It's been a MARVELOUS year for Jeff Parker, who has worked his way through
the anthology monster book specials, like WHERE MONSTERS DWELL ,and
MARVEL ADVENTURES featuring THE AVENGERS and FANTASTIC FOUR.

Now Jeff calls the shots for AGENTS OF ATLAS, the 50's revival espionage
book, featuring a group of  unlikely heroes reunited to face their greatest
menace .

We'll also discuss Jeff's other Marvel projects, like X-Men First Class , a year
one exploration of the groups original members.

Plus we look at DEAR JOHN , Letters from Alex Toth, published by Jeff's
company, Octopus Press

ATTENTION, The repeating overlapping sound problem has been fixed.

We visit with writer Brian Azzarello, to talk about Loveless the Vertigo western he started this year, and his new projects debuting this fall...

A return to the wildstorm charcter deathblow first tackled by brian in a batman crossover story done in 1999 with returning artist lee bermejo. we'll also discuss brian's reboot of Dr 13 in DC's Tales Of The Unexpected, a new monthly he shares with fellow crime writer David Lapham.

Azzarello is at the 3 quarter point in his crime consipracy epic 100 Bullets. so in the second half of the show, we replay our first conversation with Brian, covering the behind the scene facts of the series.

Celebrating Brad's climb to #1 on The NY Times Bestseller list, here's a "book only" version of my conversation with Brad.