Worst Collection Ever

Shawn Marek & Jen Stansfield

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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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362 episodes

Spider-Man & Tigra Ruin an Italian Bistro

Marvel Team-Up #125 (1982) Spider-Man, ever the enterprising fellow, nabs a print endorsement deal for a fast food joint only for Tigra to show up and score the gig with her Charo impression (cuchi cuchi). Tigra then has a date with a beat cop that gets interrupted by Zabo the Diaper Bodyguard. Spider-Man tries to help and makes things worse. Additionally, we are bestowed a Doctor Strange / Scarlet Witch back-up that sees a confused monster summoned on the set of that fake movie in PET CEMETARY 2 where Eddie Furlong’s mother get electrocuted to death.  Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter (X) @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and 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 Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

54m
Mar 29, 2024
Spider-Man Gives the Hulk $5

Marvel Team-Up #126 (1983) We wrap our run on Marvel Team-Up with a deliberately lazy issue featuring a random back-up story with Luke Cage and Hellstorm and a Spider-Man comic strip reprint featuring the Hulk In the first story, Luke and Damian find a dead body and follow the brimstone trail to a demon worshipping party for Satannish aka Kirkland Signature Satan. Action ensues as Luke throws a couch and Hellstorm sets his trident to “ash.” Later, Hulk loses his marbles in NYC and awesomely demolishes a police cruiser with a lamppost. Spider-Man gives Hulk $5.00 USD to start a new life so Hulk heads to Chicago and pays it forward by slapping around some buff crooks. Promo from CHECKERED PAST (https://twitter.com/gogocheckpod) Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter (X) @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and 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 Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

51m
Mar 29, 2024
Spider-Man & Beast vs. Hillbillies & Romans

Marvel Team-Up #124 (1982) It’s a brand-new run of books as we jump into some Marvel Team-Up. This week, Spider-Man links up with our friend Beast to fight off the vengeance-seeking Professor Power. The good professor here is mad that another professor (Professor X) did a botch job on his catatonic son’s mind so now he wants to take it out on everything X-Men adjacent. All this plus Hank McCoy’s intolerant mother, Romans versus hillbillies and a special cameo from Adrienne Barbeau! Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter (X) @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and 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 Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

53m
Mar 15, 2024
Red Tornado's Sad NYC Adventure

Justice League of America #175 (1980) Join Shawn and Jen as we follow up on last week’s JLA book with a pointless tale about everyone’s favorite super-powered Eeyore, Red Tornado! You see, Reddy got sad over something again and impulsively quit the League to resume his normal life as a Yul Brenner lookalike in NYC. He assembles an instant family in the span of 20 minutes and goes to a Halloween parade in February where he is attacked by Doctor Destiny and his “bad dream machine” that only makes you see giant bugs. We also question the potentially lewd placement of Justice League cameras throughout NYC. Naturally, we blame Clark. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter (X) @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and 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 Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

35m
Mar 08, 2024
The RETURN of Worst Collection Ever!

Justice League of America #174 (1980) WE ARE BACK! Worst Collection Ever returns with its first new episode in over two years as we tackle an old reliable friend in the Justice League of America! Join Shawn and Jen as we talk about the JLA’s blundering attempt to bring Black Lightning into their ranks while simultaneously fighting mutant rats and sometimes ants in Metropolis. Also, Wonder Woman engages in some unwarranted urban renewal and Elongated Man hangs around and is generally annoying. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter (X) @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

58m
Mar 01, 2024
The Flash Faces The Heat

The Flash #266 (1978) We tackle The Flash in this week’s episode as Barry faces the challenge of a 100% fully functioning Heat Wave. Heat Man here has to overcome his fear of the cold by having his insane therapist throw buckets of ice at him. This plan to defeat The Flash comes to include the desecration of a frozen corpse and the permanent maiming of house servants via furious body shaking. Thankfully, Barry is a maniac so he obliges. There’s also a Kid Flash back-up where Wally loses his speed powers to a desperate thief only to get electrocute said thief and get his powers back. Wally also may end up having some nooner.  Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

1h 19m
Jan 13, 2022
Spider-Man & Quasar in AMERICAN PSYCHO

Marvel Team-Up #113 (1982) This week, we start off 2022 with Spider-Man and Quasar having a contentious team-up to defeat the ghost of the Lightmaster. Spidey get his sense working and skips out on graduate class yet again, raising the concern of his wanton disregard for educational funding. Also, Quasar walks around with business cards like he’s Patrick Bateman and conjures up phallic drilling objects to impress college co-eds. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

1h 6m
Jan 06, 2022
Aquaman's Sexy Adventure

Adventure Comics #450 (1977) In our last book of the year, we take a look at something from Aquaman’s ADVENTURE COMICS run where a crippling tragedy DIDN’T happen. Here, Arthur takes on the Weather Wizard, who has stolen a secret government sex toy that will help him defeat The Flash. A bunch of nonsense happens in the Bermuda Triangle and we ultimately conclude that an octopus makes a terrible babysitter.  We also have a short back-up story with Martian Manhunter avenging the death of his muppet friend. Apparently, the murderer was an Earth human and J’onn runs afoul of Supergirl, who fights him off in various sexy poses. This is a surprisingly erotic book. Also, heads up on slight THE MATRIX: RESURRECTIONS spoilers. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

1h 0m
Dec 30, 2021
Marvel Holiday Special

Marvel Holiday Special (1991) Happy holidays everyone! In the spirit of the season, we are taking a look at Marvel’s — apparently — first-ever holiday special. It’s a collection of short, relatively wholesome stories but there’s some insanity in here as well. Like Santa being a mutant. Or Captain America finding out Bucky has an estranged sister. Or the Blob having a fetish for department store mannequins. Bet you didn’t see that one coming. Also, SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME spoilers exist within....take note Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

1h 4m
Dec 24, 2021
Are The Metal Men A CULT?!?

Metal Men [vol 2] #1 (1993) After a period of semi-obscurity, the Metal Men are BACK with a new mini-series that was certainly intended to bring about a new ongoing but ultimately didn’t. Probably had to do with Doc Magnus’s new grumpy 90s attitude and affinity for big modern laser guns. But hey, at least the United States got to make Australia jealous by housing a meteor AND playing host to Superman’s death. WE’RE NUMBER ONE! Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

49m
Dec 16, 2021
Hellcat & The Avengers

Avengers #144 (1976) Sending good vibes to mighty George Perez as we discuss one of his Avengers books from the 70s. Here, the Avengers and Patsy Walker are farting around in Roxxon/Brand, jumping on missiles and what not. Cap and Iron Man come across The Cat costume just hanging out and are like, “hey Patsy - wear this.” Patsy then unleashes a mighty stream of shinfo before agreeing to becoming Hellcat. Also, some old people call the police. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

53m
Dec 09, 2021
Batman In Crisis

Batman #389 (1985) Batman’s dealing with a bunch of crises as not only is the world falling apart with its red skies and infinite earths but Catwoman’s back in town and she might be killing dudes with shoes. Ever so graceful with the ladies, Batman basically negs Catwoman and leaves her crying but not before showing her a stalactite (stalagmite?) that looks like a cat. Also, Jason Todd thinks Nocturna is his mom. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

1h 17m
Dec 02, 2021
Doc Samson

Doc Samson #1 (1996) Doc Samson is Hulk’s psychiatrist buddy who seemingly only has clients that have green hair. He travels to NYC to help figure out a gamma-radiated serial killer while simultaneously costing the city thousands in tax dollars spent on airfare. The Hulk also stops by to give Doc a Hanukkah gift. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

1h 11m
Nov 18, 2021
Teen Titans In The 70s

Teen Titans #46 (1977) Just a heads up — there are significant ETERNALS movie spoilers in the first half of the show. The Teen Titans are tasked with figuring out the Fiddler in this issue, who may have inspired Charlie Daniels to write “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” Fiddler’s here messing with a concert for the youths, unleashing bees and rats everywhere. To help with the case, the Titans bring on the Joker’s Daughter for a trial period because she has lip-shooting projectiles and knows funny bone MMA as well as Mal Duncan and his gimmicked shofar. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

1h 26m
Nov 11, 2021
Good Job, The Eternals

Eternals [vol 5] #1 (2021) So this is a pretty big deal, not because there’s an ETERNALS movie coming out this week but its probably the first time in SEVEN YEARS of this podcast that Shawn has taken notes on the comic he’s reading fo the show. Its called growth. Anyhow, the Eternals are a race of super-powered guys and gals put on Earth by mad space scientists and left alone with malevolent Mogwais for…reasons?!? Iron Man shows up to get Sersi’s number and Zuras the Prime Eternal gets Iron Clawed to death, presumably by Kevin Von Erich since he’s the only one of them still alive. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

1h 24m
Nov 04, 2021
A Marvel Zombies Halloween

Marvel Zombies [vol 1] #3 (2006) Happy almost Halloween folks! This week, we jump into the world of the Marvel Zombies as the superheroes and supervillains of Earth-71669 all got sick and started snacking down on humanity. A lot of it doesn’t make sense though with Wolverine not automatically healing and Cap still able to function perfectly with his brains out of his head. That and what is it exactly that Silver Surfer’s skin is made of? These are probably easy answers that we are too lazy to look up. All this plus we share our top celebrities that we think would work best to have their torso hollowed out and our sentient head placed inside like Krang. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

1h 7m
Oct 28, 2021
DC Fan (Thunder) Dome

We had every intention of doing a comic this week but we got sidetracked because so much GOOD SH*T to come out of DC Fandome this year. Join us as we give spicy takes on the BLACK ADAM footage, THE FLASH trailer, the latest on PEACEMAKER, BLUE BEETLE and of course, THE BATMAN, where we ask why Robert Pattinson is so greasy. Also, we are aware that we mixed up Robert Pattinson and Robert Patrick’s names. We know the difference between vampires and Terminators. All this plus our thoughts on HALLOWEEN KILLS and VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

59m
Oct 21, 2021
ROHOTMU: Frankenstein’s Monster

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

20m
Oct 14, 2021
Batman In The 50's

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

59m
Oct 07, 2021
ROHOTMU: Tigra

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

22m
Sep 30, 2021
The Beak and Da Butt

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

1h 9m
Sep 23, 2021
Barbie Does Murder

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

1h 15m
Sep 16, 2021
SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS -- Spoilers AF

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

1h 17m
Sep 10, 2021
Todd McFarlane Goes Goth

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

52m
Sep 02, 2021
Superman & Batman & Flash Get Young

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

1h 2m
Aug 26, 2021
Ben Grimm Eats A Sandwich In London

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

55m
Aug 19, 2021
JEN IS BACK! Also, THE SUICIDE SQUAD Spoilers AF

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

1h 17m
Aug 12, 2021
ROHOTMU: Grim Reaper

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

25m
Aug 05, 2021
ROHOTMU: Wasp

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

43m
Jul 29, 2021
ROHOTMU: Big Man

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

21m
Jul 22, 2021