Play Comics (Chris Osborne)

Dennis the Menace (the American one at least) is a cultural icon. Anyone who read the comics as a child most likely knows who Dennis is and followed his adventures. But is that enough to save this game from the trash pile?

Learn such things as:

• The shifting sense of who we feel sorry for in this comic.
• Is Dennis really that bad?
• What revelation was made while recording that suddenly made this game decent?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Rhett Hall at The Wall Fly and on Twitter @WallFlyPodcast, @Rhett2Society, or @BraintrustFM

Thanks to Karrington Martin of Real Dudes Podcast for that sweet sweet intro drop

A big thanks to Super Normal Podcast as well as Spoiler Country for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who makes amazing stuff that you should go check out.

The Fantastic Four? Yeah, we’re not really there yet. But I think that’s a travesty so we’re going to cheat a little bit and look at something Fantastic Four. Umm, yeah, we’ll go with that.

Learn such things as:

• When is the first Fantastic Four game coming out anyway?
• What revelation did Chris have while recording? And how does he keep doing this?
• Did Chris remember that Silver Surfer came from Fantastic Four? Spoiler alert: maybe……….?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Kayleigh’s t-shirt shop at kk Designs

A big thanks to The Story Behind as well as Reel Feel for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who makes amazing stuff that you should go check out.

Spider-Man, we just can’t get away from him can we? Not that I’m complaining, he’s a popular character for a reason. This time around joing Chris and Kieran Shiach as they talk about the second Toby McGuire Spider-Man film and the game that came out alongside it. Yeah, we’re cheating a bit and jumping ahead. I think we’ll survive just this once.

Learn such things as:

• What makes this game so amazing?
• If it’s that good why didn’t Chris play it?
• Is the movie as good as we remember?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Thanks to Derek Graziano of The Sometimes Geek for that sweet sweet intro drop

A big thanks to C&C Geekcast as well as Meddling Kids for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who makes amazing stuff that you should go check out.

Wolverine is the X-Man that everyone loved in the 90s so of course he got his own game. But is that nostalgia trip enough to make Chris and Doug Hensley from Gaming & Chill enjoy a run through another LJN released game?

Learn such things as:

• Why can’t Wolverine’s powers ever be right?
• Where did he come from anyway? Does anyone even know?
• Why are these other random X-Men just sitting around waiting for Logan instead of, you know, helping him out or something?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Doug at Gaming and Chill and on Twitter @Gaming_n_Chill

Thanks to Karrington Martin of Real Dudes Podcast for that sweet sweet intro drop

A big thanks to Dungeons & Dragons & Daughters as well as More Gooder Than for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who makes amazing stuff that you should go check out.

Swamp Thing never gets a fair shake at fame. From a lousy cartoon to an LJN game, it seems that only die hard comic fans really know how cool he can be. Listen as Chris and Tyler Kirby from Better Than Static take a look at this misunderstood and underappreciated force of nature.

Learn such things as:

• What happens when you base a game on a show that barely exists?
• Which YouTuber couldn’t beat the game? (Answer here)
• Why haven’t we seen more of Swamp Thing?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Tyler at Better than Static, on Twitter @btstatic

Thanks to Derek Graziano of The Sometimes Geek for that sweet sweet intro drop

A big thanks to My Thing Can Beat Your Thing as well as There Will Be Geek for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who makes amazing stuff that you should go check out.

The X-Men return with an arcade game that came to home consoles a mere 18 years later based on a cartoon pilot that eventually became our beloved 90s X-Men cartoon. Listen as Chris is joined by John Horsley and Kenric Reagan of Spoiler Country take a look at this gem of the 90s arcade world.

Learn such things as:

• What happens when you base a game on a show that barely exists? (Yeah, I know we said this last time. It still applies.)
• Which guest had an unfair advantage when it came to arcade playing cash?
• Who really deserves to be remembered better from the playable roster?
• The Stan Lee interviews that we talk about? They’re real! Jim Lee and Chris Claremont
• And so much more!

BREAKING NEWS!: I love Twitter and its ability to quickly find information. Thanks to @KingImpulse for putting out the call to see who did the sweet sweet art for the X-Men cabinet, to @barelysushi, @calamityjon, @juggergrim, @Gojira007X, and @talestoenrage for answering that call, and to @rusty_shackles for actually figuring it out. Check out his tweet here and bask in all of it’s glory!

If I missed anyone then just know that these shownotes were written up the Thursday before this episode released, so you probably just answered after I wrote them. But know that I think you’re super cool as well.

And now back to your regularly scheduled show notes.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find John and Kenric at Spoiler Country, on Twitter @spoiler_country or @y2cl or @XKenricX.

Thanks to Scott of NerdSync for that sweet sweet intro drop.

A big thanks to GamerHeads as well as The Controller Throwers for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who makes music almost as good as my Brussels sprouts.

Superman Returns (see what I did there) with a game that exists and has a Superman sprite that looks like Superman and, ummmm, I don’t know I’m really stretching here because this game isn’t very good. Listen as Chris is joined by Karrington Martin of the RealDudes Podcast as they break down another Superman game that still can’t quite get the hero right.

Learn such things as:

• What Superman instances does Chris actually like?
• Why does Superman have such a hard time in games? No, like for real because I want there to be a good one.
• Who actually shows up from Superman’s rogues gallery?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Karrington at The Real Dudes Podcast and on Twitter @Desertfury90, or by checking out his previous apperance where we looked at Batman the Animated Series.

Thanks to Mike Burton of Genuine Chit Chat for that sweet sweet intro drop.

A big thanks to Oh No! Lit Class as well as There Might Be Cupcakes for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who makes music as sweet as Ken Griffey Jr’s swing.

We take another look at The Punisher, this time in a much better game. Listen as Joe Bunzerelly of The Bunzerelly Show joins Chris to talk about The Punisher in all of his shooting glory on this Sega Genesis and arcade classic.

Learn such things as:

• What crazy things has Frank Castle gotten himself into?
• How does this game troll you? As in literally trolling, not because you happen to be bad at at and can’t accept that.
• Why doesn’t Chris actually own this game?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Joe at The Bunzerelly Show, or on Twitter @JoeBunzerelly.

Thanks to Thomas of X-Minutes for that sweet sweet intro drop.

A big thanks to The Young Ones as well as Foamcast Radio for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who makes music sweeter than my cat who actually knows how to behave.

Epic heroes deserve epic villains, and Spider-Man sure has plenty of them. Scott Niswander of NerdSync joins us for a look at The Amazing Spider-Man vs The Kingpin on Sega Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, and Sega CD.

Learn such things as:

• What Spider-Man villains don’t deserve to be early level bosses?
• How does the game change between each system?
• Why don’t developers take a second to think about the characters before making a game?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Scott at The NerdSync YouTube channel, on Twitter @NerdSync or on the NerdSync Patreon page.

Thanks to Joe and Carlos of Life, Death, & Taxonomy for that sweet sweet intro drop.

A big thanks to Reid from The Irrationally Exuberant as well as Tawy from The Dirty Bits for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who makes music sure to give you either the warm fuzzies or the heebie jeebies.

Spider-Man has some of the most iconic villains around. But what happens when he faces off against someone so sinister that he has to employ the help of one of his firecest foes? Find out as Kyle from The Real Dudes Podcast joins us to talk Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage.

Learn such things as:

• What is the deal with Carnage anyway?
• How did LJN actually make a good game?
• Why does Kyle think that Carnage is such an interesting character?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Kyle at Real Dudes Podcast, on Twitter @KyleFederline or on the Real Dudes Podcast Patreon page.

Thanks to Megan and RJ of Oh No! Lit Class for that sweet sweet intro drop.

A big thanks to Luke from MultiversalQ as well as Mr. L and Mr. L from The Fantasticast for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who makes music guaranteed to make Dr. Doom smile or your money back.

The X-Men are one of the most important teams that Marvel has. So what happens when somebody actually make a good game about them? Listen in as Mike Ryan from The Controller Throwers joins in to talk about the first actual good game featuring this iconic team to get released for home consoles.

Learn such things as:

• What’s the deal with the final boss situation?
• Who is Mike’s unquestionable favorite character to use?
• Why did it take so long to get a good X-Men game?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Mike at The Controller Throwers’ Podcast, on Twitch at TCThrowers, or on Twitter @TCThrowers.

Thanks to Scott of NerdSync for that sweet sweet intro drop.

A big thanks to Adam from Odd Dad out as well as Luke from Exiled Podcast for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who makes music sweeter than a glass of tea from someone who actually knows what they’re doing when they make tea.

The Ninja Turtles pretty much sum up the 1990s. But what happens when Megan and RJ from Oh No! Lit Class come on the show to look at not 1, not 2, but 3 games all in one shot? Can we handle that much excitement? Or does Shredder take one of his many forms to strike us down?

Learn such things as:

• What’s other character has a connection to that life altering ooze?
• Why does Sega get shafted here?
• Which host has the best musical number?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Megan and RJ at Oh No! Lit Class, on Twitter @OhNoLitClassPod, or on Patreon at Oh No Lit Class Pod.

Thanks to Roger of GamerHeads Podcast for that sweet sweet intro drop.

A big thanks to Steven and Chris from Is This Adulting as well as Scott from Fairy Tales for Unwanted Children for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who makes music that makes robots wish for human emotions.

Just like back in the 1990s, we can’t escape the world of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. List this week as John Horsley from Spoiler Country joins the fun to look at the titles for the original Gameboy (yay….) and Tournament Fighters (YAY!)

Learn such things as:

• Will anybody admit to liking Leonardo?
• Are any of these games worth playing today?
• What happens when you remember that you just released a game with the good bosses and you need to use someone else?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find John at Spoiler Country, the Spoiler Country Patreon, y2cl, and on Twitter @y2cl or Spoiler Country

Thanks to Adam Higgins of Odd Dad out for that sweet sweet intro drop

A big thanks to There Will Be Geek, The Yound Ones, as well as Meddling Kids for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who one day is going to hunt me down for all of these little comments.

Apparently Asterix is a big deal. Who knew? Chris didn’t, that’s for sure. Good thing we have Kayleigh and Matt Sanderson coming back to let us know about the Gaul village that just might have something up their sleeve when it comes to defeating those pesky Romans.

Learn such things as:

• What exactly is going on with this comic? Really, Chris has no idea.
• What games did we miss out on that Europe got?
• How historically accurate is this thing anyway?
• And so much more!

Resources mentioned in this episode include page 32 of Super Game Power (a Brazilian gaming magazine) and that article from The Telegraph that Matt brings up a few times.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Kayleigh at Wadmalaw Weaving, on Twitter @wadmalawweaving, or at the Wadmalaw Weaving Facebook page. You can also hear her here on the Little Nemo, Smurfs for Gameboy, and Fantastic Four/The Incredibles bonus episode.

You can find Matt at Nooks and Crannies, or at Nooksandcranniespod at gmail. You can also hear him here on the Captain America and The Avengers episode.

