War Rocket Ajax is the world’s most explosive comic book and pop-culture podcast, featuring interviews with comics professionals, reviews, rankings and more.
The writer and artist behind the upcoming book Maids joins us on this show this week to talk about true crime, creating her own version of a well-known story, how to watch Sailor Moon, eye trauma, hating your boss and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a listener question about a major television event.
The writer of G.I. Joe, Paul Allor, joins us this week to talk about bringing a real-world feel to the series, how he'd fix Serpentor, his own appearance in the book, whether he'll do a silent issue, working with Hasbro, and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris choose how they'd become Captain Britain!
Based on your votes, we read the first half of Warren Ellis and Jon Davis-Hunt's The Wild Storm! What did we think? And will we read the second half next month? Listen and find out!
We took your listener questions this week for a full 90 minutes!
The writer and artist behind the new Comic Book History of Animation join us this week to discuss the drawing that inspired the book, doing research, finding the cut-off for a history book, Walt Disney, cartoons of the 1980s and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a listener question about Batman's origin!
Friends of the show Jennifer Wright and Daniel Kibblesmith, who you may know from their many books and comics and also from attending a Garfield convention with us, join us this week to explain the utterly bonkers first season of the Epix original series Pennyworth. Strap in for a wild ride. Plus, Matt and Chris take the most serious This or That yet.
Who wants to hear us argue about Heathcliff for 20 minutes? If the answer is you, you're in luck.
The segment where we ranked the decades of Spider-Man proved to be so popular, we made an entire episode out of it! So on this week's show, Matt and Chris are going through the decades, from the 1960s through the 2010s, and deciding whether Marvel or DC had the stronger output. Some surprises are in store!
This Gerry Duggan/Juan Ferreyra joint from 2019 was the winner of our catch-up poll this month, and we read it and ranked it, as is our charge. It's the Punisher vs. fantasy monsters!
Ryan North returns to War Rocket Ajax this week to talk about the conclusion of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, his upcoming comic adaptation of Slaughterhouse Five, that time he was in a hole and how it almost became a TV show, the worst invention, his Wikipedia page and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take on a D&D related This or That!
We're christening our new show Twitter account -- yes, we finally had to break down and get one, which we'll explain -- by taking your listener questions on this week's show!
Friend of the show and upcoming Spider-Woman writer Karla Pacheco joins us for the show this week, and no, we didn't use the episode title we suggested, which would definitely get us banned from Apple Podcasts, and maybe podcasting in general. But it's in the show, along with talk about a meteoric rise to writing for Marvel, Jessica Drew's new costume, killing off characters, boat life, seecrets, and so much more! Plus, Matt and Chris take on a Catwoman-related This or That!
It's a new year. We're ranking comic book stories. And we're, uh, earning our explicit tag this time around.
We couldn't be more pleased to welcome Matthew Rosenberg, writer of 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank, The Punisher, Uncanny X-Men and the current Hawkeye: Freefall to the show! We talk about bringing together various versions of Hawkeye, The Hood, Mark Gruenwald comics, Clint as the everyman, researching stories, and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris answer a question about one of our favorite topics: Utility supervillains!
We had both already read some of it, but this month, we caught up on all five issues of the Kieron Gillen/Caspar Wijngaard Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt series! It's about formalism, and is really comics scholarship in the form of a comics story. So we talk about that!
Independent comics writer Mark O. Stack joins us this week to talk about the Weekend Warrior anthology he funded on Kickstarter, as well as an offshoot Weekend Warrior Presents series he's starting! We discuss the realities of Kickstarter, self-publishing, money in comics and a whole lot more! It gets real. Plus, the first-ever This or That segment, about street toughs.
It's our annual awards show, on the grandest stage of them all! Listeners submit the categories, and everything from 2019 battles it out for the title! Plus, it's our first episode on the Greenlit Podcast Network! The showcase of the immortals!
It sure is still 2019! And we're ranking as many comic stories as we can in two hours to close out the decade.
As is tradition, Matt Fraction joins us for our annual Christmas special, and this year, we're reviewing the new Rob Halford Christmas album, Celestial, track by track! Plus we inadvertently learn a lot about the upcoming film Keep Hope Alive.
After four years in office, Panel President's term has come to an end. We take all the lists we can as we wrap up the segment this week!
We read two Christmas stories featuring two of our favorite characters for Catch-Up this month. Did we feel the spirit of the holiday in these stories? Listen and find out!
The writer of Superman Smashes the Klan, Gene Luen Yang, joins us for the show this week to talk about adapting a radio serial to comics, what drew him to the story, all the different versions of Superman he's written, making a story set in the '40s relevant to today, what type of bender he'd be and a lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a question about one of their faves: G.I. Joe!
It's time to give thanks, shop and rank some comic books!
Panel President is only going to be going for a few more short weeks, so we're ranking characters this week to get through as many lists as we can!
Jeff Parker returns to the show this week to talk to Chris about James Bond: Origin, the decade-spanning trend of bros icing bros, biscuits, theme songs and a whole lot more! Plus, Elle Collins fills in for Matt for checks, recs and comics reviews!
We're once again making some recommendations (and anti-recs) for most of the episode this week!
We read the full eight issues of the 2014 Thor series, and our feelings about it might surprise you!
The writer of the new Comixology series Afterlift returns to the show this week to talk about Spider-Man: Life Story, getting ideas before bed, his favorite childhood comics, sending companies to jail and a whole lot more!
It's spooky season, and we overcame the spookiest thing of all: getting this special where we rank comic stories up by the end of the month!
Our traditional Halloween guest, Benito Cereno, returns once again! This year, we're talking about various cryptids and local legends to get us into the spooky spirit of the holiday!
