Worst Collection Ever

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...

Barbie #5 (1991) Barbie Fashion #32 (1993) Good Lord what are we up to this week. We’ve got TWO Barbie comics that we beat up on and ultimately, we’ve come to the harsh conclusion that Barbie and Ken are a part of a murder cult. There are multiple instances where she tries to rub out Skipper, a young girl who believes she can talk to swans. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter /...

On this week’s podcast, we do a deep dive into SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS (2021) with movie spoilers coming out of our ears so be forewarned.  We also chat about a few other movies coming out including ETERNALS, LAST NIGHT IN SOHO and VENOM: THERE WILL BE CARNAGE so buckle in for some silver screen goodness. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshaw...

Infinity Inc #15 (1985) Chroma is an androgynous space being who shows up on different planets to sing melodious dirges about the apocalypse. Obsidian, who is literally made of shadows, is like “I’m already goth AF so nah man” and punches Chroma out. As a result, Los Angeles and the rest of the Infinity Inc members are bummed out. Then Skyman shows up and they all take a ride in his gyrocopter or...

Action Comics [vol 1] #466 (1976) In a retread of previous Superman stories we’ve done, Lex Luthor finds a way to make not only Superman young but also manages to de-age Batman and Flash. Or does he? Actually, he doesn’t. He just uses teenage androids, kicks the Batman one into oblivion and makes Superman punch himself a whole lot. Along the way, Superman destroys the Metropolis IHOP and somehow p...

Marvel Two-In-One #30 (1977) The Thing and Alicia Masters eat lunch at Piccadilly Circus in London when they are interrupted by some chaos. A chino-clad Ben runs off to investigate and is ambushed by a Hydra-influenced Spider-Woman (who Ben insists is Spider-Man’s sister). Nick Fury tells Ben to shut his damn mouth. Later, Alicia gets nabbed by Spider-Woman so she can ALSO become a mutated woman w...

Hey now! JEN RETURNS THIS EPISODE! Join Jen AND Shawn this week for a spoiler-filled look at THE SUICIDE SQUAD as well as why you should stan your baby (if you have one) as well as the trials and tribulations of VCR tapes. We’ll get back to comics next week but here’s something a little different this week. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield...

Grim Reaper is Wonder Man’s brother, so that’s pretty cool. He’s a vengeance-fueled villain that’s kicked it with some of the best Marvel has to offer, both good and evil. He was even a ZOMBIE for a spell but he got better. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / BlueSky / Threads via @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at  worstcollectionever@gmail.com Als...

You all know Wasp. She’s basically the Batman of high fashion. But when you sit down think about her and everything she’s been through, there’s some real Cronenberg type body horror going on here. 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 ep...

SUCH A BIG MAN! WHY DON’T YOU GO GET A PACK OF GUM - I’LL SHOW YOU HOW TO CHEW IT. Big Man is long-dead(ish) Spider-Man villain that in some ways served as a terrible bodyguard for J. Jonah Jameson, seeing that the Big Man is dead and all. But he did try to take over the NYC mob with a padded suit and lifts in his boots so you can’t count out his ambition. My man here though certainly missed out o...

Not sure if you knew this but as of 1986-ish, Mysterio was in jail like FIVE TIMES and somehow keeps walking the streets. In this ep, we learn about his humble beginnings as a stuntman that just wanted to kill a superhero to his storied career of crime, teaming with other bulbous helmeted villains such as the Wizard. Also, we have yet another connection to Uncle Ben’s secret money! Continue the co...

As it turns out, despite the contrary that I express in this episode, “Lemuel” is a somewhat common name, especially amongst doctors. That’s one thing this Namor villain had going for him before he died (but he got better because of starfish). But our man Lemuel here has a thing for genetic engineering and marine biology, much like an evil George Costanza. Continue the conversation with Shawn and...