Thanks to Michael Bailey of Fortress of Baileytude for that sweet sweet intro drop.

A big thanks to Megan and RJ from Oh No! Lit Class as well as Derek from The Sometimes Geek for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who is probably a better guitar player than me.

Batman and The Joker, it’s an iconic pairing that will never go away. At least not for long. Listen in as Steven and Chris from Is This Adulting? come to talk about Batman, Robin, and the fact that this game just doesn’t really make much sense at all.

Learn such things as:

• Which of us is really really REALLY bad at the game?
• What is the more awesome name that this game had in Japan?
• How did they not release a SNES version of this?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Chris and Steven at Is This Adulting, on Twitter @isthis_adulting, or at the Is This Adulting? Patreon page.

Thanks to Chris Braaten of More Gooder Than for that sweet sweet intro drop.

A big thanks to Julie Kinn from Meddling Kids as well as everyone from the Real Dudes Podcast for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who makes music more beautiful than your favorite college football team laying the smack down on one of your least favorite teams for your mom’s birthday.

Martians! Except they’re from Earth, and blue… so SMURFS! Listen as Chris basically has no idea what’s going on and return guest Kayleigh knows exactly what’s going on as these two discuss The Smurfs in comic, cartoon, and game form.

Learn such things as:

• Where did the Smurf name come from anyway?
• Where did these guys even come from?
• How Europe definitely got the better end of this game release
• What Smurf means exactly (just kidding, nobody knows that!)
• How Smurfs aren’t your average pixie/changling/hobgoblin/etc.
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

If you like us, please head over to your favorite podcast watering hole and give us a rating or review. Or just tell a friend, both help spread the word.

You can find Kayleigh nowhere on the internet, because there’s a small chance that she’s not real.

Thanks to Hannah of Film Roast for that sweet sweet intro drop.

A big thanks to GamerHeads as well as Scott from Fairy Tales for Unwanted Children for the promos today.

Music by Best Day. Check his stuff out, it’s really good.

Batman: The Animated Series is easily seen as one of the best versions of Batman on the screen. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a game came out for it. Listen in as Karrington from The Real Dudes Podcast joins in on discussing yet another Gameboy game.

Learn such things as:

• Who is the best Joker?
• How many people can feel sorry for Chris when they learn he hasn’t seen a vital part of their childhood?
• Has Batman The Movie The Game finally been dethroned as the definitive Batman game so far?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Karrington at The Real Dudes Podcast and on Twitter @Desertfury90

Thanks to Chris Braatan of More Gooder Than for that sweet sweet intro drop

A big thanks to Phillip and Matt of the Chronicity miniseries as well as Joseph and Paul of C&C Geekcast for the promos today.

Music by Best Day

Spider-Man rears his head again, and it’s still not anywhere near as good as that PS1 classic we all love. This time Issa from Young Free & Coupled takes a swing at the wall crawler as he takes on the Sinister Six in this NES, Master System, and Game Gear title from LJN.

Learn such things as:

• Are we giving up on LJN?
• Who is in this version of the Sinister Six?
• Who actually enjoyed this game?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Issa at Young Free and Coupled and on Twitter @Young3Coupled

Thanks to Paul Csomo of Varmints for that sweet sweet intro drop

A big thanks to Life, Death, & Taxonomy as well as Is This Adulting? for the promos today.

Music by Best Day

Ah, this little hidden gem works on multiple levels. Listen in as Chris and his special guest/wife Kayleigh take a look at the Little Nemo comics, animated movie, and the game for the NES.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Check out the image gallery to see samples of the comics, scenes from the movie, and some screen grabs from the game.

Be sure to also check out Film Roast since their show is also awesome.

And as always, Audionutix for the music. Couldn't do that without his hard work.

X-Men is one of the most beloved comic franchises there is, no question about it. So of course they get this LJN steaming pile of shit. Honestly, I want to just go crawl in a hole and cry myself to sleep.

Things Covered

• Jay and Miles are the best and there's so much X-Men history that I'd mess up so just go listen to their show if you're really curious
• Rotating cast makes it a pretty open world
  • But we're only going to see 6 of them here
• LJN does exactly what you'd expect with an NES game
• There's the great team dynamic we've all grown to love from this group.
• X-Men comics good, X-Men on NES bad.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Thanks again to the Soapy Madams for letting me drop their promo in here.

We have our first revisit to a franchise, so if you haven't checked out our episode about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles you should probably do that.

Things Covered

• This is so much better than that earlier game
• The arcade version is beautiful.
• The NES one isn't too shabby itself
• The fun of bringing an arcade game to the home consoles
• Chris finally realizes that we haven't covered a proper Spiderman game since obviously the Atari games don't count.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

We knew basically nothing about Dick Tracy coming into this. Well, nothing except that he wears yellow and he's a detective. So clean slate for this show!

• WE GOT REVIEWS!
• Davis Quinn: "This game is horrible"
• Sean did research, Chris didn't do as much beyond playing the game
• Chris suffers through a 1939 Dick Tracy serial
• The NES and Genesis games are different, and one is objectively better

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Thanks to the Meddling Kids Podcast for providing us with a rather appropriate promo to drop. Sean can be found on Twitter @SeanSyn1182 while Chris continues to primarily use the show account, @PlayComicsCast.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a game we all know from a comic series we all know exists. Ha, joke's on us because most of the people I know grew up on the cartoons.

• Turtle origin story
• Sean's tattoos that he totally had before starting the show
• Changes between the comics and cartoon
• Chris refuses to admit that the Michael Bay movies exist
• Drifting into the land of future show previews
• The game isn't great, but if you liked it before you probably still do

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Ah, Batman. What can you say about someone with such a storied past? Well, Chris and Sean go off on an over sized episode that tries to capture the magic of one of the better games on the NES.

• New Joker back stories
• Movie tie in games with actually good game play...
• ... but characters that have nothing to do with the movie or Batman lore.
• The nostalgia of the NES classic versus the forgotten fact that there's also a Genesis version.
• Totally off topic ramblings.

You know you loved this game as a kid. And it wasn't just because Batman is awesome, it was actually a good game.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Find the show on Twitter @ PlayComicsCast, Chris’s personal Twitter basically doesn't exist anymore because it's just copies of the one for this show, and Sean’s personal Twitter @ Seansyn1182.

Wow, this one is horrible. Not the episode, it's pretty sweet. But the game itself? It's pretty bad.

Things Covered

• The video we watched because we couldn't handle playing it for long.
• The insane setting for the mini games
• Chris definitely loves Peanuts
• Video game physics
• Balancing skills and how the NES doesn't really show them off well
• What makes this game Snoopy anyway?

Yeah, it's a bad one.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Find the show on Twitter @ PlayComicsCast, Chris's personal Twitter @ theichibun, and Sean's personal Twitter @ Seansyn1182.

Sean joins Chris and the show goes insane in the best way possible. The language gets more adult though so you might want to be careful about that. We try no to go overboard, but no promises.

Things Covered

• Making a good Superman game is hard
• The really weird list of powers Superman has/had
• The level of situational awareness of the citizens of Metropolis
• General gameplay notes
• Overall game quality notes
• Unintented previews of future Superman games
• Chris's flea market habbits
• A glimpse into future plans
• How we'd improve the game
• Did we mention that making a good Superman game is hard?

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Find the show on Twitter @ PlayComicsCast, Chris's personal Twitter @ theichibun, and Sean's personal Twitter @ Seansyn1182.

If you liked this episode, also check out the 2600 episode, which covers Superman on the Atari 2600 along with every other comic game for that system.

Spy vs Spy, and incorrectly Spy vs Spy 2 in this case, are looked at in this episode. Thankfully the sequel doesn't really change much beyond the setting so it's not a big deal. The game was planned and development started for an NES release over here, so it could have happened.

Things Covered

• Super brief history of Spy vs Spy Comic
• Some characters you don't see in the game
• Comparing the game to other things
  • Old school dungeon crawling RPGs
  • point and click adventures
  • Portal
• Conclusion: It's not bad....?

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Wow, the games for the Atari 2600 are really crappy. Flash stuff from the early 90s was better. Today's creators could barf up a better game in their sleep.

Things Covered

• Asterix
• Canada is still part of North America and how they didn't see Taz
• Popeye
• The Smurfs, 1.5 times because a second "game" barely counts
• Spider-Man
• Superman
• Snoopy
• The general crappyness of the 2600 and why I'm not holding it against these games too much

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

The Punisher is a great character with a rich history. From killing the Marvel Universe to hunting Spider-Man to being as close to a hero as a stone cold killer can get, we’re taking a look at a brief glimpse into the Punisher comic universe and then diving straight into the NES and Gameboy games.

Spoiler alert: this is an LJN game for NES. That should raise a bunch of red flags right there.

Changing Hearts and Minds

Change your POV Network

US Department of Veterans Affiars National Center for PTSD

After Deployment

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Silver Surfer. One-time personal assistant to Galactus, now not so much. Join Chris and special guest Josh Bowman of Fait Deficit as they take a look at this wonderfully misunderstood character along with another LJN classic on the NES.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Josh Bowman can be found at his Podcast Faith Deficit, on Twitter @faithdeficit, and in the Faith Deficit group on Facebook.

Thanks to Christopher of Podcast 42 for the intro.

A special thanks to Oh No! Lit Class and Reel Feels for the promo drops.

Who doesn’t like Spider-man? You know, besides JJ Jameson and a hoard of villains and whatever friends he’s blowing off without a good explanation because secret identities need to be protected?

Join Chris and special guest Paul Csomo from Varmints as they look at The Amazing Spider-Man for the Nintendo Gameboy and some of the comic background for everyone’s favorite wall crawler.

Learn such things as:

• Alternate Spider-Man realities
• Mechanical vs biological web shooters
• The twisted secrets behind the publisher and developer of the game
• What Marvel would never allow to be said these days about their beloved characters
• Who Chris and Paul both forgot was in the game because they were distracted by the sheer, … , something-ness that oozes from it

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Paul Csomo can be found @VarmintsPodcast on Twitter, in the Varmints Facebook page, or at the Varmints Podcast page.

Thanks to Mike Burton from Genuine Chit Chat for the intro drop.

A big thanks to Rhett Hall of the Braintrust Bros Podcast and all the guys over at the Real Dudes Podcast for the promos today.

Music, as always, by Audionautix

Did you see that streak going by? That was probably Chris and Tyler Kirby from Better than Static going on about the newest episode of Play Comics. These two crazy kids looked at some Flash comic history then the Gameboy game that was at least artistically inspired by the 90s Flash TV show.

Learn such things as:

• Flash’s place in the DC heirarchy
• Cool things he can do with a seemingly lame power
• Who some of those other pesky speedsters are

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Tyler at Better than Static, on Twitter @btstatic

Thanks to Steven for that sweet sweet intro drop

A big thanks to Josh Hallmark of Our Americana and Derek Graziano of the Sometimes Geek Podcast for the promos today.

