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AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT MEANINGLESS UNTIL I REALISED YOU WERE SERIOUSThe drifting Reviewniverse brings Gary Lactus, Al To Astonish and His Bleak Majesty Douglas Noble in close contact with Ex-Mutants #3 (vol. 2) from Malibu, 1993. Synergy! Action sass! Batteries! Bottoms! Dive in!Find Al To Astonish on Bluesky and at House To AstonishFind His Bleak Majesty Douglas Noble HEREBother Gary Lactus HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Ho Ho Ho"?! More like "Bro Bro Bro" because bros everywhere will weep when they hear what cool gifts Chris got Steve this year and what gifts for children Steve got Chris this year! Everyone else outside of bros will be mildly amused!

And just like that, The Reviewniverse is back! Jean's been watching Sex and the City recently so I know ALL the references. I'm such a Tonya! Anyways, we BRING IT this year with a record number of Advent Calendars, and a record length of the podcast, nearly 3 hours of bullshit! Hope you cleared your schedule as you stare directly at the device that's playing the podcast and nothing else for the entire running time! Star Trek VS Beatles VS Harry Potter Deluxe Advent Calendars

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!".@frasergeesin@thebeastmustdiesilencepodcast@gmail.comYou can support us using Patreon if you like.SILENCE! has not been sponsored by the greatest comics shops on the planet, DAVE'S COMICS of Brighton and GOSH! Comics of London for years but we still love them. 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!".@frasergeesin@thebeastmustdiesilencepodcast@gmail.comYou can support us using Patreon if you like.SILENCE! has not been sponsored by the greatest comics shops on the planet, DAVE'S COMICS of Brighton and GOSH! Comics of London for years but we still love them.

Santa has visited us and filled our stockings! Sadly, he gave us coal only because we're such naughty boys. Luckily, we used said coal to power our "Turn Orphans Into Presents For Chris and Steve Machine"! Oops ;)

More Advent Calendars + Chris and Steve = More slight chuckles from you! How's that for some advanced math? Oh... a simple addition equation isn't advanced math? Then what did I pay Steve Leichman's Totally Legit Online College Courses $5,000 for?! Skyrim Advent Calendar VS Dungeons & Dragons Advent Calendar

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.

It's a big one ladies and germs, a big ol' 150 episodes of giggle-adjacent internet swamp-water fueled reviewnertainment. We almost called ourselves The Reviewniverse, ain't that wild? Alright, good reviews, cultivated by the boys, featuring such topics as classic cartoons, (unlubricated) sports shoes, old pocket monsters, supple hose-ware, a vegan joint with a bud, and perhaps even, between you and me, a little revisit of some schmugar schmee schmummy schmears. That hurt to type, sugar free gummy bears. There, are you happy? One Hundred And Fif Tee. Want more party? Check it out at https://www.reviewpartydotcom.com/ !

Our tradition of opening gifts for each other continues! You know what would be the best gift you could give us? Pretending like you didn't notice that we re-used 2021's intro because we forgot to record a new one for this year :(

Let's all be thankful that Chris and Steve finally answer the age old question: Who's hotter, Mario or Sonic? Well, it depends on if you're a furry or not. Find out who is by tuning in!

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 Blindboy PodcastThere's probably more that I've forgotten but you can find out what that is by listening... NOW! @frasergeesin@thebeastmustdiesilencepodcast@gmail.comYou can support us using Patreon if you like.

I CAN THINK OF NO WHERE I WOULD RATHER BE, READING MORNING PAPERS, DRINKING MORNING TEANo blurb this week as we're all swarming around the centre of the hive, desperately hoping to mate with the Queen.As we all know, some weeks are longer than other weeks and it really has been a particularly long week since last week's episode.  Despite this and even though The Beast Must Die has covid we still managed a pod like particularly brave soldiers.Soldier Gary Lactus sliced his thumb quite badly but still managed to get to Who Am I Now, the exhibition of paintings by Glyn Dillon.Soldier The Beast Must Die saw Doctor Strange: Marble Madness!. He didn't like it and on the podcast he doesn't like it for a long time. Delicious!Let's go now to Reviewniverse, with Captain Britain, Light Brigade, Statics and Omege The Unknown of course.Seeing us out it's a reckymend of Paul O'Connell and Rhys Wooten's No Garnish podcast and The Beast Must Die's experience at Steve Walsh's Memorial.Farewell, friends.@frasergeesin@thebeastmustdiesilencepodcast@gmail.comYou can support us using Patreon if you like.

OH MOTHER DEAR WE SADLY FEAR THAT WE HAVE SOILED OUR MITTENSAnother week, another blurb. People often ask, "Hey! How do you keep your blurbs so fresh and new, week in, week out? It's amazing! You're amazing! How can I be like you?". Well, we here at SILENCE! Blurb Inc. are tired of this question. So tired in fact that we're now offering our SILENCE! Blurb Writing Masterclass. Learn from the best to realise your potential in the lucrative field of Blubcraft. Packed with high profile contributions from Todd Carty on how to find inspiration, Danny Dyer on the impact of brevity and Neil Gaiman on the power of blurbs. Send your £500 to the usual address.The tired dads return and Gary's been selling off parts of his collection! Both Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die have been guesting on Shelf Dust Presents The War Effort.  The Beast has been enjoying Paul Morley's biography of Tony Wilson and the surprisingly heavy inclusion of Kieron Gillen therein.  There's a non-review of The Eternals and chitter-chatter regarding the SILENCE! Juniors' emergent relationship with super heroes and Gary's quest for space.  Sadmin.  The tragic loss of Steve Walsh and Garry Leach.The chaps pick themselves up with the exciting birth of Dark and Golden and the peculiar pleasure of comics speculation.Off, down and away into The Reviewniverse with Mek Memoirs, Kamen Rider, The X-Cellent, Orphan and the Five Beasts, Step By Bloody Step, a comic called Uncanny X-Men and The Sharkfighters of course.Then with a yawn we learn that Fraser Geesin will be at the Brighton Illustration Fair on Sunday 1st May, The Beast went to the London Comic Mart and that finding your own comics for sale secondhand really makes you feel like you've made it.

LET'S GO TO MISTERLAND, THE LAND OF MAGICYou have passed the final test. Welcome… to TEAM BASTARD FORCE!  We are an elite team of men, dedicated to protecting the patriarchy at any cost!  Over there is The Ab, whose might always makes right!  This is the mysterious Explaino!  Who knows where from where his opinions hail but they are always right!  Be careful now, don't get too close to the surly Incedible Sulk, who can slowly crush any opponent's will to live.  I am your heroic leader, Mister Right.  I sit on my all-powerful Testosterthrone and direct proceedings.  Now, new recruit, I am entrusting you with the highest responsibility a man can shoulder… you shall be… PROTECTOR OF THE BLURB!!!YOU WANT A PODCAST WHERE TWO PALS TALK ABOUT COMICS AND CHILDREN'S BOOKS FRO THE 70s IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS OVER THREE NONCONSECUTIVE DAYS?!  YOU GOT A PODCAST WHERE TWO PALS TALK ABOUT COMICS AND CHILDREN'S BOOKS FRO THE 70s IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS OVER THREE NONCONSECUTIVE DAYS!!The men kick off with a couple of separate pond adventures and some mourning over Ian Kennedy and Neighbours.Into the Reviewniverse with Dave Cooper's Mud Bite, A Walk Through Hell, Good Boy Magazine, Grendel: Devil's Odyssey, Hannah Berry's Livestock and Deathlok of course!The Beast Must Die gets the telling-off from Pat Mills that comes to everyone in time.Then it's time for the brand new podcast-within-a-podcast, Men On Men.  This week, Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die look at the first two Mr. Men books, Mr. Tickle and Mr. Greedy.See you next week!@frasergeesin@thebeastmustdiesilencepodcast@gmail.comYou can support us using Patreon if you like.

I'M GOING TO FAST! I GOT NO BREAKS ON MY ROLLER SKATES!Hi, come this way, that's right, just through here.  Now, our first exhibit is this collection of bricks.  As you can see there's five in total.  Two of them are the same and one of them is made of latex.  That's right! It's a stunt brick!  Then over here we have a wooden duck painted like Superman, right next to this wide-necked plastic bottle with some piss in it.  Well that's it.  I hope you've enjoyed your tour of the Museum of Gary Lactus.  Oh, I almost forgot, here we have a classic blurb written by the human disappointment himself.Two men!  One pod!  Some saucy innuendo!  Some sentences ending in exclamation marks!  After a break, Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die reacquaint themselves with a bit of chat about Douglas Noble and pal's A Pocket Chiller series, not doing comedy and an imaginary space battle between billionaires.Then it's off to a bumper Reviewniverse with Simon Hanselmann's Crisis Zone, Jack Teagle's Collected Madness, Fight! and Teagle Comics, Cinema Purgatorio, Nick Edwards' It Had To Be You, Doctor Tom Brent - Young Intern, Battle, Walls' Chill, Sean Azzopardi, Orphan and the Five Beasts, Mr. Men and Battle Action Force of course.Then it's away but not before you are urged to buy John McRea's stuff to help him through a pretty devastating bout of long covid.See you next week!

Chris and Steve buy each other gifts and open them on mic as this special holiday episode tradition continues! As a gift to you all this year, I have decided not to make a shitty joke in the episode description! 

Our tradition of farting out two episodes a year continues with another Advent Calendar showdown! Listen as Chris and Steve duel each other with two new advent calendars AND a bonus third advent calendar!?? HUH??? I hope there will be loud chewing into the mic!  Mini Brands Advent Calendar VS Roblox Advent Calendar PLUS a Sugarfina Candy Advent Calendar!

This week, Doug and Justin are joined by return guest and excellent human, Steve Leichman, from the Reviewniverse podcast and Streamviewniverse YouTube channel. Doug announces a new milestone in the podcast's progression on YouTube and the nerds dive into the current streaming topic of which company is better: YouTube or Twitch? The dorks break down their thoughts on which platform has the most going for it, what experts like Harris Heller are saying, and whether they'd want their kids growing up to be streamers. A fan submits another Ask Practical Doug question that leaves Steve wanting MORE questions answered!   Things are wrapped up with a throw-down featuring the monster from the movie The Thing vs. the Babadook. Tune in to find out who wins!   Follow us on Twitch to hang out while we record our new episodes and stream video game sessions!   We have MERCH now!   Check out our YouTube channel for podcast episodes, video game live stream highlights, Doug Watches Awkward Videos, and Justin Plays Video games. Be sure to like and subscribe! Follow us on all of our social medias and other platforms!  https://streamerlinks.com/mindgappodcast

IT KEPT TALKING SO I PUT IT IN THE LAUNDRYOh cripes! Sorry, yes, erm... of course, yes, no quite right, yes, hmm... Gosh, what to do, what to do... Oh blimey, sorry, I wasn't prepared for this, ah, um, as you can probably tell! Haha! Ahem, right, yes. Okay, right... Ah, yes! Right then, here we go... Blurb.Forget about the hot shit in your pants, that can wait. THIS can't. It's SILENCE! time!The two buddy pals, Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Be Regretting Not Choosing A Shorter Name By Now are back to talk about whatever they bloody well like as long as it kinda relates to comics (or not). The usual Thought Bubble preparation, anticipation and panic. Halloween japes of yore. Come with us to Reviewniverse, with  Blocks by Oliver East, The Mighty Crusaders, Pride and Joy, Second Coming and The Comics Journal of course. off to bed, but not before some Reckymends of stuff like Taskmaster New Zealand and podcasts such as The Weird Rap Podcast, the Cartoonist Kayfabe Frank Quitely Interview and good, long enthuse over List Off.

SONG LYRICS HERELook, do you want a blurb or a podcast? You can't have both.Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die are back together. It's a sad occasion as comedian and SILENCE! contributor, Phil Jerrod has passed away.  This month's Patreon money plus extra will be going to Sarcoma UK.  Perhaps you'd consider sponsoring Julie Oliver and Phil Lucas as they run in his memory.https://justgiving.com/team/teamjerrodtooAnyway, there's other stuff here. Gary tells you about his absence, The Beast recommends the One Day In America documentary and both of them decide to maybe think about getting ready for Thought Bubble.  There's a bit of Neighbours chat in there too, sadly and inevitably.Come with us to Reviewniverse, with Kane & Able, Superman and The Authority, God Of Tremors, The Extreme Self and The Age Of Earthquakes by Douglas Coupland and Room For Love of course.Stop!  Look!   Listen!

NOW IS THE TIME AND THE TIME IS NOW FOR OUR CHILDREN TO ASK FOR THE WORLD, LIFE’S UNREASONABLE, DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE DID YOU KNOW? Sharks can smell London from space! DID YOU KNOW? If you remove the sax breaks from every 80s song, the 80s actually only last for 7 years! DID YOU KNOW? This is actually a blurb! It’s another episode of SILENCE!. You know the sort of thing to expect. Lots of talk about Hanson. The Beast Must Die unboxes a load of stuff in a very special The Beast Unboxes Gary Lactus has also picked up a Lorne Bomb. Come with us to Reviewniverse, with The Young Lawyers, LOEG Tempest, Monsters, Girl and Silverblade of course. @frasergeesin @thebeastmustdie silencepodcast@gmail.com You can support us using Patreon if you like. https://www.patreon.com/SILENCE

I’LL SAVE MY BREATH AND TAKE IT WITH ME, TIL A HUNDREN YEARS OR SO 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 just typing into a void? Tell you what, if you’re reading this, let us know by writing the secret phrase, “OH DEAR LORD MY GUTS ARE FULL OF SQUID!” and tweeting us, emailing to us or posting it on the Facebook page. Thanks. The Beast Must Die is back to save Christmas a full eight months early. The Beast has got naked and gone bathing in a world of eased restrictions, rubbing dusty old comics all over himself. Full report inside. Gary Lactus has a great new business idea. Come with us to Reviewniverse, with The Union, The Spiral Cage and 2000AD‘s Summer Offensive featuring Judge Dredd, Big Dave, Slaughter Bowl, Really and Truly and Maniac 5 of course. @frasergeesin @thebeastmustdie silencepodcast@gmail.com You can support us using Patreon if you like. This edition of SILENCE! is proudly sponsored by the greatest comics shop on the planet, DAVE’S COMICS of Brighton. It’s also sponsored the greatest comics shop on the planet GOSH! Comics of London.

WELL THEY LOOK SO GOOD I WANNA EAT ‘EM, AND THEY TASTE SO GOOD i GET TO NEED ‘EM Okay, I want you to split into two teams. Now you guys are the red team, and you guys are team two. Now, everyone in the blue team needs to split up into teams of one and practice the trust exercises I showed you earlier. Team One, I want you to elect a leader then shout any ideas that come into your head at them. There’s no bad ideas here, brown sky thinking but you have to do this in complete silence. Okay, now I want the green team to split into two groups then those groups who will be Team A and Team Seven. Those teams then need to split in two once more and those groups split in two again and agin until everyone is in Team Blood Red And Bisected Lying Dead On The Floor. I’m off to the staff room to watch pornography. And Richard? You write the blurb. They said it could easily be done and they were right! It’s SILENCE! #291! Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die have both got into separate scrapes recently. Listen to them tell you all about it in the new feature, SILENCE! Because The Internet’s A Prick! SILENCE! (Because The Film’s Started). The Beast Must Die has seen a film and that film Justice League, The Snyder Cut. Gary Lactus is now doing commissions so get in touch with him as he needs the money. Come with us to Reviewniverse, with Pssst!, Kiss Of death by John Watkiss, The Eternals and Darker Image of course! Buy Gary Lactus’ comics at frasergeesin.com. Buy The Beast Must Die’s comics at milkthecat.wordpress.com. @frasergeesin @thebeastmustdie silencepodcast@gmail.com You can support us by going to patreon.com/SILENCE

I ASKED THE ICE, IT WOULD NOT SAY BUT ONLY CRACKED OR MOVED AWAY Daddy, I don’t want to write the blurb. But you said you wanted to write the blurb. I don’t want to write the blurb. I want to play with the train track. Okay, I’ll set up the train track for you… There you go. Daddy I don’t want to play with the train track. But I just made the train track for you. But I don’t want to play with the train track! What do you want to do, then? I want to write the blurb. We said it would happen and here it is! SILENCE! 290! Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die kick off this momentous recording with some of the finest chat on Earth, forged in the white hot heat of aimlessness then cooled in the pure waters of lockdown boredom then tempered with the hammer of pointlessness on the anvil of stretched metaphors. That is to say, they talk about John Cooper Clarke’s autobiography, I Wanna Be Yours, the Stan Lee biography, True Believer, Richard Herring’s Ball and King Rocker and Birds Of Prey. Oh, and they totally forget to mention any sponsors but do remember to plug their new, Patreon-only podcast, Dan and Fraser’s Starlight Adventures! BANG! AAAAARGH! Gary opens a Lorne Bomb! Come with us to Reviewniverse, with Deadline, Keif Llama: Vectors, Huntress, Kraven The Last Hunt, Si Spencer and Grave Horticulture of course! Listening time! @frasergeesin @thebeastmustdie silencepodcast@gmail.com You can support us using Patreon if you like. Patreon.com/silence!

BILLY THE KID DID WHAT HE DID AND HE DIED Boy did you see that? That was something wasn’t it? It sure was something. What do you mean what was it? I have no idea. I just know it was something. Yes sir, it sure was. Something, that is. Couldn’t say for sure exactly what, but let me tell you I know that it was *something*. I know what it wasn’t though. It sure wasn’t a BLURB. New Year, New SILENCE! New Year, New Podcast! New Year same old sad sacks of mince Gary Lactus & The Beast Must Die! It’s a packed episode, designed to fill the howling voids of uncertainty in your brains. First up SILENCE! Cos I’m Watching The Telly! wherein the Beast talks up the myriad pleasures of the Doom Patrol TV show. Then the pair have a good old natter about Feels Good Man, the strange and depressing descent of Pepe The Frog. Take a hop, skip, slip and plunge into the Reviewniverse. Happy talky talky happy talk, talk about things you like to read….The Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, Midnight Men, Howard Chaykin Bingo, Pirate Corp$, 2000AD Xmas special, Judge Dredd: Book Of The Dead, World Judges and a lot (not much) more I’m tired. Go away please. Just kidding, I kiss. @frasergeesin @thebeastmustdie silencepodcast@gmail.com You can support us using Patreon if you like.

