It's Christmas, Matt Fraction is here, and yes, we've got John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats, too. The four of us are drafting our top Christmas song picks, fantasy baseball-style, to create the ultimate mix. It's surprisingly tense, and there are some very unexpected picks! For the playlists, check out the War Rocket Ajax Twitter and Tumblr!

The co-writer of the new MODOK Head Games comic series, as well as the showrunner of the new MODOK animated show on Hulu, joins us this week to talk about supervillain corporate governance, Mark Gruenwald, Monica Rappaccini, the best acronyms, what we'd be designed only to do, and much more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a question about controversy, which creates cash.

By your request, we caught up on three holiday comics this month: Two Klaus one-shots and a Hanukkah story from the 2017 DC Holiday Special!

The writer of the new Aftershock Comics series Knock 'em Dead joins us this week to talk about the world of stand-up, how horror and comedy are the same, not writing the jokes, writing the jokes, Halloween vs. horror and much more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a musical This or That!

While you enjoy leftovers and shop for presents, enjoy listening to us rank some comic book stories!

On this Thanksgiving week, Matt and Chris are chatting it up about the games they're playing, the movies they're watching, the TV that's getting them through These Unprecedented Times, and more. Plus, we give thanks!

This month we dive into the Marvel revival of Conan with the Jason Aaron/Mahmud Asrar take on the classic Barbarian, spanning a lifetime!

The creator of the new tabletop roleplaying game Anyone Can Wear the Mask and the host of the Party of One podcast, Jeff Stormer, joins us this week for another discussion of gaming! We talk about one-on-one games, superhero roleplaying, pets, the best starter games and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take some listener questions about superheroes and food!

The writer of Star Trek: Voyager: Seven's Reckoning and Night Hunters joins us for the show this week for, what else, a ton of Star Trek talk! That leads into a larger discussion of comics about TV shows, futuristic stories, an alien race that thinks life is a story, and a lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a this or that about diversifying DC Comics!

Matt and Chris take some of your listener questions this week as a means of distraction from, you know, everything else.

Halloween is here, so Chris and Matt are taking your Every SPOOKY Ever lists on the special this month!

It's our annual Halloween show, and our annual Halloween guest, Benito Cereno, is here to talk to us about spooky movies Chris could possibly watch, which vampires represent us, Bible monsters, the Hatchet series of films and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a listener question about spooky comics!

The creative team behind the graphic novel series November joins us this week to talk about process, art styles, math, French geography, Guns 'n Roses, quarantine activities, audiobooks, limited color palettes, and much more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a This or That about comics history!

The times are unprecedented, so we're welcoming another old pal to the show to just joke around and shoot the breeze: Curt Franklin of Let's Be Friends Again and ComicsAlliance! The conversation goes places you'd never expect. Plus, Matt and Chris take some video game-related listener questions!

It's Halloween month, and what would be more appropriate for the season than this 1992 four-issue Eclipse Comics series about vampires (and, at least briefly, barbecue) written by Clint McElroy?

We took a whole bunch of This or That scenarios on this week's show, and you know Bobby Badideas is in the house.

We're ranking lots of stuff on the show this month, including '90s Superman, What If?, Lee/Kirby Thor, some Valiant books and more!

The writer and artist behind Young Offenders!, now on Kickstarter, join us this week to talk about Smallville's take on Buffy plots, teen superheroes, Young Justice, meeting by virtue of this podcast, comics events, and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a listener question about post-Crisis Superman!

Friend of the show J. Gonzo drops by the show this week to ostensibly talk about the La Mano del Destino collection on Kickstarter, but we mainly end up talking about dogs, Jarritos, The Legend of Korra and The Power Team instead. So basically a regular interview. Plus, Matt and Chris take a This or That from the Sunday comics page!

We caught up on the 18 issues of the Mark Waid/Chris Samnee Daredevil relaunch this month!

The writer and artist behind the new graphic novel Dracula, Motherf**ker drop by the show this week to talk about their horrific Dracula design, using a cuss in a title, vampire tropes, the Brides, their copious workloads, and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take some highly animated listener questions!

Chip Zdarsky returns to the show this week to talk about his new book Stillwater! He also critiques Chris' questions, talks about a formative camping experience, explains why it's not so bad if another writer has your idea, and does a Google search, among other things. Plus, Matt and Chris take a this or that about the future of War Rocket Ajax!

Matt and Chris are taking your listener questions this week, some of which are about Three Jokers. That's after we already talked about Three Jokers for twenty minutes. It's unavoidable.

It's been a tough month, but we did our best to push ahead and rank as many comic stories as we could including a wild Brave and the Bold, some '90s Superman, miniseries from 2019, and much more.

The writer of School for Extraterrestrial Girls joins us this week to talk about his comics (briefly), challenging himself with fast food, samurai movies, the food of Christmas, characters he apparently hates, and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take at least one aggressive listener question!