#244: Secret Wars Is Hell (w/Chip Zdarsky and Matt Fraction)

Chip Zdarsky is writing about 40 different
things these days and drawing several of them as well. They're
all great, and you can find out all about them by going to his
website and signing up for his must-read
newsletter.


Matt Fraction co-created Sex
Criminals with Chip, which has just been released in
a very reasonably priced single-volume collected
edition. It might be the best comic
ever made? You should check it out if you haven't already.


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Stories Sort Of Covered in this Episode: 


Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #1-12, written by Jim
Shooter; art by Mike Zeck, John Beatty, Bob Layton, Jack Abel,
and Mike Esposito; letters by Joe Rosen; colors by Christie
Scheele and Nelson Yomtov; edited by Tom DeFalco; 1984-85 Marvel
Comics


 


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