One of the jokes that the other Mindless Ones have about me is that while I often complain about not having written enough, I’m ridiculously productive (I write two or three books a year, on average).

ALTERNATIVE TITLE: WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA?! Here’s the soundtrack. You know what to do. So, Deadpool Max then. Kyle Baker does the art, David Lapham’s on script duties. Never mind the fact that ...

A character introduced in the 1980/81 series of Doctor Who, played by Matthew Waterhouse. His name is an anagram of Dirac, after P.A.M. Dirac, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Originally intended as ...

We met our fair share of dodgy fuckers in 2014’s comics, but I don’t think we’ve had anyone quite like this guy: He’s the beard hunter. He hunts beards. His absence from our corporately mandated ...

Playing D&D with Porn Stars is a. interesting for more than just the porn stars – an aspect of the project that I could give less of a shit about, except for the respect in which it explodes ...

“I don’t know who he is behind that mask of his, but I do know when we need him — and we need him now.” Batman is a square-jawed hero, a “duly deputised agent of the law”. He always puts concern for ...

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Doctor Who has always been primarily a TV show, but from very early on it became what we would now call multimedia. Very early on it stopped existing only on TV, and spread out into comics, books, ...

Fresh from Thought Bubble 2013, it’s the zine full of comics and essays about suicide, hubris and social housing that everyone – well, at least one person! – is talking about, Looking Glass Heights!

When I was about 11 years old my Father and Stepmother moved into an enormous Edwardian house in Surrey, owned by an eminent Buddhist scientist and a Thai Princess. The House had extensive grounds, ...

Here’s the recording of SILENCE! To Astonish from Thought Bubble 2023. Gary Lactus, The Beast Must Die and Al Kennedy put Al Ewing, Rachel Stott, Lucy Sullivan and Not Caspar Wijngaard to the test.

I might have come away from the Thought Bubble comics convention with a terrible hangover and an overwhelming desire to have a proper rummage through the back issue bins, but I can’t say that I came ...