Episode 705 - Specials That Are Special f/ Daniel Kibblesmith

It's time for our annual Christmas episode at the cabin on Mount Premise, but this time, it's a work retreat! We have only a few short hours to come up with an idea for something that's never been done before: what Fraction refers to as a "Christmas movie."We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!

The writer of the X-Men story in Marvel Holiday Tales to Astonish and Powerpuff Girls Winter Snowdown Showdown joins us this week to talk about what's different about writing a story for a holiday special, that one time Kitty Pryde fought the Alien from Alien, that time a child mistook Ghost Rider for Santa Claus, and, of course, Garfield.We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!

On this month's Catch-Up, we read what may or may not have been Don Rosa's story about Scrooge McDuck, a Christmas character.We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!

Two of the creators behind the new Minor Threats mini-series The Brood join us this week to talk about their book, working through family stuff in comics, inevitable comparisons, The Brood (Marvel), The Brood (WWE), the aliens from the movie Alien, and more!We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!

Time to rank more comics on our list of more than 1500 comics stories!We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!

Is this the end of Thursday Night Raw? We work it all out after taking some more listener submissions of the rawest moments in comics history!We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!

Based on your suggestions, we caught up with this five-issue romp by Leah Williams and Carlos Gomez. Is it spooky? No. Is it fun? Yeah! Is it good? Listen and find out!We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!

It is once again time to get raw on this week's show, and this set of submissions raises the question: Is it raw or just funny?We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!

Time for more Dan Jurgens Thor, and this time, Thor is taking a more active role as king of Midgard. Did he do anything wrong? The jury's out.Covering Thor #51-56.We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!

We were gone for a little while, and a whole episode of listener questions got lost thanks to Hurricane Helene. So we're making up for it with a special episode of nothing but listener questions!We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!