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The Weekly Pop Culture Audio Podcast Featuring In-Depth One On One Interviews and Discussions From The Entertainment Worlds Of Genre Fiction-
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

THE BENDIS TAPES FEB 07 Pt1

The Great Thing about having these marathon conversations with Marvel Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis is the amount of plot hints, character studies, and project updates for his books and films in production. Aspiring comic book makers will learn a lot about the craft of writing, and how to promote a new indie book. The challenge (and fun) is to wade through the hundreds of silly and random questions provided by myself and Bendis's message board community at jinxworld.com to get to those nugets of information. If You'd Like to follow along with the thread containing all of the questions' here's the link http://www.606studios.com/bendisboard/showthread.php?t=102365 Podtrac Player

Monday, February 26, 2007

The Bendis Tapes Post NYCC Special Edition

Wordballoon.com, Instocktrades.com, and Newsarama present a special post NYCC podcast, featuring WB host John Siuntres interviewing Marvel Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis, with his exclusive comments on the projects announced at this weekend's convention. In this special edition of THE BENDIS TAPES, Brian gives his thoughts on DAREDEVIL : END OF DAYS, his THE END project co-written by David Mack, with art by Klaus Janson, Bill Sienkewicz, and Alex Maelev,and his work with Maelev on the first arc of the new Marvel ongoing HALO series, produced in conjunction with Bungie and Sony. In addition, Brian discusses behind the scene facts about CIVIL WAR:THE CONFESSION , The current and future issues of NEW AVENGERS: ILLUMINATI , and the upcoming arcs in NEW AVENGERS and MIGHTY AVENGERS. If you want to hear more about the future of Mighty Avengers New Avengers, Ultimate Spider-Man, and a whole lot more, the 2007 winter edition of THE BENDIS TAPES podcasts start Tuesday Podtrac Player

Monday, February 19, 2007

Jay Faerber's Nobelest Causes

As comic book readers get older, some may tire of the safety rules superhero stories have when published by the big two DC and Marvel Comics. Writer Jay Faerber has written for the big two on titles like DC's Teen Titans and Marvel's the New Warriors, but these days seems happiest focusing on his own original ideas. Joining his soap opera hero series Nobel Causes is a new hero team book from Image, Dynamo 5 featuring the illegitimate superpowered children of Captian Dynamo an iconic all american hero who's public wasn't aware of his all too human flaws. We'll also talk about Jay's love of detective fiction in books and TV, and his original gumshoe creation, Dodge's Bullets. Podtrac Player

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Steven Grant's Damaged Goods

From 2005, a fun conversation with the man who put THE PUNISHER in The Big Leagues, with the 1986 mini series CIRCLE OF BLOOD, with artist Mike Zeck. We talk about Steve's work with the legendary Gil Kane, His crime comics, the weekly Permanent Damage column at CBR and his epic bio comic on the late Pope John Paul The 2nd! Podtrac Player

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

FX CON Part Deux

It's time for part two, the wrap of up my coverage of the FX con in Orlando Florida. In this episode you'll hear from Gene Ha the Eisner Award winning artist, who's working with Grant Morrison on The Authority from Wildstorn, and a few other high profile projects. Artist Mike Perkins tells us what he can about Capt America's post civil war plans, and other projects in the works at Marvel. Chuck Dixon Lays out his Wildstorm slate of books. Cover painter Mark Sparacio tells us about his cover work for the overstreet guide, comic buyers guide, Heroes for Hire at marvel and more upcoming work Indie creators Derrick Fish (Dandy & Co) , Shannon Chenowith (The Line) , and Art Baltazar (Gorilla Gorilla & Patrick The Wolf Boy) and we wrap things up with two stars from the Sci-fi Chanel's hit series Eureka, the father daughter duo of Collin Ferguson and Jordan Hinson Podtrac Player