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IT'S A PLASTIC BAG WITH PLASTIC HANDLES AND PLASTIC SIDESWe spill our guts all over your ears, and Daisy the Galacticat does something similar.We talk about:Dan McDaid, Pricks, Summer Holidays, Sequent'Ull, Alex Potts, Gareth Hopkins' Rainlight Cope Aesthetic, Lily Williams' Digging, Freaky Deakies, Insomnia and the 1989 Batman film.silencepodcast@gmail.comYou can support us using Patreon if you like. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

IT'S LIKE A WHIRLPOOL AND IT NEVER ENDSAt last! It's time for The Big Pivot! Welcome to the SILENCE! Sportscast! All the Action! All the balls! More kicks and hits than you could reasonably kick or hit! Who's winning? YOU! Unfortunately the sports chat gets somewhat derailed by talk about gigs and the 90s before Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die get sucked into The Reviewniverse where they find Joe Wilkinson: My Autobiography, Elf Quest, Cerebus, Viz (Gary's got a strip in it!) and Proustian comics in general.Following that, there's a lovely bit of SILENCE! (Because The Film's Started) in which The Beast Must Die has seen The Flash.All sport is finally forgotten as the hosts reckymend Comfort Blanket, Allan Quartermain and the Spear of Destiny, Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson and Gary just won't stop going on about his Patreon. At this point in the blurb we usually say, "AND MORE!".@fraserg

Welcome back, Jolly Whackos, to The Mighty Crusaders Number Four! It's time for the third ultra-page of sequential narrative so get excited! Listen to The Mighty Crusaders Number Four Supplemental at https://www.patreon.com/SILENCE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SHOW ME THAT I'M EVERYWHERE AND GET ME HOME FOR TEASomehow climbing out of a river of turds that flows from broken window in Hell, Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die convene to just try and have some fun for once. It's all here! Talking! Life! Poor sound quality! Fraser Geesin's Patreon! Cats knocking over microphones! Excuses! Comics! Great news inside!Covered within this soup are such titles as Monster Fan Club, The Green Lantern, Guy Gardener: Warrior, It's Lonely At The Centre of the Earth and more!Oh, and if you weren't aware, we lost a good friend. Help provide support for his family here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the SILENCE! Seasonal Scrapings! Gary Lactus, has cobbled questionable content from the contents of our Patreon, namely Gary’s Com Dom Corner, a new venture in which he reads and reviews a comic suggested by members of C-Unit. The three Com Dom Corners here feature Legion Of Suprheroes, Wildcats: Trilogy #1 and Nth Man The Ultimate Ninja. But before that, Gary runs down his Best Of 2023 list.  Have a big Christgasm everyone! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

BUGGER THE KITCHEN NAZISGary Lactus and The Beast Must Die are back to play whilst the cat’s away, listen now as happily they squeak about things such as how  Cindy and Biscuit is doing, (no idea), Andrew O’Neill, Duncing, Passiondale and Small Press Day before scuttling into The ReviewniverseHere we find Handlebar Gumbo, Friday, Torse, Jack Kirby’s 2001, Spider-Men: Double Trouble, Looshkin and Evan Dorkin’s adaptation of Bill And Ted’s Bogus Journey.WARNING: Contains two songs for the self indulgent hell of it.@frasergeesin@thebeastmustdiesilencepodcast@gmail.comYou can support us using Patreon if you like. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I GET YOUR POINT, YOU’RE SO SHARPGary Lactus and The Beast Must Die are tired and they want you to know it. Thankfully our heroes catch a mighty wind of South London Comic and Zine Fair and before you know it, they’re plugging their own Duncing and Cindy and Biscuit and soaring majestically into The ReviewniverseChloe Green’s A Crying Shame, Bizarre Boys, David Ziggy Greene’s Jam Bookshop, Garbage Pail Kids, Dan and Sam and Blackest Night get talked about. There’s also tribute paid to Chris Reynolds.It’s a good episode, see what you think.@frasergeesin@thebeastmustdiesilencepodcast@gmail.comYou can support us using Patreon if you like. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back, Jolly Whackos, to The Mighty Crusaders Number Four!  In this episode, Gary Lactus puts page three of The Mighty Crusaders Number Four under the electron microscope and peers into the quantum universes living in each line, punctuation mark and ear of this life-changing, explosive stick of dyna-mind!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON WHY I SHOULDN'T WINGary Lactus and The Beast Must Die crawl back into your skull and deposit a number of topics.  The big news is dropped in a very special edition of Inside The Wanker's Studio in which Gary Lactus conducts a hard hitting, no punches pulled interview with a name that's about to be shouted so loud by so many that it will echo down the ages, Dan White.  Dan's big book of Cindy and Biscuit is to be published on August 15th 2023 so get ready to buy copies for everyone you know.The Beast rejoins Gary as the pair enter The Reviewniverse with Unstoppable Doom Patrol, Garth Marenghi Live, Zero and Michael Kupperman's Patreon.Then it's off to SILENCE! (Because The Film's started) where The Beast has seen Guardians of the Galaxy III and has thoughts expressed in words about it.After that it's massive relation, moths and away...@frasergeesin@thebeastmustdiesilencepodcast@gmail.comYou can support us using Patreon if you like. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa

Hello there. In this episode we mostly pay tribute to the longtime manager of Dave’s Comics, Stephen Bamford in the wake of his passing.We also talk about Comics and Beer, The Sheild G-Man Club Fanzine, The Watchmen RPG and Bob Burden’s Robot Comics.Oh, and both your hosts will be exhibiting at All About The Ink this month.@frasergeesin@thebeastmustdiesilencepodcast@gmail.comYou can support us using Patreon if you like. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For some time, as a treat for members of C-Unit, Dan and Fraser have been playing through the Starlight Adventures series of adventure game books for girls, published by Puffin in 1985. We have adventured our way all the way through Riddle of the runaway and are now on the third book, Island Of Secrets. Presented here in this special podcast, is the first five episodes which comprise book one in the series, Star Rider. If you like what you hear and would like to join C-Unit yourself, thereby gaining access to the SILENCE! archive, free comics and a wealth of other exclusive podcasts, then go to Patreon.com/silence and pledge a single unit of currency (or more if you want). Whether you do or not, get ready to go on a Starlight Adventure, enter the drama gymkhana and…learn about horses in… STAR RIDER Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DADDY’S HOMEHe’s back! The good one is back!The Beast Must Die is back and we all get to hear what he’s been up to. He’s been watching Grange Hill and almost nothing else. Let’s not beat around the blurb, let’s read a list of some of the things talked about on this episode that aren’t Grange Hill:His Dark Materials, The Apprentice, Traitors, Batman Year Two, DC on screen, At Home With Rick Geary, 200AD Prog 503, Chatabix, 60 Songs To Explain The 90s.GO!@frasergeesin@thebeastmustdiesilencepodcast@gmail.com<div>You can support us using Patreon if you like. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Here’s a fantastic new project from Channel SILENCE! It’s a deep, deeper, deepest dive into a comic that blew my mind – The Mighty Crusaders Number Four from Mighty Comics, 1966. I hope you enjoy listening to it more than I enjoyed making it. Future episodes in this series will be released on our Patreon page with possible public release at a future date. If you’d like to support this stupid fucking project then feel free to go to https://www.patreon.com/SILENCE and do what you think is right.Transcript available from Mindlessones.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

