Brad Meltzer, The Variant Cover Debate, & Cincy Comicon Podcast Panel

On today's Word Balloon Podcast, Mark Millar (Kingsmen, Kick-Ass Wanted) is back talking about his new Millarworld Comic from Image HUCK, with art by Rafael Albuquerque (American Vampire) . We also talk about various Millarworld comics in film development like Chrononauts Nemesis and others. Mark was on back in June&nbsp;so we focused today on Huck and a few other topics, including his POV on the current comic market.
HALO 5 Guardians debuts this Tuesday, so today we prepresent a 2012 conversation with Steve Downes , who's played the voice of Master Chief since the Halo game was created. We learn about the character's creation and how it's evolved during these many years.&nbsp;
Finally I moderated last month's Fables Writers Panel at the Cincy Comicon. Creator Bill Willingham, Mathew Sturges (Jack Of Fables &amp; Wolf In The Fold) and Chris Roberson (Cinderella) talk about the creation and 150 issiue run of the main series, the sin off books, and many stories thru Fables 13 year run that wrapped up earlier this year.&nbsp;

Word Balloon Podcast Mark Millar Halo's Master Chief Steve Downes & The Fables Writers Panel

The brothers discuss their new Grahic Novel Two Brothers adaptaed from the classic Brazilian Novel by Milton Hatoum ,
We also talk about their collaborations we Matt Fraction and Michael Chabon on Casanova, Mike Mignola on BPRD, and Gerard Way on the Umbrella Academy

Word Balloon Podcast Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon on Two Brothers Casanova and more

First Best Of Enemies&nbsp;co-director Robert Gordon joins us to talk about the hotly engaged debates between intellectual giants Gore Vidal and William F Buckley. The two despised each other and their mutual hatred came out on live television during the 1968 presidential campaign. ABC hosted 10 live debates during the presidential convention season, and the two men sparred of over issues of the day, that still resonate in the political arena. Vidal was coming off his recent publocation of the political satire Myra Breckenridge, featuring a transgendered woman who takes revenge on the Hollywood insiders who screwed up her life when she was a man.Buckley was the leading voice of conservative thinkers&nbsp;. Both thought the others philosophies and ways of life would harm the American culture.&nbsp;The resulting debates were as compelling as any classic boxing match.
Then Lucha Mexico Filmmakers Alex Hammond &amp; Ian Markowicz join us to talk about their excellent entry in this weekend's NYC DOC festival. The film explores the history and traditions of Mexican Wrestling and the Arena Mexico, home to the Lucha Libre telecasts and matches&nbsp;. We see the stories of current wrestlers like Shocker, Blue Demon Jr, Jon Strongman and others.
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Word Balloon Podcast  Filmmakers Robert Gordon Best Of Enemies & Lucha Mexico's Alex Hammond & Ian Markowicz

The title says it all. In his first interview after DC Comics broke the news in their Re-Birth presentation Greg Rucka joins us to talk about the decision to return to DC to write Wonder Woman with alternating artists Liam Sharp and Nicola Scott. The first arc is called Lies and will alternate with a Year One WW story featuring Nicola's art.&nbsp;
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It's been 7 years since Rucka abruptly left DC after just getting started co-creating the new Batwoman with artist JH Williams. Why comeback now, and how does it effect his current output oif craetor owned books and webcomics, like Lazarus, Stumptown Lady Sabre and mosty directly Black Magick which features the co-creator Nicola Scott who's joins Greg on this Wonder Woman Project.&nbsp;
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Greg give us all the answers in this exclusive conversation.&nbsp;

Word Balloon Exclusive The Greg Rucka Debrief Coming Back To DC, Wonder Woman , and the impact on his creator owned books

This is not the Hall H presentation. This was a press invite only session at the Bayfront Hilton after Hall H.&nbsp; A great Q &amp; A featuring The Executive Producers of Star Trek Discovery Bryan Fuller Heather Kadin &amp; Rod Roddenberry and former cast memebers William Shatner Brent Spiner Michael Dorn Scott Bakula &amp; Jeri Ryan.&nbsp;

Word Balloon Podcast SDCC Star Trek 50th Anniversary Press Conference

Ibrahim Moustafa joins us to talk about his new spy series Jaeger, a forgien intrigue digital comic set in the early days of the cold war. The story is available on the Stela App. Download the 1st chapter for free, and check out the preview at the Stela website&nbsp;. We talk about Ibrahim's debut on High Crimes With Chris Sebela, a Monkeybrain digital comic, now available in print from Dark Horse, and his work on DC's Dr fate with Paul Levitz. Plus all this spy talk gives us both a chance to recommend lots of great spy films and books that you may have missed.&nbsp;

Secret Agent Spy Talk With Ibrahim Moustafa creator of Jaeger

A watershed moment in comics. On this 2008 edition of the word balloon podcast, host John Siuntres engages in a friendly debate with writer Robert Kirkman. Yesterday, Kirkman released a video message explaining some of his reasons for leaving Marvel Comics, and becoming a partner at Image Comics. He's decided to focus on his creator owned original books, like Invincible, The Astounding Wolfman , and The Walking Dead. Beyond that the video is a call to arms for fellow creators to focus soley on their original stories, instead of the licesened work from the big 2 comic book companies, Marvel and DC. He explains further, that DC and Marvel should gear their main titles and stories on the younger end of the comic reading audience and should leave more mature stories to smaller publishers. He's calling on the industry as a whole to come together and figure out a new publishing strategy for the entire business. Kirkman came to Word Balloon to expand on some of these ideas.

Word Balloon -The Robert Kirkman Manifesto August 14th 2008

Comedy legend Tony Hendra joins us. You might remember Tony&nbsp;best&nbsp;as Ian Spinal Tap's Cricket bat welding manager , but he has a long history of comedy starting as the writing partner of Monty Python member Graham Chapman. Tony spent years working at national Lampoon as an Editor and&nbsp;writer&nbsp;for the magazine. he co-wrote Lemmings Their stage revue featuring Bill Murray John Belushi Chevy Chase and Gilda Radner, long&nbsp;before&nbsp;their Saturday Night Live TV careers.&nbsp; As a performer, Tony wrote produced and acted in many National Lampoon comedy sketches that debuted on the very popular National Lampoon Radio Hour and later on their Lampoon comedy albums&nbsp;beginning&nbsp;with Radio Diner. Tony played John Lennon in this classic bit Magical Misery Tour.&nbsp; &nbsp; Tony is here to promote the first new Lampoon Comedy Album in 35 years ARE THERE ANY TRIGGERS HERE TONIGHT? We talk about his new comedy group The Final Edition , the&nbsp;beginnings&nbsp;of satirical British comedy when Tony was at Cambridge University with The Pythons, Making The Spinal Tap Film, and so much more.&nbsp;

The Return Of National Lampoon Comedy With Tony Hendra

today's episode is sponsored by&nbsp;eccframes&nbsp;high quality custom frames for your comics, original art, movie posters and more. use "wordballoon" in the promo code to get a discount today.&nbsp; We Welcome Brad Meltzer Back to the show to talk about his latest kids biography I Am Jim Henson drawn by Chris Eliopoulus . Henson was a genius and Brad's biography gets to the heart of his genius in a simple way for kids to relate . Chris's art is amazing and fun to see HIS take on drawing the muppets. This gives Brad and I a chance to do our usualy geek out session, with lots of subjects&nbsp;

Brad Meltzer On Jim Henson and The Muppets

We all know Jason from his great DC Access Video work, and his great podcast Geek History Lesson co-hosted with&nbsp;Ashley Victoria Robinson , but Jason is a hardcore Trek fan like me and we preview the new Trek series, plus the Fox parody The Orville and just have a fun Trek Talk.&nbsp;

Start Trek Discovery Chat With Jason Inman

We dive deep into marvel history with the amazing art team of Zeck and Beatty. You'll hear how they got together and their runs on Captain America, The Punisher, Secret Wars and much more, including the real story behind the creation of Spider-Man's Black Costume&nbsp;

Mike Zeck John Beatty salt lake comic con panel

Phil Proctor played Howard DeVille on Rugrats television and films for 14 years . You'll hear about his adventures in voice over animation, but that's only Phil's recent history&nbsp; He also revolutionized subversive sketch comedy with his co members of The Firesign Theater doing counter culture anti establishment bits long before Monty Python or Cheech and Chong . Their ground breaking style of improvisations first played on live radio then they signed with Columbia &amp; later Rhino Records to create almost 20 albums from the 60s thru the 2000s.&nbsp; Phil has a new autobiography WHERE'S MY FORTUNE COOKIE which documents his adventures living the Hollywood Rock N Roll lifestyle of the 60s-70s with crazy adventures in TV Film and making comedy.&nbsp;

Phil Proctor On The Firesign Theater and The 60's Evolution Of Sketch Comedy

The Legendary Phil Proctor of The Firesign Theater is back to share more stories from his career in films, television, sketch comedy albums and animation voice overs .

Phil has a new podcast of stories from his show biz career- The Proctor Podcast which debuted last friday . He shares encounters with fellow funnymen Harry Anderson and Phil Hartman, working on The Hunt For Red October, The origins of the Firesign Theater on radio and hilarious memories of 60s protesting with Peter Fonda.

