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

[Eamonn Clarke]

I'm a big fan of Marvel Transformers and those are absolutely beautiful pages from two of the best stories.

Would love to see a brand new collection at original UK size.

Cheers

My mate Tim Perkins worked on this as a colourist

Very cool. Thanks

[Eamonn Clarke]

Two grails for David Nolan.
First Bryan Hitch

and then Geoff Senior from the Body in Question.

[Eamonn Clarke]

Fire up your Radwagon, make sure you've packed some high factor lava block and and an acid proof umbrella, and let's head out into the Cursed Earth. Peter Adamson from the Where Eagles Dare podcast is your guide as we join the Helltrekkers setting out in the hope of a better life.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2023/12/246-helltrekkers.html

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mega-city-book-club/id1116473423?i=1000640119634

Or on Google podcasts at
http://tinyurl.com/54mwmper

[Eamonn Clarke]

and two wonderful grail pages for Peter from the new Helltrekkers collection
Firstly Jose Ortiz


and then Horacio Lalia on the cover of prog 408.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Thanks Eamonn, I always thought Helltrekkers was an underrated classic and am looking forward to listening to the podcast as always.

[Richard S.]

as discussed on the show...Lalia WOULD go on to do some work for new Eagle. He illustrated the 'Dial a dawn destructor' strip in issue 201-212 (25/01/86 - 12/04/86).

[Eamonn Clarke]

Script droid James Peaty makes a 4th visit to the book club to discuss a reality altering hairstyle crafted by the talented hands of Peter Milligan and Jamie Hewlett.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2024/01/247-hewligans-haircut.html
Or in Apple Podcasts at
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mega-city-book-club/id1116473423?i=1000641577185
Google podcasts link coming

[Eamonn Clarke]

https://bit.ly/3Sm4IK4

[JayzusB.Christ]

Looking forward to this as usual. I'm probably in a very small minority but I really liked Hewligan's Haircut.  The graphic novel with the hole in the cover, and the back-cover quotation from Vidal Sassoon saying they didn't want anything to do with it, were just brilliant touches.

My brother as a teenager looked very like Hewligan and was very pleased about it, and took to wearing a Hewligan t-shirt that I got printed for him.  (More Hewligan before he gave himself the eponymous cut - my brother wasn't quite able to replicate a hole that looked the same from every angle. These days he does have a large hole in his hair, now I think of it, provided by middle age.)

[Richard S.]

The mention of Ian Gibson's work on 'Steed & Mrs Peel' reminds that I once did a post about collecting that particular series - all my notes are here...

https://boysadventurecomics.blogspot.com/2021/02/steed-mrs-peel-ian-gibson-grant-morrison.html

[Richard S.]

for the chat at the end of the show about 'Rogan Gosh' here's my signed copy of the trade paperback...I seem to recall this was hard to get hold of (in this country at least, copies seem plentiful in the US)

https://boysadventurecomics.blogspot.com/2017/02/2000ad-con-bits-pieces-3_14.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

Thanks, JBC and Richard. Great stuff.

Here are two grails from Milligan and Hewlett chosen by James in 247.

[Vector14]

I loved Hewligan's Haircut when I first read it. A breath of fresh air alongside the usual sci fi stuff. I think I read it around the same age as James Peaty too which might have helped.

[Eamonn Clarke]

His name is Conrad, he's been to the movies, and he has some thoughts about them!
As we edge closer to the triumphant return of SpaceSpinner2000 fill your ears with some more LA Leiden.
Oh and mid credit scene spoilers for both films with "man in a box eamonn" giving a time stamp warning during the episode.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2024/01/248-marvels-and-aquaman-2.html
Apple=
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/248-the-marvels-and-aquaman-2/id1116473423?i=1000642360579
or google podcasts link (c'mon google, shorten those links please)
http://bit.ly/3SrJSrx

[Eamonn Clarke]

Jim O'Brien joins me to discuss Night of the Devil from the Treasury of British Comics and to talk about the life and works of the great Hugo Pratt.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2024/01/249-night-of-devil.html

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mega-city-book-club/id1116473423