Ape Entertainment's Pulp Adventure series is wrapping up it's first arc, "Flight Of The Pheonix" in January, but this month, you can see the genesis of the Sexy Female Adventurer with the Trade Collection of Her first Onlione Adventures. We discuss her origins and pulp influences with her Creator, Artist Steve Bryant.

Check it out, and find out why comci creators like Warren Ellis Mark Schultz, and Tim Bradstreet love this book too!

The DC/Marvel/Wildstorm writer talks about his comic books, like Iron Man Captian America Casualties Of War, Union Jack, Stormwatch, and more, plus he and host John Siuntres have to bond as fellow Greek countrymen, and figure out which comic pros are also Greek.

We also talk about his transition from screenwriter on TV shows like LAW AND ORDER SVU, and NUMB3RS to comics.

If you've ever been to a DC Nation panel, that seems to be the tone in some fans voices , as they fret over the fate of their favorite comic book heroes .

From killing Sue Dibny and Ted Kord, nearly killing Nightwing, to the new versions of Blue Beetle, Aquaman and The Atom. If they'd get past their anger, they'd realize how much fun it's been reading the comic books.

The executive editor of DC Comics has readers attention and wondering each month, what's going to happen next?

We take a look at Dan's editorial views on why things change, and his plans for DC in 2007.

Steve Ditko created him for Charlton Comics, but writer Denny O'Neil re-defined THE QUESTION. It was a ground breaking 1980's series remebered fondly by the industry's top writers today.

In this march 2006 conversation, Denny talks about the character , and his new novel, HELLTOWN , which gives the backstory of Vic Sage's path which resulted in his adopting THE QUESTION identity.

Die hard Question fans will notice changes to the story as originally depicted in the Charlton and DC comic books, but O'Neil Fans won't be disapointed in the cameos and tone of the novel.

We also discuss Denny's start in the comic book field and his influences learning from editors like Julie Schwartz and Stan Lee.

You might hear some Batman talk in their too, given O'Neil's 30 plus years writing and editing the character.

It's Here! The Final Chapter! Bendis and I go one more round talking about all of his comic books

After 5 twilight hours of answering fan questions Brian and I are tired and losing our grip on reality.

Listen, as John loses his ability to read english!

Hear Bendis, as he shrinks to microscopic size buried under the weight of another word association list, or Paste Pot Pete reference! Will our heroes survive?

How's That for Stan Lee style hyperbole?

Sure, Matt is kicking ass writing comic books like Punisher War Journal and The Immortal Iron Fist (with Ed Brubaker) for Marvel, but are you reading Cassanova? His wigged out action packed, and very disturbing spy series from Image?

How about older books, like the Image graphic novel Five Fists Of Science, the 1899 heroic duo of Mark Twain and Nikolai Tesla Vs the evil of Thomas Edison?

Or the IDW crime classic, LAST OF THE INDPENDENTS?

We cover those, plus throw in enough pop culture talk to make Alex Trebeck weep.

 

Mark's been a DC comics fan forever, and says Adventure Comics #357 was a mind blowing experience. The comic featured a classic Legion Of Superheroes story, The Death Of Ferro Lad, written by teenaged Jim Shooter, and drawn by the legendary Curt Swan. Nowadays, Mark is making Legion history himself, as the writer of Supergirl and The Legion Of Superheroes, drawn by frequent Waid collaborator, Barry Kitson. Mark is also co-writing the weekly DC Comic "52". We get updates on both books, and delve into a bunch of other pop culture topics.

Writers Danny Bilson and Paul Demeo are back to discuss RED MENACE , the new WILDSTORM mini series about a 1950's superhero who unmasks for the anti communist US senate committee, led by Joe McCarthy. The book is co-authored by actor Adam Brody, who plays Seth Cohen on FOX TV's THE OC, and art is provided by the great Jerry Ordway. Billson & Demeo also discuss their run on the DC comic THE FLASH,and the chorus of internet complaints about the shift from Wally West to Bart Allen as the scarlet speedster. For more talk about their work on THE FLASH tv series, and movie work on THE ROCKETEER & TRANCERS, check out my first interview with the guys here http://www.wordballoon.com/files/WBflashguys.mp3

Part 3 of the never ending story contnues, but it's loaded with interesting insights. You'll find out about the workings of the fabled Marvel Retreats , where the elves get together in the hollow tree, and bake the cookies .

We'll also discuss various thoughts on Steve Ditko, the craft of writing, hints at upcoming arcs in new Avengers and Ultimate Spider-man, TRhe current TV and Movie seasons, and who would YOU cast in the JINXWORLD movie?

