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We're reading the Dan Jurgens/John Romita Jr. run on Thor once again, and we're building up to the big clash in #25 as Thanos collects the artifacts (and one person) he needs to unleash a wave of death across the cosmos! Covering Thor Annual 2000 and #22-24.
After doing some list cleanup, we're back to ranking comics! Including a very, very bad Justice League story.
Longtime pal Kel McDonald returns to the show this week to talk about their new book, Murky Water, which is funding now on Kickstarter! Plus: what kind of Pokemon gyms we would have, werewolf songs, and the differences between fantasy and sci-fi!
The writer and artist of the new book Mary Tyler Moorehawk returns to the show this week to talk about taking a big swing on a project, footnotes, Star Trek rawness, how jokes evolve, and a whole lot more!
We're finally reading Al Ewing and (mostly) Stefano Caselli's Arrako-based X-Men book, and spoiler: It rips.
A special Sunday record, a special live-to-tape episode where we answer your questions!
It's time once again to dive into the Dan Jurgens run on Thor, and this time, we're wrapping up the Enchanters story and digging into what might just be the peak of the run: The Thanos arc! Covering Thor (1998) #17-21.
It's time once again to rank comic book stories, starting with one Matt promised to revisit last time: Emperor Doom!
It's a special Thursday Night Raw episode, as we rank listener-submitted comics moments specifically about the devil, hell, and demons!
The founders of the Jack Kirby Museum join us for this week's show to talk about their new collection of the Sky Masters of the Space Force Sunday strips, plus lots more Kirby stuff!
Before we can read all the raw moments in X-Men Red, we have to catch up with Al Ewing's prelude, his 11-issue S.W.O.R.D. series!
Matt and Chris return to the Flash Gordon Memorial Auditorium (adjacent to the Krystal Loch Campground) for another award show, with categories selected by you, the listeners!
We're closing out the year by once again ranking some comics stories from best to worst on our list of more than 1,500 comics!
It's our annual Christmas special, and we're springboarding off of last year's discussion of the Terminator vs. Santa Claus to decide what other would-be assassins might have plans to take out Big Red and become Father Christmas themselves!
It's a Christmas comic! It's a Keith Giffen comic! It's very wacky! So what did we think of this 1985 one-shot?
In our last regular episode of the year, we had to add some more entries to the list of the rawest comics of all time!
We're taking some of your listener questions on this week's show, leading to long discussions about Venom, snacking, reading, and much more!
On this very special Every Story Ever Special, we get to 1,500 ranked comics stories on the list!
Gather 'round the turkey with us as we determine some of the rawest moments in comics history!
This month, we're catching up on the 12 issues of the Mark Waid/Chris Samnee run on Black Widow! And we're particularly invested in the unusual way it was made.
The creator of Jack Staff joins us for the show this week to talk about his new book from Rebellion, Smash!, as well as favorite characters, British vs. American comics, pulling together British comics history, changing his art style, and much more!
We're digging back into the Dan Jurgens/John Romita Jr. run on Thor, and we're getting some guest artists this time after the Dark Gods are defeated and a mysterious figure is unmasked! Covering Thor (1998) #12-16.
Boo! Time to put some scary comic book stories on the list, don't you think?
Benito Cereno is back for our annual Halloween special, and 24 candies are duking it out in a tournament to determine who reigns supreme in treats!
The creative team behind the new book Parasocial joins us for the show this week to talk about how color can create horror, how to handle actual parasocial relationships, actors and fans, putting subtitles in a comic, and a whole lot more!
We're finishing out the (first) saga of Jared Stevens: The Man Called Fate on this episode. Can issues 11-22 overcome the problems of the first half of the series, or maybe discover some brand new ones?
On this week's episode, Matt and Chris are taking your listener questions once again!
It's time once again for us to rank some of the rawest moments in comics, and we get a definite top-spot contender this time!
As we always say in our famous catch phrase, "Time to rank the comics!"
We continue our re-read of the Dan Jurgens/John Romita Jr. run on Thor with issues #6-11 this week! Things get intense and, briefly, gross!
