Phonogram: Rue Britannia #5 - "Live Forever"

[laughing_tree]

'One way of describing Phonogram would be that it fits into a middle ground. It’s a comic that uses much of the pulp idiom but is trying to engage with more philosophical topics. File next to things like, say, The Sandman, The Invisibles or Transmetropolitan.

'“Middlebrow” would be the term some would use, but I’d reject that dichotomy as hard as I’d reject anything, and I consider people who view the world in that way as my active aesthetic opponents. I think of Phonogram as “anti-brow”. I hate the polar dichotomy in all art, and Phonogram’s merging of pulpy tropes and literary nonsense was my attempt to try to mirror pop music itself.' -- Kieron Gillen









With Britannia's return thwarted, all that's left for Kohl to deal with is the matter of Beth's ghost:













And the back-up story:

Comments

[doodleboy]

With Phonogram I get how it's about using the media you consume inspire you and the danger of letting said media define your identity. But it's about such a specific subgroup of people who originated from a specific period of time that I don't think I'll ever fully understand it. Sometimes I feel like you had to be the same type of person Kieron Gillen was in his twenties in order to fully realize what it was going for.

Some people do though, they write interesting reviews.

[mrstatham]

To be fair, that only applies to this specific series, or at least that's how I saw it. I enjoyed what I read, but I was about.. Six or eight or so when Britpop got going, so it was difficult to relate to the material. The Singles Club opened things up a lot more.