 The story is about a clown who goes a violent rampage to avenge the decapitation of his pony Toby.Igor Goldkind was originally hired to launch "Crisis" and later worked in PR for "2000 AD" before eventually contributing one-off stories to both "Crisis" and "Tharg's Future Shocks".He developed "The Clown" as a series for "2000 AD" and intended it to be a fond parody of Neil Gaiman’s divisive literary writing style, describing it as “"The Sandman" on laughing gas”.