There is so much great new music coming out, it's hard to keep up! I'm going to try to highlight one song each day and tell you why, shining a light on a new tune that you might want to check out.
As I'm let go from my radio gig, it seems only too apropos to begin with the new track released this week by A Perfect Circle, "So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish". The tune takes its title from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - it was the final message the dolphins left humankind before departing planet Earth en masse, just prior to the planet's destruction, and is also the title of the fourth book in the Trilogy.
It's melodic - stately, even... yet also contains echoes of prog pop, fine aged cheese like Asia, Kansas and Styx. Layered harmony vocals sing of things and people we've lost, left behind, or time wasted, with a lighter drive than A Perfect Circle usually has - lighter, for example, than "TalkTalk" - an earlier track released from the upcoming new album Eat the Elephant out this Friday. Yet it builds to atomic destruction, so there's that...
Check out the tune:
The lyrics (from the video comment section - they look right to me):
Time is money and money's time
We wasted every second dime
On diets, lawyers, shrinks and apps and flags and plastic surgery
Now Willy Wonka, Major Tom, Ali, and Leia have moved on
Signal the final curtain call in all its atomic pageantry
Bravissimo, hip hip hooray
For this fireworks display
Mind and body blown away
What a radiant crescendo!
Ticker tape parade
Our hair and skin like
Marilyn Monroe
In an afterwind
Time is money and money's time
We wasted every second dime
On politicians, fancy water and guns and plastic surgery
Like old Prince and Brady's mom
All the dolphins have moved on
Signaling the final curtain call in all its atomic pageantry
Bravissimo, hip hip hooray
What a glorious display
Melt our joyous hearts away
Under the mushroom cloud confetti
Hip hip hooray for this fireworks display
Mind and body blown away
What a radiant crescendo
Hip hip hooray
Hip hip hooray
Ticker tape parade
Our hair and skin like
Marilyn Monroe in an afterwind
Time is money and money's time
We wasted every second dime
On diets, lawyers, shrinks and apps flags and plastic surgery
Now Willy Wonka, Major Tom, Ali and Leia have moved on
Signal the final curtain call in all its atomic pageantry
I was informed early this afternoon that The Point was letting me go, after nearly eight years as the Music Director and Midday host. It was a shock. I'd done nothing wrong. this was through no fault of my own. I asked and was assured of this.
For those who ask, this is what I know: Program Director and Morning Host Zeb Norris had asked a couple months ago to step back from his Program Director responsibilities, and the company found a way to make that work, they thought, and hired John Mullet as the new Program Director. Today, I was informed by Station Manager and Owner Ed Flanagan that although Zeb had been going to assume some responsibilities with other stations owned by the company, while still doing mornings on The Point, the company's plans for those stations had changed and Zeb wasn't needed for that, and so he would be assuming my responsibilities as Music Director, and I was being let go.
Back when Ed told me about the hiring of John and the stepping back of Zeb, I didn't see how the station could support this and me, too. Logically, it seemed to me, Zeb could be named Music Director. I asked Ed outright if I should be worried, get my resume ready. He'd said no. Disappointing to find my instincts were correct.
But? Much as I appreciate people supporting me, and asking others to Boycott the Point, please don't. A lot of great people still work there, and I don't want to be responsible for them getting hurt.
I'm really going to miss being on The Point, and being the Music Director. It wasn't all awesome. As I'm being transparent, I'll be honest - it was pretty much my dream job, but the pay was miserable. For me, that was a trade-off - do what I love, but get paid a low wage. No raise in the last several years, either. It wasn't about the money, though. It was about doing what I loved to do - listen to a ton of new music, play it on the radio and talk about it. I can do without a lot of stuff, so long as I'm doing something that fulfills me day-to-day.
Because it's what drives me, and I have no intention of losing touch with the world of music, I'm going to keep bringing you music. I don't know what's next, but I'm going to use this blog and other platforms to keep playing music for you, and telling you about it, while I figure out my next steps.
If you have music you want me to hear, send it my way. If you hear of opportunities I should know about, send them my way - please! Email - glowinthedarkradio [at] gmail [dot] com.
