Sunday, August 3, 2025

Mega City Book Club 300: Top Ten Covers

The book club reaches episode 300, and to celebrate I'm joined by Pete Wells to count down the top ten covers from the first 300 progs as voted for by listeners. There are a couple of surprises along the way and you can view a montage of the top ten covers here. Thank you to everyone who voted, and thank you to everyone for listening, commenting, reviewing, and sharing over the last 300 pods.

You can also see Pete's pages from the Lawman of the Future comic here and here. And the Simon Fraser cover for Prog 1791 here. Please visit Pete's Sensory stories podcast page.

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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Mega City Book Club 299: Lawman of the Future

Dan Stokes joins the book club to discuss the Judge Dredd: Lawman of the Future comic from 1995. What high hopes we all had back then!

Find Dan's own art at Stokesy.art on Instagram.

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Sunday, July 6, 2025

Mega City Book Club 298: Moon

We're in the film club again as Conrad and Peter briefly discuss Marvel's Thunderbolts (no spoilers) before Peter makes the case for Duncan Jones' Moon with full spoilers for this fantastic film.

Find Conrad at SpaceSpinner2000.com and Peter at the Hindsight Hut including his recent interview with Simon Furman.

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Sunday, June 22, 2025

Mega City Book Club 297: The Daleks

Brian Doob returns to discuss a Panini collection of The Daleks strips that ran in TV Century 21 comic in the 1960s. Check out Brian's work on British Invaders and on the BritTrack at Dragon Con.

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Sunday, June 8, 2025

Mega City Book Club 296: Animal Man

Colin Taylor returns to celebrate reaching the top ten of his massive project to cover 100 comic runs that you should read, and in at number 7 is Animal Man. We cover the 26 issue run by Grant Morrison, Chas Troug and Doug Hazlewood, with spectacular covers by Brian Bolland. We do discuss some mild spoilers including for one of the greatest single issue comics of all time, The Coyote Gospel in issue #5.

You can find Colin's list of his top comic runs of all time on the 2000AD forums. Start here for a countdown listing from number 133.

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Sunday, May 25, 2025

Mega City Book Club 295: The Trials of Nasty Tales

The hardest working man in British comics returns, Tony Esmond guides me through the history of underground comics and some of the legal difficulties they encountered in the early 1970s. The Trials of Nasty Tales is a 1973 British anthology comic that covers one of the court cases in madcap detail, and it features an early appearance by Dave Gibbons.

Find Tony at NeverIronAnything.com including our Never Iron Anything episode about Gerald Scarfe, you can buy Tony's own comics at Tribute Press, and listen in to the weekly Awesome Comics Podcast which has recently celebrated 500 episodes.

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Sunday, May 11, 2025

Mega City Book Club 294: Judge Dredd The Movie

Conrad Leiden joins me to discuss the 30th anniversary edition of the adaptation of the Sylvester Stallone Judge Dredd movie. Find Conrad at SpaceSpinner2000.com and BigMegOne.com

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