Mega City Book Club
Episodes
229: The Art of Frank Bellamy
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I met up with Richard Sheaf at Lawless to discuss the work of one of his favourite artists. Get your copy of The Art of Frank Bellamy from The Book Pa...
228: Film Club
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Conrad Leiden joins me for a remotely recorded film club in which we briefly cover John Wick 4, and then get onto two of the big summer movies with mi...
227: Sin City
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Luke Aldred is a new addition to the book club, and he takes me through the first volume of Frank Miller's Sin City in which he sees strong parallels ...
226: Battle Action #1
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I met up with Paul Trimble at his Enniskillen Comic Fest to have a quick chat about the first issue of the new Battle Action specials. And then I took...
225: The Bogie Man
03 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John Wagner joined me at the Lawless convention in Bristol for a brief chat about the Bogie Man and the forthcoming collected edition. There is some b...
224: The Flying Gun
20 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I'm delighted to welcome Garth Ennis back to the book club to discuss the fourth Titan collection of Johnny Red by Tom Tully and John Cooper.Get your ...
223: From Hell
06 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pete Wells returns for a record breaking eighth appearance on the book club with a literal monster of a book. Tune in as we tackle From Hell by Alan M...
222: Emerald Isle
22 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie Beamish is back with a classic tale of Dredd in the Emerald Isle by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. Check out the Garth Ennis collection on kindle...
221: Quantum
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Tanner is the editor in chief of Time Bomb Comics and he joins me to discuss Quantum, a new comic you can find on the newsstands. We also talk m...
220: Masters of Comic Book Art
08 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Marriott is the editor of the Battling Britons fanzine which you can find on Amazon. He joins the book club to discuss a 1978 book of comic art...
219: Quantumania and Fury of the Gods
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Conrad Leiden from Space Spinner 2000 joins me to discuss our two most recent movie trips. Spoilers abound for Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania and S...
218: Judge Minty & Search/Destroy
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's film club time as Conrad Leiden and I met up with the co-directors of Judge Minty from 2013 and Search/Destroy from 2016. Steven Sterlacchini and...
217: I am the Law
19 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tharg's very own publicity droid and brand manager Michael Molcher joins me to discuss his book about the genesis of Judge Dredd, and how he reflects ...
216: Elephantmen
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Cowburn becomes a new member of the book club to discuss the career of Richard Starkings and his Elephantmen series with the first volume, Armed ...
215: The Daredevils
26 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Gouldson joins the book club to discuss a golden period for Marvel UK as we go through the 11 issues of The Daredevils magazine from 1983.Check ...
214: Dan Dare vol 2
12 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Hunneysett helps me complete the adventures of Dan Dare in the pages of 2000AD, a project started in the very first episode of this podcas...
213: Leviathan
29 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Crowder joins the book club to discuss a horror classic from Ian Edginton and D'Israeli.Get your copy from the 2000AD store, check out my anno...
212: Hell Drivers and Damnation Alley
22 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Film Club has moved to the Betsey Trotwood pub in London and recruited Alex Frith to discuss Hell Drivers from 1957, and Damnation Alley from 1977...
211: A Trick of the Light
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I'm joined by Samuel George London from the Comics for the Apocalypse podcast to discuss the work of Aly Fell in A Trick of the Light. Check out Aly's...
210: The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
01 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jake Ebeling returns to the book club to help me celebrate the extraordinary life and works of the late Kevin O'Neill.We use the first volume of the L...
209: Dr Mesmer's Revenge
18 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I met up with Simon Belmont at the Thought Bubble convention to talk about British comics and focus on Dr Mesmer's Revenge by Donne Avenell and Carlos...
208: Black Adam & Wakanda Forever
11 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Conrad and I have been to see two more comic book movies, and we talk about them with spoiler details. Please check out Conrad's podcast at SpaceSpinn...
207: Shamballa
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Deadeye joins the book club to discuss Cassandra Anderson's adventures in Shamballa. And we talk about Paul's friendship with the late Alan Grant...
206: Captain Condor
20 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David Robertson from That Comic Smell podcast takes me through a recent release from Hibernia Comics and the life and works of artist Brian Lewis.Chec...
205: The Last American
06 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Luke Williams is back to guide me through the post-apocalyptic landscape of The Last American by Wagner, Grant and McMahon. Get your copy from the 200...
204: Brothers of the Blood
23 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Giles Wright is back with another eclectic selection of Dredd stories. And these tell us a lot about the different aspects of Joe's character as refle...
203: Judge Dredd Vs Aliens: Incubus
09 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Graham Cannon joins me in the Peterborough Close Encounters comic shop to discuss that time when pesky Xenomorphs arrived in Mega-City One. And we get...
202: Terror Behind the Bamboo Curtain
25 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Ellis joins me in a somewhat noisy London box room to discuss an obscure comic from the first 12 issues of Battle Picture Weekly. We get to ta...
201: Childhood's End
11 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Space Spinner 2000 takes us to Mars as Conrad Leiden returns with the further adventures of Judge Anderson from Psi Division. Spoiler alert early on f...
200: Case Files 5
04 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The book club celebrates 200 episodes and invites Brett Summers back to answer a question we posed in episode 13, is Case Files volume 5 the best Judg...
199: Drawn Under the Influence 2
28 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Esmond from the Never Iron Anything podcast joins me to discuss a new small press anthology comic that grew out of the Awesome Comics Podcast com...
198: Luther Arkwright
14 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sheridan Kelly joins me at London's Cartoon museum to discuss Bryan Talbot's Adventures of Luther Arkwright, and a wide variety of releases since the ...
197: Thistlebone 2
07 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I met up with Damian Lubanski in an echoey London dungeon to discuss Thistlebone book 2, the art of Simon Davis, and the subject of folk horror in fil...
