We're taking some of your listener questions on this week's show, leading to long discussions about Venom, snacking, reading, and much more!

On this very special Every Story Ever Special, we get to 1,500 ranked comics stories on the list!

Gather 'round the turkey with us as we determine some of the rawest moments in comics history!

This month, we're catching up on the 12 issues of the Mark Waid/Chris Samnee run on Black Widow! And we're particularly invested in the unusual way it was made.

The creator of Jack Staff joins us for the show this week to talk about his new book from Rebellion, Smash!, as well as favorite characters, British vs. American comics, pulling together British comics history, changing his art style, and much more!

We're digging back into the Dan Jurgens/John Romita Jr. run on Thor, and we're getting some guest artists this time after the Dark Gods are defeated and a mysterious figure is unmasked! Covering Thor (1998) #12-16.

Boo! Time to put some scary comic book stories on the list, don't you think?

Benito Cereno is back for our annual Halloween special, and 24 candies are duking it out in a tournament to determine who reigns supreme in treats!

The creative team behind the new book Parasocial joins us for the show this week to talk about how color can create horror, how to handle actual parasocial relationships, actors and fans, putting subtitles in a comic, and a whole lot more!

We're finishing out the (first) saga of Jared Stevens: The Man Called Fate on this episode. Can issues 11-22 overcome the problems of the first half of the series, or maybe discover some brand new ones?

On this week's episode, Matt and Chris are taking your listener questions once again!

It's time once again for us to rank some of the rawest moments in comics, and we get a definite top-spot contender this time!

As we always say in our famous catch phrase, "Time to rank the comics!"

We continue our re-read of the Dan Jurgens/John Romita Jr. run on Thor with issues #6-11 this week! Things get intense and, briefly, gross!

The writer of Pink Midnight Presents: Barber Psychic joins us this week to talk about whether the series really is a horror anthology, never playing D&D, "Yes and," movies about barbers, and much more! NOTE: Just to be clear, Paul uses they/them pronouns, despite some others used in the episode. Apologies!

Two of the writers of Dark Horse Comics' Minor Threats spinoff series The Alternates join us for the show this week to talk about weirdo superheroes, the beauty of the characters no one else likes, the mythology of pre-Covid conventions, and, of course, Slash.

For our belated celebration of the birthday of the King of Comics, Jack Kirby, we're reading this 1981 Pacific Comics series of his that we've never read before! So how does it stack up?

Longtime friend of the show Mark O. Stack returns to the program this week to talk about his new crossover comic funding now on Kickstarter, The Relentless Adventure! Plus, we discuss the joy of superheroes just hanging out, the history of inter-company crossovers, and some controversial Pokemon thoughts.

Time to rank some more of the rawest moments in comics! Remember: When the time comes, you better fight like hell.

Chris is back in the saddle, and he's here with Matt to rank some comic book stories once again! One of them is Weapon X, so they spend a long time on that one.

Matt is joined by his wife Marlene this week to take some listener questions!

Matt went to visit Chris in Minneapolis for his birthday, and they recorded something every day about what they did!

We took your listener questions on the show this week, and it led to a long discussion about what makes a good comics fight, among other things!

Come with us to Asgard. Or what's left of it, anyway. We're starting our reread of the Dan Jurgens/John Romita Jr. run on Thor with issues #1-5 this week!

The summer heat is here, and we're keeping cool by ranking comic book stories once again.