Pretty much what you'd expect, this has short biographies, in comic form, of the recording world's more maverick examples. Coldplay fans need not apply, for here we get Sun-Ra, The Residents, obscure French jazzy chanson providers and more, plus short essays on black metal (well, ish), dub, and Krautrock. It's fun, seeing what turns up next and if you know them or not (a lot of these acts I had never heard of, tbh). It's also fun at times trying to work out who these people are supposed to be – is that Bjork, or Richard Ashcroft, with the bad hair and sucked-in pout? And since when did John Peel look more like Zinedine Zidane?

Some might cringe that their favourites are not here, and I could provide a few names for a sequel – Merzbow (who does kind of appear), Sunn O))), Einsturzende Neubauten (ditto) and so on for starters. Some might think the 2x3 grid the great bulk of the pages here are made from a bit too staid, given the subjects. Me, I had a fine time checking this over, but knowing how little free jazz (indeed any jazz) and I get along, it will be a cold day before I put many of these creatives on my playlist. Which makes these short introductions, then, even more appropriate. If only for authenticity with the visuals this might have got more than four stars.

This is a fun coffee table book that would appeal to fans of music. Giving you a deep dive into the artists involved in the underground music scene,it quite literally is a bible of sorts. The graphic novel format is ideal for this type of book to include as many artists as possible. So many i recognised and it was interesting to learn so much about their pasts and what shaped them to be the artists they became. The artwork is perfect in line with telling these snippet bios on each artist mentioned.