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Word Balloon Comics Podcast
1 on 1 interview show featuring the creative minds behind Comics TV Film Novels & Animation. Hosted by Chicago Pop Culture expert, John Siuntres
Episodes
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WB Playhouse Stacked Deck Vincent Price
Welcome to Word Balloon Playhouse: Western Edition. Where through the magic of audio editing, I get to act with some of my favorite film stars in a short…
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Kelly Thompson Absolute Wonder Woman Buffy and Jeff
Along with the obvious detail about her Absoulute Wonder Woman run, Kelly previews her Buffy Angel cooks coming for Dynamite, a new Jeff Summer Special in…
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The Secrets Of Lex Luthor By Eliot S! Maggin
Maggin has rleased his 3rd superman universe novel Lex Corp, a first person narritive of Luthor telling his own story. Now He also is reading the book chapet…
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Jacob Edgar Talks Rocketeer and The Ones
Artist Jacob Edgar has a cartoony style that evokes the work Bruce Timm. We talk about his worl with Bendis on The Ones for Dark Horse and The Rocketeer : The…
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The Punisher and DC Westerns With Jimmy Palmiotti
Jimmy Palmiotti has worn just about every hat in comics, artist, writer, editor, publisher, and creator, but today we're focusing on some of the stories that…
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Masters Of The Universe With Tim Sheridan
Tim Sheridan is back with a tie-in MOTU Dark Horse Mini series
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Mike Reiss The Simpsons and other misadventures
One of the cornerstone creators on The Simpsons and Co-Creator Of The Critic Mike Reiss is back !He has a new travel book Bad Trips which is collection of his…
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The Origin Of CBR With Jonah Weiland
For nearly three decades, Comic Book Resources was one of the most influential destinations in comics journalism. What began as a fan-driven website in the…
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MOTU Talk with Tim and Steve Seely
Brothers Tim and Steve discuss their coffeetable book The Art Of He-Man and The Masters Of The Universe from Dark Horse. From toy to tv series to horrible 80s…
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RIP Anthony Head
Some brief thoughts on he actor's passing From Buffy's Giles To Merlin's Uther Pendragon, To Rupert Manion on Ted Lasso, you could always count on a compelling…
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Entering The Twilight Zone With Tony Fleecs
Tony Fleecs and artist Andy Price have shown a very different side of their My Little Pony output crafting a tight one shot disturbing Twilight Zone for IDW…
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Brian Hurtt Talks Fort Psycho Hard Time and More
Brian Hurtt on Fort Psycho with Matt Kindt for Oni, we also chat about his long tiemcollaborations with Cullen Bunn on The Sixth Gun and The Damned. Plus we…
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Supergirl Marvel and More W Rod Reis
Today on Word Balloon, we're catching up with one of comics' most distinctive visual storytellers, Rod Reis.Rod is taking on a huge creative challenge with…
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Deathstroke and Feral with Tony Fleecs
Today on Word Balloon, we're talking with one of comics' most versatile storytellers, Tony Fleecs.Tony first grabbed readers' attention with his creator-owned…
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DaVinci Remixed With Richard Ashley Hamilton
Leo DaVinci is a YA adventure romp with a little dose of history as Hamilton depicts the great artist and inventor as a teen prodigy entering Florence and…
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Into the 3rd Dimension, With Hilary Barta
Hilary and Chris Barnard join us to talk about recent 3-D projects , but no glasses needed to enjoy this convesation, where we cover the history of 3-D comcs…
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Civil War and Other Marvel Hits from Christos Gage
Chris revisits The Civil War era with a new 5 issue mini series Civil War Unmasked. It features untold stories form that era. We also talk about Chris's work…
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Jeremy Adams Talks Knightfall GL Aquaman
Jeremy Adams Aquaman is the most exciting version of the character in many years. He's taking big comedic swings with Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner in Green…
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Grilling With Howard Chaykin
Howard Chaykin is back for a casual chat that includes detais of his Zorro run at Dynamite with Jorge Fornes,but mostly we go through obsevations on his brief…
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War Comics with Garth Ennis pt 2
From Feb, Barth talks about Babs from Ahoy Comics, his savage sword-and-sorcery riff that weaponizes absurdity, blood, and pitch-black humor to skewer genre…
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War Comics With Garth Ennis pt 1
Garth discusses his comics Tankies originally published by Battle in The UK, and by Dead Reckoning in the US
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Garth Ennis The Boys pt 2
In this Terrficon Panel Garth Joe Ryband and I discuss the Boys comics and at the time the wrap up to season 3
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Garth Ennis The Boys pt1
The first of two interviews with Garth about The Boys. In psrt one from October 2020 Dynamite Editor Joe Ryband interviews Garth during the covid era. They…
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The King Kirby Podcast Drama
In 2020, playwrights Crystal Skillman and Fred Van Lente joined me to talk about transforming their acclaimed stage play King Kirby into an ambitious audio…
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Kirby Vs Lee On-Stage Pt 2 Mark Pracht
From 2024 Chicago Playwright Mark Pracht, and his actors who playedd Stan Lee and Jack Kirby discuss his play The House Of Ideas.
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Larry Lieber’s Chirps: From Marvel Heroes To A Talking Mutant Budgie?
