Caped Crusader Talk With Ed Brubaker

Batman The Brave and Bold Tucker and Jelenic

From 2010 a great chat with Brave and Bold Producers James Tucker and Michael Jelenic 

This weekend at Terrificon, I'll have a chat with...

Jordan Blum and Scott Koblish talk Minor Threats and The Big Takedown

trek watch and spider-man reviews

Alex Ross: Marvel in Another Dimension Pt 2

In part 2 we discuss Steve Darnall’s new prose novelization of Alex and Kurt Busiek’s landmark series Marvels, along with Jack Kirby and the Fantastic...

Alex Ross: Marvel in Another Dimension Pt 1

In this special two-part conversation, Alex joins me to discuss his brand-new graphic novel, Marvel Dimensions, written and fully illustrated by Alex...

The Toys and Docs That Made Us Brian Volk Weiss

Brian Volk Weiss of The Nacelle Company discusses his seminal Netflix series The Toys That Made us, now in the midst of a Kickstarter Campain for a 2...

Judd Winick pt 2 Batman Catwoman DC Events and More

In Part Two, Judd Winick explains how he parlayed his fame from MTV’s The Real World into a meeting with editor Bob Schreck and an invitation to write...

Judd Winick pt 1 Marvel MTV and a new Hilo Holiday book

Judd is back with a new Hilo Holiday special coming in October. We talk about his run on Marvel's Exiles, and his early days breaking into comics with...

Gerry Duggan Star Trek Wonder-Man X-Men and More

SDCC News Recap Star Trek Strange New Worlds season 4 ep 1 reviews

The title says it all

Scott Snyder The Origin Of Absolute Batman pt 2

pt 2 of our talk where Scott took fan questions. 

Scott Snyder The Origin Of Absolute Batman pt 1

From 2025 Scott lays out the origins of the  DC Absolute Universe 

Tom King Dave Gibbons In Conversation

Tom King and Dave Gibbons share storytelling tips. 

Sidestepping Bond Scene Missing

In 1964 Sean Connery, fresh off of the first 2 James bond films made 3 films, including Goldfinger.

But before the 3rd Bond film shocked...

steve ditko documentary preview

Eoin McAuley of Tasqart Academy in Dublin is making a documentary that will dispell many myths about the man who co-created dr strange and spider-man,...

Michael Stradford's Comic Tribute To Grindhouse Movies

Grindhouse Comics Presents Raine is a kickstarter coming in mid August. It's 200 plus pages will feature a 92 page lead story about the title charcter...

Morgan Hampton Green Lantern Corps and More

Morgan Hampton takes us from his beginings breaking into DC with the Milestone writers program, and writing a Cyborg mini series before coming on the...

The Odyssey X-Men 97 reviews

Comic TV and Movie Talk with COMIC POP's Sal Crivelli pt 2

more talk about comics tv movies and more with sal crivelli of comic pop.

note-this was recorded before the news broke about stephen wack...

Comic TV and Movie Talk with COMIC POP's Sal Crivelli pt 1

Sal, of The COMIC POP youtube channel joins me to take stock of comics tv and films.

We talk about- The rise of DC Supergirl and Spider N...

How Stephen Wacker Thinks About Comics

Big news out of Marvel Comics today: Stephen Wacker has been named the company's new Editor-in-Chief. Given all the executive changes Marvel has gone...

Russ Braun The Boys Batman and learning from Comic Masters

Of course we discus Russ working ion the boys with Garth Ennis, and other war comics, but did you now he pencilled the first Batman story about the ve...

Christopher Irving Comics History and Joe Unknown

Chris si back to promote a new kickstarter coming in August about Joe Unknown, the adventures of a comic book horror host after hours ( Think a cross...

x-men 97 and other reviews

we discuss the first 4 eps of the new season plus other comics tv film and more

Rodney Barnes On Blacula Comics Streaming and More

Some great Rodney Barne Word Balloon segments presenting a wide-ranging conversation that spans comics, television, and film history. We kick things o...

Splash Pages Superman Spider-Man Crossovers

Tuesday, I guested on the Splash Pages Podcast, where they interviewed me about podcasting, but also we talked about favorite convention moments, and...

Neil Sabatino Talks Open Caskets

Neil Sabatino joins Word Balloon to talk about Open Caskets, a darkly funny and deeply surreal graphic novel created with his longtime collaborator Sh...

Bug Wars Supergirl and more with Mahmud Asrar

Asrar talks about his X-men work his Supergirl run during the new 52, Conan runs and his current image series Bug Wars with Jason Aaron. 

Fred Van Lente Luca Pizzari Talk Vampyrates and Trivia

Fred and Luca discuss their blend of Vampires and Pirates That debuts Wednesday from BOOM! Studios . We also play a couple rounds of trivia with Cryst...

Why Are The Big Summer Films Failing

Supergirl, Disclosure Day, Masters Of The Universe. Good studio films but not clicking at the box office. We examine why, and talk about other tv and...

SDCC Preview The Origins Of Comic-Con

The Origins Of Comic-Con With Mathew Klickstein and SDCC CoOriginator Roger Freedman. Roger was one of the original teenagers who help started the sho...

Franco talks Extra Terrestrials

It's a casual hang out with Franco, who's promoting a new YA Sci-Fi Kickstarter for a graphic novel with Jason May 

wb bendis book club daytripper fabio moon

Co-Author Of Daytripper Fabio Moon personally takes us through the book . Brian Bendis and I lead the discussion with the league of Word Balloon liste...

Tomm Coker Talks Undying Love

Tomm discusses his new Kickstarter campaign for a delux edition of the action horror epic Undying Love , and the return of his and Jonathan Hickman's...

Paul Kupperberg Talks Supergirl and new novels

I give a short spoiler free review of the Supergirl film. Plu Paul and I revisit his runs on Supergirl comics and he discusses 2 new novellas . The 19...

Gabriel Hardman Batman GI JOE Rocketeer & Twilight Zone

Gabriel Hardman returns to Word Balloon with a packed lineup of projects that showcase why he's one of comics' best writer-artists.We kick things off...

One On One Ralph Macchio

For more than four decades, Ralph Macchio has been one of the guiding hands behind some of Marvel Comics' greatest stories. Rising from an editorial a...

scene missing 1959 on the beach

On this episode of Word Balloon Scene Missing, we're taking a deep dive into one of the most haunting films of the Cold War era, Stanley Kramer's 1959...

good trouble comics with barajas ayden and sankovich

Henry Barajas  (Gil Thorp Comic Strip) has two new comic stories coming in August under the Good Trouble Lable. We discuss them with GT Publisher Andr...