Matt, Chris, and perennial Halloween guest Benito Cereno meet up in the Backstreets, a liminal space legally distinct from the Backrooms, to make the ultimate Halloween mixtape on this year's spooky special!

Gene Selassie, the co-author of Pro Wrestling for Dummies and author of Avengers for Dummies, joins us on the show this week!

Matt and Chris finally read this manga horror classic by Junji Ito for our Spooky Season catch-up!

Our pal Jeremy Whitley returns to the show this week to talk about his new book, Navigating With You Vol. 2!

We're back to rating swords on this week's episode, including a real-life one, a wild anime one, one from a gatcha game, one on a gravestone, and more!

We're back to rank comic book stories this month, including some early Silver Age Green Lantern, some manga, some Marvel and DC BS, and more!

Longtime fave Kyle Starks is back on the show this week to discuss his Kickstarter for his new comic, Louise Sprouse Stole My Heart (And I Have Two Hours to Get It Back)!

The writers of Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming and Just Another Summer join us for this week's show!

After being asked about post-Kirby runs on New Gods, we figured we should take the latest try by Ram V, Evan Cagle, and a whole bunch of guest artists for a spin!

Two of the creators behind the new Dark Horse series The Big Shakedown, Jordan Blum and Scott Koblish, join us for this week's show!

Blame it on vacation! This should have been August's Comics Catch-Up but for whatever reason, it just never got posted! So here it is: Our look at the four-issue Catwoman miniseries from 1989 by Mindy Newell and J.J. Birch!

Matt and Chris are taking your listener questions on this week's super-sized show! Among the topics: X-Men baseball, Dropout, extreme sports, Wario, and much more!

Are you ready to hear Matt and Chris lose their minds over a Legends of the Dark Knight story from 2001? Listen to the end, friends!

We're in the Garden with this edition of Hickmania, and Doctor Doom is facing down the Mad Celestials while Valeria and Nathaniel do everything they can to buy time!

We're rating swords on this week's show, from a banned Magic card to a very big sucker. And can swords that have been turned into another weapon be considered as swords?

Out of the way! A cartoonist is coming! Katie Skelly returns to the show this week to talk about her new book, Heaven. Plus, some surprising influences, moving from cool-girl stories to loser-girl stories, lazy Susans, and much more!

We're rating one of the biggest swords around on this week's show, along with another wooden sword, a weapon of Klingon legend, and more!

We're back and ranking comic book stories for another month, including some Dragon Ball, Spider-Man and recent stories!