 

 

Time for part 2 with more talk about Ultimate Spider-Man, New Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Bendis's writing porcess, plus a celeberty story that may rival Brian's encounters with Lou Ferrigno.

Brian Michael Bendis is back to talk about all of his comic book and movie projects.

Taking questions from his Jinxworld.com message board forum, Brian talks about artist Stuart Immomen joining Ultimate Spiderman, What's coming up in New Avengers , along with movie & TV talk, and lots of friendly jabs at fellow Marvel creators like Ed Brubaker, and Robert Kirkman.

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.

A great seasonal chat with Hellboy's real dad, who sets the table for the big red guy's animated debut in the Film Roman production SWORD OF STORMS, premiering Saturday Oct 28th, on the Cartoon Network. The DVD release is expected in February. Mike also talks about Hellboy's beginnings, the upcoming new mini series with Duncan Fedrego, An Abe Sapien mini series, more BPRD and the pulp inspired hero Lobster Johnson. You'll hear about Mike's art influences, collaborating with artists like Guy Davis, Richard Corben, and filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro Also a lengthy tease about HELLBOY 2 , which has just begun pre-production.

Joe gives his views on the current stories and controversies each week in his newsarama weekly Q&A sessions, but in this thoughtful conversation, we talk about the state of Marvel Comics , six years into Joe's reign as Editor In Chief.From his days with Jimmy Palmiotti starting Marvel Knights, through the Bill Jemas era, to today's current regime.We talk about Marvel movies, the MAX comics line, and the editorial philosophies behind rebooting a character, or bringing it back to basics.

WE REPRESENT THIS CONVERSATION WITH DINO, WHO CONTINUES HIS COLLABORATION WITH WRITER HARVEY PEKAR , IN THE NEW AMERICAN SPLENDOR SERIES FROM VERTIGO COMICS.

THE VIRTUOSO UNDERGROUND ARTIST TRACES HIS CAREER FROM HIS DAYS AS AN ASSISTANT WORKING UNDER THE LIKES OF HOWARD
CHAYKIN BILL SIENKEWICZ AND WALTER SIMONSON, TO HIS OWN WORKS LIKE THE VERDICT , THE KEYHOLE SERIES WITH JOSH NEUFELD , HIS EVAN DORKIN TEAM UP ONTHE THING :NIGHT FALLS ON YANCY STREET

AND WE LOOK AT HIS CURRENT SOLO  WORK, SUCH AS  BILLY DOGMA, DEAN'S NOIR ANTI-HERO IN AIM TO DAZZLE AND THE CURRENT IMMORTAL AVAILABLE AT DEAN'S LIVE JOURNAL SITE

http://community.livejournal.com/act_i_vate/

Artist Jeremy Haun gives us the lowdown onThe LEADING MAN from ONI PRESS with writer B Clay Moore, and his upcoming marvel work on IRON MAN CAPTAIN AMERICA-CASUALTIES OF WAR , with LAW AND ORDER writer Christos Gage.

Gather round the campfire, as Uncle Mike tells
us all about his current books, like CROSS
BRONX co-written with Ivan Brandon,
HIGHLANDER , OMEGA FLIGHT , THE MICE
TEMPLAR, POWERS , and more!

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 Televison, 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.

It's been a MARVELOUS year for Jeff Parker, who has worked his way through
the anthology monster book specials, like WHERE MONSTERS DWELL ,and
MARVEL ADVENTURES featuring THE AVENGERS and FANTASTIC FOUR.

Now Jeff calls the shots for AGENTS OF ATLAS, the 50's revival espionage
book, featuring a group of  unlikely heroes reunited to face their greatest
menace .

We'll also discuss Jeff's other Marvel projects, like X-Men First Class , a year
one exploration of the groups original members.

Plus we look at DEAR JOHN , Letters from Alex Toth, published by Jeff's
company, Octopus Press

ATTENTION, The repeating overlapping sound problem has been fixed.

 

We visit with writer Brian Azzarello, to talk about Loveless the Vertigo western he started this year, and his new projects debuting this fall...

A return to the wildstorm charcter deathblow first tackled by brian in a batman crossover story done in 1999 with returning artist lee bermejo. we'll also discuss brian's reboot of Dr 13 in DC's Tales Of The Unexpected, a new monthly he shares with fellow crime writer David Lapham.

Azzarello is at the 3 quarter point in his crime consipracy epic 100 Bullets. so in the second half of the show, we replay our first conversation with Brian, covering the behind the scene facts of the series.

Celebrating Brad's climb to #1 on The NY Times Bestseller list, here's a "book only" version of my conversation with Brad.

 

This summer, Andrew made his mark with the SCI-FI channel's new hit TV show EUREKA . The successful screenwriter is no stranger to comics, as we find out in this informative interview, featuring talk about his Dark Horse series DAMN NATION, plus his continuing work for BOOM! STUDIOS on books like THE SAVAGE BROTHERS, X-ISLE, and THE ENIGMA CIPHER.We'll also get into the behind the scene info on Eureka, and it's chances for coming back next season

a few tech snaufus are keeping me busy this week, so we represent a great conversation with Chris, who does so many comic related things beyond lettering so many of our favorite monthlies.

chris is also the genius behind FRANKLIN RICHARDS, SON OF A GENUIS, which to me is still one of the funniest ideas marvel ever released.

 

 

The writer Of Marvel's Civil War checks in for a conversation about his health, the current status civil war, and the future, as Mark prepares to dive into the podcasting world with his own show.

We'll look at Mark's early years writing for 2000AD, the origin of Civil War, The zombie storyline of Ultimate Fantastic Four, which created its own spin-off series, Marvel Zombies, and tons more.

The San Diego Coverage Of the Moonstone Books Phantom Panel continues, with the audio from the creators Q&A session.

NOTE: We lost the first few seconds of Ben Rabb's opening, as he talked about writing the new graphich novel LEGACY, which is the never before told story of the very first Phantom, and how the Phantom dynasty began.

At the San Diego Comicon, Moonstone books presented a panel revealing their 2006-2007 plans to commemortae the 70th anniversary of The Lee Falk hero THE PHANTOM.The Ghost Who Walks will be presented in a number of stories with varied formats.Moonstone Publisher Joe Gentile Had a full audio visual presentation, in addition to comments made by the writers and artists behind the new projects. We present the sldieshow used at the san diego panel.

A conversation with Scott Hinze, the host of Fanboy Radio . We talk about the show's origin, and then scott and I have a discussion about the two big mainstream events in comics, Dc's "52", and Marvel's "Civil War".

THE MAN BEHIND BOOM GIVES US A TOUR OF HIS TITLES, FEATURING TOP COMIC CREATORS, LIKE KEITH GIFFEN , JOE CASEY, MARK WAID, JM DEMATTIES, CHEE, DAVE JOHNSON, PAIRED WITH NEW COMIC TALENTS LIKE ANDREW COSBY, JOANNA STOKES (pictured next to Ross) , RON LIM AND OTHERS.

WE TALK ABOUT THE CHALLENGE NEW PUBLISHERS FACE , GETTING RETAILERS AND READERS ATTENTION WITH FRESH CONEPTS, AND HOW ROSS BEGGED ARNOLD SCHWARTZENEGGER TO PASS ON A COUPLE OF FAMOUS FILMS.

Best selling author Brad Meltzer gives us the lowdown on his new roster in the Justice League Of America, and the keys behind his new JLA story. We also discuss Brad's new novel, the political thriller, THE BOOK OF FATE, which is available at bookstores Sept 5th. Plus we'll talk about GREEN ARROW THE ARCHER"s QUEST, His WB television series JACK & BOBBY, and the JLA story that started the current events in the DCU, IDENTITY CRISIS.

We wrap up our conversation with crime writer Ed Brubaker, with more talk about his Icon title CRIMINAL, with Sean Phillips on art.

Plus we delve more into the psyche of Captain America, ponder the question "Is Daredevil the smartest guy in the room, or the craziest?", and Ed previews his upcoming collaboration with Matt Fraction, on THE IMMORTAL IRON FIST , filled with world espionage and kung fu action.

For years Ed Brubaker has shown his love for crime comics, by writing some of the genre's best modern stories.

In collected works like SCENE OF THE CRIME with Michael Lark, SLEEPER his first series with Sean Phillips, and collaborating with pals Lark and writer Greg Rucka on the police procedural, GOTHAM CENTRAL.

In Part one of our conversation, Brubaker explains his plans for the new Icon series CRIMINAL, plus we take a look back at SLEEPER, and talk about his current run on CAPTAIN AMERICA.

This was the Word Balloon promo It was made in 2006 after the show was a year old. I'll count the pre libsyn epsiodes as they we're/will be  re-released chronologically. Word Balloon Began May 10th 2005 but was under a different fee. Thta's 14 months before this feed began.