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Word Balloon Comics Podcast

John Siuntres

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

Episodes

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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 mom...

112:27Jul 11, 2026

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 colla...

50:15Jul 10, 2026

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.

54:42Jul 9, 2026

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...

122:39Jul 7, 2026

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 oth...

134:47Jul 6, 2026

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 start...

72:56Jul 5, 2026

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

63:26Jul 4, 2026

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 Bal...

109:15Jul 3, 2026

Tomm Corker 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...

52:13Jul 2, 2026

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 novella...

76:51Jul 1, 2026

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 t...

77:40Jun 30, 2026

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 e...

57:51Jun 28, 2026

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 Kra...

69:58Jun 27, 2026

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 Publi...

72:06Jun 26, 2026

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...

63:44Jun 25, 2026

Mark Russell Talks Firefly and Dog Tag

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

57:35Jun 24, 2026

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 fun...

78:29Jun 23, 2026

Frank Miller The Word Balloon Interview

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

55:36Jun 22, 2026

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 Apr...

64:27Jun 21, 2026

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 T...

94:00Jun 20, 2026