Spider-Man Babysits the Beyonder

Secret Wars II #2 (1985) Superheroes Eating Month rolls along as we head to crossover town and see what’s the Beyonder is up to in SECRET WARS II! Our omnipotent dude wants to be “human” so he dresses up in a zentai suit, steals Steve Rogers’s face and badgers the NYC superhero contingent. Along the way, he (sort of) learns what food is, how money works and what it feels like to get worked over.Highlights include:The plot of SECRET WARS and SECRET WARS II explained (poorly)Beyonder chows down on broken glassSpider-Man just wants to watch the MuppetsMister Fantastic’s Hal Jordan cosplaySue Storm gets spikyPower Man and Iron Fist almost get TIMECOP’DAlso, Shawn and Jen check out Hall of Justice’s 11th Anniversary sale for some sweet deals!Promo: COFFEE & COMICS (https://coffeeandcomicspodcast.blogspot.com/)Continue the conversation with Shawn (@AngryHeroShawn) and Jen (@JenStansfield) on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at [email protected] Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYTDownload the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

Action Comics #454 (1975) Happy November everyone! Here at Worst Collection Ever, it is SUPERHEROES EATING MONTH in honor of the most eating holiday of all, Thanksgiving.This week, we start off strong with the hamburger issue of ACTION COMICS in which Superman *literally* eats 1 billion hamburgers as well as a few pumpkins. It has everything to a freak alloy in the earth’s core and not some alien tapeworm or something much more plausible.Highlights include:Clark Kent falls asleep on the jobBathroom stalls with missing doorsSuperman wears a suit made of disco ballsToyman’s toxic teddy bearMacTavish’s and the Mac BiggieSuperhero viscera in a jarAlso, Shawn and Jen attend the All American Collectors’ Expo and struggle to find a substantial amount of comic books.Promo: COFFEE & COMICS (https://coffeeandcomicspodcast.blogspot.com/)Continue the conversation with Shawn (@AngryHeroShawn) and Jen (@JenStansfield) on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at [email protected] Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYTDownload the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

Detective Comics #479 (1978)Clayface is out here being a sympathetic menace of sorts, just trying to get handsome again. But Batman and the GCPD will see to it that he loses everything and has to fake his death just to carry on.Also, DETECTIVE COMICS raised their page count (and their price!) so here’s a Hawkman back-up where our Thanagarian duo contend with a cloak-forward villain as well as unemployment.Highlights include:Batman continues to crash out over Silver St. CloudA mystery woman with a CATJim Gordon IS Dick TracyStephen King’s THINNERTraveling via pigeonLeonardo Da Vinci had a pistol?!?Also, Shawn and Jen hold a comic book garage sale and it went well!Promo: THE DETECTIVE PHASE (https://www.waitingfordoom.com/the-detective-phase)Continue the conversation with Shawn (@AngryHeroShawn) and Jen (@JenStansfield) on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at [email protected] Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYTDownload the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

Detective Comics #478 (1978)Let’s get to know Clayface a little better as we discuss Preston Payne aka Clayface III on this week’s episode, just in time for the new CLAYFACE movie (I know, right?) to hit theaters. Highlights include:Batman throws a fish tank at Richard DreyfussClayface III dips his hand in chili dog sauceBillionaire blames dead parents for dating woesRIP Commissioner Gordon’s mentorWhy is this DETECTIVE COMICS logo so hard to read?!?Urban blight in lower GothamAlso, Jen finds some Count Chocula and our hosts discuss the premiere season of CRYSTAL LAKE!Promo: THE DETECTIVE PHASE (https://www.waitingfordoom.com/the-detective-phase)Continue the conversation with Shawn (@AngryHeroShawn) and Jen (@JenStansfield) on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at [email protected] Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYTDownload the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

ON THIS WEEK’S WORST COLLECTION EVER…..Midnight Sons Unlimited #2 (1993)Time for some horror anthology action as we cover the pretty rad story “Bloodbath” featured in this issue of MIDNIGHT SONS UNLIMITED starring Morbius, a tabloid news show and Jason Mewes!Highlights include:Morbius’s random new powers (???)Mayor Mamdani tackles NYC’s severed limb epidemicBaby ClayfaceType O Carolina HurricanesDisplay window TVs in the 80sStreet thugs with scurvyAlso, Shawn and Jen comment on some of the announcements out of NYCC, the new Marvel Midnight books and share some final thoughts on LANTERNS season 1 (spoilers probably)Promo: THE MONSTERS THAT MADE US (https://www.cageclub.me/monsters/) Continue the conversation with Shawn (@AngryHeroShawn) and Jen (@JenStansfield) on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at [email protected] Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYTDownload the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