Today on Word Balloon, comics legends Larry Lieber and Danny Fingeroth join us for a fun and imaginative conversation about Larry’s new prose novel Chirps. The…
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Comicpalooza With Stanford Carpenter
Today on Word Balloon, we welcome educator, writer, and pop culture historian Stanford Carpenter to talk about this year’s Comicpalooza happening Memorial Day…
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The War Between Stan And Jack On-Stage
Playwright and Director Josh Chamberlin has created a new play exploring the partnership of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby playing this June at the Fringe Festival in…
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Word Balloon Playhouse With Cesar Romero -The Heist
Ceasar and I star in this little playlet about a safe heist gone wrong.
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History Of Radio Sketch Comedy The National Lampoon Radio Hour
Back in 2016, Word Balloon welcomed the late great satirist and comedy legend Tony Hendra for a fascinating conversation that covered everything from modern…
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Book Club Absolute Martian Manhunter
Welcome to another Word Balloon League Bendis Discord Book Club conversation, as Brian Michael Bendis and I gather with our dedicated Word Balloon listeners…
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A Retro Bat-Man. and New Vertigo With Mike Perkins
Artist Mike Perkins returns to Word Balloon to talk about The Bat-Man: Second Knight, now available in graphic novel format. Mike breaks down the visual…
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Marvels Revisited With Steve Darnall
Today on Word Balloon, we welcome writer Steve Darnall to talk about his new prose adaptation of Marvels, the landmark series created by Kurt Busiek and Alex…
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Scene Missing Spies Super Heroes and Action With Tatiana Neva
It's a very special Scene Missing as Actress and stunt performer Tatiana Neva joins Word Balloon to talk about her new espionage thriller Prey Of Wrath, now…
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Word Balloon 21st Anniversary Trivia Quiz
To celebrate the milestone, I asked my computer to whip up questions for us , in some of the categories I love, comics star trek, spy tv shows, and 40's…
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Star Trek The Last Starship Can Jim KIrk Solve The Burn?
Jackson L Star Trek Comnzing and Colin Kelly, the Hivemind writer team is back to chek in mid-story on ths epic IDW Tek Comic, that takes place 100 years…
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Happy Birthday David Michelinie
In our first talk from 2007 Dave talks about beaking into comics, writing The Unknown Soldier, Runs on Superman and Spider-Man. The Iron Man "Demon In A…
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David Lloyd The Cinco De Mayo Hangover Cure
It's David Lloyd's Birthday week, bor on ay 5th . Grab some tomato juice and aspirin, and enjoy this 2019 chatIn case you haven't noticed, David Lloyd isn't…
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Fortress Of Word Ballloon May 2026
Welcome to a brand new Fortress of Word Balloon, where the mic gets handed over to the League of Word Balloon Listeners, straight from…
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The Career and Life of Len Strazewski, With Scott Larson
Scott Larson, the creator of the supernatural commic Visitations talks about his mentor Len Strazewski, co-creator of Jesse Quick for DC, Prime for Malibu and…
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Gerry Conway Why he came back to comics
On this episode, we go back to 2009 for a great conversation with Gerry Conway, a writer whose career has taken some fascinating turns across comics and…
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In Memoriam Gerry Conway pt 3
The 2020 One On One chat between Gerry Conway and Brian Michael Bendis I arranged this chat between the guys the wrote their share of Spider-Man Superman…
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In Memoriam Gerry Conway pt 2
from 202o. during covid gerry abd I talked about where the punisher fits in the post Black Lives Matter era, his DC and Marvel yeras, and adventures in TV and…
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In Memoriam Gerry Conway pt 1
From 2013. A great talk spanning the scope of Gerry's Career.
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Drew Friedman Explores The Underground
On this episode, I sit down with Drew Friedman for a deep dive into the wild, rebellious world of the underground comix movement of the 1960s and 70s. It's all…
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scene missing lured-1947 lucille ball noir
On this episode of Scene Missing, we head into shadowy postwar London for a stylish and strange detour in the career of Douglas Sirk. Before the lush…
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aw yeah podcast spring has sprung pt 2
We talk about The re-release of Avengers Endgame with new doomsday related scenes, and other TV anf film talk.
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aw yeah podcast spring has sprung pt 1
all the guys are back to talk cartoons tv and film
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The Rucka Debrief pt 2
Greg talks about the dangers of Canon,and promots the return of his series The Forged with Eric Trautman. Plus updates on Lazarus, Black Magic Attikus Kodiak…
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The Rucka Debrief The Return Of Batwoman
Greg gets i depth about returning to the world of Kate Kane.
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Love Boat ep 3 Kristy Loves Chachi ?
It’s time for another voyage of E-Motion Sickness: A Love Boat Re-Watch, and this one’s got everything you want out of classic late-70s TV chaos. Joining John…
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The Bendis Tapes Part 2
In part 2 Brian answers uestions from the chat and we announce the dates and books for the next book club episodes for April and May.Next Tuesday night we'll…
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The Bendis Tapes Part 1 Powers To Netflix?
In part 1 of The Bendis Tapes, we’ve got a double shot of Brian Michael Bendis that hits both his past and his next big moves. First up, Powers is back with…
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Bad Thoughts and Black Ops Ande Parks
Today on Word Balloon, I’m talking with a guy who’s built a career jumping between crime, history, and deeply human storytelling, Ande Parks. You know him from…
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Only in New York Capturing the City in Comics
From the streets to the sketchbooks, this conversation dives deep into Only in New York, the upcoming graphic anthology from my guests Dean Haspiel, Doug…