This or That

This or That is the after-interview segment for 2020. Listeners can submit questions to Matt and Chris via email or Tumblr.

Questions

Question	Asker	Chris's Answer	Matt's Answer	Episode
"Would you rather be a member of the Yancy Street Gang OR the Newsboy Legion?	Seth Finkelstein	Newsboy Legion	Yancy Street Gang	482
"Which creative team would you choose for a Catwoman book: written by Darwyn Cooke with art by Jim Balent OR written by Frank Miller with art by Darwyn Cooke?"	Joey Crack	Darwyn Cooke/Jim Balent	Darwyn Cooke/Jim Balent	484
"Which villain would make for a better dungeon Master, Arcade OR Doctor Doom?"	Harry Jay	Arcade	Arcade	486
"When the MCU finally incorporates the X-Men into the franchise, what would you prefer they do with Magneto: should he still be a Holocaust survivor and deal with any confusing timeline issues, OR should his backstory be updated to a different example of human injustice and genocide at the potential expense of his Jewish ancestry?"	Patrick Gierdner	Original backstory	Original backstory	488
"Amulet of Right OR Sword of Might?"	King of Doma	Sword	Amulet	491
"Marvel Studios starts producing movies that are as buck-wild and weird as their best comics, but this bold new vision is rejected by mass audiences and the studio collapses after two years so they only make 5-6 great weird movies, OR DC starts making movies that are as good Marvel Studios movies so we finally get a good Superman movie, but also there are just things that bug you, like whatever the DC equivalent is of Marvel centering Spider-man movies around Tony Stark would be?"	Lou Shoemaker	Good DC movies	Good DC movies	494
"Sitting through all of the MCU movies in one go, OR sit through a 3-hour pitch meeting for a movie about the Sentry that you are not allowed to chime in on?"	Peter Velles	MCU Movies	MCU Movies	496
"One hundred years from now one of the things everybody knows about Superman is that he's married to Lois Lane, OR one hundred years from now one of the things that everybody knows about Spider-man is that he's married to Marry Jane Watson?"	Jeffrey Wickstrom	Superman/Lois	Superman/Lois	496
"Be a sidekick for morning zoo crew OR be a field reporter for a Christian news channel?"	CJ Crall	Zoo Crew	Zoo Crew	496
"You can either walk without a rhythm OR attract the worm?"	Kevin J. Maroney	Worm	Rhythm	496
"Either have Eric Powell draw Hellboy OR Mike Mignola draw the Goon?"	Michael Nicolai	Goon	Goon	496
"Get rid of guys with Punisher tattoos OR guys with Thor tattoos?"	Brad Boyer	Punisher	Punisher	496
"Would you rather have more stories with Dick Grayson as Batman OR Dick Grayson as Agent 37 of Spyral?"	Chris Kaiser	Agent 37	Batman	496
"Creature Commanders movie by Guillermo del Toro OR a Legion of Monsters movie by Guillermo del Toro?""	Brendan Casey	Legion	Legion	496
"Which would you keep: the JJ Abrams Star Trek Movie trilogy, OR the Star Wars sequel trilogy?"	Alistair	Star Wars	Star Wars	496
"Live in Marvel's New York during War of the Realms, OR live in DC's Gotham City during No Man's Land?"	Jason Ladew	New York	New York	496
"The world we currently live in, OR a world where Identity Crisis and its negative impact don't exist, but also All-Star Superman doesn't exist?"	Josiah Lockley	No Identity Crisis	Current World	496
"Jack Kirby and Stan Lee switch dates of death, OR Jack Kirby and Stan Lee switch personalities and career paths, but not dates of death or creative roles?"	Greg Black	Switch Death Dates	Switch Death Dates	496
"Who do you appoint as the ongoing writer of Legion of Super-Heroes with a guaranteed 5-year run: Al Ewing OR James Roberts"	Patrick O'Duffy	Ewing	Pass	496
"Shazam and Captain Marvel get to share the codename, OR Carol Danvers gets a new codename and Shazam gets Captain Marvel back?"	Charles Arthur	Share	Share	498
"Intern for Lt. Columbo OR Jim Rockford OR Jessica Fletcher?"	Alistair	Columbo	Columbo	500
"Would you rather live in Rob Liefeld’s Extreme comics world OR Marvel 2099 New York?"	CJ Crall	The Rob	The Rob	502
"You are chosen to write the script for the next Batman movie, to be filmed exactly as you have written it, but you must either ghost write the script with no credit or ongoing payments, OR you are credited but must post each line of dialogue on the bad website as you write it and interact with at least one person who replies."	Andrew Robertson	Twitter	No Credit	504
"Star Trek: The Next Generation and its three movies (not Generations) are the only Star Trek ever, OR a world with everything Star Trek except them?"	Tim Pasco	ST:TNG	ST:TNG	504
"Live on Krakoa and do the Crucible and be brought back in your beauttiful new mutant form with your new mutan name, OR live in Attilan and do the terrigen mists thing, which is painless, but then you have to live with the Inhumans?"	Lou Shoemaker	Island of Horny Sex Mutants	Island of Horny Sex Mutants	504
"Be camp counselors at a kids bible camp with Benito Cereno, OR help manage the Twitter account of Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg?"	Charles Arthur	Twitter	Matt	504
"Get full Kevin Feige creative control over the next phase of DC movies, 6-7 films over 3 years, OR get a 10-episode Netflix documentary series about whatever comics topic you want?"	Harry J	Netflix	Netflix	504
"A five-year Brad Meltzer/David Finch run on Batman in 2005, OR a Marvel comics adaptation of Sailor Moon by Chris Claremont and Salvador Larroca in 1998?"	Allistaire Pitt	Sailor Moon	Sailor Moon	504
"Bobby Bad Ideas (BBI), the new CEO of Disney is super into whichever changes you pick in the medium we pick that can never be reversed and is the CEO of Disney from 2020 to 2044 he spends his entire tenure boosting this concept that you pick: he thinks having multiple versions of a character is a needlessly confusing so marvel pulls a new 52 and continuity is abruptly hammered into the shape of the MCU with the X-men in their own parallel dimension, the only parallel dimension for the X-Men movie franchise, so the fantastic Four don’t exist, Spider-Man is a kid again, and the Wasp is Hope, Iron Man is dead, etc. like the Star Wars Comics, Marvel comics have to mesh with whatever the movies and TV shows say, and are explicitly subordinate to the movie and TV continuity. BBI did not see the Spider-Verse movie and does not care to. OR BBI fucking loves Hank Pym, and the most important relationship in the Marvel Universe is the rock-solid marriage/partnership and love between Hank and Jan, Ant-Man and the Wasp, founders and leaders of the Avengers. Hank and Jan’s entire history is retconned to have always been a functional and successful adult relationship, and they are at the center of every crossover and line-wide event for the foreseeable future, it is kind of like how John Byrne’s reboot of Superman post-Crisis burned everything and rebuilt, except it’s grotesque. "	Jeff Wickstrom	Hank	Hank	504
"Interesting characters OR interesting plot?"	Mike Donahue	Characters Welcome	Characters Welcome	504
"Fish OR fowl?"	Noah Chevalier	Fowl	Fowl	504
"Which is the better retconn of the last year: The Uncanny Life of Moira X, OR This Extraordinary Being? "	Angela Zinoa	Watchmen	Watchmen	504
"You are pulled into a fictional universe, and can choose to be: Flash Gordon, but only from the much-derided mid-2000s TV show, OR any version of Flash Thompson?"	So So Tsundere	Flash Thompson	Flash Thompson	504
"The only comics that exist are superhero comics, OR there are no superhero comics?"	Isabel M	Superheroes	Let a million genres bloom	504
"Participate in the a Great Outdoor Fight, OR spend those three days staying inside Pat and Nice Pete’s house?"	Andrew Robertson	Fight	Fight	507
"BBI has a time machine and is determined to meddle with the history of Spider-Man. You can only stop him from changing one of these two fundamental aspects of Spider-Man: the Spider-Man title is forever and always in the scary 90s Spider-Man font OR the Spider-Man theme song is forever and always the 90s animated Joe Perry wailing guitar theme music?"	Owen	Stop the Font	Stop the Font	509
"Patrick Stewart leaves ST:TNG at the start of season 4, but comes back once every couple seasons as a guest star, and Jonathan Frakes takes over the lead with Riker becoming captain in the storyline - as a result TNG becomes kind of like a soap opera with a rotating cast as new crew member join and leave the Enterprise and the show is still on the air today after 30 years like an American equivalent to Doctor Who, however it has none of the original cast, none of the original writers, and none of the television spin-offs or further feature films were ever made, OR Ronald D. Moore is appointed as the sole show-runner for Star Trek: Enterprise and is given total free rein as to the the direction he takes it in and he uses the ideas he would have used on the Battlestar Galactica reboot and the result is a series which enjoys huge critical acclaim and gets a full seven season run and is followed by more Star Trek movies and television series to the present day, but the downside is that this series is just as divisive among Star Trek fans as The Last Jedi was among Star Wars fans and Star Trek fandom in this alternate universe has been perpetually toxic for the last 10 years and overall is just as bad or worse than Star Wars fandom in the real world."	Alistair Pitt	Eternal TNG	Eternal TNG	509
"Which would you rather have for a week: the enigma force/the uni-power, as wielded by Ray Coffin and Peter Benjamin Parker which turns its wielder into the hero who could be you: Captain Universe, OR the H-Dial, as wielded by Robby Reed and Miguel Montez which taps into the hero-verse to turn it’s ownerss into champions never seen before and perhaps never to be seen again when they dial H E R O?"	Josh Sinuson	H-Dial	H-Dial	509
"Assuming the rules of D&D:5E: you are best friend and the favorite human of an ancient gold dragon, challenge rating 124, page 113 of the Monster Manual, but an adult green dragon, challenge rating 15, page 49 of the Monster manual knows about the relationship and hates that gold dragon - you are a constant pawn in schemes OR you can be any class from the Player’s Handbook at level 20 with one ability of yours at 18, others stay at your real life limit, but a Balor demon, challenge rating 19, page 55 of the monster manual, is after you for the rest of your life?"	Nathan Winkleman	Balor Demon	Dragon Friend	509
"BBI just up and buys DC Comics, and he puts Geoff Johns in charge of integrating DC and Marvel into a single continuity, setting and timeline, and he’s very insistent that Spider-Man and Batman need to be able to team up without there being any cosmic treadmill nonsense, he just drives from New York to Gotham, and it goes without saying that Geoff Johns does not want to get fired, and will oblige with the spirit of Bobby’s command, rather than the letter OR BBI decides that the following character is a dumb, stupid baby, and that they should not appear or ever be mentioned again: Captain America."	Jeff Wickstrom	Johns	Rogers	509
"Would you rather have Spider-Man co-created by Jack Kirby, OR Hulk created by Steve Ditko?"	Alexandria Seal	Hulk	Hulk	509
"A roundtable with Kyle Starks, Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky and Ryan North, but they won’t talk comics or answer questions and mostly are just hilarious, OR Grant Morrison and Alan Moore are on the show but they won’t talk comics or answer questions and mostly just argue with each other?"	Nick Netzel	Pals	Pals	509
"BBI is going to put a crotchety jackass in charge of a franchise they used to do good work in, so either we put Don Rosa in charge of the Duck Tales cartoon, OR John Byrne has creative control over the X-Men in the MCU."	Alexandria	Dont	Don	509
"You’re given the assignment to write a licensed comic for a major fast food chain OR you’re given the assignment to write a license comic for a power tool?"	Noah Chevalier	Food	Food	509
"Swap homes with your fellow host for a week, OR swap pets for a week?"	Charles Arthur	Homes	Homes	509
"Write a 6-issue series about a character that could become a lucrative on-going if it sells: Hemo-Goblin OR Ri¢hie Ri¢h?"	Charles Arthur	Ri¢hie Pit¢h	Ri¢hie Pit¢h	509
"The two hosts, and two people of their choice go on a space flight that becomes bombarded with cosmic rays, and the four passengers make a rough but non-fatal crash, landing back on earth to discover they have been given fantastic powers OR the two hosts and one person of their choice go back to the 1980s and join forces with Ric Flair to ride in limousines, fly in jets and put hard times on Dusty Rhodes?"	Chad Waggo	FF	FF	511
"The CEI of Disney, BBI, has made you an offer you can't refuse, and purchased War Rocket Ajax. He's a big fan of the show but can't resist a little executive meddling. He's come up with a few ideas on how to increase the ratings and gives you an ultimatum: you either have Meatwad and Neil in the Kitchen become permanent co-chairs of the show, OR or you introduce a new monthly recurring special that is a retrospective of the comics career of Geoff Johns – Geoff calls in for an interview on the comic at the end of every episode."	Owen Hobbes	Skyping with Geoff	Meatwad's a story, innit?	514