Worst Collection Ever

Morbius: The Living Vampire #23 (1994) Finally, we can stop MORBIN’! It all comes to a head here as Morbius, Spider-Man, the CIA, Martine, the vampire assassin Slaughter and a whole host of corpses all pile into a blender for a nonsensical slurry that no one asked for. Highlights include: Morbius does calisthenics over Times Square what type of pretzels do they serve at orgies Spider-Man being REA...

Morbius: The Living Vampire #22 (1994) MORBIN’ TIME keeps on going as Morbius and Spider-Man are in the thick of a CIA assassin plot complete with old lady cosplay and dumpster brawls! Highlights include: Morbius drinks a Capri Sun full of blood Spider-Man shows up half-cocked High school typing curriculums Slaughter is an inflatable tube man The time Shawn used a Traveler’s Check Ron Perlman: Vam...

Morbius: The Living Vampire #21 (1994) 2026 is the year that we MORB~!~! Kicking off the new year with some mid-90s Morbius with Mikey Morbs getting mixed up with the CIA, Spider-Man lamenting about his fake parents and Morbius’s girlfriend Martine telling you to stay away from her man. Highlights include: MORBIUS (2022) should have been a Xmas movie A Sarah Connor escape from a mental institution...

Green Lantern Annual [vol 3] #6 (1997) Let’s wrap up the year with a Green Lantern Pulp Heroes story involving dinosaurs and Kyle Rayner dressed as Peter Pan. Happy new year! Highlights include: Jade looks for the Purple Stuff success vs. substance how is she keeping that bra on her body? the dawn of the GREY LANTERNS Joe Hendry and the NeverEnding Story all the bodyguards sound like Arnold Schwar...

Marvel Super-Heroes [vol 2] #4 (Winter 1990) Hey guys…time for the Marvel Super-Heroes Winter Special and it is friggin’ depressing!  Highlights include: Spider-Man has a psychotropic freak-out Daredevil tackles an exploding doctor Speedball loses his virginity to a dying girl Spitfire crushes a mutant with a statue Wonder Man throws a bear off a cliff Black Knight mediates a child custody ba...

Adventures of Superman Annual #9 (1997) For the remainder of December, we will be checking out a few fun annuals and/or specials including the Pulp Heroes event that ran in DC Comics Annuals in 1997. Many charming and unique stores to be shared including this Western-flavored book featuring Superman Blue! Highlights include: Clark Kent getting hit with a shovel Superman blasting on Mars Jerry Garc...

Time for another round of HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT…? ” a semi-recurring segment where we look at random characters that we encounter in the books we read. Lots of strange, unusual folks out here that you need to know about. Since we just finished up a run on ALPHA FLIGHT, let’s delve into some of the history of stalwart Flight team member Puck! A lot to unpack here as Puck managed to live a very Rex M...

Alpha Flight #120 (1993) The CLAMPDOWN loosens its grip as Alpha Flight struggles with the fallout of their massive brawl with the Wrecking Crew destroying their favorite post-battle poutine hangout. Highlights include: EASTERN PROMISES fighting! Guardian uses all the things in her suit at the same time Wyre finally gets some pants Shaman and Talisman FINALLY decide to join us Mannikin gets his st...

Alpha Flight #119 (1993) Up in Canada, the CLAMPDOWN continues to get tighter as the brawl between Alpha Flight and the Wrecking Crew (and all their organizational baggage) ramps up! Lots of mystical crowbars, air bullets and well-placed gymnastics going on here. Plus, Department H gets raided and old white men play racquetball! Highlights include: Wrecker eats lightning! Wildheart debuts (and loo...

Alpha Flight #118 (1993) We’re packing up and visiting the great land of Canada as we settle in with ALPHA FLIGHT for a spell! The situation is pretty tense up north as government machinations, internal strife and the WRECKING CREW are all making life difficult for Guardian, Puck, Northstar and the rest of the crew. Highlights include: is that…Canadian Spider-Man?!? Hollis from MY BLOODY VALENTINE...

The Ray [vol 2] #1 (1994) This week, we are joined by a special guest as Stephen Sajdak from WE HATE MOVIES returns to the podcast! He picked THE RAY to talk about and it’s grand time as we chat about some hardcore mid-90s DC Comics content. Highlights include: superhero jackets in the 90s apartment fridges the HELLRAISER III statue makes an appearance! Andrew “Dice” Clay plays the DC Comics holid...

Batman Confidential #48 (2010) The end is nigh for the World’s Finest duo of super-heroes as it is for our coverage of BATMAN VS. THE UNDEAD! Batman got zombified so its up to Superman to get mummified and put this necromantic tomfoolery behind us. Highlights include: zombies who love GWAR Superman shoots lasers from his mouth Batman throws a lariat Kevin McAllister fist pumps vine intestines and...

