Saturday, January 27, 2024

Mega City Book Club 248: The Marvels and Aquaman 2

Conrad and I have been back to the movies to see two recent comic book movies and we chat about them with minor spoilers both above and below the waves! SpaceSpinner2000 will return very soon so please subscribe, like and follow.

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Saturday, January 20, 2024

Mega City Book Club 247: Hewligan's Haircut

Be careful when choosing a new hairstyle just in case you end up causing a madcap reality storm as detailed in a wonderful collaboration between Peter Milligan and Jamie Hewlett. 2000AD writer James Peaty returns to the book club to discuss a classic from the late 1980s. Get your copy from the 2000AD store.  And check out James' work on Amazon, at 2000AD, and on the Writers on Film podcast with John Bleasdale.

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Sunday, January 7, 2024

Mega City Book Club 246: Helltrekkers

Peter Adamson from Where Eagles Dare is back to accompany me on a Helltrek through the Cursed Earth. Watch out for dinosaurs, acid rain, lava, and mutant mayhem along the way! Get your copy from the 2000AD store, join the Where Eagles Dare Facebook group, or follow them on Threads.

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Sunday, December 24, 2023

Mega City Book Club 245: Death's Head

David Nolan is a new member of the book club. He helps me finish a discussion started in episode 243 with the continuing adventures of a Freelance Peacekeeping Agent in his own series. Just don't call him Bounty Hunter, yes?

Find David's book about Argentine football on his Amazon page as well as his Dublin crime novels featuring Tommy Conlan.

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Saturday, December 16, 2023

Mega City Book Club 244: Petrol Head

Rob Williams is well known for his wonderful writing for 2000AD, Marvel, DC and Doctor Who comics, and now is the co-creator with Pye Parr of a great new comic called Petrol Head. We chat about the classic Alan Moore and Alan Davis run on Captain Britain and discuss the unstoppable and terrifying Fury. Then Rob tells me all about the plans for Petrol Head going future, jump onboard with issues 1 and 2 now.

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Saturday, December 9, 2023

Mega City Book Club 243: Transformers

I met up with Michael Crowder at the Thought Bubble convention to tick off another British comic cunningly disguised as a giant robot. And we discuss some great work by Simon Furman, Geoff Senior, Jeff Anderson, Bryan Hitch, Ron Smith and more. Snap up those Titan trades while you still can.

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Saturday, December 2, 2023

Mega City Book Club 242: Hardware and The Valley of Gwangi


Luke Williams joins the film club to discuss the first ever feature based on a 2000AD storyline, and then to take us to a hidden valley in a movie that Uncle Pat must have seen at some point. Conrad will return in SpaceSpinner 2000 soon, and check out Luke's writings at ECBT2000AD, Comic Scene, and Down the Tubes.

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