196: Bullet
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Stringer joins the book club to introduce me to the DC Thomson comic Bullet and the exploits of its lead character, Fireball. Seek out the Warl...
195: House of Daemon
24 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The demon letterer himself, Jim Campbell, returns to the book club with a Hibernia comics collection of the House of Daemon by John Wagner, Alan Grant...
194: A Tale of Two Mega-Cities
17 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Conrad from Space Spinner 2000 is back for another Mega City film club. And we have to talk about two Judge Dredd movies that, actually, we both quite...
193: Ace Trucking Co.
10 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Hallam is a freelance writer on comics and films. He joins me to discuss the great Ace Trucking Co. by Wagner, Grant and Belardinelli. Track dow...
192: Two Heads
03 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I'm back in the Betsey Trotwood pub with Alex Frith and this time the book club is entirely devoted to a guest project. Alex has created a graphic nov...
191: Battle Action
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Trimble joins me for some bonus Battle Action. We discuss the new hardback collection without any spoilers, and then move on to talk about what m...
190: The Cam Kennedy collection
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Janes is a character designer and story board artist for Aardman animations, and a published Beano artist. He joined me at the Lawless convention...
189: Dredd Vs Death
19 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Giles Richards is a sports journalist, and the Formula One correspondent for the Guardian newspaper. He joins me over a slightly crackly Zoom link to ...
188: King's Reach
12 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's a speedy return for the Don of British comics, Richard Sheaf, as we take a brief time-out from the Lawless convention to discuss John Sanders' me...
187: Lawless Film Club
05 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Conrad from Space Spinner 2000 joined me at the Lawless convention to discuss some recent comic book movies. We also added some post match discussion ...
186: Masters of British Comic Art
29 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Sheaf is a renowned scholar of British comics and publishes a daily blog at boysadventurecomics.blogspot.com He is back in the book club with ...
185: Jaegir
22 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Fisher is back to discuss Jaegir by Gordon Rennie and Simon Coleby. And we get to talk about the idea of expansion stories from the 2000AD univer...
184: Pandora
15 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A bonus episode to talk to Jo Heeley about a new comic called Pandora that launchs at the Lawless convention, and features work from Alan Hebden, Anna...
183: Outcasts
08 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Taylor is known as Colin YNWA on the 2000AD forum. He joins me to discuss the most 2000AD comic that DC ever published. We talk about this less ...
182: Spectrum
24 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Tanner from Time Bomb comics is my guest to discuss an amazing new collaboration with Anderson Entertainment to produce a comic based on the wor...
181: Portrait of a Mutant
10 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Wynn returns with a stone cold classic in the shape of Strontium Dog: Portrait of a Mutant by Alan Grant, John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra. We rea...
180: Misty presents Jaume Rumeu
27 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Harris joins me to talk about the great legacy of Misty comic, and to focus on the latest release from the Treasury of British Comics, the Jaume...
179: Brink book 2
13 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Dunt is an author, a political journalist, and a columnist for the I newspaper. He is also a regular panelist on The Bunker and Oh God, What Now? ...
178: Marshal Law
27 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Butcher from the Awesome Comics podcast joins me to discuss Marshal Law by Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill. Check out Dan's own work at VanguardComic....
177: HMS Nightshade
13 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
James Peaty returns to the book club to complete the Battle & Action miniseries with a look at HMS Nightshade by John Wagner, Mike Western and Ron...
176: The 2000AD Encyclopedia
12 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Montgomery is a writer, journalist and the author of the new 2000AD Encyclopedia. Get your copy from the 2000AD store, and check out Scott's oth...
175: Hellman of Hammer Force
30 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Trimble returns with a classic story from the pages of Action! We discuss Kurt Hellman and the challenges of telling war stories from the German ...
174: Garth Ennis
16 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Garth Ennis is my very special guest to discuss the first Titan collection of Johnny Red from 2011. We also talk about other great stories from Battle...
173: Rage
09 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Conrad from Space Spinner 2000 returns with one of the absolute highpoints of Strontium Dog and 2000AD history. Get your digital copy of the Agency Fi...
172: Raptor
02 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Esmond makes a third visit to the book club with a new masterpiece by Dave McKean. Check out Tony's own podcast at Never Iron Anything, support s...
171: Excalibur
19 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jonny Cannon joins me to discuss Alan Davis' run on Excalibur from the early 1990s. Check out Jonny's own comics at CannonHill comics, and on Twitter....
170: The Avengers in Diana comic
05 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Doob, the host of the British Invaders and Hooked on Bond podcasts, returns to the book club with an interesting choice from a 1960s comic calle...
169: Demon Killer
21 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jordan Thomas joins the book club to discuss the fifth volume of Slaine's adventures and to talk about Pat Mills' writing and Glenn Fabry's artwork in...
168: Born Again
07 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We drift off-piste to cover some American comics as Comicbook Sam joins me to discuss possibly the greatest Daredevil story of them all. Get your copy...
167: Colin MacNeil
24 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's a real pleasure to welcome one of Tharg's greatest art droids to the book club. Colin MacNeil takes me through his illustrious career so fa...
166: Fink Angel Legacy
10 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Giles Wright is back and this time we are investigating the cursed earth craziness of Fink Angel and his son, Ratfink. Content note: this collection d...
165: The Apocalypse War Revisited
26 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Barry Nugent from Geek Syndicate helps me travel back to The Apocalypse War which is fully coloured and available with Block Mania in an Essential vol...
164: The Ultimate Riddle
12 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Stewart from That Comic Smell podcast joins the book club with the third Judge Dredd and Batman crossover from 1995. Check out That Comic Smell on...