Hard Agree Andrew Sumner

A Hard Agree Christmas Carol 2023 (featuring Dave Gibbons, Michael Moorcock, Evangeline Lilly, Olly Smith, Julie Stark, David Leach, Kelly Yates & Will O’Mullane)
 
In this Christmas 2023 charity edition of Hard Agree, Andrew Sumner is joined by eight very special guests from the worlds of comics, movies, TV and theatre: legendary fantasy author Michael Moorcock; BBC presenter & wine expert Olly Smith (BBC’s Saturday Kitchen, Olly Smith’s Home Cocktail Bible); author, actor & MCU star Evangeline Lilly (Lost, The Hobbit, Ant-Man and The Wasp); comic book legend Dave Gibbons (Watchmen, Kingsman, The Originals); West End theatre star Julie Stark (Chess, Les Misérables, We Will Rock You, Sister Act); comics editor & creator David Leach (Psycho Gran, David Leach Conquers the Universe); marketing guru & ComicBooks for Kids UK director Will O’Mullane (Titan Comics) and designer, artist & comics creator Kelly Yates (Amber Atoms, MonstHer, Doctor Who - Kelly also donated our annual Hard Agree Yuletide Players cartoon).
 
A Hard Agree Christmas Carol is the December 2023 edition of Hard Agree’s annual yuletide charity podcast and features Sumner and his guests performing Charles Dickens’ live version of his festive classic A Christmas Carol (in support of Comic Books for Kids).
 
As Sumner says: “ComicBooks for Kids is a wonderful charity founded by Mark Weiss that does amazing work getting comic books into the hands of children in long-term hospital care on both sides of the Atlantic. Myself and Kenric Regan & John Horsley have always admired Dickens’ timeless seasonal message of empathy & civic responsibility, and thought ‘what better way to underline & amplify ComicBooks for Kids’ mission than to return to the words of Charles Dickens himself, the great believer in human society pulling together?’ Please visit their website CB4K.org, please check them out and please do what you can to help.”
 
You can donate to Comic Books for Kids HERE:
https://www.comicbooksforkids.org/donatestart
 
You can check out everything Comic Books for Kids does at these links:
https://CB4K.org
https://www.comicbooksforkids.org/home
https://twitter.com/Comicbooks4kids
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https://www.facebook.com/comicbooksforkids
https://www.instagram.com/cb4kuk/

Sumner welcomes legendary comics artist Brian Bolland (the definitive DC Comics artist, the definitive Judge Dredd artist and the co-creator of Camelot 3000 and Batman: The Killing Joke) to Hard Agree to talk about the great British city of Liverpool (and his recent Batman-in-Liverpool cover for Forbidden Planet); Brian’s 40 years creating the definitive versions of Batman, the Green Lantern Corps, The Flash & Wonder Woman for DC Comics; his creation of Camelot 3000 with Mike W Barr; the early days of Judge Dredd for 2000 AD; working with the great Alan Moore and creating their Batman masterwork The Killing Joke (including a discussion of Grant Morrison’s take on the book and Brian’s definitive, inside-track revelation of what really happens at the climax).Buy Brian’s books:https://forbiddenplanet.com/catalog/?q=brian%20bolland&page=1


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Transcript
HA – Brian Bolland Interview

[00:00:00] Brian Bolland: For this special occasion, I bought
Sumner: this kind of store that’s.
That is, that is brilliant because you can see me and why wouldn’t you want to see me and be
Brian Bolland: the last conversation? You know, I was doing this because there was like a box on the
Sumner: screen that was covering, this was about

Sumner welcomes Spoilerverse founders, John Horsley & Kenric Regan, to Hard Agree for a deep dive on the classic 1966 Batman TV show and the huge impact it had on his life. Well, that’s how their conversation starts and ends but, along the way, they detour into how Kenric & John met John Wesley Shipp, the brilliance of David Caruso, NYPD Blue, Sumner’s hugely-influential grandfather Pops Smythe, Sumner’s best-in-the-business Comic-Con booth crew, James Cucciara’s Stylin Online, gentleman actorPeter Scolari, gentleman super-agent Barry Greenberg, the one and only Adam West, the three faces of 1960s Catwoman (Julie Newmar, Lee Meriweather & Eartha Kitt), Zsa Zsa Gabor and Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman!


