As the Father, the Son….

 
One night about a decade ago, a mild mannered acoustician called Jim Gentry was working late in a cheap lab complex. Some Biomutagenic particles came through the ventilation system and thereafter, whenever he heard loud bass he would transform into a bass speaker monster called BoomZilla. It was a comic strip that ran as single pages (with a couple of DPSes) in Car Stereo & Security magazine for twenty four issues. A Christmas special was published once in Fast Car. At the time of the close of the last story, our hero had met a girl. Cindy Brewer, she became infected by ‘Zilla and she would become Hornella, a super SQ silvery speaker being. Jim and Cindy married and we are about the meet their son on his eighteenth birthday…
So runs the preamble for Son of BoomZilla, a new series of comic art from the original artist Julian Sewell, to be run right here on Talk Audio magazine. We are going to ‘digitally remaster’ the original artwork from the first strips as well and they will be viewable soon. In the meanwhile, you can see some of his work if you go to Boomzilla which are a few try outs using scans of magazines. The quality of a nil generation loss modern machine will be awesome, though. You’ll see every brush stroke.
However, these days, it’s all by computer and although it took a couple of evolutions, we now have a finalised look for Son of BoomZilla, so the strips will be along soon at last, We are going to open at Jim Junior’s eighteenth birthday party.
Back in the real word, I have a bit of pow wow with the Clarion guys to go to this week, with news of the UK release of the Clarion MiND and all their 2009 stuff to talk about. I have just been to see both Pioneer and Kenwood, who remain stalwart supporters of Talk Audio and who both have new and exciting kit to drool over, so we’ll be bringing you pictures as soon as we can.
I’d like to get the bass rig grooving again and have a tiny bit of space reclaimed in the Loft of Dreams as he who is known as Van Dave has finally gripped some kit back that he left at my house for four years! SNG Audio and Dave’s lines of kit may well be the newest TA associate types any day now as well, which’d mean adding yet more brands to the review listings. Talking of which, I’d better get on…
Adam Rayner – Online Editor