Some of My Friends Read Comics

161 - Shang-Chi Origins + The Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck #2

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Shang-Chi! CM Punk! It's a double-topical episode! Shang-Chi is finally getting a movie and we admittedly knew absolutely nothing about him, so we wen...

160 - Andre the Giant: Life & Legend + The Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck #1

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Some of my friends... WATCH WRESTLING?!?!? We delved into the squared circle with this episode by reading a biography of the biggest man in the indust...

159 - Agents of Atlas + Amazing Spider-Man #12

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Agents of Atlas is a superhero team with a monkey AND a robot. Wow, it really doesn't get any better than this folks. We've been talking about Jimmy W...

158 - Super Metroid + Amazing Spider-Man #11

21 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

With everybody talking about the lore of Metroid these days, and the release of Metroid: Dread on the horizon, we took a look back at some Super Metro...

157 - Black Widow: Web of Intrigue + Amazing Spider-Man #10

08 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Just like in the movies, Black Widow spent most of her time in the comics as a side character until she finally got to stand in the spotlight on her o...

156 - Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Pt. 2 + Amazing Spider-Man #9

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's a busy episode! We're reading Volume 2 of Ed Brubaker's Winter Soldier run on Captain America where we see those dastardly Russians fill Bucky's ...

155 - Loki (2004) + Amazing Spider-Man #8

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Loki is everybody's favorite trickster god and in 2004 he finally got his own 4 issue mini-series by Robert Rodi with painted art by Esad Ribic. It st...

154 - Static Shock: Rebirth of the Cool + Amazing Spider-Man #7

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Created by Dwayne McDuffie & John Paul Leon in 1993, Static Shock went from being a small project on DC's Milestone imprint to getting his own cartoon...

153 - MODOK's 11 + Amazing Spider-Man #6

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

M.O.D.O.K. is easily one of the most bizarre Marvel creations of all time. A big head with tiny baby limbs who flies around in a little machine. Beaut...

152 - Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe + Amazing Spider-Man #5

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's time to revisit our favorite super fascists in Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe, a one-shot from the Marvel Graphic Novel line that came out...

151 - Big Hero 6 + Amazing Spider-Man #4

15 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Before Big Hero 6 was a movie, it was a Marvel superhero team based out of Japan that got two largely forgotten miniseries. We're reading their 5-issu...

150 - Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games + Amazing Spider-Man #3

28 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As part of our ongoing quest to return to some of the series we've previously covered, we're revisiting Locke & Key with Volume 2: Head Games which ha...

149 - Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When you think about it, Batman and the Ninja Turtles have a lot in common. They're orphans, they're well-trained in martial arts, they thrive in dark...

148 - Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Pt. 1 + Amazing Spider-Man #1

10 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We're starting a couple of classics today from very different eras! First up it's Ed Brubaker's Winter Soldier run on Captain America, which provided ...

147 - Monica Rambeau Origins + Squadron Supreme #12

24 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How many of the Captain Marvels have we talked about? We've talked about Mar-Vell and Carol Danvers, but Monica Rambeau hasn't really come up that oft...

146 - Superman: The Wedding Album + Squadron Supreme # 11

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Wedding bells are in the air! We're going back to the mid-90's when Lois and Clark got married in the comics as well as on TV! We read Superman: The W...

145 - Avengers West Coast (aka What Happened to Scarlet Witch & Vision's Kids) + Squadron Supreme #10

20 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Babyhands. This dude has babies for hands. I know this was supposed to be about Wanda and Vision and their weird magic babies or whatever, but as soon...

144 - Amazing Spider-Man: The Death of Gwen Stacy + Squadron Supreme #9

06 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Somehow, we'd never read The Death of Gwen Stacy for the show, so we rectified that by reading Amazing Spider-Man #121 & 122. We also read "What If Sp...

143 - Batman: Slayride & Christmas with the Joker + Squadron Supreme #8

23 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's still December, we've been told, which means we're legally obligated to continue covering Christmas comics. But we broke the rules and did a cart...

142 - DC Christmas With the Superheroes 1988 + Squadron Supreme #7

09 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Anytime the holidays roll around, you know we're gonna get Santa plastered all over a ton of comics. DC's Christmas With the Superheroes 1988 collects...

141 - Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties + Squadron Supreme #6

25 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We forgive you if you haven't heard of Dog Man, he's not exactly a super hero. He's half cop / half dog, stitched together after a terrible accident, ...

140 - Harrow County + Squadron Supreme #5

28 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Spooky month continues with a highly praised modern horror comic called Harrow County. It's a witch book by Cullen Bunn with watercolor finished art b...

139 - Tales from the Crypt + Squadron Supreme #4

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We wanted to read some classic horror to celebrate the spookyseason so we dug up some of the original Tales From The Crypt comics from 1950. Actually,...

138 - Black Panther: DoomWar + Squadron Supreme #3

30 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What's that Doctor Doom scamp trying to steal this time? Oh, it's all the vibranium in Wakanda. Yikes. We read DoomWar from 2010 in which he succeeds?...

137 - The Boys + Squadron Supreme #2

16 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Boys is a show. It seems to be a pretty popular one, so we read the comic book by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson that inspired it. This was an u...