Wrote this on facebook. Thought I'd share it here on the blog, too.
We have a short memory as a culture, and a tendency to believe and think that the way things are now is the way they have always been. The idea of the status quo is very strong, and yet - false. Is it a faculty we've developed in order to handle the seeming chaos that surrounds us?
The world is in a state of constant change, so much so that reacting to every alteration in our surroundings would be exhausting, and occupy our every thought and moment. It makes sense we would develop a way, a means of perception, that allows us to "freeze" the world so as to react to it properly, a way to filter out trivial changes that need not concern us immediately.
This may be getting all heady and meta, but bear with me - it means we carry with us a kind of mental image of the way the world IS which governs how we act in and react to the world, and that we tend to maintain that image as if it were a permanent state when, actually, it's a flux state, constantly changing - both the interior "image" (in small, often imperceptible ways) and the world (always in motion).
That puts the urge - the need? - to create an interior sense of status quo on an instinctual level - it's a survival skill. It's then understandable that our sense of the present is as strong as it is - however wrong in its sense of permanence it is. We could be wired to have a short cultural memory.
It seems that, all together, we maintain a sort of cultural version of this sense of status quo, either by individual agreement and maintenance, or, if non-local mental phenomena are allowed, through a sort of communal mental sense of the present here-and-now, the status quo. At the very least, we often assume others have the same inner mental image that we do, until proven wrong, and act as if there is some larger bond.
This "faculty" - this self-creation of the status quo - is apparently a fluid thing, perhaps easily manipulated due to its lack of identification. We don't think about how we perceive the world or our sense of now - and ordinarily, why would we?
Why? We need to become more aware of our sort of "base of perceptions" because it's under assault by those who would shape the culture's sense of status quo to better reflect their own private views, views not necessarily in line with those of our Democratic Republic here in the United States and democracies around the world. Awareness that we carry such a mental image within our minds might make it less vulnerable to attack.
No conspiracy theories here. There's no need. We see wealthy individuals, corporations, companies and other well-funded interest groups spending their money on media buys and politicians to change the cultural conversation on a national level. If they're doing it in the open, it's not a conspiracy. Why should they hide? Recent rulings like Citizen's United in the US have said money is equal to free speech - they can be loud and proud with how they spend their money to influence politics and the culture.
We can blame the media, the world of advertising and marketing, for creating the tools we use to manipulate our inner sense of status quo. When it was only being used to tweak that subtle mental image to introduce an artificial NEED and create a buyer and consumer, the power of our collective imaginations to change the cultural sense of what we need -based on the manipulation of our inner sense of status quo - wasn't yet evident.
In other words, it was "fine" when we were told to fear "simple, chronic halitosis" - bad breath - and use mouthwash (one example of an idea advertising introduced into the cultural sense of status quo). We didn't "need" to fear the manipulation when the ends were to take our money and make us all more "minty fresh".
When these tools began to be used to manipulate the culture politically, a bomb went off. Literally. Lyndon Johnson's "Daisy" ad used footage of an atomic bomb exploding - and the implication this was what Barry Goldwater's election would lead to - in one of the world's first highly manipulative political TV ads. Effective? It was September of 1964 - Johnson won easily two months later. The ad didn't even mention Goldwater by name. And? It only ran once.
It's still world-famous.
With the discovery that media messages could alter the culture's very concept of status quo on a political level, the race was on, as it had been with consumer goods, to see how far those creating the messages could push their manipulations - how far could they go? What would people believe?
Thankfully, even without an "up-front" conscious awareness of this sense of status quo, we have defenses against some of this manipulation. Those crafting the messages are required to be more subtle as we grow more savvy. Thus the constant testing and probing to see what we will "believe" - or what beliefs we will allow into our inner, mental sense of status quo.
We need to develop an awareness that this sense of a status quo exists as a mental image within our minds, that it can be manipulated by external forces, and that we, in turn, project and maintain a larger, cultural sense of status quo. Awareness is a preventative defense and leads to strength.
