Yes, I’m a week late with writing this one, but that’s because it’s quite difficult to find much to say about it. It’s Trad, Dad! Sometimes, Mark Gatiss is just what you need. This may seem a ...

Blurbs. Does anyone actually read them? The Beast must Die created this format for the SILENCE! show notes and it has become a hated chore for whoever is unfortunate enough to be creating it. Am I ...

Cindy & Biscuit: A violence-prone, fearless little girl and her loyal best friend, who regularly save the world from disgusting aliens, tussle with giant werewolves and have adventures in outer-space.

Knew it was coming of course, but still quite a blow. Throw a pink gin at an empty swimming pool to honour the greatest British writer of the post-War world. Random excerpt, selected from ...

Writer/art-witch, Macbeth (2023), Sycamore (2024), Triskelion (2018). Their New Chapter Tarot is spectacular – creators are struggling to get money from Liminal 11, but you can find readings and more ...

The levels of taste and good judgement in the Doctor Who production office in the mid-1980s can be summed up in three words: Doctor In Distress. Band Aid had had a huge hit with the song Do They Know ...

I’m getting really bored of superhero comics at the moment. Perfect timing it turns out, as three high profile creators best known for their non-men-in-pants-and-booties output have recently got going ...

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Don't let SILENCE go silent! Gary Lactus & The Beast Must Die need your generous donations to pay for podcast hosting over the next year. Anything you can spare would be gratefully received.

Having just finished appraising the site in all its mindless glory, I feel slightly churlish contributing yet another miserable rant, bitching on and on about the state of the industry. The Disco ...

I don’t know about you but I’ve had enough of it. Enough I tell you. I won’t stand for it a second more. NOT ONE SECOND. It’s an outrage. AN OUTRAGE. The imposition…the nerve of it. It’s too much. Far ...

Amy: This episode wrapped its themes around itself so tightly the drama could have suffocated, but in the end it never got so arch that it failed to pack a punch even though as a construction it was ...