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

Started by Eamonn Clarke, 23 May, 2016, 08:59:38 AM

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Eamonn Clarke



The forum's very own Buttonman, Stephen Watson, joins the book club with a marvellous slice of Battle action from Wagner, Grant and Bradbury in Invasion 1984!.We also discuss the wonderful resource that is the Letter to Tharg database, the Beast itself.

Listen in at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2019/09/101-invasion-1984.html

Frank

Quote from: Eamonn Clarke on 01 September, 2019, 10:42:13 AM


The forum's very own Buttonman, Stephen Watson, joins the book club with a marvellous slice of Battle action from Wagner, Grant and Bradbury in Invasion 1984!.We also discuss the wonderful resource that is the Letter to Tharg database, the Beast itself.

Listen in at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2019/09/101-invasion-1984.html


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Contains the origin story of The Beast and John Wagner reminiscing on the creation of this memorable classic.



Buttonman

Came out well n the edit! Tune in for exciting origin tales and letter writing anecdotes. A book gets mentioned too!

sheridan

Quote from: Frank on 01 September, 2019, 11:22:56 AM
https://translate.google.co.uk/

Contains the origin story of The Beast and John Wagner reminiscing on the creation of this memorable classic.

It's alright - thirty five years of tales told by Scots means I don't need translate to listen (though I'd probably need some help if trying to speak it)!

Eamonn Clarke

And here are Buttonman's grail pages in a sequence that means the end of Ol' Glasgee.



Captain Haddock just following orders there.

Lobo Baggins

Quote from: Eamonn Clarke on 02 September, 2019, 10:31:24 AM
Captain Haddock just following orders there.

I thought that was Commander Lex O'Malley from Dan Dare (you can see him walking down the stairs with the Theron Ambassador in last episode's grail page) rather than Captain Haddock, although admittedly they do look rather alike.

Or possibly he's the officer who orders the HMS Nemesis to attack Charlie at the end of The Terra Meks.
The wages of sin are death, but the hours are good and the perks are fantastic.

SpaceSpinner2000

Nice! Eamonn I think the biggest thing I've learned from MCBC is an appreciation for the work of Alan Hebden and Eric Bradbury. If your only window into British comics is 2000AD it's easy to overlook them as the writer of Meltdown Man and the artist of Tharg strips respectively, but their history and work in other publications is amazing! Thanks for highlighting some of these other works, they're very illuminating!
2000 AD recap podcast, from the beginning!
Check out the show here! Or on iTunes, Google Play, or your preferred podcast app!

Eamonn Clarke

Quote from: Lobo Baggins on 02 September, 2019, 11:23:26 AM
Quote from: Eamonn Clarke on 02 September, 2019, 10:31:24 AM
Captain Haddock just following orders there.

I thought that was Commander Lex O'Malley from Dan Dare (you can see him walking down the stairs with the Theron Ambassador in last episode's grail page) rather than Captain Haddock, although admittedly they do look rather alike.

Ooh, good call. You wait ages for Lex O'Malley to turn up in a podcast and then two turn up in a row!

And thanks ,Conrad. More Alan Hebden coming up later this year 😉

Proudhuff

Glasgow hit by a nuke? Millions of pounds worth of improvements

Oh the banter...
DDT did a job on me

Frank

Quote from: Proudhuff on 03 September, 2019, 02:30:07 PM
Glasgow hit by a nuke? Millions of pounds worth of improvements.  Oh the banter...

The radioactive fallout was the first shower any Weegie'd had in years ... 600,000 hideously deformed mutants roaming a blighted wasteland - and then the bomb hit it ... the locals were horrified by the mushroom cloud because they'd never seen any kind of fruit or veg before ... etc.

I think that's not racism as long as I'm Scottish?



JayzusB.Christ

Great episode about a story I haven't read but now really want to. Also great to hear what the forum's greatest digital artist sounds like. All in all, still my favourite Two Thoosand AD poadcast.
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"

sheridan

Quote from: Frank on 03 September, 2019, 05:14:00 PM
The radioactive fallout was the first shower any Weegie'd had in years ... 600,000 hideously deformed mutants roaming a blighted wasteland - and then the bomb hit it ... the locals were horrified by the mushroom cloud because they'd never seen any kind of fruit or veg before ... etc.

I think that's not racism as long as I'm Scottish?

We can tell - mushroom are fungi - neither fruit or veg :P

Frank


Eamonn Clarke



Brett Harris joins me down the line from Oz to introduce me to the artistic and gaming wonders of Dice Man, featuring a host of 2000AD greats led by Mills, O'Neill, Talbot, Collins, Ridgway and Dillon, but also the cartooning genius of Hunt Emerson.

Have your D6 at the ready and let it roll at:
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2019/09/102-dice-man.html

sheridan

Quote from: Eamonn Clarke on 15 September, 2019, 10:25:48 AM


Brett Harris joins me down the line from Oz to introduce me to the artistic and gaming wonders of Dice Man, featuring a host of 2000AD greats led by Mills, O'Neill, Talbot, Collins, Ridgway and Dillon, but also the cartooning genius of Hunt Emerson.

Have your D6 at the ready and let it roll at:
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2019/09/102-dice-man.html

Downloading now so I can listen at lunchtime!