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Alan Fisher is back to tell me about Bryan Talbot's memoir which he helped design.
And we talk about the Johnny Alpha statue which is now on special offer at www.fishcollectibles.com

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2024/04/258-father-of-british-graphic-novel.html
And
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mega-city-book-club/id1116473423?i=1000652360402

Thanks, Richard. And here is the cover image that Stephen chose as his Tintin grail. Anyone got $2m to spare?

Stephen White AKA Stref joins me to discuss The Silence of Unicorns: a Tara Togs adventure, his new all-ages graphic novel on Kickstarter with Comic Scene. We also talk about his love of Tintin and play one of the most expensive rounds of the grail page game ever.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2024/04/257-tara-togs.html
And
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mega-city-book-club/id1116473423?i=1000651646156

Troy Martin returns from the Requiem Vampire Knight episode to join the film club and discuss the greatest moustache of the 1980s in Runaway, and then to compare a cute alien puppet to Skizz with interesting results.

Join Troy, Conrad and myself at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2024/03/256-runaway-and-et.html
Or
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mega-city-book-club/id1116473423?i=1000650950421

Thanks, Richard.

here are Tim's two grail pages from Sleeper

this was last November I think.

"Thanks to book clubber Ed Doyle for this info:
Zarjaz is coming back under the original editor Andrew J Lewis (email at bottom of this post) and he's looking for submissions based on the first 250 progs of 2000AD.

...

No Pat Mills created strips so Flesh, Nemesis,  Ro Busters, ABC warriors are out.
Email Andrew with script synopsis/ art samples,  etc to....
topnotchtosh@hotmail.com
"

Tim Burnell returns with an early collaboration between Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. We recorded this in the pub so there is some bonus background music!

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2024/03/255-sleeper.html

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/255-sleeper/id1116473423?i=1000650230613

Thanks for the shout-outs for the book club, Colin. This thread is just superb. Great work.

Two Steve Parkhouse grail pages for Peter: the cover to 843, and "Gloob"

And Google podcasts link
https://bit.ly/3PeycHv

Peter McKinney is a new recruit to help me discuss the most controversial strip in the history of the prog, and we get into some of the critical response to Big Dave in the letters page and elsewhere.

On the website at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2024/03/254-big-dave.html
and apple podcasts at
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/254-big-dave/id1116473423?i=1000648635453

As always, thanks to book clubber Richard for the links.

I got the impression that's what Eamonn was originally referring to...

Well I wish he'd given the title and saved me two days of strain 

Yes, sorry I was thinking of that one but I didn't think it had a UK broadcast and I was sure the dubbing would have stood out in the memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Frankenstein_(miniseries)#

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Three glorious grail pages for Giles from V for Vendetta