Worst Collection Ever

Uncanny X-Men #290 (1992) The immense drama that is the UNCANNY X-MEN continues as Storm takes her time contemplating Forge’s marriage proposal, Iceman’s date continues to go sideways and Colossus has a day on the town with his newly-resurfaced brother Mikhail. Highlights include: Storm and Bishop go full Natasha Bedingfield Jean Grey literally throws in the towel Krang’s body Mystique gets c...

Uncanny X-Men #289 (1992)  It is X-MEN TIME as X-MEN ’97 returns for a second season and we return to some proper X-books! This time out, Bishop and his massive arms have just joined X-Men Gold, causing unintended friction between Forge and Storm. Also, Iceman introduces his girlfriend to his lame-ass parents and Archangel has a fit when Mystique dresses up in one of his old costumes. Highlig...

Supergirl [vol 2] #18 (1984) Join us this week as Supergirl continues to wreak havoc in Chicago as she shows off her new headband whilst foiling a jewel heist and recklessly heaving planes to their certain doom. Also, there is an alien terrorizing the seas AND the skies asking for human monies. Maybe. He forgets pretty quickly. Highlights include: The Penguin’s Southern cousin, Boss Cobb! Beware o...

Supergirl [vol 2] #17 (1984) Supergirl has a new movie coming out so let’s talk about her! It is the early 80s and she’s living in Chicago doing scholarly things and the like. Everything is going swimmingly until some 1950s mobsters rough up her Tom Baker-ass looking professor and now Supergirl has to fly to French Polynesia to save him. Highlights include: Chicago hot dogs vs. Metropolis hot dogs...

Power Man & Iron Fist #107 (1984) Let’s wrap up this trip into freelance superhero services as we follow Power Man and Iron Fist as they serve as bodyguards to an eccentric rock star. There’s also a BARBARIAN meets SMALL WONDER deal going on with the rock star’s father so it is guaranteed to get wild. Highlights include: Luke Cage earns 25 cents Are the Heroes for Hire insured?? Resentful gran...

Power Man & Iron Fist #106 (1984) We are keeping the Power Man and Iron Fist party alive as we check in with Iron Fist getting hired to escort a posh woman to her high school reunion. Not really the spicy kind of “escort” but more of a “weird guy from high school is freaking me out" kind of vibe. Especially when said creep is Whirlwind, an Avengers foe that wears a weird helmet and has an obse...

Power Man & Iron Fist #105 (1984) What’s a comic book podcast without one of the most ubiquitous 80s comics you’ll find in a dollar bin? Talking about some POWER MAN & IRON FIST here, the book that was read by everybody and nobody. In this issue, Luke and Danny are feeling the freelance superhero squeeze from Crimebuster, an escaped con posing as a “hero” who got his hands on some pistols...

Star Wars #9 (1978)  It took twelve years but we we FINALLY tackle a STAR WARS comic on this podcast and this one is a blast as we check out an early issue in the initial Marvel run. We got Han Solo and Chewbacca on an Outer Rim planet teaming up with a green bunny and a porcupine man to defend folks from lecherous bandits. Also, Luke Skywalker and the droids are adrift in the cosmos looking...

Hex #1 (1985) Let’s take a break from our current apocalypse to see what happens when you pluck disfigured gunfighter Jonah Hex from the Old West and place him in a dystopian Seattle. HEX was one of the bold swings from DC Comics in the mid 80s and truth be told, it’s not that bad! Highlights include: Can a comic book truly be “gut searing”? Magenta meat is on the menu Why did we stop talking abou...

Nice! Time for another installment 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 are putzing around with the Punisher, the most logical solution would be to talk about the LOBO BROTHERS, two brothers who are both high-class drug dealers AND...

Hell yeah, it is the return of FINAL ISSUE BLUES here under the Worst Collection Ever umbrella of media offerings. FINAL ISSUE BLUES is a segment were we talk about the last issue of a comic book series. This time out, we will discuss the end of Marvel’s BLAZE [vol 1] (1994-1995) ending with issue #12 in July 1995. Blaze — as in Johnny Blaze — is best known as (technically) the second Ghost Rider....

The Punisher [vol 2] #19 (1989) One of Frank’s drug busts goes sideways and he ends up in the Australian outback seeking vengeance for a slain woman that he JUST saved from choking. It’s complicated but Frank does get to eventually ride a camel and wear a fun hat so it’s not so bad. Highlights include: Frank Castle uses the Village Voice to sell drugs the art of the “avalanche divorce” Eastman and...

DC Comics Presents #25 (1980) Our vacation in Stupid Town has reached its end as Superman teams up with the Phantom Stranger to rescue Pete Ross’s son from a future timeline. Somehow, this is all Superman’s fault (not wrong) and it has driven Pete Ross insane but most importantly, it has given Superman a stomach ache so it must be addressed at once! And as a bonus, we get 10 pages of Hourman fight...

DC Comics Presents #24 (1980 Deadman wants to quit being Deadman but the higher powers decide he has business to tend to in Metropolis first such as stopping cardiac-induced earthquakes. Superman finds himself involved and has to burrow into the earth’s core to fix this mess. Also, the mafia! Highlights include: BEEF~! Harley Race: earth scientst Superman enters the Kumite Deadman ruins Midsommar...

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...