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Absolute Superman #1 (2025)

We have reached the end of DC Absolute Universe Month as we talk about ABSOLUTE SUPERMAN!

Absolute Superman dives mightily into the Kryptonian class structure and what it would be like to have brunch on Krypton. Kal’s parents are working-class citizens with interesting backstories, fixing space farming equipment and rightfully pointing out hazardous mining conditions. And somehow, in this firs...

Absolute Green Lantern #1 (2025)

It is yet another entry in our DC Absolute Universe Month as we cover the horror-tinged — and possibly AMERICAN PIE-tinged — ABSOLUTE GREEN LANTERN.

Green Lantern this time around is the Far Sector’s Jo Mullein and much like Absolute Batman, she is friends with her contemporaries such as toy collector slash architect Hal Jordan, local police chief Guy Gardner and the salad-loving John...

Absolute Wonder Woman #1 (2025)

Absolute Month from DC Comics rolls along as we check out the immensely awesome ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN! There’s a lot to dig here because it’s basically Wonder Woman rubbing monster blood across her eyes and slaughtering assorted Hell demons and monsters that fly out of an upside down pyramid in the sky. If that’s not wild enough, Absolute WW was RAISED AS A CHILD in Hell by Circe and it l...

Absolute Batman #1 (2024)

It is all about the Absolute this month as we check out some of the premiere issues of the Absolute Universe from DC Comics!

We start off with the meaty thighs of ABSOLUTE BATMAN and his blue-collar origin story where Bruce is almost seven feet tall, Alfred is not his friend (yet) and Martha Wayne is STILL ALIVE! We also got possible squid people, Alfred with Paulie Walnuts hair, ears that ...

Thunderbolts #3 (1997)

Our Thunderbolts comes to an end as Marvel’s newest team of fake superheroes clashes with the newest version of evil villains as the Masters of Evil….return? Its’s quite the crew: there’s a freshly mutated Tiger Shark, a guy dressed as a tiger that FLYS, an Olympic skier turned violent feminist, a French mafia operative wearing a dead guy’s gear and Justin Hammer’s daughter with her prehensile cap...

Spider-Man Team-Up #7 (1997)

Look, I know it’s supposed to be more Thunderbolts but the “Justice Like Lightning” trade tricks you into reading a Spider-Man book. Thankfully, it is chronologically congruent to the ongoing storyline that we are covering so let’s keep going.

Spider-Man is framed for murder and the Thunderbolts are the only ones to can help (because everyone else is dead). Songbird and Mach-1 brawl with the ...

Thunderbolts #2 (1997)

Our OG Thunderbolts discussion continues as the Thunderbolts adjust to their newly heroic personas in a battle against the Mad Thinker and his plan to suck knowledge out of Franklin Richards’s brain. Thankfully, the T-Bolts are here to handle the situation even though they pretty much get their asses handed to them by Thinker’s Gumby-looking android.

Also, Mach-1 gets amorous, Citizen V tells a jok...

Thunderbolts #1 (1997)

It’s time to talk about the origins of the MCU’s latest offering as we look at the very first issue of the THUNDERBOLTS!

Of course, there is the big undercover villain twist at the end here but who can blame them when Onslaught eliminated all of our heroes and all that’s left is Spider-Man, Daredevil and (maybe) Blade. We got Baron Zemo masquerading as a capoeira-slinging Homelander, Techno smuggling i...

THUNDERBOLTS* is dropping this Friday and we’ve got a selection from the OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE to go with it as we talk about Red Guardian (I)! 

Join us as we chat about the OG Red Guardian (played by David Harbour in the upcoming film) and learn about his humble beginnings as a hotshot test pilot, his marriage to Black Widow (wait, isn’t his daughter in….) and his involvement in psychotropic warfare...

JSA #58 / Hawkman #25 (2004)

Apologies for the delay but here it is — the final chapter in our #JSApril stint as we cover the final two installments of the “Black Reign” story arc!

First in JSA, we suffer a few unintentional casualties on the heel side, Doctor Fate gets trapped in suburbia and Brainwave Jr. Jr. Jr. has actual brain WORMS in his head and they’re…friendly, sort of?

