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Sometimes things just have to be brought back to basics. Comics were made for kids and it's nice to finally look at one of those again. Especially because we get to look at a witch at the height of Spooky Season. Even if the witch in question is a good little witch. Diego Jourdan Pereira comes on the show to help take a look at the surprisingly good game and a peek into the Harvey Comics lore that I'm surprised hasn't shown up here more. Also be sure to check out his new book Bizarre Bathroom Reader which can be preordered from Skyhorse Publishing, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Target. Learn such things as: Will Chris ever own this game? What happens when the reason for a game's existence suddenly isn't going to happen anymore? Why can't things be made just for the fun of it? And so much more! You can find Diego at his website Diego Jourdan Pro and his Amazon author 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 It’s Probably Not Aliens, as well as Just the Zoo of Us for the promos today. Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who is afraid of ghosts.

So let's say you're writing comics. Or drawing comics but I'm me so we're just going to say writing. How are you going to get your stuff out into the world? Maybe you don't even need a traditional publisher. But how do you get your stuff in front of readers? Good thing we have Lanier Burton here to help us figure that out. Listen in as we take a look at his work across all of his From Scratch Comics lineup. Learn such things as: What is this Web Toons thing? How do people handle writing so many different things at once? What kind of fun Easter eggs can you slip in when you control everything? And so much more! You can find Lanier on Twitter @Coolesdolo, on Instagram @coolesdolo, and of course his website Coolesdolo.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 the first promo, as well as the second promo for the promos today. Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who thinks that grape is a color.

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’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.

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.

I’m just going to let the comic pitch speak for itself here, because I can’t do any better: What if Conan the Barbarian was forced to reclass as a wizard? And if that doesn’t hook you then I have no idea what will. You know who might though? Les Julien. Which is a good thing since he literally wrote the book. What book is that you might ask? Savage Wizard, which you can get on Kickstarter right now. And you should. So get on that. Learn such things as: Why are sixth grade ideas so often shoved away like they’re bad or something? Is it possible to have too much of a good thing? How come I didn’t ask Les about his dog sooner? And so much more! You can find Les on Twitter @LesWrite, Instagram @les_write, and his website Les Write. 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 says he knows how to use a sword, but definitely doesn’t.

I'm not going to dance around it. This is a story that needs to be told right now. In so many ways the world is going to shit. And sadly part of that seems to be comic characters being twisted in the minds of people in ways that fit the exact opposite of what the character actually represents. I can't think of anyone better to have written this story and to talk about it than Jay Edidin. Listen in as we talk about the wild ride that the Captain America story from Marvel's new Marvel Unlimited exclusive Infinity Comics line took to come into existence. Learn such things as: When was this one written? How does a primarily X-Men writer get tagged to write Captain America? Should you surprise pitch your comic idea on a podcast? And so much more! You can find Jay on Twitter @NotLasers, his Linktree, and of course his podcast Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men. 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 owes me a cookie.

One of the best things about comics is that they can be about literally anything. Super hero stuff is obviously big. Horror comics were big back in the day. We even had comics that focused on historical events. And of course you can tell basically any kind of story you want to. Part of telling any story is telling the story of people that more of us should know about. Good thing we have my friend Michiums here to help us take a look at DC's recent anthology Wonderful Women of the World. Learn such things as: What's it like working on a thing about real people? Why sometimes the world is a poopy place and what you can do about it. Why is nobody ever prepared for the Muppet question? And so much more! You can find Michiums on Twitter @RequiemPluie, on Instagram @michiums, and their Big Cartel shop. 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 everyone to be nice to each other.

The early 2000s were an exciting time. X-Men had the start of a feature film franchise and I'm sure there isn't anything that could go wrong with that at all is there….. But for real people were really starting to get the hang of this PlayStation thing. And this was right at the start of every movie having a game to go with it. Listen in as Billy comes back to help take a look at this game that certainly isn't a Capcom vs title, but is still nothing to sneeze at. Mostly because that's a rude thing to do. This Episode is brought to you in part by Pocus Hocus, a Kickstarter comic that takes a look at what happens when someone sells their soul to the devil and then decides that they want their soul back. Learn such things as: Why do some non movie characters have movie costumes? What's Spider-Man doing here? Do the handheld games ever really matter when there's a console version? And so much more! 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, or listen to him in the second part of their 400th episode. 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 Legends: A Superhero Story, as well as Roll for Intent for the promos today. Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, whose favorite X-Man is Deadpool.