OH IT’S SO GOOD BABY WHAEN YOU’RE AT THE WHEELWriting these blurbs can be worse than pulling teeth. Lucky for you, I ran out of teeth ten minutes ago so here we areShall we welcome Tom Oldham and Douglas Noble back? Okay then. Do you want to hear a blow-by-pulse-pounding-blow account of Tom’s trip to Angouleme? Fine. That’s what this is. Along the way we talk about:Julie Doucet, Sammy Harkham, Coffee, Druillet, Aien Worlds, Richard Corbyn, Jonathan Ross, Midnight Tales, Junji Ito, Bill Brandt, Sarah-Louise Barbett and Kit-Kats.How close do you feel to death? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A  book is a dream you can hold in your handsMusic is a dream that can be played by bandsDinner is a dream that goes in your tummyDrugs are a dream that makes you feel funnyChickens are a dream that likes to lay eggsTrousers are a dream that covers your legsDrawers are a dream you can put things inNorwich is a dream quite close to Kings LynnHere's a bit of fun.  The Beast Must Die has run off the the edge of the planet and is falling through space for all eternity (for charity) so Gary Lactus is joined by Douglas Noble and Tom Oldham, the two halves of Dark And Golden.  It is not established which one of them is Dark and which is Golden.  What ensues is fun and interesting until Tom's audio stops recording for some reason so towards the end, dear listener, the podcast decays into judiciously edited scraps before rotting away entirely. During the 1 hr 33 mins of this podcast we speak of Breakdown Press</a>, Baby, Angouleme, Croix-Noire, 2000AD Extreme Editions, Peter Milligan's The Dead, Meltdown Man, Ra

I have an extremely rare two hour window to go to a pub so I really want to prioritise that over the blurb.  Ho ho ho!   We recorded a podcast!  Jingle. We just talked.  Ho ho ho!    Happy holidays and a happy new pod!  Stay incredible always and forever.  Remember the magic of possibility, let people know you love them and be happy for Christ's sake!Here's what we talked about.Christgasm 2022, Boredom, David Foster Wallace, Thought Bubble, Cindy And Biscuit: End Of Level, Pricks, Inside The Wanker's Studio, Peach Fuzz by Anna Readman, the 2000AD end of year big thing, Alan Grant, The Kunts, Basildon, The Cure, snow fun, Dark and Golden, Shuk and Doode, It May Never Happen by Kevin Wookcock, the Broken Frontier Awards, the missing SILENCE! To Astonish, Early Doors by Lucy Sullivan, Ghosts in Things, More Ghosts In Things, Gareth Hopkins, Creep Heap, having too many comics, Weird Kids Like McCoy by Dan Cox, Twitter, Disney+, Red, not watching MCU stuff, The Batman, Spiderman #1, Marvel's Squirrel Girl Podcast,

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You wanna know about Mark Stafford, almost from birth until now? He's the sort of guy that people say things like ''Mark Stafford is the greatest artist you've never heard of'' about.Press play to hear Mark Stafford talk to a completely naked Gary Lactus about Ronald Searle, Empusa, The Comic Creators Guild, Brian Talbot, Cherubs, The Man Who Laughs, David Hine, Liphook, the strange tale of Magdalena Solis, The Bad Bad Place, Mark's Emerald Helicopter of Success, the upcoming Salmonella Smorgasbord and why oh why can't we all just call comic books and graphic novels Irresponsible Pictures instead. This is THE podcast for all of your Mark Stafford needs.@frasergeesin@thebeastmustdiesilencepodcast@gmail.comYou can support us using Patreon if you like. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

OVER MY SHOULDER, OLDER AND OLDER, THAT'S WHAT I TOLD YA, OVER AND OVERWell, well, well if it isn't Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die crawling back on their knees, begging forgiveness for missing a week of the world's otherwise most reliable podcast.  Angry hoards of ex listeners have verbally and physically assaulted the punctual pair, blaming them for all manner of important, missed appointments because they set their watches to SILENCE!'s famous regularity.Thankfully, that's all over now and the two men are back to perform that most incredible feat, talking about stuff.  Stuff like Small Press Day at Gosh, and people like Sean Azzopardi, Molly Stocks, Mark Stafford, Douglas Noble and Fraser Geesin and Dan Cox's comic, Jeff.Gareth Hopkins' kickstarter, Explosive Sweet Freezer Razors gets a shout too.Then it's off to The Reviewniverse, with Counterfeit Girl, Geezer, John's Worth and Marvel's adaptation of DuneWrapping up, The Beast has watched The Boys and She Hulk and Gary has been listening to The Blindbo