Gerry Conway On The Last Days Of Animal Man

Download the mp3 here Gerry Conway is back writing comics. The man who gave birth to the Punisher and took the life of Spider-Man's first love Gwen Stacy is here to discuss his current DC mini series The Last Days Of Animal Man. We'll talk about his return to comics, and look back at collaborations with artists like Gil Kane, John Romita and Ross Andru.

The Rucka Debrief June 2009

Download The MP3 here Like the espionage characters in his comics and novels Greg Rucka knows how much information to leak, and stay spoiler free in this in depth examination of his work. We discuss the 2 new series debuting today in Detective Comics. Batwoman with art by JH Williams, and The Question with Cully Hammer. Plus a thorough look at the Superman books Action with artist Eddty Barrows and co-writing New World Of Krypton with James Robinson and art from Pete Woods. We also get an update on the new developments in Greg's popular British Spy comic and novel series Queen and Country from Oni Press and Bantam Books.

The Loeb Report Part 1 The Hulk Ultimatum

downlaod the mp3 here Jeph Loeb is back, to talk about Hulk #600 and what the future holds for the Red and Green Goliaths. We also talk about Ultimatum, and get into some in depth discussions about the creation of the classic X-men arc The Age Of Apocalypse, the rebirths of Flash Captain America and more.

Jesse Alexander On NBC's Day One & Sgt Fury

download the mp3 here On this episode of word balloon we talk comics and television with writer/producer Jesse Alexander. Jesse wrote last month's one shot story Shotgun Opera. an untold WW2 adventure of Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos. but the summer television season has begun and cable television reminds us that there's an equal amount of quality dramas this time of year as during the fall and spring. Networks like FX the SciFi channel TNT ABC Family and USA trot out plenty of genre fiction, while the big 5 TV networks struggle to find the next Lost, or Smallville. Fringe made it to season 2. Reaper didn't make it past 2, neither did the Terminator. edged out by Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, it's own future to be determined this fall. Chuck and Heroes are also returning, but on the bubble for NBC. There are few guarantees from over the air networks to drama shows. The potential viewing audience is still larger than the basic cable shows and the budgets are higher, but the network suits patience to grow a loyal and profitable audience is a risky guess. Alexander is a verteran show runner and producer from 3 recent genre shows that made it past the sophmore slump. Alias Lost and Heroes. Jesse was let go from Heroes by NBC execs last winter, but a new regime at The Peacock has given him a green light for a new sci-fi series he's created coming in early 2010, Day One. Some of the show's details are still under wraps,but Jesse gives us an idea of what the show is about, and discusses the chalenges of doing genre fiction in today's network television enviroment. On this episode of word balloon we talk comics and television with writer/producer Jesse Alexander. Jesse wrote last month's one shot story Shotgun Opera. an untold WW2 adventure of Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos. but the summer television season has begun and cable television reminds us that there's an equal amount of quality dramas this time of year as during the fall and spring. Networks like FX the SciFi channel TNT ABC Family and USA trot out plenty of genre fiction, while the big 5 TV networks struggle to find the next Lost, or Smallville. Fringe made it to season 2. Reaper didn't make it past 2, neither did the Terminator. edged out by Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, it's own future to be determined this fall. Chuck and Heroes are also returning, but on the bubble for NBC. There are few guarantees from over the air networks to drama shows. The potential viewing audience is still larger than the basic cable shows and the budgets are higher, but the network suits patience to grow a loyal and profitable audience is a risky guess. Alexander is a verteran show runner and producer from 3 recent genre shows that made it past the sophomore slump. Alias Lost and Heroes. Jesse was let go from Heroes by NBC execs last winter, but a new regime at The Peacock has given him a green light for a new sci-fi series he's created coming in early 2010, Day One. Some of the show's details are still under wraps,but Jesse gives us an idea of what the show is about, and discusses the challenges of doing genre fiction in today's network television enviroment.

