Comics Catch-Up 079: Spectacular Spider-Man Magazine #2

This month, we're looking back to the 1968 magazine where Norman Osborn returned as the Green Goblin! He and Peter do drugs, and it's all lovingly rendered by John Romita Sr.We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!

We're taking your listener questions on this week's show, including queries about character classes for our pets, superhero media music, the franchise with the best swords, and much more!We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!

We're rating swords once again on this episode! At least one of them could be your friend, and they're all pretty toyetic. Well, with one key exception made by Hattori Hanzo.We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!

We're back and we're rankin' on this extra-sized special, including several stories from The Gauntlet!We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!

We're very happy to welcome Geoffrey Golden of The Devastator back to the show this week to talk about his new game ALL-CARDS, which uses...every trading card! We actually play a bit of the game to get a flavor for it, while also talking about gum, making fake trading cards, Tarot using Tarot, and much more!We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!

Alex Ross' 2022 prestige Abrams Arts tribute to Lee and Kirby's Fantastic Four is what we're catching up on this month. It's good, but is it great to the point we'd recommend it to others? Listen and find out!We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!

Time for more Hickmania on this week's show as we read through Fantastic Four #579-582! Reed is sick of his Science Club, so he starts a new one! Also, his dad shows up from the future in the past.We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!

Longtime friend of the show Kel McDonald is back this week to discuss their new Cities Between collection, Shards of Reflection, which is funding now on Kickstarter! Before we get to that, though, we talk a lot about what we're watching, good questions to ask that aren't "How are you?" and New England's love of Dunkin'. Plus a whole lot more!We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!

Benito joins Matt as guest host this week to talk to longtime friend of the show Jeremy Whitley! Jeremy's got a Zoop crowdfunding campaign for not one, but two new comics, Slay! and The Girlfriend Survives! We talk with him about what makes the two books similar, trying to break away from being typecast as a writer, creating a big mean bear monster, the Berserk influence, and much more!We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!

We're rating our first batch of swords for 2026 this episode, while also going back to one we tabled last year! And there's one submission we really have to work to decide if it's a sword or not.We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!