I say BZZ BZZ BZZ! From the World of Minor Threats: Barfly #1 flies into comic shops on July 10th, 2024, but you can get hyped for the series now with a new playlist from Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, Kyle Starks, and Ryan Browne! This Minor Threats spin-off series is feel-good, coming-of-age series with a punk rock edge written by Kyle Starks (Where Monsters Lie) and illustrated by Ryan Brown (Eight Billion Genies).
Back in Twilight City…
The Lower Lair bar is home to all sorts of supervillains, lowlifes, and scumbags… but only one of them has to puke digestive fluids onto his food to eat. $#!%eater, the humanoid mutant fly, is a loser–a lifelong minion who lives to serve his criminal master. But what happens to a henchman when he no longer has anyone left to hench for?
“Barfly is about how music saved the bottom-est of the underworld bottom feeders and made him the un-swattable Lower Lair, uh, barfly that we know and love today,” said Oswalt. “Yeah, the first song is an obvious choice, but each of these gut-blasts of D.I.Y. fury illustrate the rage, exasperation and, yes, sentimentality of the puking punk of Redport. Frank Black’s ‘I Heard Ramona Sing,’ which is about how The Ramones saved him growing up, perfectly closes out our playlist.”
From the World of Minor Threats: Barfly Playlist
“Love and a Molotov Cocktail” by The Flys
“Mannequin” by Wire
“Shot By Both Sides” by Mannequin
“Non-Alignment Pact” by Pere Ubu
“Don’t Dictate” by Penetration
“You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory” by Johnny Thunders
“(I’m) Stranded” by The Saints
“Learning To Die” by Dust
“This Is Hell” by Elvis Costello
“Spider Baby” by Fantômas
“Let’s Have A War” by Fear
“Forming” by The Germs
“Slow Death” by Flamin’ Groovies
“Pest” by Goat Girl
“Sheena Is A Parasite” by The Horrors
“The Horror” by RJD2
“Bastards of Young” by Replacements
“Big A Little A or Punk Is Dead” by Crass
“Moon Over Marin” by The Dead Kennedies
“Clash City Rocker” by Clash
“Sorrow” by Bad Religion
“Suburban Home” by Descenders
“Rebel Girl” by Bikini Kill
“Los Angeles” by X
“Nervous Breakdown” by Black Flag
“It’s A Fact” by Vandals
“Suspect Device” by Stiff Little Fingers
“Minor Threat” by Minor Threat
“Mommy’s Little Monster” by Social Distortion
“I Don’t Mind” by Buzzcocks
“Sound System” by Operation Ivy
“Little Bitch” by The Specials
“I Wanna Be Sedated” by The Ramones
“Ruby Soho” by Rancid
“Search and Destroy” by Iggy and the Stooges
“Waiting Room” by Fugazi
“Bad Brains” by MC5
“I Heard Ramona Sing” by Frank Black
