Episode 213 - The Thunder Rolls
As a thunderstorm crashes around them, Matt and Chris add a whole bunch of new stories to their list of Every Story Ever this week!
Jul 14, 2014•1 hr 34 min
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Episode 212 - Being There f/Brandon Stroud
Brandon Stroud, writer of With Leather’s “Best and Worst of Raw” column and the new horror movie Meet Me There, joins us for this week’s show! We talk about wooing Dustin Rhodes and Jill Thompson to be in his movie, Rob Liefeld, how Todd McFarlane’s art is like fashion, what it’s like to write a low-budget movie, and much more! Plus, three more entries to our ever-growing list of Every Story Ever!
Jul 07, 2014•1 hr 45 min
Episode 211 - Batdance f/Douglas Wolk
Our guest this week is the an accomplished critic and commentator, as well as the writer of Judge Dredd Mega City Two: City of Courts, Douglas Wolk! We talk to him a ton about the history of Judge Dredd and 2000 AD, balancing being a critic and a creator at the same time, fans becoming creators, the moving target of authorship, and, of course, Prince. Plus, more entries into our Every Story Ever list!
Jun 30, 2014•1 hr 42 min
Episode 210 - Live From The Hotel
It's our annual special from the Heroes Convention in Charlotte, NC! Join us for about 45 minutes of revelry with Chad Bowers from the Westin Hotel, and check out the show notes below to watch the videos we discuss! We'll be back with a guest and Every Story Ever next week!
Jun 23, 2014•42 min
Episode 209 - One Centaur, One Minotaur f/Benjamin Marra
This week, we're welcoming Ben Marra, the writer and artist of such comics as Night Business, Blades and Lazers, Gangsta Rap Posse, The Incredibly Fantastic Adventures of Maureen Dowd (A Work of Satire and Fiction) and many others! We talk about influences, video stores, making Nazis bad guys, the appeal of trash, and much more! Plus, three more Byrne-tastic entries into our Every Story Ever list!
Jun 16, 2014•1 hr 40 min
Episode 208 - Let Me Watch This Stupid Garbage f/Meg Lovell
Matt has returned from a long and arduous move, and he and Chris are talking to the writer and artist of the webcomic Tagged! this week, Meg Lovell! They talk about being a wrestling fan, calling a comic on Tumblr "Tagged," Patrick Swayze, Sailor Moon, The Shield, and much more! Plus, Every Story Ever returns!
Jun 09, 2014•1 hr 36 min
Episode 207 - Episode 207 - King Kirby f/Fred Van Lente, Crystal Skillman, Amy Lee Pearsall and Steve Rattazzi
This week, Chris and special guest host Kieran Shiach welcome the writers and two cast members from the play King Kirby! They have a big old time talking about the King of Comics.
Jun 02, 2014•1 hr 38 min
Episode 206 - Dinosaur in a Spacesuit f/Ryan North
Ryan North, writer of The Midas Flesh, Adventure Time and Dinosaur Comics, is on the show this week to talk about all-ages comics, being tall, genocide, the Canadian video game tip line, comics being autobiographical, comics not being autobiographical, and much more! Plus, an X-Men themed Every Story Ever list!
May 19, 2014•1 hr 37 min
Episode 205 - Everything Can Betray You f/Jai Nitz
Our guest this week is Dream Thief and Toshiro writer Jai Nitz! We talk at length about Hellboy, John Byrne, getting con commissions, and eventually even a little bit about his comics. Plus, three more entries are added to our list of Every Story Ever!
May 12, 2014•1 hr 37 min
Episode 204 - The Gift of Thrillpower f/Arthur Wyatt
On this week's show, we're gazing into the fist of Dredd with Dredd: Underbelly writer Arthur Wyatt! We're talking a whole lot about the many writers who have penned stories for 2000 AD, how Dredd is an outsider's look at America, moving to the U.S. from the U.K., the decision process for making a comics sequel to Dredd, and much more! Plus, a new set of entries into our Every Story Ever list!
