The RackRaids review was done by our very-own workhorse, Graig Kent.

Aces. Inserted now.

KG

Just want to add my consenting voice.
Wicked, a really nice melding of Old-School and New-School Phonogram (seeing issue 4 as a different kind of story)
Can’t wait to reread them, which I might, in fact, do right now.
Hmm.

Just one thing:
The zoom in on Kohl’s face, where you just zoomed in the image, looked really blurry on the third push in.
Was this intentional?

Also, wasn’t too sure on the Libertines scene at first, but now I’ve come to realise it encapuslates a lot of the ideas I love in this.
(I think I was mainly upset at Kohl’s bashing of the Libs, in all fairness.)

Yes, it was intentional.

Re: Distortion. It’s an effect I lifted from Brett Ewins. Have a look at his work and you’ll see him using reiterated photocopies to get similar effects. Probably the easiest available would be either Skreemer or Bad Company, and both are worth reading anyway.

KG

MCKELVIE FAMILY FACT: My cousin, the popular D’n'B DJ known as D-Bridge, named his group Bad Company after that very comic. 2000ad is responsible for both our careers.

I thought it might be intentional cus I remember you saying something about medium as message?

Still, my pretty Phoogram getting blurry?
Makes me sad, though cool that it’s for a purpose (and something I may go and look into now)

…You guys going to that Bristol comic-con thing?
I fancy being all syncophantic again, and bonus, BKV is there.

Yes, we should both be there. Haven’t got a table, annoyingly, but we’ll be there.

KG

How will that work, if you don’t have a table?
Anyway, cool, will convince my comic-loving slave of a friend it’s a good idea to join me and watch me salivate over my favourite comicky people again.

Just read Phonogram so far in its entirety again (despite lots of interruptions and the odd session of trampolining).
Really great stuff. Obviously.
Quite a few bits I didn’t get before, and noticed quite a bit of media-as-message stuff.

Also realised that the World’s End is, I think, the pub I watched England get kicked out of the last World Cup in.
Then legged it.

Legging it is always smart.

How it’ll work will be “Kitten and I wander around and/or spend all our time in the bar”.

We won’t make any money, basically. Which is rubbish!

KG

But you WILL get to spend your time at the bar.

Hmm. From a financial viewpoint, I suppose, not so smart.

We’ve never been any good at smart financial viewpoints.

KG