How Stephen Wacker Thinks About Comics

Big news out of Marvel Comics today: Stephen Wacker has been named the company's new Editor-in-Chief. Given all the executive changes Marvel has gone...

Russ Braun The Boys Batman and learning from Comic Masters

Of course we discus Russ working ion the boys with Garth Ennis, and other war comics, but did you now he pencilled the first Batman story about the ve...

Christopher Irving Comics History and Joe Unknown

Chris si back to promote a new kickstarter coming in August about Joe Unknown, the adventures of a comic book horror host after hours ( Think a cross...

x-men 97 and other reviews

we discuss the first 4 eps of the new season plus other comics tv film and more

Rodney Barnes On Blacula Comics Streaming and More

Some great Rodney Barne Word Balloon segments presenting a wide-ranging conversation that spans comics, television, and film history. We kick things o...

Splash Pages Superman Spider-Man Crossovers

Tuesday, I guested on the Splash Pages Podcast, where they interviewed me about podcasting, but also we talked about favorite convention moments, and...

Neil Sabatino Talks Open Caskets

Neil Sabatino joins Word Balloon to talk about Open Caskets, a darkly funny and deeply surreal graphic novel created with his longtime collaborator Sh...

Bug Wars Supergirl and more with Mahmud Asrar

Asrar talks about his X-men work his Supergirl run during the new 52, Conan runs and his current image series Bug Wars with Jason Aaron. 

Fred Van Lente Luca Pizzari Talk Vampyrates and Trivia

Fred and Luca discuss their blend of Vampires and Pirates That debuts Wednesday from BOOM! Studios . We also play a couple rounds of trivia with Cryst...

Why Are The Big Summer Films Failing

Supergirl, Disclosure Day, Masters Of The Universe. Good studio films but not clicking at the box office. We examine why, and talk about other tv and...

SDCC Preview The Origins Of Comic-Con

The Origins Of Comic-Con With Mathew Klickstein and SDCC CoOriginator Roger Freedman. Roger was one of the original teenagers who help started the sho...

Franco talks Extra Terrestrials

It's a casual hang out with Franco, who's promoting a new YA Sci-Fi Kickstarter for a graphic novel with Jason May 

wb bendis book club daytripper fabio moon

Co-Author Of Daytripper Fabio Moon personally takes us through the book . Brian Bendis and I lead the discussion with the league of Word Balloon liste...

Tomm Coker Talks Undying Love

Tomm discusses his new Kickstarter campaign for a delux edition of the action horror epic Undying Love , and the return of his and Jonathan Hickman's...

Paul Kupperberg Talks Supergirl and new novels

I give a short spoiler free review of the Supergirl film. Plu Paul and I revisit his runs on Supergirl comics and he discusses 2 new novellas . The 19...

Gabriel Hardman Batman GI JOE Rocketeer & Twilight Zone

Gabriel Hardman returns to Word Balloon with a packed lineup of projects that showcase why he's one of comics' best writer-artists.We kick things off...

One On One Ralph Macchio

For more than four decades, Ralph Macchio has been one of the guiding hands behind some of Marvel Comics' greatest stories. Rising from an editorial a...

scene missing 1959 on the beach

On this episode of Word Balloon Scene Missing, we're taking a deep dive into one of the most haunting films of the Cold War era, Stanley Kramer's 1959...

good trouble comics with barajas ayden and sankovich

Henry Barajas  (Gil Thorp Comic Strip) has two new comic stories coming in August under the Good Trouble Lable. We discuss them with GT Publisher Andr...

Shelly Bond Celebrates Sub Culture

Shelly Bond has a new anthology bieng kickstarted called subCulture which looks at trends of fashion comics music at the club scenes through the decad...

Mark Russell Talks Firefly and Dog Tag

Plus Racer X and a kickstarter for a new sci-fi book The Forgotten Divine 

Mark Waid's empire of stories

Mark is back ro talk about JLU, Superboy in Acrtion Comics, and World's Finest. Plus 3 days left for his and Barry Kitson's EMPIRE crowd funder.
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Frank Miller The Word Balloon Interview

Frank has a new autobiography coming out. We discuss highlights of his seminal career, 

E-motion Sickness Love Boat Ep 4

We continue our Love Boat  Re-watch podcast.

Our guest passenger Chris Giarusso joins us to discuss Charro's debut as recurring character...

Darth Vader Vs Superman Alex Ross

From 2020 Alex discusses his UNSEEN art book featuring crossovers that were proposed but didn't happen Star Wars and The DC Universe, Star Trek Vs Sta...

Steve Niles New Frights On The Way

Steve Niles has spent decades redefining horror comics, from 30 Days of Night and Criminal Macabre to a long list of stories that brought genuine scar...

Absolute Jeff Lemire-Flash Firestorm JSA and more

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 sh...

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 Specia...

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...

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 Rocket...

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 stori...

Masters Of The Universe With Tim Sheridan

Tim Sheridan is back with a tie-in MOTU Dark Horse Mini series 

Simpsons TV Tales and Bad Trips Mike Reis

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 whic...

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 i...

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 horr...

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...

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 f...

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. P...

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...