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The Fantastic Four? Yeah, we’re not really there yet. But I think that’s a travesty so we’re going to cheat a little bit and look at something Fantastic Four. Umm, yeah, we’ll go with that. Learn such things as: When is the first Fantastic Four game coming out anyway? What revelation did Chris have while recording? And how does he keep doing this? Did Chris remember that Silver Surfer came from Fantastic Four? Spoiler alert: maybe……….? And so much more! If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix. You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook. You can find Kayleigh’s t-shirt shop at kk Designs A big thanks to The Story Behind as well as Reel Feel for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who makes amazing stuff that you should go check out.

Dennis the Menace (the American one at least) is a cultural icon. Anyone who read the comics as a child most likely knows who Dennis is and followed his adventures. But is that enough to save this game from the trash pile? Learn such things as: The shifting sense of who we feel sorry for in this comic. Is Dennis really that bad? What revelation was made while recording that suddenly made this game decent? And so much more! If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix. You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook. You can find Rhett Hall at The Wall Fly and on Twitter @WallFlyPodcast, @Rhett2Society, or @BraintrustFM Thanks to Karrington Martin of Real Dudes Podcast for that sweet sweet intro drop A big thanks to Super Normal Podcast as well as Spoiler Country for the promos today. Music by Best Day, who makes amazing stuff that you should go check out.

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Spider-Man rears his head again, and it’s still not anywhere near as good as that PS1 classic we all love. This time Issa from Young Free & Coupled takes a swing at the wall crawler as he takes on the Sinister Six in this NES, Master System, and Game Gear title from LJN. Learn such things as: Are we giving up on LJN? Who is in this version of the Sinister Six? Who actually enjoyed this game? And so much more! If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix. You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook. You can find Issa at Young Free and Coupled and on Twitter @Young3Coupled Thanks to Paul Csomo of Varmints for that sweet sweet intro drop A big thanks to Life, Death, & Taxonomy as well as Is This Adulting? for the promos today. Music by Best Day

Batman: The Animated Series is easily seen as one of the best versions of Batman on the screen. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a game came out for it. Listen in as Karrington from The Real Dudes Podcast joins in on discussing yet another Gameboy game. Learn such things as: Who is the best Joker? How many people can feel sorry for Chris when they learn he hasn’t seen a vital part of their childhood? Has Batman The Movie The Game finally been dethroned as the definitive Batman game so far? And so much more! If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix. You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook. You can find Karrington at The Real Dudes Podcast and on Twitter @Desertfury90 Thanks to Chris Braatan of More Gooder Than for that sweet sweet intro drop A big thanks to Phillip and Matt of the Chronicity miniseries as well as Joseph and Paul of C&C Geekcast for the promos today. Music by Best Day

Martians! Except they’re from Earth, and blue… so SMURFS! Listen as Chris basically has no idea what’s going on and return guest Kayleigh knows exactly what’s going on as these two discuss The Smurfs in comic, cartoon, and game form. Learn such things as: Where did the Smurf name come from anyway? Where did these guys even come from? How Europe definitely got the better end of this game release What Smurf means exactly (just kidding, nobody knows that!) How Smurfs aren’t your average pixie/changling/hobgoblin/etc. And so much more! If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix. You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook. If you like us, please head over to your favorite podcast watering hole and give us a rating or review. Or just tell a friend, both help spread the word. You can find Kayleigh nowhere on the internet, because there’s a small chance that she’s not real. Thanks to Hannah of Film Roast for that sweet sweet intro drop. A big thanks to GamerHeads as well as Scott from Fairy Tales for Unwanted Children for the promos today. Music by Best Day. Check his stuff out, it’s really good.

