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Phonogram: The Singles Club

  
  

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Our Lady Has Left the Building
06:54 / 03.12.08
Oh, and that issue title gives me the happy shapes in my brain...
 
 
KieronGillen
08:01 / 03.12.08
It's meant to be December 10th/11th. We're waiting confirmation it'll actually happen, and I've a nagging feeling it'll hit a week later. Which would be annoying, but make it an inch closer to the real-life/fiction crossover, since the story is set December 23rd.

KG
 
 
KieronGillen
07:37 / 06.12.08
It's definitely coming out next week, bar epic disaster.

Er... quick thing. If you haven't actually reserved or pre-ordered a copy of 2.1, you may want to give your shop a call and ask them to keep a copy for you. Pre-orders were less than we were hoping - not terrible or anything, but about the same of the first issue last series. And since the first issue sold out and went through a second printing, we've shifted over 10K trades, it's in colour and we've done so much to make the singles be a totally unique thing this time around, that's a bit of a disappointment. C'est la vie.

Your shop should be able to order more at least initially - we over-printed a lot - but I suspect what there is out there will sell out quickly. So well worth bagsying one.
 
 
Automatic
13:20 / 08.12.08
Considering the nightmare that I went through trying to find a copy of Phonogram #1 I appreciate the advice. Can't wait to bop down to GOSH! on Thursday to pick this one up. Most I've looked forward to a comic for aaaaages.
 
 
KieronGillen
16:11 / 08.12.08
I've got my copies, which are deeply lovely.

Oh - there's going to be a launch party for Phonogram somewhere on Thursday night. Dunno the location yet, but we'll definitely be doing *something*.

KG
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
17:10 / 08.12.08
Looking forward to this -- the preview colours are pretty, as are McKelvie's people pictures. Pretty pretty.
 
 
Automatic
09:44 / 11.12.08
You weren't kidding when you said this was packed with stuff. Right, well, fantastic stuff. Phonogram always makes me pick out which characters resemble which of my friends, and then wish they were as cool as what's on the page. I'm going to be dancing all day.

Now, to start whoring this issue around those friends until they get off their arses and start buying them.
 
 
Poke it with a stick
17:40 / 11.12.08
Pretty, pretty colours.

Anyway, this issue made me want to find my Shampoo records (yes, I have more than one - I'm not ashamed) and hypnotise myself by listening to Blisters and Bruises on repeat while staring at the bubblegum pink vinyl.

I can pay it no higher compliment.
 
 
KieronGillen
09:26 / 12.12.08
Automatic: Great meeting last night, sir. Also, lady whose name I forget.

My favourite review quote so far is "It's the best pink covered comic I've read since Alpha Flight #12".

KG
 
 
Automatic
09:52 / 12.12.08
Yes, it was a fun night wasn't it. Bee sends her warmest regards. Next time there's a Phonogram event there should, nay there MUST be dancing. I felt my shoulders and hips twitching involuntarily at the opening chords of 'This Charming Man', and it's got to be unhealthy to bottle that up inside.
 
 
KieronGillen
12:03 / 12.12.08
I hollered at the bar to it, atonally.

(Actually, there was a lovely moment when I looked across the room when Hitten by Those Dancing Days dropped, and it was a moment of ridiculous human empathy for all these people. I was, of course, boozed)

The club-approach is looking kinda possible. We were talking some nonsense at the bar. We may try to do something in January even.
 
 
clever sobriquet
18:04 / 14.12.08
Just picked this up yesterday, and smiled like a fool the entire way through.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
01:51 / 18.12.08
CONFESSION: I walked into my local shop, demanded a copy of 2.1, and was told they did not order it and apparently don't plan to (despite the fact that I bought the trade from there like, maybe a month or two ago). I've decided to have them special order it for me, but in the meantime I've illegally downloaded it.

You ask: couldn't I have just waited? The answer is, obviously, NO. I refuse to wait an extra three weeks for something I can (should!) have now. But relax Mr. Gillen, you're getting your money anyway.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
01:55 / 18.12.08
Oh! It's great, by the way. Can't wait for the next one. Great stuff. The first one turned me on to Kenickie, what will be introduced to me this time around I wonder.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
16:38 / 18.12.08
I downloaded a ton of Klaxons and Long Blondes as a result of this. Super-fun!
 
 
dark horse
21:41 / 18.12.08
who is klaxons?
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
22:30 / 18.12.08
The Klaxons are a band -- Penny B has a poster for "Atlantis to Interzone" on her wall on the first page. It's fun.
 
 
KieronGillen
08:28 / 19.12.08
TunaGhost: MAN! Bally retailers.

