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 creator of The Legend of La Mariposa, James Lawrence, joins us for the show this week to talk about getting into lucha libre in Britain, El Santo movies, living the gimmick, Zubaz pants, Ribera Steakhouse, designing luchadors and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris judge a Great Indoor Fight bout!
It's Pride Month, and your suggestion of a LGBTQ+ series for us to read was this 12-issue mini by Steve Orlando and Riley Rossmo, which explores identities human and otherwise!
We're finishing up the second half of the first full year of Mark Gruenwald Captain America on the show this week, and it's got all kinds of great stuff! Scourge! U.L.T.I.M.A.T.U.M.! Super-Patriot! Paste Pot Pete! Diplomacy! Join us for the fun!
Our old pal, werewolf expert Kel McDonald, returns to the show this week to talk about You Are The Chosen One, The Dead Deception, Patreon, werewolf movies, birthdays, themed bars, drawing cars, and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a listener question that combines two major interests!
The writer and artist behind the new Dark Horse graphic novel Everyone Is Tulip join us on the show this week to talk about being part of the comics club, Star Trek, fame, the harsh realities of comics, misdirection gags, and much more! Plus, Matt and Chris judge a lopsided Great Indoor Fight bout!
Matt and Chris are closing out May talking about some of the pop culture they've been consuming over the past few months!
We're ranking stories once again, and this one's basically live to tape, since we didn't have a ton of time to edit. Enjoy!
We're digging back into the Mark Gruenwald run on Captain America this week, and this time, we're reading the first six issues from 1986. They've got a lot more Serpent Society, the return of Armadillo, a breakup, jugglers, van life, and more!
This week, we're taking your listener questions about comic book lettering, AEW, video games based on comics, the Queen of England and a whole lot more!
By listener request, we're reading as much as we can of this Wildstorm mini-series by John Paul Leon and Brett Lewis.
This week, we devoted our entire interview segment to judging as many Great Indoor Fight battles as we possibly could!
Two of the minds behind the indie comics collective Ghostfruits join us on the show to talk about Ajax history, following your feelings, parody ads, Spider-Man: Torment, The Far Side, and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris judge two battles in the Great Indoor Fight!
We take on some highs and lows as we rank comic book stories submitted by our listeners once again this month!
Thanks to your votes, Matt and Chris are kicking off their re-read of the Mark Gruenwald Captain America run this week, starting with the six Gruenwald-written issues published in 1985, #307-312!
This month, we're catching up on the first eight issues of this recent DC Comics Digital First, which brings back the original Batman Adventures creative team!
Longtime Ajax pal Elle Collins drops by this week to talk about their new podcast Sword and Podcast, and the genres that inspired it. Also discussed: Mark Gruenwald, streaming services, Bianca Belair, Jason Momoa and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a listener question about More Content!
Ajax All-Star Chip Zdarsky returns to the show this week to talk about meeting Scott Speedman, hot dogs, going vegan, and his busy schedule! Oh, and all the comics he has coming out, including Batman: Urban Legends, The Silver Coin, Daredevil and more! Plus, Matt and Chris take two more competitors for the Great Indoor Fight!
The subject of and writer of the new autobiographical graphic novel Butts In Seats, Tony Schiavone and Dirk Manning, join us for the show this week! We talk about Tony's history with comics, Dirk's history with wrestling, adapting Tony's long career into a comic, Halloween Havoc 1993, how the title came to be, unicorns, and a whole lot more!
On this month's special, we've got Gambit stories, Sandman stuff and some '90s DC classics. (Note: We also accidentally re-ranked the Sandman story The Kindly Ones, much more generously this time. We're keeping the newer ranking.)
Ajax All-Star, the Franchise Hollywood Kyle Starks, joins us this week to talk about The Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton, working with his best friend Chris Schweizer, wanting cons to return, working with Skybound and a whole lot more! Plus, Chris and Matt judge a hard-fought Great Indoor Fight battle!
Chris and Matt are taking your questions on the show this week, and a lot of them invariably come back to DC Comics characters and their parents!
The writer and artist of the new Patreon-exclusive comic Settle joins us this week to talk about quitting comics, what brought him back, making art for yourself, working out grief through comics, the best sci-fi westerns and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take it back to the ComicsAlliance days with a listener question!
It took a little longer than planned, but we were finally able to catch up on this controversial Ahoy Comics series by Mark Russell, Richard Pace and Leonard Kirk!
How about a whole bunch of Great Indoor Fight bouts? That's what we're up to this week, pitting characters selected by our listeners against in other in battle.
The writer and artist of La Mano del Destino joins us once again this week to talk about his book being picked up by Top Cow, future plans for the project, a health scare during Kickstarter fulfillment, the best parts of the Spanish translation of the book, and a whole lot more! Plus, two Great Indoor Fight bouts!
Matt's back, and he's ranking comic book stories with Chris as they do every month!
This week, Chris and special guest host AC Sullivan take listener questions about movies, their dog, and more.
The author of True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee makes his return to the show this week to dig deep on Stan Lee's public persona, hair plugs, salesmanship, saying yes to everything, enthusiasm, Jack Kirby, and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a listener question about WandaVision!
The writer of the upcoming Bad Idea series Tankers joins us for the show this week to talk about his curious comics history, Paul Verhoeven, high-concept idea, fixing Hawkman, dragons and a whole lot more! Plus, Chris and Matt judge two new fighters in the Great Indoor Fight!
We're taking questions from our listeners this week, including discussing at length what would be in our utility belts, among many other topics.