This week the boys welcome back Chris and Steve from the Reviewniverse Podcast. The show opens with the esteemed guests describing their podcast where things get reviewed and their gaming channel The Streamviewniverse on YouTube. After a bit of mischief, Doug and Justin welcome Mind Gap’s first Special Correspondent JJ “Pogchamp” Howard who gives us the dirt on this week’s main topic Cyberpunk 2077. The guys then discuss “crunch” from game developers and the dangers of massive amounts of pre-orders and buying games that are in early access. Chris however points out not all games in early access are traps like this and cites the huge success of Hades. CD Projekt Red’s review embargo leading up to the game’s release doesn’t sit well with anyone on the panel but it does help to lead to a rather hilarious impromptu skit from Chris and Steve involving the murder of several Santas which is very much worth checking out. We are then treated to the end of the “.7 seconds of Trapt” era due to their general awfulness and a competition to replace them. The panel listens to Justin’s carefully curated .7 second clips of many popular songs and a new official .7 second king is chosen. That leads seamlessly to this week’s throw-down pitting Christian Bale against Tom Cruise in a battle of the on-set tantrum throwers. Follow us on Twitch to hang out while we record our new episodes and stream video game sessions! We have MERCH now! Check out our YouTube channel for podcast episodes, video game live stream highlights, Doug Watches Awkward Videos, and Justin Plays Video games. Be sure to like and subscribe! Follow us on all of our social medias and other platforms!  https://streamerlinks.com/mindgappodcast

We're back back! ANOTHER new episode within a week?!? I know, we're going to have to take 2 years off after this flurry of activity! Chris and Steve keep their tradition alive even in a pandemic and buy each other some cute gifts. Listen to them open them!

DEEP BLUE, I VOTED YOU SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR “YOU THERE BOY! WHAT DAY IS IT?” “It’s Christmas Day, sir!” “Then there’s still time! Tell me, boy; is that fat goose still in the window of the butcher’s?” “Yes, sir!” “Then take this money and go buy it for Bob Cratchit and his family!” “But it’s Christmas day, sir. The butcher’s is closed.” “Oh… Then smash the window and grab the fat goose!” “Sir, you DO know that it’s just a display fat goose? It’s the plastic one that’s there every year.” “Why, you saucy urchin! Any more cheek from you and I’ll give you a thrashing! Now smash that window, grab the fat goose and take it to Bob Cratchit’s house!” “Fuck off, mate!” HOX3 Etc. Welcome to our very, very special December 18th episode of SILENCE! It’s like a scrooge convention in here. Come in, the water’s filthy and will probably give you dysentery. After some moaning about everything (including the lack of interest in Gary’s own comic, Journey To The Surface Of The Earth), there’s some bigging up of the belated SILENCE! To Astonish cyber-panel at Digi-Thought Virtual-Bubble. Oh, and Gary Lactus has almost written a song for The Beast Must Die but not really. The Reviewniverse beckons, covering James Stokoe’s Won Ton Soup, Elektra Assassin, Goddess, Wildcat, Green Arrow, We Only Find Them When They’re Dead, Havok and Wolverine: Meltdown, some Fred Egg comics and probably some other stuff. After some final complaints it’s off you go, back to the rubbish timeline we all seem to be stuck in. Ugh! @frasergeesin @thebeastmustdie silencepodcast@gmail.com You can support us using Patreon if you like.

We're back! With our first full sized episode in almost a year! Yup, it took Chris and Steve that long to figure out how to record remotely. Anyways, we're back with a couple of holiday themed episodes to end out the year! I hope you enjoy as much as Chris enjoys having Coronavirus (SPOILERS) Reviews this episode: FRIENDS Advent Calendar VS LOL Surprise Advent Calendar