Music, as always, by Audionautix

The Avengers, along with fearless leader Captain America, are a collection of Earth’s mightiest heroes. Together they can conquer anything. But they’ll face their toughest challenge yet when Chris and Matt (graciously on loan from Semi Intellectual Musings) take their shots at this group of heroes.

Learn such things as:

• The four, or two, characters that are actually good enough to let you play as
• Some other guys that are kind of here but not really
• Crazy origins that Matt probably still thinks I pulled out of my ass
• Exactly how many charcters Matt refers to as “not nice”
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Matt at Semi-Intellectual Musings, on Twitter @the_SIM_Pod

Thanks to Tyler Kirby of Better than Static for that sweet sweet intro drop

A big thanks to David of Tales from the Fandom as well as Brandon and Travis of the Interdimensional RSS: The Unofficial Rick And Morty Podcast for the promos today.

Music by Best Day

In a world of corrupt politicians working with the letter, but definitely not the spirit, of the law it’s inevitable that if time travel become a possibility that it would be used for evil. Which means you’ll have to have cops specifically for time related things.

Listen in as Mark Diaz from Mark’s Movie Collection comes to talk about this Jean Claude Van Damme classic and a game that kind of maybe has something to do with it.

Learn such things as:

• Why are movie tie in games coming out so long after the movie?
• Can you ever have too many splits?
• What is the plural of octopus anyway?
• And much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Ninja Penguin Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route.

You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Be sure to head over to the Ninja Penguin Podcasts site to see all of the shows we’re working on.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Mark @coolmarkd on Twitter or the Mark’s Movie Collection podcast.

A big thanks to Donna and Laura from Soapy Madams and Thomas Rillstone from History of Aotearoa New Zealand Podcast for the wonderful promos today.

Music by Best Day, who doesn’t wait for his brownies to finish baking before eating them.

Every super hero story has to eventually end. Maybe not in our world, but in the comic world as long as timelines don’t get reset or just stop progressing then all the heroes will eventually get old. Except The Phantom, who just straight up hasn’t died. Because he can’t.

Listen in as Karrington Martin from Real Dudes Podcast comes to talk about Phantom 2040 and how it relates to the Phantom comics, and of course the SNES and Genesis games that came out with it.

Learn such things as:

• What makes The Phantom immortal?
• How does the Phantom 2040 cartoon relate to the comics?
• Will we ever get a game as divisive as this one again?
• And much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Ninja Penguin Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route.

You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Be sure to head over to the Ninja Penguin Podcasts site to see all of the shows we’re working on.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Karrington at The Real Dudes Podcast and on Twitter @Desertfury90, or by checking out his previous appearances on the show.

A big thanks to Heather Welch from Sunshine and PowerCuts as well as Dan Grote and Matt Lazorwitz from WQ&A for the wonderful promos today.

Music by Best Day, who only drinks the top half of a bottle of Coke.

It’s time for another Creator Talk episode! This time we’re chatting with Luz Bianca, writer of Palace by the Sea and Sarah. Come listen in as Luz gives us the inside story behind both of these really cool comics.

You can find Luz on LuzBianca.com, over on Patreon, or on Twitter @LuzBiana417.

Palace by the Sea can be found on Gumroad and I really suggest you go pick it up.

Sara can be found here and I really think you should read it because I love it.

The best thing about public domain IP is that you can do whatever you want with it. Like, oh I don't know, taking the Wizard of Oz and making it a war story. After all, you did kind of have Dorothy coming in and killing people. That's not exactly a nice move.

If only I knew someone who has done exactly that….. How about David Pepose? Yeah that would be good. So it's a good thing that who you get to listen to in this episode.

And just a warning, we recorded this episode before the Kickstarter campaign for The OZ went public. And it kind of exploded a little bit. In a good way.

Learn such things as:

• How deep can you dive into a well known property where people really only know one part of it?
• What can you do to welcome people who missed the campaign for an earlier part of the series?
• Who is the best blue super hero ever created of all time?
• And so much more!

You can find David on Twitter @Peposed, Instagram @Peposed, on Facebook @ David Pepose Comics, his newsletter Pep Talks, and his website DavidPepose.com. And of course check out the Kickstarter campaign for The OZ.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who is afraid of monkeys.

In another bonus episode that’s totally not just to manipulate the numbering so I can pull something off later (that’s a lie and we all know it but we’ll roll with it anyway) Kayleigh Osborne comes back to take a look at one of the world’s most well known and important comic characters. Theatrical films, cartoons from multiple decades, and running pretty much since the 1930s.

Yup, it’s Tintin. Take a listen as Kayleigh joins to talk about this comic franchise that somehow just hasn’t caught on in the US yet. We never do figure out why it hasn’t.

Learn such things as:

• What good reason is there for this one never catching on here?
• How important are Franco-Belgian comics?
• Do we have a new most accurate game adaptation?
• And much more!

YouTube Clips mentioned in the show:

• The Seven Crystal Balls 1990s cartoon
• Prisoners of the Sun 1990s cartoon
• The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun 1960s cartoon

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Ninja Penguin Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route.

You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Be sure to head over to the Ninja Penguin Podcasts site to see all of the shows we’re working on.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Kayleigh on newer episodes of Meddling Kids where she talks to Chris about Scooby Doo related things.

A big thanks to everyone from Western Standard Time as well as Suzy Buttress from The Casual Birder Podcast for the wonderful promos today.

Music by Best Day, who can be a talking cat if he that’s what he wants to do.

Get ready for a dragon duel of epic proportions! In this corner, we have Dragon Power, the janky NES game that tried and failed to cash in on Dragonball mania. And in this corner, we have the original Dragonball manga, which captures all the absurdity and excitement that Dragon Power completely whiffed on! Let’s get ready to ruuuuumble!

Please give a warm, silly welcome to our special guest judge for today’s podcast, the one and only Kyle “Game Genie” Federline! When he’s not dropping hot takes on the K&K Indie Gaming podcast, Kyle spends his time teaching his kids about the wonders of games from his childhood and trying to find gaming’s biggest hidden gems in the indie scene. Get ready as Kyle lends his unique blend of gaming wisdom and snark to judge today’s retro showdown!

Learn such things as:

• Why did they give us this game with soooo much localization?
• Is there any good place to start with Dragon Ball?
• When did the 5 Second Rule become a thing to be followed?
• And so much more!

You can find the guest on Twitter @KyleFederline the K&K Indie Gaming podcast website, or a treefull of other places.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.  Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

A big thanks to D’ohMance Dawn, as well as Shonen Flop for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who swears he was watching anime before it was cool.

One of the things I've really come to like about comics is that there are so many stories happening at once. You can tell there's something overarching going on but can also focus on what's just in front of you at the moment.

The problem for me has been knowing where to start, what tie ins need to be read and what can be skipped, if something is going to be a good jumping on point, that sort of thing.

Will Dickstein might have that solved with his Ch05en series. The newest edition, which focuses on Kris, was my first experience in this world and I didn't feel lost at all reading it. In fact I really want to go back and read more of it now to see what else is going on.

So no matter if you want to start with this Kris centered story or anywhere else in the series you'll be in a good place.

We just can’t get away from Spider-Man at all. Even when there’s no comic story to match it up with, when there are a host of C List villains, the guy is persistent I’ll give him that.

Listen in as Chris and Christi from Chrises on Infinite Earths come to talk about the entire Sega 32X library of comic based games. Yup, this is the one that we got.

Learn such things as:

• Why do some people say this isn’t the only comic based 32X game?
• Who are these villains anyway?
• What is our theory for why this game looks so unfinished?
• And much more!

If you want to help support the show check out the Ninja Penguin Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route.

You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Be sure to head over to the Ninja Penguin Podcasts site to see all of the shows we’re working on.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Chris and Christi can be found @chrisespod or at the Chrises on Infinite Earths official website.

Thanks to the Karrington Martin from Real Dudes Podcast for that sweet sweet intro drop.

A big thanks to Paul and Donna from Varmints as well as Mikey, Charlie, and Reed from oh The Young Ones for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who smells better than a puppy.

Let's get one thing straight. Lonely Receiver is a really fun read. Rye Hickman (previously published as Jen Hickman) and Zac Thompson are really great humans. Together the make a really good team on a book that you really should be reading. And to have two of the people working on it to come talk about it? That's really super cool.

Listen in as Rye Hickman and Zac Thompson come talk about where this crazy (in the best way possible) series came from, how they got into comics, and whether they think it's a good idea to send them pictures of your cats.

Learn such things as:

• How old is too old for Pokémon?
• Can you ever really trust a Canadian to watch their mouth?
• Do Rye and Zac need a (consensual) hug ?
• And so much more!

You can find Rye on Twitter @RyeHickman, Instagram @RyeHickmanDraws, and their website RyeHickman.com.

You can find Zac on Twitter @ZacBeThompson, Instagram @ZacBeThompson, and subscribe to his newsletter The Voice In Your Head Is Mine.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Music by Best Day, who also wants to see pictures of your cats, but won't tell me where to send them.

We all know the basic story. Kid has troubled relationship with father. Kid wants to win father's approval. Kid sells soul to a demon in order to get the ability to impress said father. Sometimes the fun isn't in figuring out where the story is going, it's in figuring out how the story is going to get there.

That's why we have Allen Dunford here to help take a look at this Faustian tale of  woe, promises, and what it takes to twist a deal to be in your favor no matter what. And while you're at it, be sure to check out the Kickstarter page for Pocus Hocus #3 and get in on the fun for yourself.

Learn such things as:

• Making sure you keep having fun with what you're working on.
• Slipping your pets into your creative projects.
• Finding the perfect balance between sticking to your vision and taking fan opinion into account.
• And so much more!

You can find Allen on Twitter @chapsoffury, pocushocuscomic@gmail.com, and be sure to catch his stuff along with other good comics over at Bad Bug Media.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.  Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who is waiting until all the issues come out before getting into this one because he's a weirdo.

You’ve got a character going around in specialized armor defending the world. Flying around, blasting things, certainly this has got to be the coolest character known to man. But is it Ironman? Or is it X-O Manowar?

Joke’s on you, it’s both! Listen in as Kyle Federline from Real Dudes Podcast joins the show to take a look at maybe one of the weirdest crossovers that there ever was. From the video game side of things anyway.

Learn such things as:

• What does the phrase In Heavy Metal mean here anyway?
• Game wise, is there really a difference between the characters?
• Does the fact that Acclaim published this mean there’s a conflict of interest?
• And much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Ninja Penguin Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route.

You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Be sure to head over to the Ninja Penguin Podcasts site to see all of the shows we’re working on.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Kyle at Real Dudes Podcast, on Twitter @KyleFederline or on the Real Dudes Podcast Patreon page.

A big thanks to the Chrises from Chrises on Infinite Earths as well as Luke and Devin from MultiversalQ for the wonderful promos today.

Music by Best Day, who either has a great cat or needs to get one. But his cat won’t be nearly as good as my Nyx.

