"Mortal Engine[s]" drawing by Philip Reeve, color by Ian McQue

'Ats a propa Freebooter Battlewagon, just needs some more dakka

I don't remember the exact wording, but the strangeness of the opening line about the City of London chasing a small mining town across the dried out bed of the old North Sea has stuck with me -- even though it's been so long that I've forgotten damned near everything else from that book...

I think I read it back around... 2005, maybe? (18 years ago!?)

This is kind of how I imagined the vehicle in The Inverted World by Christopher Priest looked. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/142181

Makes me want to go play Metal Slug.

this is the cutest interpretation of a traction city i've ever seen

it really does look like metal slug