Worst Collection Ever

DC Comics Presents #23 (1980) Superman contends with a suddenly appearing privateer vessel and it is most likely S.T.A.R. Labs’s fault. Thankfully Doctor Fate shows up to handle the mystic end of things, not because Superman can’t but because his wife Inza is cursed by this ship and turning into Swamp Thing.  Highlights include: Superman and the Flash crop-dust Batman Doctor Fate’s salad feti...

Daredevil #276 (1990) Daredevil and the Inhumans are tasked with saving their cyborg ladyfriend from an emotionally conflicted Ultron so it is time to pull out ALL the stops! Highlights include: Karnak channels the wisdom of the Three Stooges Daredevil might have been decapitated for a minute The end of Jet Li’s THE ONE but with Ultron heads Number Nine and her five o’clock shadow Why is no one co...

Daredevil #275 (1989) The Acts of Vengeance are upon us as Daredevil and the Inhumans encounter a lovelorn Ultron in the upstate New York wilderness! Highlights include: Introducing FATRON~! aka Ultron 8 Daredevil sits in a room full of skulls Doctor Doom won’t stop looking at me! Skip Ash…more like Skip Trash Ann Nocenti back when she was normal the Terrigen Mists will come for us all eventually...

Jen is out sick this week so let’s pilot something called LAST ISSUE BLUES… Comic books ending their runs, whether on purpose or due to cancellation, interests me so let’s get a little deeper. And by deeper, I mean we will look at the last issue of a series, talk about the character, the run, go thru the final issue and its effectiveness as an ending and maybe hypothesize why it went away. This be...

The Spectre [vol 2] #6 (1987) Jim Corrigan is determined to find out who murdered him during Crisis even if he has to “fold into” the Spectre and possible feel up a demon along the way. Highlights include: What exactly is a “good bar”? How they hanging? Phantom Stranger wants you to step inside his office the literal Midnight Meat Train The address of the devil Casting CHOPPING MALL with the DC Un...

The Spectre [vol 2] #5 (1987) It is exactly what you think it is…. The Spectre returns as he is once again tethered to his human host Jim Corrigan. Of course, Jim was dead but Madame Xanadu put his corporeal body in a really big vase and kept him fresh, so he’s doing good now. Highlights include: The Spectre is in a slump Batman’s Italian jean shorts designer An evil subway worker encounters a pir...

Here we go with another edition 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. As we move on from Wonder Man and friends, let’s make a quick detour to chat out Marvel’s Spinner of Lies (and one-time Wonder Man tormentor) MEPHISTO! Chances are that if...

Avengers Two: Wonder Man & The Beast #3 (2000) We wrap our fun times with Wonder Man and Beast as the dudes square off against IT, The Living Colossus over the Hollywood skies. Nothing like a giant stone robot engaged in mid-air combat over a densely populated area to make you feel safe at night, you know? Highlights include: Wonder Man tells us about the hits of the 70’s No one STILL has any...

Action Comics #421 (1973) The mighty Ken Reid of the TV GUIDANCE COUNSELOR podcast joins the show for a second time as we chat about a really weird Superman book featuring a Popeye stand-in and alien seaweed as well as a Green Arrow backup where he fails terribly at his own public relations: Highlights include: Corporate espionage Superman’s taxi cab fetish Gene Hackman is jealous over all this su...

Avengers Two: Wonder Man & The Beast (2000) #2 WONDER MAN on Disney+ is up and rocking and so are we with the next installment of Simon Williams and Hank McCoy farting around in LA: Highlights include: Wonder Man has a weird dream about Mephisto The breakfast spread in WEDDING CRASHERS Beast does cartwheels (literally) over his favorite sci-fi show What Tom Savini must deal with at dinner part...

Avengers Two: Wonder Man & The Beast (2000) #1 Oh man! Wonder Man has a new show coming out so HOPEFULLY everyone out there will be asking “what this Wonder Man guy all about?” That's because Wonder Man is great and y'all need to learn about him. Nonetheless, we can help a little bit and throw in a bit of Hank McCoy as well: Highlights include: Wonder Man’s closet of subpar costumes Scarlet Wi...

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...