Our guest this week is the writer of the new Boom Studios series Toil and Trouble and the Transformers: Windblade series, Mairghread Scott! We talk with her about the pressures of writing a series that adds to Macbeth, Transformers (of course), working on the G.I. Joe: Renegades animated series, curses, and much more! Plus, we answer a listener question or two (one of which we aren't sure if we've answered before.

August is winding down, which means it's time once again for us to add some entries to the ever-expanding Every Story Ever list!

This week, we're filling out our Word Heavyweight Champion list with nearly a full hour of lists of your favorite comics quotes! Plus checks, recs and comics reviews return!

The editors of the comedy magazine The Devastator return for a super-sized interview segment all about this year's WWE SummerSlam! We run down the card and make predictions, getting particularly sidetracked about Arrow's Stephen Amell appearing in a match.

Friend of the show and writer of the new Boom series Welcome Back, Christopher Sebela, is our guest this week! We talk with him about high-concept comics with last-page reveals, how hate is a lot like love, his list of people who have made "Welcome Back, Kotter" jokes, the title of the series, his collection of weird conspiracy flyers and much more! Plus, we answer a few listener questions!

This week, we welcome the writer of IDW's Ghostbusters Get Real and other bustin' comics, Erik Burnham! We talk about Jake Blues, giving Winston the spotlight, why Ghostbusters II is so maligned, whether Ghostbusters could sustain a serious horror story and so much more! Plus, more quotes for the Word Heavyweight Champion list!

It's that time again! As July wraps up, we're adding more entries to our huge list of comic stories, ranked from best to worst!

Fresh off her last appearance on the show, writer Alex de Campi rejoins us to talk about her digital comic Valentine, James Bond, the Archies, her Grindhouse series, digital comics in general and much more! Plus, we take some listener questions!

This week, guest host Kieran Shiach fills in for Matt as we welcome guest Jeremy Parish to the show! We talk to him about his work on the Anatomy of Games and Game Boy World series, as well as a surprising discussion about Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja: Beyond World War III. Plus, a special edition of the Word Heavyweight Champions makes Chris use a cussword.

We're taking your questions while we celebrate not having to endure the horrors of San Diego Comic-Con!

Our guest this week is Fables cover artist Chrissie Zullo! We talk with her about the process of creating cover art, con commissions, the horrors and wonders of San Diego Comic-Con, video games, being a creator and a fan, and much more! Plus, we take a couple listener questions!

We're back at the tail end of June, raring to add more entries to our huge list of comic stories, ranked from best to worst!

We're happy to welcome the co-creators of Cosmic Scoundrels, Andy Suriano and Matt Chapman, to this week's show! We talk about their backgrounds in animation, Easter eggs, how far is too far with scoundrel characters, publishing on the web and in print, Homestar Runner (of course) and much more! Plus, more quotes are added to the Word Heavyweight Champion list!

Chris and Matt were at Heroes Con in Charlotte this weekend, and in the process they sat down with an impromptu studio audience of sorts to talk with Transformers vs. G.I. Joe co-writer and artist Tom Scioli about some of the weird comics trends of the past few decades, particularly movie adaptation comics. That and much more in our con special!

This week, we welcome back Jon Morris, author of the brand new book, The League of Regrettable Superheroes! We chat about just what makes a superhero regrettable, how Squirrel Girl transcended that label, the weird darkness of Golden Age characters, Columbo, and much more! Plus, more entries to our Word Heavyweight Champion list!

Our pal Kel McDonald is back to talk about her new Kickstarter for the graphic novel The Better to Find You With, the opposite of vampires, monster lore, magic rules, process and so much more! Plus, we answer some listener questions!

The editor of Fresh Romance, founder of Rosy Press and senior editor of ComicsAlliance, Janelle Asselin, joins us this week to talk about the business of comics, the romance genre, the job of an editor, fashion in comics, the incomparable Rosie Perez and much more! Plus, we add a few quotes to our Word Heavyweight Champions list!

It's time once again to add more entries to our huge list of comic stories, ranked from best to worst!

Jeremy Whitley, the writer of Princeless, sits down with us this week to talk about The Pirate Princess, The Action Pack block of shows, The Flash,  fictional swords, creating characters, and much, much more! Plus, we answer a pair of listener questions!

Our list of comic book quotes is growing by leaps and bounds this week, as we're plowing through user-submitted Word Heavyweight Champion lists!

The cartoonist behind Dumbing of Age and Shortpacked, David Willis, joins us this week! We talk about his home-school upbringing and how it influenced his comics, evolution as a creator and a person, Transformers, the transforming noise, and much more! Plus, a listener request for comics recommendations!

The writer of a good many My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Equestria Girls comics, Ted Anderson, is here to answer our many, many questions about the strange world of girls who used to be ponies (Or have pony counterparts? Not entirely sure). We talk with him about an all-wrestling issue he wrote, the pony multiverse, cutie marks, and much more! Plus, we take some listener questions!

April is closing out with more additions to our huge list, ranked from best to worst!

Our guest this week is former ComicsAlliance editor and current senior editor of Boing Boing's new video game site Offworld, Laura Hudson! We talk with her about games journalism, how it compares to comics journalism, the transformative experience of playing video games, covering corners and niches no one else does, and much more! Plus, new entries into our Word Heavyweight Champions lis

It's our 250th episode, and we're celebrating by taking your listener questions and getting off topic even more than usual. Enjoy!