Comedian Phil Proctor :His new Podcast-Show Biz Stories & Incredible Encounters

Ten years ago this month George Carlin passed away . His daughter Kelly joins us to talk about her father's incredible career and the release of a new DVD box set the explores the comedian's comedic evolution. From his "Mad Men" clean cut persona in the early 60s, his seven dirty words observational period of the 70s and 80s to his eventual "angry old man" pieces and of the 90s thru the 2000s. 

The set also contains never released material from all the various eras of Carlin's career fom 60s variety shows to 80s tv pilots and live footage from the 2000s of Carlin working out material at comedey clubs.

Kelly is a fellow podcaster and gives us her unique observations of her father's legacy.

The Legacy Of George Carlin-With Kelly Carlin

Great chat with Karl about his new Kickstarter campaign for Section Zero 1959, with Tom Grumett. We learn how he and Tom created the new Superboy (Kon-El) for the Reign Of The Supermen event. plus past art collaborations with George Perez, John Byrne , and finishing a lost Jack Kirby Story for Marvel.

Comic Books Karl Kesel On Section Zero 1959, Creating Superboy A Lost Jack Kirby story and more

Does the world prefer a kinder, gentler Batman, or the grim brooding type. Steve Englehart & Marshall Rogers created the 1970's Batman: Dark Detective arc, which became in part the basis for the 1987 Batman film. 
Word Balloon Podcast Host John Siuntres continues his spring cleaning of the WB podcast archives, and presents this 2005 conversation with writer Steve Englehart.As the new Batman film gets closer, and Ed Brubaker continues to make headlines with his run on Captain America , the tining seemed right to re-post this talk with Englehart who put his mark in the same heroes in the 1970's.First they discuss Englehart and Marshall Rogers signature Batman story Dark Detective: The Laughing Fish and it's 2005 sequel Dark Detective 2 .Then they look at the 1973 Captain America Secret Empire Arc. A controversial story, whose villain appeared to be the then sitting president Richard Nixon.Finally, they talk about Steve's runs on The Defenders, Avengers , creating Night-Man for Malibu comics, and his creator owned character for Eclipse comics, Coyote .

Steve Englehart: On Bats, Caps, Avengers  and The JLA

lots of celeb voices and impersonations make up for this art-less franco clanco scooto

aw yeah 159 random thoughts

After 2 hilarious convention panels, Joe is back to tell more stories of art collaborations with Gil Kane, George Perez, and Dick Giordano. Plus thoughts on Vinnie Colletta and other creators

Comic Book History Legendary Inker Joe Rubenstein stories of the bronze age and a look ahead

Comic Books Eric Powell and the Retrum Of The Goon

Lots of talk about Brian's slate of books. From Superman Action Wal-Mart Batman, Wonder Comics and the Jinxworld books, and thoughts on the films and reactions to Spider-Man Into The Spiderverse and Captain Marvel

Comc Books Bendis Tapes Superman Leviathan Wonder Comics and Jinxworld Talk

The DC scribe is back, with insights on his current run in ACTION COMICS co-writing SUPERMAN with film director Richard Donner, The continued sucsess of the TEEN TITANS, Hal Jordan's new challenges as GREEN LANTERN, "52", Decembers return of THE JUSTICE SOCIETY. and looks back, at the BLADE SPIKE TV series , and INFINITE CRISIS.

ep 019 Geoff Johns, at the corner of the DCU

8 months into Word Balloon's existence  I had my first conversation with Geoff. Fun to look back at this point in his writing career to see where he is today. Lots of "future" easter eggs in this conversation that led to the direction Geoff's career has gone.

Comic Book History Geoff Johns-Live for the first time Jan 2006

So happy to welcome back the Animated Amazon herself! Susan was the driving force behind the fan campaign to get the Cartoon Network JL cast reunited for more new stories. That effort begins with JL co-stars Kevin Conroy (Batman) and George Newbury (Superman) joining Susan in the latest DC Animated film with new actor-characters Elyes Gabel as Starboy , Diana Gurrero as GL-Jessica Cruz, and Daniella Bobadilla as Miss Martian

Comic Book Films Susan Eisenberg Talks Justice League Vs The Fatal Five

Tom King  Hanging Out During Covid19

The Animated Amazon Susan Eisenberg Talks Wonder Woman

The Weekly Pop Culture Audio Podcast Featuring In-Depth One On One Interviews and Discussions From The Entertainment Worlds Of Genre Fiction- Comic Books, Novels, Television, Film, Video Games And More. Created In 2005 By Chicago Radio/TV Host John Siuntres For the full archive of interviews, go to the website wordballoon.com

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