In this week’s episode of Off Panel, it’s a special Power Rankings episode with cartoonist John Allison of Giant Days and Bad Machinery fame, who joins the show to rank a few of his favorite things. Allison discusses his favorite characters of his own, why writing is easier for him than art, favorite colloquialisms, his love of television, the MCU, favorite elements of old superhero comics, science fiction stories, Death’s Head II, his characters he’s most similar to, bizarre, modern things he takes the most joy from, comic strips, Eurovision, superhero artists, and more.

You can find Allison on Twitter, his webcomic Scary Go Round, and in his print comics Giant Days, Bad Machinery and the upcoming By Night.

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Header image is from Giant Days #1, art by Lissa Treiman. Intro and outro music is Vulfpeck’s Outro from their album Vollmilch. Thanks to the band for letting me use the track.