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FC:SB(!)3D#2

It’s just gibberish, eh? Or machine code, something something. That title. Or is it compressed, purposive – come see! (A short note about covers, because I had been rather smug about purchasing story...

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A (hidden) grammar

Nah, mate, nah. English, eh? ING-LISH. So, I dunno – Mindless Ones’ premier anniversaire, and I’m hauling up the back end, with my monthly contrib of – occasionally – fauxcademic insight and link...

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HB85: Peace and Constantine. Constantine and Peace.

Or: why David ‘Red Riding‘ Peace would be my perfect Hellblazer writer. I really just want to post some of these pictures off the telly, they’re smashing: So, 1983 didn’t end so well – I mean,...

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Bat/Rob #1 – the highwire

You could listen to the similarly titled Motley Crüe song to accompany this post, but I’d advise against it. Bit rusty, hold on: It’s all been done before, of course. I expect you can’t say carneys...

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Who’s snooze on Tues reviews? NEWS: You’s lose, foo’s. Choose booze for rues.

When he woke up he thought he’d dreamed about a movie he’d seen the other day. But everything was different. The characters were black, so the movie in the dream was like a negative of the real movie....

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Coo! Is that the Tuesday review, turning wires blue?

I certainly hope so: I plan on swearing a lot today, in order to emulate my newfound hero: Jamie McDonald, the Crossest Man in Scotland. Here’s Jamie exemplifying really what, in substitute of wit,...

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We du Tu. re-vu fa yu

I hope - for your sakes, my friend - you are buy this little, red star. More on that at later date, but is out now, in this week, do not be missing. Jog spoils the conclude, many months ago. So, I...

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Paying dues: Tuesday reviews

What’s that, crow-like Carnevale mask? There’re going to follow a plural of what? Stolen from here, btw, in the interests of credit due. Creepy fucking buddy. Something bit horrible to start off with;...

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La-Tues reviews: Starman #81, Amazing Spider-Man #618

In the dying light of the comic week… Starman #81 by James Robinson, Fernando Dagnino, Bill Sienkewicz & Matt Hollingsworth First up, art sentence: the art looks fucking doss, because it’s drawn –...

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Happy Blogiversary to NeilAlieN

We at the Mindless Ones have a particular mythospheric kinship of course to the Methuselah of comicsbloggery, the legendarious NeilAlieN, and would like to celebrate his 10th year in front of the game...

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Criminology

  It’s probably an unbelievably bad idea to take DC marketing dept. at their word, but anyway. They have a difficult job, I guess. Und so! Vorwaerts! The initial idea for this was a liveblog, but that...

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Mindless Ones vs. Patrick Meaney – Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods

Pree-zentin’ what will probably be the most comprehensive interview you read with Patrick Meaney, the director of …this week, anyway.     1. So were you pooing yourself with excitement the whole time...

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Illogical Volume introview

This is his face Terrifying… but also sexy Since Illogical Volume a/k/a his govt. name, David Allison, joined the Mindless Ones the comics interent has never been the same again (although, thinking on...

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As Above, So Below: Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! Reviewed

Here is where you can purchase the above tome, in various formats Illogical Volume: I hate trying to write a synopsis of anything (because: BORING!), so here’s the back cover blurb: What do Batman,...

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parched mindlessness

Yeah, so basically, do you spot the clever allusion to the best tumblr ever? But also, hey, today’s subject is indebted to that site’s. Think about it. Anyway, welcome to the Frank ‘Vincent Deighan’...

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Mindless Batchat (and Batman Inc #6 annocommentations)

First batchat. Then annotations The Beast Must Die: by the way, this issue…? Best comic of 2011? Fuck off. I don’t even want to debate the motherfucker. Botswana Beast: I will say, not only is Burnham...

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Chris Burnham cheeky interview

Chris Burnham. Interviewed. By us. Screaming. Nuff said. But enough about you, Chris. Were you familiar with our site already, or did you google your name? Heh. I think I got a Google Alert about it,...

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The Miser’s Coat – Andrew Hickey interview

That’s what I wanted to call Andrew Hickey’s new Seven Soldiers reader, The Miser’s Coat, but he’d only gawn an’ bleedin’ had another idea for the title of his own work first, so. An Incomprehensible...

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Tuesday Reviews: Advanced D&D: Meth vs. Chef (“vers’ Chef”), part one: Fear...

Botswana Beast: [post-factum editorial note: these were written intermittently on a GoogleDoc, in sections post- the release of Marvel's 2011 event Fear Itself, I think after issues 4, 6 and 7  were...

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Dicebox: review

Full disclosure: I was asked to review this book by the author’s husband, Kip Manley, a lovely man, author of City of Roses, which is a smashing book I’d recommend to fans of Jonathan Carroll or that...

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