In the last of my three Thought Bubble episodes I met with Tim Jacobs to talk about some Victorian underworld weirdness from Ian Edginton and D'Israeli as we meet the Pope of crime, Stickleback.
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The pod a week trend continues and nepotism rules in the book club as I invite Jenny Clarke to discuss Halo Jones and the impact it had on her when she read it as a 2000AD newbie in her teens.
As ever Halo Jones is available in multiple formats, including from the 2000AD online store.
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It's another bonus episode for the wonderful 2000AD forum advent calendar organised by our very own not-so-secret Santa, Pete Wells. Here is another collection of Tharg's droids talking about their favourite thing from 40 years of the galaxy's greatest comic.
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I met 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.
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More Fiends action from the voice of Tharg himself, David Bishop. We talk about the original series, his four Fiends of the Eastern Front novels, and his Stalingrad sequel series for the Megazine with Colin MacNeil's.
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Glen Lees returns to the book club with a classic mash-up of war and horror comics from the early days of the prog. We discuss some great work by Gerry Finley-Day and Carlos Ezquerra and we keep it mostly spoiler free.
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Class is in session again as Nathan Duck returns to teach me about space war in 2000AD. Along the way we discuss some great sci-fi novels and we also touch on the Dan Abnett and Henry Flint sequel series. Don your suit and get ready to vape some geeks!
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Simon Belmont joined me on the terrace outside of the London super comic-con to talk about the first volume of Ro-Busters, with some marvellous art by Dave Gibbons, Kevin O'Neill, Ian Kennedy and many more.
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Chris McAuley is my guest to discuss the first volume of Judge Anderson's solo adventures, and to talk about his own site Talking Comics
And you can find more of his reviews on the Sector House 13 blog
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Matt Sharp makes a successful D20 roll to get into the book club and guide me through the intricacies of the Dredd role playing game. He describes the gaming system, and a variety of adventures he has taken part in and run as the games-master. He also talks about some great 2000AD stories which provided background information for his group of 2000AD newbies.
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It's a 2000AD podcasts cross-over event as Conrad Leiden joins me to discuss the very first thrill from Prog one. "His name is Bill Savage, husband to a murdered wife, father to a murdered child, and he will have his vengeance in the year 1999!"
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Roland Ungoed-Thomas joins me to celebrate one of the defining moments in the history of 2000AD and British comics. It's a largely spoiler free discussion of this Slaine classic from Pat Mills and Simon Bisley.
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David Grice returns to the book club with a lovely hardback volume of tales from the Dredd 2012 movie-verse. There is great work from Matt Smith, Arthur Wyatt, Henry Flint, Paul Davidson and Chris Blythe, which builds on the movie and starts to introduce elements of classic Dredd.
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Brian Walsh steps into a run down sink estate version of the book club to discuss a masterclass in hoodie horror by John Smith and the late, great Edmund Bagwell. We try and keep spoilers to a minimum in our discussion of one of 2000AD's greatest scary stories.
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Chris Thompson, the Pop Culture Hound himself, is my guest to discuss the first collection of Rogue Trooper's adventures on Nu-Earth. Check out Chris's impressive roster of comics interviews at PopCultureHound.com
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Keith Richardson, the graphics novel editor at Rebellion, joins me in a London cafe to discuss the latest release from the Treasury of British Comics. It's time to don a Cat costume, grab your claw rope, and take to the rooftops for some great 1970s British comics action.
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It's a welcome return visit for Alex Frith from the Heroes of 2000AD blog as we go undercover in a London pub to discuss the Wally squad and one of the most memorable characters of recent years, Dirty Frank.
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Terry Mack joins me from the southern hemisphere to discuss the mega epic from the middle part of the Chopper saga, Oz. Dredd tackles the Judda, and Supersurf 10 is go!
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Owen Watts follows a 2000AD creator off piste with an Eisner award winning book by Bryan Talbot, a tale of one young woman overcoming a history of abuse through the power of art, the English Lakes, and the kindness of strangers.
Check out the 2000AD forums art competitions here, or on Facebook. And you can check out Owen's own podcasts on Mixcloud.
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Steve Green, the co-director of the upcoming Strontium Dog fanfilm: Search Destroy, brings along the first volume of Johnny Alpha and Wulf's adventures to the book club.
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Brian Doob from the British Invaders science fiction podcast is my guest and he's thought outside the box and chosen two splendid Strontium Dog full cast audios from Big Finish. Check out Brian's new Hooked on Bond podcast.
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I welcome back Pete Wells, the P-WLS covers uncovered droid himself, for his third visit to the book club. And this time he's brought along an absolute stonker of an art book covering Dredd's covers from the first 35 years of 2000AD. It's our longest episode yet with a few audio problems for which my apologies.
Luke Williams, who posts as Seth73 on the ECBT2000AD blog, is my guest to discuss book 4 of Nemesis the Warlock by Pat Mills, Kevin O'Neill and Bryan Talbot with some pretty big spoilers along the way.
Art droid Mark Sexton joins me in that London pub to discuss one of the absolute classics of British comics history, Charley's War by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun.
You can find a full listing of Mark's comics work on is ComicBookDB page. Charley's War is available in ten lovely hardbacks from Titan books.
I took my digital recorder to the 40th anniversary festival in London and played at being a comics journalist. Listen in as some of the creators, staff and fans of 2000AD discuss the highlights of the day and their favourite moments from 40 years of 2000AD.
Adam Murdough from the Comic Geek Speak podcast is my guest to discuss some madcap hilarity from the Moore and Davis droids. Tearaway teens with terrible thermonuclear weapons!
Be prepared for thrill-power galore as I'm joined by David Bishop himself to discuss his history of the first thirty years of the Galaxy's greatest comic, and the new updated version produced with Karl Stock for the 40th birthday.
Check out all of David's other books including his companion guide to Morse and Endeavour on his amazon author page.
And head to the 2000AD shop for your copy of the new version of Thrill-Power Overload.
I've persuaded Duncan Nimmo to take us slightly off topic as we discuss a book by two of Tharg's greatest droids. Listen in for madcap mutants, a terrfying monster, and a British super-hero whose heart is in the right place even though his brain sometimes lags behind.
You can find Duncan's work for Futurequake press here, including his recent Judge Anderson strip.
Steve Longdon is my guest in the book club to discuss some madcap adventures from Mega-City One in The Taxidermist. You can see Steve's Judge Minty commission by Cliff Robinson here, and his PJ Holden piece here.
