Afua Richardson joins us for this week's show, and while you may know her as the cover artist of Black Panther: World of Wakanda and artist of Genius from Image Comics among other comics projects, she's also worn many, many other hats including singer, voice actress, beatboxer, floutist, and the list goes on. Also, she's on a first-name basis with KRS-One, which obviously makes her one of our favorite guests. In addition to all that, we also talk about taking breaks from work, adding symbolism t...
Jan 16, 2017•1 hr 36 min
From the Matt D. Wilson Memorial Auditorium, our annual award show, the Flash Gordon Memorial Awards, kicks off 2017 on War Rocket Ajax! Listeners submit the categories, we choose the winners!
Jan 09, 2017•1 hr 58 min
We're finishing out the year by adding more stories to our list of every comic book story ever published!
Dec 31, 2016•2 hr 13 min
We're trading gifts and jamming out to Christmas music in this special minisode!
Dec 23, 2016•31 min
It's time for the 8th(!) annual War Rocket Ajax War on Christmas Special, and we're back with another movie commentary! This time out, Matt Fraction joins us to watch the 1984 classic Gremlins, a movie Chris was too scared to watch back in his youth. What will he think now? Stay tuned to find out!
Dec 19, 2016•2 hr 14 min
With the holidays just around the corner, we asked the hosts of the HARK! podcast, RJ and Ian, to come on the show to talk about their ever-growing list of Christmas, holiday and winter songs! Plus, we requested that they go over Pitchfork's list of the "50 best holiday songs of all time" with us, to see just how wrong they got it. Also, we take a listener question that adds a little comics content to the show!
Dec 12, 2016•1 hr 40 min
We're ranking more characters in our last Panel President special of the year!
Dec 05, 2016•1 hr 38 min
November's almost over, so we're back ranking stories for our ever-growing list of comics yarns!
Nov 28, 2016•2 hr 3 min
We more or less took the week off for Thanksgiving, but we couldn't just leave you hanging, so here's a bite-sized episode with some thanks, some announcements and some possible plans for 2017!
Nov 28, 2016•25 min
The writer of the Inspector Pancakes series, Dreadful Sirens and the upcoming Project Tingler, Karla Pacheco, joins us once again! We talk with her at length about boat living, tragic phone loss, cross-country adventures, working with the enigmatic Chuck Tingle, irony, hotel fires, Joey Ryan, and eventually, her upcoming story in the Gwenpool Holiday Special! Plus, we take a couple listener questions!
Nov 21, 2016•1 hr 37 min
We thought about renaming our character-ranking segment after the events of last week, but, well, we're not the ones who suck, so we're back this week with a Panel President special! We get through a whole big list of Green Lanterns, take aim at some retcon characters and determine whether some characters really are overrated.
Nov 14, 2016•1 hr 41 min
After a long absence from the show, Edison Rex writer Chris Roberson makes his triumphant return to War Rocket Ajax to talk with us about moving Edison Rex to webcomics, coming on to co-write Hellboy, working with dream artists, his new novel Firewalk, Superman S-shields, the iZombie TV show and so much more! Plus, we take a listener question about event tie-ins!
Nov 07, 2016•1 hr 37 min
It's Halloween, and that can only mean one thing: Benito Cereno joins us once again (or does he?)! He talks with us about the webcomic he launched this year with artist Joel Priddy, The Mummy's Sabbatical, as well as mummies in general, monster categories, spooky movie recommendations, the worst candy, the history of zombies and much more! Plus, we add five more killer characters to the Panel President list!
Oct 31, 2016•1 hr 50 min
Comic book stories--some of them very spooky--are once again ranked in our monthly, two-hour special! (And to be clear, I know the game on The Simpsons was called Bonestorm.)
Oct 30, 2016•2 hr 2 min
With one week left before Halloween, we're dedicating this week's episode to one of our favorite spooky movies of all time: 1979's Phantasm! It's just been re-released with a remastered special edition, so we're providing a commentary track while we answer some questions from listeners on Twitter! The remastered edition of Phantasm is available for $2 (SD) on Google Play, so watch along!
Oct 24, 2016•1 hr 44 min
It's a small world after all, because we're welcoming back our pals from Devastator Press, Geoffery Golden and Amanda Meadows, to talk about their new book, Dream It! Screw It!: 30 Years of Rejected Disney Park Ideas by Imagineer Dipp Disney! We talk a lot about theme parks vs. amusement parks, what makes Disney parks special, satire and legal stuff, live-action Disney movies, writing jokes you're proud of, and so much more! Plus, Chris and Matt take a couple listener questions!