Jeff Parker Makes His Agents Of Atlas Shrug

Download The Show from This Link Jeff is back to get us up to date on the Agents Of Atlas, Exiles, and Dark Reign The Hood For Marvel Comics, and his Wildstorm mini series Mysterius, The Unfathomable. We also answer your questions, posted at the Word Balloon Message Board.

Video Test guesting Around Comics

if the sound isn't working, follow this link Testing my Blackberry in the field, here's the few first minutes of the taping of the Around Comics podcast , hosted by Chris Neesman and Tom Katers , joined by fellow Chgo podcasters John Siuntres and DC artist Mike Norton

Brian Wood, A Viking's Life In the DMZ

On this edition of the Word Balloon podcast, writer Brian Wood previews Thursday's release of Northlanders 17. In this self contained story, Wood and artists Vasilis Lolos and Dave McCaig concurrently weave the elements of a fierce blood match, a History channel style commentary of weaponry and warriors, and a plain speaking narrative that showcases the adventure behind epic poetry. The result is a excellent one-shot that defines the qualities of the series and allows the curious to jump in to it's unique excitement . "This story is an overview of as many aspects of Viking warfare as I could fit into a 22 page sword fight...I wanted to slow the pace of the battle...to give it a kinetic Manga style...that's when i could fold in all the technical information, and there's also the story of these two champions in battle...this is where i love working in this format of comics, because you can't really do it anywhere else. If anyone is curious to see what this book is about this a good sample issue. It's no secret that I do a lot of research, but it's with this issue where I have reached the glorious tipping point... where I stopped having to find things in books...but knew the details about weapons I'd need for this story." Wood discusses the challenge of crafting personal stories of the real people of the age, combing the research of epic Norse mythology with his own dramatic suppositions of character motives and plot conclusions. "I've kind of figured that formula out.....the poems aren't always very easy to read. It's like reading Beowulf...reading about them is always more interesting...The next few issues of Northlanders are more stand alone...different voices and a radically different context...the next issue, #18 focuses on the wives of slain Vikings, from their point of view...Who really knows what viking wives were thinking about? They weren't considered in the sagas... the histories are epic poems written centuries later...so I really had to tell their story about not being free to be anything, without being chauvinistic ...and I walked a careful line so i don't offend anybody... that's why this book is so fun for me ...cause in every new arc, I can start over again." We also discuss his other Vertigo series about a young journalist stuck in a near future life in an american civil war, DMZ. Plus, many of his past and future works. Some other quotes from the conversation.... On DMZ... "DMZ was always meant to run a Vertigolength of 70 issues... once I reached that halfway point of 35 it was time to start thinking about the end point...what I'd like to do is a few spin-offs on the side to get to what i want to do in ideas that are non Matty stories...I keep going back to that issue 12 that was written like a magazine, and pulling characters out of that. It took forever for my subconscious to let me know that Matty is like a blogger, with all of their flaws...Not to dis on them, but they're like independent guys like Matty who messes up, and still has to battle the media giants...Ryan Kelly is doing 3 issues of DMZ starting with #42 ...issue 49 is the crazy cliffhanger of the series, which I've been calling The Rise and Fall of Matty Roth ...from 51 to the end it's like the fallout of the events that happen there. " Wood is writing stories for the second volume of Demo with artist Becky Cloonan . "We're on issue 3, but the schedule hasn't been announced yet, so it won't start till at least January 2010. " Any future ideas for The Couriers ? Rob G and I have an agreement that should The Couriers film ever go into production, we'd be fools not to do a sequel. We've read the film script and it's good, but still no director has been attached, so I think it's a way's off." What's planned for more Local with artist Ryan Kelly? "Local is a favorite of mine... I do have an idea in my head...we're doing Demo now which is scratching that sort of itch...I feel like I have to something more with Oni again, because they did such a great job with Local. " Any mainstream/superhero projects in the future? There is something in the works for DC that I'm halfway done writing...I'm actually worried because people are already talking about it online, and i think that some people are gonna be bummed (laughs)...it's an old book that I love...and have been chasing it for the entire 14 years that I've been in the comics business....I'm also the millionth person to have pitched an Inferior Five idea that was rejected. "

Geoff Johns; Welcome To The Middle Of The Film

download the mp3 here Geoff Johns is juggling 3 Epic stories from DC Comics. We talk about all of them. You'll hear behind the scene details of Flash Rebirth, Green Lantern The Blackest Night, and Legion oF 3 Worlds. You'll hear character discssions of all the major players, from the reborn Flash family to the GL Corps, and previews of what's to come in Adventure Comics and Superman : Secret Origin.

Supergirl Unleashed With Igle and Gates

Download The Podcast from here On this edition of The Word balloon podcast, a conversatio with the creative team on Supergirl, Sterling Gates and Jamal Igle. They discuss Supergirl, from the recent reveal that Lucy Lane is the new Superwoman, to the death of Zor-El, and the fallout from New Krypton. There's plenty of chracter dissections of Lana Lang, Allura Cat Grant and Kara Zor-El herself, and their views on where all these strong women fit, in this corner of the DC Superverse. Some quotes from the conversation... On Lucy Lane/Superwoman's role as Kara's new enemy. Gates: "I wanted a villain that can act as a Lex Luthor type...when New Krypton was told to me, I thought it was a master stroke on Geoff (Johns) and James(Robinson's) part having General Lane be the main bad guy...what great drama you get having Lois's family be against the Superman family?...There's some more crazy stuff coming up with Superwoman." On the character designs for the leading women in the series.. Igle: When It comes to Supergirl the very first conversation I had with Matt Idelson He said, 'I don't want to see Supergirl's panties again,' and I agreed ...I think there should be a coy sexiness about her but I don't think it should be as overt as it's been drawn...it just didn't fit my image of what a teenaged Supergirl is supposed to be...she's Superman's cousin, and should be, even by default, sort of a role model to young girls..." (For Lana's Asian influenced outfits) My wife Corrine works in the fashion industry for a company that does a lot of photo touch ups for Vouge, Cosmo, Louis Viton... so I get to see all these fashion materials... I was thinking more in terms of something a little eclectic but business like...with Cat, it's all Victoria Secret and Fredrick's of Holywood...the sluttiest dresses I can find (laughs)." Gates: "I guess that means write more Cat Grant scenes." On The Death of Zor El Gates: "Going in, Geoff and James really said we need to upset things. This can't ne a predictable Superman story and I think the death of Zor El made New Krypton completley unpredictable, because you realize, 'holy crap, no one is safe.' Igle: With Supergirl 36, I think that was one of the highlights for me working on the book ...when I was a teenager I lost a friend to gun violence so I was able to channel all of those feelings in that opening scene. Gates: .(Kara) doesn't get to (Zor) for nine pages,and she doesn't have powers, and is running across an open battlefield to get to him before he dies, to either save his life or talk to him one last time.....I lost my father when I was 17 not to violence but a massive heart attack...in those moments when Supergirl is holding Zor-El , and he's says 'I'm proud of you.', that was something as I held my father, I wanted him to say,and he couldn't. He was already gone Given the scene in the Origins and Omens of Lana Lang spitting up some blood how's her future looking? "Lana Lang has her own set of problems coming up that we won't come to a head until Supergirl 47." On Kara's new civilian identity as Lana's niece... Gates: "Linda Lang is not going away...it kinda got side tracked with all the New Krypton stuff...I was happy to see Linda Lang appear in Superman Batman...as long as it happens elsewhere in the DCU, it's a real thing...We're going to do a story about her in the Supergirl Annual ...that's tenatively called Linda Lang Day One."

