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 of School for Extraterrestrial Girls joins us this week to talk about his comics (briefly), challenging himself with fast food, samurai movies, the food of Christmas, characters he apparently hates, and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take at least one aggressive listener question!
Kat Kuhl, one of the creators of the new Roll20-exclusive role playing game Burn Bryte, joins us for the show this week to talk about building game systems, creating species of game characters, avoiding the standard "human" characters, gender fluidity in games, sci-fi settings and a lot more! Plus, Chris and Matt take a formidable This or That!
By your request, we read the first four issues of this fun and funny Boom Box series! Is this one volume a story? It's hard to say, but we did our best to rank this charming comic that definitely is paced more like a webcomic than a traditional comic book series.
Tom Scioli, the writer and artist of Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics, drops by the show this week to talk about research, doing nonfiction comics, the way he chose to draw Kirby, his favorite Transformer, Stan Lee's point of view, the Fantastic Four and a whole lot more! Plus, Chris and Matt take some of your listener questions!
Miracle of miracles: We actually got through all the extant This or That scenarios we've been sent in this week's special episode!
Gather round as we rank a grip of Peanuts strips, Giant-Size X-Men #1, the most infamous Penny Arcade comic, some DC humor comics from the 90s, and much more!
Friend of the show and writer of Headlocked Michael Kingston returns to War Rocket Ajax this week to discuss his new book on Kickstarter, Headlocked: Tales from the Road. We also discuss Bigfoot, working on comics with wrestlers, how comics and wrestling are similar, life on the road, watching Wrestlemania with Ric Flair and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a listener question about DC One Million!
Longtime friend of the show Kel McDonald drops by again this week to talk about her Patreon-exclusive comic You Are the Chosen One, along with werewolves (of course), anxiety, giving up, how many kid characters is too many, and more! Plus, Matt and Chris take an easy Achewood-themed This or That!
As of now, 2020 is not the year we got into Dragon Ball.
Shawn Pryor, creator of Cash & Carrie, joins us for the show this week to talk about Power Rangers, fancomics, that Fruity Pebbles Christmas ad, Kentucky Kaiju, quarantine life and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a follow-up question!
It's the last day of the month, and we're ranking comic stories once again, ranging from Captain America classics to very weird ads for boys' pants.
We're extremely pleased to welcome the creative team behind the upcoming Side Quest: A Visual History of Role Playing Games to the show this week to talk about the long history of RPGS, LARPing, the own relationships to tabletop gaming, dining choices, RPG art, and so much more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a listener question about a proposed Super-Verse.
For this week's show, Chris and Matt did a whole lot of deciding, because they took as many of your This or That scenarios as they could manage!
On this week's show, Matt and Chris are taking your listener questions about historical figures fighting wrestlers, superhero casting, what Batman comics to read next, and a whole lot more.
This month, we decided to catch up on this post-apocalyptic Black Mask series by Vita Ayala and Emily Pearson! It is shockingly relevant!
The creative team behind the comic series Black joins us this week to talk about sci-fi TV, donating proceeds from their t-shirt store to bail funds, The Wrong Earth, their sequel series White, long-term story planning, explaining superpowers, the X-Men, and a whole lot more! Plus Matt and Chris decide between two comic universes to live in!
The Franchise Kyle Starks drops by this week to discuss Karate Prom, his digital Free Comic Book Day offering, as well as dogs (of course), his top 4, setting deadlines for himself, the Presidential Fitness Test, the concept of a WrestleHeist and much more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a listener question about haircuts.
In which we spend an hour ranking Doomsday Clock. It's a weird time, everybody.
For our 500th episode, we're bringing back every segment we've ever done. They are, in order: Patreon Thanks, Earth Shattering News, Checks and Recs, The Hundo Club, MMA Update, Health Situation, Comics Reviews, a LootCrate ad, Interview (with Matt Fraction), Comics Roundtable (with Elle Collins and David Wolkin), Twitter Questions, Listener Questions, Big Ups To All My Haters, Making Fun of a Swimsuit Issue, Tales From the Comic Shop, What's Pissing Us Off This Week, Love Haters, Letters From T...
We took your listener questions as we await the huge event that is Ajax 500 next week!
The writer of Marauders joins us this week to talk about pitching Dawn of X, the concept of X-Men pirates, parrots, the dynamics of the Hellfire Club, how the X-writers work together, what pirate tattoo he'd get, LEGO sets and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris choose between to Captain Marvel scenarios!
You demanded it. We re-ranked it. How did Maximum Carnage fare on re-evaluation? Did it rule, or was it eviscerated?
Our longtime pals Allison Baker and Chris Roberson return to the show after a long absence this week to talk about Superman, Batman: Brave and the Bold, generational X-Men teams, the Wynona Earp and iZombie TV shows, the best adaptations, baking, and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take two listener questions!
Nothing can stop us from adding more comic book stories (and only comic book stories, not things that kinda seem like they might be comic book stories) to our ever-expanding list!
This week, we dedicated our full interview segment to taking as many This or That scenarios as we could! Plus, we announced an auction for a guest spot on Ajax #500! Check out @WarRocketPod on Twitter for details!
Our longtime pal Laura Hudson drops by this week to just shoot the breeze! We talk dogs, Picard, prestige TV, the ComicsAlliance days, watching Blue Bloods, Twilight and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a listener question about Blue Devil!
We wrap up our look at this 24-issue Warren Ellis/Jon Davis-Hunt series! We probably, honestly, just could have ranked it last time.
The writer of a little book you may have heard of called Batman joins us this week to talk about the TMNT/Batman crossover, some of his favorite characters, the idea behind The Designer, his indie books, pet names and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take on a movie-focused This or That!
On this week's show, we're taking your listener questions, which include a request for us to draft our own Justice Leagues. It proves more difficult than you might expect.
Wake up, wake up, wake up, it's the last of the month! And we're ranking comic book stories for two full hours.