The Avengers, along with fearless leader Captain America, are a collection of Earth’s mightiest heroes. Together they can conquer anything. But they’ll face their toughest challenge yet when Chris and Matt (graciously on loan from Semi Intellectual Musings) take their shots at this group of heroes. Learn such things as: The four, or two, characters that are actually good enough to let you play as Some other guys that are kind of here but not really Crazy origins that Matt probably still thinks I pulled out of my ass Exactly how many charcters Matt refers to as “not nice” And so much more! If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix. You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook. You can find Matt at Semi-Intellectual Musings, on Twitter @the_SIM_Pod Thanks to Tyler Kirby of Better than Static for that sweet sweet intro drop A big thanks to David of Tales from the Fandom as well as Brandon and Travis of the Interdimensional RSS: The Unofficial Rick And Morty Podcast for the promos today. Music by Best Day

Did you see that streak going by? That was probably Chris and Tyler Kirby from Better than Static going on about the newest episode of Play Comics. These two crazy kids looked at some Flash comic history then the Gameboy game that was at least artistically inspired by the 90s Flash TV show. Learn such things as: Flash’s place in the DC heirarchy Cool things he can do with a seemingly lame power Who some of those other pesky speedsters are If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix. You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook. You can find Tyler at Better than Static, on Twitter @btstatic Thanks to Steven for that sweet sweet intro drop A big thanks to Josh Hallmark of Our Americana and Derek Graziano of the Sometimes Geek Podcast for the promos today. Music, as always, by Audionautix

Who doesn’t like Spider-man? You know, besides JJ Jameson and a hoard of villains and whatever friends he’s blowing off without a good explanation because secret identities need to be protected? Join Chris and special guest Paul Csomo from Varmints as they look at The Amazing Spider-Man for the Nintendo Gameboy and some of the comic background for everyone’s favorite wall crawler. Learn such things as: Alternate Spider-Man realities Mechanical vs biological web shooters The twisted secrets behind the publisher and developer of the game What Marvel would never allow to be said these days about their beloved characters Who Chris and Paul both forgot was in the game because they were distracted by the sheer, … , something-ness that oozes from it If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix. You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook. Paul Csomo can be found @VarmintsPodcast on Twitter, in the Varmints Facebook page, or at the Varmints Podcast page. Thanks to Mike Burton from Genuine Chit Chat for the intro drop. A big thanks to Rhett Hall of the Braintrust Bros Podcast and all the guys over at the Real Dudes Podcast for the promos today. Music, as always, by Audionautix

Silver Surfer. One-time personal assistant to Galactus, now not so much. Join Chris and special guest Josh Bowman of Fait Deficit as they take a look at this wonderfully misunderstood character along with another LJN classic on the NES. If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix. You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook. Josh Bowman can be found at his Podcast Faith Deficit, on Twitter @faithdeficit, and in the Faith Deficit group on Facebook. Thanks to Christopher of Podcast 42 for the intro. A special thanks to Oh No! Lit Class and Reel Feels for the promo drops.

The Punisher is a great character with a rich history. From killing the Marvel Universe to hunting Spider-Man to being as close to a hero as a stone cold killer can get, we’re taking a look at a brief glimpse into the Punisher comic universe and then diving straight into the NES and Gameboy games. Spoiler alert: this is an LJN game for NES. That should raise a bunch of red flags right there. Changing Hearts and Minds Change your POV Network US Department of Veterans Affiars National Center for PTSD After Deployment If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Ah, this little hidden gem works on multiple levels. Listen in as Chris and his special guest/wife Kayleigh take a look at the Little Nemo comics, animated movie, and the game for the NES. If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix. Check out the image gallery to see samples of the comics, scenes from the movie, and some screen grabs from the game. Be sure to also check out Film Roast since their show is also awesome. And as always, Audionutix for the music. Couldn't do that without his hard work.

X-Men is one of the most beloved comic franchises there is, no question about it. So of course they get this LJN steaming pile of shit. Honestly, I want to just go crawl in a hole and cry myself to sleep. Things Covered Jay and Miles are the best and there's so much X-Men history that I'd mess up so just go listen to their show if you're really curious Rotating cast makes it a pretty open world But we're only going to see 6 of them here LJN does exactly what you'd expect with an NES game There's the great team dynamic we've all grown to love from this group. X-Men comics good, X-Men on NES bad. If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix. Thanks again to the Soapy Madams for letting me drop their promo in here.

