Word Balloon Comics Podcast

Paul Cornell Talks Marvel Saucer Country and Doctor Who

Feb 09, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast

The Lost 50s History Of Marvel's Atlas Years With Dr Michael Vassallo

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 Korean War stori...

Feb 08, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Dan McNeil and The Decline Of Chicago Radio

A fixture in Chicago Sports Radio and my friend for many years, Dan I I discuss our glory days at WSCR Chicago's first full time sports radio station. Beyond our good time talk, we lament the fact that local big city radio has lost it's impact, just like TV has.

Feb 05, 2024•2 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Chip Zdarsky Pt 2 Avengers Batman Joker and more

Feb 03, 2024•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Chip Zdarsky Talks Batman Joker and More pt 1

Feb 03, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Keith Champaign Talks He Man and Daybreak From New Pain comics

Keth is wrapping up his series from Neww Pain Comics, Daybreak check out the kickstarter campaign here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/newpain/daybreak-1-4

Feb 01, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Happy Birthday Denys Cowan

Celebrating his Birthday with a repeat of this 2020 chat aabout his career.

Jan 31, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Tim Sheridan On Alan Scott and The Red Lantern pt 2

Tim is killing it on his Golden Age Green Lantern story. Issue 4 drops today, and we finally get more details on The Red Lantern. Don't miss this preview, and recap of Alan's early encounter with The Spectre in issue 3.

Jan 30, 2024•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Tim Sheridan Talks Masters Of The Universe pt1

Season 2 Of The MOTU Kevin Smith series dropped last week on Netflix. Tim wrote 2 of the 5 episodes, while Smith wrote the rest. This is a behind the scenes deep dive on the making of this series.

Jan 30, 2024•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Terry Dodson Flashback

Marvel Books and Adventureman talk from 2020

Jan 29, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Trek News and Nerd TV Reviews

Jan 26, 2024•2 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Comic Strips & an Al Williamson Tribute With Bryant and Schultz

From 2012 This was supposed to be a friendly conversation with Mark Schultz, to discuss his work on DC books like The Spirit with Moritat, Mark's scripting of the Sunday Prince valiant newspaper comic strip with Gary Gianni, and past and future Schultz projects. Then we learned of the death of artist Al Williamson Mark was good friends with Al and his wife Cori. The good news is Mark and I spent part of conversation talking about Al's seminal work on Flash Gordon. In addition I wanted another gu...

Jan 25, 2024•2 hr 33 min•Transcript available on Metacast