Mindless Ones

I GET YOUR POINT, YOU’RE SO SHARP

Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die are tired and they want you to know it. Thankfully our heroes catch a mighty wind of South London Comic and Zine Fair and before you know it, they’re plugging their own Duncing and Cindy and Biscuit and soaring majestically into The Reviewniverse

Chloe Green’s A Crying Shame, Bizarre Boys, David Ziggy Greene’s Jam Bookshop, Garbage Pail Kids, Dan and Sam and Blackest Night get talked about. There’s also tribute paid to Chris Reynolds.

It’s a good episode, see what you think.

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Welcome back, Jolly Whackos, to The Mighty Crusaders Number Four! In this episode, Gary Lactus puts page three of The Mighty Crusaders Number Four under the electron microscope and peers into the quantum universes living in each line, punctuation mark and ear of this life-changing, explosive stick of dyna-mind!!!

Transcript and pictorial reference below for true students of greatness.

KI-YIPPEE AND YAHOO, YES SIR!

GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON WHY I SHOULDN’T WIN

Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die crawl back into your skull and deposit a number of topics.  The big news is dropped in a very special edition of Inside The Wanker’s Studio in which Gary Lactus conducts a hard hitting, no punches pulled interview with a name that’s about to be shouted so loud by so many that it will echo down the ages, Dan White.  Dan’s big book of Cindy and Biscuit is to be published on August 15th 2023 so get ready to buy copies for everyone you know.

The Beast rejoins Gary as the pair enter The Reviewniverse with Unstoppable Doom Patrol, Garth Marenghi Live, Zero and Michael Kupperman’s Patreon.

Then it’s off to SILENCE! (Because The Film’s started) where The Beast has seen Guardians of the Galaxy III

After that it’s massive revelation, moths and away…

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Hello there. In this episode we mostly pay tribute to the longtime manager of Dave’s Comics, Stephen Bamford in the wake of his passing.

We also talk about Comics and Beer, The Sheild G-Man Club Fanzine, The Watchmen RPG and Bob Burden’s Robot Comics.

Oh, and both your hosts will be exhibiting at All About The Ink this month.

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DADDY’S HOME

He’s back! The good one is back!

The Beast Must Die is back and we all get to hear what he’s been up to. He’s been watching Grange Hill and almost nothing else. Let’s not beat around the blurb, let’s read a list of some of the things talked about on this episode that aren’t Grange Hill:

His Dark Materials, The Apprentice, Traitors, Batman Year Two, DC on screen, At Home With Rick Geary, 200AD Prog 503, Chatabix, 60 Songs To Explain The 90s.

GO!

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Here’s a fantastic new project from Channel SILENCE! It’s a deep, deeper, deepest dive into a comic that blew my mind – The Mighty Crusaders Number Four from Mighty Comics, 1966. I hope you enjoy listening to it more than I enjoyed making it. Future episodes in this series will be released on our Patreon page with possible public release at a future date. If you’d like to support this stupid fucking project then feel free to go to https://www.patreon.com/SILENCE and do what you think is right.

Click here for transcript and reference gallery!

OH IT’S SO GOOD BABY WHEN YOU’RE AT THE WHEEL

Writing these blurbs can be worse than pulling teeth. Lucky for you, I ran out of teeth ten minutes ago so here we are

Shall we welcome Tom Oldham and Douglas Noble back? Okay then. Do you want to hear a blow-by-pulse-pounding-blow account of Tom’s trip to Angouleme? Fine. That’s what this is. Along the way we talk about:

Julie Doucet, Sammy Harkham, Coffee, Druillet, Aien Worlds, Richard Corbyn, Jonathan Ross, Midnight Tales, Junji Ito, Bill Brandt, Sarah-Louise Barbett and Kit-Kats.

How close do you feel to death?

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A book is a dream you can hold in your hands
Music is a dream that can be played by bands
Dinner is a dream that goes in your tummy
Drugs are a dream that makes you feel funny
Chickens are a dream that likes to lay eggs
Trousers are a dream that covers your legs
Drawers are a dream you can put things in
Norwich is a dream quite close to Kings Lynn

Here’s a bit of fun. The Beast Must Die has run off the the edge of the planet and is falling through space for all eternity (for charity) so Gary Lactus is joined by Douglas Noble and Tom Oldham, the two halves of Dark And Golden. It is not established which one of them is Dark and which is Golden. What ensues is fun and interesting until Tom’s audio stops recording for some reason so towards the end, dear listener, the podcast decays into judiciously edited scraps before rotting away entirely.

During the 1 hr 33 mins of this podcast we speak of Breakdown Press, Baby, It May Never Happen, Angouleme, Croix-Noire, 2000AD Extreme Editions, Peter Milligan’s The Dead, Meltdown Man, Rainbow Swelling, Billionaire Island: Cult Of Dogs, Catwoman: Lonely City, Power Comics, The Butterfly House, Clair Napier’s The Magic Necklace, Cowboy Picture Library 410 – Buck Jones The Hunter and more.

Some links for you:
https://darkandgolden.bigcartel.com/
https://www.breakdownpress.com/
http://strip-for-me.com/

Some sound for you:

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I have an extremely rare two hour window to go to a pub so I really want to prioritise that over the blurb. Ho ho ho! We recorded a podcast! Jingle. We just talked. Ho ho ho! Happy holidays and a happy new pod! Stay incredible always and forever. Remember the magic of possibility, let people know you love them and be happy for Christ’s sake!

Here’s what we talked about.

Christgasm 2022, Boredom, David Foster Wallace, Thought Bubble, Cindy And Biscuit: End Of Level, Pricks, Inside The Wanker’s Studio, Peach Fuzz by Anna Readman, the 2000AD end of year big thing, Alan Grant, The Kunts, Basildon, The Cure, snow fun, Dark and Golden, Shuk and Doode, It May Never Happen by Kevin Wookcock, the Broken Frontier Awards, the missing SILENCE! To Astonish, Early Doors by Lucy Sullivan, Ghosts in Things, More Ghosts In Things, Gareth Hopkins, Creep Heap, having too many comics, Weird Kids Like McCoy by Dan Cox, Twitter, Disney+, Red, not watching MCU stuff, The Batman, Spiderman #1, Marvel’s Squirrel Girl Podcast, Daniel Kitson’s A Show For Christmas (LISTEN TO IT NOW!), The Traitors and Wait What? RIP.

Have a good one! Cheers everyone, BYE!