For our super-spoooooky Halloween episode, Chris and Matt conduct an interview with The Tick, Tales from the Bully Pulpit and Hector Plasm writer Benito Cereno deep from the depths of a reception nightmare! We talk to Benito about the types of horror movies we like, our essential Halloween flicks, the spookiest candy, Halloween memories and much more! Plus, Chris and Matt discuss their scariest video game experiences!

The Rundown

• Benito’s on Twitter! And Tumblr! And he and Nate Bellegarde have a Facebook page!
• Be sure to check out the Hector Plasm story Benito’s been posting for free. Here’s page one!
• Lots of our favorite flicks are online! Häxan‘s on Hulu Plus! Nosferatu is on YouTube! Night of the Living Dead, Phantom of the Opera and Jason X are on Netflix Watch Instantly!
• Santa’s Slay, starring Bill Goldberg, is a real movie that exists.
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a game so bad that the Angry Video Game Nerd has had to review it three times. Here’s his latest.
• iTunes week count: 5.
• Chris’ checks and recs: Dracula the Unconquered, Xena Halloween episode
  
• Matt’s checks and recs: Seeing Halloween cyclists, Silent Hill 2 (and its dog ending)
  
• Music used: Gorillaz, “Dracula”

Comics Talked About:

• Wolverine and the X-Men #1
• Daredevil #5
• Aquaman #2

Shameless Self Promotion:

• The @FakeAPStylebook book, Write More Good, is still available to buy right here!
• Check out Sims at The ISB, Comics Alliance, his webcomic Awesome Hospital, as well as the complete Solomon Stone at ActionAgeComics.
• Check out Matt’s Fake e-Etiquette Twitter feed, his webcomic Copernicus Jones, his Tumblr and the ISS.
• Check out all Euge’s music at AdamWarRock.com.
• Check out Max Huffman on Twitter, or at his site.
• Check out Rusty Shackles on Twitter, or at his site.

Remember to send in your listener questions to warrocketpodcast_at_gmail.com!

Comics Alliance editors Andy Khouri and Caleb Goellner sit down with Chris and Matt this week for a roundtable discussion New York Comic-Con, and things go to weird, weird places. Among the topics: Lack of cell phone and wi-fi at the convention center leading to caveman tactics, Conan on a sailboat, Catwoman’s “stripper idiom,” the lack of big news at the con, Andy’s debilitating con injury, whether the Marvel layoffs were foreshadowed at all at the con, the best Power Rangers season, which one of us would look best in hot pants, violence against Michelangelo and much more! Plus, Chris and Matt take a biased stance in favor of Adam Warrock.

The Rundown

• Be sure to follow Caleb and Andy on Twitter to keep up with their Odd Couple-style relationship.
• Here’s Chris’ roundup of the news from NYCC in case you missed it. And here’s the crappy news about Marvel’s layoffs.
• Power Rangers: RPM is crazy, y’all.
• Does Michelangelo really deserve this?
• The Damned Things or Every Time I Die? U-Decide!
• iTunes week count: 4.
• Chris’ checks and recs: Adam Warrock show, Arkham City
  
• Matt’s checks and recs: Three-year-old video games, Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole
  
• Music used: Steve Martin, “King Tut”

Comics Talked About:

• Fear Itself #7
• Atomic Robo: Ghost of Station X #2
• Justice League #2

Shameless Self Promotion:

• The @FakeAPStylebook book, Write More Good, is still available to buy right here!
• Check out Sims at The ISB, Comics Alliance, his webcomic Awesome Hospital, as well as the complete Solomon Stone at ActionAgeComics.
• Check out Matt’s Fake e-Etiquette Twitter feed, his webcomic Copernicus Jones, his Tumblr and the ISS.
• Check out all Euge’s music at AdamWarRock.com.
• Check out Max Huffman on Twitter, or at his site.
• Check out Rusty Shackles on Twitter, or at his site.

Remember to send in your listener questions to warrocketpodcast_at_gmail.com!

War Rocket Ajax welcomes Wondermark creator and Machine of Death co-editor David Malki ! to the show this week! You’ll hear how he creates his comics, how someone objected to that method, his early work using the Bic pen mascot, the amazing story of how Machine of Death got to number 1 on the Amazon sales chart, the best mustache to have, what fictional character he’d hang out with on a desert island, and much more! Plus, Chris reads more of the modern poetry that is the Thrasher letters column and we welcome Hundo Club member Bradley Moyer!

The Rundown

• Follow David on Twitter! And be sure to check out the Machine of Death website!
• David’s Hendrick’s Gin Artist Box!
• And here’s the action-movie trailer for his wedding!
• Here’s the Dinosaur Comic that started it all for Machine of Death.
• And check out what Glenn Beck had to say about the book.
• It’s been three weeks-plus. Still no iTunes. Nothing we can do.
• Give Bradley’s girlfriends DeviantArt page a look!
• Bradleys’ checks and recs: CBLDF drive/NYCC, Gurren Lagann
• Chris’ checks and recs: Mac stuff, Scooby-Doo movies
  
• Matt’s checks and recs: New book cover, Tales From the Bully Pulpit
  
• Music used: How I Became the Bomb, “Kneel Before Zod”

Comics Talked About:

• Indiana Jones OGNs
• X-Men: Regenesis #1
• Batwoman #2

Shameless Self Promotion:

• The @FakeAPStylebook book, Write More Good, is still available to buy right here!
• Check out Sims at The ISB, Comics Alliance, his webcomic Awesome Hospital, as well as the complete Solomon Stone at ActionAgeComics.
• Check out Matt’s Fake e-Etiquette Twitter feed, his webcomic Copernicus Jones, his Tumblr and the ISS.
• Check out all Euge’s music at AdamWarRock.com.
• Check out Max Huffman on Twitter, or at his site.
• Check out Rusty Shackles on Twitter, or at his site.

Remember to send in your listener questions to warrocketpodcast_at_gmail.com!

This week we welcome the team behind the webcomic Bucko to the show: Jeff Parker and Erika Moen! We discuss the often-raucous work environment at Periscope Studios, just how accurately Bucko depicts Portland, just what comics Juggalos are looking for these days, what Erika would most like to do if she was a guy, whether Bucko’s luck is going to change and much, much more! Plus, Chris and Matt answer a sexy question about Captain America!

The Rundown

• Jeff and Erika are both on Twitter! Follow ’em!
• Erika’s autobiographical comic DAR is all online, too!
• Next of Kin. What a weird movie.
• The man behind Chaos! Comics: Brian Pulido.
• If you haven’t watched Stella, really guys, get on that.
• iTunes says it could take as long as three weeks to get the show into the store. Sorry, guys.
• Chris’ checks and recs: Ordering a Mac, cartoons, Donald Duck HC
  
• Matt’s checks and recs: Wet Hot American Summer screening, Fake Criterions
  
• Music used: Misfits, “Teenagers From Mars”

Comics Talked About:

• OMAC #2
• Action Comics #2
• Casanova: Avaritia II

Shameless Self Promotion:

• The @FakeAPStylebook book, Write More Good, is still available to buy right here!
• Check out Sims at The ISB, Comics Alliance, his webcomic Awesome Hospital, as well as the complete Solomon Stone at ActionAgeComics.
• Check out Matt’s Fake e-Etiquette Twitter feed, his webcomic Copernicus Jones, his Tumblr and the ISS.
• Check out all Euge’s music at AdamWarRock.com.
• Check out Max Huffman on Twitter, or at his site.
• Check out Rusty Shackles on Twitter, or at his site.

Remember to send in your listener questions to warrocketpodcast_at_gmail.com!

We celebrate the return of the War Rocket Ajax/Comics Alliance roundtable and the close of our unofficial Ladies’ Month by welcoming CA Editor-in-Chief Laura Hudson and correspondent Bethany Fong to the show to discuss just how DC fared with the past month of new number-one issues, potential tattoo ideas, what we’d cancel from the New 52, best-and-worst CA moments, and a ton more! Plus, find out what has laid Chris Sims so low this past week and find out what the iTunes hold-up is.

The Rundown

• Follow Laura and Bethany on Twitter, and be sure to check out Bethany’s two Tumblrs!
• The fake comic cover above, by artist Brodie Brockie, comes from the super-awesome DC Fifty-Too! blog. There’s a ton of great art there, and so many versions of titles that would have been great to see in the real DC reboot.
• This poll: A sign of a world in the gutter or a big hoax? U-decide!
• Creator Dan Harmon saw to it that Community‘s writing staff was half women.
• Be sure to read Chris’ review of Flash #1.
• What would Chris Sims get tattooed on his back? This.
• Tom Fowler’s illustration of Berko Shemets from The Yiddish Policeman’s Union is amazing.
• iTunes says it could take as long as three weeks to get the show into the store. Sorry, guys.
• Chris’ checks and recs: Computer woes; his new comic, Dracula the Unconquered
  
• Matt’s checks and recs: Seeing Black Star in concert, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
  
• Music used: Black Star, “Brown Skin Lady”

Comics Talked About:

• The last batch of DC reboot #1s
• Amazing Spider-Man #670
• Secret Avengers #17

Shameless Self Promotion:

• The @FakeAPStylebook book, Write More Good, is still available to buy right here!
• Check out Sims at The ISB, Comics Alliance, his webcomic Awesome Hospital, as well as the complete Solomon Stone at ActionAgeComics.
• Check out Matt’s Fake e-Etiquette Twitter feed, his webcomic Copernicus Jones, his Tumblr and the ISS.
• Check out all Euge’s music at AdamWarRock.com.
• Check out Max Huffman on Twitter, or at his site.
• Check out Rusty Shackles on Twitter, or at his site.

Remember to send in your listener questions to warrocketpodcast_at_gmail.com!