Word Balloon Comics Podcast

From 2006 What a pleasure talking to the man behind great satire and action like American Flagg, Time 2, The Shadow, The Blackhawks, and Cody Starbuck .You'll hear about his current projects like BITE CLUB, BLADE, GUY GARDNER, JLA CLASSIFIED, along with a look back at his work on STAR WARS , BLACK KISS, AMERICAN CENTURY , his television work on THE FLASH, VIPER, and MUTANT X .We'll discuss Chaykin's view of Television, from the shows he loves to what Hollywood is looking for from writers these days. Between us, we'll throw in enough obscure ancient pop culture references that would make Dennis Miller call his grandfather to confirm.As a lifelong fan of his writing and art, Howard is my kind of people.

A Flashback episode from 2006. Kurt Busiek talked about his plans to reboot Aquaman, his "Up Up and Away" Superman post Infinite Crisis arc co-written with Geoff Johns, his Wildstorm WW1 fantasy series Arrowsmith, and gets into the nitty gritty of Astro City

FROM 2006...THE POPULAR DC WRITER ANSWERS QUESTIONS FROM FANS ABOUT BEHIND THE SCENES FACTS ON BOOKS LIKE BIRDS OF PREY, AND SECRET SIX, HER INTEREST IN WRITING OTHER FAN FAVORITE PROJECTS, AND LOOKS AHEAD TO BOOKS LIKE THE ALL NEW ATOM AND GEN 13. GAIL RESPONDS TO QUESTIONS ABOUT HER WRITING STYLE, HER INFAMOUS ESSAY ON THE 90'S PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN IN COMICS "WOMEN IN REFRIGERATORS" , AND HER CONTINUING SPITBALL FEUD WITH BRIAN BENDIS. YOU'LL ALSO LEARN THE ONE BIRDS OF PREY STORY IDEA DC WOULD NEVER LET GAIL USE... IT'S A DOOZY!

From 2020's Baltimore Comic Con. an epic discussion about Jack Kirby's Fourth World-New Gods saga. Moderator Robert Meyer Burnett talks about Darksied Mister Miracle The Female Furies and more with Fourth World writers Tom King and Cecil Castellucci

The title says it all from Baltimore Comic Con 2020 Brian interviews Gerry about his career.

On this 2012 episode of Word Balloon, Amanda Conner joins us to talk about her Before Watchmen series Silk Spectre co-written and drawn by Darwyn Cooke. We also talk about Amanda's work on DC's digital Anme Comic Girls Wonder Woman.

Roy Thomas, Jim Starlin, Ron Lim and Joe Rubinstein talk about the infinity gauntlet Thanos and Captain Mar-Vel

In our first 2005 WB conversation, Jeph and I spoke on his car phone, while he made his daily commute from his home to the studios of ABC's LOST . The travelouge nature of our talks continued in this chat, which starts in the cab ride from Wonder-Con, To The SF airport, and finally wraps up at stately Loeb Manor, and his new office digs at HEROES. In part 1, Jeph gives us the background behind his Wolverine run, and his involvemnt in Civil War, which led to the creation of FALLEN SON, THE DEATH OF CAPT AMERICAThen we wrap things up with the writer of many Marvel Comics and The Co-Executive Producer of NBC's Heroes. We discuss the Buffy Season 8 comic book from dark Horse and jeph's eventual association with the series. We also get into a detailed debate about the amount of publisher wide events that DC and Marvel are serving non-stop to their readers. Finally we wrap up with an insider's view of the breakout hit tv series of this season, Heroes

Sure, the thermometer was in the mid 20's all day in Chicago , but through the magic of wordballoon, I spent a good chunk of wed morning in 80 degree Los Angeles traffic, talking with writer Jeph Loeb on his sunny commute to his new gig, as a supervising producer on ABC's hit series, LOST. Jeph gives an amazingly funny and frank interview on his TV writing on Smallville , DC Comics like Superman-Batman, Batman-HUSH, behind the scenes comments on the Buffy animation series, his upcoming run on The Ultimates, and how the memory of his son Sam motivates his writing.

Henry took over the classic sports soap opera July 11th. What's in store ffor miford high school's student athletes ? Joining me is Chicago sports talk host and Gil Thorpe enthusiast Mike Murphy of ESPN

Plus The Boys season 3 wrap up review and the latest Orville

we discuss their past collaborations and solo work