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You’ve got lots of manga titles. You’ve got lots of anime titles. And it always seems to be a manga coming first, then the anime coming after that. But why? Listen in as Justin Williams from Super Tangent tries to discuss this with Chris. But tangents happen so there’s other stuff as well. Learn such things as: Sometimes the simplest answer is probably right Can Chris and Justin ever stay on topic? How can you have an arcade without a fighting 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. 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 Justin over mostly in the Nerds and Knowledge Facebook group, technically on Twitter @SuperProclivity but not really, or the official SuperTangent website. Music by Best Day, who does thinks that Spongebob is an anime.

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.

Recorded waaaaay back in February but finally getting released now, listen in as I talk to Patrick Hickey Jr. about his new book The Minds Behind Adventure Games, the writing process, having an excuse to talk to cool people, the giant chore it is to decide what games get into his books, and future books that may or may not be an excuse to get to talk about all of the games he loves to talk about. You can find Patrick on Instagram @patrickhickeyjr, Twitter @reviewfixpat, and of course his personal website and Review Fix.

Future tech heavy police states where still a thing of the future when we recorded this episode I swear. Can we please go back to simpler times where almost everything in Ghost in the Shell was fictional instead of just the tech? Listen in as Billy from CommanderCast joins the show and through the power of recording way ahead of time we blissfully think that there’s no way that Ghost in the Shell could ever actually be happening in the real world. Please tell me we were right about that, even if it’s a lie. Learn such things as: Is this anime really as good as the fans say it is? How can you do a tie in licensed game well? What’s the secret to getting beautiful anime cut scenes? 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, or listen to him in the second part of their 400th episode. A big thanks to Match Club, as well as The Wheel Weaves for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who thinks anime is a type of sushi roll.

Alright, I can’t do this anymore. I need to be making this podcast. So it’s coming back! To answer a few questions right off the bat: We still aren’t in the new house. I blame…….everything………. I miss talking to people about this stuff I do talk about other things over at Caffeine and Spite now as well so if you want to hear more from me you can do that there Patreon is about to maybe get some more stuff thrown their way that you can only get there I love all of you and miss all of you and all that other mushy stuff

One of the things I like about comics is that there is such a history to everything. And inevitably that leads to someone hating certain iterations of a character, or with the “real life” identity of the character. Good thing Dan McMahon from DC SuperSons has some feelings on the matter. Listen in as we discuss why Hal Jordan sucks. Learn such things as: Which Green Lantern is the best? Why does Hal get a pass on so much? What’s a dumber weakness between wood and the color yellow? 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 Dan at Supersons Podcast and on Twitter @DCSuperSons, or by checking out his personal Twitter @danthemcmahon. Music by Best Day, whose favorite collor yellow.

You know who knows about wrestling? Not Chris. Like at all. Except that it’s had some video games of various quality levels put out about it. But you know who does know a lot? Charlie Davis from The Young Ones In our second Patreon First bonus episode I’m talking to Charlie about wrestling and why I should like it and why all the comics people I follow on Twitter like it. Learn such things as: Who some people are Why the different “leagues” exist Is this stuff even real? 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 the Charlie on Twitter @geneticghost, some writings over at Xavier Files such as this one where they look at Guardians of the Galaxy #2 or this other one where they look at Excalibur #7, their podcast The Young Ones on Twitter @youngonescast and The Young Ones website, and their new wrestling podcast Match Club on Twitter @matchclubpod and the Match Club website. Music by Best Day, who is probably Undertaker.

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: the X-Men are a bit popular and were back in the 1990s and early 2000s as well. Shocking, I know. So it’s not a surprise when an X-Men related game comes out at all. Listen in as Anthony Sytko from Capes on the Couch joins the show to take a look at X-Men Mutant Wars for the Game Boy Color. Learn such things as: Which character was the obvious favorite when making it? Where did they pull these bosses from? Why did they worry about timing this with a home video release of a movie? 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 Anthony on Twitter @CapesOnTheCouch, his personal account @AnthonySytko, and of course the Capes on the Couch website. A big thanks to Fading Memories, as well as Round & Round for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who may or may not be afraid of mirrors.

No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you. Although there might be something more than meets the eye about another Transformers game based on Beast Wars that came out not too long before the subject of the last regular episode. The Maximals and Predacons are at it again, or something like that since time gets screwed up all over the place here. Listen in as Jeremy Dennis from TransMissions joins the show to help us take a look at Beast Wars Transformers for the PS1 and we we try to figure a lot of things out. Learn such things as: The joy of basing a game off the first season of a TV show How waiting just a few years could have given this game much better controls The surprise awesomeness of a kids TV show 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 Jeremy on Twitter @yakk0dotorg or over at the TransMissions Podcast Network. A big thanks to Literary Loitering, as well as Geek Freaks for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who is getting more sleep than me tonight and I don’t hate him for that at all.

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.

Welcome to the first, and free preview, of a Patreon first bonus yet unnamed series where I talk to people about things that are tangentially related to the show. Like this one, where Luke Herr from Multiversal Q and RPG Pal’s Club (as well as the recently ended Exiled) comes to tell us who The Eternals are. Learn such things as: Wait, what? Are you serious? No, that’s just insane. For real? 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 Luke over on Exiled, Multiversal Q, and RPG Pals Club. Or catch him on Twitter @koltreg. Music by Best Day, who thinks he could take on an emu in a fight.

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.

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.

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.

Spawn is still cool. There’s no denying that at all. And he hit at the perfect time. But what happens when you get this character who has literally emerged from the depths of Hell into the scariest environment known to man: early PS1 3D gaming? Listen in as Andrew Reiner from Game Informer and the new show The Spectacular Comic Book Podcast comes on the show to help take a look at Spawn the Eternal for the PS1. The game exists, and that’s all I’m going to say about that. Learn such things as: What genre is this game anyway? Does age matter when you’ve made a deal with the devil? How the heck do we manage a Superman 64 reference? 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 @Andrew_Reiner on Twitter or his new podcast The Spectacular Comic Book Podcast. A big thanks to Courtland and Brandon from Up All Night An Are You Afraid of the Dark Podcast and everyone from Now You’ve Seen It for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who doesn’t know what love is, but he wants you to show him.

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.

As will become tradition here, the last episode of the year is a giant thank you to people who need to hear it. I certainly don’t mention everyone who deserves to be talked about, but I try. <h4>People Mentioned in this Episode</h4> Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men The friends I’ve made over there. You need your line here because while we met because of Jay and Miles, we’re friends because of you Paul Csomo from Varmints Matt Hocker from The Matt Hocker Show and Coo Gaming Megan Hesse from Oh No! Lit Class Kate Walinga from Ignorance was Bliss Heather Welch from Sunshine and PowerCuts Oh yeah, have you listened to the Ebb and Flow episode of Sunshine and PowerCuts yet? Do that. For real. Stephen Jondrew and Stargate Pioneer from Gonna Geek Karrington Martin from Real Dudes Podcast Dan McMahon from DC Supersons John Horsley from Spoiler Country Ben Sawyer and Jim Ousley from Butcher Queen Carl Antonowicz from Canto Comics Jennifer DeRoss from Jennifer’s Comic Blog Luz Bianca from LuzBianca.com Blair Farrell from Comic Gamers Assemble Spencer Scott Holmes fromOld Man Orange Chris Sims from The ISB (and a ton of other things) Christi and Chris from Chrises on Infinite Earths Dani and Brett from The Wheel Weaves We’ve made it through another year of being excellent to each other. But you still get homework again this year. <h4>Your Podcast Homework</h4> Let the people who have had this kind of impact on your life know that you appreciate them Find a way to do that same thing for someone else Music, as always, by Best Day, who won’t get mentioned here until he lets me know that he’s seen all the things I say about him in the show notes.

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.

Spencer Scott Holmes from Old Man Orange comes by the show to talk about his comic Pizza Boyz. Hear about the inspiration behind it and a bit about his process. And if I hadn’t been an idiot you could have heard it before the Kickstarter campaign was over. That one’s totally my fault. Good news though, there’s always Pizza Boyz on Comixology so you can still read it if it’s something that you’d be into. And since you’re listening to this podcast I’m pretty sure it’s something you’d be into. You can find Spencer on Twitter ‎@SpencerSHolmes, Instagram @SpencerScottHolmes, and a whole slew of podcasts over at Old Man Orange.

A common ghost story I hear is that the spirit can’t pass on because of unfinished business. Which is insane because we all have that, but we’ll roll with it. Imagine if instead you came back in a corporeal form to get revenge on the people who had done you wrong. Oh yeah, and you’re basically immortal until the job is done? Justin Williams from SuperTangent comes by to look at that exact situation in The Crow City of Angels. And no, you didn’t miss an episode for the first movie tie in game since they never made one of those. Learn such things as: Why did they make a game for the second Crow movie but not the first? How much fan influence did this movie have? Can you really compare this game to a Superman one? Check out what else I’ve covered from Acclaim. 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 Justin over mostly in the Nerds and Knowledge Facebook group, technically on Twitter @SuperProclivity but not really, or the official SuperTangent website. A big thanks to everyone at Many Realms, as well as everyone from 4 Panel for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who only eats the last piece of bacon when he really wants it. Which is every single time.

I know, one of the problems with the show is that the handheld versions of games exist. And that if there’s a console version I tend to just ignore the hand held ones because, let’s face it, are they ever better than the console version anyway? Especially with a series like Turok that’s built around being a first person shooter on a screen that can show really good colors that’s also bigger than 2 square inches. That’s like 5 square centimeters for all of my listeners not in the US. Blair Farrell from Comic Gamers Assemble is here to help me see if my thought process even has any merit to it as we take a look at 5 different Turok handheld ports and see how they actually play without having to worry about those pesky home console games that always hog the spotlight. Learn such things as: How do you even port these games down anyway? Why didn’t they just make a different handheld universe like TMNT? How are these games rated E? Why does Chris know conversions from inches to centimeters? Just kidding, that’s because he’s trying to go live in New Zealand. 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 Blair on Twitter @Blarcade, his website Comic Gamers Assemble, or the Comic Gamers Assemble Facebook Page. A big thanks to Joey and Carlos from Life, Death, and Taxonomy, as well as Dani and Brett from The Wheel Weaves for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who once housed a pelican for a few weeks for a friend.

Spawn was an interesting character for me growing up, and I’ll bet I’m not the only one. I could recognize him no problem. I’m pretty sure I knew that he was a comic character. But I couldn’t have told you anything about him besides things that you could guess from his appearance. Listen in as Adam Higgins from Odd Dad Out comes to reminisce about a childhood idea of Spawn and the hilarity of having an E rated Spawn game. Learn such things as: How do Adam and Chris and basically everyone Chris was friends with growing up know Spawn? Is Todd going to come give Chris and Adam a dirty look? What major innovation does this game have going for it seemingly out of nowhere? 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 Adam on Odd Dad Out, on Twitter @OddDadOut, Facebook at the Twisted World of Odd Dad Out, or at the Odd Dad Out Patreon page. And if you want to get him to edit your podcast head over to ODO Voice Productions and that can be arranged as well. A big thanks to Clay Groves from Fish Nerds, as well as the Jen and Micah from I Never Saw That for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who is definitely not sitting right outside your window right now.

Alright, so we’ve looked at a lot of Batman. Like a lot. So let’s take a look at future Batman. Except not Bruce because it’s the future and Bruce is old and tired, you know, all the other things that old people are. Listen in as Dan and Jake McMahon from DC Supersons come on the show to talk about Batman Beyond, the future of super heroing, and fuzzy good boys. Learn such things as: How much sleep does a super hero need anyway? Do people really think that the same person has been Batman for all these years? When are we going to get a good movie based 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. Use coupon code “PCep83” 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 Dan and Jake as a DC Supersons collective @DCSuperSons on Twitter, @supersonspodcast on Instagram, @Supersonspod on Facebook, or at the DC Supersons website. You can find Dan @danthemcmahon on Twitter, and you can find Jake under a rock. A big thanks to Dr. Julie Kinn from A Better Night’s Sleep, as well as Luke from Exiled for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who likes peanut butter and lettuce sandwiches.

The 1990s were a fun time in comics. A lot of the indie comics from the 80s had either run their course or were brought into one of the major publishers. But the indies still existed, and Scud the Disposable Assassin was one of those that came out. Listen in as Brandon Cruz from Interdimensional RSS comes to talk about how a comic that not a lot of us have probably heard of have lead to (what he and tons of other people have told me) what is one of the best animated things in existence. Learn such things as: How did this not catch on? Why didn’t Chris get Rob Schrab to come on the show? Hint, Chris didn’t ask because he’s a big baby. What life lessons can you learn from a robot that refuses to kill a being when that is the entire purpose of robot’s existence, and how can you use that lesson to help make yourself a better person overall? 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 “PCep82” 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 Brandon over at Interdimensional RSS: The Unofficial Rick and Morty Podcast or @RickAndMortyPod on Twitter. Clone #1 can be found at Apathetic Enthusiasm or on Twitter @Apathusiast. Clone #2 can be found at Submitted For Your Approval or @S4YA_podcast on Twitter. A big thanks to Angry Ducky from Duck in Games, as well as Niall Cooper from Assassinations Podcast for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who never had a Sega Saturn. But who did over here?

Oh, you thought that we were done with Dragon Ball related stuff did you? Or that the manga ending meant that the anime would end too. Well jokes on you because there’s a whole different anime series that was only inspired by the manga and of course we got a game to go with that too. Like it or not. Listen in as Eli Sirota from The Not So Crazy Podcast of Blizzard the Wizard and Eli comes by to look at Dragon Ball GT Final Bout and give us another dose of why the Dragon Ball franchise is so well loved by its fans. When it does things right anyway. Learn such things as: Where did Dragon Ball GT come from anyway? Aren’t licensing rights fun? So wait, this game was made after Ultimate Battle 22? 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 “PCep81” 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 Eli at The Not So Crazy Podcast of Blizzard the Wizard and Eli or over on Twitter @Blizzard_Eli. A big thanks to John and Kenrick from Spoiler Country, as well as the Chrises from Chrises on Infinite Earths for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who definitely didn’t eat too much candy for Halloween. That was me.

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.

The Marvel cinematic universe might have only existed since 2008, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t Marvel movies before. And I’m not talking about that quack of a Howard the Duck movie either. Listen in as TJ Johnson from Voice from the Underground and Lakers Fast Break comes to talk about the awesomeness of Blade, being a fractional vampire, and the joys of early 3D gaming. Learn such things as: What does this game, no doubt about it, do better than Dino Crisis? Wasn’t that the guy from Grounded for Life? He’s been in a lot more things than I realized. What super essential thing did Chris and TJ almost forget to talk about? 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 “PCep79” to get 15% off your entire purchase. Without the quotes though. 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 TJ over on Voice From the Underground and Lakers Fast Break or catch him on Twitter @TJohnsonOnAir. A big thanks to Drew, Nathan, and Jack from Reel Feels, as well as Ian from Under the Shroud for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who is definitely not getting a tattoo that will probably get his adult ass grounded today. Because that’s me.

Imagine a world with dinosaur and man existing together except there's also modern weaponry and plasma rifles and, well, if you're not convinced now that it's awesome I'm not sure what's wrong with you. Also it's not the Savage Land. Listen in as Patrick Hickey Jr from Review Fix comes by to talk Turok Dinosaur Hunter and really delves into some of the production behind this classic N64 shooter. Learn such things as: Turok has been around for how long as a comic? Why can't people just call dinosaurs dinosaurs? How did this game get to be so big anyway? 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 "PCep78" to get 10% off your entire purchase. Without the quotes though. 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 Patrick over on Review Fix, on Twitter @ReviewFixPat, or on Instagram @patrickhickeyjr. Also if you want to read Patrick's words instead of just listening to him talk about things then you might want to check out his book The Minds Behind the Games that's available now and get ready for The Minds Behind Adventure Games that's on track for a January 2020 release. A big thanks to Heather Welch from Sunshine and PowerCuts, as well as Dan and Jake from DC Supersons for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who can fit an entire package of peeps up his nose.

I figured it was time to get some questions answered, so here’s a rather unedited take on that. Frequent guest Karrington Martin from Real Dudes Podcast graciously agreed to host the show so that you could hear something besides me asking myself questions because let’s face it, that could get kind of weird. A big thanks to the following people for sending in questions: Kate from Ignorance was Bliss Derek from Rolling Misadventures The Chrises from Chrises on Infinite Earths Matt from Nooks and Crannies Megan and RJ from Oh No! Lit Class This was fun and I definitely plan on doing it again. 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 appearances on the show. Music by Best Day, who has the same number of playoff series wins as the Washington Nationals.

Blair Farrell from Comic Gamers Assemble comes by the show for another Creator Talk episode to talk about his book The Web of Spider-Man Games: The Amazing and the (Not So) Spectacular. We also talk more in general about comic based games and what other books he might write in the future. You can find Blair on Twitter @Blarcade, his website Comic Gamers Assemble, or the Comic Gamers Assemble Facebook Page. You can find The Web of Spider-Man Games on the US Amazon, Australian Amazon, Canadian Amazon, and UK Amazon stores.

Have I told you yet that in the 1990s you couldn’t escape the X-Men if you tried? Because you couldn’t. They literally were everywhere. And there was nothing we could do about it. Listen in as Devin Warner from Multiversal Q and Exiled comes on the show to talk about the first X-Men game for Game Gear. Learn such things as: Why does it have the same name as the classic Genesis game? Just kidding we don’t know that either. What little concept did they actually do well with when picking characters? Is it even possible for batteries to last long enough to beat this 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 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. 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 Devin over on Exiled and Multiversal Q or catch him on Twitter @freddofett. A big thanks to Brandon from Submitted For Your Approval, as well as everyone from The Chimera for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who did a thing or something like that I don’t know I’m sleepy.

One of the things that I really love about Spider-Man is how big the cast of other characters is, especially the crossover with other Marvel heroes. Maybe some of that is because he’s the first place I really saw that. And maybe some of why the first Spider-Man game for PS1 is my all time favorite Spider-Man game in the whole world no question is because it’s the first one I really got to play through over and over and over. Listen in as Paul Csomo from Varmints joins the show to finally talk about what is possibly the game that I get asked about doing the most. Easily top 3 worst case. Learn such things as: Have Paul’s feelings about Rhino changed? What’s the point of having all those different suits? Does anyone even care that this one came out for Game Boy Color? 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. 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, @VarmintsPodcast on Instagram, in the Varmints Facebook page, or at the Varmints Podcast page. He can also be found pretty often in the Underdog Podcast Community Facebook group. A big thanks to Gerald Staats from Anxzenity as well as Anthony & Doc Issues from Capes on the Couch for the wonderful promos today. Music by Best Day, who brushes his teeth 4 times a day.

The X-Men prove once again that they were such a powerhouse franchise in the 1990s. And when you get to combine a few different story arcs into a single game it has to be good, or at least interesting. Listen in as L.W. Salinas joins the show to prove how that’s not really the case at all with Gamemaster’s Legacy for the Sega Game Gear. Learn such things as: What has X-Men really done better than most other comic franchises? Will this finally be the game where you can’t play as Wolverine? How much slack can we give this one just because it was on the Game Gear? 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 Lauren on LWSalinas.com to see everything that she’s on, or on the Twitter @sithwitch. A big thanks to everyone from 4 Panel as well as JV Torres from The Rise of King Asilas for the wonderful promos today. Music by Best Day, who according to the legends has eaten over 1 gajillion peanut butter sandwiches.

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.

If you’re into the history side of comics, like real life history, then have I got a treat for you. I sat down with Jennifer DeRoss and we talked about her new book Forgotten All-Star: A Biography of Gardner Fox. Learn about this comic legend who is somehow even more prolific than I ever imagined, her process in writing the book, and a few other fun facts along the way. Jennifer can be found @JenniferDeRoss on Twitter, Jennifer’s Comic Blog, and she has written for Sirens of Sequentials. And of course you can buy the book right now on Amazon or bug your local comic store until the bring a copy in for you.

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.

X-Men is a weird universe anyway. You can fit in just about environment in. You can have just about any kind of character you want. Basically you can do whatever you want and it’ll make sense. There’s a reason why “Because X-Men” is a valid explanation for just about anything. Then Mojo World just flips everything on it’s head. And here we have a wonderful Game Ge- oh who am I kidding it’s Game Gear. Listen in as Zack Jenkins from Battle of the Atom joins the show and we try not to throw up. Learn such things as: Why even use Mojo if you’re not really going to use Mojo? How do we really feel about the Game Gear? You’ll never guess…. Who thinks that it’s a good idea to have your mutant powers drain? 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 Zack over on the Battle of the Atom website or on Twitter @XavierFiles. A big thanks to everyone from The Chimera as well as Dan and Jake from DC Supersons for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who might have had a Game Gear but certainly never had enough batteries for it. But then again, who did?

We're creeping up to the big boys here, this time stopping by Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter. And once again, we get a stripped down version on PlayStation that takes out tag team but at least this time gives you extra modes to make up for it. If that makes up for it is up to you. Listen in as Justin Williams from SuperTangent joins the show to take a look at Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter and we try not to cry about the lack of Sega awesomeness in our childhoods. Learn such things as: Why do we never get the Saturn versions HOLY CRAP SEGA YOU HAD ONE JOB WHY DO YOU HATE US? Is the roster here lazy or efficient? Why do we get no female characters but stupid Wolverine and Cyclops can be in this one even though they've been in every Capcom Marvel fighter 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 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 Justin over mostly in the Nerds and Knowledge Facebook group, technically on Twitter @SuperProclivity but not really, or the official SuperTangent website. A big thanks to Luke from Luke Who’s Talking as well as Michael from Murder Mile for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who hasn't specifically confirmed this to me but probably most likely is also sad that Sega thought we wouldn't want all the cool Saturn games we missed out on.

Pretty much everyone dreams of flying. And of not getting on the wrong side of gangsters and Nazis. But mostly of flying. So imagine how cool it would be if a jetpack just fell into your lap! Or rather the seat of your airplane. Oh who care, YOU’VE GOT A JET PACK! Listen in as Derek Graziano from Rolling Misadventures comes by the show to take a look at The Rocketeer and a pair of games that really couldn’t have been much more different if they’d tried. Learn such things as: Who was this movie made for? How did we end up with two games that are so different? (Not really answered but I’m still wondering) Seriously, this is a Disney movie? How did Nintendo censor more than Disney? 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 Derek over at @RMisadventures or the official Rolling Misadventures website. A big thanks to Emily from The Story Behind as well as Adam Higgins from Odd Dad Out for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who doesn’t have to wear a cone of shame. Unless there’s something I don’t know about………

Alright, things are really starting to creep closer and closer to Marvel vs Capcom with a game that finally introduces the concept of Marvel characters fighting against people from a whole different universe. Plus a dose of Japan getting an amazing game that didn’t come out over here and there’s reason why and I’m not salty about that at all. Nope, not one bit. Listen in as Chris Sims from The ISB comes to talk about X-Men vs Street Fighter and we geek out about X-Men and Street Fighter and fighting games in general. Learn such things as: What bad things can you even say about X-Men vs Street Fighter? Why does this crossover just make so much sense? How come Japan gets the good home version of this game? Oh, because they actually supported the Saturn unlike some people in charge at Sega over here. 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 Heather Welch from Sunshine and PowerCuts, Dani and Brett from The Wheel Weaves, and the guys from Real Dudes Podcast for the wonderful promos today. Regular Music by Best Day, who’s just going to have to share the spotlight here a bit today and deal with it because…………… Additional Music from https://filmmusic.io “Kool Kats” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) cut for time by me because I know y’all didn’t want to hear 4 minutes of elevator jazz.

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!

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.

In the second of our Play Comics Origins series things are taking a different turn. Not only do we have a game that follows a comic story arc, it actually follows the comic story arc. What a concept! Listen in as Scott Niswander from NerdSync comes by to take a look at Marvel Super Heroes which takes inspiration from the Infinity Gauntlet story arc. Like for real, it actually follows the story. Kind of. Learn such things as: Am I contractually obligated to have guests named Scott for games based on the Infinity Gauntlet arc? What video did Scott promise to make that’s definitely not this one because he already made that one? Does anybody know what color these stones are supposed to be? Or maybe they’re gems? Does that distinction even matter? 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 Scott at The NerdSync YouTube channel, on Twitter @NerdSync or on the NerdSync Patreon page. A big thanks to Kyle from Parent Quest as well as Justin from Super Tangent for the wonderful promos today. Music by Best Day, who plays better than Chopin. Because Chopin is dead and can’t play anymore.

You know what’s crazy? That we somehow got to the PS1 without a home console Fantastic Four game. You’ve got one of the most iconic groups in the Marvel Universe, a group that pretty much defines what it means to be Marvel, and it takes this long to get a game made? It’s pretty bad if you ask me. Come listen in as Alistair from Get Soft with Dr. Snuggles comes by the show to talk Fantastic Four and this game that clearly suffers from a thing known as “being an early 3D game.” But does that make it bad? Learn such things as: How many people does Marvel think 4 is? What story line, if any, are we introduced to here? Aren’t Fantastic Four podcasts contractually obligated to have an Air Wolf reference? Or is that just Fantasticast? 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 Alistair over at the Get Soft with Dr. Snuggles podcast or the Get Soft with Dr. Snuggles Facebook page. A big thanks to Brandon from Submitted For Your Approval as well as John and Kenrick from Spoiler Country for the wonderful promos today. Music by Best Day, who probably thinks he can out drink me, but he doesn’t stand a chance.

It’s finally time to check out the Capcom Fighters, and what better place to start than at the beginning of that run? The X-Men have been a vital part of this show from the start and there’s really no better place to get things rolling here than with a look at a game based on the Fatal Attractions story arc. Well, based on might be a strong phrase. Listen in as Miles Stokes and Matt Hunter from Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men stop by to take a look at Children of the Atom and all of the history and lore behind it. Learn such things as: Where did the lineup of Capcom fighters start? What does this game have to do with Fatal Attractions? How does Magneto feel about Metallica? 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 Miles and matt over at @XPlaintheXmen on Twitter or over at the official site for Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men. A big thanks to Heather Welch from Sunshine and PowerCuts as well as the guys from Real Dudes Podcast for the wonderful promos today. Music by Best Day, who did a wonderful job on Rolling Misadventures (see for yourself in Part 1 and Part 2 of that story arc) but nobody reads the show notes so nobody will ever see this note either.

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.

We’re back again with another comic creator, this time it’s Carl Antonowicz to talk about his comic Büer’s Kiss. But more importantly, the really awesome way he does live performances of it. From his time working with the New Hazlet Theater to plans for the future, be sure to check out all of his stuff over at Canto Comics, the Canto Comics store in Big Cartel, @cantocomics on Twitter, the Patreon that got started since this episode was recorded, and of course the YouTube video so you can see what makes this so special. And while you’re at it, check out his wife Sophie’s stuff over at DC Is Going to Hell and Red Ink Radio.

You knew this day was coming. Eventually we had to get to Superman 64. Flying around through rings, horrible time limits, battling Lex Luthor in an arena of his making. What can we say about this game that hasn’t already been said? Listen in as Kyle Federline and Karrington Martin give it a shot as we look at this N64 classic. I promise, we actually have good things to say about it. Learn such things as: What system missed out on having this in its library? How does Chris usually play these games, and does it make a difference? How can such a good cartoon turn into this? 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 and Karrington at Real Dudes Podcast or on the Real Dudes Podcast Patreon page. You can also find Kyle on Twitter @KyleFederline and Karrington on Twitter @Desertfury90. A big thanks to everyone from FriGay the 13th as well as Toby McElroy from OptiPod for the wonderful promos today. Music by Best Day, who still watches Tiny Toons. Which is fine, I do that too.

Superman can’t really be stopped by normal bad guys, we’ve established that. But what happens when Lex Luthor decides to really go after him? Oh, we’ve done that too? Ummmm, so what happens this time? It’s comics after all, so we know he isn’t really going anywhere. Listen in as Dan McMahon from DC Supersons comes on the show to take a look at a Gameboy exclusive title based on the 1990s animated series. Yeah, that’s what we’re going with for this one. It says so on the box so it must be true. Learn such things as: What horrible things do Dan and Chris say that they thought would never leave their mouths? How do sharks even play a role in this game without Aquaman popping up? Will somebody listen to me and every single guest I’ve had on and just make a Superman game where he’s playing detective already? 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 Dan at Supersons Podcast and on Twitter @DCSuperSons, or by checking out his personal Twitter @danthemcmahon. A big thanks to everyone from Adventures in Erylia as well as Joea Raspolich and Carlos Rivera from Life, Death, and Taxonomy for the wonderful promos today. Music by Best Day, who can tackle Bo Jackson in Tecmo Super Bowl.