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

[Colin YNWA]

Every so often I run out of podcasts and double check Mega City Book Club and find episodes from the early days I missed for whatever reason and in doing that recently I found the 'Tour of Duty: The Backlash' episode with Santigo Mayaud. If there was ever an example of why this is such a great podcast this is it.

I love Tour of Duty its possibley my fav ever Dredd epic and have read it a number of times and lavished over it. Still Santigo gave me fresh insight and made me want to jump straight back in and re-examine it.

To coin a phrase "Great stuff".

[Eamonn Clarke]

Cheers, Colin.
I'll let Santiago know you enjoyed it.

[Eamonn Clarke]

James' main grail page by Mike Western is the opening page of HMS Nightshade.
Over on the Battle Fans facebook group John Wagner has confirmed that he will have prints of this coloured by Dan Cornwell available for sale at Lawless.

[Richard S.]

For anyone interested in colour (!) paintings of grandfatherly characters by Mike Western (niche, moi?) then check out my blog post on Mike's watercolour art here...

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

[Eamonn Clarke]

Dan Butcher from the Awesome Comics podcast joins the book club to discuss the first Marshal Law miniseries by Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill.
Check out Dan's work on VanguardComic.com and look out for his new Vyper Kickstarter

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2022/02/178-marshal-law.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

and a great Kevin O'Neill grail page for Dan from the end of issue 1

[Eamonn Clarke]

Political journalist, and upcoming online convention guest, Ian Dunt joins me to discuss the second volume of Brink by Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard.

In your podcasts app or on the website at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2022/03/179-brink-book-2.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

and the cover to the trade is Ian's grail page

[Colin YNWA]

Junkyard flamboyance

What a truly magnificent turn of phrase (used in the Brink episode) to describe what some comics do so well!

[Eamonn Clarke]

Sarah Harris joins me to discuss the history of Misty comic and the latest collection from the Treasury of British Comics.
We also talk about her street art, and the Drawn under the Influence anthology she edited.

In your podcast app or at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2022/03/180-misty-presents-jaume-rumeau.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

Sarah's first Jaume Rumeu grail pick.

[Richard S.]

For all you 'Misty' fans out there...good luck tracking down 'The best of Misty monthly'...it took me about a decade to get all 8 issues

https://boysadventurecomics.blogspot.com/2021/10/best-of-misty-monthly.html

[Eamonn Clarke]

And this is Sarah's favourite Misty cover. If you can identify the artist please let us know.

[Eamonn Clarke]

And if you want to see Sarah's street art check out
https://www.youpayispray.co.uk/

[Eamonn Clarke]

Dave Wynn is back with a powerful indictment of prejudice and bigotry in Portrait of a Mutant by Wagner, Grant & Ezquerra.

In your podcast ap or on the website at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2022/04/181-portrait-of-mutant.html