War Rocket Ajax

The creator of the new tabletop roleplaying game Anyone Can Wear the Mask and the host of the Party of One podcast, Jeff Stormer, joins us this week for another discussion of gaming! We talk about one-on-one games, superhero roleplaying, pets, the best starter games and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take some listener questions about superheroes and food! Learn more about your ad choices....

The writer of Star Trek: Voyager: Seven's Reckoning and Night Hunters joins us for the show this week for, what else, a ton of Star Trek talk! That leads into a larger discussion of comics about TV shows, futuristic stories, an alien race that thinks life is a story, and a lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a this or that about diversifying DC Comics! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

Matt and Chris take some of your listener questions this week as a means of distraction from, you know, everything else. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Halloween is here, so Chris and Matt are taking your Every SPOOKY Ever lists on the special this month! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's our annual Halloween show, and our annual Halloween guest, Benito Cereno, is here to talk to us about spooky movies Chris could possibly watch, which vampires represent us, Bible monsters, the Hatchet series of films and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a listener question about spooky comics! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The creative team behind the graphic novel series November joins us this week to talk about process, art styles, math, French geography, Guns 'n Roses, quarantine activities, audiobooks, limited color palettes, and much more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a This or That about comics history! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The times are unprecedented, so we're welcoming another old pal to the show to just joke around and shoot the breeze: Curt Franklin of Let's Be Friends Again and ComicsAlliance! The conversation goes places you'd never expect. Plus, Matt and Chris take some video game-related listener questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Halloween month, and what would be more appropriate for the season than this 1992 four-issue Eclipse Comics series about vampires (and, at least briefly, barbecue) written by Clint McElroy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We took a whole bunch of This or That scenarios on this week's show, and you know Bobby Badideas is in the house. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're ranking lots of stuff on the show this month, including '90s Superman, What If?, Lee/Kirby Thor, some Valiant books and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The writer and artist behind Young Offenders!, now on Kickstarter, join us this week to talk about Smallville's take on Buffy plots, teen superheroes, Young Justice, meeting by virtue of this podcast, comics events, and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a listener question about post-Crisis Superman! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Friend of the show J. Gonzo drops by the show this week to ostensibly talk about the La Mano del Destino collection on Kickstarter, but we mainly end up talking about dogs, Jarritos, The Legend of Korra and The Power Team instead. So basically a regular interview. Plus, Matt and Chris take a This or That from the Sunday comics page! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We caught up on the 18 issues of the Mark Waid/Chris Samnee Daredevil relaunch this month! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The writer and artist behind the new graphic novel Dracula, Motherf**ker drop by the show this week to talk about their horrific Dracula design, using a cuss in a title, vampire tropes, the Brides, their copious workloads, and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take some highly animated listener questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chip Zdarsky returns to the show this week to talk about his new book Stillwater! He also critiques Chris' questions, talks about a formative camping experience, explains why it's not so bad if another writer has your idea, and does a Google search, among other things. Plus, Matt and Chris take a this or that about the future of War Rocket Ajax! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

Matt and Chris are taking your listener questions this week, some of which are about Three Jokers. That's after we already talked about Three Jokers for twenty minutes. It's unavoidable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been a tough month, but we did our best to push ahead and rank as many comic stories as we could including a wild Brave and the Bold, some '90s Superman, miniseries from 2019, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The writer of School for Extraterrestrial Girls joins us this week to talk about his comics (briefly), challenging himself with fast food, samurai movies, the food of Christmas, characters he apparently hates, and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take at least one aggressive listener question! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kat Kuhl, one of the creators of the new Roll20-exclusive role playing game Burn Bryte, joins us for the show this week to talk about building game systems, creating species of game characters, avoiding the standard "human" characters, gender fluidity in games, sci-fi settings and a lot more! Plus, Chris and Matt take a formidable This or That! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

By your request, we read the first four issues of this fun and funny Boom Box series! Is this one volume a story? It's hard to say, but we did our best to rank this charming comic that definitely is paced more like a webcomic than a traditional comic book series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Scioli, the writer and artist of Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics, drops by the show this week to talk about research, doing nonfiction comics, the way he chose to draw Kirby, his favorite Transformer, Stan Lee's point of view, the Fantastic Four and a whole lot more! Plus, Chris and Matt take some of your listener questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

Miracle of miracles: We actually got through all the extant This or That scenarios we've been sent in this week's special episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gather round as we rank a grip of Peanuts strips, Giant-Size X-Men #1, the most infamous Penny Arcade comic, some DC humor comics from the 90s, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Friend of the show and writer of Headlocked Michael Kingston returns to War Rocket Ajax this week to discuss his new book on Kickstarter, Headlocked: Tales from the Road. We also discuss Bigfoot, working on comics with wrestlers, how comics and wrestling are similar, life on the road, watching Wrestlemania with Ric Flair and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a listener question about DC...

Longtime friend of the show Kel McDonald drops by again this week to talk about her Patreon-exclusive comic You Are the Chosen One, along with werewolves (of course), anxiety, giving up, how many kid characters is too many, and more! Plus, Matt and Chris take an easy Achewood-themed This or That! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices