Worst Collection Ever

In a very special WCE, Jen and Shawn analyze and review the 2020 motion picture, WONDER WOMAN 1984, directed by Patty Jenkins, starring Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman and written in part by Geoff Johns and 12 inch party sub with months-old prosciutto on it. Join us for an awkward celebration of wishes, body swaps and useless warrior armor.  Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @...

Justice League America #78 (1993) After jobbing hard to Doomsday, Wonder Woman and Jay Garrick are brought in to shape up the JLA for a peace-keeping mission. Guy Gardner prepares for this by watching FACES OF DEATH V at 7:30 in the goddamn morning. We also got sort of Martian Manhunter dude Bloodwynd melting guns and Maxima wanting to kill everyone. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on...

Mephisto Vs. #1 (1987) Marvel’s Satan tries his hand at nabbing the souls of all the virtuous superhero women and actually finds it to be quite easy. All he has to do is get Ben Grimm fired up about tooth decay, have the Human Torch fight John McEnroe and possess She-Hulk to throw Franklin Richards into the gaping maw of Hell.  Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / Instagr...

The Question #21 (1988) The Question aka Vic Sage hits up his high school reunion only to find out that no one likes him and never did like him. One smashed locker and one weird story about fruit later, Vic finds himself in the midst of a hospital hostage stand-off where the Unknown Soldier demands a heart transplant by gunpoint. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / Instagram...

Pitt #6 (1994) Pitt was a joint from the 90s back when no one had a nose. Its about an alien whose race did a reverse Thanos and grabbed some DNA to merge a boy with a space Hulk. In this issue, space Hulk ruins the NYC sewer infrastructure via his careless burrowing. Also, Blade’s brother makes an appearance and an elderly man is brutally sedated. There’s also giant grey dudes fighting giant gree...

Defenders #63 (1978) Its our 300th episode! Thank you for joining us here on the podcast each week for the past six (!) years. To celebrate, we jump into a Defenders book where every C-level hero (and Captain Marvel for some reason) got the impression it was fair game to become a Defender. Hulk peaces out pretty quick, leaving Valkyrie, Hercules and Knighthawk to lead an offensive against villains...

Falling In Love #131 (1972) We get fancy this week as we read from an out-of-date trade of romance comics from DC. And much like most 70s romance comics, this one’s a lark of a story about a girl whose mother can’t stop plucking away her boyfriends. You see, Mom’s 36 but she’s still a looker and can get crunk with the kids of today and their Lil Jon. Things come to a head when the daughter meets N...

Captain America #413 (1993) It has been long overdue but we finally make our way back to LADY MALL~! as Cap and Diamondback try to take down MODAM and the Femizons. In this issue, Cap fights a literal who’s who of jabroni villains including Batroc, Stilt-Man, the previously dead Ringer, Man-Ape, Man-BULL and maybe even Man-Puss. Cap gets creepy with MODAM and shows off his muscular taint. Meanwhil...

Detective Comics #682 (1995) Batman’s equilibrium is off and ends up crashing into a movie billboard about a joke-telling crocodile. We also have Communist Moondragon and KGBeast teaming up to shakedown Lucius Fox over a piece of the Wayne Enterprises pie. Non-compliance follows and we get a chemical plant explosion which Robin is overwhelmed by. Also, Harvey Bullock takes a steel drum to the face...

Iron Man #64 (1973) Iron Man participates in Detroit’s urban renewal initiative as he shoulderblocks down decrepit buildings. He is ambushed by Doctor Spectrum and defeats him handily with the entire inventory of a Spencer’s Gifts. Later, while in the middle of cuckolding Happy Hogan, Tony is surprised yet again, this time by a grey monster with telepathic powers. After destroying his new girlfrie...

Weird Suspense: The Tarantula #1 (1975) Its not Halloween until you read a comic about a Dark Ages curse that turns men into tarantula-based men. This week in our FOURTH (!!) book from Atlas Comics, we meet Count Lycos Search Engine, who must now satiate his “unnatural lust” for paralyzed human meat on the regular. Thankfully, comedian Kyle Kinane and friends have just shanked some prison guards w...

Crypt of Shadows #3 (1973) CRYPT OF SHADOWS is a horror reprint anthology that showcases all the anachronistic goodness of 1950s STRANGE TALES stories. Featured here we have: Andy Capp in Hell A card shark getting schooled by Marty Feldman A criminal who can’t tell the difference between whale viscera and sand A corpse falling on top of the first-ever podcaster  Continue the conversation with...

Infinite Crisis Special: Villains United #1 (2006) All of the big heroes are off dealing with the Infinite Crisis so now is as good as time as any for Lex Luthor to get the band back together and rule the world with a Secret Society of Super-Villains. Lex starts off strong by intimidating prison wardens into releasing their meta-human inmates but then it kind of goes off the rails with Toyman spik...

