Marky ‘Mark’ Millar & the Maniac Marines
If you’re the type who likes reading, among other things, spurious and ill-reasoned comparisons between 2000AD’s stable of early-mid 1990s writing stars and some of the best American rock bands of the...
View ArticleThe very late review
We’re gonna be doing this every Tuesday from now on, Kids. Capsule reviews in the dying light of the comics week. Mindless slack is officially over Detective Comics #855 Published by DC Comics Story –...
View ArticleWho’s snooze on Tues reviews? NEWS: You’s lose, foo’s. Choose booze for rues.
When he woke up he thought he’d dreamed about a movie he’d seen the other day. But everything was different. The characters were black, so the movie in the dream was like a negative of the real movie....
View ArticleAbsolutely shameless KICK ASS! cash-in post…
(I posted this over at Milk The Cat, but I thought it was pretty cool, so I’m reposting it here…) So my friend Lee worked on the set design for the new KICK ASS! movie, adapting Mark Millar and John...
View ArticleA totally Kick Ass (the movie) review!
I haven’t read much of the comic as there’s only so much misanthropy and homophobia that I can take, so this won’t be an exercise in comparing texts. Actually, unless your name’s Charlie Kauffman I’m...
View ArticleElection Night Reviews Special – Hellblazer #266, Joe the Barbarian #4,...
No brains out of 5. Hellblazer #266 by Peter Milligan and Simon Bisley The Conservatives are coming! Those words, the most truly terrifying any Briton with aspirations to humanity can possibly hear,...
View ArticleTo do a Kick Ass 2 review
Clint was found, after a little befuddled craning and turning while doing that exaggerated ‘I am looking for something’ look, not beside the sci-fi/movie/comic mags that the cover tries to pass itself...
View Article2010 Mindless Podcast #2 Clint and Dodgem Logic
For this next bit of our 2010 get-together, Bobsy brought along Clint and Dodgem Logic for The Beast Must Die, Zom, Gary Lactus and Amy Poodle to talk about. This is what it sounded like: Click to...
View Article2010 Mindless Podcast #5 Preacher
…And by this point in our recording session that’s what we’ve done. I for one was pretty drunk by this point. Amy Poodle brought along Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher for us all to talk...
View Article2011 Mindless Podcast #6 Any other business?
Yes, there is! We talk about Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Library # 20, also known as Lint. Then there’s some rambling chat about Mark Millar, Marvel Ultimate stuff, The Authority, Bryan Hitch, Warren...
View ArticleKapow! Podcast part 2
This podcast covers the second half of day one. The bulk of this is taken up with a recording of the Attack The Block panel featuring director, Joe Cornish. There’s also some on-the-floor reactions...
View Article“Doomed to a life of unimaginable solitude”– Kapow! 2011 Unimagined!
Aww, fuck. Might as well start off with a quote from Millar, the Instigator: “But I love that Kapow! is sold out. I want people to turn up, find that out and think: ‘Damn, I’m definitely going to get...
View ArticleTALES FROM THE MILLARDROME: Monument to a Forgotten Future
We’ll stop at nothing, you see. All the suffering and the death and the pain in your world is entertainment for us. Why does blood and torture and anguish still excite us? We thought that by making...
View ArticleGrant Morrison interview: Supergodcast!
For the transcript click here Here’s a recording of a Grant Morrison interview concerning mainly his new book Supergods. Bobsy did the interview with small interjections from Gary Lactus. Here’s the...
View ArticleSeasonal Gifting Ritual Podcast #5: Mud Man
For our final gifting, Zom gives Gary Lactus the first issue of Paul Grist’s new super hero comic, Mud Man. Click to download Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
View ArticleSILENCE! podcast #11
You can now subscribe from the itunes store. Search the podcasts section for “mindlessones” then you can subscribe, rate and review!!! Then promptly cancel as why would you want anything to do with...
View ArticleJupiter’s Legacy the Death of Frank Quitely
Answering! the gjallahorn blown by a respected campaigner of old. Scorning! the gnarled admonishing finger of grumpy teach and his selfblind pretensions to impartiality: Jupiter’s Legacy is really a...
View ArticleDEEP FRIED JAM SANDWICH: Jupiter’s Legacy and the rammy on the hill…
Jupiter’s Legacy #1-3, by Marky “Mark” Millar, Frank Quitely and Pete Doherty Forgive me for the somewhat less than timely review, but fuck me – three issues in this is still a startlingly...
View ArticleThe Function of The Filth – Preview #2
In last week’s instalment of THE FUNCTION OF THE FILTH, we skipped straight to the “violence” part of the equation. This time round, we’re dealing with sex, because sex is always important in this...
View ArticleFlashback to… The Ultimates!
What I like best in art – and I like loads of stuff, I like jokes that I can’t help but laugh at, I like being able to just fucking marvel at someone doing something that seems impossible, I like that...
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