NPI Profile for NINA A MAYR in SEATTLE, WA. The brand new original graphic novel, available in stores March 2020, reunites the acclaimed team of filmmaker and writer Carly Usdin (The Avant-Guards) and artist Nina Vakueva (League of Legends: Ashe – Warmother) for a brand-new adventure with the music store crew-and secret fight club-of HEAVY VINYL. NINA A MAYR, MD NPI 1952409773 Radiation Oncology. LOS ANGELES, CA (July 5, 2019) – BOOM! Studios is proud to continue The Road to San Diego, a ten-day, ten-announcement spotlight on the most exciting comic book and graphic novel news in advance of Comic Con International in San Diego (July 17–21), with the announcement today of HEAVY VINYL: Y2K-O!. Heavy Vinyl: Y2K-O! will reunite writer Carly Usdin and artist Nina Vakueva for a new story set in 1999, back when record stores still existed and we didn't just get all our music from Spotify and YouTube, though the cataclysm was certainly on the horizon. Not sure I am compelled to keep reading it, but I’ll definitely keep purchasing it for my teen room at the library, as I think a lot of them would enjoy it.BOOM! Studios has announced a new original graphic novel in the Heavy Vinyl series for 2020. Heavy Vinyl by Carly Usdin - When Chris joins the staff at her local record store. But if you come for a light read, queer characters, 90s nostalgia, and perky, expressive art, you will enjoy yourself. It’s pretty shallow and maybe a little silly. If you come to this comic for the mystery or intense character building, you will likely be disappointed. The mystery is mostly realistic but does veer into some lite sci-fi as the gals unfold the clues. But it turns out their meetings are to brush up on their mad fight skills, because after hours, the girls fight specifically band-related crime! Chris is quickly welcomed into the fold, quickly learns how to hold her own, accelerated when the girls’ favorite singer Rosie Riot goes missing.

She figures they have an amazing band and she can’t join as the baby of the group. She only wants to fit in, but for some reason the other employees have after-work meetings that she is not invited to take part in. Set in the 90s, it focuses on main character Chris, 16 years old, styled like Kristy Thomas, gay like Kristy Thomas (we all know the truth), but much less confident, has landed a dream job at Vinyl Destination, working alongside teens and young women she admires, and one she REALLY admires, her crush Maggie. I haven’t read or seen Fight Club, but this seems to be more of a vigilante group than the Fight Club of Palahniuk (and later, 30 Rock) fame.

Both changes are better, but many of the web descriptions of the comics have the old names so that’s confusing.Īnyhow, spoiler alert: it’s about a fight-club in a record store! Sort of.

Its title was originally Hi-Fi Fight Club and then for some reason they changed the name of the record store it is set in from Vinyl Mayhem to Vinyl Destination. Heavy Vinyl appears to have gone through some adjustments over its publication.

Heavy Vinyl, Vol. 1 by Nina Vakueva