Convergence: Wonder Woman #2 (2015)This Wonder Woman versus vampires situation keeps chugging along as Diana squares off against the fangin-and-bangin trio of Joker, Catwoman and Poison Ivy. It’ll probably get worse though because both Steve Trevor and Etta Candy are in a pretty dire situation. No one wins.Highlights include:Etta Candy loves the Joker’s comedyMarc Maron rides a kangarooCatwoman becomes a parade floatPoison Ivy is the BACKROOMS monsterBone splints…with actual bones!Wonder Woman needs to bust out some MK FatalitiesAlso, Shawn and Jen buy a few new books from Hall of Justice and comment on the ABSOLUTE BATMAN hiatus.Promo: PEACE BOUND AND DOWN (https://fireandwaterpodcast.com/show/wonderwoman/)Continue the conversation with Shawn (@AngryHeroShawn) and Jen (@JenStansfield) on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at [email protected] Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYTDownload the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

Convergence: Wonder Woman #1 (2015)Spooky season has arrived so let’s see what’s what with this duo of books from DC’s Convergence event where versions of Gotham from different universes have to fight one another at the behest of some entity (and also Brainiac). This one is perfect for the season as Earth-One Wonder Woman squares off against an all-female doomsday cult and the Elseworlds Red Rain vampires!Highlights include:Wonder Woman cuts a promo on some street youthsEtta Candy joins a cultSteve Trevor chats with Bill CowherThe difference between “battle axe” and “old bag”Catwoman is a werewolfSacred chunnelsAlso, Shawn completes the REIGN OF THE SUPERMEN arc of books and shares a gross nursery rhyme from his youth.Promo: PEACE BOUND AND DOWN (https://fireandwaterpodcast.com/show/wonderwoman/)Continue the conversation with Shawn (@AngryHeroShawn) and Jen (@JenStansfield) on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at [email protected] Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYTDownload the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

Spawn #41 (1996) Continuing on with our mid-90s SPAWN coverage, we pick up with the Spawn man about to be dissected by the goatee-having villain Curse up his precariously balanced castle. Curse, you see, wants to be come “Satan Two” and believes he can use Spawn’s necroplasm to get there. Sure, why not.Highlights include:Hell had some solid prospects back in 1996Cy-Gor snuffs out some potential SAStephen Hawking gets a package on that damned islandSpawn’s hand goes full ADDAMS FAMILYCurse opts to do some paperworkA breakdown of the oft-overlooked SPAWN: THE MOVIE soundtrackAlso, Jen and Shawn check in briefly with LANTERNS at its mid-season point. Turns out it is a pretty great show.Promo: BEST ISSUE EVER (https://bestissueever.podbean.com/)Continue the conversation with Shawn (@AngryHeroShawn) and Jen (@JenStansfield) on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at [email protected] Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYTDownload the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

Spawn #40 (1996) Hey check this out — we are covering a Spawn book (quite possibly) for the first time! It has been a big year of first for us over here at WCE. We’re jumping in here with Spawn being abducted and dissected by Curse, a tech savvy religious zealot. We also have Cy-Gor the cybernetic gorilla running rampant somewhere in upstate New York.Highlights include:Spawn’s Bone ThroneChristopher Meloni for the Fat Clown in the SPAWN rebootThe Lurkers from PHANTASM set a booby trapReading books in the nudeFishing classes in grade schoolsInvisible Gorilla Delivery Service (IGDS)Also, Jen and Shawn pay tribute to the recently passed Andy Williams, guitarist of EVERY TIME I DIE and “The Butcher” in AEW. Andy was a one of kind talent and an incredible soul. We will miss him immensely. Rest in Power Andy.Promo: BEST ISSUE EVER (https://bestissueever.podbean.com/)Continue the conversation with Shawn (@AngryHeroShawn) and Jen (@JenStansfield) on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at [email protected], get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYTDownload the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!https://bit.ly/WCEpod

Elseworlds 80-Page Giant #1 (1999)Something slightly different this week as we chat about a specific story from an Elseworlds anthology called “Rockumentary.” This is a silly take on BEHIND THE MUSIC with Lex Luthor as a bigger-than-life record company executive. It’s a fun trip so let’s check it out!Highlights include:Martian Manhunter…with hair!Darkseid wears a nice suitTie me down, tell the truthBruce Wayne saves Ian Curtis’s lifeGuy Gardner would’ve made a great EminemColor Me Badd but with superheroesAlso, Jen and Shawn chat about the new KNIGHTFALL animated feature and Shawn tries to figure out how to read an omnibus like he’s in the NEVER ENDING STORY.*** PROPER COMIC BOOK DISCUSSION STARTS AT 00:10:15 ***Promo: WHAT ABOUT BILL? (https://open.spotify.com/show/6v6QCWVQwlm9SIQ6OsrGbK?si=36e81cff3e7c463f) Continue the conversation with Shawn (@AngryHeroShawn) and Jen (@JenStansfield) on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at [email protected] Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYTDownload the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!https://bit.ly/WCEpod