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.