SILENCE! podcast #6
March 14th, 2012
Behold cretins! The sixth mind-ripping installment of SILENCE! is upon us…
In this episode Lactus tries desperately to get off the smack, whilst continuing to loll about on his cosmic swank pad. Meanwhile the Beast has made some Amazing Friends. Matters takes a turn for the sobering as they discuss the sad passing of Moebius, and give an update on Brett Ewins‘ situation in Silence News. We also reveal the winner of our ‘competition’ to draw a picture of the ‘Thing’s Thing’. Then things get merry again as Lactus reveals he has read all the comics in the world due to a one-sided sponsorship deal with Dave’s Comics of Brighton. Beast sulks. The two 4-colour raconteurs then take in Action Comics, Animal Man, Swamp Thing, Fatale, OMAC, The Fairest, Age of Apocalypse, Stray Bullets, The Manhattan Projects and they both take their horrid medicine when they read Spawn issue no. 2,798,002 in the new feature You Should Have Known Better. The Beast takes a rambling digression into the career of Ralph Bakshi in the Not Comics section (so many sections!) before they delve into the upcoming releases in the Coming Attractions.
Oh yes, and Lactus misses his deadline for his Hulk song, but drops in a bit of live superhero stand-up to atone for his sins.
Could it be any better? Arguably yes, but you know what? THIS IS WHAT YOU’RE HAVING. MAN UP, GRAB YOUR EARS AND GET SOME!
[CLICK BELOW FOR IGMUS's NSFW 'COMPETITION' WINNING DEPICTION OF THE THING'S THING!]
SILENCE! GALLERY:
‘competition’ winning entry from Igmus:
March 14th, 2012 at 11:13 am
I love the look of horror on the Thing’s face
March 14th, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Now I’m just imagining the Thing’s piss running down the rocky cracks on his leg. Poor the Thing.
March 14th, 2012 at 5:52 pm
I think my sketch (which was the most difficult Thing I’ve ever drawn) explains a lot about why the Thing has been so unhappy all these years. I never felt I really understood the character until now. It must be nearly impossible for him to use urinals. I imagine his willy was in that shape due to the in-built waste-disposal system of his astronaut suit on that fateful day. In some way I think there may be some Freudian lesson here in that the Thing’s thing is always rock hard, and yet the business end is always pointing in the wrong direction. That is his curse.
Anyway, I’m busy at work this week so won’t be able to listen to the show until later. Can’t wait to find out what my prize is.
March 14th, 2012 at 7:06 pm
It’s a topper!
(literally, it is an issue of British kids comic Topper)
March 14th, 2012 at 10:54 pm
What is that weird thing on the SILENCE! banner? Every time I look at it I laugh. Or feel fear. Anyway, it’s weird.
March 14th, 2012 at 11:27 pm
Three words. LATE PERIOD DITKO.
If someone can identify where it’s from they get…some sort of prize.
March 15th, 2012 at 7:30 am
Would you stop it with the prizes already?! We’re not made of stamps!
March 15th, 2012 at 7:59 am
I said some sort of prize. That prize might be a virtual handshake. Or it might be a special sexy dance from Gary Lactus in your living room.
The forbidden dance.
March 15th, 2012 at 8:34 am
The forbidden dunce.
March 15th, 2012 at 10:05 am
Are Zom and Amy really twins?
March 15th, 2012 at 10:06 am
Yes we are. Identical twins.
March 15th, 2012 at 10:09 am
And it’s true that one is evil and one is good.
March 15th, 2012 at 10:15 am
And that one is embearded and that tother isn’t
March 15th, 2012 at 11:28 am
And they are nothing but human plot devices.
March 15th, 2012 at 12:53 pm
Sexy human plot devices – if you ask them nicely, they might even lez up.
March 15th, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Speak for yourself.
March 15th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
Yeah, sorry, it’s me that likes to lez up. With myself.
