Laurence Powell & Oliver Lambden's comics aren't strongly consistently high but they can't be faulted for their enthusiastic community involvement. And they've used those superpowers here to produce something seemingly innoculus but really bringing togethera plethora of talent in a fun and well-presented compendium. Erin and Chris T's framing strip, "Game Show" is fairly harmless fun though fairly dull and I would like to out them when their concentrated quality evolves from the traces of well-paced imagination and the love of the medium here and there.

A mix bag then, of sci-fi, zombies, games console genre, more preferrable to myself the humour, folk tales and quallity autobio. The best among these is a one page classic by Dan Lester, uproaringly unexpected and deserving og reprinting where-ever there are anthologies over the next few years- perhaps. Perhaps not. Andrew Cheverton's "Pavement", a poignant reflective tale with a shout of tragedy manages to be memorable and definitely Steve Butland's "A Rock Story", fixing itself in the consciousness like a close encounter of the third kind, or your chance conversation in the street with David Lynch or Salvador Dali beating the shit out of Bono. David Baillie's "The Writer and The Monkey" may require a magnifying glass but is a comedy gem.

Also contains Oli Smith's "I lost myself" - heartfelt, poignant with delicate washes and compassion and kindness laid out as to remind. Of the other 18 creators not mentioned- its midbrow stuff most with every piece containing a sparkle. Plenty of room for improvements, edits and extensions - definitely goes a way to filling a long bus journey. Also it's nicely presented in flat packaged binding. 60pages, A5. Well done.

For more details check out the website at http://www.modernmonstrosity.moonfruit.com
or for our dial up and save page readers, its £3.99 (postage included) from Laurence Powell at 21 Altenburg Gardens, London, , SW11 1JH. This comic is also available from Forbidden planet, also Gosh in London, 30th century Comics in Futney, Avalon Comics in Clapham junction and Dave's Comics in Brighton.