comic books and listening

By late evening last night, i ended up lying back on my bed reading Ultimate Iron Man while listening to that Scuba album. Such an excellent combination!

If you're sitting at the computer working, i find it too easy to ALT-TAB to itunes and change track or album depending on whim, which means not giving the music its full due and listening attention. Lying reading comics however, seems to have the perfect combination of having switched your attention off enough to let the album play out, but also still having enough concentration on the music to let it sink in fully.

I've never been a massive Iron-man fan, but recently read Warren Ellis' Iron Man: Extremis, which was incredibly good. I've been a fan of all of the Marvel Ultimate series so far, and finding Ultimate Iron Man in the library, was quite intrigued to pick it up. Not sure how familiar most of you are with the Marvel Ultimate universe? Its the Marvel universe basically updated to Now, with each character being rewritten as if they were just coming out for the first time, and usually with an excellent writer/artist team. The origins are completely revamped and updated, and the Ultimate Iron Man collection doesn't fail to deliver either. Loads of twists and turns and again beautiful artwork.

Today, just received my copy of Hudson Mohawkes' new 12", "Ooops!", ahead of his upcoming Warp release. Its a bugger i missed the launch party here in London the other weekend, heard it was excellent.

Up on the Heatwave blog today, they posted a live recording of Warrior Queen, live in Manchester. Been seeing Warrior Queen out quite a lot these days, usually with The Bug - she's super good live, and this set gives a good taste of it! read and download it here.

Also - just off the phone from the vinyl pressing plant - due my Magnetism test presses next wednesday and full delivery should be soon after, assuming everything is good with the TPs. can;t wait!

Labels: comics, heatwave, hudson mohawke, iron-man, magnetism, warrior queen