Ambush Bug for President!
OR: 10 Reasons why Ambush Bug is the Most powerful Superhero in the DCU. OR: How I learned to stop worrying and love the CRISIS. OR: I knew I should have turned left at Albuquerque! With the joyful...
View ArticleThe Yellow Eye sheds a tear
Over comics bought and read on Saturday the 3rd of May The Immortal Iron Fist #14 Written by Matt Fraction and Ed Brubaker Drawn by Tonci Zonjic, Clay Mann, and Kano Published by Marvel Comics The...
View ArticleYELLOW EYES are smiling eyes
Comics bought and read Saturday the 31st of May As ever the Mindless Ones are late to the party, so let’s get right down to it. In case anyone has failed to notice this week we got not one, not two,...
View ArticleUnreal Estate – Superman Beyond, the Book of Sand and the Harlequin
Woah, new comics, new (importantly, much as I was surprised/appalled to find myself thoroughly enjoying Legion of Three Worlds last week. Oh, Geoff Johns, I’ve hated you for so very long and now… I...
View ArticleBatman #682: I’m warning you, Mozza….
As our long term readers already know, I don’t read many superhero books. It’s not that I don’t like superheroes – I love them – it’s just, well, invariably I tend to find most titles pretty boring. I...
View ArticleFinal FUCKING Crisis x 5!
I feel like the Mindless Ones have been in on a secret. Since its inception, both beasts, Lord Nuneaton Savage, Bobsy and I have all been whispering amongst ourselves about how Final Crisis is actually...
View ArticleGold-plated belated Xmas present: Batman # 683
Like Nick Kent straining to keep afloat in a pool of anti-mirror (the photographer snapping a few off for the cover of The Dark Stuff before his subject’s arms give out and he’s resubmerged, the black...
View ArticleFinally Crisis #6: so that’s how The Dark Knight returns…
Ah, we come to it late this week, and we also come mob handed. Poor Amy is having to deal with Real Life and couldn’t devote quite as much time to his annocommentations as he normally would. So we...
View ArticleGary Lactus’s Vault of Tymbus #1
I had nothing much to do this afternoon so I thought I’d visit my vault where I keep Tymbus. He’d been in there all week with only Amazing Spider-Man #583, Final Crisis #6 and The Spirit movie for...
View ArticleFinal Crikeysis #7 – All foreground, all the time! (part 1 of 2)
It’s been a long time coming, but the Mindless Ones have at last vomited forth some thoughts on Final Crisis #7. And it turns out that we’ve got so much to say on the subject that this is but part 1...
View ArticleCaped Crusader vs Dark Knight
‘thing is, i know we at mindless ones don’t really feel the need to justify these things or to bother kicking the argument about the way they might at, say, funnybook babylon, but i think the answer...
View ArticleRogue’s Review: Darkseid
I don’t usually deal in the sort of criticism that tries to find the spirit of our time in this or that piece of pop culture detritus, but for the past few years I’ve felt smothered by four little...
View ArticleCrawling From the Wreckage: Spandex, Guts Power and Raygun Roads
There comes a point in every Mindless gathering where the correct amount of alcohol has finally been consumed for the conversation to turn to Final Crisis, with a special focus on the hastily...
View ArticleHow to Pass Through a Portal
Here, the map is the territory. This is about to get seriously earnest, adjust your sets… I’ve read Grant Morrison comics from the age of 7, on and off (I was too much of a wimp for 2000AD as a teen...
View ArticleMULTIVERSAL // DECAYED
Or “What’s A Bottie Beast?” – A Love Story Illogical Volume here, writing a wee introduction to an ULTIMATE CLASSIC! post by another Mindless because…. well, almost two years down the line, I’m still...
View ArticleFinal FUCKING Crisis x 5!
I feel like the Mindless Ones have been in on a secret. Since its inception, both beasts, Lord Nuneaton Savage, Bobsy and I have all been whispering amongst ourselves about how Final Crisis is actually...
View ArticleGold-plated belated Xmas present: Batman # 683
Like Nick Kent straining to keep afloat in a pool of anti-mirror (the photographer snapping a few off for the cover of The Dark Stuff before his subject’s arms give out and he’s resubmerged, the black...
View ArticleFinally Crisis #6: so that’s how The Dark Knight returns…
Ah, we come to it late this week, and we also come mob handed. Poor Amy is having to deal with Real Life and couldn’t devote quite as much time to his annocommentations as he normally would. So we...
View ArticleGary Lactus’s Vault of Tymbus #1
I had nothing much to do this afternoon so I thought I’d visit my vault where I keep Tymbus. He’d been in there all week with only Amazing Spider-Man #583, Final Crisis #6 and The Spirit movie for...
View ArticleFinal Crikeysis #7 – All foreground, all the time! (part 1 of 2)
It’s been a long time coming, but the Mindless Ones have at last vomited forth some thoughts on Final Crisis #7. And it turns out that we’ve got so much to say on the subject that this is but part 1...
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