Pussyfoot 5 is a series from the British comic anthology 2000 AD about a crack team of deep-cover occult agents working for the Vatican to protect the Earth from paranormal threats.

[1] The team consists of world grid technician and ultravixen Pussy Willow, the techno-shaman Lucy Melmoth and her demon familiar Shatterface (Exu in ectoplasm spirit form), the insectoid were-shaper Mantissa, and the tactical specialist Chubby Behemoth, a born-again Christian possessed by spirit the serial killer Son of Sam.

Smith wrote the first spin-off entry as a comparatively short five-issue story to introduce the characters and concepts and test the water for a series.

Mr Vathek, Mantissa's torturer in "Fast Breeder" is a member of a cloven-hoofed species called the Chadarisq-Khan, another one of whom appears in John Smith's Firekind.

[3] D'Israeli has expressed disappointment in his work on Pussyfoot 5, initially delivering a "colouring job inspired by Austin Powers, only to discover editor David Bishop had been thinking The Matrix".