BUT DON’T DESPAIR, THIS DAY WILL BE THEIR DAMNEDEST DAY BARMAN! Hey barman! It’s brrn s heckuva day all over hasn’t it? Just a HECKUVA day. I’ll be goddamned. My throat is parched. So why don’t you sidle over here and pour me a nice stiff podcast. Straight, no chaser, just make sure it’s got a real high percentage of unqualified opinions. Maybe top it up with juuuust a touch of hot air. Perfect. Now I’m gonna knock this down and shake off this goddamned day. What do you mean, tip? It’s a brand new day, a bdand new world, a brand new existence! But more than that it’s a brand new SILENCE! with your hoary old pals Gary Lactus & The Beast Must Die. Couldn’t you just kiss them on their wet little noses? Some honest-to-goodness Sponsorship, some chat about the apparent exit of the world’s orangest, angriest baby, and news of our digitable at the virtual ThoughT Bubble 2020 festival… Reviewniverse time baaaaaybee and it’s packed to the gills with comic shaped treats: The Green Lantern, We Only Find Them When They’re Dead, Excalibur, Happy Hour, Bad Boy, Xerxes, X’ed Out, The Hive, Sugar Skull: Last Look by Charles Burns, Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files Vol 1 and Dire Fucking Straits… Did we already tell you to BUY OUR SHIT? ALL ITEMED OUT @frasergeesin @thebeastmustdie silencepodcast@gmail.com You can support us using Patreon if you like.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE’S NO MORE? ALL OF THE RATIONS? SOUND THE ALARM, THERE MUST BE A STOWAWAY! After you. No please, I insist after you. Really dear boy, I absolutely mean it – after you. Dear me no, don’t be silly, I wouldn’t DREAM of it. AFTER YOU. TSK, TSK, I SIMPLY WON’T HAVE IT GOOD FELLOW….. AFTER. YOU. NNNNNNNNNGGGGHHH….PPPPPPOPPYCOCK GOOD SIR…AFTER. YOU. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFTERRRRRRRRRRRRRR YOUUUUUUUUUU!!!! Well, if you’re oing to start coming on all hoity-toity… I say. Where’s the door gone? Comics, baby, just the way the everlovin’ everlastin’ intended. All served up by those worn-out skin-suits Gary Lactus & The Beast Must Die in a salty dish of SILENCE! Some thrilling cat-related updates, then a hotttt new section ‘SILENCE.. I’M LISTENING TO SOMETHING ELSE!‘ with The Beast’s reckymend of the SYFY podcast ‘Behind the Panel’ detailing the history of Vertigo Comics and the general aceness of Karen Berger. The duplicity of Neil Gaiman, and Warren Ellis doesn’t like Jack Kirby! Let’s do it. You and me pal. Let’s really do it. Let’s go into the Reviewniverse, pal. You, me and comics, together in a tree. Bill and Ted are Doomed, Aliens: Book One and Dark Horse’s franchise comics in general, Billionaire Island, Deadline #13, Jackpot, kids in baths of lemonade and just a whole hunka rambling love more… BYE BYE @frasergeesin @thebeastmustdie silencepodcast@gmail.com You can support us using Patreon if you like.

I’VE BEEN SAVING UP FOR A LIFE LIKE THIS, YOUR GOD IS BOOING YOU OFF STAGE AND YOUR HEROES DON’T RESPECT YOU SILENCE! Haiku: Jaded comics fans We do our duty for you No need to thank us Dragging itself into the light like a flea-bitten, depressed lion at a run-down zoo, here’s a new SILENCE! to “brighten” your “days”. Gary Lactus & The Beast Must Die have a nice warm package for you that smells distinctly like comics… The very losest notion of sponsorship? I suppose. There’s a run through of the contents of 2000AD Prog 284. Silence! Because The Film Has Started takes in Snowpiercer and Eurovision. There’s also some chat about the end of the cUrrent Hellblazer as well as a eulogy that cannot possibly do justice to the tragedy of Chadwick Boseman’s death.Plus a Great New Competition? Reviewniverse is calling your name…will you answer it? We did and this is what happened…Doom Patrol Weight of Worlds, Prisoner: Shattered Visage, Doom 2099, Abslom Daak: Dalek Killer and James Stokoe’s Sobek are all discussed. A bit of a chat about the unremitting awfulness of everything all the time and then home for cocoa and cookies. @frasergeesin @thebeastmustdie silencepodcast@gmail.com You can support us using Patreon if you like. https://www.patreon.com/SILENCE

SHE SAID THE CITY WAS DEAD AND GUTLESS Watch out, cos here we come. It’s been a while but we’re back in style. So get set, to have some fun. We’ll give you action…and satisfaction. We are SILENCE! coming on stronger than ever before. We are SILENCE! Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Door (Die) That’ll do won’t it? Come on, be reasonable, you can’t expect more from a blurb at times like these right? Take a look at yourself. When did you last have to write a blurb eh? EH? WELL? It’s a brand new day, it’s brand new SILENCE! with those two testy old goats Gary Lactus & The Beast Must Die ready to fill your ears up with a hunka hunka burning comics. Admin, rambling and SILENCE! (Because the Film Has Started) with the Steve Rude documentary and Dream Dangerously, the Neil Gaiman documentary. QUALITY WATCHING Slip inside the Reviewniverse, step over the slumped prone body of James Stokoe and check out the chit chat about Morbius The Living Vampire no.1, Batman pocket books, Joe Kessler’s Windowpane, Doug Moench’s Spectre, and a bit more plus RIP Denny O’Neill ALL OUT OF ITEMS @frasergeesin @thebeastmustdie silencepodcast@gmail.com You can support us using Patreon if you like.

