Worst Collection Ever

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #16 (1991) We’ve got some Batman back in our lives as we jump into the “Venom” storyline that ran in issues of BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT in 1991. Venom, of course, being the drug that Bane uses t get swoll and also some guy who Spider-Man knows. Lots to unpack here as Bruce ask for permission to save a drowning girl in the sewer. It goes tragically fubar...

The Savage Dragon [vol 1] #3 (1992) We complete our run on the Savage Dragon mini-series this week as Dragon returns from a six-day nap to brawl with Bedrock, Youngblood’s answer to Ben Grimm or Blok from Legion of Super-Heroes. Chicago is in even WORSE shape since Dragon’s been out as Skullface and the poorly dressed Overlord make threatening phone calls and have disastrous Zoom meetings. Plus, t...

The Savage Dragon [vol 1] #2 (1992) Carrying on with the saga of The Savage Dragon, we pick up the Dragon in the Chicago sewers looking for an obese spider man (as opposed to Spider-Man or Spider-Ham). Dragon’s been running ragged fighting crime and almost gets some companionship from his Daisy Dukes wearing neighbor gal. Unfortunately, Hellrazor and his cronies have taken over the mall, sat on AL...

The Savage Dragon [vol 1] #1 (1992) We don’t get around to messing with too many Image Comics but Savage Dragon is a great place to start. Outlandish in story and execution, the mighty Erik Larsen gives us a lot to talk about. For example, why does Savage Dragon have so much body hair despite being a reptilian? Is he of Mediterranean descent? Will the hair removal product Nair do the trick? Regard...

Marvel Team-Up #125 (1982) Spider-Man, ever the enterprising fellow, nabs an endorsement deal for a fast food joint only for Tigra to show up and score the gig with her Charo impression (cuchi cuchi). Tigra then has a date with a beat cop that gets interrupted by Zabo the Diaper Bodyguard. Spider-Man tries to help and makes things worse. Additionally, we are bestowed a Doctor Strange / Scarlet Wit...

Marvel Team-Up #126 (1983) We wrap our run on Marvel Team-Up with a deliberately lazy issue featuring a random back-up story with Luke Cage and Hellstorm and a Spider-Man comic strip reprint featuring the Hulk In the first story, Luke and Damian find a dead body and follow the brimstone trail to a demon worshipping party for Satannish aka Kirkland Signature Satan. Action ensues as Luke throws a co...

Marvel Team-Up #124 (1982) It’s a brand-new run of books as we jump into some Marvel Team-Up. This week, Spider-Man links up with our friend Beast to fight off the vengeance-seeking Professor Power. The good professor here is mad that another professor (Professor X) did a botch job on his catatonic son’s mind so now he wants to take it out on everything X-Men adjacent. All this plus Hank McCoy’s i...

Justice League of America #175 (1980) Join Shawn and Jen as we follow up on last week’s JLA book with a pointless tale about everyone’s favorite super-powered Eeyore, Red Tornado! You see, Reddy got sad over something again and impulsively quit the League to resume his normal life as a Yul Brenner lookalike in NYC. He assembles an instant family in the span of 20 minutes and goes to a Halloween pa...

Justice League of America #174 (1980) WE ARE BACK! Worst Collection Ever returns with its first new episode in over two years as we tackle an old reliable friend in the Justice League of America! Join Shawn and Jen as we talk about the JLA’s blundering attempt to bring Black Lightning into their ranks while simultaneously fighting mutant rats and sometimes ants in Metropolis. Also, Wonder Woman en...

The Flash #266 (1978) We tackle The Flash in this week’s episode as Barry faces the challenge of a 100% fully functioning Heat Wave. Heat Man here has to overcome his fear of the cold by having his insane therapist throw buckets of ice at him. This plan to defeat The Flash comes to include the desecration of a frozen corpse and the permanent maiming of house servants via furious body shaking. Than...

Marvel Team-Up #113 (1982) This week, we start off 2022 with Spider-Man and Quasar having a contentious team-up to defeat the ghost of the Lightmaster. Spidey get his sense working and skips out on graduate class yet again, raising the concern of his wanton disregard for educational funding. Also, Quasar walks around with business cards like he’s Patrick Bateman and conjures up phallic drilling ob...

Adventure Comics #450 (1977) In our last book of the year, we take a look at something from Aquaman’s ADVENTURE COMICS run where a crippling tragedy DIDN’T happen. Here, Arthur takes on the Weather Wizard, who has stolen a secret government sex toy that will help him defeat The Flash. A bunch of nonsense happens in the Bermuda Triangle and we ultimately conclude that an octopus makes a terrible ba...