Strength is needed, for this manipulation has come at a price. Ours is now an age of many "status quos" - the world has become fractured, and yet, more focused, in smaller ways. As it became more difficult to manipulate the larger community's sense of status quo, and as first cable TV and then the internet allowed for it, those crafting their messages wrote off altering the status quo of the masses in favor of finding and growing smaller, already receptive audiences. Why try so hard?
This happens across the political spectrum. It is not political equivocation to say this - all sides now engage in this meta-manipulation of their audiences. However, one of the keys into manipulating the cultural sense of status quo favors those on the so-called "Conservative" end of the spectrum.
Of course, there may be a natural appeal to our cultural sense of status quo in anything that calls itself "Conservative" and claims that it is dedicated to preserving and maintaining the status quo. And, indeed, this does work on the "right".
On the "left", however, when one's sense of the status quo finds the ideas proposed by Conservatives to be regressive, backwards, or destructive, Conservative does not equal maintaining the present state of things but trying to throw the culture into reverse, which doesn't just create disagreement but also closes the door to manipulation.
Above and beyond this facile level, however, the most powerful entry into our inner sense of status quo seems to be through an appeal to a lost golden age of some kind. This does favor the Conservative message, though appeals to centrists and those on the left referencing the "Clinton Years" or "Obama Years" can be evidence of this messaging.
Any appeal to a lost golden age should be a red flag - you are about to be manipulated. Any suggestion those appealing to you are capable of bringing back that golden age should be a bigger red flag - they are lying to you. The only golden age each of us can bring on is our own.
Beware the one who preaches the virtue of individual struggle, yet then claims they are all about lifting you up. Beware those who say they are working for you as they preach each should only look out for oneself. And beware the politician who suggests that their election alone is all that is necessary to bring about the return of a great, golden age, as if your vote or support alone is all that is required of you to make things happen.
The insidious nature of these appeals to a lost golden age is that they draw their strength from our own longings. The less satisfied we are with our place in the world, the more open we are to this messaging. The messages reinforce our inner suspicions or beliefs, sometimes the worst of these.
When the worst, most repressed feelings, rise up, suddenly reinforced, they sometimes spring forth with amazing power, let loose. Psychology suggests things we suppress and force into the subconscious or unconscious can return with near-demonic force and "possess" us. When they rise again to consciousness, they can be uncontrollable.
Drawing political power by loosing these "demons" of the unconscious seems a dangerous thing. And yet, it's done now as a matter of course, with promise of a return to a mythical, golden status quo that never existed. Creating a mythical goal creates cognitive dissonance in those whose status quo isn't currently so golden, which generates anger, an energy that can be used and manipulated.
All this because we aren't aware of the way we maintain a filter on the world, of the way we perceive a status quo inside our minds making the ever-changing world more manageable, and project and maintain the same sort of sense of status quo on a larger level for the community around us.
Our short cultural memory may be the result of this need to maintain an illusion of a permanent status quo. But the concept's vulnerability, and our vulnerability to manipulation thanks to our ignorance of it and its power, means we need to grow more aware of the illusion, the filter, or whatever we want to call this maintaining of a sense of status quo.
Azhumet steals the show this episode, as the Ancient Enemy reborn attempts to bring his time-traveling plans for saving the Elite of his race to fruition! Find out if the alien mad scientist is successful in Chapter Twenty-Four of Alibi Jones and The Sunrise of Hur!The Adventures of Alibi Jones continue – even in a chapter without the title character!Free audio science fiction adventure written and read by host Mike Luoma - Glow-in-the-Dark Radio!
Just introduced to RadioPublic.com - a new podcasting guide that's also trying to fairly monetize podcasting for the content creators (what a concept!). Glow-in-the-Dark Radio was submitted - and immediately accepted! Yay! So now you can listen to Glow-in-the-Dark Radio via one of the most innovative and progressive podcasting services around - how cool is that? Check it out:
Thought it was worth it's own quick post to mention the print edition of our new VATICAN ASSASSIN - The Graphic Novel is now officially available at Indy Planet! Through it's Print-on-Demand fulfillment, Indy Planet is able to carry thousands of independent comics. Pretty darn cool. Their books look Beautiful. AND they've got digital editions, too, no worries.
