adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Feb 9, 2012, 3:17 pm
Being an irregular series wherein I spotlight some particularly beautiful cover runs, from some comics you might have forgotten about, or never seen before. Up this time, the forgotten classic Martian Manhunter: American Secrets mini series from 1992 by Gerard Jones and the sadly missed Eduardo Barr...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Feb 8, 2012, 1:14 pm
BRAND NEW!!!!!! It’s the great new Skype chat show where The Beast Must Die and Gary Lactus talk to each other! About comics no less. In this episode: Whilst Lactus floats in his spaceship above the Earth (specifically above Brighton, East Sussex), the Beast is holed up in his brand new luxury ...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Feb 7, 2012, 6:18 pm
January’s Cartoon County meeting was lucky enough to play host to Chris Weston, artist for The Filth, 2000AD, The Twelve and lots more. Listen now as Chris talks of his apprenticeship with Trigan Empire’s Don Lawrence to working on films such as Akira and The Book Of Eli and his shamanic meetin...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Feb 6, 2012, 1:36 pm
1. Endtroducing Flashback to 2011 and the world is ending. Again. The signs are easy to interpret now, when they require any interpreting at all: a news anchor blathers away on TV,  building up so much expectation that the large hadron collider, suffering from a fit of performance anxiety, unravel...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Feb 5, 2012, 9:26 am
Sometimes the best creative work comes from having to work within restrictions imposed from outside. The Mind Robber is a perfect example of this. The story before, The Dominators, was originally meant to be a six-parter, but had to be cut down to five (thankfully, as it’s the most awful mess imag...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Feb 2, 2012, 2:52 pm
Yesterday, DC finally got around to breaking the news that was already broken: Yes they were going to publish Watchmen prequels, and yes, they had managed to find a group of creators dumb enough to work on them! Huzzah! Now obviously The Comics Internet has already had a pretty good go at covering ...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Jan 28, 2012, 1:00 pm
... . ‘Governments paid me to kill their troublesome superhumans…their heroes. I led them into elaborate deceptions, scenarios costing millions of dollars.’ Is that what the Victory V’s mission was really? One big deathtrap? I always wondered what the Knight meant when he said ‘We trap...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Jan 24, 2012, 7:17 pm
... still making comics from beyond the veil. King always had a ... , lifting palettes and folding in the letters. But a noisy spirit ... with Metatronic authorial bass in the pages of Elephantmen and elsewhere. King was a slave to the bloggist neo-archaeologer David Hine ... flesh as cosmeti...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Jan 24, 2012, 3:00 am
Here it is! The end of Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. When Danny finally broke her fast, I was lucky enough to cover the event for Mindless Ones.  The trip to the Middle Farm cider emporium is documented here in all it’s terrible glory.  WARNING:  Some of the tales told once...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Jan 22, 2012, 9:30 am
... likes his readers to dig deep. PAGE 13 Leviathan’s focus on children reflects traditional al-ghullic concerns about recreating the world. But whereas Ra’s came off as a rejigged villain in the Dax from Moonraker mould, an old man dreaming of a chrome suited future of sexy Adam and Eves p...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Jan 16, 2012, 1:04 pm
Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. You can also read her new Monday Morning strip, updated pretty much daily here. Older work can be found here. Click on the images to enlarge. Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Jan 7, 2012, 7:20 am
Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. You can also read her new Monday Morning strip, updated pretty much daily here. Older work can be found here. Click on the images to enlarge. Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Jan 2, 2012, 12:05 pm
I’ve been a pretty bad Mindless; I haven’t been posting so much lately, because I’ve been busy working on that other thing, and my comrades here have been so exceedingly patient. While I was over there, doing that, I had an angry thought. See, some people said some nice things when I was talki...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Jan 1, 2012, 3:27 pm
I’m sorry I’ve been absent from posting for a month, but here’s a xmas mix for those who enjoy such things (click Amiga Mountain). Although there’s tracks from years gone by in there, there’s also a great deal to love from this year too. It’s a shame everything I enjoyed couldn’t get ...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Dec 31, 2011, 6:05 am
This is us talking about the possibility of a Watchmen prequel/sequel. We then talk a bit then finish with a song. I think by this point we’re all too drunk to be podcasting. By “all” I mean Gary Lactus. Just listen to how drunk the foolish cretin is here: Click to download HELP! WE ARE...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Dec 30, 2011, 12:42 pm
With our gift giving over but spirits still high, Zom pipes up about the problems with continuity using X-Men Regenesis # 1 as a starting point.  Conversation drifts to many areas including DC’s New 52, 2000AD and more, ending with a whole lot of talk about just how great Judge Dredd is.  Speaki...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Dec 28, 2011, 5:14 am
Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. You can also read her new Monday Morning strip, updated pretty much daily here. Older work can be found here. Click on the images to enlarge. Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Dec 26, 2011, 4:49 pm
For our final gifting, Zom gives Gary Lactus the first issue of Paul Grist’s new super hero comic, Mud Man. Click to download Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Dec 25, 2011, 7:00 am
At this point we’re all getting a bit drunk and we all like comics. This is the best time to get excited about The Official Handbook Of The Marvel Universe and Who’s Who in the DC Universe. Listen now as grown men turn into children before your very ears! Click to download Share on Facebook ...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Dec 24, 2011, 2:00 pm
Not going to waste your time too much here – one of the very best animated shorts ever. I saw this when I was very young (and the retro BBC 2 logo at the start of this is a representation of exactly when it was) and it scared the living shit out of me. I’ll just be quiet and let you all enjoy a...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Dec 13, 2011, 10:24 pm
... it’s a Batwoman comic then? IV: Aye, pretty much. Butcher Baker ... from foreign shores.  How was? IV: Yeah, it was good, it ... , the point was that I saw her hanging out with one ... comic the character stars in. IV: Aye, see, that’s the ... ye turn to superhero fare. IV: Ah woul...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Dec 13, 2011, 11:56 am
Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. You can also read her new Monday Morning strip, updated pretty much daily here. Older work can be found here. Click on the images to enlarge. Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Dec 11, 2011, 8:23 pm
... we get to the show’s cancellation in 1989 (and also in my book Bigger On ... show’s second story, The Daleks by Terry Nation, had been the story that made the ... , the dialogue is clunky, but so is Nation’s. The faults of the film, in ... fact, are pretty much all there in Nation’s o...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Dec 7, 2011, 7:38 pm
In the great play, the play of the world, the one I always return to, all emotional souls occupy the stage, whereas all creative people sit in the orchestra. The first are called mad (alienated); the second ones, who depict their follies, are called sages (philosophers). The eye of the sage is the o...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Dec 5, 2011, 1:02 pm
October’s Cartoon County meeting was lucky enough to play host to Nicola Streeten,, author of Billy, Me and You, an account of her experiences of losing her first child. Give it a listen. Click to download   Cartoon County is an association of over 100 cartoonists and comic artists in the Sus...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Dec 5, 2011, 2:56 am
Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. You can also read her new Monday Morning strip, updated pretty much daily here. Older work can be found here. Click on the images to enlarge. Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Dec 3, 2011, 7:18 pm
It might seem odd to viewers nowadays, but one of the rules Sydney Newman, the executive in charge of Doctor Who at its beginning, put into place was ‘no bug-eyed monsters’. This rule was, of course, broken as early as the second story, The Daleks, but it signified something about the intention ...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Dec 1, 2011, 4:21 pm
The Faceless Mindless Collective are back and this time Patrick Meaney, film-maker and director of Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods, is in reach of their terrible teeth in their terrible jaws. Patrick’s new documentary, Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts, focusses on the life and works of pop-comics...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Nov 29, 2011, 6:35 pm
As previously mentioned, the Mindless dream team of The Beast Must Die, Illogical Volume and Andrew “Mandrew” Hickey made it down to Leeds for this year’s Thought Bubble comics convention. These are their recollections of the event, as distorted by the passing of time, sleep-deprivation, alcoh...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Nov 28, 2011, 2:16 pm
If you don’t know who Marc Singer is then you’ve been doing something wrong. An academic by trade and one of the most rigorous and interesting critical voices to come out of the comics blogosphere, Marc’s writing is often mentioned in the same breath as Joe McCulloch’s (Jog) and Douglas Wolk...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Nov 2, 2011, 8:28 pm
... in photoshop, with the colours added as a layer underneath, the pencil layer set to ‘multiply’,  for those who have any idea what I ... ’s the inspiration for them? They just kinda emerged out of sketches, and the setting of San’ya in Malinky Robot. I never ... longer narrative ...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Nov 1, 2011, 3:06 am
Part two of our two part, spine curdling mega epic, THE TERRIBLE HAUNTING OF ANDREW AMUSING     Sleep well tonight, children… Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Oct 29, 2011, 3:00 pm