Marvel Holiday Special (1991) Happy holidays everyone! In the spirit of the season, we are taking a look at Marvel’s — apparently — first-ever holiday special. It’s a collection of short, relatively wholesome stories but there’s some insanity in here as well. Like Santa being a mutant. Or Captain America finding out Bucky has an estranged sister. Or the Blob having a fetish for department store ma...

Metal Men [vol 2] #1 (1993) After a period of semi-obscurity, the Metal Men are BACK with a new mini-series that was certainly intended to bring about a new ongoing but ultimately didn’t. Probably had to do with Doc Magnus’s new grumpy 90s attitude and affinity for big modern laser guns. But hey, at least the United States got to make Australia jealous by housing a meteor AND playing host to Super...

Avengers #144 (1976) Sending good vibes to mighty George Perez as we discuss one of his Avengers books from the 70s. Here, the Avengers and Patsy Walker are farting around in Roxxon/Brand, jumping on missiles and what not. Cap and Iron Man come across The Cat costume just hanging out and are like, “hey Patsy - wear this.” Patsy then unleashes a mighty stream of shinfo before agreeing to becoming H...

Batman #389 (1985) Batman’s dealing with a bunch of crises as not only is the world falling apart with its red skies and infinite earths but Catwoman’s back in town and she might be killing dudes with shoes. Ever so graceful with the ladies, Batman basically negs Catwoman and leaves her crying but not before showing her a stalactite (stalagmite?) that looks like a cat. Also, Jason Todd thinks Noct...

Doc Samson #1 (1996) Doc Samson is Hulk’s psychiatrist buddy who seemingly only has clients that have green hair. He travels to NYC to help figure out a gamma-radiated serial killer while simultaneously costing the city thousands in tax dollars spent on airfare. The Hulk also stops by to give Doc a Hanukkah gift. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Thre...

Teen Titans #46 (1977) Just a heads up — there are significant ETERNALS movie spoilers in the first half of the show. The Teen Titans are tasked with figuring out the Fiddler in this issue, who may have inspired Charlie Daniels to write “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” Fiddler’s here messing with a concert for the youths, unleashing bees and rats everywhere. To help with the case, the Titans...

Eternals [vol 5] #1 (2021) So this is a pretty big deal, not because there’s an ETERNALS movie coming out this week but its probably the first time in SEVEN YEARS of this podcast that Shawn has taken notes on the comic he’s reading fo the show. Its called growth. Anyhow, the Eternals are a race of super-powered guys and gals put on Earth by mad space scientists and left alone with malevolent Mogwa...

Marvel Zombies [vol 1] #3 (2006) Happy almost Halloween folks! This week, we jump into the world of the Marvel Zombies as the superheroes and supervillains of Earth-71669 all got sick and started snacking down on humanity. A lot of it doesn’t make sense though with Wolverine not automatically healing and Cap still able to function perfectly with his brains out of his head. That and what is it exac...

We had every intention of doing a comic this week but we got sidetracked because so much GOOD SH*T to come out of DC Fandome this year. Join us as we give spicy takes on the BLACK ADAM footage, THE FLASH trailer, the latest on PEACEMAKER, BLUE BEETLE and of course, THE BATMAN, where we ask why Robert Pattinson is so greasy. Also, we are aware that we mixed up Robert Pattinson and Robert Patrick’s...

It’s Halloween….everyone’s entitled to a ROHOTMU talking about a scary Marvel monster pulled from classic literature. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / BlueSky / Threads via @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at  worstcollectionever@gmail.com Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist!  https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEver...

World’s Finest Comics #81 (1956) This week, we celebrate Batman in the 50s as we slap around this WORLD’S FINEST where a time-traveling historian shows up in present time to tell Bats and Supes that they’ve been doing it all wrong this whole time. Of course, these two are idiots and believe this dude right away, going about the business of letting crooks out of jail and B’Wana Beast-ing an entire...

The week got wild so here we are with another ROHOTMU talking about were-cat woman Tigra!  Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / BlueSky / Threads via @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at  worstcollectionever@gmail.com Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist!  https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYT Download the podcas...

Exiles #65 (2005) EXILES (or eXiles if you will) are a crew of temporal Defenders made up mostly of mutants, including Blink, Sabretooth and some dude with a soul patch. In this issue, we wrap up a storyline involving life jacket-wearing insects, a sand enema and three different Hyperions, one which looks like Michael Chiklis.  Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / Instagr...