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 | 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 | 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 |