Mindless Ones

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Darth Vader doing Darth Vader things on the cover of Star Wars Weekly.
A scene from Arrested Devlopment (2003-2006) in which J. Walter Weatherman and George Bluth Sr. teach the other Bluths a lesson by dressing up as Data and Riker from Star Trek: The Next Generation and staging a scene that ends with Data losing his arm because the rest of the family wouldn't stop cheating at Space Monopoly.
2000AD - cover cost 9p - no.2 of your 6-part full-colour postergraph! this prog! - "HAVE MADE CONTACT WITH ALIEN'S FACIAL AREA... COMPOSITION... FLESH! CONCLUSION... EDIBLE!" Space suit comics with a wee green guest. Life is hard that way sometimes.
Unknown Pleasures (Joy Division, 1979)
The cover for 5 More Minutes, by Hannah Berry. Corner of light in encroaching shadow, a parent crouching down to shelter a crouching child.
David Lynch in the vortex
The Cover of Oink! no. 52, "It's piggin sensational!"; a city skyline with big signs saying "scandal", "lies", and "corruption; behind it all, behind a fence, we see Frank Sidebottom dressed as a gentleman of the press saying "aha, John Peel leaves the bbc! find out more on page 4!"
The cover for an issue of Dragon's Claws, which features the actual best bounty hunter (sorry, "freelance peace-keeping agent") Deaths Head throwing a tasty punch and shouting "Gonna be a big hit, yes?"
The Savage Beast logo, which is both savage and beastly.
Greg Feely buries a dead cat in his back garden while an ape assasin smokes a big stinky joint. "Be quiet then, will you? Let me get on with my work."
Dialogue between Greg Feely and Man Green/Man Yellow, who time means nothing to.
A very noisy alternative cover for issue #1 of The Filth, as designed by Segura Inc.
Spartacus Hughes punching out Greg Feely. ""Excuse me"?" "FUKK"
Superman hoisting his most pernicious enemy into the air while making a request of his audience: "Help me crush the evil Nick O'Teen! Hijacker of health, foe of the fit - never say yes to a cigarette!" Pay attention and you'll notice that the big yin is crushing a load of cigs with his spare hand, which makes me wonder if he'd remember to wash before clocking back in at the Daily Planet. Probably would, I expect. He is Superman after all.
Another Glasgow
"The hat and the cigar. You're driving with the Driving Crooner, baby."
A page from "soft", a comic of swirling abstraction and tactile feelings: "soft now. a bargain. glowing eyes. dewdrop eyes, doe eyes. eyes closing slowly. and eyes slowly not opening."
Maps, legends
Suture - not "Suture Future" like I thought.
Doomed Patrols
Pricks 5, by Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan. Trust me, you're better off not knowing.
A map of 2000AD Hall at Thought Bubble, where you can find the Mindless on Saturday and Sunday.
A hand emerges from a floor covered in rubbish. But who and what is the hand connected to? Pricks #5, by Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan.
A page from The Beezer. It promises "laughs all round" but we'll never know.
The hive of gammon worms, faces warmed by the glow of old box TVs tuned in to borrowed glory.
A diagram of the Batcave. It's deeper than you think.
Screenshot of an ad for a HuffPost UK article titled "My Kids Are Asking About All the England Flags. What Should I Tell Them?"
In the foreground: buildings that look like yachst, strangers who wave and lean, trees, the beach! In the background: birdlike gliders, clouds, islands, a sense of ease across the water.
A buff lad in a snazzy supersuit sits at a table with a drink in his hand. He says: "Was listenin' to this GREAT band on the way... "'EMBRACE'. "You know 'em?" The other person at the table has been cruelly cropped from this post, but I've left their response in: "The English ones, aye? "Had a live version of their song 'FIREWORKS.'" Finally, a caption: "So then what?"
A drawing of a man whose hair is crying out for freedom. In this image he is saying "My actions sometimes have... "favourable outcomes"!"
A panel from Absolute Martian Manhunter 4. A man smokes in what was recently a zone of conflict. Plumes of colour drift like smoke as we see a cross section of life and mind.
Gorgeous big pic of Soundwave off the Transformers in both robot and tape player form. What a fucking guy!
The cover for Introduction to Charts by Tom Humberstone and Chrissy Williams. Arrows. Lines. Boxes. Shakes. Pink purple bluewhiteyellow and red.
A map of The Boroughs from Alan Moore's Jerusalem.
Poster for The Wicker Man
A panel from The Lovely Horrible Stuff by Eddie Campbell. "And the dependence on unseeables ceases to be a terror only after it becomes a way of life." We see Eddie sat talking to his wife: "Our property's all intellectual", "That's what I was afraid of".
An Ales of the Unexpected strip where one man's rage over the inattentiveness of his peers leads to a marketing opportunity.
Pic of Aztek the Ultimate Man doing his superhero bit and thinking "This is too hard." Art by N. Steven Harris, script by Grant Morrison and Marky Mark Millar.
WIKWOODGI, a servitor that: warns outside the community; helps the facts about Generative AI be known; and undermines the story that it is both benign and inevitable.
A panel from Multiversity #1 by Ivan Reis and Grant Morrison. Looking through the window from outside, we can see a landlady chapping on the door of an apartment. "Now it's *this* month! Eight hundred dollars! *Open the door!*"
An advert for baseball trading cards, ft. Kenny Lofton and Mike Piazza. "І feel better knowing Mike has my stolen base stats-so he can see he's not the oniy catcher I've embarrassed." "Кееp reading Kenny. It'll give you something to do in the dugout after I've gunned you down."
Four panels from Dan White's playground. Crablike armour forms touch earth, one far larger than the other. A menacing figure emerges, all cloak and helm. A space suit face thinks "Uh-oh."
Artwork from The Vallum.
An advert for issue #6 of Enigma, by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo. "You haven't seen Enigma yet? Where have you been hiding?" Away from this advert, presumably.
A photo of a couple of healthy lads out for a nice walk
Text that reads: "The Beast is typing..."
The cover for Animal Man #28, ft. text fragment mummies, disassembled bodies, mysterious onlookers, and more!
An advert for Quick Change, starring Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid and Jason Robards. "The bank robbery was easy, but getting out of New York was a nightmare."
The covers for the Adventures of Superman #612 and #613. The first shows the original Superman knocking out the 2003 version: "Man of yesterday vs. Man of tomorrow!" The second depicts a man with a bearded gesturing at a bunch of Superman tat and saying "Don't ask, just buy it!"
An advert for Superman: Metropolis. "The BIG technology changed the MAN OF STEEL's home into the CITY OF THE FUTURE. What happens when tech goes after the people?"
An advert for Descent on PlayStation and Descenf II on PC. "You're going down" - the eyes have it!
An advert for new albums by Pulp and Tracy Bonham, as flogged by samgoodymusicland. "Good and cocky!"