Comic Book tatoo's Rantz Hosley

download the mp3 here The editor Of the critically acclaimed Image anthology of comic stories based on the songs of Tori Amos, Rantz Hosley stops by to talk about the book. We discuss how he and Tori got together on the project, wrangling all the artist and writer talent to put the book together, and gives his views and cautionary tales of self publishing in today's comics market.

Kevin O'Neil, An Extraordinary Gentleman

download the show from here On this edition of the Word Balloon podcast, we present a conversation with artist Kevin O'Neil, to discuss this month's release of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol III): Century #1 ("1910") drawn by O'Neil and written by Alan Moore. Kevin discusses the background of the story, and his views on past characters like Mister Hyde Mina Murray, the mysterious Orlando, and the Family line of Captain Nemo. His thoughts on the LXG film, and the origins and future plans of his co-creation with Pat Mills, Marshal Law . The interview does cover plot points and setting that have been discussed in other preview articles and reviews of the book, so beware. Her are some non spoiler quotes from the talk... On the inclusion of Nemo's daughter in the 1910 League. "She occupies a great part of the story, and we will follow her in later books." On the process of putting the literary cameos and pop culture easter eggs in a subtle way. "We just have to tread a careful line as to how we populate the book.. as we proceed with incredible numbers of different characters in street scenes and backgrounds or newspaper headlines ...it's a lot of work, but we realize we have these Jess Nevins books analyze every single panel and we know a lot of people who like that it...however if you don't know the references, it won't spoil the enjoyment of the story, it's just another layer of fictional stuff going on alongside the main story." On the creation of Marshall Law, and could such a story be told today? "I scribbled out an idea of the name, and rough character sketch for Marshall Law and sent we sent it as a "Mad Max" type of thing for Epic to Archie Goodwin. Archie had warned us that Marvel will take a hell of a longtime to do creator contracts...it ended up taking a year , during which Dark Knight and Watchemen were released...during the interim Pat said 'Why don't we do Marshall Law as a super hero hunter I said 'well don't you mean super-vilians?' and Pat said , 'No superheroes, I hate them." (laughing) I felt the energy of that loathing, and that's what we did...Chris Staros did the first ever 1987 review of Marshal Law in his pre internet era Staros Report... cut to us doing League for Top Shelf . Chris asked who owned the rights to Marshal Law, and I told we did (Pat Mills & O'Neil). op Shelf will do a big slipcase edition of Marshal Law featuring every story appearance of the character to be released hopefully later this year...and now reviewing the stuff for the Top Shelf collection I'm surpirised at how strong it was and how far it went becuase i think it would be harder to get that material passed today."

View From The Floor At The FX Con Pt 2

Download the mp3 here More of Word Balloon's audio coverage from the floor of April's FX International convention in Orlando .Featuring one on one talks with Olivier Coipel (THOR, HOUSE OF M) , Matt Kindt (PISTOL WHIP, SUPER SPY), Tony Bedard (REBELS) Chuck Dixon (GI JOE, The Simpsons), Steve Rude (NEXUS), and Arthur Suydam (MARVEL ZOMBIES, CHOLLY & FLYTRAP). Here are some quotes and tidbits from the conversations... Expect The announcement of what's next for Coipel and Marvel during this summer's con season. Matt Kindt's new OGN 3-Story The Secret History of the Giant Man will be out from Dark Horse ."It's a weird story that takes place in the 40's,50's and 60's with the narrative from the POV of his Mother, His Wife, and his daughter." Tony Bedard on REBELS: "I think we've had enough with stories that are so intertwined, they never get a chance develop their own personality. We want to give these characters a chance to develop on their own terms and give them their own corner of the DC universe to play with...it's one of those books where you really don't know who will survive in a given issue...Vryl Dox wants to do good, but6 he doesn't mind if you. die in the process." Chuck Dixon is taking over chronicling the tales of "The Man With No Name" in the soon to be retitled The Good, The Bad & The Ugly from Dynamite. Steve Rude: Lots of Nexus Product Nexus The Origin: Remastered , "Nexus: As it Happened Volume 1" a black and white Archive, and the long-awaited conclusion of Nexus: Space Opera due out in July. Arthur Suydam: For Radical Working on Hercules Aladdin and Shrapnel they're also releasing Cholly and Flytrap Center City featuring Suydam's post apocalyptic sci-fi duo . It comes out in June.

Dan Slott 2 Part Interview

On this edition of The Word Balloon podcast, we present a 2 part conversation with Dan Slott. In part 1 Dan discusses the current events in Amazing Spider-Man. On Amazing #600 and the return of Doctor Octopus "One of the things we wanted to do was take the villains off the board for awhile so when they come back it's big...John Romita Jr and I get to tell this 60 page story...We're building towards season 2 of Spidey which begins after we wrap up some stuff in issue #600." On the mysterious background of Mister Negative "I can't wait fir people to know more about him...I gave Fred Van Lente some big for his upcoming Mister Negative mini series...but there's more coming including ties to previously established spider-man characters. Let's leave it at that. " Download Part 1 here In part 2 Dan talks about the events in Mighty Avengers, from the revelation that Loki has been manipulating the Mighty and Dark Avengers, to the Mighty teams upcoming encounter with the Fantastic Four. On Mighty Avengers and Dan's choice to make Hank Pym leader of the Avengers"It will get more messed up as we go along...for all of Hank's fault he is a genius and has a very non linear way of thinking...but he's still that messed up freak who built Ultron...the question is how do you redeem him?...Some stink doesn't go away no matter how hard you try...it's nice to have Hank on this redemptive path... he may never get rid of his past sins, but his trying makes him heroic." Download Part 2 here

Atomika Soviet Supermen & Sal Abbinanti

Download the MP3 here On this edition of Word Balloon, Sal Abbinanti creator of Atomika the alternate history of Russian superheroes and villains. Sal explores the iconic images of the former USSR, combined with Russian mythology, but is the first to say this isn't a pro-soviet polemic. "At least once a con a guy wants to argue with me about Communism...or say how are things in Russia and I say 'Guys, come on, Gene Simmons really wasn't a serpent. It's just an act.' " He gives tips to aspiring creators about marketing an independent comic in the current market. "You gotta hustle...I tried going to cons, all over the country like Loretta Lynn with the records and my husband (working) out of the car...doesn't work...I tell new creators, don't release the book until you have 5 issues in the can, you never realize how much time it takes to promote the thing... plus dealing by yourself with colorists,inkers and printers...you never realize how much time it will take." Sal also discusses future projects like The Hostage based on true crime Brazilian kidnappings and the sci-fi comedy Dagos On The Moon.

Jason Aaron Scares The Crap Out Of Me

Download The mp3 here We talk Scalped, Wolverine Weapon X, His wrap up on The Ghost Rider series, and his upcoming origin of one of the immortal weapons, Fat Cobra.

