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The writer of DC Comics’ New Suicide Squad, Sean Ryan, joins us this week! We start off with a discussion of “Hot for Teacher” and people who have the same names as us, and it just picks up from there. We discuss how Sean worked as an editor at Marvel and DC, the concept for his Suicide Squad, c-list villains, and much more! Plus, more Every Story Ever entries! Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

The co-creator and artist of Southern Bastards, Jason Latour, joins us this week to talk about sweet tea, barbecue, logos on clothing, meeting Jason Aaron, dog poop, and so much more! It’s our most Southern episode ever. Plus: More Every Story Ever entries! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The writer and artist behind the Image Comics series Rocket Girl join us for this week’s show! We talk about costume design, 1980s nostalgia, cool comic titles, Kickstarter, Japanese death tea, and much more! Plus, more entries into our Every Story Ever list! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest this week is the writer of Princeless and the upcoming series Illegal, Jeremy Whitley! We talk with him about con experiences, My Little Pony, the Baroness, Kickstarter, and much, much more! Plus, more entries (this time guest-suggested) into our Every Story Ever list! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re back from San Diego with another all-Every Story Ever special! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris and Matt were at Comic-Con International in San Diego last week, and surprisingly, it wasn’t all terrible. Here’s their fully raw roundup of the events of the year’s biggest con! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we’re talking to the co-writer of Grayson and Batman Eternal, and the writer of the new Dark Horse series Sundowners, Tim Seeley! As you might expect, we discuss spy stuff and Batman, but we also talk about Myrtle Beach comic conventions, weird panels, real-life superheroes and a ton more! Plus, three new entries in our Every Story Ever list! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

As a thunderstorm crashes around them, Matt and Chris add a whole bunch of new stories to their list of Every Story Ever this week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brandon Stroud, writer of With Leather’s “Best and Worst of Raw” column and the new horror movie Meet Me There, joins us for this week’s show! We talk about wooing Dustin Rhodes and Jill Thompson to be in his movie, Rob Liefeld, how Todd McFarlane’s art is like fashion, what it’s like to write a low-budget movie, and much more! Plus, three more entries to our ever-growing list of Every Story Ever!...

Our guest this week is the an accomplished critic and commentator, as well as the writer of Judge Dredd Mega City Two: City of Courts, Douglas Wolk! We talk to him a ton about the history of Judge Dredd and 2000 AD, balancing being a critic and a creator at the same time, fans becoming creators, the moving target of authorship, and, of course, Prince. Plus, more entries into our Every Story Ever l...

It's our annual special from the Heroes Convention in Charlotte, NC! Join us for about 45 minutes of revelry with Chad Bowers from the Westin Hotel, and check out the show notes below to watch the videos we discuss! We'll be back with a guest and Every Story Ever next week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we're welcoming Ben Marra, the writer and artist of such comics as Night Business, Blades and Lazers, Gangsta Rap Posse, The Incredibly Fantastic Adventures of Maureen Dowd (A Work of Satire and Fiction) and many others! We talk about influences, video stores, making Nazis bad guys, the appeal of trash, and much more! Plus, three more Byrne-tastic entries into our Every Story Ever list!...

Matt has returned from a long and arduous move, and he and Chris are talking to the writer and artist of the webcomic Tagged! this week, Meg Lovell! They talk about being a wrestling fan, calling a comic on Tumblr "Tagged," Patrick Swayze, Sailor Moon, The Shield, and much more! Plus, Every Story Ever returns! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Chris and special guest host Kieran Shiach welcome the writers and two cast members from the play King Kirby! They have a big old time talking about the King of Comics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ryan North, writer of The Midas Flesh, Adventure Time and Dinosaur Comics, is on the show this week to talk about all-ages comics, being tall, genocide, the Canadian video game tip line, comics being autobiographical, comics not being autobiographical, and much more! Plus, an X-Men themed Every Story Ever list! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest this week is Dream Thief and Toshiro writer Jai Nitz! We talk at length about Hellboy, John Byrne, getting con commissions, and eventually even a little bit about his comics. Plus, three more entries are added to our list of Every Story Ever! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's show, we're gazing into the fist of Dredd with Dredd: Underbelly writer Arthur Wyatt! We're talking a whole lot about the many writers who have penned stories for 2000 AD, how Dredd is an outsider's look at America, moving to the U.S. from the U.K., the decision process for making a comics sequel to Dredd, and much more! Plus, a new set of entries into our Every Story Ever list! Lea...

Because Matt spent the weekend at C2E2 and couldn't edit the show this week, he and Chris and doing a special edit-free Every Story Ever special this week! Among the comics we discuss, the best (?) Mark Millar comic, Superman Red Son, and the worst Grant Morrison comic. Which one is that? Listen and find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, the writer and artist behind Dynamite's new Flash Gordon series, Jeff Parker and Evan "Doc" Shaner, are our guests! We're talking about Flash's shirt, logos, Timothy Dalton, bros, the forgotten art of "icing," Queen, EC Comics, and so much more! Plus, more comic stories get added to our Every Story Ever list! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we're really excited to welcome the one-man powerhouse behind COPRA and the writer of the just-launched All New Ultimates series, Michel Fiffe! We talk about writing comics at a breakneck pace, his insane schedule, the difference between working for yourself and working for Marvel, street gangs, Street Fighter, and so much more! Plus, two more stories join our Every Story Ever list! Lea...

This week, Chris is back from his trip to the Pacific Northwest with a lot of stories and a particularly odd souvenir: A time machine! How will he and Matt put it to use? Who will they meet on their journey? Listen and find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris is at Emerald City Comic-Con this week, so Matt invited David Wolkin to come co-host the show with him! During the interview segment, Matt and David chat with Wired's Laura Hudson about how the three of them got started with comics! We discuss Psylocke, sleepovers, supermarkets, Guy Gardner, cartoons, Suicide Squad and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's our annual Wrestlemania show this week and we're welcoming The Mandible Claw and WithLeather's Danielle Matheson and Let's Be Friends Again and The Gravity Falls Gossiper's Chris Haley to talk about it! It's a lot of wrestling talk this week, folks. There's no way around it! Also, lots of jokes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Chris and Matt are working their way through a few more Every Story Ever lists, and in a huge surprise, a story makes its way into the number one spot after an exhausting debate! You may be surprised as to what it is! Also: A few stories make a charge for the bottom spot on the list! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The writers behind Monkeybrain Comics' Amelia Cole, Adam P. Knave and D.J. Kirkbride, join us for the show this week! This is a crazy one, folks. We talk about interviewing Laurell K. Hamilton, Lloyd Kaufman, cardigans, personalized jackets, comedy writing, ninjas, and, if we get the chance, their comic. Plus, more Every Story Ever! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices