Chucklehound Logs » Comics

  • Published: Nov 10th, 2008
  • Category: Action

Vinyl Underground, Vol. 1

Spencer/Gane, 2007

I picked up and put down this comic countless times at the store, every time thinking that perhaps it was something new from the guys who did Phonogram. It’s perhaps unfair to compare anything to Phonogram, which is my favorite new title of the past few years, but this is pretty clearly working the same “British, pop-fixated, occult detective” storyline, so hard to avoid. Unlike Phonogram, it’s not really interested in music, except as an aspect of trashy pop culture. Actually, it almost seems like a pilot for a TV series. D-List celeb, porn star/coroner, and psychic team up to solve crimes. Obviously, it would be a fairly horrible TV series, and it’s not much better as a comic, but, you know, I’ve read worse.

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