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

[Richard S.]

ooh, yeah - be interesting to see how much this one goes for. I've nabbed the ebay images for the blog (for posterity) and will update the post below with a final sales price

https://boysadventurecomics.blogspot.com/2021/09/2000ad-prog-14-flesh-cover-up-for-sale.html

Boom! sells for £2,850!

[Rogue Judge]

Wow!! Too bad I only had £2,849 to spend 

[Eamonn Clarke]

Giles Wright is back with an interesting collection of stories about two members of the Angel family.

Content note: one of the stories deals with abduction and strongly implied sexual violence.

Listen in your podcasts app or on the website at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2021/10/166-fink-angel-legacy.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

And here are Giles' two grail pages by Carlos Ezquerra and Tiernen Trevallion.

[Eamonn Clarke]

I got the chance to chat with Colin Macneil and we cover Song of the Surfer, America, Mechanismo, and Insurrection.
Thanks to Rob Foster for setting me up with this interview.
Listen in your podcasts app or on the website at:
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2021/10/167-colin-macneil.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

And here is Colin's grail page by Massimo Belardinelli.
Listen in to episode 167 to hear why this page is so important to him.

[Eamonn Clarke]

Sam Morgan takes the book club off-piste as we discuss one of the greatest comic book stories of all time.
And check out Sam's youtube channel for weekly prog reviews and interviews with John Wagner and many more.

In your podcast app or on the website at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2021/11/168-born-again.html

[Colin YNWA]

Oh wow great choice... even if off piste

[Eamonn Clarke]

And here are all of Sam's grail picks by David Mazzucchelli

[JayzusB.Christ]

Thanks for this, Eamonn - not having a huge knowledge of US comics, I wasn't aware this existed, but now I'm going to read it.
The likes of the ridiculous All-Star Batman and Robin and the nastily racist Holy Terror make you forget that Frank Miller was brilliant in his day.

[Colin YNWA]

Fantastic conversation - so engaging I kept wanting to interrupt and say - Arh but doesn't that exclude this, and what about such and such. But lovely stuff.

If anyone is tempted to learn more about DD - after all his is probably (well definiately?) the best American Superhero comic for  number of fantastic runs per issue count - just so much good stuff, I've provide the correct (ahem) order of quality of the various 'big' runs - worth noting I've not read the current run yet but hear amazing things about it.

Nocenti > Waid >>> Bendis > Brubaker > Miller + Janson* >>>> everything else

*[Normalfontsize] I'm excluding 'Born Again' here as its possibly the best DD story ever but at only 7 issues I don't think it counts as a 'run' and brilliant as it is I don't want to add it to this big run as it'd muddy the waters. [/Normalfontsize]

This comes from one of my fav threads here - 'Daredevil fans in the house?'

https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=23298.15

Where amongst many wonderful thoughts and opinions on ol' Horn Head you can see me justify - in excruciating detail - why the Nocenti run is the very, very best!

[Eamonn Clarke]

Cheers, guys. Glad the detour into American comics hasn’t gone down too badly.
Some more Slaine coming up next week

[Eamonn Clarke]

Jordan Thomas joins the book club to discuss Demon Killer and the writing of Pat Mills and Glenn Fabry's artwork. And check out Jordan's own comics at https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/burntbarncomics/created

In your podcast app or on the website at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2021/11/169-demon-killer.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

Two Glenn Fabry grail pages for Jordan

[Eamonn Clarke]

Brian Doob from the British Invaders podcast takes me on an interesting tangent into a nice collection from Diana comic of Steed and Mrs Peel stories from the early 1960s.
In your podcast app or on the website at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2021/11/170-avengers-in-diana-comic_09202784.html