Hickman is back to finish the Q&A session we started earlier this month. More discussion of FF, Secret Warriors SHIELD and the new Plus books Hickman has planned to start coming out from Image later this year, including The Red Wing coming in July.

It's a new edition of APE TALK as Daryl Gregory writer of Boom Studios new Planet Of The Apes Comic series joins us. The new ongoing series is set in thne classic POTA film continuity and has an intersting starting point. Daryl tells us about his plans for the series plus we talk about his other sci-fi/comic book work.

On this episode of Word Balloon we present another chapter of The Bendis Tapes. You'll hear more about Bendis and Mark Bagley's new creator owned series Brilliant, The Death Of Spider Man story in Ultimate Spider Man, spoiler free wrap ups to Ultimate Doom and the first 5 issues of his Icon Series Scarlett, his point one avengers issues plus how his Avenger books will tie into Fear Itself,and result in big line-up changes for the 2 main Avenger teams.

We get a new TV update of Brian's work on The Ultimate Spider Man TV series,Powers, and the Jessica Jones series. Plus Brian takes more listener questions about the craft of writing comics and screenplays.

Jonathan Hickman begins his answers to your questions on FF, SHIELD, SECRET WARRIORS and more! We discuss his upcoming creator owned books , and discuss some recent comic book news.

Hours after the Marvel press releases told readers about a new Captain America issue one coming to coincide with the film's release, Ed Brubaker returns to Word Balloon, to give us the low down on how the book will play off charcters and ideas explored in the film.

Plus Ed's just wrapped up the latest Incognito arc. We discuss the story and the series future. Ed previews the return of Criminal with the new arc Last Of The Innocent, a genre mashup up of Crime, 50's teen comics, and Dr Fredrik Werthan's worst case scenarios of juvenal delenquency leading to adult deviance.

Wrapping up the coverage from this year's con chatting with Nick Spenser (Iron Man 2.0, FEAR ITSELF Secret Avengers)Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunleavy (Comic Book Comics) Jai Nitz (Tron 2.0) Paul Storrie, Jeremy Bastion & Josh Elder