Alex Abad-Santos is a senior correspondent who explains what society obsesses over, from Marvel and movies to fitness and skin care. He came to Vox in 2014. Prior to that, he worked at The Atlantic.

-=-=-=-If all this magical baggage is putting you off, it works better on the page than in summary. Phonogram tends to wear its fantastical elements lightly, letting the metaphor do its work in the ...

As suspected a few days ago, a new Phonogram series, called The Immaterial Girl, by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie And Matt Wilson has just been announced at Image Expo. Here's the teaser: In addition ...

Music is magic, or so the idiom goes. Whether through its ability to transport the listener through time, to a place or a feeling, music has a tendency to bypass other sensorial hurdles and stay there ...

This week saw the return of Phonogram from Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, with a round of publicity to back it all up. I was talking about Phonogram: Immaterial Girl #1 to a fellow comic book ...

Which character did you enjoy writing the most in 'The Singles Club'? "I like them all; that's why you write them. The idea of dragging myself through an issue I don't like – considering I'm not ...

Britpop was the second coming of the British invasion. It brought us Oasis, Blur, and Radiohead. But it was something more for the youth in Britain at the time. In fact, there was an entire music ...

“Music is magic. You know this already. You’ve known this from the first time a record sent a divine shiver down your spine or a band changed the way you dressed forever. How does something that’s ...

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The critically-acclaimed Phonogram returns with seven issues of stand-alone Phonomantic stories, each set in the same night at a single nightclub. First up, Penny B wrestles with the big questions: ...

Music is magic. This is the conceit of the Image comics series Phonogram, whose second and apparently final volume just came out in a collected edition. Its characters are Phonomancers-- their love of ...

Image Comics has announced Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl. Creators Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie and Matt Wilson will reunite for the third miniseries for the title, publisher Eric Stephenson ...