Word Balloon Comics Podcast

Rob Williams joins us to talk about his plans and POV on J'onn J'onnz , The Martian Manhunter in the new DC series. We also talk about his work at 2000AD and Hist Doctor Who run From Titan. IDW's Chris Ryall talks about his 11 years at the company and his new SCi-Fi action series Onyx. 

Great catching up with Mark Millar who talks comics and film. We talk Chrononauts Jupiter's Circle and Jupiter's Legacy, Kingsmen:The Secret Service, Mark's collaborations with Director Mathew Vaughn, his film consulting work at 21st Century Fox.We compare the Fox filmmakers to the Marvel filmmakers and get his thoughts on the coming Fantastic Four film, and director Josh Trank. Then, Gabe Hardman & Corrina Bechko return to talk about their Image Series Invisible Republic and the Upcoming Shadowline Treasury Edition sized graphic novel, The Crooked Man.  Like our talk last month with Hilary Barta Gabe and Corrina and I do a mini scene missing , talking about recent films we've seen. 

A look at the new direction for Tony Stark when The Secret Wars end. The Former Ultimate Spider-Man team takes over Stark Industries in the Fall, and Wednesday they faced members of the comic book press who had plenty of questions. 

Tim and Steve Seeley talk He-Man, Deadpool vs Thanos, Grayson, Revival, Hoax Hunters & more

Great conversation starting with Crystal Skillman, fresh from the Denver Comic Con where women creators dissatisfied with a Women In Comics History panel made some history by putting together their own panel. Crystal talks about rallying the troops  including such creators as Trina Robbins Amanda Connor Joelle Jones and Marguerite Bennett. It's a great story and I'm glad she joins us to share it. Hilary Barta is back to talk about 2 new books coming out in June. The Sponge Bob Annual from Bongo Comics, and The Garbage Pail Kids from IDW both with a science fiction flair. Finally Brian "Pants" Christman from Comic Geek Speak is back to mshare his experiences iun the audience of Late Show With David Letterman, including last week's final broadcast.  

Comics writer artist and photo journalist Seth Kushner has passed away. We listen back to past interviews from 2012 and 2014 remember him and his contributions to the comics community in his web comics like Schmuck, and his photographs of creators from the golden age to the present. there is a go fund me acct set up for the Kushner family.  http://www.gofundme.com/d8gc2o

New York Playwright Crystal Skillman is back! She and her husband comics writer Fred Van Lente wowed audiences and critics last year with the off-broadway debut of KING KIRBY, the biographical look at Jack Kirby's life. Skillman brings her new play, ANOTHER KIND OF LOVE to Chicago's INFusion Theater company with a month long run at The Chopin Theater 1543 W Division. We talk about the play featuring a grunge rock family group of women reuniting their band for a festival that celebrates the music of their Punk Rock Mother . I'm in  the play as the radio host Crash Murphy, whose festival news bulitens keep the real world moving along as the sisters work out old family issues. We talk about the play, and the curent Geek Theater movement

C2E2 pt 2 w Jimmy Palmiotti Jonathan Hickman Gene Ha Nick Dragotta Gabriel Hardman Corrina Bechko a

00:00-5:50     Intro and show notes   5:51-11:23   Rich Koz, AKA Svengoolie Me-TV's Legendary Horror Movie Host 

Fun first chat with Jim as we talk about the wrap ups to Image's Skullkickers, IDW's Samurai Jack, and Dynamite's Conan/Red Sonja crossover , plus we talk about his new Images series Wayward. 

Playboy's Marc Bernardin talks about his Top Cow series Genius, who's first arc is collected in a trade comming up in June. We talk about Playboy.com's current status as a men's lifestyle site reclaiming the tradition Hef set up with the first issues. Marc has given the site a strong nerd culture voice, including making the Wil Wheaton-Patton Oswaltt coversation the January 2015 playboy interview. We also talk about Marc's podcasting with the Nerdist Writer's Panel and Kevin Smith's Fatman On Batman The Hugo Award Nominations are discussed with auth Rob Salkowtiz. Rob has been a geek industry anaylist since the release of his book omic Con and The business Of Pop Culture. We talk about not only the infighting of geek factions, but how pollitical sites are using the "controversey as red meat to get their bases rilled up. Both left and right wing sites are stirring things up, and from our point of view its bad for all of geekdom.

Gene & I preview his C2E2 panel in a few weeks (which I'll be moderating) , and just talk 

Janelle Asselin (a former editor with DC Comics currently a senior editor at the Geek News site Comics Alliance) is back to talk about her kickstarter campaign for Fresh Romance, a new digital Anthology of romance comic stoires. Asselin is an outspoken advocate for the employemnt of more women comic creators to the extent of starting a regular feature at CA called "Hire this woman" spotlighting emerging new creators. We discuss some of the recent issues that have popped up concerning the female readership and creators of comics. 

ep 541 Brian Buccellato On Sons Of The Devil Batman Injustice Earth-2 & The Black Bat

Ep 540 Declan Shalvey On Injection His New image Book w Warren Eliis & Listener Calls