View From The Floor At The FX Con

Downlaod The Episode Here On this edition of Word Balloon, coverage of this year's FX International Con in Orlando, Fl. You'll hear floor chats with Jeremy Haun, who talks about drawing the Batman-Battle For The Cowl One-Shot Arkham Asylum, written by David Hine, and drawing the Top Cow series Berserker written by Rick Loverd . Haun calls the Arkham One-Shot "A great horror story. I got to draw some of my favorite villains...it does focus on the events after Arkham explodes in the first issue of Battle For the Cowl...with hints of what we'll see in the future (Bat books) ." Marvel writer Jonathon Hickman talks about Secret Warriors & his work on the Fantastic Four Dark Reign series and taking over the main FF book following Mark Millar and Brian Hitch "After the events of Civil War and Secret Invasion I thought there was a real opportunity to do a lot of FF closure in the Dark reign series . The first arc of the regular series will be called "solve everything", and Reed sets out to do so." Artist Ben Templesmith talks about his IDW work on Wormwood, Doctor Who, and Groom Lake, plus answers the perennial question will he and writer Warren Ellis be doing more issues of their Image series Fell? "There is more Fell(to come), whenever Warren wants to do it, I'm doing it." Writer Christos Gage discusses his IDW GI Joe work, his coming Avatar series Absolution, His WILDCATS work for Wildstorm, and Marvel books. On Avengers: The Initiative "Somehow a rumor got started that the Initiative was being cancelled, but that's not true, the only way it will be cancelled is if people think it's cancelled and stop buying it...We're actually starting an exciting period...the initiative is now run by Norman Osborn, so they're now training villains to be dark avengers and appear to be heroic while still being bad on the down low...Some former members are going underground to rebel against the new initiative directive. Tigra will be looking for some payback after her beating from The Hood." On the upcoming mini series House Of M:Masters Of Evil "What were the villains doing in the House Of M world. The Hood has assembled a gang of villains including Absorbing Man Titania, Crossbones The Sandman, Batroc The Leaper...they get together to steal, in a world where Magneto's army comes down on them hard...the non mutant world starts to mistake their rebellion as being heroic, so they start to plan the scam of a lifetime." Avatar comics publisher William Christensen talks about Warrens Eilis's Ignition City, Freak Angels, and how Avatar has changed their image from the "Bad Girl" books, to their current line of unfettered stories by today's top creators. Writer artist Mike Wolfer talks about his work with Eilis on the Avatar Series Gravel . And, Jim McCann checks in to discuss his New Avengers:The Reunion mini series for Marvel.

Viking Rituals With Ivan Brandon

Ivan Brandon and Nic Klien debut their Image series Vikings on April 22nd. The First Issue has already sold out with retailers, and Ivan Talks about the series particulars. We also look at his upcoming mini series for DC, featuring Nemesis, Final Crisis Aftermath : Escape, and his recent appearence on NBC's The Celebrity Apprentice download the mp3 here

Brian Reed Kills Ms Marvel

In this edition of the Word Balloon podcast, Marvel writer Brian Reed checks in to talk about all the big changes in Ms Marvel, and his two new projects, Timestorm 2099 and Dark Reign The Sinister Spider-Man. Some quotes from the audio interview… On Moonstone taking over the mantle as Ms Marvel I think this question of who am I comes from leading two lives…and now when you have bad guys playing good guys, it’s layers upon layers of itself. The first issue that focuses on her is the Government comes in and demands psych evaluations of the Dark Avengers to make sure they have the right people doing these jobs, so Norman wants to have a psychiatrist talk to a psychiatrist first.. The whole story arc revolves around what make Karla Sofer the person she is…while writing it I realized we’re going to have an interesting dark storyline for awhile.” “Timestorm 2099 is The present day Marvel slamming headlong into the future 2099 Marvel…these characters are still a lot of fun, but we’ve got to update it. All science fiction eventually shows its age. In the original run The Pixel company sounded really cool in 1993…that’s the danger of writing science fiction, unless your name is Douglas Adams …I wanted it to be loyal, but I also wanted it to be new…the facts behind the story are all entirely new, we see names and designs we recognize …as we were talking about characters we wanted to give a spit polish to, to a man, all of us said we’re not touching (the look of ) the 2099 Spider-Man. We’ll be following the present day Spider-Man and Wolverine, but most of the New Avengers will be making cameos , and some of the Dark Avengers.” On Sinister Spider-Man –“ This is a bad joke that I think has gone too far and someone approved it (laughs) . Someone said this needs to be a fractured fairy tale this is a Spider-Man book , but starring Mac (Venom) Gargan, and who would Peter be if he didn’t have all the responsibilities, with that power. Matt Fraction pointed out that I’m the wrist writer to have written the script line “Spider-Man is getting a lap dance.” (laughs) …When Norman first got them the job as avengers he said ‘none of you talk to the press, stick around the tower and behave .’ Well Mac said, “ It’s not like there’s a bunch of spider-men out there you can replace me with, so I’m going to do what I want..” So there’s a real animosity between him and Norman . Mac will be dealing with Norman, the City of New York , and something else he’ll have cooking..” download the show from here