I FORGOT IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN SLOW DIAGONAL I FORGOT I FORGOT Take that bit there, the thin bit… that’s righ, Now pull it towards you whilst twisting it. NO! ANTI-CLOCKWISE! Sorry, didn’t mean to shout but you could have blown us all up there… okay, now take the round thing and clip it onto the end using the square thing. That’s it, you’ve got a blurb! Hey! Do you have a mind? Well not for long because Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die are going to blow it with another issue of SILENCE! Just how are they going to do that? With a series of items of course! Some initial chat to lull you into a false sense of security. “How are you?” “I’m fine.” That sort of thing. BANG! The thing you least expected! Gary Lactus has watched a film and tells you about it in an explosive SILENCE! (Because the Film’s Started). The film he’s seen is The Illumination of Jim Woodring. With a head still swimming, the boys stamp on what’s left of your brains by holding your head down the Reviewniverse then flushing Rogue Trooper: Cinnabar, Thriller, Love and Rockets and Jason Shiga’s Meanwhile all over it. A polite wind-up chat to bring you to your senses. “Any plans for the weekend?” “No.” That sort of thing. Dare you listen?

HOLY HECK! WHAT THE FUN IS THAT?! PARDON MY FRENCH BUT WHAT THE ACTUAL FUN IS THAT?! THERE! UP THERE! LOOK!! IT’S DOWN THERE TOO! IT’S… IT’S… BLURB!!!! Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die are back together, just like the good old days, talking over Skype, drinking beer, and being total legends forever cruising down the highway until they crash into the Sun and the sky explodes! Talking! Covid 19, crumpets, Closed comic shops, the collapse of television, lunch and dinner and The Beast has seen the sci-fi horror, Await Further Instructions. Come with us to Reviewniverse and hear tell of Steed and Mrs. Peel, Modesty Blaise, Punisher: Soviet, Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters, Jimmy Olsen, Ilya’s second collection of his End Of The World Club strips, Timewarp and a whole lotta diverging chat about revisionism, the death of Gary Lactus and bladders. The end of the episode Hey listen!

Chris and Steve pop in quickly for an update regarding The Reviewniverse's release schedule and the upcoming season 2! TLDL: - The Reviewniverse will be taking an off-season break to recharge - The boys are working on season 2, will be releasing soon - New season will be moving to a bi-weekly format - More news will be coming soon!

ALL HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN AND THE PLASTIC TURNS TO ROTTEN RAYS AND SMELLS Look, long story short, I had this dog that fed on anger. I got into an argument with a mate and it was too much for the dog and it exploded a red mist which covered the city, making everyone furious. The more angry everyone got, the more the red mist grew. Eventually the world burned, everything collapsed, billions died and now I’ve got a cat that eats guilt. So that’s why I didn’t write a blurb. Welcome to our special foil-embossed anniversary issue! To celebrate we have more interruptions that any SILENCE! ever! There’s some prime preambling here with talk of Marvel Comics The Untold Story and Steve Gerber. There’s some great Ash Wednesday chat and we say absolutely nothing new about Dan Didio. Oh, and we go on about whether there’s any point in comics continuity. We enter The Reviewniverse where The End Of The Century Club, Sandman, Elektra Lives Again, Silver Surfer: Black, Deadline and Protector are all covered alongside the usual digressions. @frasergeesin @thebeastmustdie silencepodcast@gmail.com You can support us using Patreon if you like. https://www.patreon.com/SILENCE

It's all come down to this. We're finally here. Additional generic finality sayings. The Reviewniverse finally turns 100, the only way they know how: by folding in upon themselves and getting blackout drunk! Give it a listen! Reviews This Episode: Century Club featuring all 100 episodes

AND THEY’RE WONDERING WHY WE CAN’T CONNECT WITH THE RITUAL OF THE TRASHED GUITAR You can earn money from home! Blurb writers urgently required to fill space at top of podcast post. Competetive rates. No real talent or wit required! Hurry hurry hurry! S…S…S…SILENCE! (turn and face the strange). Gary Lactus & The Beast Must Die bringing you another hot shot pod rocket from out of their undercrackers and into your earholes. Look, there’s probably some rambling nonsense and sponsorhip and admin at the start. I can’t remember though. You have a listen and tell me about it in the comments. Into the glacial embrace of the , with the gasbags gasbagging about House of the Black Spot, Jamie Delano’s Animal Man, Baby by Philippa Rice, The Man Who F#@cked up Time, Chosen: the New Messiah, Eightball #23 (Death Ray) and probably more, maybe less?? I have a hangover. Go away. @frasergeesin @thebeastmustdie silencepodcast@gmail.com You can support us using Patreon if you like.

