History Comicbook / Phonogram

* Anachronism: Invoked and lampshaded in "The Immaterial Girl": at an important point in the fifth issue, David Kohl summons and uses [[spoiler: Jay-Z and Alicia Kay's "Empire State of Mind"]] for phonomancy-reasons despite the fact that it hasn't been written or recorded at the point the story takes place. It's magic.

* PopularHistory: Invoked in "The Immaterial Girl": at an important point in the fifth issue, David Kohl summons and uses [[spoiler: Jay-Z and Alicia Kay's "Empire State of Mind"]] for phonomancy-reasons despite the fact that it hasn't been written or recorded at the point the story takes place.

** Deconstructed in the third volume: [[spoiler: After Claire-as-Emily dissolves the coven, the members begin to wonder what to do next, with many of them coming to the gradual realisation that always being a pretentious music snob is maybe not an entirely productive or mature way to live your life, even if it does come with magic powers.]]

* {{Homage}}: ''The Immaterial Girl'' takes place in several 80s music videos. As such, Emily finds herself running through scenes from [[Music/{{Aha}} "Take On Me"]], [[Music/MichaelJackson "Thriller"]], and [[Music/{{Madonna}} Material Girl]].

* BerserkButton: Seth Bingo has several: Do ''not'' do magic at his club night. Do not request records with male vocals or The Pipettes' "Pull Shapes". Also, don't say Music/GirlsAloud aren't a real band, or he will destroy every thought you've ever had.

** UhOhEyes: David suddenly realises how much trouble he's in at the beginning of ''Rue Britannia'' when The Goddess' eyes turn black.

* ShoutOut: No ''duh''. Pretty much any obscure indie act or any British act you can think of is referenced in ''some'' capacity, from the ManicStreetPreachers to Elastica to the Long Blondes and beyond.

* LaserGuidedKarma: In the first issue of "The Immaterial Girl", when cruelly demolishing a proposal made by one of her underlings about the relationship between magic and music videos, Emily uses the video for A-ha's "Take On Me" as a counter-example. Guess which music video she finds herself trapped in by the end of the issue.

''Phonogram'' is a comic book by Creator/KieronGillen and Creator/JamieMcKelvie that takes MagicMusic into the 21st century. In this universe, pop songs have power and the people who can use it are known as "phonomancers". There have been two series so far. The first, ''Rue Britannia'', follows phonomancer David Kohl's attempts to discover who is trying to resurrect the dead goddess of {{Britpop}}. The second series, ''The Singles Club'', takes place over one evening in a club, each issue viewing the events through the perspective of a different character. Gillen and [=McKelvie=] announced a third series, ''The Immaterial Girl'', which will follow the character Emily Aster; thanks to both creators' work for Creator/MarvelComics, it spent several years in DevelopmentHell, but has finally been confirmed for August 2015.

* {{Magic Music}}: A very postmodern example.

* {{Jerkass}}: As he gleefully says in the first few pages of ''Rue Britannia'', David Kohl is ''such a cock''. (This leads to him being tricked and then beat down by The Goddess, just on principle, before she informs him someone's trying to resurrect Britannia and makes him try and stop it.) He gradually progresses to the outer fringes of JerkWithAHeartOfGold, however.

** UhOhEyes: Marc suddenly realises how much trouble he's in at the beginning of the book when The Goddess' eye's turn black.

* TakeThat: No not ''them'', but Marc is very vocal about his disdain for Kula Shaker and Ocean Colour Scene

''Phonogram'' is a comic book by Creator/KieronGillen and Creator/JamieMcKelvie that takes MagicMusic into the 21st century. In this universe, pop songs have power and the people who can use it are known as "phonomancers". There have been two series so far. The first, ''Rue Britannia'', follows phonomancer David Kohl's attempts to discover who is trying to resurrect the dead goddess of {{Britpop}}. The second series, ''The Singles Club'', takes place over one evening in a club, each issue viewing the events through the perspective of a different character. Gillen and [=McKelvie=] have announced a third series, ''The Immaterial Girl'', which will follow the character Emily Aster, but thanks to both creators' work for Marvel [[DevelopmentHell God only knows when it'll come out]].

** David Kohl and Emily Aster

** David Kohl has The Libertines, but manages to keep his rage in interior monologue form.

''Phonogram'' is a comic book by Creator/KieronGillen and [[Creator/JamieMcKelvie Jamie [=McKelvie=]]] that takes MagicMusic into the 21st century. In this universe, pop songs have power and the people who can use it are known as "phonomancers". There have been two series so far. The first, ''Rue Britannia'', follows phonomancer David Kohl's attempts to discover who is trying to resurrect the dead goddess of {{Britpop}}. The second series, ''The Singles Club'', takes place over one evening in a club, each issue viewing the events through the perspective of a different character. Gillen and [=McKelvie=] have announced a third series, ''The Immaterial Girl'', which will follow the character Emily Aster, but thanks to both creators' work for Marvel [[DevelopmentHell God only knows when it'll come out]].

''Phonogram'' is a comic book by Creator/KieronGillen and Jamie [=McKelvie=] that takes MagicMusic into the 21st century. In this universe, pop songs have power and the people who can use it are known as "phonomancers". There have been two series so far. The first, ''Rue Britannia'', follows phonomancer David Kohl's attempts to discover who is trying to resurrect the dead goddess of {{Britpop}}. The second series, ''The Singles Club'', takes place over one evening in a club, each issue viewing the events through the perspective of a different character. Gillen and [=McKelvie=] have announced a third series, ''The Immaterial Girl'', which will follow the character Emily Aster, but thanks to both creators' work for Marvel [[DevelopmentHell God only knows when it'll come out]].

* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' do magic at Seth Bingo's club night. Also, don't say Music/GirlsAloud aren't a real band, or he will destroy every thought you've ever had.

''Phonogram'' is a comic book by Creator/KieronGillen and Jamie [=McKelvie=] that takes MagicMusic into the 21st century. In this universe, pop songs have power and the people who can use it are known as "phonomancers". There have been two series so far. The first, ''Rue Britannia'', follows phonomancer David Kohl's attempts to discover who is trying to resurrect the dead goddess of {{Britpop}}. The second series, ''The Singles Club'', takes place over one evening in a club, each issue viewing the events through the perspective of a different character. Gillen and [=McKelvie=] have announced a third series, ''The Immaterial Girl'', which will follow the character Emily Aster; it spent a long time in DevelopmentHell due to their commitments to other projects, but has been scheduled for release in late 2013.

* ItsPopularNowItSucks: Used InUniverse. Since the cast is made up primarily of people who are essentially indie music snobs with magic powers who draw their power from their indie music snobbery, this trope can appear from time to time. The crib sheets suggest that the authors aren't entirely free of this trope either. They do, however, at least demonstrate a bit of self-awareness about this, and in the first volume Kohl's CharacterDevelopment is centred around, if not exactly abandoning this mindset, then at least not being quite as big a dick about it.

* ItsPopularNowItSucks: Used InUniverse. Since the cast is made up primarily of people who are essentially indie music snobs with magic powers who draw their power from their indie music snobbery, this trope can appear from time to time. The crib sheets suggest that the authors aren't entirely free of this trope either. They do, however, at least demonstrate a bit of self-awareness about this.