Worst Collection Ever
Join comic book fans Jen Stansfield-Marek and Shawn Marek each week for WORST COLLECTION EVER. It's a comedy show where Jen and Shawn poke fun at their own collection of random comic books, most of which that they bought for a dollar or less. And, if you want to follow along, we will be reading books in sequential order as to track the lunacy in real time. Email the podcast and talk to the hosts at [email protected]!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 438
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
World's Finest in the 80s
On this week's episode of WORST COLLECTION EVER, Jen and Shawn discuss:
World’s Finest Comics #286 (1982)
Topics include:why didn’t they call Doctor Fate?Wonder Woman and her Prince healing rayBatm…
00:46:18 |
Fri 01 Dec 2017
Power Pack
Power Pack [vol 1] #53 (1990)
We did some shopping over the holiday weekend and you lucky folks get to reap the rewards! For the first time, we cover POWER PACK, a book about four kids bestowed with…
01:19:46 |
Thu 30 Nov 2017
A Superboy Thanksgiving
Superboy [vol 2] #38 (1983)
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Superboy’s celebrating Thanksgiving here as well by ignorantly starving a prison filled with malcontent boys, roasting albino turkeys with h…
01:12:03 |
Thu 23 Nov 2017
Cage
Cage [vol 1] #13 (1993)
This CAGE book is pretty boring but we do our best to make it work. There’s 90’s excess abound with sinewy cyber-villains and the Tinkerer being all creepy in his truck using…
00:50:55 |
Thu 16 Nov 2017
Batman: Hollywood Knight
Batman: Hollywood Knight #1 (2001)
“Batman” makes it out to the west coast finally but its not “Batman” Robin’s here too but he’s actually this bad-ass stunt man who has hair like Lobot from EMPIRE …
00:57:39 |
Thu 09 Nov 2017
Silver Surfer & Nova
Silver Surfer [vol 3] #11 (1988)
Its back to the Marvel cosmic universe as Silver Surfer and Nova search for pirates in Mos Eisley-ish kind of place that they have to go through space tar to get to.…
00:48:38 |
Thu 02 Nov 2017
Doorway To Nightmare
Doorway To Nightmare #2 (1978)
Its Halloween and we celebrate by checking out one of DC’s many horror anthology series, this one hosted by Madame Xanadu (because Zatanna was probably in the JLA or s…
01:04:08 |
Thu 26 Oct 2017
Ravage 2099
Ravage 2099 #21 (1994)
Here’s one of those books that is supposedly written by Stan Lee although Stan Lee investing considerable time in a disgraced white-collar exec turned super-powered eco-warrio…
01:00:11 |
Thu 19 Oct 2017
Dark Nights: Metal
Dark Nights: Metal #1 (2017)
This week, we dabble in the current crop of books that are just as dumb as the ones from year’s past. Why does everything - literally EVERYTHING - have to revolve around…
01:22:14 |
Thu 12 Oct 2017
X-Factor in the 80s
X-Factor #30 (1988)
Despite the Walt Simonson art, this X-Factor book fails to impress. However, we do have Beast in his “ode to the 1984 San Diego Padres” outfit and Iceman wearing his Asgardian ch…
00:46:13 |
Thu 05 Oct 2017
Sovereign Seven
Sovereign Seven #17 (1996)
Well…this was a weird one. Not weird in a good way but weird in a confusing way. Sovereign Seven is the Polyphonic Spree of comic book teams, playing host to what seems to…
01:01:03 |
Thu 28 Sep 2017
Captain America & Nomad
Captain America #325 (1987)
Cap is BACK! Not sure why he keeps showing up on the show but this issue where him and Nomad beat up on a morbidly obese drug lord was too hard to pass up. We also learn …
01:10:24 |
Thu 21 Sep 2017
Hawkman and the JSA
Hawkman [vol 4] #23 (2004) We actually get around to a book in the new millennium this week with HAWKMAN in the JSA / Black Reign crossover. This one, though, is one of those stop-gap issues that exi…
01:09:44 |
Thu 14 Sep 2017
Cable
Cable #11 (1994)
It’s back to the 90s we go as Shawn and Jen delve in an X-Books offshoot with CABLE. Join us as Cable uses his nebulous and infinite powers to fend off Magneto’s Acolytes because th…
01:01:38 |
Thu 07 Sep 2017
Tales Of Evil
Tales of Evil #3 (1975)
We go back to the Atlas/Seaboard catalog this week as we are introduced to the Man-Monster, a dude who turns into a Hulk / fish being when doused with hot water. His characte…
01:01:55 |
Thu 31 Aug 2017
Lois Lane's 2nd Superman
Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane #132 (1973)
In this charming comic, two lovesick psychopaths devise a way for an up-and-coming scientist to get lethally entwined in their implausible, perilous rela…
01:18:07 |
Wed 23 Aug 2017
Skrull Kill Krew
Skrull Kill Krew #2 (1995)
In this dumb ham of a book, a bunch of gnarly 90s Marvel stereotypes band together to murder Skrulls that are living in plain sight among us. Its a sci-fi trope thats been…
00:46:37 |
Wed 16 Aug 2017
DC Comics Superhero Mad Libs
We opted this week to take a different approach to our show and try out some DC Comics Mad Libs that Shawn’s brother sent over. Lots of ridiculous word substitutions that somehow create cohesive and …
01:22:19 |
Thu 10 Aug 2017
The Wanderers
The Wanderers #12 (1989) This is an infamous book where a group of superhero clones/scientists jet around the universe to help ensure evolution and life on other planets. We think. Not entirely sure …
01:18:05 |
Wed 02 Aug 2017
Barbie Fashion
Barbie Fashion #31 (1993)
Barbie is the Vincent Chase of toys and has infinite links to shared universes that you may have never imagined. Also, some old woman crashes her car into Barbie’s converti…
01:12:56 |
Tue 18 Jul 2017
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