Thursday Night Raw
In this segment, Matt & Chris take suggestions from listeners of the rawest moments in comics, and, if they are sufficiently raw, place them on a list. What do they mean by Raw? Chris explains:
"Folks, what we are doing with this is we are looking for the rawest moments in comic book history. Now, if you don't know what that means, it's one of those things that's hard to describe because it's a feeling, And it's that feeling, it's that 'oh shit,' like it just got real, it just popped off. Shit is like someone just did something so badass that I need to stand up, take a walk, maybe do a push up or two."
That seems pretty clear, right? If you want to submit your suggestion, send it to warrocketpodcast@gmail.com, and if you are a Patreon subscriber, include the line-stepper password.
The List
| Episode | Issue | Description | Submitter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 626 | Thor #362 | Skurge the Executioner standing alone at Gjallerbru | Patrick Gertner |
| 623 | Batman #404 | Jim Gordon throws Flass the baseball bat | Chris |
| 626 | Thor #344 | When Balder picks up a sword again | Lucas Brown |
| 631 | Mighty World of Marvel #12: Endgame | Captain UK rips the Fury into its constituent organs… for 10 minutes. | Kevin Maroney |
| 623 | Secret Wars: Siege #4 | Thanos asks Ben Grimm what time it is | Harry J. |
| 626 | Mister Miracle #11 (2017) | Mister Miracle stabbing Darkseid in the face with a Fahren-knife made from Orion’s corpse | Chris Kizer |
| 631 | JLA #38 | Batman hacks Prometheus’s tech and finishes him off | Tim Stevens |
| 623 | Marauders #16 | Lockheed bites out Sebastian Shaw’s Eye | Charles Arthur |
| 631 | Marvel Knights Daredevil #50 | Daredevil beats the piss out of - and declares himself - the Kingpin | Ryan Clark |
| 623 | Police Comics #21 | Phantom Lady throws fencing sword through a man | Jolene |
| 623 | Daredevil #25 (2011) | Ikari says “Try the red one.” | Seth Finklestein |
| 623 | Avengers Vol. 3 #22 | Thor says “Ultron, we would have words with thee.” | Josh Sinason |
| 631 | JLA #41 | When Aztek says to Superman, ‘for a long time my people have had a weapon designed to stop him - it’s called Aztek.’ | Lou Shoemaker |
Disqualified for Inadequate Rawness
Merely to prevent duplicate submissions, or encourage controversy in the fanbase:
- Gunfire turns a locomotive into a cannon to shoot a kaiju
- The time Curt Conners ate that boy?
- Magneto rips Apocalypse apart in X-Men Omega
- The time the Thing was "too stupid… and ugly… ta know when to quit!" (specifically to the Champion)
- When Magneo was gloating that "the dream is over"