The first print run has sold out by the way. In less than a week. We've got a second run with a lovely blue cover, which should be with shops shortly.

KG
 
 
Automatic
09:54 / 19.12.08
Blue cover huh? Got a pic around?

Also, Ice Cream mentioned Shampoo earlier. Now, I've always held 'We are Shampoo' and 'Girl Power' as incredibly guilty pleasures (wonderful as they are), but I've never been able to track down a copy of their last internet only album 'Absolute Shampoo'. Anyone heard it?
 
 
KieronGillen
14:01 / 19.12.08


KG
 
 
Poke it with a stick
15:44 / 19.12.08
Automatic: No sign in my usual haunts - have a Youtube video instead:
 
 
Poke it with a stick
15:45 / 19.12.08
Damn duff embedding.

Warpaint
 
 
doctorbeck
19:30 / 25.12.08
i used to sit down on christmas day with a 2000ad annual but the first phonogram did it for me instead today. first impression, i thought i'd picked up goddam jackie, really didn't like it, it just seemed too pop, iykwim, and then i got to the first b side, loved it, finished the whole thing notations and all and went back to the start while i was waiting for top of the pops and realised it was brilliant.

and that in fact it had female characters written and drawn in a real, fun, good way that i've not seen men do since love and rockets and ballad of halo jones. not quite sure why it took the emosoginist story to get me to see it different. top of the pops was great too, hallelujah made me all emotional.

only thing is, it's christmas in the comic, an all women vocal club night, and if they don't play the crystals santa claus is coming to town those djs are not half as cool as they think they are.
 
 
KieronGillen
09:22 / 03.01.09
I'm not sure what goes to our head most - the comparison to Halo/Love and Rockets or the comparison to the Immortal Jackie.

KG
 
 
KieronGillen
17:16 / 05.01.09


Boof!
 
 
Alex's Grandma
18:02 / 05.01.09
KG,

Slightly off-topic, but is it really true that you're going to be writing 'Dazzler'?

If so, it sounds great, but I'm amazed they're allowing anyone with such a well-defined, 'indie' set of priorities anywhere near the X-Men.
 
 
KieronGillen
18:09 / 05.01.09
Yup, true. I've done a short 8-page story for X-MEN MANIFEST DESTINY #5 which is out this week which stars Miss Blaire. I had to resist just making it people sit around and talk about what the best Chic record is, of course.

Dazzler is perhaps less surprising than the other X-Men related thing I'm doing - I mean, pop music! I've written SABRETOOTH: ORIGINS which is a special that's out in February. It's mostly inspired by early Nick Cave.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
18:59 / 05.01.09
Excellent. More stuff should be influenced by early Nick Cave.

This must all feel a bit strange though. One minute you're alone in a room, then the next you have a comic out, and then the next you're one of Marvel's possible breakthrough guys for 2009. Was there a plan, or is it more of a happy accident?
 
 
KieronGillen
20:23 / 05.01.09
As I always say, I have all the careerist instincts of a kamikaze pilot.

It's fun. And never boring. 2009 should be fun. As well as PG, there's a couple of books I'm doing for Avatar (Pretty much built from the ground up for them) and a couple of unannounced other things I'm doing with Marvel. I'm basically writing comics full time at the moment.

(And there's another Image book I'm co-writing which I really want to actually get done too.)
 
 
doctorbeck
18:23 / 07.01.09
>I've written SABRETOOTH: ORIGINS

is it april 1st already? jesus that flu medication was stronger than i thought.

unless this is the one where they sit around talking about Chic for 8 pages.
 
 
KieronGillen
08:05 / 08.01.09
No, totally for real. I talk to Newsarama about it here and mention the Marvel thing I'm doing next. Which is BETA RAY BILL.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
06:20 / 10.01.09
who is klaxons

The Klaxons, essentially, are a good argument for the return to National Service. Apart from the handsome one, what's the point of them? They make me see the red mist.
 
 
doctorbeck
19:20 / 10.01.09
you know keiron, i like phonogram so much i am going to consider buying those x-comics, or at least consider going all the way to forbidden planet to read them and then buying them from my local comic shop if like them. congrats.

did stan lee sit you down and give you 'the talk' yet?
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
05:39 / 22.02.09
Kieron, tell me there is a trade.
 
 
KieronGillen
13:30 / 22.02.09
Not yet, but there will be if we manage to finish the second series. Which seems a long way away. Bloody comics.

Re: Stan Lee. No, alas. I have been to the Marvel offices. They have Venom soap dispensers. They're the best corporate toilets I've ever been in.

KG
 
  

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