Worst Collection Ever

It’s Halloween….everyone’s entitled to a ROHOTMU talking about a scary Marvel monster pulled from classic literature. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

World’s Finest Comics #81 (1956) This week, we celebrate Batman in the 50s as we slap around this WORLD’S FINEST where a time-traveling historian shows up in present time to tell Bats and Supes that they’ve been doing it all wrong this whole time. Of course, these two are idiots and believe this dude right away, going about the business of letting crooks out of jail and B’Wana Beast-ing an entire zoo of animals. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

The week got wild so here we are with another ROHOTMU talking about were-cat woman Tigra!  Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

Exiles #65 (2005) EXILES (or eXiles if you will) are a crew of temporal Defenders made up mostly of mutants, including Blink, Sabretooth and some dude with a soul patch. In this issue, we wrap up a storyline involving life jacket-wearing insects, a sand enema and three different Hyperions, one which looks like Michael Chiklis.  Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

Barbie #5 (1991) Barbie Fashion #32 (1993) Good Lord what are we up to this week. We’ve got TWO Barbie comics that we beat up on and ultimately, we’ve come to the harsh conclusion that Barbie and Ken are a part of a murder cult. There are multiple instances where she tries to rub out Skipper, a young girl who believes she can talk to swans. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

On this week’s podcast, we do a deep dive into SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS (2021) with movie spoilers coming out of our ears so be forewarned.  We also chat about a few other movies coming out including ETERNALS, LAST NIGHT IN SOHO and VENOM: THERE WILL BE CARNAGE so buckle in for some silver screen goodness. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

Infinity Inc #15 (1985) Chroma is an androgynous space being who shows up on different planets to sing melodious dirges about the apocalypse. Obsidian, who is literally made of shadows, is like “I’m already goth AF so nah man” and punches Chroma out. As a result, Los Angeles and the rest of the Infinity Inc members are bummed out. Then Skyman shows up and they all take a ride in his gyrocopter or whatever it is he drives. Also, as an added bonus, this is an early work of Todd McFarlane so its all fancy and what not. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

Action Comics [vol 1] #466 (1976) In a retread of previous Superman stories we’ve done, Lex Luthor finds a way to make not only Superman young but also manages to de-age Batman and Flash. Or does he? Actually, he doesn’t. He just uses teenage androids, kicks the Batman one into oblivion and makes Superman punch himself a whole lot. Along the way, Superman destroys the Metropolis IHOP and somehow pockets extra body mass into an alternate dimension and we just have to accept it. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

Marvel Two-In-One #30 (1977) The Thing and Alicia Masters eat lunch at Piccadilly Circus in London when they are interrupted by some chaos. A chino-clad Ben runs off to investigate and is ambushed by a Hydra-influenced Spider-Woman (who Ben insists is Spider-Man’s sister). Nick Fury tells Ben to shut his damn mouth. Later, Alicia gets nabbed by Spider-Woman so she can ALSO become a mutated woman who is ALSO a spider (a Spider-Woman). To cope, Ben nearly drowns a hydrofoil filled with tourists and then some lady calls him the Hulk. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

Hey now! JEN RETURNS THIS EPISODE! Join Jen AND Shawn this week for a spoiler-filled look at THE SUICIDE SQUAD as well as why you should stan your baby (if you have one) as well as the trials and tribulations of VCR tapes. We’ll get back to comics next week but here’s something a little different this week. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

Grim Reaper is Wonder Man’s brother, so that’s pretty cool. He’s a vengeance-fueled villain that’s kicked it with some of the best Marvel has to offer, both good and evil. He was even a ZOMBIE for a spell but he got better. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

You all know Wasp. She’s basically the Batman of high fashion. But when you sit down think about her and everything she’s been through, there’s some real Cronenberg type body horror going on here. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

SUCH A BIG MAN! WHY DON’T YOU GO GET A PACK OF GUM - I’LL SHOW YOU HOW TO CHEW IT. Big Man is long-dead(ish) Spider-Man villain that in some ways served as a terrible bodyguard for J. Jonah Jameson, seeing that the Big Man is dead and all. But he did try to take over the NYC mob with a padded suit and lifts in his boots so you can’t count out his ambition. My man here though certainly missed out on a career in true crime podcasting though. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

Not sure if you knew this but as of 1986-ish, Mysterio was in jail like FIVE TIMES and somehow keeps walking the streets. In this ep, we learn about his humble beginnings as a stuntman that just wanted to kill a superhero to his storied career of crime, teaming with other bulbous helmeted villains such as the Wizard. Also, we have yet another connection to Uncle Ben’s secret money! Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

As it turns out, despite the contrary that I express in this episode, “Lemuel” is a somewhat common name, especially amongst doctors. That’s one thing this Namor villain had going for him before he died (but he got better because of starfish). But our man Lemuel here has a thing for genetic engineering and marine biology, much like an evil George Costanza. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com