Best Issue Ever Podcast

Best Issue Ever is a comic book podcast hosted by Sara Century. She interviews her friends about their favorite comics of all time.

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Episodes

Saturday Mar 21, 2026

Hey, it's the 38th episode starring Jadzia Axelrod! Jadzia is very cool and wrote an awesome Hawkgirl series, as well as creating the superhero Galaxy w/ Vash Taylor. Welcome to BIE, Jadzia!
We're chatting about Doom Patrol #70, written by Rachel Pollack. The art team is Scot Eaton, Tom Sutton, and Tom Ziuko with John Workman on letters, and a few editors, Tom Peyer, Lou Stathis, and Julie Rottenberg.
This podcast is recorded in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This episode is edited by Kate Warner of the band Church Fire. The theme music is provided by Earth Control Pill, whose work is on Bandcamp.
I do not want to deal with ads AT ALL, so if you also don’t want to deal with ads, please consider supporting the podcast by rating and reviewing and/or signing up at the Ko-fi @ ko-fi.com/saracentury.
There is now a Discord for this podcast, and here's the slightly cumbersome invite link if you are interested: https://discord.gg/ZwbvqJDAGS 
Finally, you could support my other ventures, including the pending narrative horror podcast Medusa Mask. Visit my website to sign up for my newsletter for updates. Oh, and I’m a horror writer, so pick up my short story anthology, A Small Light and Other Stories, through Weirdpunk Books, or pretty much wherever else you get books. I wrote a zine about the Scream franchise that you can pick up @ sara-century.square.site.

Saturday Mar 14, 2026

Alex Segura and I are recording semi-monthly minisodes to promote our comic The Forgotten Five. We both love a lot of comics, so these are just little windows into our nerdom. If you also like the comics we discuss, perhaps you'll like The Forgotten Five! Get episodes early at patreon.com/theforgottenfive.
This episode's guests are Thomas Flynn and Chris Baker of Why Not?! an Alpha Flight podcast. Tom also did the sound editing on this episode!
Please consider supporting the podcast by rating and reviewing and/or signing up at the Ko-fi or Patreon @ ko-fi.com/saracentury. or buy my zines here.
There is now a Discord for this podcast, and here's the slightly cumbersome invite link if you are interested: https://discord.gg/ZwbvqJDAGS 
Visit my website to sign up for my newsletter for updates. Oh, and I’m a horror writer, so pick up my short story anthology, A Small Light and Other Stories, through Weirdpunk Books, or pretty much wherever else you get books. I wrote a zine about the Scream franchise that you can pick up @ sara-century.square.site.

Wednesday Feb 25, 2026

Hey, it's the 37th episode with Ben Kahn! Ben is really cool and they also write great comics, I'm going to suggest Renegade Rule and Renegade Royale, both of which are absolutely incredible. Ben is also one of the co-hosts of Progressively Horrified, which I've guested on quite a bit! Lots of great horror conversations on there so dig through the archives.
We're chatting about Daredevil Vol. 3 #25. This one is written by Mark Waid, with art by Chris Samnee and Javier Rodriguez, letters by VC's Joe Caramagna, and edited by Stephen Wacker.
This podcast is recorded in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This episode is edited by Kate Warner of the band Church Fire. The theme music is provided by Earth Control Pill, whose work is on Bandcamp.
I do not want to deal with ads AT ALL, so if you also don’t want to deal with ads, please consider supporting the podcast by rating and reviewing and/or signing up at the Ko-fi @ ko-fi.com/saracentury.
There is now a Discord for this podcast, and here's the slightly cumbersome invite link if you are interested: https://discord.gg/ZwbvqJDAGS 
Finally, you could support my other ventures, including the pending narrative horror podcast Medusa Mask. Visit my website to sign up for my newsletter for updates. Oh, and I’m a horror writer, so pick up my short story anthology, A Small Light and Other Stories, through Weirdpunk Books, or pretty much wherever else you get books. I wrote a zine about the Scream franchise that you can pick up @ sara-century.square.site.

Monday Feb 02, 2026

Alex Segura and I are recording semi-monthly minisodes to promote our comic The Forgotten Five. We both love a lot of comics, so these are just little windows into our nerdom. If you also like the comics we discuss, perhaps you'll like The Forgotten Five!
This episode was edited by Thomas Flynn of Why Not?! an Alpha Flight podcast as well as the marketing company Paratext. 
Please consider supporting the podcast by rating and reviewing and/or signing up at the Ko-fi or Patreon @ ko-fi.com/saracentury. or buy my zines here.
There is now a Discord for this podcast, and here's the slightly cumbersome invite link if you are interested: https://discord.gg/ZwbvqJDAGS 
Visit my website to sign up for my newsletter for updates. Oh, and I’m a horror writer, so pick up my short story anthology, A Small Light and Other Stories, through Weirdpunk Books, or pretty much wherever else you get books. I wrote a zine about the Scream franchise that you can pick up @ sara-century.square.site.

