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

[Eamonn Clarke]

Peter Duncan from the Sector 13 fanzine takes me through the future sport thrills and spills of Mean Arena.

In your new year pod catcher or at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2021/01/141-mean-arena.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

That John Richardson opening page of the Mean Arena grail page for Peter Duncan

[Eamonn Clarke]

Damian Edwardson from ArtNineTwo discusses the Steve Dillon Memorial sketchbook in aid of the Hero Initiative. We also talk about the IDW Deviations issue based on Cry of the Werewolf by John McCrea.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2021/01/142-steve-dillon.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

One of Damian's grail pages

[Eamonn Clarke]

Script droid James Peaty takes the book club to Gotham as we consider Wagner, Grant and Breyfogle's run on Detective Comics. We also talk about the challenges of continuity and the differences between writing for recognisable characters and your own creations. And we briefly mention James' film work

Listen in your podcast app or at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2021/01/143-detective-comics.html

[Colin YNWA]

Oh great choice. Along side GMozz's run my favourite Batman run and a few bits and bobs aside the only one I own in floppies not digitally - the GMozz run starts with a number of trades.

Looking forward to this one particularly.

[I, Cosh]

One of Damian's grail pages

Beautiful. Can I offer you an alternate page from the Deviations story?

[Eamonn Clarke]

Lovely stuff, mate. Very lucky

[Eamonn Clarke]

One of James' grail pages. An American Batman in London by Norm Breyfogle, coloured by Anthony Tollin.

[sheridan]

One of James' grail pages. An American Batman in London by Norm Breyfogle, coloured by Anthony Tollin.

A very specific angle from St James' Park there - not sure I've ever seen bats though.  Perhaps Bruce brings them with him?

[Eamonn Clarke]

A very specific angle from St James' Park there - not sure I've ever seen bats though.  Perhaps Bruce brings them with him?

Imagine Batman into the Bat-verse, voiced by Nicholas Cage:
"Wherever I go, the bats follow, and the bats ... smell like vengeance."

[JayzusB.Christ]

A very specific angle from St James' Park there - not sure I've ever seen bats though.  Perhaps Bruce brings them with him?

Imagine Batman into the Bat-verse, voiced by Nicholas Cage:
"Wherever I go, the bats follow, and the bats ... smell like vengeance."

Just listened to the podcast today - lovely stuff, especially while getting through boring household (well, boat-hold) jobs.  Also, I've just this minute finished watching Nicolas Cage in Mandy.  Not quite as lovely stuff; my brain is melting

[Colin YNWA]

Hopefully Eamonn doesn't mind me posting his own stuff on his thread?!?

Anyway a couple of recent interview by Jame Peaty with John Wagner and Alan Grant on the time they spent with Bats. As you might imagine one had more to say than the other!

https://eamonn1961.blogspot.com/2021/02/john-wagner-interview.html

https://eamonn1961.blogspot.com/2021/02/alan-grant-interview.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

Beat me to it, Colin. I was going to put those up tomorrow.
Huge thanks to James Peaty for doing the interviews and to Alan and James for permission to publish them on my blog.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Thanks, Colin and Eamonn! I hadn't realised John Wagner was involved in any Batmen outside the Dredd crossovers till I listened to the podcast. Will have a proper listen to the interviews tomorrow.