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A hall of mirrors I: useless taxonomy
So. Mindless Ones is good name for a comic blog, isn’t it? (I didn’t come up with it.) Conjures the notion of a ravening* horde, slavering* devotion to Dormammu, the Dark One, battling NeilAlieN on...
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Anal retention and the comics fan
It took me a long time to crack it, but I feel I’ve finally got a handle on what’s wrong with the comics industry: The colon. And Mark Millar. But stepping back a bit, and pushing Millar aside till...
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A hall of mirrors II: the Prismatic Age
“How long would you say Heroic Ages last, Wally?” - Jay Garrick, the Flash (I) “Twenty years, according to Jones and Jacobs. The Golden Age lasted until 1955, the Silver Age until 1975, but the Dark...
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Final 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...
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Why I love Daredevil: Born Again: part 1 – depression
Sometime in the nineties the cry rang out: Marvel was gonna put the “character back into comics”. This was news to me. As far as I was concerned the Marvelverse, with the possible exception of the...
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Bunyan would have blushed
or Crisis? What Crisis? (part one) This one: Think of him as 2000AD’s awkward cousin. He and Tharg used to get on great for a bit, but while The Mighty One went into his teens still drunk on the heady...
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The Theatre of the Direct Market
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...
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