Monday Jan 12, 2026

Welcome to Episode 36 of Best Issue Ever! This round, we're chatting with Trung Le Nguyen, who is - the best! One of my favorite artists working today, and the creator of the great graphic novel, The Magic Fish, which can be found basically everywhere. I interviewed Trung a while back with S.E. on Bitches on Comics, which you can listen to here. He's recently released Angelica and The Bear Prince!
Trung has brought us Hellboy: The Troll Witch by none other than Mike Mignola!
This podcast is recorded in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It is edited by Sara Century. The theme music is provided by Earth Control Pill, whose work is on Bandcamp.
I do not want to deal with ads AT ALL, so if you also don’t want to deal with ads, please consider supporting the podcast by rating and reviewing and/or signing up at the Ko-fi or Patreon @ ko-fi.com/saracentury. or buy my zines here.
There is now a Discord for this podcast, and here's the slightly cumbersome invite link if you are interested: https://discord.gg/ZwbvqJDAGS 
Visit my website to sign up for my newsletter for updates. Oh, and I’m a horror writer, so pick up my short story anthology, A Small Light and Other Stories, through Weirdpunk Books, or pretty much wherever else you get books. I wrote a zine about the Scream franchise that you can pick up @ sara-century.square.site.

Wednesday Oct 22, 2025

Hey, it's the 35th episode with Wi-Moto Nyoka! Wi-Moto is one of the coolest people I've ever talked to, so I hope you will follow her Patreon or check out her Linktree or just binge Black Women Are Scary, my favorite horror podcast.
We're chatting about Ice Witch #1 by Regine Sawyer with art by Crespo. You can find it at Lockett Down Productions.
This podcast is recorded in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This episode is edited by Kate Warner of the band Church Fire. The theme music is provided by Earth Control Pill, whose work is on Bandcamp.
I do not want to deal with ads AT ALL, so if you also don’t want to deal with ads, please consider supporting the podcast by rating and reviewing and/or signing up at the Ko-fi @ ko-fi.com/saracentury.
There is now a Discord for this podcast, and here's the slightly cumbersome invite link if you are interested: https://discord.gg/ZwbvqJDAGS 
Finally, you could support my other ventures, including the pending narrative horror podcast Medusa Mask. Visit my website to sign up for my newsletter for updates. Oh, and I’m a horror writer, so pick up my short story anthology, A Small Light and Other Stories, through Weirdpunk Books, or pretty much wherever else you get books. I wrote a zine about the Scream franchise that you can pick up @ sara-century.square.site.

Monday Oct 06, 2025

Welcome, welcome, it's a very sword and sorcery episode of BIE! Today's issue is Savage Sword of Conan (2024) #1, intro by Roy Thomas with story and art by Jim Zub, John Arcudi, Max Von Fafner, Patch Zircher & Jeffrey Shanks, among others.
This episode was chosen by Oliver Brackenbury of Brackenbury Books. You can follow Oliver's work via his website, or check out New Edge Sword & Sorcery, which bangs. Listen to Oliver's podcast So I'm Writing a Novel wherever you get podcasts.
Oliver and some other very rad folks covered my Profane Altars story on their YouTube, very flattering experience. Watch here.
This podcast is recorded in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This episode is edited by Kate Warner of the band Church Fire. The theme music is provided by Earth Control Pill, whose work is on Bandcamp.
I do not want to deal with ads AT ALL, so if you also don’t want to deal with ads, please consider supporting the podcast by rating and reviewing and/or signing up at the Ko-fi @ ko-fi.com/saracentury.
There is now a Discord for this podcast, and here's the slightly cumbersome invite link if you are interested: https://discord.gg/ZwbvqJDAGS 
Finally, you could support my other ventures, including the pending narrative horror podcast Medusa Mask. Visit my website to sign up for my newsletter for updates. Oh, and I’m a horror writer, so pick up my short story anthology, A Small Light and Other Stories, through Weirdpunk Books, or pretty much wherever else you get books. I wrote a zine about the Scream franchise that you can pick up @ sara-century.square.site.