I love the way the new color edition looks in print. Keep using - abusing - the word... it looks cinematic!
Indy Planet is the online retail store attached to Ka-Blam printing. If you need to print your comic, one copy to bulk, I can recommend Ka-Blam.com and their P-O-D printing. Here's me opening the book's print proof, in case you missed it:
Time to celebrate! Our full-color Vatican Assassin - The Graphic Novel is out TODAY. If you've been "waiting for the trade", here it is! Very proud of this group effort - congratulations to Cristian Navarro, artist, and Juan Carlos Quattordio, colorist. Many thanks again to them both for helping me bring the story to life!
You know, even if you don't get into comics, if you're a fan of my work, or enjoyed the novel Vatican Assassin, you might get something out of this new telling. Juan Carlos did a beautiful job on the color and finishing. And seeing it like this gives you at least an idea of what Vatican Assassin might look like as a movie, doesn't it?
Who would you cast as BC?
Oh! Since we're talking about Vatican Assassin movies - if you're on Spotify, I've been making playlists. And here's a Vatican Assassin inspired, sort of "soundtrack": VATICAN ASSASSIN SOUNDTRACK MIX
And check out the Grand Opening of the print proof of Vatican Assassin - The Graphic Novel fresh out of the mail from Ka-Blam Printing. See what the print edition looks like - it's beautiful, if I do say so myself!
Alibi Jones wakes up with his plans already in motion. Today's the day he frees Katie and Kit from the grasp of crime lord Rene Laveillur, ruler of pleasure planet Kismet. Or dies trying! There's no turning back, in Chapter Twenty-Three of Alibi Jones and The Sunrise of Hur!Glow-in-the-Dark Radio always brings you free audio science fiction adventure written and read by host Mike Luoma - The Adventures of Alibi Jones continue!
Disguised as a female Dakhur on a visit to pleasure planet Kismet with a Dakhur delegation, Alibi Jones is figuring out how to free friends Katie and Kit from the grasp of crime lord Rene Laveillur. He's putting his plan into action – will it work? Find out in Chapter Twenty-Two of Alibi Jones and The Sunrise of Hur – written and read by host Mike Luoma!Glow-in-the-Dark Radio features free audio science fiction adventure each week - The Adventures of Alibi Jones continue!
It's good to be in disguise when they've threatened to kill you on sight! Alibi Jones is dressed as a female of the cat-like Dakhur species on this visit to Kismet for just that reason. Can he keep out of sight of crime lord Rene Laveillur and his people while he works to free his friends Katie and Kit? Find out as host, writer and narrator Mike Luoma brings you Chapter Twenty-One of Alibi Jones and The Sunrise of Hur! Free audio science fiction adventure - The Adventures of Alibi Jones continue on Glow-in-the-Dark Radio...
Glow-in-the-Dark Radio Comics is proud to announce the release
of Good Samaritan: Unto Dust #2 (of
2) and the collected Good Samaritan: Unto
Dust 2-in1 Graphic Novel - Both Out Today!!
Mike Luoma is the writer, letterer and publisher (as Glow-in-the-Dark Radio Comics). Pencil Art is by Federico Guillen, colorist Ken Lateer worked right on the
pencils, and the result is a different looking book that showcases Federico's art. Ken's colors are stunning as well, finely complimenting Federico's
work.
It's been a long road to issue two. Issue one was published
by Earthbound
Comics, which then folded. Glow-in-the-Dark Radio Comics has been working on the project ever since. And
now, finally, here it is!
Good Samaritan is Father Bill Sullivan, a priest with powers
in Boston, MA in 1965. This superhero noir tale finds Good Samaritan trying to
balance his hunt for a demonic Vampire molester loose on Boston's streets with
his more pastoral duties as a Catholic Priest - a priest who's new Cardinal
seems to have it in for him!
Available NOW, Ash Wednesday, apropos to Good Samaritan - at
comiXology, DriveThruComics, and IndyPlanet (POD and digital).
Glow-in-the-Dark Radio Comics is proud to announce the release
of Good Samaritan: Unto Dust #2 (of
2) and the collected Good Samaritan: Unto
Dust 2-in1 Graphic Novel!