Cars! Dinosaurs! It's every little kid's dream! Come listen as Kelsey and Torey from all your favorite podcasting groups on Facebook join the show to talk about Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. Learn such things as:

• Why have we never heard of this comic?
• What famous person worked on the game?
• How bad was the cartoon anyway?
• And so much more!

If you're seeing this then you get to know that WE HAVE A PATREON! Check it out and have a hand in supporting the show. Or if you don't like Patreon there are other options as well.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Kelsey and Torey hanging out in the Karen & Ellen Roomies group on Facebook, or they also asked me to drop a link to Hutchinstruttin.

Thanks to Roger Reichardt of Gamerheads for that sweet sweet intro drop.

A big thanks to Derek from Rolling Misadventures as well as Katy from Kakebytes for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who makes better music than Bjork. But then again, who doesn't?

Support Play Comics by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/playcomics

The cool thing about comic creators is that they tend to like comics. Which means that whoever your favorite comic creator is probably has a favorite comic. But what happens when you find the source of basically everything? And can you get past the fact that it feels so cliche because it’s the source of all of the cliche feelings?

Listen in as Allen Dunford comes by to talk about his favorite comic, which makes sense because he is a comic creator. But will this game give us an idea of why so many people love the manga? Or will it just rely on having a big sword and hoping that the cool factor there carries us through the story?

Learn such things as:

• When do you probably want to spoonfeed the story to players?
• Do games need to tell a specific story to have a good story?
• Does it matter if you get spoilers for the overall comic story?
• And so much more!

You can find Allen on Twitter @ChapsofFury. And of course there’s also the Top Hat Studios newsletter to make sure to stay on top of everything that he’s creating.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.  Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

A big thanks to Behold!, as well as Into the Knight for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who refuses to read this just because people say that it’s cool.

I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but the world is a bit crazy night now. But mixed in with all of the craziness are little bits of normalcy that can help make things be not so jarring.

Good thing I've got Mike Campbell from my local shop Captain's Comics and Toys to come by and talk about their upcoming Captain's Comic Expo.

Learn such things as:

• What special precautions are having to be made at cons this year?
• What can I expect to find at this one specifically?
• Will I actually go this year? (Probably not, I'm a lazy hermit)
• And so much more!

You can find Mike and Captain's Comics and Toys on Facebook @CaptainsComicsAndToys, Instagram @captainscomicsandtoys, and the Captain's Comics and Toys website.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.  Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who won't be going to this con because of silly reasons like "living too far away."

It's always nice to be wanted. Even if the people wanting you are evil scientists. OK, maybe that's not the best situation to be in but sometimes you have to take what you can get.

Listen in as writer Max Majernik and Band of Bards cofounder Chris Benamati join to show to give us an inside look at their current Kickstarter comic Prospects.

Learn such things as:

• Why would anyone want to write a story about zombies and robots? </sarcasm>
• How can you use social media to find a collaborator for your project?
• How come physical catch up tiers aren't a standard thing yet?
• And so much more!

You can find Max on Twitter @SnowballMax.

You can find Chris on Twitter @BandofBards and the Band of Bards website.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who is a combination zombie and robot.

Sometimes Japan gets something super cool that we don't. Alright, that happens all the time. But in this case it really sucks because it's a good Spider-Man game based on a comic mini series and it really wouldn't have taken much to get it ready to come out over here.

Listen in as Adam Messinger comes to talk about Spider-Man Lethal Foes and we cry over the fact that this game never got a proper US release.

Learn such things as:

• Why do villains keep trying to work together?
• Seriously, is it that hard to let someone else use a thing before you sell it?
• Does this story arc even really need a game?
• And so much more!

You can find Adam on Twitter @AdamSMessinger, Instagram @adamsmessinger, A live performance called Adam S. Messinger is a Jerk on Bandcamp, on Twitch @AdamSMessinger, and a comic he write called The Amazing Fist (link goes directly to a MediaFire download page).

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

A big thanks to the first promo, as well as the second promo for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who thinks Spider-Man 3 is the best Spider-Man movie.

Mark from Lesser Known Comics heard the last episode (Legacy Comix with Patrick Hickey Jr) and felt like some of the LKC team needed to come on the show to clear some of the air. So that's what happened.

Listen to what Mark Bernal, Jackie Anne Wiedemeier, and Charlie Ragnorok had to say about that previous episode and about working with Lesser Known Comics.

Editor's Note: Transcripts of this episode are available, they're pretty raw right now though.

Learn such things as:

• How the business model of giving away comics can work.
• Why you'd want to be paid a salary instead of royalties.
• Where you can have your books digitally besides Amazon.
• And so much more!

You can find Mark and Lesser Known Comics on Instagram @lesserknowncomics, or the Lesser Known Comics website.

You can find Jackie Anne Wiedemeier on Instagram @art.jackieanne.

You can find Charlie Ragnorok on Instagram @charlieragnarok.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who just wants an ice cream sandwich.

When you think of the most iconic characters in the DC Universe then Wonder Woman is definitely up there. Easily one of the most important characters in comics. But with that longevity and popularity comes an interesting problem, a lot of stuff has already been done. So when you can get a fresh take on things it’s always great, and even better when it’s a well done comic.

That’s what we have here with Michael Conrad and Becky Cloonan. Listen in as we talk about the best parts of a limited Future State run, plans for their run on the ongoing Wonder Woman story, and go off on some of the most relevant tangents this show might have ever had.

Learn such things as:

• What’s the best/worst way to solve arguments with your partner?
• Who is most likely to get a Wonder Woman related tattoo next?
• What are some of the ways you can make it work when you work with and live with someone?
• And so much more!

You can find Michael on Twitter @michaelwconrad and the Michael W Conrad website. You can find Becky on Twitter @beckycloonan. You can find both of them at Mystery School Comics Group where you can buy cool stuff and help make sure they get to keep making great comics like this.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who does not have a pet kangaroo.

Support Play Comics by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/playcomics

Check out our podcast host, Pinecast. Start your own podcast for free with no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-89f00a for 40% off for 4 months, and support Play Comics.

Kickstarter is the bane of my existence because so many cool things are rolling through there. It’s a good problem to have I guess.

But Chris Mancini and Fernando Pinto, those two are enablers. Why do they have to be making such a cool sounding comic? Why do they have to be good people on top of that? Why do they make it so easy for me to give them my money?

This Episode is brought to you in part by White Cat Entertainment, both because they created this comic and because they’re just a cool company anyway.

Learn such things as:

• How do you keep the partnership going when you’ve found a good creative partner?
• What happens when people missed the Kickstarter for Part 1 of a series?
• Early Bird vs Limited Release on Patreon
• And so much more!

You can find Chris on Twitter @chrisjmancini or at his website White Cat Entertainment.

You can find Fernando on Twitter @Fdo_Pinto, on Instagram @minombreesfernandopinto, his LinkTree @FernandoPintoArt and FernandoPintoArt.com.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who probably likes kung fu movies because he’s human.

Spider-Man makes another appearance and this time time it’s based on the 1994 animated series. So with such an iconic part of my childhood as the basis, this game has to be good? Right?

Listen in as Matt Gardner from Floating Hands Studios and writer of the comic Alabaster Shadows comes on the show to take a look at this SNES and Genesis take on our favorite wall crawler.

Learn such things as:

• How different can the same game be on different systems?
• Is this the best Spider-Man game we’ve looked at so far?
• Has Chris watched Batman the Animated Series yet?
• And much more!

WE HAVE A PATREON NOW! Check that out or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route.

You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Matt over at @wogoat, his YouTube channel Floating Hands Studios, or the page for his comic Alabaster Shadows.

Thanks to Chris and Yancy from Pop Goes Your World for that sweet sweet intro drop.

A big thanks to Joe and Carlos from Life, Death, and Taxonomy as well as Toph from Gravity Beard for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who needs to live closer to me so we can go hang out.

Aren't grandma's cool? At least stereotypically they take care of you and make you cookies and I've even heard some parents will legit get mad that grandma's aren't spoiling those grandkids.

And now forget about all of that because Allen Dunford and Will Radford and here to destroy all of those happy memories. Listen in as we take a look at their latest comic adventure, Grandma Chainsaw, and the Kickstarter campaign that can bring this wonderful conversation piece into your home.

Learn such things as:

• How many times can I call out a certain other podcast?
• Do you need to have experience using the tools of your murderer?
• CHRIS HOW COULD YOU ASK ABOUT GRANDPARENTS AND THE FEELINGS THEY HAVE ABOUT A COMIC WITHOUT CHECKING TO SEE IF THEY'RE DEAD!?
• And so much more!

You can find Allen on Twitter @ChapsofFury, Will on Instagram @willrad82 and Vimeo @WillRad. And of course there's also the Grandma Chainsaw Kickstarter campaign and on Twitter @GrandmaChainsaw.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who is probably playing with a chainsaw right now.

You can make the best comic in the world, but people won't read it unless it gets published. And even if it gets published people need to know about it. So how does that happen? And what What all happens behind the scenes to help make your book a success?

Listen in as we hear from David Dissanayake, director of sales and marketing at Vault Comics, as he lets us in on some of the secrets from way too long ago when I actually recorded this.

Learn such things as:

• How to get on the marketing director's bad side
• Where to find out more about your favorite publishers
• When will David get into the creative side of things?
• And so much more!

You can find David on Twitter @dwdissanayake and of course be sure to check out what's going on over at Vault Comics.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who just wants a Pepsi.

What’s Christmas without a little violence? No not the present throwing kind, I’m talking about full on Robot vs Santa showdowns with al the trimmings.

If you’re like me, you don’t want to experience it any other way now, and that’s why we have Steve Urena and Misty Graves here to tell us about X-Maschina, a comic set in way too close future about what happens when Santa has to fight robots and if that isn’t enough to get you excited then we need to have a talk.

Be sure to check out the Kickstarter campaign for X-Maschina.

Learn such things as:

• What’s the secret to getting things done with your project?
• How amazing is Lane Lloyd’s art?
• What do Gonzo’s chickens have to do with anything?
• And so much more!

You can find X-Maschina on Twitter @xmaschina1, Instagram @xmaschina1, and the Kickstarter campaign for X-Maschina.

You can find Steve on Twitter @TheSteveUrena, Instagram @thesteveurena and his page on Gumroad.

You can find Misty on Instagram @mistygravescomics and her website MistyGraves.com

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who still believes in Santa. Or Satan. One of those two.

It's Spooky Season, and what's been scarier lately than the threat of disease running rampant throughout the world? Not much, so let's lean into it and take a look at Dr. Crowe, another wonderful collection from 215 Ink, in which a plague doctor deals with mystical elements in his adventures to stop the supernatural from bringing too much havoc into the world of man.

Listen in as Corey Fryia joins the show to help us break down series and get us ready for the trade paperback where you can get all of the current run at once. "Where can I grab this?" might ask. How about at the Dr. Crowe Kickstarter page or preorder at your local comic shop right now.

Learn such things as:

• How is it different dealing with so many artists on the same story?
• Can any pet owning comic creators keep their pets from showing up in the stories?
• How important is it to tell creators how much you like their stuff?
• And so much more!

