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AND WE ARE HERE TO LET YOU TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR LACK OF CRAFT

The Drifting Reviewniverse serves up easily the worst comic so far to poor old Gary Lactus, Al To Astonish and Andre Whickey. Dare you gaze into the ever shifting maw of Marvel’s Generation X Annual #1 from 1995?

The next episode of SILENCE! is already on our Patreon alongside around three-hundred exclusive episodes.

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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.