Unpopular Pop
SPECTRUM #2 is out now for your eyeballs (and ears) to enjoy
After some industry-wide distribution delays which may or may not have affected your friendly neighborhood comic shop, SPECTRUM #2 *should* be available everywhere today (its scheduled release date was 1/22).
Here’s the synopsis:
Do you ever wish your life was more normal? Ada Latimer wants to be normal. She owns a quiet little record store. She’s in love with her corny (but sweet) boyfriend. But the chance for normalcy vanished when her father Leon abandoned her as a child to search for the mythical record producer George Parker. The ramifications of Leon’s quest come back around as Echo, one of the Sustained—a being with the power to alter reality through music—shows up at Ada’s shop looking for answers. So much for “normal.”
The full title of this issue is: “Unpopular Pop is the sound of an absent king Who has lost every colour of love in rainbows and song Back in time where the cicadas and butterflies sing And what wasn’t photographed has become forever lost Like the lights and sights of the luminously foreign city Where every window is a blank canvas hanging in the museum of the mind It is easy to forget even the simplest of melodies So follow me from the end to the beginning and you’ll be all right”
Is there a Guinness World Record for longest comic issue title? I should look into that.
The latest SPECTRUM Book Club episode of Lisa and Brad’s Comic Book Couples Counseling podcast (the second in a planned series of six)—is available for listening now.
For the next episode (which we are recording a week from now), they are asking for audience questions and feedback to quiz us on.
Submit your questions/feedback here! Please make them easy. Brad and Lisa know more about my intentions than I do. I need to study for these episodes.
Received this wonderful feedback from fellow writer
re: issue one. It really means a lot when folks take the time not only to read something you wrote, but also to share and talk about it with others. Word of mouth, y’all. It’s powerful.James over at the Faqs Project podcast had Dave and I on recently for a chat about SPECTRUM issues one and two. Loved this interview. Available in either audio or video formats.
Listen to “Get Lost Love” by Maggie Orange (vocals by Delaney West). This song’s lyrics are featured in issue two (there is a QR code link on the back cover, too). Don’t compare oranges to apples though….