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“Phonogram” is about Music and Magic. More so: Music /is/ Magic. After all – and stop me if you've heard me do this one before – how does a song change the way you feel? There's no scientific explanation why a series of notes alters someones emotional state, let the more extreme effects music has on some people (The Right Song In the Right Place can change someone's life). Now, if that's true, maybe there's people who know that, and use these magical effects to achieve their own ends. Let's call these people Phonomancers and make a comic about them. That's what Phonogram is about. Stripping away the metaphor, it's about art's relationship with humans: what we use it for and what it uses us for.


“Rue Britannia” is the story of a second-rate phonomancer called David Kohl, who spends his time cynically using his powers for cheap and seedy thrills. He's been a magician since the days of Britpop, a decade past, when the long-dead Goddess of the scene – the eponymous Britannia – introduced him to the mysteries of his fraternity. As we join the story, somethings happened to her and because of that, Kohl's personality starts to unravel. The story circles around Kohl trying to hunt down whoever's interfering with his old Patron and – more importantly – work out why he's trying to do this anyway, when he doesn't really give a damn about Britpop any more. It's about nostalgia, subjective memory, loss, the sick creature known as retro, history and the relations between the lot of them.