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Word Balloon Comics Podcast

John Siuntreswww.spreaker.com
1 on 1 interview show featuring the creative minds behind Comics TV Film Novels & Animation. Hosted by Chicago Pop Culture expert, John Siuntres

Episodes

Star Trek Deep Space Nine Nana Visitor

Best of 2024 Star Trek DS9's Major Kira , Nana Visitor Joins me for an in depth chat about her amazing career. From Broadway, To Star Trek, and Beyond.

Dec 30, 20241 hr 3 min

1950s Marvel With Dr Michael Vassulo

(Best Of 2024) Fantagraphics has begun to release 2 types of Hardcover collections of Marvel's years as Atlas Comics from the 1950s . Comics historian Dr Michael Vassallo joins us to talk about The First Volume featuring the art of Joe Maneely, one of the essential artists working for Martin Goodman and Stan Lee. . In this pre Marvel superhero era, Maneely co created characters like The Black Knight Jimmy Woo and The Claw. He also did a daily newspaper comic strip with Stan , many westerns and K...

Dec 29, 202458 min

Trek Bond Spidey and The Studios

James Bond isn't a hero says an Amazon executive to Barbara Broccoli of Eon Productions. Emporor Giorgio IS says Alex Kurtzman at Paramount . Outgoing SONY CEO said Madame Web is a good movie, killed by critics, Larry Young John Price and I discuss these issues and more

Dec 29, 20242 hr 12 min

The Book Of Bender Futurama Star John DiMaggio

From 2013 John DiMaggio (Bender) joins us to talk about his career as one of the top voice over actors in the business. From his work on Futurama, Batman Brave And The Bold, Adventure Time and his excellent documentary I KNOW THAT VOICE.

Dec 27, 202430 min

James Gunn and The Superman Trailer My Thoughts

The Superman trailer isa out and we\re all talking about it. I think James Gunn is 3 for 3 in his work o The Suicide Sqyad, Peacemaker and the current creature commandos. How does this early trail for Superman compare?

Dec 21, 202419 min

True Noir With Robert Meyer Burnett pt 1

Rob has produced a new Audio Drama adapting Max Allan Collins detective Nathan Heller, played by Micharl Rosenbaum )Smallville) . It also stars amny great hollywood actors, including Anthony Lapaglia as Al Capone and Jeffrey Combs (star Trek) as 1930's Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak.

Dec 18, 20242 hr 2 min

Raunchy TV and Movie Talk With Mr Skin

As the dust clears from Covid and the 2023 media strike, where is sex in this current moment with TV and film ? Mr Skin and I talk about it.

Dec 15, 20241 hr 1 min

Marvel Tales From Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum

The men behind Hulu's MODOK and Dark Horse Comics Minor Threats have curated a new collection of Marvel's 10 greatest stories from the 60s thru the 2010s . This deluxe hardcover from The Folio Society has stories from The Death Of Johnny Storm The debut of The Runaways, Pivotal X-moments and more.

Dec 06, 202422 min

Tom King Talks Wonder Woman pt 1

We catch up with a new edition of The King's Speech. In wonder Woman, Diana is dealing with the death of Steve Trevor, while we continue to learn the life story Of her daughter Trinity. We also preview the next issue WW16, featuring Detective Chimp getting into Trevor's murder investigation.

Dec 03, 20241 hr 10 min

Wicked Oz Thoughts Skottie Young Pt2

In Part 2 Skottie reflects on the Oz Graphic novels after completing his 6 year run. We also talk about Rocket Racoon and other books

Dec 01, 20241 hr 41 min

Wicked Oz Thoughts Skottie Young Pt 1

2 parts of Skottie Young discussing the Wicked/Oz Nerdom part 1 is a phone interview from 2009 at the start of Skotiie's 6 year run drawing Oz Graphic Novels at Marvel.

Dec 01, 20241 hr 8 min

Wicked Oz Thoughts From Eric Shanower

Eric talks about his Graphic novel adaptations of the Oz Books, and His Trojan War Epic series Age of Bronze. There's a lot Oz talk beyond the books aand comics going into the movies, and the whole Oz fandom facts vs fiction.

Nov 30, 202447 min
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