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Mindless Ones
@mindlessones.bsky.social
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Weekly broadcasts on art, magic and politics from a group of old lads with good taste.
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If you want to touch heads and/or buy comics, the Mindless Ones will be at Thought Bubble in Harrogate next weekend, tables B30-31, 2000AD Hall!

More details to follow. There will be Pricks.
A hand emerges from a floor covered in rubbish. But who and what is the hand connected to? Pricks #5, by Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan.
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Forgot about the Beezer but then you do, don't you? Great ITEM about this unloved Brit comic in our latest episode!
A page from The Beezer. It promises "laughs all round" but we'll never know.
October 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Sad this frankly fucking astonishing @frasergeesin.bsky.social image didn't appear in the version that went out to people's inboxes.

We'll have a word with the typsetting department!
The hive of gammon worms, faces warmed by the glow of old box TVs tuned in to borrowed glory.
October 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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MINDLESS CLASSIC: Here, mind that time Ad Mindless went spelunking down The Batcaves and confronted the vast otherness of the aeons?

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A diagram of the Batcave. It's deeper than you think.
September 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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ATTACK OF THE POD PEOPLE: The second series of The Savage Beast starts here, with @danwhite.bsky.social and @matcolegate.bsky.social's exploration of the most monstrous of art forms... ACTING!!

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September 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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"Argent a cross gules. The heraldic language is precise. Gules means red, from a crimson dye made by crushing mites scraped off oak bark. Argent is silver, not white. No signifier of purity or innocence, but the colour of coin."

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Screenshot of an ad for a HuffPost UK article titled "My Kids Are Asking About All the England Flags. What Should I Tell Them?"
September 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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MINDLESS CLASSIC: In a guest post for his Mindless brethren, Rory Olcayto aka Brother Yawn reflected on the work of Moebius,"master of spatial representation in comic-book art."

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In the foreground: buildings that look like yachst, strangers who wave and lean, trees, the beach! In the background: birdlike gliders, clouds, islands, a sense of ease across the water.
August 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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This edition features guest art from @pauljonmilne.bsky.social, full image in the newsletter!

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A buff lad in a snazzy supersuit sits at a table with a drink in his hand. He says: "Was listenin' to this GREAT band on the way... "'EMBRACE'. "You know 'em?" The other person at the table has been cruelly cropped from this post, but I've left their response in: "The English ones, aye? "Had a live version of their song 'FIREWORKS.'" Finally, a caption: "So then what?"
August 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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This edition was ghostwritten by an actual ghost. PLUS: special guest art from @pauljonmilne.bsky.social, full image at the link below!

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A drawing of a man whose hair is crying out for freedom. In this image he is saying "My actions sometimes have... "favourable outcomes"!"
July 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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NEW POST: Unable to sleep and half daft with the heat, @nearit.bsky.social decided to write short reviews of Absolute Martian Hunter, Metamorpho, The Return by K.Briggs, Erika Price's Worms and more!

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A panel from Absolute Martian Manhunter 4. A man smokes in what was recently a zone of conflict. Plumes of colour drift like smoke as we see a cross section of life and mind. A panel from Metamorpho #6, immaculate pastiche of Fletcher Hanks: "Metamorpho leaves a last message for the surviving moon people." We see it streaking through the sky: "But war bonds."
July 15, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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MINDLESS CLASSIC: Who was your first Transformer? (aka Haven’t you wasted enough of your life already?)

"Soundwave pisses on optimus prime. he *is* the eighties. also his voice *is* electro. in fact he is electro. and bodypopping."

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Gorgeous big pic of Soundwave off the Transformers in both robot and tape player form. What a fucking guy!
July 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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MINDLESS COMMUNICATION: We spoke to @tomhumberstone.com about comics, poetry, colour as storytelling, and his ace Grave Offerings newsletter and all we got was this lovely interview.

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The cover for Introduction to Charts by Tom Humberstone and Chrissy Williams. Arrows. Lines. Boxes. Shakes. Pink purple bluewhiteyellow and red. A pair of ELITE Hackers from the movie Hackers.
June 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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MINDLESS CLASSIC: Our @andrewhickey.500songs.com might not have been the first to review Jerusalem, but he was right in there: "The first, and most important, thing to say about Alan Moore’s Jerusalem is that it’s not, for the most part, a difficult book to read."

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A map of The Boroughs from Alan Moore's Jerusalem.
June 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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"My thoughts turn to ‘if Mr Tumnus came towards me brandishing an outdated farming tool, I’d chin the prick… unless my hayfever was acting up…’

"It’s not just the milkman though is it?"

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Poster for The Wicker Man
June 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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MINDLESS CLASSIC: Back in Christmas 2012, with the threat of redundancy hanging over him like a balloon full of farts, our @nearit.bsky.social turned to Eddie Campbell for his thoughts on The Lovely Horrible Stuff.