We have our first revisit to a franchise, so if you haven't checked out our episode about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles you should probably do that. Things Covered This is so much better than that earlier game The arcade version is beautiful. The NES one isn't too shabby itself The fun of bringing an arcade game to the home consoles Chris finally realizes that we haven't covered a proper Spiderman game since obviously the Atari games don't count. If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

We knew basically nothing about Dick Tracy coming into this. Well, nothing except that he wears yellow and he's a detective. So clean slate for this show! WE GOT REVIEWS! Davis Quinn: "This game is horrible" Sean did research, Chris didn't do as much beyond playing the game Chris suffers through a 1939 Dick Tracy serial The NES and Genesis games are different, and one is objectively better If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix. Thanks to the Meddling Kids Podcast for providing us with a rather appropriate promo to drop. Sean can be found on Twitter @SeanSyn1182 while Chris continues to primarily use the show account, @PlayComicsCast.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a game we all know from a comic series we all know exists. Ha, joke's on us because most of the people I know grew up on the cartoons. Turtle origin story Sean's tattoos that he totally had before starting the show Changes between the comics and cartoon Chris refuses to admit that the Michael Bay movies exist Drifting into the land of future show previews The game isn't great, but if you liked it before you probably still do If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Ah, Batman. What can you say about someone with such a storied past? Well, Chris and Sean go off on an over sized episode that tries to capture the magic of one of the better games on the NES. New Joker back stories Movie tie in games with actually good game play... ... but characters that have nothing to do with the movie or Batman lore. The nostalgia of the NES classic versus the forgotten fact that there's also a Genesis version. Totally off topic ramblings. You know you loved this game as a kid. And it wasn't just because Batman is awesome, it was actually a good game. If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix. Find the show on Twitter @ PlayComicsCast, Chris’s personal Twitter basically doesn't exist anymore because it's just copies of the one for this show, and Sean’s personal Twitter @ Seansyn1182.

Wow, this one is horrible. Not the episode, it's pretty sweet. But the game itself? It's pretty bad. Things Covered The video we watched because we couldn't handle playing it for long. The insane setting for the mini games Chris definitely loves Peanuts Video game physics Balancing skills and how the NES doesn't really show them off well What makes this game Snoopy anyway? Yeah, it's a bad one. If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix. Find the show on Twitter @ PlayComicsCast, Chris's personal Twitter @ theichibun, and Sean's personal Twitter @ Seansyn1182.

Sean joins Chris and the show goes insane in the best way possible. The language gets more adult though so you might want to be careful about that. We try no to go overboard, but no promises. Things Covered Making a good Superman game is hard The really weird list of powers Superman has/had The level of situational awareness of the citizens of Metropolis General gameplay notes Overall game quality notes Unintented previews of future Superman games Chris's flea market habbits A glimpse into future plans How we'd improve the game Did we mention that making a good Superman game is hard? If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix. Find the show on Twitter @ PlayComicsCast, Chris's personal Twitter @ theichibun, and Sean's personal Twitter @ Seansyn1182. If you liked this episode, also check out the 2600 episode, which covers Superman on the Atari 2600 along with every other comic game for that system.

Spy vs Spy, and incorrectly Spy vs Spy 2 in this case, are looked at in this episode. Thankfully the sequel doesn't really change much beyond the setting so it's not a big deal. The game was planned and development started for an NES release over here, so it could have happened. Things Covered Super brief history of Spy vs Spy Comic Some characters you don't see in the game Comparing the game to other things Old school dungeon crawling RPGs point and click adventures Portal Conclusion: It's not bad....? If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Wow, the games for the Atari 2600 are really crappy. Flash stuff from the early 90s was better. Today's creators could barf up a better game in their sleep. Things Covered Asterix Canada is still part of North America and how they didn't see Taz Popeye The Smurfs, 1.5 times because a second "game" barely counts Spider-Man Superman Snoopy The general crappyness of the 2600 and why I'm not holding it against these games too much If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.