Mega City Book Club - a new podcast about 2000AD books

[Eamonn Clarke]

Thanks, guys
Episode 2 is out today, we are planning to release them weekly if we can keep up.

https://handfulofdustpodcast.blogspot.com/2020/07/2-dolls-house.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

Episode 127 welcomes a new member of the book club, Jon Clark, who tells me the history of One-Eyed Jack by John Wagner and John Cooper. We also discuss Valiant comc and the question of who were Dredd's foreunners.

In your podcast app or at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2020/07/127-one-eyed-jack.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

and here is the first of Jon's John Cooper grail pages.

[JayzusB.Christ]

That was great as usual. I'm always amazed at what comics creators in the 70s decided was perfect for children - basically 18 cert films without swearing or sex.  I mean, it's exactly what I wanted when I was a kid, but no other medium would allow it.

I've never read One-Eyed Jack, but was delighted to hear that his surname was McBane. How you guys described it sounded pretty much exactly like the other McBane. (Or McBain, as I've just learned from Wikipedia.)

Edit - and now I've just learned that there was a real film called McBain too.  Apparently it's the go-to name for hard men, like the given name Joe for Pat Mills, I suppose.

[Eamonn Clarke]

Cheers, JBC

And here is the other part of Jon's two grail pages by John Cooper.

[Eamonn Clarke]

Time for the Incredible Adventures of Janus Stark and Chris Wright joins me to discuss his india-rubber contortions in the fog-bound streets of Victorian London. We also review the Smash special and reminisce about comic conventions and look forward to the days when we'll all meet again.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2020/08/128-janus-stark.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

And the first of Chris's grail pages from volume 1, words Tom Tully, art Francisco Solano Lopez

[Eamonn Clarke]

And a Reg Bunn page from volume 2

[Eamonn Clarke]

It's the return of the Terry Mack, down the line from Oz with the pefect mashup of cowboys and dinosaurs in Flesh.

On your podcasts app or on the website at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2020/08/129-flesh.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

And Terry's main grail pick by Boix

[Eamonn Clarke]

My chat with Phillip Vaughan from the University of Dundee about Doomlord, the new Eagle, and David McDonald's Hibernia comics.

On your podcatcher or at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2020/08/130-doomlord.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

A glorious Ian Kennedy double page Dan Dare from the New Eagle. This is one of Phillip Vaughan's grail pages from episode 130.

[Eamonn Clarke]

and two Eric Bradbury pages for Phillip

[Timothy]

Love these, but love A Handful of Dust too. What's happened to Worlds End?

[Eamonn Clarke]

We had a week off for some life getting in the way stuff.
Episode 8: World's End will be out tomorrow morning and we have recorded episode 9: The Kindly Ones this week so hopefully should be back on schedule.

Thanks for listening