Art is by Federico Guillen - as I
began to get his pencils for the first issue back, I knew we couldn't ink over them, they were too
beautiful. So colorist Ken Lateer worked right on the
pencils, and the result is a different looking book that showcases Federico's art. Ken's colors are stunning as well, finely complimenting Federico's
work. I'm Mike Luoma, the writer, letterer and publisher (as Glow-in-the-Dark Radio Comics).
It's been a long road to issue two. Issue one was published
by Earthbound
Comics, which then folded. I've been shepherding the project along myself
since then - felt like I owed it to my collaborator Federico to get #2 out. And
now, finally, here it is!
Good Samaritan is Father Bill Sullivan, a priest with powers
in Boston, MA in 1965. This superhero noir tale finds Good Samaritan trying to
balance his hunt for a demonic Vampire molester loose on Boston's streets with
his more pastoral duties as a Catholic Priest - a priest who's new Cardinal
seems to have it in for him!
Available this Wednesday, February 14th (Ash Wednesday,
apropos to Good Samaritan!) at comiXology, DriveThruComics, and IndyPlanet (POD
and digital). These links will work on Wednesday:
Visit with the villains! Get a glimpse inside Rene Laveillur's inner sanctum, and check in with another enemy working behind the scenes, in Chapter Twenty of Alibi Jones and The Sunrise of Hur! Join host, writer and narrator Mike Luoma – he sets up the chapter with a "story-so-far" so you can jump right in and enjoy. The Adventures of Alibi Jones continue – free audio science fiction adventure on Glow-in-the-Dark Radio!
If you show up where they warned you that you're dead on sight, you'd better show up in disguise! Alibi Jones is on Kismet incognito for just that reason, travelling with a Dakhur delegationdressed as a Dakhur female. He's risking his life to free Kit and Katie – even though the two of them no longer call Alibi friend... get the story as host, writer and narrator Mike Luoma presents Chapter Nineteen of Alibi Jones and The Sunrise of Hur! Mike sets up the chapter with a "story-so-far" to make it easy to jump in. After the chapter, he reveals a cool origin to a character's name! The Adventures of Alibi Jones continue – free audio science fiction adventure on Glow-in-the-Dark Radio!
Alibi Jones heads to the planet where he's been told he's a dead man – Kismet!Alibiis in disguise, travelling with a Dakhur delegation led by Rakhar of the Dakhur, dressed up as a tall Dakhur female. Will they succeed in their mission to free Kit?Katie, too? Can Alibi stay undiscovered – and alive? The trip to Kismet begins in Chapter Eighteen of Alibi Jones and The Sunrise of Hur. Host, writer and narrator Mike Luoma presents free audio science fiction adventure on every episode of Glow-in-the-Dark Radio – The Adventures of Alibi Jones continue!
I'm going through that first flush of love with an album, where you listen to it again and again, where you're figuring out lyrics (what? what does that even mean?), and discovering new sounds in the layers in the mix as they unpack with repeat exposure - repetition allowing the sound to expand the way a fine red wine opens up as it breathes. And yet? You can't listen to it every time you want to, lest you burn out on it - one must be careful! Though with such immersion actual listening isn't always absolutely necessary anymore, as the music now rotates on the radio in your mind... a beautiful thing!
I wish it happened to me more often... as a long-time radio veteran, I've heard so much music. Between what's sent to me promotionally for possible radio play and what I seek out and explore on my own, I'm exposed to new music every day - which I love, don't get me wrong. But hearing that much, you do get a little jaded and harder to please over time. Sure, you find lots of stuff that's really good, and songs you know folks will like that you can play on the air, but stuff that really hits YOU, that penetrates down deep, cracks through your crusty, jaded exterior? That stuff doesn't come around very often.
When it does? It's AWESOME!! Then I want to shout about it from the rooftops! Tell the world how AMAZING the music is! Play it for everyone I know. Write blog posts about it (!) Give it to people, if I can - love to share music, so when there's music I really love, I get the powerful urge to share it around.
