Word Balloon Comics Podcast

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

10 years ago Chris Roberson and Allison Baker debuted their digital publishing effort Monkeybrain Comics which gave oppurtunities to creators like Christopher Cebella Ibrahim Moustafa and Adam P Knave among others. This is the first chat we had about the imprint. Tommorow, you'll hear pt 2 with a new chat from Allison and Chris looking back on the experiment.

Captain Action was a 60s action figure phenom, that DC licensed for 5 magic issues featuring Gil Kane and Wally Wood art. Ed tells us the story behind the stories.

Tim's latest Comic History is called not all Superman. He's written histories of Wonder Woman, Lois Lane Catwoman, and Betty & Veronica