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

[Eamonn Clarke]

Tricky to post grail pages from Crossed without content warnings and spoiers but here is part of Damian's page from Badands.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Another great episode, thanks, Eamonn. Can't have been easy to find a grail page that wouldn't get you an instant ban from the forum.

I liked Crossed a lot. Strip away the horrendous scenes of sexual violence on a massive scale and you're got one of the most engaging and moving stories of human relationships I've seen in comics.

Crossed was partly what made me realise that modern Garth Ennis is no longer the Garth Ennis that wrote Mutant Teddy Bear Dredd. He's not even the same Garth that wrote Preacher - not an Irish bar, cowboy or Christian deity in sight.  This is the new Garth whose creation Alan Moore wanted a crack at, and even he didn't write it as well as Garth did.

[Eamonn Clarke]

Thanks, @JayzusB.Christ

[Eamonn Clarke]

James Knight joins the book club to discuss some Hondo City Law by Robbie Morrison and Frank Quitely, and to talk about some Manga influences on British comics.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2023/09/234-hondo-city-law.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

and here are two Frank Quitely grail pages chosen by James in episode 234.
Bio-tech-body horrors!

[Richard S.]

James Knight joins the book club to discuss some Hondo City Law by Robbie Morrison and Frank Quitely, and to talk about some Manga influences on British comics.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2023/09/234-hondo-city-law.html

Shout outs in this episode for 'Books, Bits & Bobs', 'The Bentall Centre','They walk among us' & Gosh (in its old location) - that's literally my comics childhood encapsulated in one episode! I enjoyed the rest of the chat as well.

[Eamonn Clarke]

Thanks, Richard.

One of James' grail pages disappeared from above, here it is again

[JayzusB.Christ]

Really good stuff yet again.  I wasn't a regular Megazine reader at the time -it was way beyond my price range back then- so I had to catch up on a lot of the Frank Quitely stuff later in life.

Also, I never knew Garth Ennis had been influenced by Blood Meridian!  But yeah, the Wild West and graphic violence, so why not.  And you could easily imagine a lumbering, psychotic pervert like Judge Holden popping up in Preacher, ideally to scalp that gobshite Jesse and leave him bleeding to death in the desert.*  I recently re-read BM and it truly is one of my favourite books ever.

*Well, I can always dream.

[Eamonn Clarke]

Conrad is back! And we chat about the two most recent DC movies with spoiler warnings particularly for The Flash.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2023/09/235-flash-and-blue-beetle.html?

[Eamonn Clarke]

Thanks, Richard.

One of James' grail pages disappeared from above, here it is again

Second time! Maybe there is something about this image that the image content review does not like

[Eamonn Clarke]

John Caro joins me to discuss Martin Barker's history of Action, the comic that blazed the trail for 2000AD.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2023/09/236-action.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

Here are two grail page cover images from Martin Barker's book chosen by John in episode 236. The Hookjaw cover never made it to the newstands?

[Eamonn Clarke]

Slightly late with this update but Tony Esmond rose to the challenge of The Light and Darkness War by Tom Veitch and Cam Kennedy.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2023/10/237-light-and-darkness-war.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

And here are Tony's two grails, one interior and one cover from the Light and Darkness War.

[Eamonn Clarke]

It's a return to the 1970s for the book club as Matthew Ellis introduces me to Tammy and discovers the secrets of the War Orphan farm. Expect multiple escapes and recaptures, lots of worrying head trauma, and the terrors of Ma Thatcher the child snatcher!

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2023/10/238-slaves-of-war-orphan-farm.html