3a) The Bureau of Lost T-Shirts

 

4a) Daily Zen

 

4a) Model 500 "Sound of Stereo" 1987

5a) Daily Zen

6a) Reckless

6a) Reckless by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

If you're looking for a summer read, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' Reckless is excellent L.A. sun-splashed noir. Imagine Jim Rockford as a reluctantly nihilistic, down and out surf-bum rattling around in the backwash of 80's L.A. Inspired by Richard Stark's Parker, as interpreted by Darwyn Cooke, the sooty inks against muted pastels are more successful than Nicolas Winding Refn and Brubaker's L.A.-set noir, Too Old to Die Young. Summer heat coupled with the smells of sweat, cheap beer, and surf are perfectly captured in each panel and page. Skip the screen. These panels offer everything you need for a trip to the seedy underbelly of Southern California. 

5a) Captain, I think I see somethi—!

4b) EVOL Select: Savage Planet

4b) A trip around this ball o' dirt in a decades in the making crate-digging expedition.

Big Jim Sullivan - Flower Power
Telemachus - Planet Earth (feat. Mr Thing)
GRIMEZ - Womb of the Earth
Doctor Bionic - Cultural Revolution
Kalyanji & Anandji - Theme From Don
X'Lents - Psychedelia
Asha Bhosle - Yeh Mera Dil
Madlib - Piano Garden
Janko Nilovic - Underground Party
Alessandro Alessandroni - Afro Darkness
Piero Umiliani - Green Dawn
Narassa - Accavallatrice
Klauss Weiss - The Hunters
Manorexia - The Harpoon Jockey
Lilacs & Champagne - Midnight Creeper II
Sandro Brugnolini - Amofen
Madlib - Fällig
The Sumos - My Chinese Girl Likes Kung Fu Fighting
The Peter Laine Orchestra - Tiger Walk

4a) Reprise

 

4a1) Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra "Bolero on the Moon Rocks," Raumpatrouille (1966)

 

4a2) Pulp "This Is Hardcore," This Is Hardcore (1998)