It's time for fightin'! We're going through half the bouts in the second round of the Great Indoor Fight this week, and there are some very compelling matchups to judge!

We're back on Gruenies this week, and we're working through the pivot in storytelling after issue #350. Some surprises (and art changes) are in store!

We're delighted to welcome Tres Dean, writer of We Ride Titans, to the show this week! We talk with Tres about the aesthetics of his kaiju/mech comic, developing the backstory, superhero movie casting, hugs, guitar solos, and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take the first official Battle of the Decades contenders!

It's 2022, and we're staring off the year with some stories you think could make the bottom of the list! Let's see how they do.

Our old pal J. Gonzo is back on the show this week to talk about La Mano Del Destino Series 2, which is funding now on Zoop! We also discuss retiring from skateboarding, tattoo artists, wrestling storytelling preferences, what makes luchadores cool, and much more! Plus, Matt and Chris unveil the new after-interview segment before answering a listener question!

It's time for our annual awards show, and this year, we're handing out Gordies across the multiverse! You submitted the categories, we pick the winners!

We're taking it back to 1985 with our Catch-Up special this month, reading the six-issue Longshot limited series by Ann Nocenti and Art Adams, which introduces many characters. What did we think? You may be surprised.

We're taking some holiday stories and whatever else comes our way as we close out the year with some rankings for our ever-expanding list!

It's our 2021 Christmas special, and we're assembling a team to save Santa! That's right. Santa's been kidnapped, and it's up to us to draft Christmas characters for a team to infiltrate the hideout of the kidnappers and get him back. Who will we choose? Listen and find out!

Three of the members of the comic book collective GHOSTFRUITS (3nd, Sheda and Powell) join us for the show this week to talk about the new issue of their comic Enemy, football, the shorthand language groups develop by working together, ghosts, and Darkhawk. It is a wild ride. Also: the last two first-round matchups in the Great Indoor Fight!

This month, we finished out the Al Ewing run on Guardians of the Galaxy and came to our final judgment about what counts as a story to rank! We know it's good. We know that much. But how do we rank it?

We're ready! We have made it to Captain America #350 in our big re-read of the Mark Gruenwald run on the series, and there's more than enough there to fill an interview segment!  Because we did, and then some.

As we head into the holidays, we're finishing up some Every Spooky Evers from last month before diving into some character debuts and much more as we continue to rank every comic book story ever published!

We took Thanksgiving off, but we put together this little thank you because, as we always note, we love you.

The creators behind the indie point-and-click adventure game Shindig, Fay and Martyn, join us for the show this week to talk about making a whole game with just two people, voice acting, the games that inspired them, couple inside jokes, making a game that's just plain nice to play, and much more! Plus, Matt and Chris judge a holiday-themed Great Indoor Fight bout!

By your request, we read the first volume of the Al Ewing-written Guardians of the Galaxy series this month. Those five issues actually contain two stories. But maybe it's all one story? We couldn't decide, so there'll be more to come. Also, just to head this off: Gnawbarque is a beaver. We know.

Matt flew up to Minneapolis to visit Chris, and while he was there they watched Young Justice and attended AEW Full Gear! We're going through all the details in this super-sized episode!

Our pal Daniel Kibblesmith returns to the show this week to talk about Darkhold: Blade, Inside Job on Netflix, Santa's Husband, and, of course, the pressing Garfield news. Also, we develop a new philosophical concept involving Peter Venkman and Garfield. Plus, a listener question that takes us through the decades!

It's time for more Gruenies! This time, we finish out 1988 in Mark Gruenwald's Captain America run, and just barely dip into 1989 as we approach the milestone Captain America #350! This episode covers Captain America #344-349.

It's Every Story Ever time once again, and we taking all the spooky story submissions we can as Halloween Month comes to a close!

It's Halloween week, which means it's time to talk to our old pal and Apocrypals co-host Benito Cereno about spooky movies, moral panics, being creeped out at churches, wigged-out squirrels and much more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a grip of listener questions!

For the spookiest of months, we caught up on this monstrous event from 1992. How does it hold up when dragged out of the mausoleum? Listen and find out!

The hosts of the Rank and Vile podcast, Ryan Boyd and Quincy Rhoads, join us for the show this week to talk about spooky (not scary) movies for Chris to watch, Scaredy Cats, the mysteries of Tubi, what exactly constitutes a horror movie, and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris judge a very intriguing Great Indoor Fight battle!

Douglas Wolk, author of the upcoming book All of the Marvels, joins us for the show this week to talk about reading every single Marvel superhero comic since 1961! We talk about his parameters for the project, burning out, whether the Marvel Universe is good, his most and least favorite parts, and much more!

After a month away, we're back to ranking comic book stories on our ever-expanding list from best to worst! And we've got some good ones this month.