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2 Guns writer Steven Grant is also Mockingbird’s daddy! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interviews by Bo

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Today's Guest: Comic book writer Steven Grant, creator of 2 Guns, co-creator of Marvel's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' character Mockingbird, writer of Spider-Man, The Punisher, Green Lantern, Cops for Criminals, Enemy and more.

 

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with STEVEN GRANT by clicking on the video player above! 

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of angry anti-heroes whose only available weapons are their fists, their wits and barrels of ink … in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

What I knew about comic book writer Steven Grant before inviting him to be a guest could be summed up pretty simply:

He wrote a run of X for Dark Horse Comics when the publisher briefly flirted with creating a superhero universe of its own that included Ghost and Barb Wire under the “Comics’ Greatest World” imprint. It was always the first comic I read the week it was published. In a sea of spandex and X-dubbed characters, his stood above the rest.

That, and he wrote always provocative online columns about comic books called “Permanent Damage” and “Master of the Obvious.”
STEVEN GRANT podcast excerpt: "I co-created Mockingbird. She's always been a favorite of mine; I've never thought they handled her properly, although I did 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and what I've seen they've done with her on TV, I've liked. Adrianne Palicki is wonderful in the part. I saw her 'Wonder Woman' pilot and she's much, much better as Mockingbird."
You can LISTEN to this interview with comic book writer STEVEN GRANT, creator of 2 GUNS, by clicking the audio player above!

Digging a little deeper, I discovered he was a member of the Madison, Wisconsin, comics mafia, which is sort of like the Indiana University journalism mafia at many American newspapers.

Anyway, Grant’s byline has appeared in a stunning number of venues, from Trouser Press and Jim Steranko’s Mediascene to a com

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