Taking Marvel's Pulse With Tom Brevoort

The conversation with Marvel Group Editor Tom Brevoort starts with a look at the new mini series STRANGE written by Mark Waid, which puts the good Doctor on a new hero's journey.Then we take advantage of Tom's perspective to look at today's Marvel. How has comic storytelling changed in the last 10 years? We look at the evolution of the relationship between Marvel & it's fans, from letter pages to today's blogs (including Brevoort's own) .

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Twilight New Moon Fangirls, With Vaneta Rogers

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Josh Blaylock The Devil's Due Digital Future

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Matt Fraction's Fireside Chat

On this edition of the word balloon podcast, Marvel writer Matt Fraction comments on the startling events in The Invincible Iron Man #19.We also talk about the new monthly cover design from Ryan Hughes, incorporating Savador Larocca's art, beginning this month in Iron Man #20, and the story Stark Disassembled.We talk about his run on Uncanny  X-Men  and the focus on Magneto and Cyclop's relationship in the newly formed Nation X "Who these two men are now, and how these situtations force how they relate to each other is a big part of Nation X ."

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The Filthy Mind Of Brian Azzarello

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Dean Haspiel & The Activate Comics Community

Act-I-Vate is a comics creator community established by Dean Haspiel . A group of cartoonists, who use their site to promote their creator owned stories.Last week IDW relaesed the ACT- I - VATE Primer, which has 16 stories that are companion pieces to the free stories theyâre doing online. On this episode of Word Balloon, we talk to several Act I Vate creators, about their works, and what brought them together. All the comics at the Activate Comics Website. Visit activatecomix.com .We talk to Dean Haspiel, Mik Cavlero, Simon Fraser, Tim Hamilton, Michael Fiffe, and filmmakers Se4th Kushner and Carlos Molina.

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Baltimore CON-Versations with Bendis and Oeming

On this edition of Word Balloon, we present audio coverage from this weekend's Baltimore Comicon. Marvel scribe Brian Michael Bendis gives us details on The Siege story arc, which begins in December and runs through the start of 2010. The story as reported from the retailer summit features a major shift in all the Avengers titles, The Secret Warriors and Young Avengers, and the need for Marvel's hero trinity, Iron Man Thor and Captain America to finally re-unite. We also present audio from the Powers Panel, where Bendis and Powers Co-Creator Michael Avon Oeming discuss the first 10 years of the Powers comic, and look ahead with the new volume starting in November, the Powers Encyclopedia, and new details on where the future of The Powers TV series stands, at the FX Network.

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Paul Levitz and the Write Stuff

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Part 2 The Bendis Tapes Fall Edition 2009

Part 2 of our talk with writer Brian Michael Bendis, who answers more questions from the Jinxworld Message Board . Here are some tidbits from the Q & A session.More discussion about the transition form Doctor Strange to Doctor VoodooDaredevil is "full front" in New Avengers #60.Next Year Bendis teased he will again work with artist Howard Chaykin.There's a new Ultimate Universe project coming in 2010. You'll hear character discussions about DD, Wilson Fisk, and Norman OsbornPlus, Bendis discusses some of his favorite meetings with Stan Lee, including his lunch with Stan last month, in which The Man asked  Brian "How did Norman Osborne get here?"  Bendis said, " In preperation of the lunch, he read a few of my books, and He came prepared with  a question and I had better have had the right answer, and I think I did, because I got an got an 'OK Kid.' I had the feeling if I had answered wrong, we probably wouldn't have finished the lunch."

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Part 2 The Brubaker Testimony Sept 09

<!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> On this edition of the Word Balloon Podcast, we pick up where we left off with writer Ed Brubaker. Youâll hear more about the characters of Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes as they share the mantle of Captain America in The Captain America Reborn mini series , and what Ed has plans in the months ahead in both the regular CA series and the Cap One shot coming in December. We look back at Edâs 3 year run of Daredevil that ended this summer, and where heâs left the character for Andy Diggle to take over. Plus we discuss the significant DD cast members during Edâs run, from Dakota North and Lady Bullseye to Mister Fear and Master Izo . Plus more discussion on Criminalâs return in October, and the distribution of  Edâs 2009 crime film Angel Of Death online, on DVD, and its cable airing on SPIKE-TV.

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