136 - Rat Queens + Squadron Supreme #1

02 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

They're not rats and they're technically not queens, they're Rat Queens! A band of D&D-esque adventurers in a D&D-esque world just starting fights eve...

135 - Marvel Assistant Editors' Month 1984 + JLA/Avengers #4

19 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Madness! Chaos! Anything goes! It's Assistant Editors' Month at Marvel! Back in 1984, when all the head editors were off at conventions, they handed t...

134 - I Hate Fairyland by Skottie Young + JLA/Avengers #3

05 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's a scientific fact that stories about maniacal ax-wielding children are always entertaining. I Hate Fairyland is no exception, although I guess te...

133 - Aliens vs. Predator + JLA/Avengers #2

22 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In 1989, long before the AVP movies, Dark Horse published a few short stories that brought the Alien and Predator franchises into the same universe. I...

132 - Green Lantern/Green Arrow: Hard Travelin' Heroes + JLA/Avengers #1

08 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the show, we remember Dennis O'Neil with a look back at his run with Neal Adams on Green Lantern from 1970, in which he explored a few to...

131 - The Amalgam Universe + DC vs Marvel #4

24 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For the last few episodes, we've been reading Marvel vs DC, about two universes pitted against each other. But just before the final issue, they merge...

130 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird + DC vs Marvel #3

10 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Teenage. Mutant. Ninja. Turtles. Four words that instantly belong together. We go back to where it all started in Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's orig...

129 - Criminal: Bad Weekend + Marvel vs DC #2

27 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There aren't main writer/artist pairs in comics who work together as consistently as Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips, and yet we've never covered their wo...

128 - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Manga, Vol. 2 + DC vs Marvel #1

13 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's the exciting conclusion to the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time manga with Volume 2! Will Link ever be a little kid again? Will this mysterious S...

127 - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Manga, Vol. 1 + Marvels: Epilogue

29 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Some of My Friends Read… Manga?!?!? And Play Video Games?!?!?! After 5 years, we finally delve into some content from Japan: The Ocarina of Time man...

126 - The New Mutants: The Demon Bear Saga + Marvels: Eye of the Camera #6

15 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Marvel's had plenty of titles dedicated to the "next generation" of X-Men, but New Mutants was the first. We jumped into the Demon Bear Saga and read ...

125 - The Kentucky Fried Chicken Trilogy + Marvels: Eye of the Camera #5

01 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Remember that time Colonel Sanders defeated the evil Colonel Sunder from Earth-3 by taking down his knock-off fried chicken franchise with the help of...

124 - Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists + Marvels: Eye of the Camera #4

18 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's high time we read some Sandman for this show. No, not the the literal sand guy from Spider-Man. It's the Neil Gaiman series that made Vertigo Com...

123 - Batman & Ra's Al Ghul + Marvels: Eye of the Camera #3

26 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's finally time for us to cover one of Batman's greatest villains: a leopard! (Actually, it's Ra's al Ghul, but the fight with the leopard looked co...

122 - Archie (2015 reboot) by Mark Waid & Fiona Staples + Marvels: Eye of the Camera #2

12 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On today's episode, we explore the rare Non-Gritty Reboot. I assure you, they exist. At the very least, one example exists: Archie. In 2015, Mark Waid...

121 - Birds of Prey by Gail Simone + Marvels: Eye of the Camera #1

29 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In my headcanon, Birds of Prey was always 3 members: Oracle, Black Canary, and Huntress. Turns out Huntress didn't even join the team until Gail Simon...

120 - Superman by Alan Moore + Marvels #4

15 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We've got more Moore than you can handle, as we take a double dose of Alan Moore's Superman from the 1980s! First up, Alan Moore teams up with his fut...

119 - The (First) Death of Thanos + Marvels #3

01 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Way back in episode 19, we read our first Thanos comic when he returned from death in 1990 and started collected the Infinity Gems. Now, exactly 100 e...

118 - Donald Duck & Scrooge McDuck Celebrate Christmas + Marvels #2

18 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The holidays are upon us and you know what that means: Ducks. Specifically Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck. We take a look at the very 1st appearance o...

117 - Marvel 1602, Pt. 2 + Marvels #1

04 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's time to continue Marvel 1602! In the last 4 issues of the miniseries, we make our way to America and find out how this universe connects to our r...

116 - Marvel 1602, Pt. 1 + Marvels #0

20 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Back in the 1600s, there were apparently superheroes in England. I don't know because I wasn't there, but I will take Neil Gaiman's word for it. He wr...

115 - Jughead: The Hunger + All-Star Superman #12

06 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's (after) Halloween! And we continue our tradition of releasing a late episode about late, spooky comics with Jughead: The Hunger! We read the firs...

114 - Locke & Key + All-Star Superman #11

16 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What's up, spooks? Time for some scary comics for the spookiest month of the year. First up is Locke & Key by Joe Hill who for some reason reminds us ...

113 - Alpha Flight + All-Star Superman #10

09 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! We're celebrating our neighbors our neighbors up north by reading about their premiere superhero team, Alpha Flight! We c...