Very happy I can share Polygondwanaland with you! This unexpected pleasure came my way via a tip on facebook left on a thread I was part of. Glad I noticed. Because it's the best Progressive Rock album I've heard in a long, long time! Didn't expect I'd be saying that about one of the FIVE albums released last year by Australian psych-rockers King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
Yeah. Five. Beginning in February with the experimental Flying Microtonal Banana, followed by Murder of the Universe, then their cosmic jazz collaboration with Alexander Brettin, the Los Angeles-based Mild High Club, Sketches of Brunswick East. Polygondwanaland came out in mid-November, and number five Gumboot Soup in the final days of December. It was an article on Gumboot Soup's release shared on facebook that spawned the Polygondwanaland tip.
I knew of the band, had sampled some of their earlier stuff but didn't really like it. Don't remember now what album that was. Didn't like their name too much, either. Seemed silly. But Ed Pinka from ATO's Promotion department, King Gizzard's label, kept sending me their material, said he thought I'd be into them, probably not for the radio, but for my own ears. He kept trying. But my copy of Flying Microtonal Banana just sat there, unplayed. Sometimes that happens, there are things you mean to get to but just, somehow... don't.
I'd heard they were trying to release five albums in 2017. A comment on the shared article said "Crumbling Castles" on Polygondwanaland, the last album, was pretty killer. Spotify had some crazy promotion where you could sign up for three months for ninety-nine cents, so I'd done that in mid-December. Made it easy to call up Polygondwanaland and proceed to blow my mind. It was as if I was listening to an album made especially for me. Hit me that strong.
This was not expected.
"Crumbling Castle" is indeed killer. In some ways, the ten-minute plus long first song sets the tone for the rest of the album, with shifting, complex time signatures, intricate drum fills, interweaving guitars, arpeggiating synthesizers, and the occasional psychedelic freak out sort-of-tamed in service to the song. But the heavy final minute or so then gives way to the much lighter and more intricate second track, "Polygondwanaland" - which flows into the next track, and the one after that.
A word about the track listing - it lies. Looks like there are nine songs after "Crumbling Castle". Not really. There are three, as they run together in sets of three - "Polygondwanaland - The Castle In The Air - Deserted Dunes Welcome Weary Feet", "Inner Cell - Loyalty - Horology", and "Tetrachromancy - Searching...-The Fourth Colour" - each about ten minutes long. And very delicious! They also refer to each other lyrically, giving all nine, er, three, a sense of interconnectedness.
The lyrics are vague enough to allow for interpretation. Each triptych seems to see a fantasy played out to a twisted extreme - an adventure getaway back in time, too bad the dinosaurs will eat you - resist a tyrant only to become tyrannical, raise a leader who demands loyalty, who finally thinks himself a god and destroys you - there is a magical fourth colour you can train yourself to see, maybe, or not, until you do and think yourself a god. That's my interpretation of them. Could be right. Or not.
The lyrics sound really cool when they're sung in the context of the music. Plus, I prefer vague and mysterious to cliched and banal. Don't you?
And the music is amazing - cool time signatures on a nice mix of percussion, sweet acoustic, finger-picked guitar and powerful electric leads, occasional retro-cool keyboard solos and fills, a spoken word section, even a tastefully applied flute! As an older Prog Rock fan, I found the vocals and phrasing at times reminiscent of classic Canterbury Proggers Caravan. Even the music, at times, reminded me of Caravan, albeit with a bit more muscle. Which made me quite happy, actually. Always liked "harder" edged Caravan songs, and kind of wished they'd done more, even evolved in that direction.
Ta-da! King Gizzard has fulfilled my wish! My wish was their command!
I'm joking. Sort of.
It's not just Caravan, there are shades of several classic Prog Rock bands haunting this album, including Gentle Giant, Wishbone Ash, even a little of the other King, Crimson. Not sure that's intentional, because it sounds effortless and natural. This isn't an homage, nor a tribute. There's authenticity to the expression. This is King Gizzard, not any of those other bands.
Wonder if they've got any more like this in them? I'm a little afraid King Gizzard won't ever make an album like Polygondwanaland again. This could be their one and only lighter Prog Rock album. They did give it away - what does that mean? Did they give it away free because it was kind of a joke to them? I hope not. I think it's brilliant - a superb album.