March 15th, 2012 at 4:12 pm
Good tines
March 15th, 2012 at 11:50 pm
LATE PERIOD DITKO
is what he’s doing now, is it?
Hm?
Is it?
March 16th, 2012 at 12:38 am
Clever….
no prize
March 16th, 2012 at 9:51 pm
It may be too late, but I’d love to hear a “You Should Have Known Better” segment on Avengers Assemble #1 by Bendis and Bagley.
Also, not sure if everyone else here already knows about this, but Alan Moore has done another interview:
http://www.seraphemera.org/seraphemera_books/Alan_Moore_Interview.html
I’m not seeing his comments get much play in the blogs this time around, so I thought I’d mention it. I didn’t read the whole thing, because it’s a bit tedious at times, but I liked when he pointed out that “nostalgia” literally refers a mental illness. I’ve been saying this for years, suffering all the while.
March 18th, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Hmm, this supports my hypothesis that mindlessones.com is just a metatextual Morrisonian plot invention to justify his writing.
March 18th, 2012 at 12:14 pm
You must’ve missed the bit where Lactus was kinda and Beast not at all entertained by the last Action Comics. We don’t unconditionally enjoy Morrison’s writing. You might’ve noticed that there are no annos for the aforementioned hereabouts.
March 18th, 2012 at 12:27 pm
ALL PART OF OUR CUNNING PLAN!
ALL CRITICISM IS MERE CAMOUFLAGE!
ALL THOUGHTS ARE ONE IN THE BALDMIND!
March 18th, 2012 at 7:11 pm
@igmus
I found that Alan Moore interview utterly depressing; you get the impression the DC’s cynical corporate behaviour has actually upset him to the point where he’s (understandably) slightly losing perspective on the whole grotty situation.
Has anyone suggested to him that a great way to give the finger to DC would be by writing a couple more volumes of Halo Jones for 2000 AD? After all it’s a publication which, for all its faults, has treated his work with far more respect than DC! (plus, of course, there would be the added bonus that it might be quite a good read…)
March 18th, 2012 at 8:04 pm
It’s gloriously unfinished though. How was it supposed to end. I think Beast told me once….
March 18th, 2012 at 10:29 pm
Nah, the Beard’s got beef with Tharg too. Ain’t gonna happen.
March 18th, 2012 at 11:00 pm
The Beard has many tangles, no doubt. Much as I’d love to read more Halo Jones, I also not so secretly love where, when and how it just stops.
March 19th, 2012 at 9:30 am
erm, well I suppose he could always do his (slightly less anticipated) sequel to Skizz instead…
March 19th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
Surprised TBMD neglected to mention the detail that the switch used to transform his roomie’s ‘swinging’ pad into a hi-tec anti-supercrime control centre is a willy-sized figurine of The Hulk (or is it The Thing? I don’t know, I’m not eight years old.)
Just seemed appropriate, imp to mensch.
March 19th, 2012 at 8:32 pm
Part of the impetus for Moore to stop working for IPC was that they don’t do creators’ rights.
(Until O’Neill forced it (in what, 1980 or so?), they didn’t do creators’ credits, either, only very occasionally allowing a signature.)
If we can hijack rebellion and force them to give all the rights to all the creators (a crushingly complex operation, even without the hijack bit), we could possibly negotiate for Halo Jones book 4 etc, but I doubt if he’s all that interested in reviving such early work, anyway.
Personally, I like how open-ended HJ is, the rhythm has been well established enough by the end of book 3 that I can almost hear it playing on in the ether. It’s the Earthly radio edit of a 12″ that exists on planes other than this. Or summink. Oh fuck off.
March 20th, 2012 at 3:03 pm
Aww amy, I didn’t mean it like THAAT!
March 20th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
I didn’t really think you did, but I am keen to distance this site from accusations of unconditional Moz love. Just because I enthuse about some of his (best) work (and Batman), doesn’t mean that I think everything the man writes, says and does is good, or that the rest of the Mindless crew share my enthusiasms.