Marvel Premiere #28 (1976) In the most unexpected of occurrences, the sole survivor of a prehistoric race returns from interplanetary exile to lay claim to Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, dropping a huge mountain in the middle of the street. Ghost Rider was going to hit up a Westerns matinee at the New Beverly but now he has to deal with this. Concurrently in LA, Morbius keeps trying to snack on...

Justice League of America #106 (1973) Red Tornado gets so trashed that he gets bounced over to Earth-One and gets a new face from a blind man in the mountains. He shows up to help the JLA and Batman’s like “you can help us but you still suck.” Superman, meanwhile, can’t wait to burn a hole in Reddy’s head. In an ironic twist, Superman’s violent tendencies prove to be helpful in thwarting T.O. Morr...

Avengers #185 (1979) Wanda and Pietro go back home to Transylvania to find out if they really were the children of 1940s superheroes as opposed to being a militant mutant’s kids that he left to be raised by the High Evolutionary and a bovine woman. In the middle of the night, a medieval pick-up artist negs Wanda into taking a trip up the Swiss Alps. Pietro freaks out, tells a lonely old man to sho...

Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #1 (1954) / Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #2 (1954) Jimmy Olson, Superman’s dumbest Earth friend (I don’t know - he might have a Kryptonian equivalent), continues to ruin Superman and Clark Kent’s lives.  In the first story, Jimmy handles a to-do list for Superman while he’s out saving folks in Switzerland. Instead of, you know, getting pets out of trees, Jimmy opts...

WildC.A.T.s Annual #1 (2000) We finally got around to messing with a WildC.A.T.s book on the show and its smack dab in the middle of their jabroni period where the original team died and angry cyborgs ran amok. In this (I guess) annual, Grifter’s brother Condition Red returns from the dead only to get returned to dust by Grifter himself. Its not all that exciting but thankfully we spend a consider...

OMAC [vol 3] #3 (2006) In the past, OMAC was just a singular dude with an intense mohawk that got his gimmick from a space satellite. In the FUTURE (now), you can make OMACs in bulk by injecting teenage street junkies with OMAC-rich gruel and hope for the best. After an EMP, only one OMAC remains - Kevin Costner’s son Mike - who rebels against the Brother Eye by crashing into the Nevada desert and...

The Twelve #5 (2008) THE TWELVE is about a group of thawed-out superheroes from the 40s waking up in 2008 to find that there are still NO FLYING CARS! I hear ya man. The one dressed like a Musketeer gets a network TV deal to host a variety show while the Hourman clone is gotten to by high school kids and flies around crying in his surprisingly revealing outfit. Finally, the cover star - the Witnes...

Manhunter [vol 3] #25 (2006) Kate Spencer aka Manhunter IV goes to a Los Angeles power-pop showcase with Obsidian and some friends. They are ambushed in the club by Sweeney Todd aka Handsome Solomon Grundy. A fight ensues with a psionic straight razor and some slicin’ & dicin’ just as the paparazzi show up. Also, Wonder Woman stops by looking for some legal representation. Continue the convers...

Route 666 #3 (2002) ROUTE 666 follows Cassie, a gymnast on an alternate Earth-like planet, who develops the power to see dead people. She can’t stop inadvertently killing those around her so she gets committed to a sanitarium (welcome home) run by a cannibal Tobias Funke. Tobias eats a dude’s neck so Cassie bolts and ruins the lives of a local sheriff and his son.  Also, let’s not forget this...

Silver Sable and The Wild Pack #3 (1992) Welcome back to the show, Silver! It’s a shame that Silver Sable never really gets more of a shine (pun intended) in the Marvel media offerings. She’s got a unique look and she likes to f*ckfight with her ex-husband Lou Gramm, the Foreigner. She’s also got a rogues gallery (or maybe just a single rogue) featuring the likes of Gattling, the unholy union of B...

Outcasts #3 (1987) OUTCASTS is about the mutant-hating future where they send said mutants to the moon to hang out with corporate Pinhead at a resort colony where the men get gassed to death. The women and their children are harvested for enzymes that let old people live forever and get sexually aroused. Fighting against the status quo are the Outcasts, comprised of Ricardo Montalban, a blue zombi...

Comics’ Greatest World: Hero Zero #1 (1993) In this Dark Horse offering, some kid runs out into the freezing Nevada desert in the middle of the night to turn himself into a giant pastel Iron Man-looking ripoff. It’s not for nothing though as he punches a reluctant dragon and shatters it into pygmy monsters. Also, we meet up again with the Rimjob and the Waffle Aliens from our previous encounter wi...