How did I think I was the only one who didn't read Gilgamesh in school? Somehow I thought I was the only one who missed it. But it turns out that even someone who is making a Gilgamesh comic didn't have to read it in school. Now that's just out there. Good thing we have Cam Kerkau and Kostas Pantoulas here to talk about their Kickstarter comic Gilgamesh Eternal because I need a crash course in the subject. Learn such things as: How to work with a collaborator that isn't anywhere near your time zone. Are specific colors really necessary? Do any projects stay the same size as when they were first envisioned? And so much more! You can find Cam on Twitter @CamKerkau and Kostas on his website and on Instagram @k.pantoulas.art. And of course check out their Kickstarter page for Gilgamesh Eternal. 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 didn't read Gilgamesh but claimed to have been there.

Imagine a world where you couldn't feel. No, for real, feeling will get you killed. And not just feeling hate or feeling love or any other specific emotion. All of them. Nothing is safe. Good thing we have Peter Milligan here to help up navigate through this strange existence. Listen in as we talk about his new book from Vault Comics, Human Remains. Learn such things as: How can you write a story inspired by a worldwide tragedy but not have it be about that tragedy? Is it easy to change history? What kind of monsters don't like cheese? And so much more! You can find Peter on Twitter @1PeterMilligan. 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/did/whatever a thing that's probably not true.

Men in Black is a franchise that I don't think will ever leave the public consciousness. Sure, we didn't know the comic even existed when the movie came out and we were 10 years old (I'm not doing that math but the age seems right for me). And for most kids when a cartoon happens as well that's just a goldmine waiting to happen. Good thing Kristian Cabrera from Simping for Senpai is here to help make up for my childhood foolishness. And maybe to uncover some secret alien related government tomfoolery. Learn such things as: How much can you frontload a game? Did anyone my age know Men in Black was a comic at all? [Third point erased from your memory for your own protection] And so much more! You can find Kristian on Twitter @ash_bashem and his podcast on Twitter @SimpxsenpaiPod and the Simping for Senpai 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 Armchair Radio as well as Behold! for the promos today. Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who doesn't remember what he had for his last meal and that's totally not my fault.

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.

First impressions are a powerful thing, especially on the internet since we're constantly blasted with so much information that it's really easy to see a thing flash before our eyes and never see it again. That's why when I saw that Band of Bards was a new comic publisher with a focus on diversity I knew I had to hurry up and ask them to be on the show before I had a brain fart and forgot. Thankfully, Tim Stolinski was able to come on and let us know a bit about the company and their current Kickstarter campaign for Final Gamble. Learn such things as: How can you stand out as a new small publisher? How do you convince people to let you publish their stories when you don't have a real track record? How many people will say I'm phoning this in by using the same question word 3 times? And so much more! You can find Tim on Twitter @timmerzzz77. You can find Band of Bards pm 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 knows someone who needs to get their thing published. I know the same person. We both want a physical copy we can bring in the bathroom.

How many times can I say that I'm a sucker for people promoting their own stuff? The Kickstarter Hustle is real folks and I respect the Hell out of it. That's why we have Jim Ousley back on the show to talk about his newest project The Atonement Bell. Learn such things as: Does Chris check simple facts before recording with his guests? How tempting is it to call an artist you've worked with a lot before instead of the one you're working with now? How cool can you get with Kickstarter rewards? And so much more! The Atonement Bell as a project can be found on Twitter @AtonementBell and of course on The Atonement Bell's Kickerstarter page. Jim Ousley can be found on Twitter @JimOusley and Instagram @radio_jimbo. 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 will be too afraid to read this one.

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.

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.

Pets are better than people. Nobody should be shocked to hear that from me. I make it no secret that I love my cats more than basically any human who could ever exist. And that when I’ve lost pets in the past it’s just wrecked me. So on that happy note listen to Steve Orlando and Steve Foxe come on the show to talk about Rainbow Bridge, the story of a boy’s last adventure with his dog. And if that doesn’t hit you right in the feels then This Episode is brought to you in part by AfterShock Comics since they are publishing the book and everything. Learn such things as: How far did we get into reading the book before we started crying? What horrible thing did I make Steve Orlando do to participate in this episode? How many pets make a surprise appearance in this episode? And so much more! You can find Steve on Twitter @steve_foxe and his website SteveFoxe.com. You can find Steve on Twitter @thesteveorlando and on Instagram @thesteveorlando. 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. Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who needs to go pet something. But then again, who doesn’t?

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.

The world just can’t get enough zombies. They’re everywhere. So let’s throw in dating at the same time. Let’s be real here, I’m not sure which is scarier. Good thing we have Steve Urena here to help sort this stuff out. Listen in as we talk about his newest Kickstarter comic Zombie Date Night, which as of the publishing of this episode is fully funded and has just under 2 weeks left in the campaign for you to get in on the fun. Learn such things as: Why so many zombies? How do such different genres end up playing nicely together? Are well just imagining that Fozzy Bear has always said waka waka? And so much more! You can find Steve on Twitter @TheSteveUrena, Instagram @thesteveurena, the Twitter accounts specifically for his comics Slow Pokes and Zombie Date Night, his Gum Road store, and of course the Kickstarter campaign for his newest comics Zombie Date Night. 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 a zombie but I’m too lazy to go find out for sure.

It all comes back to Spider-Man doesn’t it? There’s a good reason for that, he is one of Marvel’s premier characters for a reason. We’re just going to have a Spider-Man game for every console aren’t we? Tune in this week as Aaron Weiss from Weisscast joins the show to help break down why Spider-Man gets so much love in the gaming sphere. This Episode is brought to you in part by the wonderful Play Comics Patreon Supporters. Learn such things as: Who are some villains we need to see more of? What are some drawbacks of early handheld gaming? Do you even need an established story to base a game on when the character is this iconic? And so much more! You can find Aaron on Twitter @theweissisrite, Instagram @theweissisrite, and the Weisscast 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 Nerds Talking, as well as Geeks Unleashed for the promos today. Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who will see No Way Home in a safe way.

The best thing about supporting a cool story on Kickstarter is getting to go along for the ride over the course of the story’s lifetime. And that’s what we’re doing here in the first time we’re taking a second look at a Kickstarter storyline. Tommy Jauregui comes by the show again to talk about the second chapter of his Endless Moons story. And hopefully convinces some of you to back the Endless Moons Kickstarter campaign. Learn such things as: What can you learn from campaign to campaign? How hard is it to pitch the current issue without spoiling the older ones? What kind of inspiration for Endless Moons is hiding right in front of your face? And so much more! You can find Tommy on Twitter @tommyjauregui, Instagram @endlessmoonscomics and the Endless Moons Kickstarter. 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 loves Zelda because who doesn’t?

Don't get me wrong, I love super hero comics. But they've been around forever, and with that longevity comes a tie to the past that just can't be ignored. No matter what anyone does with Superman or Hulk there's always going to be someone complaining that a bit of the past is being ignored. Even if that piece of the past is deeply rooted in values and ideas that we don't hold as a society anymore. Which is one reason why I'm so excited to get to talk to Adam Gorham, artist for The Blue Flame, Vault's first venture into superhero comics. Listen in as we talk starting a superhero universe and how even I have someone who wants me to draw. Time will tell if that opinion holds up. This Episode is brought to you in part by Vault Comics since they are publishing the book and everything. Learn such things as: How hard is it to work 5 issues ahead of what readers know about? Who might very well be the not so secret anymore weapon at Vault Comics? What's it like knowing that you get to finish the story you set out to tell? And so much more! You can find the Adam on Twitter and Instagram both @AdamTGorham, his Big Cartel store, and original art and commissions can be bought through Inky Knuckles. 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 isn't a superhero. But if he was I don't think he'd tell you.

Sometimes I just get confused when it comes to localization decisions. Why can't we get the manga license with our games? Did they think we wouldn't like a plane based shooter because it had a comic with it that we didn't recognize? Good thing that I have Steampunk Link and Emmy Zero from SNEScapades here to help straighten things up. Listen in as we try to solve this and other mysterious aspects of this early SNES era gem. Learn such things as: Why can’t games based on rather obscure manga just keep their name when the game comes out in the US? Do we really need a backstory when the game itself is so simple and quite frankly rather self explanatory? Does the Mega Man release schedule make sense to anyone? And so much more! You can find the Steampunk Link on Twitter @SNEScapades, Instagram @SNEScapades and the SNEScapades podcast 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 For Nerds By Nerds, as well as The Nerd Alternative for the promos today. Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who probably doesn’t know how to fly a plane.

There's no turning back now, social media is here to stay. And with that comes a new type of interaction with the world and the people who make the pieces of entertainment that help us get through our day. But what happens behind the scenes and along the way for the people who create these things? Good thing we have Dave Baker here to help shed some light on that with Everyone is Tulip, a comic created with Nicole Goux and published by Dark Horse. Learn such things as: Why are there so many social media based comics happening lately? How can a work be autobiographical without a character that's directly a stand in for yourself? How many different versions of Kermit can the world actually contain? And so much more! You can find Dave @xdavebakerx on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. Also check out his Website Hey Dave Baker where you can find lots of cool comic things and his podcast Deep Cuts. 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 when this one is coming out either so at least we're all on the same page.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.

I can't get into first person shooters. But let's get it even wider than that, I usually can't get into shooters at all. They're just not my genre of choice. Patrick Hickey Jr. might just change that with his latest book The Minds Behind Shooter Games. I'll probably never be good at them but after reading the background that Patrick was able to pick up. I might not love the games, but I love hearing about the stories behind how these games came into existence. This episode is brought to you in part by Lesser Known Comics. Be sure to check out the Lesser Known Comics website for the most up to date news on what they've got going on. Learn such things as: What happens when you start a conversation with "This game is trash"? How does Patrick get Patrick is writing a comic!? And so much more! 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 any of Patrick's books yet. 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.

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.

One of the great things about comics is that there’s a story for everyone. A character for everyone. Or there can be, some groups are just more well represented than others. What can you do? If you’re Joe Glass, you can go write a comic that has been popular enough to spawn a 400+ page omnibus release. I’d say that’s doing a little something to make sure that marginalized portions of the population can get some more and better representation wouldn’t you? This episode is brought to you by everyone who has made The Pride possible. Which might even include you. Pick up your copy from your local comic shop, Amazon, or Joe’s personal pick Big Bang Comics. Or you can prove to me that you read show notes by telling me that I have this offer to give away a copy in the show notes and I’ll enter you in a drawing for a free copy. Assuming I can ship it to you without costing me a small fortune, and if that’s the case we’ll work something out. Learn such things as: How do people possibly miss the point of this series? How many things had Joe written before popping this wonderful series out? Who is the worst group of fans in all of comics? And so much more! You can find Joe on Twitter @JosephGlass, on Instagram @joeglass, YouTube @JoeGlassComics, and his website Joe Glass 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 hasn’t read this one yet. 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.

Comics is a team sport. Unless you’re talking about one of those super talented people who can do everything, but we’re not talking about them right now. We’re looking at a book made by two people who are both good at what they do. Those people: Eric Grissom and Will Perkins. The book: Goblin. I have both of them here to talk about this wonderful story that you really will have to read. Spoiler alert though: it’s pretty good. This episode is brought to you by the wonderful patrons of Play Comics. Want to help support the show? Head over to PlayComics.com/Patreon and you too can get early episodes and other special patron only goodies. Learn such things as: How many dinosaurs can one artist squeeze into a definitely not dinosaur focused book? Who is going to find Eric’s long lost early web comic? How do you get a pull quote on someone’s book? And so much more! You can find Eric on Twitter @egrissom and his website EricGrissom.com. You can find Will on Twitter @DillGerkins, on Instagram @willperkinscomics. and his website WillPerkinsComics.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 has made friends with the monsters under his bed. Support Play Comics by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/playcomics

Sometimes a dumb idea actually turns into something. You know, like telling your wife that you’re starting a comic publisher. Or not telling her and just kind of doing it until one day neither of you can deny that this is exactly what’s going on. I’ve never done that. But you know who has? Today’s guest Mark Bernal from Lesser Known Comics. So listen in as I pick his brain about how you can sneaky start a publisher and some of the best parts of doing so as a relative newcomer. This episode is brought to you in part by Lesser Known Comics. Partly because it just makes too much sense not to do it, and partly because they have a Kickstarter going where you can pick up some print copies of their comics. Learn such things as: What are the benefits of listening to employees? How do you just back into running a comic publisher? What are some benefits to knowing Patrick Hickey Jr.? And so much more! You can find Mark and Lesser Known Comics on Twitter @LesserKComics, Instagram @lesserknowncomics, or the Lesser Known Comics 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 probably not very good at baseball. Support Play Comics by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/playcomics

There’s only a few things we have to have to survive in this world. Two of those are comics and food. But what if, and I’m being totally serious here, what if you could find a really good comic about food? I’m sure there are others, but Kitchen Witch is really good so that’s what we’re going with right now. Good thing we have Steve Orlando here to talk to about The Kitchen Witch. Makes total sense since he wrote it. After all, that is how these things usually work. And if you’re not convinced that buying The Kitchen Witch is a good move after listening to this then I’m going to have to seriously think about if we’re able to be friends. This Episode is brought to you in part by 215 Ink, which makes total sense since they’re publishing it. Learn such things as: What’s Steve going to make me when I go over to visit? Wait, kitchen witches are a real thing? How many things can Steve be working on at once? (We actually don’t get an answer to this, but it’s a lot) And so much more! You can find Steve on Twitter @thesteveorlando and on Instagram @thesteveorlando. Also buy his comics. They’re good. You won’t regret 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. 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 how to make blue box Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. He’s got the blues.Support Play Comics by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/playcomics

We're never going to get away from Batman are we? Oh well, at least Chaos in Gotham is based on everyone’s favorite Batman animated series. And Batman might possibly have one of the best rogue galleries in comics so you’ve got to think something could be pulled off here. Good thing we’ve got Erin from Girls Talk Comics to come help us look into the situation. So suit up, because this is a fun one. This Episode is brought to you in part by Alex Schumacher, SLG Publishing, and Mr. Butterchips. Learn such things as: Why is Joker a jerkwad? How disappointing is it that [your favorite villain] isn’t in this game? Why don’t we have more games where you can be Batgirl? And so much more! You can find Erin at the Girls Talk Comics podcast, and on Twitter @girlstalkcomic1. 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 [Capes on the Couch](https://capesonthecouch.live/), as well as [Chrises on Infinite Earths](https://chrisesoninfiniteearths.podiant.co/) for the promos today. Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who doesn't know how to drink water.Support Play Comics by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/playcomics

More than anything else right now, I want to make sure that everyone one of you is doing alright in every way possible. We're going through a lot of shit and while taking care of your mental health is really important we as a society aren't in a place yet where it's always something that can be talked about openly. That needs to change. This is one reason why I'm so excited to talk to Justin Richards about his Kickstarter project A Silent Night. Dealing with depression and anxiety is something that you definitely don't have to do alone. I'm not saying that backing this Kickstarter project will help, but it will get the conversation out into the world in a more public way and I have to see that as a good thing. Plus Justin is just A grade good people. Can't really go wrong there. Learn such things as: What's the thought process behind such a personal project like this? How do you get people to submit to such a dark topic? How important are the fuzzy friends? And so much more! You can find Justin on Twitter @EmoComicWriter, Instagram @emocomicwriter, and of course the wonderful Kickstarter page for A Silent Night. If you want to see Thor the best thing I can say is to check out this episode on the Play Comics website because I have pictures there. Spoiler Warning: They're both pretty cute. 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 his own Thor.Support Play Comics by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/playcomics

Alright guys, we really need to get the house ready to sell. Despite saying that I’ve been working on that most of the free time has been spent working on the podcast in one way or another. Good for content, not so good for getting into a new house. Here’s a quick summary of what I say in the episode: I don’t know how long the break will be because I don’t know how long it will take to get into the new place I’m not halting production during this time, but I am really slowing it down. Weekends before Kayleigh wakes up, a night or two during the week, stuff like that. Everyone I’m already scheduled with a time (not just lined up with a game) is still going to happen. Mostly because it’s all this week. Comic reviews and the newsletter are still going on because I can work on that in pieces and while sitting on the couch watching cartoons I’ll still go on other shows because that’s such a relatively small time commitment I never really took the break last time before that I said was going to happen…. … and that’s leading to a bit of burnout already. I have to do better with keeping the backlog of recorded episodes built up and not recording 3 or 4 episodes in a single week. I still love doing the show. I’ll still be around social media and stuff. And I’m going to figure out something for the Patreon people. I actually have a few ideas for that. Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who can come help us if he wants. But it’s cool if he doesn’t. <input type="hidden" value="8591"> Support Play Comics by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/playcomics

It’s finally happened. I got totally peer pressured into reading a comic. Not only that, but in getting the creators on the show too. Although let’s be real about Witchblood for a minute. I definitely would have read this anyway and thought that I should get the creators on the show. That cover + all the hype I’d seen about this one + Vault Comics = I’ll pick it up. It’s simple math. Listen in as Lisa Sterle and Matthew Erman (featuring a special appearance from their dog Rory) come talk about the creation of a comic about a biker witch from Mars (said only because it fits the reference I’m hoping you catch), working with someone you can’t really get away from, and more of an answer to my standard “Do you have any advice for people looking to get into making comics?” question than I’ve gotten from anyone so far. Not that I’m complaining at all. Learn such things as: How can you fit 90s anime and 50s style references into the same work? What should you look for when you’re looking for a publisher? Is it possible that neither Matthew nor Lisa has seen Avatar the Last Airbender? And why, disturbing as that fact is, it really is OK and we shouldn’t hate them for it. And so much more! You can find Lisa on Twitter @lisa_sterle and Instagram @lisasterle and her website lisasterle.com. You can find Matthew on Twitter @MatthewErman and his website matthewerman.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 hasn’t read this yet because it’s not out yet. Unless you’re listening in the future.

I love learning. I love talking to creators about how they get their things done. I love picking their brains and finding out cool little things. It's just great. Enter Chris Sotomayor, the newest member of the PodChris Club. So listen in as we learn what goes into being a colorist and a possible way for you to become one too. Not me though, my art skills aren't good enough. Learn such things as: Why do art duties get split up? Why don't colorists stay consistently with a book like writers and artists? What's the best kind of chorizo? And so much more! You can find Chris Sotomayor @sotocolor on Twitter, Facebook, and Twitch. Also take a look at his YouTube channel, and be sure to check out his Introduction to Comic Book Coloring and Advanced Comic Book Coloring classes on Comics Experience. Recommended Reading DC Love Is a Battlefield The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage Electric Ant 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 garnishes his dishes with saffron.

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.

You know what my favorite part of doing this podcast has been? Making such talented friends and having an excuse to share their stuff with the world. For real, it's even better than the comics people give me to read. For example, I got to talk to Fernando Pinto about a few different things from him that I'm very happy to either have in my house right now or will have some time in the future in Warped and Gun Punch. Both are really fun comics that you should definitely check out. Learn such things as: What should you do if you see a disclaimer in a book that says it's not for kids but you looked at the artwork and bought it for your small child anyway? How can you go about finding someone to work on your idea with you? Who has prettier eyes between Chris and Fernando? And so much more! You can find Fernando on Twitter @Fdo_Pinto, on Instagram @minombreesfernandopinto and FernandoPintoArt.com. <img class="alignleft wp-image-8496 size-elegantwp-medium-image" src="https://playcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Gun-PUnch-Updates-400x310.png" alt="" width="400" height="310" />Be sure to pick up a copy of Warped from the 215 Ink shop and check out Gun Punch on Fernando's site. And buy the book when that gets announced. See a sample on the Play Comics website because I can't get images to show up in the show notes that go out to the podcatchers. I took it straight from Gun Punch. You know, for science and all. 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 still hasn't said anything about all of these comments and is a giant stinky poop head.

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."

Chris once again gets sucked in by a creator going out into the world and pushing their stuff. This time it's the tale of a young bounty hunter and her side quest to find herself. Hurry up and get in on the story by backing Endless Moons on Kickstarter. Listen in as Tommy Jauregui gives us an insight into Endless Moons, how it came to be, and how you can get yourself a copy of this great story. Learn such things as: How can you use a well know franchise as inspiration without going into Copyright Infringement Land? Is it possible to get a Kickstarter funded when you don't think you have an audience? How can you use stretch goals to help push your campaign ever further? And so much more! You can find Tommy on Twitter @tommyjauregui, Instagram @endlessmoonscomics and the Endless Moons Kickstarter. 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 has never been to space.

We all know KISS the band, right? Those makeup wearing rock dudes who just want to rock and party and put on a good show. Well, did you know that they've had comics stretching back to the early days of their career? Or that there's a game based on one of the runs? I didn't. Well, I knew there was the KISS game but only that it existed. Good thing I have Scarlett O'Dell from Gatecrashers here to help straighten everything out. Listen in as I get taught a few lessons but also potentially release a monster out into the world. Learn such things as: Wait a minute, KISS has comics? Is the blood thing in the ink real? Is the double colon use in the title really necessary? And so much more! You can find Scarlett on Twitter @sweetsouthern94, Twitch @sweetnsouthern, Instagram @sweetsoutherncosplay, TikTok (I'm old, does TikToc have usernames?), and on Gatecrashers. 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 Radio Clash and Me, My Demon, and I for the promos today. Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who didn't make the backing music for during the episode because I made it myself, but also because I didn't ask him to make it.

Horror and comics just seem to go hand in hand. Horror comics had a large hand in the creation of the comics code many years ago, and it seems like so many people have a secret love and/or talent for horror. So why not have a place where you can let that out without a big commitment? Enter Steve Foxe, half of the creator team behind Razorblades. Listen in terror as we talk about the creation of a collection of things that go bump in the night, except not anywhere nearly as cheesy as that since Steve is a professional. James meanwhile was not here and may or may not have been tied up in a basement somewhere.......... Learn such things as: Why do people take on so many projects? What were the real reasons behind Steve and James creating this horror anthology? Who are some of the great creators that have contributed? Where is the picture of Steve's dog? (Just check out his Instragram account, I don't want to actually steal a picture of his dog) And so much more! You can get physical issues of Razorblades #1 and Razorblades #2 assuming that Jetpack Comics have any left. You can find Steve on Twitter @steve_foxe and his website SteveFoxe.com. You can find Razorblades on Twitter @ReadRazorblades and the Razorblades 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 can't read these because they're too scary.

The world of comics and games, as evidenced by the existence of this podcast, have a decent amount of crossover. But a game where you introduce a whole new team to an already established universe? And have a tie in comic? That's got to be pretty rare, right? Listen in as Robert Secundus from Comics XF comes on the show to help take a look at Marvel Nemesis Rise of the Imperfects. Learn such things as: Are tie in comics worth reading? How do you trick gamers into buying a portable version of a console game? What happens to characters lost in licensing limbo? And so much more! You can find Robert on Twitter @RobertSecundus and his articles over on Comics XF. You can support them over at the Comics XF Patreon. 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 Strikes My Fancy and Capes on the Couch for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who might be a mutant.

What do space and the ocean have in common? A lot of things actually. Like people getting lost and having close encounters with giant monsters who probably want to eat them. Listen in as Frank Martin comes to talk about his new Kickstarter comic project The Polar Paradox. What is so fascinating about the ocean anyway? Do I as a reader really need to know a super detailed backstory about every character? What are some good ways to make sure you get press for your own project? And so much more! You can find the guest on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @FrankTheWriter and FrankTheWriter.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 is afraid of the cold.

These days when a series is based all around fighting and punching people in the face it's a surprise when there isn't a fighting game to go along with it. But did you know that there was a time when Street Fighter II hadn't come out yet? And that people were making fighting games before it? Listen in as Andrew Mecha Davis from Popanimecomics joins the show to help take a look at Fist of the North Star 10 Big Brawls for the King of the Universe to help solve the mystery of why this anime hasn't been bigger in the US. And possibly set a new record for longest Play Comics episode title. I'm too lazy to actually go check on that one though, it just feels right. Learn such things as: Can a story be good if you already know where it's going? Does it really matter who characters are in a fighting game? What's the best way to experience Fist of the North Star? And so much more! You can find Andrew on Facebook @Popanimecomics, the Popanimecomics website, the Popanimecomics Lounge podcast, Popanimecomics on YouTube. 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 What Should We Watch, as well as What the Smut for the promos today. Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who doesn't believe that Game Boys are real.

It's a thing we've all seen before. Post apocalyptic worlds and the groups who rise to power in which to rule them. And it's something I'll never really get tired of because all that really means is that you have a fairly familiar stepping stone into a story that can truly go anywhere. That's what we have here in Scout's Honor (published by those AfterShock dudes who are trying to take all my money by doing silly things like printing good comics and getting creators who are cool people) and why I'm spending this episode talking to writer David Pepose. Listen in as I talk to David about how this wonderful book came to be and what drives him to write the way he does. Learn such things as: What has us drawn to this type of dystopian story? What significant fact did Chris miss while reading this one? Why might I never buy Scout Popcorn every again? What to tell your local comic ship if you want to preorder #2 (DEC201133) or #3 (JAN211049) 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. 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 might have been a Boy Scout. I don't know, I wasn't there.

Comics have such a long history that there's no way anybody can know everything about every character. M.O.D.O.K. is that way for me. I have an idea of who this giant killing organism is but only because he's happened to be in other things. Good thing I have Jordan Blum, one of the writers on the current mini-series M.O.D.O.K Head Games, on to let me know how much fun this series is (he's right) and how it's OK that I really don't know much going into reading this or watching the TV show due out later this year. Learn such things as: What was Jordan's real reason for making the upcoming M.O.D.O.K. show? How much trouble is Jordan going to get into with Marvel editor Jordan D White? What did I do to make Jordan sad? And so much more! You can find Jordan on Twitter @BlumJordan, Instagram @BlumJordan, 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 either does or does not have a giant head.

No matter what you want to think, the Ang Lee Hulk film exists. And there's a game to go with it. Yup, it's a movie tie in game and we all know how those were back in the day. Or do we? Listen in as Josh Sutton from Panels to Pixels takes a stab at convincing you that not only is this a good movie to go watch, but it's also not a horrible game to go with it. Learn such things as: Do people really want a comic book movie that looks like a comic book? Does Al Ewing secretly love the Ang Lee film? Will I ever skip an opportunity to tell someone they need to read Immortal Hulk? And so much more! You can find Josh at his YouTube channel Panels to Pixels and over on Twitter @panelstopixels. Also check out the Hulk video that we kept talking about. 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 Diary of a Space Archivist as well as Monkey Tales for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who as far as I know doesn't read Immortal Hulk and that's a shame.

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.

I look at comics all the time here in this Creator Talk set of bonus episodes. And I've looked at a card game that you play in the real world with actual, physical cards like some kind of caveperson. But somehow I've never looked at an actual video game. Until now that is. Time to get old friend Eric Bailey from Tiny Bookshelf to break through that barrier with his game Octobug. You play as a spider trying to get to the end of levels filled with flies. It's an old school platformer which reminds me a lot of NES games or computer games from when I was in elementary school. Learn such things as: What are some problems that game developers run into? Is it possible to get a cat to do what you want? How do you find play testers for a game you might be making? And so much more! Be sure to check out https://playcomics.com/octoboug-with-eric-bailey for some screenshots from the game. You can find Eric on Twitter @EricVBailey, Tine Bookshelf on Twitter @Tiny_Bookshelf and find his games on the Tiny Bookshelf Itch.io 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. Intro and outro music by Best Day, who probably hasn't played this game yet because someone keeps forgetting to tell him about it. Wonder who we can blame for that..........

Ninjas are cool. Aliens are cool. So why not make a ninja that's also an alien? And also has a team of rag tag environment saving sidekicks to help him out? Saving the environment via something aimed at kids and hoping they'll pressure their adult overlords into following suit is still cool right? Enter Steve Honeycutt from Ray Can't Sleep to help us take a look at this alien life form that inexplicably wants to save the Earth. Learn such things as: Did any kids media actually make saving the environment cool? Why are the comic runs so different from each other? Why doesn't Chris actually own this game? And so much more! You can find Steve with his podcast Ray Can't Sleep, on Twitter @RayCantSleep, or on his personal Twitter @StevinFinite. 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 What Was That Like, as well as Comic Book Keepers for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who doesn't have a link on his Sound Cloud page to the new EP so just check out that Sound Cloud site and give him money.