Comic Book History Geoff Johns-Live for the first time Jan 2006

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8 months into Word Balloon's existence  I had my first conversation with Geoff. Fun to look back at this point in his writing career to see where he is today. Lots of "future" easter eggs in this conversation that led to the direction Geoff's career has gone. Listen to "Comic Book History Geoff Johns-Live for the first time Jan 2006" on Spreaker.  

Comc Books Bendis Tapes Superman Leviathan Wonder Comics and Jinxworld Talk

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Lots of talk about Brian's slate of books. From Superman Action Wal-Mart Batman, Wonder Comics and the Jinxworld books, and thoughts on the films and reactions to Spider-Man Into The Spiderverse and Captain Marvel
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Comic Books Eric Powell and the Return Of The Goon

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It's the Goon's 20th Anniversary and Eric is here to talk about the Comic's origin and his plans to go on a transcontinental signing tour with the new series.
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Comic Book History Legendary Inker Joe Rubenstein stories of the bronze age and a look ahead

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After 2 hilarious convention panels, Joe is back to tell more stories of art collaborations with Gil Kane, George Perez, and Dick Giordano. Plus thoughts on Vinnie Colletta and other creators.

Joe is the artist behind the history of the Marvel Universe Handbook, featuring a hall of fame line-up of artists ding their versions of characters.

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Comic Books Ed Brubaker Criminal and TV writers room 101

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Ed is back to talk about the latest edition of Criminal. his graphic novel All My Heroes Have Been Junkies both with art from Sean and Jacob Phillips. Plus Ed's adventures writing for HBO's Westworld and Jonathan Nolan, and his new Amazon Prime collaboration with filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive)

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Comic Books Davis Pepose Returns With Spencer and Locke Vol 2

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David Pepose chats about Spencer and Locke Vol 2 featuring an adult Calvin & Hobes buddy cop analog facing other comic strip inspired characters.

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Comic Books Karl Kesel On Section Zero 1959, Creating Superboy A Lost Jack Kirby story and more

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Great chat with Karl about his new Kickstarter campaign for Section Zero 1959, with Tom Grumett. We learn how he and Tom created the new Superboy (Kon-El) for the Reign Of The Supermen event. plus past art collaborations with George Perez, John Byrne , and finishing a lost Jack Kirby Story for Marvel.

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Comic Books Phil Hester On Aftershock's Stronghold And A Look Back at his Biggest Books

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Phil talks about Stronghold, from Aftershock Comics a different kind of hero's journey with Ryan Kelly. Plus we look back at his epic runs on Green Arrow, Clerks Nightwing and more

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Comic Books Dan Brereton talks Giantkiller Kaiju and new creator advice

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Dan is back with a new kickstarter campaign bringing back his 1999 Giantkiller. We talk about his love of Kaiju monsters upcoming new works, and a lot of advice for new creators

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Comic Books Gabriel Hardman On Aliens Dust To Dust Green Lantern & Scene Missing Movie Talk

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Glad to have Gabe back talking about his Dark Horse Aliens series that just wrapped up, last year's Green Lantern Earth One (the softcover edition comes out in May), and a current progress horror anthology he and co-writer Corrina Beckho are cooking up. 

Plus given Gabe's other job as a film storyboard artist working with the likes of Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Rises) Zack Snyder (Man Of Steel) and Sam Raimi, (Spider-Man 3) we spend a lot of time talking about New and Old movies for a new SCENE MISSING WB episode

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Comic Books Tim Seeley On X-men Swamp Thing and Aftershock's Dark Red

Great new chat with Tim about his new Aftershock book, Dark Red which centers on a vampire living in rural America.. We also look back at Revival, His new Swamp Thing DC book, his X-men series Apocalypse and the X-Tracts, and more.

Comic books Chris Eliopoulos Talks Marvel and His New PBS Animated Series

Chris is back ! The Man Of Letters talks about his book series with Brad Meltzer . I am Billie Jean King came out this month. The childrens biography series is turning into a newPBS animated series . We go behind the scenes and talk about it

Comic Books History Denis Kitchen and The History Of Underground Comix

The man behind Kitchen Sink Press talks about the history of underground comix, from the 60s to today. We'll discuss the way they were distributed to head shops. How did these handmade books get around? We also talk about his relationship with Will Eisner, and his role as a comic historiaan writing biographies of Harvey Kurtzman and Al Capp
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Comic Books History Jason Sacks On The History Of 90s Comics

Jason Sacks has co-written the Twomorrows book American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1990s. You'll hear a long discussion about the infamous decade of booms and busts

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Comic Books Tom King On Superman Heroes In Crisis Batman and Mister Miracle

A New King's Speech as we discus Tom's past present and futire works . From The Walmart Superman series to Batman and the current arc Kinghtmare. We look back at Mister Miracle and scratch our heads over the puzzles laid out in Heroes In Crisis.

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Comic Books George Perez Retirement - Brad Meltzer

Today we reflect on George Perez, who's retireing this year. We revisit an Aug of 2009 interview with Geroge that looks back at his whole career. Thoughta on his Teen Titans re-boot that saved DC Comics, Events books and more

Then Brad Meltzer is back to talk about his new book The First Conspiracy about the plot to kill George Washington during the revolutionary war days.We also talk about Stan Lee, Will Eisner  Jerry Robinson, Bill Finger, and a family visit to the CW sets for The Flash and RiverdaleListen to "Comic Books George Perez Retirement Brad Meltzer" on Spreaker.

Listener Q’s Part 3

One more marathon of listener Q's from my Hospital
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2nd Listener Q & A parts 1 and 2

More questions from the word balloon listeners Listen to "Listener Q&A 2 pt 1" on Spreaker.
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Listener Q& A pts 1 and 2

Listeners Questions get answers in this podcast live from my hospital room Listen to "Live Frm The Hospital With The Orignal Cast" on Spreaker.

In the hospital but don't worry

Hey all.Right before Xmas I discovered a nasty infection. It's being treated but the recovery will take months, I explain it all in this bare bones 2 part podcast where I also take listener questions and do some recent TV reviews.

I'm having trouble embedding the players on this page, but the shows are in my feed.

Also hope to be releasing new episodes sometime next week