Mindless Ones

A woman’s fingers erupting from a robot’s wrist, a wet brain punctured by wires and encased in metal, animal hair sprouting behind a cyborg faceplate, emotions crushed beneath inhibitor technology.

Cybermen? It could be argued.

Body horror and cyber-strangeness after the cut

Part 9:

Read parts 1- 8 here.

Who are Cindy & Biscuit? Why don’t you find out for yourself?

And don’t just take my word for it. Look here, here, and here! for further proof!

And look, even Tom Spurgeon told youto read it, and he’s like royalty.

“A Screaming Comes Across the Sky…”

They dared me to do this one.

“…It never ends.”

–Some writer

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To be critically viable, you’d have to change more than a character – you’d have to change a whole world. But no matter what changes you made, a story without him in a major role – one of the largest roles – you’d be kneecapping yourself at the outset. He has always been, after all, one of the best of them.

(Image by Guido Guidi)

Well, maybe best is the wrong word.

A Month of Bastards begins after the cut

One of the reasons I was asked to join the Mindless Ones last month is that we’re expanding our range of topics somewhat. We’re still going to concentrate on comics, of course, but we’re going to be venturing into other waters – expect the occasional post about TV, films or video games. And one of the things we’re going to do is a weekly look at Doctor Who.

Yes, it’s going to be a week after the broadcast. But it’s a programme about time travel, after all. More to the point, there’s a good reason for the delay – Moffat-era Doctor Who, more than any other era of the programme, takes time to sink in. Often what appeared at first glance to be a hugely impressive rip-roaring adventure will, on a rewatch, prove very problematic. Sometimes, less often, the reverse will be true, and an initially unimpressive story will reveal hidden depths.

So we’re going to look at each episode a week late, and see what actually worked and what didn’t.

Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. You can also read her Monday Morning strip here.
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