Then in HAWKMAN, Shazam gets sniffing, Haw...

JSA #57 / Hawkman #24 (2004)

It’s a double dose of #JSApril this week as we double up the conversation on the next two installments of the “Black Reign” story arc!

In JSA, the team makes its way to Kahndaq, having to use air travel as opposed to magic travel because Nabu’s being REAL cranky these days. Along the way, Power Girl calls Hawkman an ass, Black Adam bifurcates thru the JSA transport and all of Northwind’s frie...

Hawkman #23 (2004)

#JSApril continues to chug along as we jump over to HAWKMAN for the next installment of the “Black Reign” arc!

Before it all goes to hell, the JSA are in St. Roch aka Earth-One New Orleans for honor Hawkman on his presumed birthday. The JSA is wild in the streets as Power Girl endures a fortune telling, Wildcat plays pocket pool, Doctor Mid-Nite threatens to drown a man with his own blood and Hourman J...

JSA #56 (2004)

Welcome to #JSApril! Worst Collection Ever is proud to participate in this celebration of JSA content by delivering our wicked takes on Geoff Johns’s “Black Reign” saga!

This issue plays out more like the first act of a promsing action flick, with Black Adam recruiting a crew of disenchanted, mayhem-seeking folks to help him liberate his home country of Kahndaq. We got the assassin Nemesis, a tatted-up Ecl...

GUY GARDNER: WARRIOR #0 (1994)

It is our first podcast guest in a LONG time as Shawn's brother -- the mighty Brian Marek -- joins us to talk about pivotal (to Shawn and Brian at least) 90’s comic GUY GARDNER: WARRIOR. It is the Zero Hour issue that reboots Guy as a descendant of a race of peace-keeping aliens who have been traveling the cosmos in a quest to create the perfect, well, warrior. This all gets SUPER body hor...

DIAL H FOR HERO from Superboy #39 (1983)

Something a bit different this week as we revisit a backup story from Superboy [vol 2] featuring the Dial H For Hero crew! The Dial H stuff is pretty boring and lame to be honest but there’s some fun stuff to talk about. We got lead boy Chris’s dad living in an Al Bundy simulacrum, Turkish cigarette preferences, larceny and ill-advised attempts at bus magic.

*** PROPER COMIC BOOK ...

It is time to return to our rewatch of SUPERMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES!! This time out, we are covering:

• Ep9 / 10: THE MAIN MAN — PARTS 1 & 2 (Airdates: 11/9/96 & 11/16/96)

Join us as we discuss topics such as:

• Is it Speweege or Spooj?
• Clark is a sick man
• Lobo eats rebar the long way
• The origins of Superman’s alien menagerie/zoo
• Gas Babes Gone Wild!

*** EPISODE DISCUSSION STARTS AT 00:06:54 ***

P...

Defenders #45 (1977)

It’s a Defenders Gender Battle as the Red Rajah saga comes to close! Doctor Strange, all red-gemmed up as the Red Rajah, wants mankind as his universal think tank and he’s starting with Manhattan. He’s got the boy Defenders under his control so its up to the girl Defenders to save NYC (and humanity pretty much).

Also, Red Guardian goes full Gwen Stefani with her outfit, Hellcat and Valkyrie dish abou...

Defenders #44 (1977)

Man, the Incredible Hulk can be an incredible pain in the ass sometimes. Presently apoplectic that Doctor Strange, the only solution is for the rest of the Defenders to track him down. Unbeknownst to them, Doctor Strange is now the Red Rajah, an entity focused on bringing Manhattan together as one big think tank whether they want to or not!

We also got Valkyrie’s ex-husband stumbling into the Sanctorum, ...

Defenders #43 (1977)

The fun times keep rolling along for Marvel’s favorite non-team as the Cobalt Man’s about to explode and all the Hulk wants to do is punch the radioactive villain in the face. Thankfully, Knighthawk (who is still shirtless) has a better solution. 

We also have Egghead unleashing his lethal egg-based offense with surprisingly efficient results, Luke Cage yeeting an agitated George Lucas, Rhino bustin...