Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast - Ep. #025 SquadCast Interview with Phillip Kennedy Johnson

Ep. #025 SquadCast Interview with Phillip Kennedy Johnson

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07/05/22 • 72 min

Pop Culture Squad's Interview SquadCast

A couple of weeks ago, we caught up with rising superstar comic writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson. Johnson is super busy creating comics, but we talked about the three biggest announced projects that he is working on.

Recently, it was revealed that he will be writing the new series of James Bond from Dynamite Entertainment, with artist Marco Finnegan providing the visuals. That series begins next month in August.

We also spoke about what is going on in the pages of Action Comics from DC Comics where Ricardo Federici, Johnson's partner in crime from the Last God has taken over primary art duties from Daniel Sampere.

As is usually the focus of our comic creator chats, we spent quite a bit of time talking about Phillip's writing process and techniques. Some of that highlighted the excellent work that he has been doing on the Marvel Comics series Alien with artist Salvador Larroca.

It is always illuminating to talk to Phillip and we have transcribed some of the interesting newsy bits of the conversation at PopCultureSquad.com. Give the SquadCast a listen and let us know what you think.

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Ep. #024 SquadCast Interview with Mark Russell

In this episode of the Pop Culture SquadCast we spoke with writer Mark Russell. It's been about seven years since Mark burst on the scene with his breakthrough book The Flintstones from DC comics.

Since that time, he has delivered a string of smart, thought provoking stories in the medium including Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, Second Coming with Ahoy Comics, Red Sonja from Dynamite Entertainment, Billionaire Island, Not All Robots from AWA Studios, and so much more.

We spent some time in this conversation talking about his two upcoming series which are Superman: Space Age on which he is work with legendary artist Mike Allred. And The Incal: Psychoverse that he is doing with Yanick Paquette.

If you are a fan of Mark Russell's work at all, you know that we had to touch on some current events and nature of human society. It was a lot of fun.
You can find some links and a partial transcription here.

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Ep. #026 SquadCast Interview with Cecil Castellucci

Our guest this episode is Cecil Castellucci, who is one of my favorite writers. We talked about a her new book Shifting Earth from Dark Horse Comics.

Cecil is a fantastic writer and never fails to capture my attention. I am very excited to get this recorded conversation to our audience. We delved into some of the interesting process that she uses to write and talked about her motivation for the stories she tells. We also talked about some of the non-comic things that she is doing.

She is one of the most interesting people I have every spoken to and we hope you enjoy listening to the conversation as much we enjoyed having it.

You can see the review and other info on popculturesquad.com