News Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:42:21 CST Vu

Rue Britannia
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

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Just brought to my attention via this Comic Book Resources piece about titles they're looking forward to in 2007 is Phonogram, a new six-issue limited series on Image that's set in modern-day London but is based in the Britpop days of the mid-90s, thankfully not in a wholly nostalgic light though the album cover homages have been nice. I've only lightly cruised the first few issues but it looks pretty good, sort of a cross between Hellblazer, Transmetropolitan and Books Of Magic but with an Echobelly soundtrack. Could be promising.

Newsarama has the whole of the first issue available to read online and the first story arc, Rue Britannia, is supposed to be out in trade paperback in March though that presumes that the individual issues will have already come out by then, never a sure thing. But check it out. It actually made me sort of wish I still had my Sleeper CDs.

PHONOGRAM #1 (Sep 2006)	PHONOGRAM #2 (Nov 2006)	PHONOGRAM #3 (Dec 2006)
PHONOGRAM #4 (Jan 2007)	PHONOGRAM #5 (Feb 2007)	PHONOGRAM #6 (Mar 2007)
PHONOGRAM: RUE BRITANNIA TP (Mar 2007)