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Three of the members of the comic book collective GHOSTFRUITS (3nd, Sheda and Powell) join us for the show this week to talk about the new issue of their comic Enemy, football, the shorthand language groups develop by working together, ghosts, and Darkhawk. It is a wild ride. Also: the last two first-round matchups in the Great Indoor Fight!
This month, we finished out the Al Ewing run on Guardians of the Galaxy and came to our final judgment about what counts as a story to rank! We know it's good. We know that much. But how do we rank it?
We're ready! We have made it to Captain America #350 in our big re-read of the Mark Gruenwald run on the series, and there's more than enough there to fill an interview segment! Because we did, and then some.
As we head into the holidays, we're finishing up some Every Spooky Evers from last month before diving into some character debuts and much more as we continue to rank every comic book story ever published!
We took Thanksgiving off, but we put together this little thank you because, as we always note, we love you.
The creators behind the indie point-and-click adventure game Shindig, Fay and Martyn, join us for the show this week to talk about making a whole game with just two people, voice acting, the games that inspired them, couple inside jokes, making a game that's just plain nice to play, and much more! Plus, Matt and Chris judge a holiday-themed Great Indoor Fight bout!
By your request, we read the first volume of the Al Ewing-written Guardians of the Galaxy series this month. Those five issues actually contain two stories. But maybe it's all one story? We couldn't decide, so there'll be more to come. Also, just to head this off: Gnawbarque is a beaver. We know.
Matt flew up to Minneapolis to visit Chris, and while he was there they watched Young Justice and attended AEW Full Gear! We're going through all the details in this super-sized episode!
Our pal Daniel Kibblesmith returns to the show this week to talk about Darkhold: Blade, Inside Job on Netflix, Santa's Husband, and, of course, the pressing Garfield news. Also, we develop a new philosophical concept involving Peter Venkman and Garfield. Plus, a listener question that takes us through the decades!
It's time for more Gruenies! This time, we finish out 1988 in Mark Gruenwald's Captain America run, and just barely dip into 1989 as we approach the milestone Captain America #350! This episode covers Captain America #344-349.
It's Every Story Ever time once again, and we taking all the spooky story submissions we can as Halloween Month comes to a close!
It's Halloween week, which means it's time to talk to our old pal and Apocrypals co-host Benito Cereno about spooky movies, moral panics, being creeped out at churches, wigged-out squirrels and much more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a grip of listener questions!
For the spookiest of months, we caught up on this monstrous event from 1992. How does it hold up when dragged out of the mausoleum? Listen and find out!
The hosts of the Rank and Vile podcast, Ryan Boyd and Quincy Rhoads, join us for the show this week to talk about spooky (not scary) movies for Chris to watch, Scaredy Cats, the mysteries of Tubi, what exactly constitutes a horror movie, and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris judge a very intriguing Great Indoor Fight battle!
Douglas Wolk, author of the upcoming book All of the Marvels, joins us for the show this week to talk about reading every single Marvel superhero comic since 1961! We talk about his parameters for the project, burning out, whether the Marvel Universe is good, his most and least favorite parts, and much more!
After a month away, we're back to ranking comic book stories on our ever-expanding list from best to worst! And we've got some good ones this month.
Friend of the show Geoffrey Golden returns this week to talk to us about his new D&D module Target Run, among many other topics! Plus, Matt and Chris get back to the important work of judging Great Indoor Fight battles.
Matt and Chris took some of your listener questions on the show this week, which led to considerable discussion about What If...? among other topics!
We're back to catch up, and we're taking on Michel Fiffe's three-issue continuation of Bloodstrike this month!
We continue reading through the Mark Gruenwald run on Captain America this week, diving into the first seven issues of 1988. Steve Rogers gets a new costume, and the Serpent Society is invaded! Join in as we cover Captain America #337-343!
We're back! And we've got a checks AND recs mix for you to explain where we've been, and what we've been watching and playing!
We're finishing out 1987 in Mark Gruenwald's Captain America run, and there's a new Cap and Bucky on the scene! The issues covered in this episode are #332-336.
2000AD's PR Droid Mike Molcher stops by the show this week to talk about the publisher's truly massive Humble Bundle, as well as other British comics, a truly wild Dave Gibbons story, tea, coloring originally black and white comics, why the name 2000AD stayed the same, and a lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris explain a joke!
Someone sent us some more Heathcliffs, so we ranked them this month. We ranked some other comics, too.
We're judging all the Great Indoor Fight bouts we can this week, pitting your entrants against one another in a battle for the ages!
Matt and Chris are back on the Mark Gruenwald Captain America run this week, reading the first seven issues from 1987. It's got everything! The bad (Nomad) the good (Super Patriot) and the D-Man (D-Man)!
For this month's catch-up, you recommended that we read the sequel to our beloved Unbelievable Gwenpool series. Was it a worthy follow-up? Listen and find out!
Chris and Matt took a bunch of your listener questions for this week's show, and they run the gamut.
The co-showrunners of Marvel's MODOK on Hulu and the writers of MODOK: Head Games, Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum, join us for the show this week to talk about potentially getting MODOK to Harley Quinn status, who they couldn't use for the show, how comedic MODOK should be, the animation team on the show, giving MODOK a family in the 616, and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a couple of listener questions!
We ranked some good comic strips and some bad other comics, among other things, this month!