Batman Confidential #46 (2010) / Batman Confidential #47 (2010) We are doubling up the content as we are covering TWO issues of BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL. This week, we finally get to the fireworks factory proper as Batman and Superman — along the vampire Dimeter and Janko the Werewolf — perform a bunch of MORTAL KOMBAT fatalities on some zombies. Then Batman gets turned into a zombie. But he’ll be fine...

Batman Confidential #45 (2010) Batman and the vampire Dimeter are in the thick of it now as Doctor Combs has sinister designs involving the voodoo gods and corpse resurrection. Before it gets REALLY messy, Batman needs to check some emails and frequent some NOLA hotspots. We also finally meet our werewolf friend…who has yet to become a werewolf so just sit tight, I guess. Highlights include: Batma...

Batman Confidential #44 (2010) Looks like we’re back in Batman town this Halloween season as we check out the BATMAN VS. THE UNDEAD story from BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL! Batman is down in New Orleans tracking down an escaped mad scientist only to find himself up to his neck in reanimated museum corpses and vampire allies. Highlights include: Bruce Wayne suffers an injury whilst congratulating himself Co...

Shawn has some business to tend to this week so it is just Jen solo as she shares some thoughts on current books she’s been reading: Topics include: Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham Absolute Green Lantern Batman and Robin Gotham City Sirens: Unfit for Orbit Batman: Dark Patterns and the most controversial comic book of the now! Promo: BAILEY’S BATMAN PODCAST ( https://w...

X-Force #28 (1993) Let’s end this mutant mercenary madness as X-Force has their final showdown with the Mutant Liberation Front! We got team members swapping sides, exploding swords, a whole truckload of ethical debates and some weirdly placed squatting poses. Highlights include: Boomer gets possessed by the band Disturbed Henry Gyrich receives a punch in the face Stan Lee invented MILF?!? Bobby F...

X-Force #27 (1993) More mutant mercenary action awaits as the X-Force team clashes with the Mutant Liberation Front! But don’t discount the MLF as they got Dani Moonstar turning heel and rocking fools with her feel-bad arrows. Thankfully, X-Force is hopped up on gimmicks, looking REAL swole and ready to rescue some bureaucrats. Highlights include: 90s pop star Hathaway becomes a cyborg Meet the ne...

X-Force #26 (1993) It’s been too long but let’s get back into some X-books as we discuss some prime 90s X-FORCE! We got Cable recovering from the events of “Fatal Attractions,” the OG New Mutants mourning the loss of Illyana Rasputin and the formation of a new Mutant Liberation Front. Highlights include: Dazzler sings “One Night in Madripoor” The proper spelling of Forearm’s name Time to start sel...

Catwoman [vol 2] #40 (1996) Let’s wrap up this CATWOMAN: YEAR TWO arc with some diamond caper nonsense as Catwoman and Batman round up the rest of Dark Knight’s rogues. Topics include: Batman and Catwoman star in UNCUT GEMS Two-Face takes a shotgun to the face…and lives! Which Falcone is this supposed to be? Jimmy Olsen’s foreign cousin Stefan Penguin gets used as a pummel horse Also, Jen and Shaw...

Catwoman [vol 2] #39 (1996) Catwoman is a busy lady this issue, between the planned theft of an Egyptian dollhouse and fending off Two-Face’s crew of Bob Seger fanatics. Even Batman has his hands full with the Joker laugh-gassing the GCPD and expertly defacing the Bat-Signal. Will these two ever know a moment of peace?!? Topics include: Catwoman sleeps in the nude Batman pilfers office supplies Mi...

Catwoman [vol 2] #38 (1996) Hey now! Let’s catch up with our friend Catwoman and see what she was up to in her second year of burglary and flirtations with millionaire vigilantes. She’s even got a pretty sweet plan to distract the Bat with big-time jailbreak. But will the prisoners be happy about it? You’d think so…. Topic include: Jim Balent — the greatest artist of the 90s Catwoman takes fashion...

Cobra Commander #2 (2024) Cobra Commander has finally made it to Florida and now he has to brave gator-crazy tourists on the hunt for Energon. But will the Dreadnoks and their donuts stand in his way. Absolutely, yes they will. Topic include: Cobra Commander attempts a Force choke on a fat kid Nemesis Enforcer will not tolerate park rangers Jigsaw from SAW enters the Energon Universe A man eats a...

So instead of doing another [R]OHOTMU and wonder if the casual or new listeners know what the acronym stands for, we’re going to make it easier on you and ourselves by just calling these random one-off character bio episodes “HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT….” Hopefully it catches on. This time out, since we are in the midst of the COBRA COMMANDER book, Shawn gives you as much of the low-down as possible on...

Cobra Commander #1 (2024) As it turns out, Image and Robert Kirkman have been cooking hard on the G.I. Joe/Transformers comics with their Energon Universe! This one is focused on the Cobra patriarch Cobra Commander as he departs the hidden organic society of Cobra-La and enters the real world, starting with the bar that Superman used to work at in MAN OF STEEL. Topic include: the great actors of C...