If I had to choose a bunch of 00s comics/pop-culture/whatever critics to save from an awful cull, I'd save the Mindless Ones*. Glad to see them doing more stuff in this format. - ThreadSky

kierongillen.bsky.social • 1 day ago

If I had to choose a bunch of 00s comics/pop-culture/whatever critics to save from an awful cull, I'd save the Mindless Ones*. Glad to see them doing more stuff in this format.

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First newsletter is up, ft. regicide, novel uses of the city, portals as destinations, pagans vs A.I. and poets vs. storytellers.

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kierongillen.bsky.social•1 day ago

*And get Tegan O'Neil to join them first, somehow. I won't leave you in the horror of this fictional critical dangerzone I've just imagined.

chadnevett.bsky.social•1 day ago

Kieron's Journal. April 14th, 2025: The accumulated filth of all their hot takes and star ratings will foam up around their waists and all the reviewers and bloggers will look up and shout "Save us!"...

...and I'll look down and whisper "No."

kierongillen.bsky.social•1 day ago

There's probably a fuck/marry/kill-esque game of "critics I would save from the cull", "critics I would be sad were lost from the cull" and "Critics who I arranged the cull to get."

andrewhickey.500songs.com•1 day ago

Oh we would be happy to make Tegan an honorary Mindless for these purposes.

mindlessones.bsky.social•1 day ago

These Hunger Games prequels are getting more and more niche...

mckelvie.bsky.social•1 day ago

"I have decided to imagine someone killing all the comics critics as a way to say these are my favourites" is very Kieron Gillen

comicbooksdanny.bsky.social•21 hours ago

hear me out

kierongillen.bsky.social•17 hours ago

I love it.

theisb.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s fine I’m ready to be culled tbqh. Put me in one of those hug boxes they use on cows.

kierongillen.bsky.social•17 hours ago

That's the thing. Comics criticism is a slow death. Let's make it a glorious quick one, with everyone heavily armed against the forces which oppose them. It's better this way.

theisb.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I must not criticize comics. Comics crit is the mind-killer. Comics crit is the little-death that brings total oblivion.

mckelvie.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean, I get you, I just don't think Kieron actually wants the weight of having to make these decisions. He'll come to regret it.

theisb.bsky.social•1 day ago

Aw, he won’t regret it. Just because I said such nice things about him, specifically, on the show recently (which he’d never hear) and then he said he would happily have me Battle Royale’d to death by David Brothers? Buddy that’s how I always knew I’d go.

andrewhickey.500songs.com•1 day ago

Just wait til he decides which hosts of lighthearted Bible podcasts get to live. I have it on good authority that Dan McClellan, rather than you, will be regretting his life choices then.

theisb.bsky.social•1 day ago

Scholar. Clown. SURVIVOR. Coming soon to Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

theisb.bsky.social•1 day ago

(Sinks into molten lava like the T-800) 👍

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