You can find the guest on Twitter @CoreyFryia, Instagram @cfpunk, and Corey&#8217;s Linktree which includes links to Sandcrawler Customs stuff. And of course check out

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who isn't wearing a mask he's just that ugly.

Digging back into the NES days with this one because I somehow missed it. Which in a weird way makes sense because I don't think anybody that I knew back in the day would have known that Destiny of an Emperor was based on a manga. Or even what a manga was for that matter, but that's a different issue.

Good thing we have Joey DiCarlo from So Wizard here to help take a look at this early NES RPG. Because we're both old and can appreciate this one for what it is without wondering why it doesn't have the sensibilities of a PS4 game.

Learn such things as:

• Did anyone in the US know that there was a manga that this game was based on?
• How hard is it to look at a manga when you can't read it?
• At what point will Chris refuse to list all of the playable characters?
• And so much more!

You can find Joey on Twitter as part of So Wizard @sowizardpodcast, on YouTube @SoWizardPodcast, and of course So Wizard&#8217;s website.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

A big thanks to Avast as well as Invasion of the Remake for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who didn't read this one either which makes me feel better.

This is what the rest of the Capcom fighters focusing on Marvel characters was all leading to. One of the greatest fighting games ever made. The reason to own a Dreamcast. The epic mashup of two legendary companies that has no reason to exist in this world but does anyway.

Listen in as Trent Seely from Continuity Nod comes to talk about what is possibly one of the best games every made. Period. End of discussion.

Learn such things as:

• Seriously, is this game really as good as everyone says?
• How did this one manage to have a better roster construction despite using mostly characters that had already been in the previous games?
• Can anyone say anything bad about this game at all? For real, I’m not sure if they can.
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Trent on Twitter @InstaTrent or over at his website Continuity Nod.

A big thanks to the Chrises from Chrises on Infinite Earths, as well asDan and Jake from DC Supersons for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who hopefully can spell better than me. Which isn’t saying much because I suck at it.

I had the pleasure of having Eric Palicki come on to talk about his new book Atlantis Wasn’t Build for Tourists coming to us from Scout Comics on August 17th. That’s plenty of time for you to ask your local comic shop to make sure they have a copy for you. Or later, the everything going on in the world has been messing with release dates all over the place.

Atlantis Wasn’t Built for Tourists is best described Scout does it on their website, because I’m afraid of giving out spoilers.

> When a drifter stumbles upon a small town trapped between a corrupt sheriff and the bloodthirsty monsters lurking in the countryside, his quest for a hot meal takes a whole new turn.

If you want to read other things from Erik you can go check out All We Ever Wanted and Maybe Somday, (a pair of anthologies from A Wave Blue World) you can find a bunch of his stuff on Comixology, or you can check out Eric’s personal website or on Twitter @ericpalicki or Instagram conveniently also @ericpalicki.

And of course, check out the page that Scout Comics has for Atlantis Wasn’t Built for Tourists

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find the guest at their social media places and podcast links.

A big thanks to the first promo, as well as the second promo for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who would pay his artists except he is the artist.

Writing comics and making games is fun and all, but don't you want other people to see them? You can probably <strike>sucker</strike> get friends to look at them but I have a feeling your dreams are bigger than just the people you know in real life. But how can you pull that off?

Kickstarter might be a good idea. Now if only I could get someone from over there on the show. I know, how about Oriana Leckert? Who better to help us understand the inner workings of Kickstarter than the Director of Publishing & Comics Outreach? Yeah, I can't think of anyone better either.

Learn such things as:

• How much money has been pledged to comic related projects on Kickstarter lately?
• How does the success rate of comic based projects compare to other projects?
• What are some specific links you should check out?
  • https://www.kickstarter.com/creators/publishing
  • https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/The_Martians
• And so much more!

You can find Oriana on Twitter @orianabklyn, Instagram @orianabklyn, and her website.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who also hasn't written a comic yet so I still have time.

Alright let’s get one thing straight right now. Comics are supposed to be fun. And making them is supposed to be fun. Literally everything about comics is supposed to be fun.

So what happens when two people who really like wrestling get together and make a fun comic about something they really love? Maybe you should go read Invasion from Planet Wrestletopia. I don’t know, just throwing that out there.

Learn such things as:

• Who wrote this anyway? (Spoiler alert, it’s Ed Kuehnel and Matt Entin)
• Why did they write it? (I’ll give you 2 guesses)
• Are wives good? (Yes they are)
• What should you do now? (Go read it. All of it.)
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Ed and Matt on Twitter @SBP_Comics and of course by going to Comixology and just buying the whole serious because it’s really good.

Music by Best Day, who thinks WWF on NES is the best wrestling game ever made.

No special messages this time or anything, the show is simply going on a break. Not sure for how longs.

I know that sounds ominous, but it's really not that bad. Kayleigh and I are going into hyperdrive in our quest to get the house we're going to die in. Not that I think the death part is going to happen anytime soon but I'm sick of moving. Part of this though means that I'll have to take the time that would normally go towards getting the podcast ready to instead get the house ready to sell. Years of flea market trips and just general not keeping up with things to the level that a proper Southern home should be kept up with means that we've got some work to do.

So like I said, no set timetable on when Play Comics will be back. Could be after we're in the new house. Could be before then if we get this place ready to go fast enough. We'll see.

Patreon Episodes are still going on as normal because I have enough of those recorded to last a few months. Plus I can probably sneak in a recording there and be fine. Although if I need to do that then we have bigger problems with getting into the new house than I originally thought so I really hope that doesn't happen.

If you need to get your fix of comic or video game podcasts then I suggest taking a look at the Past Guess page and finding someone from there. If they have a link by their name then they have a podcast that I think you should check out. Or at least something that I think you should check out. And if you really want to hear my voice but can't make up your mind about which episode to go back to, I've got a random episode link set up so you can just see what happens there.

Hot take here: comics are pretty fun. And one of those fun things is getting new stuff to check out. There's just something about the teamwork and the combination of words and art and the way they work together that just hits me in all the right ways. I love it. The creators love it. That's why I end up getting a lot of creators on this show.

But there's the publishing side of things too. So who better to have come on the show than Patrick Hickey Jr to give us an insight into the publishing side of the comics world? And to give us a peek at what Legacy Comix has coming out for their fall slate of releases? Seriously, look at these! You'll have to do it at the main site though since Pinecast doesn't let me put images here in the show notes.

Learn such things as:

• What weird coincidences can come together to bring a comic into existence?
• Why have I been doing this podcast the whole time?
• What role do the publishers play in all of this?
• And so much more!

You can find Legacy Comix on Twitter @Legacy_Comix, Instagram @legacy_comix, Facebook @LegacyComix, the Legacy Comix website.

You can find Patrick on Instagram @patrickhickeyjr, Twitter @reviewfixpat, and of course his personal website and Review Fix.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who hasn't read my thing yet. But then again, neither have you.

BONUS EPISODE TIME! Take a listen as Mikey from The Young Ones and Devin from Exiled and Multiversal Q come on the show to talk about what comic properties should have a game (but don’t) and what makes some games and other general talk of what makes a good comic based game.

The Kotaku article we talk about can be read by following the link at the beginning of this sentence.

WE HAVE A PATREON NOW! Check that out or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route.

You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Thanks to Miles Stokes of Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men for that sweet sweet intro drop.

A big thanks to Reid from Irrationally Exuberant for the promo drop at the end today. The middle spot was taken by today’s guests.

Music by Best Day, who probably doesn’t read my show notes and thus will not be getting any candy.

Does anyone else think it’s weird that I got an American guest last time to look at Judge Dredd, a British comic that’s clearly riffing on American ideals? I kind of think it was, even though I wasn’t thinking about that at all the first time around.

Listen in as real life British person Andrew Young from 4 Panel comes on the show to give us a more nuanced perspective on where Judge Dredd comes from and what makes it something worth exploring today.

Learn such things as:

• How bad can a Judge Dredd light gun game really be?
• What does a British comic anthology know about American society anwyay?
• Do game critics even look at the source material when a game is based on something that already exists.
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Andrew over on Twitter @hokusblokus, and over at the 4 Panel website.

A big thanks to Grief Burrito, as well as 3 Hours Later for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who definitely is or isn’t Batman.

Transformers isn’t a new thing. They’d been around since the 1980s. They’d had games come out in Japan. They’d had games come out on computers in America. But somewhere this is the first console game they got over here. Why? This makes no sense?

Josh Garvey from the internet (ooooooh) comes by the show to take a look at Beast Wars Transmetals and to help catch me up on Transformers things since watching the cartoons is pretty much all I’ve ever done with them.

Learn such things as:

• The fluidity of time and how that really messes with the history books.
• The impossible nature of making new characters that won’t immediately remind people of other, already established characters.
• The way a toy franchise whose previous <del>commercial</del> cartoon was based on making new characters, and thus new toys, adapts to a show with a very small number of characters.
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Josh on Twitter @joshgarvey and in some of the best places on the internet if you’re lucky. But you’ll have to find those yourself.

A big thanks to Bottom of the Stream, as well as Bring on the Weird for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who would probably watch Transmorphers anyway.

Aliens. It’s not just a meme, it’s an entire government cover up spanning years and years of extra terrestrial interactions and communications. Or it’s a giant load of crap. I don’t know, I’m not a fancy science guy with a fancy security clearance.

That’s where Chris and Cody from Believer Skeptic Podcast come in. Listen in as these two experts (or at least much more of an expert then I am) in the paranormal come on the show to talk about Men in Black, and a bit about men in black.

Learn such things as:

• Oh shit there might really be men in black?
• Is this the shortest comic series we’ll cover on the show?
• Thing 3
• And so much more!

If you want a more factual look at the Men in Black, like the real ones, be sure to check out Episode 53 – Back to (Men in) Black on the Believer Skeptic podcast.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can Chris and Cody on Twitter @BSPodPhx or the Believer Skeptic website. You can find Chris on Twitter @crc0377 and Cody on Twitter @cfjwagner.

A big thanks to Dan and Jake from DC Supersons, as well as everyone from This Planet Needs a Name for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who makes sure to take all the corner pieces from the brownie pan.

X-Men. It's the reason I started this podcast. It's the comic series that people ask me about the most for coming on the show. And they just never disappoint because there are about a billion different reasons why people have gotten into them and why they love them. So what's wrong with another look?

If you ask Kevin Newburn, nothing at all. Which is great because that would have made for a really awkward episode if he didn't think that these mutants were worth another look.

Learn such things as:

• What series of games have people asked me about the most?
• How does this game perfectly represent that working together as a team is better than going at it alone?
• Did anyone actually get excited about these X-Men Legends comics?
• And so much more!

You can find Kevin on Twitter @KevinNewburn and on Instagram @newbachu.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

A big thanks to Agents of C.O.M.I.C.B.O.O.K. and Chrises on Infinite Earths for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, blah blah blah nobody reads this part anyway. I dare you to prove me wrong.

Let's cut to the chase here. I'm a sucker for creators who I see out in the world pushing their stuff. Rich was out in the world pushing his stuff. It certainly doesn't hurt that Sea of Sorrows is the kind of thing I'd want to read anyway. Historical horror with a lot of it happening under the sea? Yup, sign me up right now. I even wrote a review you can read here.

So like I said, I'm really excited to have Rich Douek on the show to talk about Sea of Sorrows and how it came to be in this crazy world we've had this year. Just a heads up though, there were some screaming child audio issues. I did what I could with those.

Learn such things as:

• How did COVID effect this book's release?
• Why go with the post WWI setting?
• How have I never read something from Rich before this?
• And so much more!

You can find Rich on Twitter @rdouek or over at the official Rich Douek website.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Music by Best Day, who doesn't know how to swim.

There are tons of stories about little kids who get to go to other worlds and have grand adventures. Like literally tons, and I'm cool with that. But what I really want to know is how they handled things afterwards. Outside of Peter Pan related things (and Narnia but I think that's a bit of a stretch) there isn't really anything.

That's where Chris Mancini from White Cat Entertainment can help out. Listen in as we talk to Chris about his comic Long Ago & Far Away, which takes a look at what happens when a 30 year old former child hero gets sucked back into the far away world that he helped save long ago.

Learn such things as:

• How much of himself did Chris put into the characters?
• What are some good strategies for getting your stuff in front of readers?
• Why didn't I ask Chris to see the white cat that White Cat Entertainment is named after?
• And so much more!

You can find Chris on Twitter @chrisjmancini or at his website White Cat Entertainment.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.  Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

A big thanks to the first promo, as well as the second promo for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who hasn't read this but really should because it's good.

Luke Herr from Exiled, Multiversal Q, and RPG Pals Club comes by the show to talk about his comic Super Slasher. Luke is great and I really love everything I’ve seen from him and I don’t expect Super Slasher to be any different.

If Super Slasher sounds like something you want to get your hands on then go visit the Super Slasher Kickstarter and give him your money. I already did so you can’t pressure me with the same tactics.

You can find Luke over on Exiled, Multiversal Q, and RPG Pals Club. Or catch him on Twitter @koltreg.

Also if you’re looking at this on the Play Comics website then you’re definitely seeing a page from the comic that Luke sent over to me. Not sure about anywhere else. Or, you know, you could just support the Kickstarter and get a lot of pages in your mailbox at a future date instead of continually looking at this one which really doesn’t have much context just sitting out there by itself like that.

What happens when you have a wonderful Marvel franchise that's had a string of crappy games? Eventually you have to get something good, right? Well GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! WE FINALLY GOT IT!

Listen in as Miles Stokes from Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men comes on to talk  X-Men for the Sega Genesis. I promise you, this one is totally x-ellent.

Learn such things as:

• Who really should have been in this game?
• Which characters are just named so perfectly it's uncanny?
• What crazy thing did you actually have to do in order to beat this game?
• How did a wonderful Greek mythology comic from Matt Gardner come up? And does it really matter why? Because I really like it and I want an excuse to share it with you.
• And so much more!

WE HAVE A PATREON NOW! Check that out or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route.

You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Miles over at @XPlaintheXmen or @thelightningand on Twitter or over at the official sites for Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men or The Lightning and the Storm.

Thanks to Chris and Steven of Is This Adulting? for that sweet sweet intro drop.

A big thanks to Tawny and George from The Dirty Bits as well as Megan and RJ from Oh No! Lit Class for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, whose music can almost make sense of the Marvel universe. Just kidding, nothing can do that. And that's why I love it.

Comics in the 90s were special. Big muscles, pouches, weird body proportions that just don’t work with real world physics. Spy adventures that crossed international borders like it’s nothing. Oh yeah, can’t forget about boobs and butts.

Listen in as Chris Sims comes on the show to talk about Danger Girl. Which we swear is worth readying we promise. Just don’t bring it to school. And if you do anyway it’s not our fault.

Learn such things as:

• Who was this game made for anyway?
• Who are the comic characters based on?
• Will either Chris try to attempt a horrible Australian accent?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Ninja Penguin Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route.

You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Be sure to head over to the Ninja Penguin Podcasts site to see all of the shows we’re working on.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Chris Sims can be found @TheISB on Twitter, his website The ISB, wherever Marvel comics are sold, and on one of his many podcasts including:

• War Rocket Ajax for general comic awesomeness
• Movie Fighters for a look at horrible movies
• Apocrypals where two non-believers read thorugh The Bible and try not to be jerks about it
• Sailor Business for a look at Sailor Moon
• Xena Warrior Business for a look at Xena: Warrior Princess

A big thanks to Tawny and George from The Dirty Bits as well as Megan and RJ from Oh No! Lit Class for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who will be very happy to hear that my little Nyx is walking really well after the surgery to remove one of her back legs. She’s a pirate now. AAARRRRGH!

What is it that makes a comic connect with an audience? Is it the writing? The art? The characters? Nope, but also yes….? It’s the passion behind it. And that passion certainly comes across in everything else but you can have the best writer and artist in the world using the most popular characters and have things fall flat if they’re just going through the motions.

Today we’re talking about Ravage with Eli Powell. He certainly has the passion for this story and I’m really excited to get my hands on a physical copy of this one. Be sure to check out the Ravage Kickstarter Campaign so you can get your hands on one as well.

And a big thanks to Mike over at Invader Comics for helping to set this one up.

Learn such things as:

• How long can a project sit between completion and publishing?
• What are some things that go into making a comic with no dialogue?
• Why are artistic choices and sticking to your vision important?
• And so much more!

You can find Eli on Twitter @Savage_Inks, Instagram @instaless_eli, Facebook @shakyartist, and his website Bleak World Comics. And of course you can head over to the Ravage Kickstarter Campaign or tell your local comic shop that you want them to order this for you using code FEB231533.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.  Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who wet his pants yesterday.

Batman and Robin is the last of the 1990s Batman movies, and maybe for good reason. The movie was not all too well received. It didn’t really fit the tone of the preview two 90s Batman movies. And yet it still had a game come out for it. A year after the movie, but it still happened.

Listen in as Chris and guest Billy from CommanderCast admit that this is their favorite of the 90s Batman movies and take a look at the tie in game that came with it.

Learn such things as:

• How in the world can this be anyone’s favorite of the old Batman movies?
• What classic game should have been forgotten about instead of replicated when making the game?
• Is it even possible to have too many puns?
• And much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Ninja Penguin Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route.

You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Be sure to head over to the Ninja Penguin Podcasts site to see all of the shows we’re working on.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Billy’s writing CommanderCast, or jump straight to his latest article which looks at the use of Squirrel creatures in Magic: the Gathering Arena or this older article that looks at the use of Zombies and zombie hoards.

A big thanks to the guys from Real Dudes Podcast as well as Emily from The Story Behind for the promos today. Also The Story Behind is nominated for a Webby for Best Podcast Series and while I’m not specifically saying that you have to go vote for her, you probably should. I’ll even make it wasy and provide a link to the exact spot where you can vote for The Story Behind.

Music by Best Day, who would get some stickers sent to him if he just asked. As would anyone else. Seriously.

How do you follow up what is possibly the greatest comic book video game of all time? Or at least was probably holding that spot when it came out. Easy, you just pick the story up right there and start going again. Enter Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro. More like Enter Awesomeness.

Enter Anthony Gramuglia to help break down this not as iconic but equally as good in its own special way sequel, Spider-Man's place in pop culture, and the Spider-Man comics that were coming out at the time.

Learn such things as:

• How did this game react to  national tragedy?
• How many Spider-Man 2's is too many?
• Where are all the other heroes that showed up in the first game?
• And so much more!

You can Anthony literally all over the place, but the easiest way is to head over to his website where you can find articles, from all across the internet. But also you can check out Twitter @AGramuglia.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.  Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

A big thanks to The Gutter Podcast, as well as Don't Forget a Towel for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who is still wearing his Halloween costume from last year.

Alright comic connoisseurs, brace yourselves for an episode that’s going to knock your socks off and leave you begging for more! Today, we’re diving headfirst into the world of Tooth and Nail Manga Edition, a tantalizing tale that’s sure to sink its claws into your imagination. But wait, there’s more! We’ve got the one and only Cory Byrd from Byrd’s Eye View Comics joining us to spill the beans on this epic Kickstarter campaign.

Get ready to be regaled with tales of action, horror, and adventure that’ll make your heart race and your palms sweat. Whether you’re a die-hard manga fan or just looking for your next comic book fix, this episode is a must-listen. So grab your favorite snacks, settle in, and prepare to be transported to a realm where the lines between reality and fiction blur into one glorious, inky masterpiece.

Learn such things as:

• When can you have a chance to redo some of your earlier work?
• Is there ever a bad time to include your pets?
• How can you take your inspirations and make the work your own?
• And so much more!

You can find Cory Instagram @Byrdseyeviewofficial, Facebook, and of course the Birds Eye View Comics website and the Kickstarter campaign for Tooth and Nail Manga Edition.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who was already afraid of cats and this didn’t help at all.

Read transcript

Attention, mutant enthusiasts and digital adventurers! Prepare yourselves for a journey into the pixelated past as we dive headfirst into the treacherous depths of Murderworld. This week, we’re joined by the indomitable Austin Auclair from PatientRock to tackle the notorious X-Men: Madness in Murderworld, a game that’s been haunting players’ nightmares since 1989.

Get ready to dust off your DOS disks, fire up your Amigas, and polish those Commodore 64s as we explore this side-scrolling saga that pits our favorite mutants against the diabolical duo of Magneto and Arcade. Will we uncover the secrets of the demagnetizer? Can we navigate the labyrinthine levels without losing our sanity? And most importantly, will we finally beat this infamously challenging game after decades of collective frustration?

Tune in as we dissect the good, the bad, and the downright maddening aspects of this classic X-Men adventure. With Austin’s expertise and our unwavering determination, we might just crack the code and rescue Professor X from his digital prison. So grab your favorite mutant power-boosting snack and join us for an episode that’s sure to be more electrifying than Storm’s lightning bolts and sharper than Wolverine’s claws!

Learn such things as:

• An X-Men game where you probably don’t want to enter combat? Really?
• Having to do certain levels and puzzle with certain characters is stupid and I don’t have a question here, I just want to make sure that you know I feel that way.
• How do you feel knowing that when this game came out, it was legitimately the best X-Men game ever?
• And so much more!

You can find Austin on BlueSky @patientrock.bsky.social and of course at his website PatientRock. Specifically here’s that original Revenge series post and the X-Men Madness in Murderworld FAQ/walkthrough.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscaston Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Groupon Facebook.

A big thanks to Escape the Mojoverse and Tales from the Backlog for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who probably won’t murder me if he ever reads these bits at the end of the show notes……

Support Play Comics by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/playcomics

Read transcript

Read transcript

Krillin’ it softly, podcast lovers! It’s time to dust off your Game Boy Advance and charge up your Ki for an episode so epic, it’ll make Frieza cry for his momma! We’re diving into The Legacy of Goku 1 & 2, where pixels meet power levels and button mashing meets “But I haven’t even reached my final form!”

But wait, what’s that? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s the legendary Troytle Power from TroytlePower Presents: The Power Play-Throughs Podcast, with TroytlePower and Too Young For This Trek, swooping in like Goku on a Flying Nimbus! He’s flying solo today, leaving his Too Young for this Trek co-pilots behind – probably stuck in a time chamber or something.

Get ready to laugh harder than Buu at a pie-eating contest as we dissect these Dragon Ball-inspired handheld adventures. Will Troytle’s power level be high enough to handle our intense scrutiny? Or will he need to fuse with the nearest inanimate object to survive our witty banter? Tune in to find out in this episode that’s more unpredictable than Vegeta’s mood swings!

So grab your favorite dragon radar, set your scouter to “fun,” and prepare for a podcast experience that’s more satisfying than finding all seven Dragon Balls. It’s Play Comics time, and we’re about to go full Kaio-ken on these Game Boy Advance classics!

Learn such things as:

• Do I really have to watch Dragon Ball at this point?
• Why are snakes are the worst enemies?
• How can two related games be so different?
• And so much more!

You can Troy on most social media platforms as TroytlePower (like BlueSky), Geek to Geek Media for some of his written work, the podcast network he’s part of We Can Make This Work (Probably) where you can find TroytlePower Presents: The Power Play-Throughs Podcast, with TroytlePower and Too Young For This Trek. And don’t forget about Podcasters Assemble and Super Switch Club, two other shows on the network that are just fun.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscaston Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Groupon Facebook.

A big thanks to The Monitor Tapes and The Wheel Weaves for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who’s favorite DragonBall character is one of the turtles.

Support Play Comics by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/playcomics

Greetings, adventurers and digital dungeon crawlers! Prepare to embark on a journey that’s part pixels, part dragons, and all awesome. This episode of Play Comics is about to take you on a wild ride through the fantastical realm of Record of Lodoss War: Advent of Cardice on the Sega Dreamcast.

Hold onto your controller, because we’re joined by the legendary Chase Keyes from SNEScapades. Together, we’ll navigate this action RPG faster than you can say “roll for initiative.” Whether you’re a longtime fan of the Record of Lodoss War franchise or just here for the Dreamcast nostalgia, this episode promises more twists and turns than a minotaur’s maze.

So grab your favorite beverage, put on your +5 headphones of listening, and get ready to level up your podcast experience. It’s time to press start on this Lodoss-tastic adventure!

&lt;img alt="" src="https://playcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/script.gif" /&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="https://playcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/script-1.gif" /&gt;Learn such things as:

• How can a tabletop session turn into a giant franchise?
• When will I get a good RPG that isn’t a dungeon crawler?
• Wait a second, comics have inconsistencies? When did that kind of thing start?
• And so much more!

You can find Chase on BlueSky @snescapades and of course over at SNEScapades.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscaston Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Groupon Facebook.

A big thanks to Shonen Flop and Fish Nerds for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who couldn’t find the OVAs either. Which makes me feel a lot better.

Support Play Comics by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/playcomics

Read transcript

Holy podcast, Batman! This week on Play Comics we’re diving into the shadowy world of Gotham with a game that’s as elusive as the Riddler’s puzzles and as intense as a Batmobile chase. Get ready to explore Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu, a game that swooped onto the PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, and Game Boy Advance bringing with it a whirlwind of caped crusading action with an original story set in the legendary world of Batman: The Animated Series.

Joining us once again is the Dark Knight of comic book gaming knowledge, Blair Farrell from Comic Book Video Games. Blair’s back in the Batcave to help us unravel the mysteries of this unique title and its connections to the animated world of Gotham’s finest. Is Sin Tzu the villain we never knew we needed, or just another face in the rogues’ gallery? Tune in to find out and maybe learn a Bat-fact or two along the way!

So grab your utility belt and prepare for a night in Gotham like no other. Whether you’re a seasoned Bat-fan or just here for the gadgets and gizmos, this episode promises to be a bat-tastic adventure you won’t want to miss!

Learn such things as:

• What legendary creator got pulled in to create Sin Tzu?
• How can they pull off a Batman: The Animated Series revival without Kevin Conroy?
• What weird things pop up when you can play a Batman game without having to be Batman?
• And so much more!

You can find Blair on Twitter @Blarcade, Twitch @Blarcade, and his website Comic Book Video Games,where you can links to his books The Web of Spider-Man Games: The Amazing and the (Not So) Spectacular and The Avengers in Video Games: A Guide to Solo Adventures and Mighty Marvel Team-Ups, with Creator Interviews.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscaston Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Groupon Facebook.

A big thanks to Quest for 5 and “Fun” and Games for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who are still waiting for that Bat Dog game to come out.

Support Play Comics by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/playcomics

Read transcript

Remember back in the 1990s when Wolverine was everywhere and you couldn’t get away from him? When if there was ever going to be a game focusing on just a single member of the X-Men that it would unquestionably be him? And how we already got that once? Well guess what, it’s time for round two!

Listen in as Chris Baker from SuperHero.vg and author of WRONG! Retro Games, You Messed Up Our Comic Book Heroes! comes by to look at the 16 bit entry. Or is it entries? Just listen, I’m sure we’ll figure it out along the way.

Learn such things as:

• Who are the characters in this game anyway?
• In what ways was this game way ahead of it’s time?
• What how different can the game be across systems anyway?
• And much more!

Also, be sure to check out Brett Weiss’s books for all kinds of amazing awesomeness. The SNES Omnibus: The Super Nintendo and Its Games, Vol. 1 (A-M) is available right now and The SNES Omnibus Vol. 2 is available for pre-orers.

WE HAVE A PATREON NOW! Check that out or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route.

You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Chris over at SuperHero.vg or @cbake76 on Twitter.

Thanks to Karrington Marting from Real Dudes Podcast for that sweet sweet intro drop.

A big thanks to Derek of The Sometimes Geek and as well as Matt and Jesse from American Slacker for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who still needs to come on my show. Seriously, I’m 0% joking about this.

Some of my favorite stories are the ones where I'm plopped into a new world and have to figure things out with the characters. Ones where you're not spoon fed all the information and get exposition that makes sense or have it outside of the story itself (ie footnotes or something). And putting it with a story about extended wars from other worlds and people trying to escape so their family doesn't get caught up in it without an escape? Yeah go ahead and sign me up for that.

Erica Schultz has that part of writing down. Which is really good because it means I can get lost in the story of Forgotten Home and not distracted by stupid exposition that you know wouldn't actually happen in real life. Plus, and I say this totally seriously, possibly some of the best advice I've been given yet about how to get into comics.

Learn such things as:

• The most pragmatic "how to get into comics" answer that I've ever gotten.
• Leaving some mystery for your readers so they can't just guess what's going to happen.
• Being flexible with your writing so you can adapt as things come up.
• And so much more!

You can find Erica on Twitter @EricaSchultz42, Instagram @ericaschultzwrites, or her website Erica Schultz Writes.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who doesn't know what the Home key on a keyboard does.

Additional Noises from ZapSplat.

Sometimes things get missed. Like not realizing that a game is based on a comic. Or missing an NES game because you didn’t realize that a game was based on a comic. I know it’s a shock that I could miss something. Or an entire country can miss out on a wonderful franchise that you’d think would be a great fit if only people would know it existed and could give it a chance.

Good thing I have Doc Issues here from Capes on the Couch to help fix that mistake as we take a look at M.U.S.C.L.E. and the Kinnikuman manga that really should have been a hit over here but for some reason wasn’t because “Americans won’t get it” or something silly like that.

Learn such things as:

• How many NBA comparisons can Chris make during this episode?
• What former (and future?) guest specifically taught Doc words to use for this episode?
• Why wasn’t this a bigger thing in the US?
• And so much more!

You can find the guest at their social media places and podcast links.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.  Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

A big thanks to Just the Zoo of Us, as well as SNEScapades for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who still sits way too close to the TV.

A lot of you (and by that I mean at least 1 person) has asked if I’d ever look at the Alien franchise. This is as close as I’ll get since the movie clearly came first and didn’t get made with the comic in mind. But you asked for it, and there are comics. So why not?

Keith Gawla from Pop Up Film Cast (@PopUpFilmCast on Twitter) comes by to continue ridiculing me for my horrible appearance on his show.

Learn such things as:

• How old do Chris and Keith think each other are?
• Did Chris actually watch this movie?
• Is this the one time where the Game Gear version is playable?
• And so much more!

A big thanks to Derek from Rolling Misadventures and Charles from Talk N Roll for playing along with promos to their old shows. Be sure to check out their new stuff.

It's about time I talk to someone on the publishing side of things. Sure, you can self publish and do everything yourself but wouldn't it be nice if there was someone who could help you out with that? Maybe someone like Mike Perkins from 215 Ink perhaps?

I sure hope so because that's who I got. Listen in as I learn from Mike some of what goes into getting a comic into my hands, and be sure to head over to the 215 Ink shop to pick up some of their stuff. Or maybe even look into submitting something you've been working on? I know I have some talented listeners here even if they don't believe me. And when you buy something, because I know you will, be sure to mention that you're friends with me.

Learn such things as:

• How should you send a pitch to a publisher?
• How bad can my art be when I send something in?
• How can I help to get books into people's hands?
• How can you read the first issue of Freaks and Gods for free? Hint, follow this link.
• And so much more!

You can find Mike and 215 Ink over on Twitter @215Ink, Instagram @215Ink, Facebook @215Ink (are you sensing a theme here?) or the official 215 Ink website. You can also check out the 215 Ink Shop or their selection on Comixology.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Music by Best Day, who might maybe have a comic idea. But I really have no idea because I just pulled that out of my ass.

I have a feeling we're about to start hitting a bunch of manga based games. Might as well make one of the early rounds of that be a boxing game.  My ability to think of any more boxing puns is on the down for the count so let's be serious.  Today we're taking a look at Victorious Boxers: Ippo's Road to Glory.

I've got Trevor H from Catching Up on Cinema to help guide me through this one and possibly maybe get my pronunciation a bit better.

Learn such things as:

• Why aren't I making a tag for every playable character? Here's a hint
• Can you have too much fan service?
• What happens when a silly licensed game has better mechanics than a simulator?
• And so much more!

You can find Trevor and Catching Up on Cinema on Twitter @CatchingCinema, Instagram @catchinguponcinema and of course at the Catching Up on Cinema website.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.  Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

A big thanks to Ranma One Half Podcast and Capes on the Couch for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who likes to wear boxing gloves on his feet.

Time to dig back into the Malibu vault and pull out Prime, part of the Ultraverse universe. But he seems kind of familiar since Prime is a kid who turns into an adult super hero. Except the hero he turns into is based on whatever the kid wants it based on. So yeah, that's a thing that happened.

Listen in as Scott Niswander from NerdSync comes by the show to talk about this Sega CD exclusive experience. And yeah that's about all I can say about it.

Learn such things as:

• This had to be for an earlier system, right?
• How far back can you trace the ability to digitally read comics?
• Did we really not mention that this was only released with another game on the same disc?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Scott at The NerdSync YouTube channel, on Twitter @NerdSync or on the NerdSync Patreon page. And seriously, check out the Scooby Doo video.

A big thanks to Behold!, as well as Reel Feels for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who will never have a cat as cool as Nyx or Sparta.

You know what’s always fun? Dinosaurs. Seriously, who doesn’t like dinosaurs? Crazy people, that’s who. So if you can get dinosaurs and aliens and giant guns and it all actually makes sense? How cool is that?

Listen in as Billy who sometimes writes for Commander Cast comes to talk about Turok 2 Seeds of Evil. And cool guns. And the fun of having a comic property published across about a gazillion different publishers.

Learn such things as:

• What did Billy admit to doing that’s probably going to get him in trouble?
• What do you name a dinosaur if you don’t have a word for dinosaur?
• Would a bow and arrow really work all that well against a dinosaur?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Billy’s writing CommanderCast, or jump straight to his latest article which looks at the use of Squirrel creatures in Magic: the Gathering Arena or this older article that looks at the use of Zombies and zombie hoards.

A big thanks to Dani and Brett from The Wheel Weaves, as well as everyone from The Compleat Discography for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who did a thing but I already forgot what it was and it probably wasn’t really that cool anyway.

Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z were the introduction to anime for a ton of people my age. So imagine how cool it must have been to finally have a game of it? And a fighter at that! What could possibly go wrong?

Listen in as Luke Herr from Multiversal Q, Exiled, and RPG Pals Club comes on the show to talk about the first Dragon Ball Z game made that came out in North America, but not the first one that came out in North America. Don’t worry the craziness is just getting started.

Learn such things as:

• Why do the fights take so long in the anime?
• How much candy did the writers eat before making these story lines?
• Can you blame someone for becoming evil if their puppy keeps dying?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use coupon code “PCep80” for 15% off your purchase.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Luke over on Exiled, Multiversal Q, and RPG Pals Club. Or catch him on Twitter @koltreg.

A big thanks to Anthony and Dr. Issues from Capes on the Couch, as well as Trevor and Kyle from Catching Up on Cinema for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who has exactly 0 tattoos that are better than mine.

What makes someone a villain? And once you get that label in people’s head what can happen to get that label removed or switched? It’s tough. You’ve got to change minds and deal with people who will never forget your past no matter how much good you do now and will always treat you like the villain that they see you as.

Well, we have Blair Farrell here to help figure out where that line is as we take a look at the 1999 Catwoman game for Gameboy Color. And long the way we’ll try to figure out if Catwoman has made amends for her previous criminal deeds or if she still has work to do to win us over.

Learn such things as:

• How can you keep the main character out of a spin off game?
• Which version of Catwoman are we talking about here anyway?
• Will we ever get her as a definitive villain or hero ever again?
• And so much more!

You can find Blair on Twitter @Blarcade and his website Comic Book Video Games,where you can links to his books The Web of Spider-Man Games: The Amazing and the (Not So) Spectacular and The Avengers in Video Games: A Guide to Solo Adventures and Mighty Marvel Team-Ups, with Creator Interviews.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.  Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

A big thanks to Cheers to Comics, as well as Into the Knight for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who pet the tummy and paid dearly for it.

My computer decided that it didn’t want to work anymore. I’m hoping it’s the motherboard. But no matter what, I have parts on the way and will get this computer fixed. Or totally rebuilt. At what point does it become a whole new machine? Who knows? I don’t, but I’m over here freaking out a little bit.

I give much better explanations in the audio here so check that out because I can’t remember what I said at this point.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

A big thanks to all of you who will stick around because I know that you’re the true fans.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who weren’t actually in this episode but they can still show up in the credits. That’s how you know they’ve got an important role in the show after all.

Support Play Comics by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/playcomics

Read transcript

Murder. Espionage. Revenge. The domination of an entire industry. Did I mention this is all over soda brands? Yeah I’m definitely in for the ride on this one and you should be too.

Listen in as Jimmy Palmiotti comes to talk about his new Kickstarter for Pop Kill #2, what it’s like writing for games vs comics, and a few other random things that you’ll just have to listen to the episode to find out.

Learn such things as:

• Will the streak of supportive wives continue?
• How does a crazy idea like this bubble up?
• What’s the best thing to drink with a meatball sandwich?
• And so much more!

You can find Jimmy on Twitter @jpalmiotti, Instagram @jimmypalmiotti or over on his site Paper Films.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find Jimmy on Twitter @jpalmiotti, Instagram @jimmypalmiotti or over on his site Paper Films.

Music by Best Day, who only drinks water.

Welcome back pixel pioneers and comic crusaders to another electrifying episode of Play Comics! This week we’re donning our high-tech armor and jetting off into the world of The Invincible Iron Man on the Game Boy Advance, a game that might just be the hidden gem in Tony Stark’s treasure trove of adventures.

Joining us on this iron-clad journey is the one and only Zach Tonack, a first-time guest with insights sharper than Iron Man’s repulsor beams. Together we’ll dissect this pixelated powerhouse, exploring how it stacks up against its comic book origins and whether it truly captures the essence of everyone’s favorite billionaire genius playboy philanthropist.

Prepare for a whirlwind of witty banter, nostalgic nods, and perhaps a few arc reactor puns as we dive deep into the mechanics, storylines, and sheer fun of The Invincible Iron Man. So grab your GameBoy Advance, polish up your armor, and get ready to blast off into an episode that’s as thrilling as a high-speed flight over Stark Tower!

Suit up listeners because this episode is going to be a blast!

Learn such things as:

• How Tony Stark has fought in all of these different wars.
• Why was an Iron Man game even made pre MCU?
• Are comic cut scenes the best thing ever?
• And so much more!

You can find Zach on Twitter @ztonack, BlueSky @ztonack, megageekscanbecool on Tumbler, and Anorak2201 on FanFiction.Net and Archive Of Our Own.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

A big thanks to Condrey #6 (available as a physical and digital book) brought to us by Legacy Comix, and The Last Comic Shop Podcast for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who might have gotten eaten by the void.

Support Play Comics by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/playcomics

Read transcript

Well it’s been a nice run of bonus episodes, way more than I ever intended to run back to back to…. well you get the idea. So to get back to the regular episodes I feel like it’s best to go with on of my first loves, our friendly neighborhood wall crawler Spider-Man.

Good thing today’s guest David Gallaher likes Spider-Man too because otherwise this could have gotten weird. Not that it didn’t anyway but at least it’s the kind of weird that we’ve gotten used to on this show.

Learn such things as:

• DID YOU KNOW THAT PETER PARKER IS SPIDER-MAN!?
• What major villains aren’t in this game?
• Is Spider-Man the character I’ve looked at the most on this show so far?
• The link to the Enter Electro game
• And so much more!

You can find David on Twitter @DavidGallaher, and his website DavidGallaher.com.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

A big thanks to Tales from the Fandom, as well as For Nerds By Nerds for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who might one day get around to watching the 90s Spider-Man cartoon.

Imagine if you thought so much of yourself that you truly believed that you could take on Death itself, and that you're right. Do you really think that Death would let you win, even if you won?

Ed Annunziata from Playchemy (and conveniently a developer on this game) comes by the show to talk Chakan the Forever Man, and how his story makes that from The Devil Went Down to Georgia look like a tale from Muppet Babies.

Learn such things as:

• How did Ed decide that this comic needed to be a game?
• What really interesting mechanic in the game really fits the character pretty much perfectly?
• How many copies of this do Ed and Chris own between the two of them?
• And much more!

If you want to help support the show check out the Ninja Penguin Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route.

You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Be sure to head over to the Ninja Penguin Podcasts site to see all of the shows we're working on.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Ed Annunziata can be found @edanunziata or at the Playchemy official website. And of course, go check out Space War Arena for the Nintendo Switch.

Thanks to Drew from Reel Feels for that sweet sweet intro drop.

A big thanks to Luke from Exiled as well as Brandon from Submitted For Your Approval for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who has made up at least 3 words that rhyme with orange.

Marvel vs Capcom. You knew this day was comping. An epic showdown between some of your favorite comic characters against some of your favorite video game characters. No reasons besides it’s cool. Do you really need one?

Listen in as John Horsley from Spoiler Country joins the show to talk about this wonderful gem of a game that we all owe so much to. And the PlayStation version that isn’t quite as good.

Learn such things as:

• How does PlayStation get around the lack of tag team this time?
• What did Capcom’s roster really do better than Marvel’s?
• Does it even matter that there’s no attempt at a story?
• And so much more!

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Ninja Penguin Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route.

You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Be sure to head over to the Ninja Penguin Podcasts site to see all of the shows we’re working on.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

You can find John at Spoiler Country, the Spoiler Country Patreon, y2cl, and on Twitter @y2cl or Spoiler Country

A big thanks to Toph from Gravity Beard, as well as Luke and Devin from MultiversalQ for the wonderful promos today.

Music by Best Day, who still doesn’t know that I’m doing these comments.

Gather round comic fans and crowdfunding enthusiasts for a tale of epic proportions! In this episode of Play Comics we dive headfirst into the wild world of Comics are Dying, a comics history anthology that’s taking Zoop by storm. And who better to guide us through this saga than the mastermind behind it all, Louis Southard?

Join us as we explore the highs and lows of running a successful crowdfunding campaign, from crafting the perfect pitch to navigating the treacherous waters of stretch goals. Louis shares his insider secrets, from the importance of a well-timed GIF to the power of a well-placed pun.

But that’s not all! We’ll also delve into the fascinating world of Comics are Dying itself, uncovering the stories behind the stories. From the golden age of comics to the rise of the graphic novel, this anthology has it all. And with Louis at the helm, you know it’s going to be a wild ride.

So what are you waiting for? Grab your comic books, your crowdfunding tips, and your best dad jokes, and join us for an unforgettable episode of Play Comics!

Learn such things as:

• What kind of crazy person wants to work with 100 different artists on a single project?
• How do you decide what is important enough to go in a history of something so cool?
• Does anyone else think it’s weird that Chris likes seeing old ads?
• And so much more!

You can find the guest on Twitter @louisjsouthard, on Instagram @louissouthard, his website LouisSouthard.com, and of course check out the Zoop campaign for Comics are Dying.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who is not dying, as far as I know.

Giant monsters are everywhere these days. Godzilla movies, Godzilla movie rip offs, you name it. But we also follow either the monsters or the big bad heroes in those stories. What happens with the everyday people like you and me?

Johnny Craft attempts to throw some answers into the mix with his comic Life Under Kaiju. Come listen as we talk about how this comic came to be and his plans for the future of the series.

You can find Johnny on Twitter @CraftscapeComix and of course the Life Under Kaiju Kickstarter page.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.  Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

A big thanks to the first promo, as well as the second promo for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who  is a hairy scary monster.