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

[Eamonn Clarke]

I spoke to John Wagner at Lawless about the new collected edition of The Bogie Man currently on Kickstarter.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wagnerrok/the-bogie-man-the-incomplete-case-files

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2023/05/225-bogie-man.html

[sheridan]

I've read various bits of Bacchus (stories used to pop up in various anthologies in the nineties) and got the first few months of the regular series that came out.  I'm going to withold asking why the praise is quite so high until after the MCBC episode alluded to!

(p.s. I did like Bacchus, I just don't think I'd rate it above From Hell).

[Eamonn Clarke]

And The Bogie Man website is
https://thebogieman.com/

[JayzusB.Christ]

 Really enjoyed listening to the John Wagner one.  I'd forgotten how scary his voice is - if Dredd was Scottish, he'd sound like John Wagner.

[Eamonn Clarke]

I was lucky enough to be at the Enniskillen comic fest and got to speak to Paul Trimble, Keith Burns, Garth Ennis, John Wagner, Dan Cornwell and Gerry Finley-Day about the first of this year's Battle Action specials.

There are a few harsh clicks and pops in the audio from the convention floor due to poor microphone technique by me (sorry), but the guests answers are great stuff and well worth a listen.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2023/06/226-battle-action-1.html

[Richard S.]

If you enjoyed the chat about the grandad figure in HMS Nightshade being based on Mike Western himself then maybe check out these other paintings of pipe smoking grandad figures (that I'm lucky enough to own)

https://boysadventurecomics.blogspot.com/2021/04/updated-watercolour-work-of-mike-western.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

Nice one, Richard.

[Eamonn Clarke]

Luke Aldred joins the book club to discuss the parallels between Dredd and the character of Marv from the first volume of Frank Miller's Sin City.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2023/06/227-sin-city.html
Or
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mega-city-book-club/id1116473423?i=1000618997158

[Eamonn Clarke]

Two Miller grail pages for Luke

[Eamonn Clarke]

What's up danger? Conrad is back! And we recorded a remote film club to discuss the two big comic movies of the summer. Some minor spoilers along the way.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2023/07/228-film-club.html?
Or on Apple Podcasts at
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mega-city-book-club/id1116473423?i=1000620177066

[JayzusB.Christ]

Just listened to the Sin City one - brilliant stuff as always.  As is so often the case when I listen to MCBC, I want to reread the comics under discussion immediately.  I'll forget about Frank Miller's not-cool years and get stuck in.

One tiny niggle - Luke doesn't have the Ozzie accent?  The guy may be from England, but he could do voiceovers for Jug McKenzie 

[Eamonn Clarke]

Richard Sheaf is back with more classic British comics. We met up at Lawless to discuss the Art of Frank Bellamy from The Book Palace.

on the website at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2023/07/229-art-of-frank-bellamy.html
or Apple podcasts at
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/229-the-art-of-frank-bellamy/id1116473423?i=1000621265638

[Richard S.]

great to chat as always Eamonn - I'll post links to a number of the comics/books we talked about. Hope you all enjoyed the episode.

[Richard S.]

First up, here's a link to a Bellamy story that was never published...

https://boysadventurecomics.blogspot.com/2017/07/king-solomons-mines-lost-eagle-magazine.html

[Richard S.]

'High Command' - in English and in Dutch

https://boysadventurecomics.blogspot.com/2017/07/high-command.html