Ethan van Sciver Delivers The Blackest Night & Flash reborn

On this edition of the Word Balloon Podcast, DC artist Ethan Van Sciver talks about the well received debut of Flash Rebirth, drawn by Ethan,and written by Geoff Johns., and his recent released teaser images of Black Lanterns Aquaman and The Earth-2 Superman.for the GL Summer event Blackest Night. We talk about the first Flash issue, with minor spoilers about images and basic ideas of the plot so far. The topics include a artists commentary on the opening action sequence, comparing the attitudes of Barry and Wally when facing the Flash Rouges, Wally's eventual "new look", Barry's observations on the changing speed of the world around him, and more. Ethan also discusses his thoughts that went into the Black Lantern designs for Blackest Night, and his respectful but slight jealousy that Ivan Reis is drawing the story. Here are some quotes form the conversation... On Barry's Origin stemming from the accidental lightning storm/chemical bath. "It's close to a Marvel Origin...most DC characters are these self determined heroes...Marvel charcters get into these stupid accidents, and if the 2 universes co-existed the Marvel Heroes wouldn't have happened because the DC heroes would've prevented all the accidents from happening...Superman would've been in space to stop Reed Richards rocket 'What's wrong with you sir, taking your wife up here.' ...'Bruce Banner want to not wander around the bomb testing site?'...Daredevil look out for that truck!' The strange Central City public sentiment of The Flash Museum as a tourist attractiobn. "What's that about? It doesn't have any artifacts of Flash's deeds...It's just big statues of the local murderers...like the citizens wouldn't be terrorized or embarassed that their city gave birth to these killers... i'm guilty of contributing to the myth but will continue to treat it as warm and cute place, but it's strange to me. On retturning to draw Bart (Impulse/Kid Flash ) Allen. "Bart's so awesome. He is the character I drew when I had my son...Bart being treated wellis important to me...When drawing him as Kid Flash I've just aged him a little bit, I'm trying to keep part of that Humberto Ramos cartoony feel, and make him look familiar to Impulse fans ...I know him like the back of my hand. On his future tenure on more Flash books... "I'm challenging myself to become a monthly artist...my attitusde was I won't be a monthly artist...but I realized I'm a storyteller and I really want to tell a lot of stories... there are shortcuts that I could take but I refuse to take but the story will still be told well...I'm very snotty that way...(by being this way) I'm missing out on the oppourtunity to learn to draw quickly and well...there's a future for the flash, and the only person keeping me from being a big part of that is me,. So I'm going to try hard, and Flash Rebirth is a great way to try... normally I might do 8 quality pages a month while trying to maintain a happy family life, but on The Flash last month iI did 17 good pages and a cover... I'm trying to get closer to the monthly requirements an artist has to fufill." This weekend Ethan is heading on a Trans-Continental publicity tour to South Africa "A store in Johanasberg contacted me and said 'There are a lot of comic book fans here, but we haven't had anyone from DC to come over to see us.' It was really flattering, they chose me!...They sold tickets to raise money to fly us out there. so I'll be drawing free sketches. They sent over pictures of south african fans wearing Green Lantern shirts in Johanasburg ...really they put in a lot of effort to bring me over, and not only that, how cool is it to go to Africa?...It's a rare chance to step on another Continent and to be able to bring my son who's 10 years old... its a privilage." download the show here

Farscape & The Final Frontier, With Keith RA DeCandido

The writer of Boom Studio's Farscape Comic talk's about the franchise's comic book future, including upcoming arcs , and his working relatioship with the creator of John Crichton's alien adventure, Rockne O'Bannon. We also discuss Keith's extensive work as a writer and editor of the Star Trek Pocket Book novels, featuring new original tales set in every era of the Trekverse. download the episode here