of the busiest musicians you might not be aware of. It’s no wonder he was difficult to track down for an interview since he pulls double-duty as the front man of Apollo Up, and is a strong third of Forget Cassettes. Both bands are based out of his hometown [...]
Umbra #1
CSI: is apparently a very popular television show. It’s set in Las Vegas and has spawned two spin-offs based in New York and Miami. CSI: is based on a very simple premise – what is life like for the forensic scientists whose job it is to figure out how (and sometimes why) a person died? [...]
The Walking Dead #28
I’ve talked up The Walking Dead a lot in past reviews. So you probably already know if it’s the kind of comic you’re interested in. But just in case – Imagine a world-wide zombie plague that’s wiped out most of the population and all social order. Former police officer Rick Grimes has managed to [...]
Manifest Eternity #1
The premise of this new series, summed up in one quick tag, is this: fantasy universe invades sci-fi universe – chaos ensues. So what happens when the two red-headed stepchildren of genre literature team up? High Admiral Bozydej is a veteran of many wars. He led the humans of Earth across the universe, conquering [...]