May 05, 2014•1 hr 42 min
Episode 203 - Edit-Free ESE
Because Matt spent the weekend at C2E2 and couldn't edit the show this week, he and Chris and doing a special edit-free Every Story Ever special this week! Among the comics we discuss, the best (?) Mark Millar comic, Superman Red Son, and the worst Grant Morrison comic. Which one is that? Listen and find out!
Apr 28, 2014•1 hr 27 min
Episode 202 - Bro-Based Observation f/Jeff Parker and Evan 'Doc' Shaner
This week, the writer and artist behind Dynamite's new Flash Gordon series, Jeff Parker and Evan "Doc" Shaner, are our guests! We're talking about Flash's shirt, logos, Timothy Dalton, bros, the forgotten art of "icing," Queen, EC Comics, and so much more! Plus, more comic stories get added to our Every Story Ever list!
Apr 21, 2014•1 hr 39 min
Episode 201 - 20 Pages of Bloodshed f/Michel Fiffe
This week, we're really excited to welcome the one-man powerhouse behind COPRA and the writer of the just-launched All New Ultimates series, Michel Fiffe! We talk about writing comics at a breakneck pace, his insane schedule, the difference between working for yourself and working for Marvel, street gangs, Street Fighter, and so much more! Plus, two more stories join our Every Story Ever list!
Apr 14, 2014•1 hr 38 min
Episode 200 - Portland Joe's Time Machines and Unicycles
This week, Chris is back from his trip to the Pacific Northwest with a lot of stories and a particularly odd souvenir: A time machine! How will he and Matt put it to use? Who will they meet on their journey? Listen and find out!
Apr 07, 2014•1 hr 43 min
Episode 199 - Leatherwood's and Fantasy Zone f/Laura Hudson
Chris is at Emerald City Comic-Con this week, so Matt invited David Wolkin to come co-host the show with him! During the interview segment, Matt and David chat with Wired's Laura Hudson about how the three of them got started with comics! We discuss Psylocke, sleepovers, supermarkets, Guy Gardner, cartoons, Suicide Squad and much more!
Mar 31, 2014•1 hr 34 min
Episode 198 - Michael 'Pro-Wrestling Show" Hayes f/Chris Haley and Danielle Matheson
It's our annual Wrestlemania show this week and we're welcoming The Mandible Claw and WithLeather's Danielle Matheson and Let's Be Friends Again and The Gravity Falls Gossiper's Chris Haley to talk about it! It's a lot of wrestling talk this week, folks. There's no way around it! Also, lots of jokes.
Mar 24, 2014•1 hr 39 min
Episode 197 - A New Number One
This week, Chris and Matt are working their way through a few more Every Story Ever lists, and in a huge surprise, a story makes its way into the number one spot after an exhausting debate! You may be surprised as to what it is! Also: A few stories make a charge for the bottom spot on the list!
Mar 17, 2014•1 hr 30 min
Episode 196 - Ninja Poetry f/Adam P. Knave and D.J. Kirkbride
The writers behind Monkeybrain Comics' Amelia Cole, Adam P. Knave and D.J. Kirkbride, join us for the show this week! This is a crazy one, folks. We talk about interviewing Laurell K. Hamilton, Lloyd Kaufman, cardigans, personalized jackets, comedy writing, ninjas, and, if we get the chance, their comic. Plus, more Every Story Ever!
Mar 10, 2014•1 hr 38 min
Episode 195 - Nintendo Knows f/ Aaron Diaz
The writer and artist behind Dresden Codak, Aaron Diaz, joins us this week! We talk about what goes into designing and redesigning characters, people believing that his Zelda art was for an actual game, men's rights activists, falling in love with Daniel Bryan, Power Girl, martial arts, and much more! Plus, a JMS-fueled set of entries in Every Story Ever!
Mar 03, 2014•1 hr 36 min
Episode 194 - Laugh of the Wife Ant f/AssailAnt
This week, we welcome Chikara Pro Wrestling’s resident Big Blu ant, AssailANT! We talk with him about Chikara’s Phoenix-like rise, what comics he’s reading, manga, his journey from villain to hero, what wrestling move he’d like to be able to do to annoying people on the street, and much more! Plus, more entries into the list of Every Story Ever!