And you can get it for free! Go to their site via the following link - they have audio files (mp3s/wavs) for regular downloads and sets mastered for CD and vinyl. Plus, album artwork!
Now you can read the entire new, full-color edition of VATICAN ASSASSIN: The Graphic Novel, as Glow-in-the-Dark Radio Comics today proudly releases issue four of four!
Head to comiXology and DriveThruComicsto get issue four and the rest of VATICAN ASSASSIN: The Graphic Novel as digital downloads. VATICAN ASSASSIN: The Graphic Novel appears for the first time in FULL-COLOR thanks to the work of noted Argentinian artist Juan Carlos Quattordio (ZENITRAM)!
"Juan Carlos' color work takes the whole book to a new level," writer and letterer Mike Luoma said. "The color really brings out how cinematic Cristian Navarro's vision is in his original art, something that wasn't always as immediately evident in the original black and white edition."
VATICAN ASSASSIN is a science fiction adventure set in the not-to-distant future. Bernard Campion - 'BC' - visits Lunar Prime, neutral city on the Moon, on a mission - assassinate the Governor. If he's successful, reverberations will impact the survival of the entire human race!
It's 2109 - BC tries to take care of his "business" during an out of control interplanetary war between The UTZ - Universal Trade Zone - the commercial power of Earth - and the UIN - the Universal Islamic Nation - based on Mars. BC poses as a priest - but he's really an assassin for the Pope of the New catholic Church!
Issue four - of four - of VATICAN ASSASSIN: The Graphic Novel - out today at comiXologyand DriveThruComics! From Mike Luoma, Cristian Navarro, Juan Carlos Quattordio, and Glow-in-the-Dark Radio Comics!
Be sure to look for the collected graphic novel in print and digital in mid-March, from Glow-in-the-Dark Radio!
Alibi Jones is on his way to the planet Hur on a mission for his Aunt Anita – the reptilian alliance known as the Greater Tah just "annexed" Dakhur space, and Rakhar of the Dakhur has asked for help. Will that help lead Alibi to Kismet – where he's told he's a dead man? Mike Luoma – host, writer and narrator - presents Chapter Seventeen of Alibi Jones and The Sunrise of Hur! Listen in for free audio science fiction adventure every week. The Adventures of Alibi Jones continue on Glow-in-the-Dark Radio!
Found an old red notebook, open to a page titled “Mix Tape for the Vatican Assassin“, and decided to put this Spotify mix together based on what was laid out on that page. Made these notes many years ago. If I remember right, this wasn't exactly a soundtrack, but instead, music to read the book by - "for Chapters One through Twenty" anyway, according to the note at the bottom - have no idea why it stops there.
A few things I had to change or modify. Spotify didn’t have The Tea Party covering “Paint It, Black”, so I opted for The Band of Susans' version. Nor did Spotify have Spock‘s Beard doing “Beware of Darkness” - as the SB version really owes a lot to his take on the song, I went with Leon Russell's interpretation. Not sure why I wanted The Days of the New covering "The End" - went with The Doors original, instead. It's not quite the version of "Joytown" by the late, great Kevin Gilbert that I wanted, but it works. And I couldn’t break up the versions of Holst’s “Mars” the way the notebook suggests, either. So, given limitations, this, then, is the modern approximation of the notebook's mix tape! With issue four of four of Vatican Assassin - The Graphic Novel on the way a week from Wednesday, on January 17th, the time might be right to listen to this mix while you catch up with the first three issues of the Graphic Novel! Get 'em at comiXology and DriveThruComics.
Some Very Bad News just might vindicate Alibi Jones... Seems Alibi was right all along about the imperialist intentions of the reptilians known as the Greater Tah. They just "annexed" Dakhur space! Will Alibi's exile on Sloan now end? Find out as host, writer and narrator Mike Luoma brings you Chapter Sixteen of Alibi Jones and The Sunrise of Hur, this week on Glow-in-the-Dark Radio! Listen in for free audio science fiction adventure every week – The Adventures of Alibi Jones!
