Mega City Book Club 204: Brothers of the Blood

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 reflected in his extended family members.

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Mega City Book Club 203: Judge Dredd Vs Aliens: Incubus

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 to discuss what makes a great crossover in comics.

You can read this story in Case Files 36, or in the digital version of the Predator vs Aliens collection. And you can find Graham's Alien story if you can track down a copy of Zarjaz 39.

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Mega City Book Club 202: Terror Behind the Bamboo Curtain

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 talk about early plot reveals, the differences between boys' and girls' comics from the 1970s, handling problematic racial stereotypes, and other difficulties with collecting comics from this period. Note: I did what I could with the background noise on this episode but there are a lot of sirens in London!

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Mega City Book Club 201: Childhood's End

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 for a big character reveal in this story.

This episode was recorded before the sad passing of Alan Grant, stay tuned for a book club tribute to Alan later in the year.

Tune in to Space Spinner 2000 and the Big Meg One wherever you get your podcasts. You can find the Childhood's End story in Psi Files volume 2

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Mega City Book Club 200: Judge Dredd Case Files 5

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 Judge Dredd book to hand to a new reader? Check out Brett's blogging and podcast at CultFaction.com and Apple podcasts.

Buy your copy of Case Files 5 from your local comic or book shop, or from the 2000AD webstore.

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Mega City Book Club 199: Drawn Under the Influence 2

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 community, and is raising money for cancer research UK.

Get your copy from https://duicomic.bigcartel.com/ and if you are interested in submitting a pitch for next year's issue 3 then email duicomic3@gmail.com

And get Tony's comics, including the highly recommended Hidden Figures, from Tribute Press.

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Mega City Book Club 198: Luther Arkwright

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 1970s. The Talbot exhibition continues at the museum until October 2022. Thank you to Emma Stirling-Middleton and Steve Marchant at the Cartoon museum for their help with this episode.

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