Exclusive to Mindless Ones – a complete Cindy & Biscuit story (well, minus Cindy)! Click below to read the whole story. Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Oct 29, 2011, 6:50 am
Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. You can also read her new Monday Morning strip, updated pretty much daily here. Older work can be found here. Click on the images to enlarge.   Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Oct 27, 2011, 7:46 pm
We’ve already had one frankly astounding post on scary parents as part of Notes From the Borderland, but this clip from Chris Morris’ Jam depicts a very different sort of parental horror, one in which the child’s viewpoint is removed along with the child, and which instead of a tidal wave o...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Oct 26, 2011, 6:15 pm
aka the obvious one… Like Elephant, I didn’t see Threads at the time. It was deliberate this time, another video, borrowed years later on the strength of fearsome reputation. I think – but these memories could well  be half invented, half-recounted – I think I can remember the day after T...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Oct 25, 2011, 7:17 pm
Botswana Beast: Right, son, I’mo get my fit-to-print pants on: Where to start, oh, man; I guess you bought Fear Itself, I was surprised you did because you are a grown-up who buys grown-up comics, and you bought it because of how I described it to you at Kapow!? (How much punctuations should I...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Oct 24, 2011, 12:22 pm
Part one of our two part, spine chilling story, THE TERRIBLE HAUNTING OF ANDREW AMUSING Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Oct 23, 2011, 8:00 am
Watch this clip. Do so unaware and unshielded, and come back and read the rest of the post after the clip has made you a different person. For the full authentic experience, or as close as you’ll get without being me twenty odd years ago, watch the final execution only, from about 4.12. It’s do...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Oct 22, 2011, 6:04 am
Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. You can also read her new Monday Morning strip, updated pretty much daily here. Older work can be found here. Click on the images to enlarge. Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Oct 21, 2011, 11:00 am
Conclusion: Parts 1-14 That’s all for now folks! Hope you enjoyed it. I’m currently hard at work on Cindy & Biscuit no.2, which should be arriving sometime soon… Oh, and be here next week for a very special Halloween Biscuit solo story: ‘Biscuit Beyond’… If you want to purchase a cop...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Oct 20, 2011, 10:53 am
Zom and I have talked many times in many articles about the fact that our mother used to work as a TV producer and how the company she worked for was, like so many production companies in the late seventies, situated in Soho. It was an old, thin building with an editing suite in the basement and her...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Oct 18, 2011, 2:14 pm
OR: MINDLESS LINKBLOGGING, SPECIAL “ALL BASTARDS MUST BE AGGRAVATED!” EDITION! As you hopefully noticed, we spent a large part of last month bringing you the best in bastardry.  We’ve got some spooky Notes From the Borderland coming up in time for Halloween, so right now seems like as good a...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Oct 17, 2011, 5:00 pm
Here’s our latest Cartoon County podcast where we talk to Stephen Silverwood and Laurence Stead of children’s literacy charity, Upside Comics. click to download Cartoon County is an association of over 100 cartoonists and comic artists in the Sussex area. Our regular meetings are usually on th...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Oct 17, 2011, 4:27 pm
But like, fifty-two cards when I’m, I’m through dealin Now fifty-two bars come out, now you feel ‘em Now, fifty-two cars roll out, remove ceiling In case fifty-two broads come out, now you chillin… No chrome on the wheels, I’m a grown-up for real Jay-Z October 2011. Babies are filmed ...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Oct 16, 2011, 5:23 am
Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. You can also read her new Monday Morning strip, updated pretty much daily here. Older work can be found here. Click on the images to enlarge. Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Oct 14, 2011, 9:46 pm
Part 14: Parts 1-13 Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Oct 13, 2011, 6:26 pm
I suppose I should apologise for how late this post is, coming as it does nearly a fortnight after the final episode. Partly, this is because I’ve been ill recently and unable to write. But also, it’s because I couldn’t beat Illogical Volume’s summation: When I was a kid, there was a famou...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Oct 13, 2011, 2:02 pm
Being an irregular series wherein I spotlight some particularly beautiful cover runs, from some comics you might have forgotten about, or never seen before. First up, Mark Wheatley and Rick Burchett’s idiosyncratic lost gem from the short lived !mpact Comics, The Black Hood. The Black Hood was pa...
Comment - Like

adam S. posted an article on Mindless Ones - Oct 11, 2011, 10:17 am
Wotcha reckon? Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
Comment - Like