Worst Collection Ever

Shawn Marek & Jen Stansfield
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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 worstcollectionever@gmail.com!

  1. Anthropomorphic Birds with Big Chests

    2D AGO

    Anthropomorphic Birds with Big Chests

    JSA #57 / Hawkman #24 (2004) It’s a double dose of #JSApril this week as we double up the conversation on the next two installments of the “Black Reign” story arc! In JSA, the team makes its way to Kahndaq, having to use air travel as opposed to magic travel because Nabu’s being REAL cranky these days. Along the way, Power Girl calls Hawkman an ass, Black Adam bifurcates thru the JSA transport and all of Northwind’s friends, with their bird talons and supple chests, look to make mincemeat of the heroes. Over in HAWKMAN, Doctor Fate seemingly turns heel as Nabu mucks up the JSA on the offensive. Hawkman clangs his own son on the head with his mace, Brainwave probes Shazam’s teenage thoughts and Hourman is gutted….literally! All this plus Jen and Shawn offer a correction regarding Billy Batson’s age and discuss Jason Todd’s failed pro wrestling career. *** PROPER COMIC BOOK DISCUSSION STARTS AT 00:09:55 *** Promos: #JSAPRIL (https://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/jsapril/) / THE MONITOR TAPES (http://themonitortapes.com) Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYT Download the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

    47 min
  2. Power Girl Pummels the Temu Village People

    APR 11

    Power Girl Pummels the Temu Village People

    Hawkman #23 (2004) #JSApril continues to chug along as we jump over to HAWKMAN for the next installment of the “Black Reign” arc! Before it all goes to hell, the JSA are in St. Roch aka Earth-One New Orleans for honor Hawkman on his presumed birthday. The JSA is wild in the streets as Power Girl endures a fortune telling, Wildcat plays pocket pool, Doctor Mid-Nite threatens to drown a man with his own blood and Hourman Jr. Jr. sweats it out in the hotel. This all culminates at the Hawkman party where Carter, fresh from mutilating Matter Master, fills the team in on the Kahndaq situation and it gets real REAL fast. All this plus Jen and Shawn chat about yet another shopping excursion resulting in Nightwing action figure repaints and more BatCat wins! *** PROPER COMIC BOOK DISCUSSION STARTS AT 00:15:13 *** Promo: #JSAPRIL (https://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/jsapril/) Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYT Download the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

    50 min
  3. Black (Adam) Reign

    APR 4

    Black (Adam) Reign

    JSA #56 (2004) Welcome to #JSApril! Worst Collection Ever is proud to participate in this celebration of JSA content by delivering our wicked takes on Geoff Johns’s “Black Reign” saga! This issue plays out more like the first act of a promsing action flick, with Black Adam recruiting a crew of disenchanted, mayhem-seeking folks to help him liberate his home country of Kahndaq. We got the assassin Nemesis, a tatted-up Eclipso, a freshly-mutated Northwind, a conflicted Atom Smasher and Chester Bennington of Linkin Park aka Brainwave aka Robert Englund from the V mini-series. The scene gets bloody and emotional and there are cooling brains all over the place. We also spend a bit of time parsing out Northwind’s creation so, if you new to the podcast, put a fun movie on for the kids and then hide under a blanket while you listen to this. All this plus Jen and Shawn buy a bunch of cheap trades, new DC Absolute offerings and the Hawk Tuah Girl runs afoul of the Dark Knight! [NOTE — we (or specifically Shawn) refers to Northwind a bunch as “Hawkwind.” Hawkwind was a band that Lemmy was in before Motörhead - we are aware of this. We will most likely screw this up again, so there you go] *** PROPER COMIC BOOK DISCUSSION STARTS AT 00:22:14 *** Promo: #JSAPRIL (https://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/jsapril/) Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYT Download the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

    53 min
  4. Guy Gardner: Warrior [Guest: Brian Marek]

    MAR 28

    Guy Gardner: Warrior [Guest: Brian Marek]

    GUY GARDNER: WARRIOR #0 (1994) It is our first podcast guest in a LONG time as Shawn's brother -- the mighty Brian Marek -- joins us to talk about pivotal (to Shawn and Brian at least) 90’s comic GUY GARDNER: WARRIOR. It is the Zero Hour issue that reboots Guy as a descendant of a race of peace-keeping aliens who have been traveling the cosmos in a quest to create the perfect, well, warrior. This all gets SUPER body horror pretty quick, with veiny cannon arms and flesh syringes. For the most part, we put this over pretty strongly because the Guy Gardner aesthetic from his era is totally 90s and totally pro wrestling and it’s the best. All this plus we chat about the Ultimate Warrior’s corpse running amok in the DC Comics offices, Power Girl’s forgotten baby, Guy’s Irish heritage and which foods you should NOT bring to an orgy. [ONE MORE THING — this podcast was recorded using Streamyard and may eventually come out as video on our YT channel. That being said, the audio does have some aberrations and skips that were unavoidable or skipped over so please bear with us. It was our first time recording the podcast in this format and will need to fine-tuned. Thanks!] *** PROPER COMIC BOOK DISCUSSION STARTS AT 00:16:24 *** Promo: #JSAPRIL (https://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/jsapril/) Follow Brian on Instagram for dog pics and pierogi stuff (https://www.instagram.com/pieroguy/) Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYT Download the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

    1h 2m
  5. Dial T For Turkish Cigarettes

    MAR 21

    Dial T For Turkish Cigarettes

    DIAL H FOR HERO from Superboy #39 (1983) Something a bit different this week as we revisit a backup story from Superboy [vol 2] featuring the Dial H For Hero crew! The Dial H stuff is pretty boring and lame to be honest but there’s some fun stuff to talk about. We got lead boy Chris’s dad living in an Al Bundy simulacrum, Turkish cigarette preferences, larceny and ill-advised attempts at bus magic. *** PROPER COMIC BOOK DISCUSSION STARTS AT 00:02:03 *** Promo: #JSAPRIL (https://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/jsapril/) Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYT Download the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

    22 min
  6. Superman: The Animated Series - THE MAIN MAN (Part 1 & 2)

    MAR 14

    Superman: The Animated Series - THE MAIN MAN (Part 1 & 2)

    It is time to return to our rewatch of SUPERMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES!! This time out, we are covering:Ep9 / 10: THE MAIN MAN — PARTS 1 & 2 (Airdates: 11/9/96 & 11/16/96) Join us as we discuss topics such as:Is it Speweege or Spooj?Clark is a sick manLobo eats rebar the long wayThe origins of Superman’s alien menagerie/zooGas Babes Gone Wild! *** EPISODE DISCUSSION STARTS AT 00:06:54 *** Plus, we do some follow-up from last week’s DEFENDERS finale pertaining to the Hulk’s physical stats and why the hell RUSH was involved! Promo: #JSAPRIL (https://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/jsapril/) Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYT Download the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

    52 min
  7. Doctor Strange F***ed Around and Found Out

    MAR 7

    Doctor Strange F***ed Around and Found Out

    Defenders #45 (1977) It’s a Defenders Gender Battle as the Red Rajah saga comes to close! Doctor Strange, all red-gemmed up as the Red Rajah, wants mankind as his universal think tank and he’s starting with Manhattan. He’s got the boy Defenders under his control so its up to the girl Defenders to save NYC (and humanity pretty much). Also, Red Guardian goes full Gwen Stefani with her outfit, Hellcat and Valkyrie dish about communism, the Hulk rocks out to Pearl Jam and the Marvel editors shout out 2112-era Rush! All this plus Jen and Shawn chat haphazardly about the Oscars and review the 1986 sleepy monkey thriller LINK. *** PROPER COMIC BOOK DISCUSSION STARTS AT 00:10:21 *** Promo: #JSAPRIL (https://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/jsapril/) Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYT Download the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

    45 min
  8. Hulk Gives Luke Cage a Vasectomy

    FEB 28

    Hulk Gives Luke Cage a Vasectomy

    Defenders #44 (1977) Man, the Incredible Hulk can be an incredible pain in the ass sometimes. Presently apoplectic that Doctor Strange, the only solution is for the rest of the Defenders to track him down. Unbeknownst to them, Doctor Strange is now the Red Rajah, an entity focused on bringing Manhattan together as one big think tank whether they want to or not! We also got Valkyrie’s ex-husband stumbling into the Sanctorum, Russia telling Red Guardian to get her ass back home and Patsy Walker aka Hellcat interjecting herself into the team dynamic after a peyote quest on Titan. All this plus Jen and Shawn visit a 90’s museum exhibit and feel really ancient afterwards. *** PROPER COMIC BOOK DISCUSSION STARTS AT 00:09:44 *** Promo: #JSAPRIL (https://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/jsapril/) Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com Also, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYT Download the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

    52 min
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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 worstcollectionever@gmail.com!

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  • Creator
    Shawn Marek & Jen Stansfield
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2025
  • Episodes
    416
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © All rights reserved
  • Show Website
    Worst Collection Ever

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