Friday Sep 12, 2025

Welcome to episode 33 of the Best Issue Ever podcast! This week we have returning champion Nathanial Hubbard! Hub hosted a ton of episodes of the podcast that was once Teen Titans Wasteland which became Titan Up the Defense and is now occasionally updated as Champions of Digression. His last episode was about Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane, and it's great!
In classic Hub fashion, he brings us a very odd, generally forgotten comic from yesteryear. That's Showcase #78, which was written by Marv Wolfman and Joe Gill, and features art by Jack Sparling.
This podcast is recorded in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This episode is edited by Kate Warner of the band Church Fire. The theme music is provided by Earth Control Pill, whose work is on Bandcamp.
I do not want to deal with ads AT ALL, so if you also don’t want to deal with ads, please consider supporting the podcast by rating and reviewing and/or signing up at the Ko-fi @ ko-fi.com/saracentury.
There is now a Discord for this podcast, and here's the slightly cumbersome invite link if you are interested: https://discord.gg/ZwbvqJDAGS 
Finally, you could support my other ventures, including the pending narrative horror podcast Medusa Mask. Visit my website to sign up for my newsletter for updates. Oh, and I’m a horror writer, so pick up my short story anthology, A Small Light and Other Stories, through Weirdpunk Books, or pretty much wherever else you get books. I wrote a zine about the Scream franchise that you can pick up @ sara-century.square.site.

Monday Aug 25, 2025

Welcome to episode 32 of Best Issue Ever! This week's guest is Matthew Jackson of the The Scares That Shaped Us podcast. He talks to a lot of incredible writers over there in a format vaguely similar to BIE but with horror as its subject, so go give it a listen!
Anthony brings us Uncanny X-Men #303, which was written by Scott Lobdell, with art by Richard Bennett, Dan Green, and Joe Rosas, and letters by Chris Eliopoulous.
This podcast is recorded in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It is edited by Sara Century. The theme music is provided by Earth Control Pill, whose work is on Bandcamp.
I do not want to deal with ads AT ALL, so if you also don’t want to deal with ads, please consider supporting the podcast by rating and reviewing and/or signing up at the Ko-fi @ ko-fi.com/saracentury.
There is now a Discord for this podcast, and here's the slightly cumbersome invite link if you are interested: https://discord.gg/ZwbvqJDAGS 
Finally, you could support my other ventures, including the pending narrative horror podcast Medusa Mask. Visit my website to sign up for my newsletter for updates. Oh, and I’m a horror writer, so pick up my short story anthology, A Small Light and Other Stories, through Weirdpunk Books, or pretty much wherever else you get books. I wrote a zine about the Scream franchise that you can pick up @ sara-century.square.site.

Monday Aug 11, 2025

Welcome to episode 31 of Best Issue Ever! This week's guest is Anthony Oliveira, who is the writer of Marvel Unlimited's very popular Avengers Academy series. Also! He wrote a book called Dayspring that was great, he hosts his own podcast, and he hosts a film screening series that you can learn more about here.
Anthony brings us Uncanny X-Men #303, which was written by Scott Lobdell, with art by Richard Bennett, Dan Green, and Joe Rosas, and letters by Chris Eliopoulous.
This podcast is recorded in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It is edited by Sara Century. The theme music is provided by Earth Control Pill, whose work is on Bandcamp.
I do not want to deal with ads AT ALL, so if you also don’t want to deal with ads, please consider supporting the podcast by rating and reviewing and/or signing up at the Ko-fi @ ko-fi.com/saracentury.
There is now a Discord for this podcast, and here's the slightly cumbersome invite link if you are interested: https://discord.gg/ZwbvqJDAGS 
Finally, you could support my other ventures, including the pending narrative horror podcast Medusa Mask. Visit my website to sign up for my newsletter for updates. Oh, and I’m a horror writer, so pick up my short story anthology, A Small Light and Other Stories, through Weirdpunk Books, or pretty much wherever else you get books. I wrote a zine about the Scream franchise that you can pick up @ sara-century.square.site.

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Welcome!

Best Issue Ever is a podcast about comics. This series is for talking about issues we love. You can get lots of new recommendations from this pod while hearing some of your favorite creators talk about why comics are awesome. Win-win!

If you would like to support the podcast, the best way to do that is to subscribe directly through the Ko-fi, where you will get a lot of extra episodes and some updates to the behind-the-scenes of creating the podcast.

This is far from Sara's first foray into podcasts! She co-founded QueerSpec Publishing, which released the Decoded Pride speculative fiction anthology three years in a row.  She helms the narrative horror podcasts Decoded Horror Channel and Medusa Mask. She is a co-host of the Bitches On Comics pop culture podcast. She has written MANY articles - you can look up links to her work on her website.

Sara is a horror writer, so you can pick up any number of her books through her Amazon author page. If you'd prefer to avoid Amazon and directly support small publishers (this helps small presses thrive so thank you if so), she has appeared in multiple releases you can buy directly from Weirdpunk Books. This includes her short story collection A Small Light & Other Stories, as well as great Weirdpunk anthologies like The New Flesh and Feral Architecture. Some Weirdpunk authors will be appearing on this podcast, so definitely check them out.

Finally, the best way to get updates from Sara is through her newsletter! She sends it out a few times a year and it's packed with random projects and pet anecdotes.

If you have questions or comments, send to deepdreamspodcast@gmail.com.

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