Oct 17, 2016•1 hr 36 min
We're once again taking the full interview segment to elect or impeach the best and worst comics characters! Among them: Adam Warlock, Jesse Custer, Kamala Khan, Booster Gold, and there are lots more to boot!
Oct 10, 2016•1 hr 48 min
America's number one draw-draw boy Andy Hirsch saddles up to talk with us this week about his new graphic novel, Varmints! Of course, before we get to that, we absolutely must talk with him about his work on one of our many fascinations, Garfield. Then we chat about doing musical sequences in comics, Westerns in other genres, the serious newspaper comics, drawing horses and so much more! Plus, we take an intriguing listener question!
Oct 03, 2016•1 hr 36 min
We're back once again to rank lists of comic book stories sent in by our listeners! These specials are made possible by our supporters on Patreon! If you'd like to help out, go to patreon.com/warrocketajax.
Sep 29, 2016•2 hr
While Matt is on holiday, Chris is joined by emergency back-up co-host Kieran Shiach to talk to Tom Fowler about his work on the latest volume of the Rick and Morty comic, as well as creepy con convention sketches and playing the long game with commissions. Plus, Kieran and Chris take a listener question!
Sep 26, 2016•1 hr 33 min
Our good friend Kyle "Hollywood Eisner nominated Sexcastle the Rick and Morty franchise" Starks is back this week to talk about his work on his new book Kill Them All, Rick & Morty and more, but most importantly, we spend quite a while discussing the wonders of Jungle Jim's, a massive and wondrous grocery store in Hamilton, Ohio. We also talk about action movie adaptations, Metallica, Oni's licensed comics and the list goes on. Plus, Chris and Matt answer a listener question!
Sep 19, 2016•1 hr 34 min
Colorist and writer Nathan Fairbairn drops by this week to talk about his new Image Comics series Lake of Fire, working with Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, learning how to color comics, how lettering helps with writing, characters who don't know anything, the color of success, and so much more! Then, Chris and Matt add a new set of characters to the Panel President list!
Sep 12, 2016•1 hr 43 min
Recorded live in Easton, Pennsylvania, it's the War Rocket Ajax King of Trios 2016 spectacular! After three days of pro wrestling, Chris sits down with an all-star roster of a dozen guests to talk about the event, including emergency backup cohosts Elle Collins and Kieran Shiach, Hard Times co-host Megan Nielsen, Animal Crackers co-host Helena Hart, and more! Find out why one of our favorite moments of the weekend came from an extremely unlikely degenerate, and maybe, just maybe, #WinADateWithGa...
Sep 05, 2016•1 hr 16 min
We're back once again to rank listener-submitted lists of comic book stories!
Aug 30, 2016•2 hr 5 min
Our pal Kelly Thompson is back to talk about her work on Jem, the upcoming Star Wars Annual #2 and Mega Princess! Plus, we talk about the freelancer's sleep cycle, crossovers, fictional countries, lightning-fast deadlines and so much more! Then Matt and Chris take a few listener questions!
Aug 29, 2016•1 hr 33 min
War Rocket Ajax favorite Fred Van Lente returns to this show this week to (nominally) talk about his new Valiant Comics series Generation Zero! We also chat about a chance encounter with actor Dirk Benedict at a comic convention, writing villains, combining genres, the worst time travel tropes, the connection between Incredible Hercules and Archer and Armstrong, and so much more! Plus, some Robins get added to the Panel President list!
Aug 22, 2016•1 hr 41 min
A move is completed, a birthday is here, a book nears completion, and Matt and Chris are taking your listener questions for this week's show!
Aug 15, 2016•1 hr 28 min
Ajax 3:16 says we just posted a podcast! And we've got a good one for you: Our old pal Jeremy Whitley, the writer of Princeless and the upcoming Unstoppable Wasp series, drops by to chat with us! We talk about our favorite Stone Cold moments (of course), pitch a movie starring Barack Obama and The Rock, discuss writing processes, freak out about dream collaborations and so much more! Plus, we answer some of your listener questions!
Aug 08, 2016•1 hr 34 min
We're a little late this time around, but not any less enthusiastic to rank lists of comic book stories sent to us by listeners!
Aug 03, 2016•2 hr 1 min
Matt's back to help Chris rank some characters in this Panel President special!
Aug 01, 2016•1 hr 46 min
