In Mega City Book Club Ep. 101: Invasion 1984, this guest for the episode is Stephen “Buttonman” Watson, the master of the letters to Tharg database, and he’s picked a marvellous bit of Space Invaders action from the pages of Battle comic… http://britishinvaders.com/megacitybookclub/episodes/episode101.mp3
In Mega City Book Club Ep. 100: The Man From Nowhere, their guest from the very first episode, Simon Belmont is back to discuss the classic adventures of Dan Dare in a collected edition from 1979… http://britishinvaders.com/megacitybookclub/episodes/episode100.mp3
Liam Dempsey from the trek-tastic Spocklight podcast is this episode’s guest on Mega City Book Club. They discuss the controversial history of Action Comic and the runaway success of the lead story, Hook Jaw. We boldly go where no killer great white shark has gone before. You can […]
In Mega City Book Club Ep. 97: Metalzoic, they meet up with Nathan Duck in the bar at Lawless to operate on our brains, and to discuss the weird and the wonderful Metalzoic from Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill. If you want to skip our Kingmaker spoilers than […]
Mega City Book Club have brought Brian Doob back on the podcast to review the Big Finish audio adaptations of two Doctor Who stories by Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons. http://britishinvaders.com/megacitybookclub/episodes/episode96.mp3 They previously reviewed the comics themselves on episode 66. Check out Brian’s other podcasts at British Invaders […]
In Mega City Book Club Ep 95: Robo-Hunter, they meet up with artist Damian Edwardson at the Lawless convention to talk about the funniest robot saga of all time by John Wagner and Ian Gibson. Do check out Damian and Helena’s work at artninetwo.com and on their Facebook […]
Mega City Book Club returns and in this episode Tony Esmond from the Awesome Comics podcast is their guest to discuss some science fiction soccer action by Wagner, Grant, Cornwell, Bulmer and Campbell. Check out Tony’s podcast and the Awesome Comics anthology, and get your own copy of Rok of the […]
It’s another pubcast where Mega City Book Club meet up with Damian Lubanski to chat about 2000AD in some fabulous Polish hardback editions, and then to discuss The Simping Detective by Si Spurrier and Frazer Irving. Check out both Damian and the Southern Contingent on Twitter. http://britishinvaders.com/megacitybookclub/episodes/episode87.mp3
Jamie Beamish joins Mega City Book Club to talk about a journey into modern noir- A History of Violence, by John Wagner and Vince Locke. They also discuss Jamie’s own career as an actor… http://britishinvaders.com/megacitybookclub/episodes/episode85.mp3
Ian Grant joins Mega City Book Club to celebrate a terrific book by the great Carlos Ezquerra and Alan Hebden about their laconic war hero, Major Eazy from Battle comic in the 1970s. Here’s hoping for a new Treasury of British Comics edition in the future. Check out […]
Mega-City Book Club are joined by Paul Goodwin, the man who directed and edited the fabulous 2000AD documentary, Future Shock. They discuss the behind the scenes process of making the film and all of the great extras on the Blu-ray. http://britishinvaders.com/megacitybookclub/episodes/episode72.mp3 Get your copy from Arrow Films, and […]
It’s time for the other half of the SpaceSpiner2000 cross-over as Conrad joins Mega City Book Club for more rampaging giant animal action. Shako is the only bear on the CIA kill list, find out why. And check out Conrad and Fox every week on SpaceSpinner2000. http://britishinvaders.com/megacitybookclub/episodes/episode71.mp3 Get […]
Mega City’s Book Club met up with Julius Howdey in a musical London pub to discuss the second volume of the Mek Files and the subject of artwork collecting. The audio quality is not up to my usual standard (apologies) but the discussion is fun. http://britishinvaders.com/megacitybookclub/episodes/episode63.mp3
Journalist, editor, and podcaster Andrew Harrison joins Mega City Book Club to discuss everybody’s favourite story from the Ro-Busters Disaster Squad, written by Pat Mills and beautifully illustrated by Dave Gibbons. As you will hear it’s a tale that has particular significance for my guest, including the ending […]
Mega City Book Club meet Chris Caira – the man who owns the most famous page in the history of British comics and they chat about his collection and how he met Brian Bolland and acquired some key pages from him. You can check out Chris’s astonishing collection […]
Mega City Book Club investigate the weirdest pregnancy to ever appear in the pages of the Meg and the Prog as Ben Penfold-Marwick joins them from Oz to discuss a comedy classic from our heroes, John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra: http://britishinvaders.com/megacitybookclub/episodes/episode55.mp3
Duncan Nimmo returns to Mega City Book Club and brings along the first parts of Chopper’s history in the prog as they discuss some wonderful story telling and superb artwork by Cam Kennedy: http://britishinvaders.com/megacitybookclub/episodes/episode52.mp3
Mega City Book Club caught up with Phil Lloyd at the Thought Bubble convention to talk about some soaring sports action from the earliest days of the prog. It’s those wonderful Harlem Heroes… http://britishinvaders.com/megacitybookclub/episodes/episode50.mp3
Glen Lees returns to Mega City Book Club to discuss Fiends of the Eastern Front – a classic mash-up of war and horror comics from the early days of the prog. They discuss some great work by Gerry Finley-Day and Carlos Ezquerra and they keep it mostly spoiler […]
Class is in session again as Nathan Duck returns to Mega City Book Club to teach them about space war in 2000AD. Along the way they discuss some great sci-fi novels and we also touch on the Dan Abnett and Henry Flint sequel series. Don your suit and […]
