TJ 249 - Mike Costa Interview by Wordburglar - COBRA: THE LAST LAUGH

New (sort of) episode! Wordburglar interviews Mike Costa - COBRA: THE LAST LAUGH Audio only episodes via your Podcaster of choice; links at https://talkingjoe.co.uk/ Or on Wordburglar's channel with talking head videos https://youtu.be/8eYJkEkM5cY Sean J. Burg interviews Mike Costa; A rare, extensive and enlightening comics conversation with writer Mike Costa, focused on his seminal IDW comics G.I.JOE work, COBRA: THE LAST LAUGH series. This is an encore audio only presentation on an interview previously broadcast in August 2023 for ARMOR3*. Friend of the show, Wordburglar, had the chance to interview comic book writer Mike Costa about his seminal IDW comics work on COBRA THE LAST LAUGH and beyond. In this extensive (enterprises) interview, Mike provided a lot of awesome insight into his stories, the origins of the book, how he worked with co-write Christos Gage, and how he worked with Hasbro, the characters, and more. *This was originally part of Codename Iowa's ARMOR 3 online convention alongside many other video segments ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJqdbYpr-Ck / https://www.codenameiowa.com) . Wordburglar also has a video version on his own channel (https://youtu.be/8eYJkEkM5cY ) . The videos are talking heads - so you aren't missing on any additional visuals with Audio only version. Wordburglar: Sean Jordan better known by his stage name Wordburglar, is a . and GI Joe fan and Canadian hip hop artist, mixing killer beats and lyics with all things geek; and best known to GI Joe community for album Welcome to Cobra Island (featuring somgs such as I Don't Wanna Go to Cobra-La). His latest video, 1980 FORCE is a GI joe filled delight,if you have not seen it, head on over to youTube to check it out – it is taken from his latest comic book themed album, The Spinner rack can be found over at Bandcamp. Wordburglar can be found on Talking joe episodes 89 and 239. As a bonus we include at the end of the interview Wordburglar's track from WELCOME TO COBRA ISLAND - Track 12 - Chuckles (The Last Laugh) (beat by Fresh Kils) http://wordburglar.com/ Mike Costa & Cobra: Mike Costa’s work on cobra started with GI Joe issue 0, spinning off into GI Joe Cobra 1-4, followed by Volume 2 1-13 the conclusion of which led into the Cobra civil war and 21 issues of volume 3, nine issues of GI Joe Cobra Files and concluding with 5 issues of Snake Eyes: Agent of Cobra. The initial run, with co-writer Christos Gabe and Artist Antonio Fuso was collected as Cobra: The Last Laugh in a hard to find hardcover from IDW- and represents the most significant GI Joe storytelling since the early Marvel run from Larry Hama https://comicvine.gamespot.com/mike-costa/4040-52883/issues-cover/