Cette nouvelle graphique raconte l’histoire d’un réalisateur, quelque part à Londres, qui se meurt d’un cancer. L’œuvre maîtresse de sa vie — son plus grand film — devait retracer le destin d’un village européen à l’approche de la dernière heure de l’an 999 ; ce minuit qui, selon la conviction des villageois, allait marquer l’avènement de l’Armageddon. Cette histoire, désormais, ne sera jamais racontée. Pourtant, le cinéaste continue, en vain, à la concevoir dans son esprit, réalisant un film que personne ne verra jamais. Personne, si ce n’est le lecteur.

Originally commissioned and serialised in The Face, the comic strip Signal to Noise was then expanded and revised for its launch on the VG Graphics list in 1992 with an introduction by Jonathan Caroll. It tells the story of a film director, somewhere in London, dying of cancer. His life's crowning achievement, his greatest film, would have told the story of a European village as the last hour of AD 999 approached - the midnight which the villagers were convinced would bring with it Armageddon. Now that story will never be told. But he still pointlessly works it out in his head, making a film that no one will ever see. No one but the reader.