War Rocket Ajax

Jason Copland, the creator of the new graphic novel Full Tilt funding now on Zoop, joins us this week to talk about influences, the thinking behind a 22-page spread, eliminating characters, how he read Ronin at 12, and a whole lot more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's our 100th Every Story Ever special, and we're chugging along through listener-submitted lists of comic book stories! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Time to get raw! We're going through more submissions for Thursday Night Raw on this week's show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The editor of the wrestling zine The Atomic Elbow joins us this week to talk about carny lingo, muted phrases on Twitter, cake, old wrestling shows as historical documents, and a whole lot more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After considerable pressure to do so, this month, we're covering the first 11 issues of the 1994 reimagining of Dr. Fate, with Jared Stevens taking on the mantle of the Man Called Fate. It's quite a ride. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The writer of The Dog Knight and the recent Love Unlimited: Gwenpool, Jeremy Whitley returns to the show this week to talk all about the key elements of dogs, getting the art of a talking dog just right, with whom he'd make an amalgam of Gwenpool, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The creator of the new book Thunder Hunters, which is funding now on Zoop, joins us for the show this week to talk about creature designs, working on Dungeons and Dragons monster manuals, Jack Kirby's creative license, drawing inspiration from nature, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the 99th time, we're bringing you a monthly special where we rank comic book stories submitted by our listeners on a huge list from best to worst! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's show, Matt and Chris are answering as many of your listener questions as they can! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're very close to the end of the Mark Gruenwald's run on Captain America, but he's still got some new guys up his sleeve. This time, we're meeting Jack Flag while we get reacquainted with the Serpent Society! Also, Diamondback makes a momentous choice. Covering Captain America #432-437. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This one snuck up on us! So does Al Ewing and Javier Rodriguez's follow-up to their 2021 Defenders series live up to the original? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris is back this week, so he and Matt are digging back into your submissions for the rawest moments in comics history! Some make the list, some do not! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The writer and artist of The Other Happy Place joins Matt this week to talk about crowdfunding on Zoop, horror influences, finding beauty in the grotesque, making a monster handsome, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Spring is here, and we're ranking comics stories once again! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The author of the Vince McMahon biography Ringmaster returns to the show this week, and obviously, there's a lot to talk about! We once again compare Vince to Stan Lee, talk Bojangles, discuss living life as a heel, remember the "Hower Power," look forward to a potential second book, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The creators of the new graphic novel Danger and Other Unknown Risks join us this week to discuss magic, frogs, talking dogs, the best animal sidekicks, collaborative relationships, interesting comics credits, our ages for some reason, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cap is still fighting off some worrying symptoms as we spin through to the end of Mark Gruenwald's run on Captain America. Also, LOTS of new characters show up. It's a regular Reign of the Captain Americas over here. Covering Captain America #426-431! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two stories we hadn't read from our last Every Story Ever special really caught our attention, so we're reading them both on this month's Catch-Up! One is a recent Boba Fett fan comic, and the other is a Disney Adventures crossover from 1994. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're spending another entire interview segment deciding which comics scenes are the most raw of all time this week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time again to rank comic stories, and this month we're looking at quite a few that are...totally fine! Go to paperlike.com/ajax and click "Buy Paperlike"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're hitting the home stretch on the Mark Gruenwald run on Captain America! The last big story in the run is starting, and Cap is noticing he's lost a step. Also, he blazes it. Covering Captain America #420-425. Go to paperlike.com/ajax and click "Buy Paperlike"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The New 52 version of Secret Six brought Gail Simone back to write, and Catman's still there. But otherwise it's quite different from the previous versions of the title. So how do these 14 issues hold up? Ready to do more with your iPad? Head over to http://paperlike.com/ajax to get started. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Longtime friend of the show Kel McDonald returns this week to talk, ostensibly, about the new chapter of their comic City Between and upcoming Twitch reading, but we end up talking a whole lot about video games. Plus, Matt and Chris take their first e-mail listener question in quite a while! Go to paperlike.com/ajax and click "Buy Paperlike"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...

We're kicking off our 2023 post-interview segment Thursday Night Raw on this week's show, and you sent in some truly raw moments to get us going! Go to paperlike.com/ajax and click "Buy Paperlike"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Friend of the show Mark O. Stack joins us for the show once again this week! We discuss his Kickstarter project The Relentless Lark, as well as advice for writing comics, the Ultimate universe, episodic storytelling, and a whole lot more! Go to Paperlike.com/ajax and click "Buy Paperlike"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices