Worst Collection Ever

ROHOTMU makes an unexpected return this week as we embrace the hirsute greatness that is Jack Russell aka Werewolf By Night. Let’s go on a journey and learn about his affiliation to a Henry Winkler movie, cultists after his blood and Werewolf’s standing among the Hairy Men of Los Angeles. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.com

Superman #282 (1974) In this predictably insane Bronze Age tale, Superman gets young via a Lex Luthor ray and starts doing improv with Perry White. He then goes on an acid trip and imagines Lex Luger’s face in the sky challenging him to a fight. In the ensuing battle, Superman gets ultra dense and burrows down into the earth with Lex, having a nice swim in some lava. Later, Supes tells Supergirl the story of an idiot scientist that turned himself immortal via smelly space rhinos...

ROHOTMU stands for Random Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. This will be an occasional entry into our podcast lore where I (Shawn) open up to a random page of said OHOTMU and discuss the character that I see. Maybe its someone cool, maybe it’s someone lame - who knows. All we can say is that the Grandmaster is the first one and he can never really die...

Phantom Stranger [Vol 2] #37 (1975) A hapless cabbie is forced by an escaping crook to run over Phantom Stranger and his skinny legs. When that goes awry, the poor lady gets shot, forcing her loud husband to take an unethical gig faking a sarcophagus. When THAT goes awry, the husband and Phantom Stranger have to walk the plank into a boiling vat of Gatorade. Thankfully, the dude becomes a mad mummy and starts press-slamming villains like Butch Reed...

X-Men: Curse of the Man-Thing #1 (2021) A disturbed woman has performed Sub-Zero’s finisher on Man-Thing and is currently living his body, WEEKEND AT BERNIE’s style. Flammable spores have infiltrated the globe’s metropolitan areas, immolating jabroni citizens and generally being gross to look at...

X-Man #20 (1996) X-MAN is about Nate, who looks like a Chad and has some serious telepathic / telekinetic powers. He’s probably related to Cyclops or Cable somehow but hell if we know what’s going on there. In this issue, he squares off against Abomination and some stereotypically New York sewer mutants over the safety of Threnody, a young careless mutant who stole Nate’s jacket...

The Outsiders [vol 2] #0 (1994) Post Zero Hour, when everything’s all screwed up, Eradicator assumes leadership of the Outsiders team in LA. Halo embarrasses herself in front of the youth at the Beverly Center while Looker has a blood smoothie by the pool. Then they all head out of Central America somewhere to confront a white-haired Penn Jillette over the production of violence-fueled “hyper guns.” Eventually, they hook up with Felix Faust’s son and implode a warehouse in Las Vegas...

Marvel Spotlight #14 (1974) Daimon Hellstrom returns home from a wild night of being a demon offspring to scare the hell out of his milkman. He gets a call to come to St. Louis to check out a local college’s communications building that has being haunted by ice demons living in the walls and messing with the college radio station playlists. This has been confirmed by the totally teetotaling janitor and some hippies who got hit in the face with their textbooks...

Blackwulf #1 (1994) This week, we delve into some random 90s excess with Blackwulf, Marvel’s attempt to get the Deviants over for a spell. Blackwulf ends up being two dudes - the rebellious Plops and the future monkey man Lucian. One guy’s got a glowing sword, the other has a glowing stick but neither has any charisma. At least there’s the potential for Blackwulf crew member Mammoth and his mini-series...

Justice League International [vol 2] #53 (1993) In this week's book, Crimson Fox reunites with her previously dead husband because she can’t get enough of his kleptomaniac stroke. Metamorpho’s all torn up about it so he dresses like Robert Stack in UNSOLVED MYSTERIES and terrorizes cabbies throughout Paris. On the beach, Elongated Man and Tasmanian Devil dig up an alien statue named Godfrey...