We're back and adding more entries to our list of Every Story Ever in 2016!

Ramon Villalobos, Gordie award winner and artist of Secret Wars: E is for Extinction, joins us this week! We talk with him about the importance of footwear, getting inspiration from DJ Khaled, his parents' dogs, self-reinvention, Frank Quitely, the Royal Rumble and so much more! Plus, we take a handful of listener questions!

Our old friend Kyle Starks, writer and artist of Image Comics' Sexcastle, has returned to War Rocket Ajax on the heels of the big news that Fox has acquired the rights to the book for a possible film! We talk about fancasting, writing amazing dialogue, getting a book optioned, the Kyle Starks Shared Universe, basketball, '80s action stars and so much more! Plus, Chris and Matt kick off a brand new post-interview segment!

It's the first War Rocket Ajax of the year! That means it's time for Chris and Matt to hand out a whole bunch of awards in categories selected by you, the listeners!

Happy new year, everyone! Ring it in with us ranking comic books for two hours!

As promised, here's the annual gift exchange between Matt and Chris!

Matt Fraction returns for our annual Christmas episode!

We're welcoming Sam Humphries, the writer of the new Image Comics series Citizen Jack, back to the show this week! We talk about the book's political origins, trying to maintain some distance from real-life politics, Sam's hair, Prince, fictional devils, how difficult it is to satire politics in 2015, and much more! Plus, the last batch of Word Heavyweight Champion contenders!

Artist and pal Tom Fowler returns this week to talk about his new book of tabletop fantasy art, D&D&D! But before we do that, we've got to talk for a long time about Canadian TV. You know how that is. Plus, we take a listener question that turns out to be a bit of a riddle

We're digging in and getting to 100 entries in our Word Heavyweight Champions list this week, come hell or high water! (We get there in about an hour.)

Give thanks! It's time again for two full hours of Every Story Ever!

We've been teleported to Battlepod! The Beyonder has forced us to talk about comics culture for his benefit, but, you know what, we don't mind it all that much, because we're getting to chat with two great podcasters, Elle Collins of Into It and DJ Benhameen of FanBros, about the characters with whom we best identify. Plus, a last-minute cliffhanger as we head into the SCOIP finale!

This week, we welcome the writer of the new Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series, Kyle Higgins, to the show! We discuss his history with the rangers, the audience he's trying to reach, zords, why Rita was great, Nightrunner, and so much more! Plus, we take some of your listener questions!

The driving force behind the Muscle Temple anthology, Frank Gibson, joins us for the show this week! We discuss getting into wrestling in New Zealand, Pokemon, Digimon, the early console wars, our favorite fictional wrestlers and much more! Plus, new entries to the Word Heavyweight Champions list!

It's the rare episode in which Matt and Chris are in the same room to record, and better yet, we're joined by our better halves, Marlene and Aidan! We take some listener questions just before a ghost shows up and crashes our party.

It's that time again! We have two full hours of Every Story Ever for you, and this month some of them are spooky! (Or spooky-ish.)

Our old pal Benito Cereno, writer of Hector Plasm, Tick: New Series, Tales from the Bully Pulpit and more, joins us once again for our Halloween spooktacular! We talk about movies to watch (of course), Universal monsters, Carman (as tradition dictates), logo parody t-shirts, and so much more! Plus, we take a spooky listener question

Our pal Erica Henderson is back to talk about her art on Jughead and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl! Well, eventually we get to that. We also talk about cooking competition shows, British TV vs. American TV, horror movies (of course), stealing candy, and so  much more! Plus, some Transformers quotes get added to the list of Word Heavyweight Champions!

We've talked to a lot of guests about spooky things, but we've rarely interviewed anyone who lives in a spooky place. This week, we welcome Christopher Sebela, a comics writer and friend of the show, who's living for an entire month at the Clown Motel in Tonopah, Nevada. He tells us about almost getting kidnapped, the strange packages he's been getting, getting his stay funded on Kickstarter, the weird stuff that's happening as we're talking to him, and so much more. Plus, a spoooooky listener question!

This week, we're happy to welcome the writer of Shutter and Ringside, Joe Keatinge, along with the respective artists of those two series, Leila del Duca and Nick Barber! We talk about wrestling lingo, shooting down NPR commenters, our favorite bad gimmicks, the rights of ninja ghosts, and much more! Plus, new entries to the Word Heavyweight Champions list!

You did it! We reached our Patreon goal, so this month's Every Story Ever special is a whopping two hours long!

Chris and Matt are taking your questions this week, addressing issues including the best but least-loved video game console, the impact of the Comics Code, superhero poker games, The Spirit's place in the comics pantheon, and much more!

This week, we're welcoming the writer of the acclaimed wrestling comic Headlocked, Michael Kingston! We talk about the wrestling business vs. the comics business, working with wrestlers who have artistic talents, developing a story about how genuinely difficult it is to be a wrestler, our favorite types of match, and so much more! Plus, Matt's back, so he and Chris add some quotes to the Word Heavyweight Champions list!

This week, guest host Elle Collins of Into It joins Chris as writer Kelly Thompson returns to the show to talk about wrapping up the first arc of Jem and the Holograms, writing Captain Marvel and the Carol Corps and so much more, in a stealth episode that's really just about how much we all love Jem.  Plus, karma strikes in a special MMA update and the Marvel Movies are ranked, ESE-style!

This week, Matt's on Vacation and Chris is in Pennsylvania for Chikara's annual King of Trios tournament - so if you're one of our listeners who's not so into the episodes about wrestling, maybe you want to skip this one. For the rest of you, we've got an extra-sized two-hour episode talking about the entire event with special guests Kieran Shiach, Helena Hart, David Burszan, Gavin Jasper and Aidan Sullivan, with a rundown of every match, plenty of tangents, and a discussion of why Missile Assault Man blowing up a bus full of children in Zimbabwe is not the least family-friendly thing in Chikara continuity this weekend.