Episodes
Best LGBTQ+ Super Hero
While comic books have traditionally catered to a straight, white, male audience, in the past few decades the medium has become increasingly gay friendly. That extends to major super heroes, who have been coming out as LGBTQ proudly, and still featured prominently. We discuss 16 of the most important queer super heroes in comics.
Best Video Game Console
With the next generation of video-game consoles about to launch with the Nintendo Switch 2, we look back at the greatest systems from Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Sega, and more.
Best X-Men Team Line-Up
With “X-Men ‘97” a hit on Disney+ and the Marvel Cinematic Universe slowly but surely bringing mutants into the fold, the X-Men are back in the public spotlight in a big way. We look back at the most legendary team line-ups from the comics and name the best roster of all time.
Best Comic-Book Couple
In honor of Valentine’s Day, we look back at the most iconic lovers in comic-book history, including couples from Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, and more.
Best Of 2024: Games
Best of 2024 Games features picks from panelists ranging from epic RPG remakes to accessible all-ages titles to addictive mobile games.
Best Of 2024: Books
Best of 2024 Books features picks from panelists ranging from sci-fi epics to comforting YA romances to punk memoirs to thoughtful dissections of AI and politics.
Best Super Smash Bros. Fighter
In anticipation of whatever the next Smash Bros. game will be on the Switch successor, we look back at the best playable fighters in Nintendo’s decades-spanning fighting game series.
Best Baby-Sitters Club Book
The Baby-Sitters Club series of books, written by Ann M. Martin from the mid-1980s to 2000, were formative reading materials for an entire generation of young readers, both women AND men. We celebrate this sprawling franchise with one of our most endearing debates ever.
Best Modern Tabletop Board Game
Tabletop board games have become big business since the mid-90s. What were once relegated to parents’ basements and geeky conventions are now embraced by pop culture. We discuss 16 of the most popular modern tabletop titles currently available.
Best Batman Villain
The podcast goes to the Batcave, as the panelists pow! smack! and zap! its way through arguments about 16 of the Caped Crusader’s most fearsome foes.
Best Nintendo Villain
Nintendo has some of the best bad guys in the video-game business. For this episode, the podcast debates 16 of the most legendary bosses in Nintendo history, narrowing it down to the best at being bad.
Best of 2023: Books
The panelists share their individual Top 3 books published in 2023, ranging from celebrity memoirs, to compelling fiction, to sci-fi shockers, to graphic-novel romances.
Best "Doctor Who" Companion
The podcast debates 16 of The Doctor’s Companions, straddling both Classic and New “Who.” Which TARDIS co-pilot will be named our favorite? This episode is bigger on the inside…
Best Super Hero Film
The Marvel Cinematic Universe may have perfected the super-hero film, but movies starring super heroes have existed for decades. The podcast panel debates 16 of the most popular super-hero films of all time, leaving only one as our ultimate super-hero pick!
Best Kaiju
This week the podcast takes on the "strange beasts" of movies past and present, as they debate the best kaiju!
Best Gen 1 Pokemon
Join host Eric Rezsnyak and panelists Bob Erlenback, Curtis Creekmore, and special guest Brayden Rezsnyak as they battle it out to name a champion of the original 151 Generation 1 Pokemon.