Feb 24, 2014•1 hr 42 min
Episode 193 - Iced Out
We had to postpone our normal episode this week because the ice storm in South Carolina knocked out Chris’ internet, but we did manage to add some more stories to our Every Story Ever master list!
Feb 17, 2014•33 min
Episode 192 - Get Me Off This Crazy Thing f/R.J. Ryan, Dave Marquez and Tara Rhymes
On this week’s episode, we welcome the creative team behind Archaia’s upcoming graphic novel, The Joyners in 3D: R.J. (Josh) Ryan, David Marquez, and Tara Rhymes! We talk to them about why they decided to do a 3D comic, the 3D comics that inspired them, the process of making the comic 3D, The Jetsons, why George Joyner is such a powerful character, the most disappointing movies we’ve seen, and much more! Plus, more entries into the list of Every Story Ever!
Feb 10, 2014•1 hr 38 min
Episode 191 - Dames 'n' Such
This week, Chris and Matt are giving in and interviewing each other about their new comics, Down Set Fight and Copernicus Jones: Robot Detective! We talk about how Copernicus Jones started as a parody and turned into something else entirely, how Dog City and Who Framed Roger Rabbit were our introduction to noir, Down Set Fight’s early life as an NFL Superpro pitch, and how cartoony flashbacks actually make a family story work a little better. Plus, more entries in our ever-expanding catalog of E...
Feb 03, 2014•1 hr 39 min
Episode 190 - Pokemon, Gimme a Hell Yeah f/Mike Lawrence
Comedian Mike Lawrence joins us for this week’s show to talk about doing comedy at comic conventions, being heckled by the Hulk, telling jokes about wrestling and comics in clubs, the Clone Saga being like cocaine, who’ll win the Royal Rumble even though it already happened last night, whether superhero movies make it easier to do comedy about comics, and much more! Plus, three more things get added to the list of Every Story Ever!
Jan 27, 2014•1 hr 39 min
Episode 189 - Evil Jesus and Buckethead f/Shawn Gabborin and Chad Cicconi
The creative team behind the Action Lab series Fracture joins us for this week’s show! We talk about the comic-book history of heroes with multiple personalities, how to show those different personalities in art, putting hilarious characters in the background, ramping up craziness, whether Gambit is a good addition to a story or not, a barbecue conundrum and much more! Plus, we kick off a brand new segment for 2014!
Jan 20, 2014•1 hr 34 min
Episode 188 - The 2013 Gordie Awards
It’s time once again to hand out the annual Flash Gordon Memorial Awards for Achievement in Things We Could Remember from 2013! Listen as we try to think of stuff that happened this past year (or maybe in late 2012 or early 2014, but it all counts)!
Jan 13, 2014•1 hr 44 min
Episode 187 - The 2013 Yuletide Solstice Podmass Podcast Podbash Bash Blast Cast Jax f/Matt Fraction and Maggie Serota
For this year’s Christmas special, we all challenged each other to create the worst Christmas mixtapes we could. We succeeded.
Dec 23, 2013•2 hr 24 min
Episode 186 - The Hearts of Lions f/Greg Pak
Action Comics and Code Monkey Save World writer Greg Pak joins us this week! We talk at length about Lana Lang, what makes a good supporting character, how collaborating on comics is like making a movie, Superman’s best trait and favorite video game, Terra Man, and much more! Plus, a Christmas-themed Love Haters!
Dec 16, 2013•1 hr 36 min
Episode 185 - Do You Know the Internet? f/Chris Roberson and Dennis Culver
The creative team behind Monkeybrain’s Edison Rex comes by to talk to us this week about building a superhero universe, character designs, falling into naming characters after comic book publishers, whether supervillains can really find redemption, food freshness, The Goonies, and much more! Plus, the War Rocket Ajax Love Haters go full Kanye!
Dec 09, 2013•1 hr 34 min
Episode 184 - Don't Get Us Started
We’re answering your listener questions in our Thanksgiving-week special this week! Thanks for listening to us and helping make the show what it is!
Nov 25, 2013•1 hr 36 min
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