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John Horsley:
http://twitter.com/y2cl
http://instagram.com/y2cl/
http://y2cl.net
http://eynesanthology.com
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Sumner welcomes his old pal (and the three biggest names in noir fiction) – multi-award-winning crime writer Max Allan Collins – to Hard Agree, to discuss Max’s wildly successful career creating long-running series characters like Nathan Heller & Nolan, their work together on Max’s completion of the outstanding adventures of Mickey Spillane’s two-fisted PI hero Mike Hammer, Max’s writing style & working practice, Max’s adventures writing movie tie-in novels, the influence of music over both their lives and Max’s legendary all-star Comic-Con garage band Seduction of the Innocent!



Follow Max online:http://facebook.com/maxallancollinsofficialhttp://twitter.com/maxallancollinshttp://maxallancollins.com/blog/



Buy Max’s books:http://www.maxallancollins.com/books/


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HA – Max Allen Collins Interview
[00:00:00] Sumner: Here we go, that’s it. So we don’t have to worry about how we look on camera though. You look great mate, because it’s just going to be the audio. So we don’t have to be out our usual, you know, um, uh, Sinatra, Martin standard of male beauty for this apiece.
Max Allen Collins: It’s audio sparkle, not video spark.
Sumner: Yeah, exactly.
That’s exactly right. Yeah. Spot on mate. Um, yeah,

Sumner welcomes The Boys creator Garth Ennis (creator of Preacher, Hitman, The Punisher and Crossed) to Hard Agree to talk about Garth’s latest comics projects – Jimmy’s Little Bastards and Marjorie Finnegan: Temporal Criminal – before exploring their mutual love of war comics, war movies and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood!



Buy Garth’s books:https://forbiddenplanet.com/catalog/?q=garth%20ennis&sort=relevance&page=1


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Hard Agree – Garth Ennis Interview
 
[00:00:00] Sumner: Yeah. That’s that’s that gun right there. And what he’s done is he’s walked throughout the land. Brilliantly coming, crosses the, the affable side of the rule in class, getting everybody to call him by his first name, embracing that and acting the lovable buffoon. But actually he is truly, truly fucking dangerous to me.
Garth Ennis: He’s a nasty piece of work. I remember after the coalition ended, one of the two liberal members of Cameron’s cabinet, not the leader of the liberals, but the other one said that when he was, he was asked was asked about the Tories and what it was like to serve alongside of this particular generation of stories.
And he said, you, he said, you could take David Cameron as an example, but really it doesn’t matter which one. He said that individually they’re quite charming, but collectively they&#8

Sumner welcomes incomparable British super-artist, co-creator of Watchmen, Martha Washington, Rogue Trooper & Kingsman – the one and only Dave Gibbons – to Hard Agree, for a freewheeling chat about Dave’s career (from the early days until now) and their mutual love of comics, with plenty of stops/detours along the way, digging into comics history & celebrating the industry titans who inspired (and continue to inspire) Dave!


Find Dave online:https://twitter.com/davegibbons90
Buy Dave’s books:https://forbiddenplanet.com/catalog/?q=dave%20gibbons&page=1
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“Golden – The Hard Agree Theme” written and recorded for the podcast by DENIO Follow DENIO on Social Media:http://facebook.com/denioband/http://soundcloud.com/denioband/http://twitter.com/denioband/http://instagram.com/denioband/
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Kenric Regan:http://twitter.com/XKenricX
John Horsley:http://twitter.com/y2clhttp://instagram.com/y2cl/http://y2cl.nethttp://eynesanthology.com
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Hard Agree – Dave Gibbons Cut Interview
 
[00:00:00] Dave Gibbons: Andrew asked me anything, basically it’s the best I’m sure. I’m sure. I’m sure I can still bat it away into the long
Sumner: grass. Well, I’ll do a little bit of an intro. Do a preamble intro. You know, we’ll do a little bit of an intro now. So I I’m privileged to be joined by none of them, Dave Gibbons. How are you, mate?
I’m very well. Andrew, how are you? Yeah, very well. We were just talking off camera about the about the whole the whole scenario with the pandemic. And I’m pleased to see that you were forging ahead through that
Dave Gibbons: mate. I am. I am. And I have had my job as I’m a respected elder citizen, and I’m very relieved to have it, to have had it.
And I I urge all your listeners to get thei