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A panel from The Lovely Horrible Stuff by Eddie Campbell. "And the dependence on unseeables ceases to be a terror only after it becomes a way of life." We see Eddie sat talking to his wife: "Our property's all intellectual", "That's what I was afraid of". Another pic from The Lovely Horrible Stuff, this one ft. a hot air balloon with an illustration of a farting man on the side of it.
June 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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MINDLESS COMMUNICATION: As script droid for Ferment's Ales of the Unexpected, Craig Collins writes comic that's simultaneously more widely read and less visible than most.

He's a funny fucker too, so evidenced by his spiel about de Gambit!

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An Ales of the Unexpected strip where one man's rage over the inattentiveness of his peers leads to a marketing opportunity. "Jus’ one example is the ubiquity of de contactless payment. One day Gambit is taking an X-Jet through McDonalds drive through (de McRib is back). Garçon leans out wit’ the payment machine an’ the Cajun reaches for th’ Mastercard. But den de muscle memory kicks in –" Gambit from X-Men '97 looking like a saucy boy with tongs and a crop top.
June 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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MINDLESS CLASSIC: It's a flashback to a flashback as @danwhite.bsky.social looks at the charged promise and wonky wiring of AZTEK: THE ULTIMATE MAN.

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Pic of Aztek the Ultimate Man doing his superhero bit and thinking "This is too hard." Art by N. Steven Harris, script by Grant Morrison and Marky Mark Millar.
May 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Name: WIKWOODGI

Attribution: The Forest

Purpose: This servitor strengthens the community, bringing people together and providing them with the resources they need.

More #PagainsAgainstAI info here.

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WIKWOODGI, a servitor that: warns outside the community; helps the facts about Generative AI be known; and undermines the story that it is both benign and inevitable.
May 16, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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MINDLESS CLASSIC: Here's @andrewhickey.500songs.com on Multiversity, the rentier class, and "the disjunction between the ideal and the physical, corporate, reality."

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A panel from Multiversity #1 by Ivan Reis and Grant Morrison. Looking through the window from outside, we can see a landlady chapping on the door of an apartment. "Now it's *this* month! Eight hundred dollars! *Open the door!*"
May 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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From Superman Adventures #16 and #19 (Mark Millar, Aluir Amancio, 1998). #Mmerchandise
An advert for baseball trading cards, ft. Kenny Lofton and Mike Piazza. "І feel better knowing Mike has my stolen base stats-so he can see he's not the oniy catcher I've embarrassed." "Кееp reading Kenny. It'll give you something to do in the dugout after I've gunned you down." An advert for chase, by D.Curtis Johnson, J.H. Williams III and Mick Gray. "She doesn't like them." Superhero faces on screen. "She doesn't trust them." Woman with a gun. "She may be one of them." "Freeze your butt off" with a limited edition ice blue Game Boy. The accompanying image renders the copy literal. "Take a break with a Kit Kat bar" - a break from the endless, horrifying entertainment of American life at the end of the century, going by this illustration of a family on their way our of a fun park.
May 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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MINDLESS ENTERTAINMENT: Here, remember PLAYGROUND? Neat one-and-done comic strip yer @danwhite.bsky.social worked up for Image. Never got used in the end but it's class - big helmet sci-fi comics The Beast Must Die style!

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Four panels from Dan White's playground. Crablike armour forms touch earth, one far larger than the other. A menacing figure emerges, all cloak and helm. A space suit face thinks "Uh-oh."
May 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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MINDLESS COMMUNICATION: you can read our full interview with @robertdallasgray.com here. We had a lovely talk about life after Life Without Buldings, music as meditation, the joy of collaboration and his new album The Vallum!

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Artwork from The Vallum.
May 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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A wee bit of Mindless Ones x Phonogram Memorabilia - "MINDLESS 4EVA" says KG, and who are we to argue?
April 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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From Kid Eternity #1-3, by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell (1993).
An advert for issue #6 of Enigma, by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo. "You haven't seen Enigma yet? Where have you been hiding?" Away from this advert, presumably. An advert for "Amazing removable "Body Art" free inside 12 packs of Barqs Root Beer. What does the machine say about this? "REMOVABLE "BODY ART" YOUVE TS AMAZING BARQT Oc REMOYABLE BODY ART FREE! FREE INSIDE INSIDE 12-PACKS LARQTOOS E AM OF Bang'a Bag' ROT BEER ROOT BEER SINCE 12 FACK BOLCANS THEY BOUGHTA 1Z- PACK OF BAR@'S AND ENDED UP GETTING. BARn TOD O ONLY FROM BARQ'S 2 DIFFERENT DESIGNS THAT LOOK SO REAL THEY'LL BuBBY I'M IN HI, I'M T.V.COMMERCIAL. THE BARQTOOS ITS IN COLOR. THE ONE WITH BITE! IERROY MOST GEEKS! AS SEEN ON T!" A promotion for Six Flags theme parks, as advertised by a quartet of skulking cartoons. "No matter where you live or travel, there's a SIX FLAGS near you!" An advert for Coneheads, phallic eruptions of purple on a yellow banana background, big pink text: "CONSUME MASS QUANTITIES!"
April 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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MINDLESS CLASSIC: @danwhite.bsky.social provides an origin story, talking about the "contraband thrills" of An American Werewolf In London.

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A photo of a couple of healthy lads out for a nice walk
April 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM