{"id":2618,"date":"2010-01-13T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2010-01-12T23:14:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T04:14:06","slug":"i-interviewed-comic-book-legend-gerry-conway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/13\/i-interviewed-comic-book-legend-gerry-conway\/","title":{"rendered":"I interviewed comic book legend Gerry Conway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/firestormfan.com\/2010\/01\/13\/gerry-conway-firestorm-interview\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Firestorm Fan Interview with Gerry Conway\" src=\"http:\/\/firestormfan.com\/images\/logo_260.gif\" alt=\"Firestorm Fan Interview with Gerry Conway\" width=\"260\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a>Sorry for no post yesterday.\u00a0 Time lost to three hours of <em>Chuck<\/em>, two hours of <em>Battlestar Galactica: The Plan<\/em>, several <em>Blackest Night<\/em> crossover issues, and a sick child all caught up with me.\u00a0 Sometimes other things just get in the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To pour salt in that wound, I&#8217;m not even going to give you a real post today.\u00a0 Instead I&#8217;m going to direct you over to my other blog <a title=\"Firestorm Fan interview with Gerry Conway\" href=\"http:\/\/firestormfan.com\/2010\/01\/13\/gerry-conway-firestorm-interview\/\">FIRESTORM FAN<\/a> where I&#8217;ve posted the first part of my interview with the amazing <strong>Gerry Conway<\/strong>!\u00a0 Gerry Conway is a comic book legend!\u00a0 He was one of the most prolific comic book writers of the 1970s and 80s.  His writing credits go on for miles! He\u2019s probably best known for co-creating the Punisher and scripting the death of Gwen Stacy in the <em>Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>.  He also wrote for and produced such TV series as <em>Law &amp; Order<\/em> and <em>Diagnosis Murder<\/em>.  Back in 1977, Gerry created Firestorm the Nuclear Man along with artist Al Milgrom.  Gerry continued to write the character of Firestorm for about nine years.  Gerry recently returned to comics after an almost 20 year absence with the insightful mini-series, <em>The Last Days of Animal Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gerry was kind enough to sit down and talk with me for about 80 minutes about Firestorm the Nuclear Man!\u00a0 We discussed things like Firestorm\u2019s creation, artists, the writing process, creator rights, the DC Implosion, merchandise, where the character has journeyed since his involvement, and much more! I believe any comic book reader, even if you aren\u2019t a fan of Firestorm, would genuinely enjoy this interview.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So head over to <a title=\"Gerry Conway Interview at Firestorm Fan.com\" href=\"http:\/\/firestormfan.com\/2010\/01\/13\/gerry-conway-firestorm-interview\/\">FIRESTORM FAN.com<\/a> and check out comic book legend Gerry Conway.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2618\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/13\/i-interviewed-comic-book-legend-gerry-conway\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li 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Conway Interview on Comics and TV Career","date":"April 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently had another opportunity to interview Gerry Conway, comics and TV legend!\u00a0 This time Michael Bailey (from the Views from the Longbox podcast) and I interviewed Gerry together.\u00a0 Gerry was extraordinarily generous with his time sitting down with us for about two hours.\u00a0 What a great guy!\u00a0 Previously I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Gerry Conway Interview on Comics and TV Career","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/firestormfan.com\/images\/gerryconway.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4857,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/28\/i-interviewed-comic-book-legend-john-ostrander\/","url_meta":{"origin":2618,"position":1},"title":"I interviewed comic book legend John Ostrander!","date":"January 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Sorry I haven't been posting here lately (more on that 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Instead I\u2019m going to direct you over to my other blog FIRESTORM FAN where I\u2019ve posted my interview with comic book\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/firestormfan.com\/images\/logo_260.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3172,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/13\/they-say-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words\/","url_meta":{"origin":2618,"position":2},"title":"They Say a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words&#8230;","date":"April 13, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"... I tend to agree on this one. I'm re-reading this crossover again and loving it!\u00a0 The tabloid-sized\/treasury comics of the 1970s are the coolest!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/superman_spider-man.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3591,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/09\/podcast-appearances-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":2618,"position":3},"title":"Listen Up &#8211; Podcast Appearances on Star Wars, Gerry Conway, Years in Review, Blackest Night, and more","date":"June 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Listen up folks!\u00a0 I recently appeared on an episode of the fantastic and hilarious podcast TWO TRUE FREAKS! Hosts Scott Gardner and Chris Honeywell were kind enough to invite me to join them for Star Wars Monthly Monday #20 (Two True Freaks episode #122).\u00a0 In this episode we talked about\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Two True Freaks Star Wars Monthly Monday","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/ttfsw20.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4723,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/21\/discount-comic-boxes\/","url_meta":{"origin":2618,"position":4},"title":"I Miss Discount Comic Boxes","date":"December 21, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Anyone else miss discount comic boxes?\u00a0 Remember when you'd go into a comic book store and troll through the 25 cent or 50 cent bins?\u00a0 I'd spend hours and hours pouring over those boxes trying to fill in collections or find new books to try.\u00a0 That's where I found most\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Super-Team Family #15 by Gerry Conway, Arvell Jones, and Romeo Tanghal","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/super-team-family-15.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1498,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/03\/spent-time-reading-comics-this-past-weekend\/","url_meta":{"origin":2618,"position":5},"title":"Spent Time Reading Comics This Past Weekend","date":"August 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Instead of blogging about comics, this weekend I actually read some!\u00a0 I've literally got stacks and stacks of comics I'm behind on reading.\u00a0 All together I flew through 44 comics this weekend.\u00a0 I really enjoyed immersing myself in the comic book world. 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