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Matt's not here this week, so Chris is joined by special guest cohost Chris Rohling for quite possibly our Christmasy-est non-Christmas special ever! Longtime friend of the show Jeff Parker joins us this week for a holly jolly deep dive into a story he wrote 12 years ago: "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santron." We talk about trying to make Gravity happen, working backwards from an ending, and of cour...

Our pal and fellow Garfield Gathering attendee Daniel Kibblesmith joins us on this show this week to talk about his new book, Santa's Husband, his upcoming run on Quantum and Woody, and much more! Plus: You know we go in depth on Doomsday Clock, right? We do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back with another Every Story Ever Special this month as we make up for lost time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We spent some of our holiday week ranking some comics characters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our good friend and resident werewolf expert Kel McDonald is back this week to talk about her new project, "You Are the Chosen One," worldbuilding, smooching monsters, the smells of medieval fiction, getting metatextual, Buffy, TV show title cards and much more! Plus, Chris and Matt answer one of your listener questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The publishers of The Devastator are back to talk about their new Wet Hot American Summer Fantasy Camp RPG! We get into it with them about game design, appealing to fans of both the movie and gaming, Geoffrey's near-unbelievable bio, character creation, getting the blessing of the Wet Hot crew, preferred classes, fighting over who gets to be a can of vegetables, and much more! Plus, we take a list...

Yes, it's November, but we're making up for lost time and catching up on our story-ranking specials! So I named this one for the first one we missed. Check back before the end of the month for October's, then another two in December! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're ranking characters in this, the first episode of the holiday season! A few characters manage to challenge for the bottom of the list, too! Do any of them get that coveted bottom spot? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On our annual Halloween episode, Hector Plasm writer Benito Cereno joins us to talk about your listener-submitted Ajax Dreams! We also talk about horror movies, Carman, the Christian rap(?) group DC Talk, our own nightmares and a whole lot more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're spookily exicted to welcome Tini Howard, writer of the new Hack Slash: Resurrection series, back to the show! Also, Chris is back! And we haven't missed a step, because we're talking about inscribed weapons, horror/comedy, the terror of ladder matches, unsung slasher movies, enjoying the sensation of being scared, and much more! Plus, we finally return to raking characters on the Panel Presi...

Our pal Chris Haley joins Matt to shoot the breeze and answer listener questions this week! Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is discussed at length, as are soup, cereal, Dark Nights: Metal, Jon Kent, horror movies and lots more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we're very pleased to welcome back Katie Schenkel, the writer of Moonlighters, to the show as guest co-host! We chat about adapting Moonlighters into a musical, balancing comedy and spooky stuff, what the chaw of vaping would be, digital comics formatting, vampires vs. Frankensteins, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we're extremely pleased to welcome the artist and writer of the Spidey Zine and the upcoming The Immortal Bro, Hannah Blumenreich! We talk about personal experiences with bros, drawing extremely pretty characters, fan comics, the idea of a "huge" Spider-Man, the Highlander of bros, and much more! Plus, guest co-host Kieran Shiach and Matt take a listener question! Learn more about your...

Chris is off this week, so Matt's welcoming guest host James Leask, formerly of ComicsAlliance, into the mix! We discuss food at length, as well as whether Warpath vapes, Destiny 2, which celebrities should join Alpha Flight, McNugget Buddies, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Dr. McNinja recently wrapping up and Gwenpool going strong, we asked Christopher Hastings to come by and talk about his work on both, as well as topics including breaking the fourth wall, collaborating with Gurihiru, how it feels to end a long-running webcomic, bringing real-world characters into a comics world, explaining characters who may not exactly be what they seem on the surface, and m...

For this week's episode, we're happy to welcome two of the creators behind the Champions of Hara board game and tie-in comics, game designer Walter Barber and artist Jason Piperberg! We talk about building a multimedia project, game mechanics, fleshing out game characters with comics, using bright colors, loud sirens, our optimal hybrid animal monsters, legacy games and much more! Plus, we add som...

Matt and Chris are catching up and answering a few listener questions on this chilled-out Labor Day episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris and Matt are back at it again this week, ranking characters submitted by listeners for the Panel President list! And we're going edit-free this week, so things are looser than they even normally are! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just before Matt heads off on vacation, we're ranking as many comic book stories as we can manage! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week our guest is Katie Skelly, creator of My Pretty Vampire, Operation Margarine, Agent 9 and much more! We chat about movies from the 1970s, vampire fiction tropes, coloring and design, high culture vs. low, other types of undead creature, Abba, and much more! Plus, we add five ninjas to the Panel President list! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're happy to welcome Jeremy Whitley, writer of Princeless and The Unstoppable Wasp, back to the show this week! We talk with him about Princeless being in development for a movie at Sony, working at Blockbuster, movie recommendations, spotlighting real-life scientists, the best of the five deadly venoms, dealing with trolls, Transmorphers and a lot more! Plus, we answer what might not be an unco...

Friend of the show Kelly Thompson drops by this week to talk about her new Ghostbusters: Answer the Call comic series, but before we get to that, we've got to gush about the Thor: Ragnarok trailer. On top of that, we discuss getting down character voices, Hawkeye, pitching, writing test scripts, being married to ideas, and a whole lot more! Plus we rank a few second-tier Batman characters for Pane...

It's been a little while since we used our interview segment to answer your listener questions, so we're doing it this week! Myriad topics are covered--a lot of food is discussed--and we even manage to get some comics in there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ready for some story rankings? We are, and we even go a little over two hours to make up for last month's shortened episode (we'll go over a little again next month). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices