Kieron Gillen on "Phonogram"
Comics Should Be Good! Ten questions with Kieron Gillen
I picked this comic up on a whim two weeks back, partly because I liked the mod girls on the cover, and partly because i had heard some really positive early reviews of it. I'm very glad I followed my gut on this one. It was actually one of the rare times when my fiance read the comic before me. She was going to take a bath and grabbed a comic to read off the stack I had bought that day.
When she was done with the bath she dropped it right back on to the pile of comics without a word. So I asked, "So I haven't read it yet, how was it?"
"Fucking awesome."
And she's right. It is. It lives somewhere between High Fiedlity and Hellblazer (like Kieron says below) but I'd say it's even closer to Gaiman's Neverwhere, or some of King Mob's riffs in The Invisbiles.
It is most definitely worth picking up if you are into indie music, chaos magick, or British comics.
I mean, it is. There’s no reason why sounds arranged in sequence create an emotional response in us, let alone act as the catalyst for major life changes. We take that completely literally. That every change music makes in the world is a magical act. Our stories follow people who are aware of this fact, and use this knowledge to warp the world more to their liking. Most of our stories involve situations where two different sets of these so-called phonomancers have conflicting desires.
Or, if I were trying to sell you its movie rights, Hellblazer meets High Fidelity.