EVERYBODY INHERIT THE EARTH? WHY NOT? What was the name of that guy..? You know, that guy with the…with the …you know all the words. That guy. Real talkative type. A regular wordsmith…what was his name? Chatterbox, he was. Flapping those gums all the time. Oh, what was his name?? It’s on the tip of my tongue. Bob? Bill? No….Blair? It was Blair I think. No, that’s not it… BLURB!! THAT’S IT! BLURB! Yeah. Hate that guy. Explode into action! It’s 2020! New SILENCE! New DANGER! Old Gary Lactus & The Beast Must Die! Oof. Bit of chat, bit of admin, bit of Sponsorship – Get down to the GOSH Comics sale which finished on 12th Jan! And a reckymendation for the Gossipmongers podcast. Into the Reviewniverse with both feet! SPLOSH! Let’s chew the fat about Olympia, Milk & Cheese, Punisher: Soviet, Sandman Mystery Theatre, Pink Lemonade Holiday Grab Bag, Pirate Corp$, The Spectre, Sludge, Destroyer Duck and lot more you sexy sexpots. Gary Lactus’ Best of The Decade! SILENCE! Because The Film Has Started! and The Beast watched the recent Hellboy reboot and some of Shazam! Superheroes – they’re the great new fad that the kids can’t stop talking about! THAT’LL DO PIGS @bobsymindless @frasergeesin @thebeastmustdie silencepodcast@gmail.com You can support us using Patreon if you like.

In this episode, Chris and Steve go through every movie they watched in 2019 (yes, even the stupid shark movies) and put them through a bracket-style tournament to determine which movie is the best of the year! "Best" being a relative term as they mostly watch bad movies.

In this episode, Chris and Steve have their hearts all a flutter because they're watching holiday specials! And everyone knows holiday specials cause heart palpitations. Please consult a Reviewniverse before watching holiday specials. Holiday specials are only to be taken while Chris and Steve-ing. Reviews This Episode: 12 Worst Holiday Specials + watching 2 random specials from that list!

In this episode, "the gang" (still using it) goes to Magic Kingdom AND Hollywood Studios! Too much content for one episode, you say? Well, you'd be right! But splitting this into 4 episode would just be overkill! Plus, Jean's contract would have to have us pay her overtime, and as you know, The Reviewniverse gets paid in Huggies 50% coupons, so... Reviews This Episode: Magic Kingdom & Hollywood Studios

In this bonus episode, Chris and Steve face their archenemy once again: The Big Bang Theory. They sit down to review the second episode. Also, they bought the entire first season. Taking bets on which will come first; Chris and Steve watching every episode, or the deconstruction of both of their psyches? Reviews This Episode: The Big Bang Theory (Season 1, Episode 2: The Big Bran Hypothesis)

In this first bonus episode, Chris and Steve open a fan's package! Not like that, you pervs. A super cool fan by the name of Andrew "Puddy" Campbell sent us a package filled with goodies to review! So, naturally, Chris and Steve tear the thing open. Along the way, Steve discovers his love for LUSH, Chris maybe goes too far this time, and they both argue about grammar.  Reviews This Episode: Make Your Own Bath Bomb Kit Mad Libs Hatchimals

In this episode, Chris and Steve close out part two of the jelly beans saga. It's been a long and winding road, filled with jelly beans, dragons, swordfights, and of course, jelly beans. It all culminates into a battle for the ages, where all 49 flavors of jelly beans clash for the right to control the one bean to rule them all. Either that, or Chris and Steve got wasted on jelly beans and fell asleep watching Lord of the Rings. Reviews This Episode Jelly Beans Flavors 26-49

In the first part of this two part episode, Chris and Steve get into the Easter spirit. That is to say, they get into the eat-way-too-much-candy-and-vomit-into-their-bedsheets-spirit. That's because they review 49 freakin' jelly bean flavors in a row! Godspeed, Chris and Steve's tastebuds. Godspeed. Reviews This Episode Introduction- 0:00 Jelly Bean Flavors 1-25- 10:20

In this very special episode, Chris and Steve break their normal format to go on a non-stop reviewing spree. In honor of St. Patrick's Day, they review SIXTY green things in a row! But that's not all. It wouldn't be St. Patricks Day without binge drinking! That's why Chris and Steve review these things while simultaneously drinking a shot of  beer every minute for an hour, AKA a Power Hour. Let the drunken bickering commence. Reviews This Episode Introduction- 0:00 Sixty Green Things- 9:30  

In this inaugural episode, Chris and Steve dive skull first into The Reviewniverse. What sort of things will they review today? In an ironic twist, they will be subjected to a couple of "Episode Ones"(AKA pilot episodes of TV shows). Then, Chris and Steve taste test a certain green dinosaur's candy bar in this week's Instant Review. Reviews This Episode Introduction- 0:00 Review Your Week- 08:50 Silver Spoon- 22:30 The Big Bang Theory- 47:00 Instant Review- 1:07:10