Mindless Ones

The cult film podcast with Mat Colegate (aka Lord Nuneaton Savage) & Dan White (aka The Beast Must Die).

The Savage Beast, Season 2, no.6: Building a Better Batman

In this latest episode we take a look at the Batman films of Christopher Nolan, incluidng:

• Batman Begins (2005)
• The Dark Knight (2008)
• The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

The cult film podcast with Mat Colegate (aka Lord Nuneaton Savage) & Dan White (aka The Beast Must Die).

The Savage Beast, Season 2, no.4: Thou Shalt Worship Craven Idols

In this latest episode we take a look at a whole slew of films, including

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
• Reflections in a Dead Diamond (2025)
• Good Boy (2025)
• Howling 2: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985)
• VHS 1994 (2021)
• VHS 1985 (2023)
• VHS Beyond (2024)

The cult film podcast with Mat Colegate (aka Lord Nuneaton Savage) & Dan White (aka The Beast Must Die).

The Savage Beast, Season 2, no.4: Thou Shalt Worship Craven Idols

In this latest episode we take a look at a that most nebulous Master of Horror, Wes Craven.

Films discussed include

• Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
• The Serpent and The Rainbow (1988)
• Deadly Friend (1986)

If you’re near Harrogate this weekend and fancy talking into our faces or buying our comics, come visit us at Thought Bubble comics convention, tables B30-31, 2000AD!

Big massive genius Gary Lactus will be there with the latest issue of Pricks, the comic that’s come closest to capturing the feel of this rotten moment we find ourselves in. As for how it gets this tactile sensation across to the reader, well, you’ll have find that one out for yourself.

Mister Attack and Tam Rolland are debuting Reliable Witness this weekend. Taking Glasgow’s mythology as its starting point, this is a modern horror story in the style of Delano’s Hellblazer – just remember, you heard about it here first!

Handsome Dan Cox will be flogging his Doom Patrol zine, collecting work previously seen on the Mindless Ones newsletter (subscribe today!). Every issue comes with an individually collaged cover, because of fucking course it does.

Hench legend Paul Jon Milne is back with Suture, sure to be one of the year’s most powerful comics.

Last but not least, fancy pants author The Beast Must Die will be sat beside us at his own table, B29, 2000AD Hall. The Beast will be selling copies of the first two volumes of Cindy and Biscuit, alongside Secret Oranges, a collection of his early works.

The Beast Must Die will also have copies of the first issue of John Riordan’s William Blake biography Los at his table, because sometimes brilliance needs company.

If you’re about today, Saturday 15th November, Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die will be hosting the SILENCE! to Astonish panel with Affable Al Kennedy at 1.45 in Panel Room 1 – Queen’s Suite.

As the blurb above says, this year’s show will feature the dream lineup of Al Ewing, John Allison, Kieron Gillen and Megan Huang as guests – 18+ only, in case someone does a swear.

The cult film podcast with Mat Colegate (aka Lord Nuneaton Savage) & Dan White (aka The Beast Must Die).

Kick back for this special Halloween 2025 episode of The Savage Beast filled with recommendations for what to watch (and what to avoid) this spooky season. Films discussed include:

• Freaky Tales
• Thanksgiving
• The Haunted Palace
• V/H/S Halloween
• Halloween 3: Season of the Witch
• Evilspeak

The cult film podcast with Mat Colegate (aka Lord Nuneaton Savage) & Dan White (aka The Beast Must Die).

The Savage Beast S2:2 – THE SAVAGE BEST: THE RAID 2

In this episode, we’re adding another film to our personal canon, the SAVAGE BEST. This time it’s

THE RAID 2 (Gareth Evans, 2014)

And for good measure we talk up some notable other film sequels.

The cult film podcast with Mat Colegate (aka Lord Nuneaton Savage) & Dan White (aka The Beast Must Die).

The Savage Beast S2:1 – THE CRAFT!

In this first episode of Season 2, we’re discussing a topic about the noblest of any art form (and in fact any work ever) ACTING DAHLING!! We’re looking at some beloved archetypes.

• The Tough Guy
• The Methodist
• The Vibe
• The Ham

Makes cool art/music, for example: We Are No Longer Strangers (2024). Official Daredevil enthusiast. Worth keeping an eye on his Instagram, always something going on there.   

Who are you and how did you become a man without fear? 

My name is Watters and I am what many describe as “cool music guy”. Basically I am an Artist who makes lots of cool things all of which are informed around my lived experience as a disabled person.

However what I feel sets me aside from a lot of what is out there when it comes to representing people like me is that what I make isn’t made to be anything in particular and what I mean by that is a lot of your typical mainstream disability programming tends to fall into two schools, the first being inspiration porn which often consists of infantilising disabled and neurodivergent people and presenting us almost like Zoo animals, a good example of this is Channel 4 producing a show called “The Undateables” and then touting it as inspirational programming and representation, it exists purely to make non-disabled people good about themselves. 

The second is the trope of tragedy, that life as a disabled person is miserable, “they can’t do anything” and are often in fiction window dressing/a storytelling object.

What I do and what I make is neither. It is one of the most honest and real representations of disabled life but more specifically my life. Because that’s all it is. It is me unabridged. 

Writer, Absolute Green Lantern (with Jahnoy Lindsay, 2025 – ), Metamorpho (with Steve Lieber, 2024 – 2025), The Immortal Thor (with Alex Ross & Co, 2023 – 2025). Ace podcast guest. Superstar DJ. All round sound human being.

Can you remember the first time you thought about alien intelligence?

Probably last week. I’m doing at least one book about alien thought processes and how an alien philosophy might differ from our own… while still cheating it all completely by having that different alien philosophy say things about very real and destructive human philosophies that we can’t get away from. That said, I always enjoy a nice New Wave of SF story about navigating alien systems of being, so there’s plenty of that in the DNA.

What are the chances of anything coming from Mars?

A million to one, they said! The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one – but still they come!

You once said it was important for Metamorpho to have a sincere relationship with the audience. Which element do you have the most sincere relationship with?

I’m incredibly sincere about the element oxygen. I think that’s the one you really can’t fake a relationship with. Eventually, of course, I’m going to have to break up with oxygen – but not by choice.

Can you say anything about the future of Absolute Green Lantern?

The further along I get with it, the more it reveals itself to me. Every issue from here will bring new and strange revelations until the tangled timeline of the book is entirely filled in… at which point, having untangled time, we tangle space and take a detour to the other end of the universe. I’m writing that one now.

In your dreams, are other worlds still possible?

I still dream, both literally and figuratively. If I were to believe that other worlds were no longer possible, I’d have to drop comics and become an op-ed columnist.

What’s next for you in this world?

Life’s a bit of a Red Queen’s Race at the moment – I’m running full tilt to stay where I am – but some future plans are starting to make themselves known in the present. Big things are manifesting in the world of Thor, for example. Meanwhile, in the personal realm, I’m DJing again – that might go somewhere exciting, or stay at the level where it’s a comfortable night out with friends.

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