Script—David Britton

Art—Kris Guidio / John Coulthart

Cover—Guidio / Douthwaite

1992

A Savoy Discorporation Production

ISBN 0 86130 086 6

36pp

April is the cruellest month... Electrifying Ms Monoshock, blessed with powers of discorporation, dances with Charlie Chaplin and muses on tristesse de la vie. Intended as a series before Reverbstorm came along. Britton and Guidio's latest female character is the pugnacious pixie, La Squab.

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"Meanwhile, Manchester's Savoy comics struggle back to life with a one-off production called Monoshock. Writer David Britton has always been at the forefront of the extreme (as readers of his notorious Lord Horror series will testify), but here the terror is mixed with wonder as an ever-changing female protagonist 'trespasses on the dreams of a Surrealist'. A fractured dance through a shifting landscape by Kris Guidio's apocalyptic Beardsley-isms, Monoshock is an item for the connoisseur, a fantasy as far removed from the crass posturings of the Marvel mainstream as it's possible to get."

JACK VINCENNES, Lime Lizard