112 - Teen Titans: The Judas Contract + All-Star Superman #9

18 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

There's a spy in the Teen Titans... and she works for Deathstroke! Dick Grayson drops the Robin mantle to debut Nightwing! There's a new team member n...

111 - Spider-Man/Venom: Maximum Carnage Pt. 2 + All-Star Superman #8

04 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Whoa, Carnage is so Maximum it's taking us two episodes to get through it. Spider-Man seems to be having a tough time getting through Maximum Carnage ...

110 - Spider-Man/Venom: Maximum Carnage Pt. 1 + All-Star Superman #7

21 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Can you believe this is the 25th anniversary of the Maximum Carnage video game? A classic that has such accolades as being A Game and being Based On A...

109 - Wolverine: Weapon X by Barry Windsor-Smith + All-Star Superman #6

07 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It may seem hard to believe, but there used to be a time when we knew little to nothing about Wolverine's origins. The Weapon X story from 1991 by Bar...

108 - Animal Man: The Hunt + All-Star Superman #5

24 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Animal Man has never exactly been one of DC's biggest heroes, but he got a reboot in 2011 for the New 52 written by Jeff Lemire with some gruesome, ho...

107 - The Flintstones (2016) + All-Star Superman #4

10 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

If the modern stone age family wasn't modern enough for you, then we've got good news: it's a reboot, baby! Mark Russell and Steve Pugh re-imagined Th...

106 -Uncanny X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga, Pt. 2 + All-Star Superman #3

26 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jean Grey's lost it. Mastermind's been making her think she's in the past, she's been smooching dudes she shouldn't be smooching, and now the Phoenix ...

105 - Uncanny X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga, Pt. 1 + All-Star Superman #2

12 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The first appearances of Kitty Pryde, Dazzler, AND Emma Frost? The Dark Phoenix Saga is a story so big, we wouldn't dream of trying to contain it in o...

104 - Batman Endgame + All-Star Superman #1

30 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's time for Endgame! No, not Avengers… it's Batman: Endgame from 2015, the culmination of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's run on Batman. We also s...

103 - Avengers Forever Pt. 2 + Secret Wars Epilogue

08 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's the 2nd part of our Avengers: Forever read! This time it's less about time travel and more about pulling in Avengers from every timeline. See als...

102 - Avengers Forever Pt. 1 + Secret Wars 12

24 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever heard of the Avengers? Well they're FOREVER. They fought dinosaurs in the wild west and they tried to stop Skrull Nixon in the '50s. Kur...

101 - Detective Comics 1000 & 27 + Secret Wars 11

10 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Detective Comics just released their milestone 1000th issue, so of course we had to read it! But of course we had to take a look back in time and visi...

100 - Batman: Year 100 + Secret Wars 10

27 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's our 100th episode! And as we do with every anniversary, we celebrate with Batman! This time it's Batman: Year 100 by Paul Pope, a story that take...

099 - Kree-Skrull War Part 2 + Secret Wars 9

14 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We continue our last episode by finishing off the Kree Skrull War from Avengers 94-97. We're not entirely sure when the war started, but we do know th...

098 - Kree-Skrull War Part 1 + Secret Wars 8

27 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We've been talking about a lot of "Event" comics recently, and this week we're going back to what could arguable be called the first big Marvel event,...

097 - Nightwing: Year One + Secret Wars 7

13 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For Valentine's Day, we wanted to cover a comic book couple that we haven't spent much time with: Dick Grayson & Barbara Gordon. Turns out Nightwing: ...

096 - Spider-Man: The Death of Jean DeWolff

30 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We tried to read Spider-Man: The Death of Jean DeWolff, but I think we must have picked up the wrong comic. DeWolff, Spider-Man's long-time friend in ...

095 - The Death of Superman + Secret Wars 5

16 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We don't want to spoil how Death of Superman ends, so we'll keep this brief. Let's just say that a certain "Superman" meets his "death" because he get...

094 - Batman: A Death in the Family + Secret Wars 4

04 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In 1988, DC Comics urged the American people to exercise their right to vote by calling a 900 number and deciding the fate of Robin #2, Jason Todd. Th...

093 - Remembering Stan Lee + Secret Wars 3

18 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

With the passing of Stan Lee, we took a look back at some of his classic origin stories in Fantastic Four #1, Amazing Fantasy #15 and Avengers #1. We ...

092 - Afterlife with Archie + Secret Wars 2

05 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We're back! After a little break, we're picking up right where we left off with a Halloween episode in December. We read Volume 1 of Afterlife With Ar...

091 - Crisis on Infinite Earths Finale + Secret Wars 1

10 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We've reached the final issue of Crisis on Infinite Earths! And as our first long-read book ends, we jump right into our next one and begin Marvel Sup...

090 - Venom: Lethal Protector + Crisis 11

26 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

You want teeth? Venom's got teeth! As his first movie approaches release, we thought we'd read his first titular miniseries, Venom: Lethal Protector f...

089 - Batwoman by Greg Rucka & J.H. Williams III + Crisis 10

12 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

When Batman is dead, who gets to take over Detective Comics? Batwoman! With issue 854, Kate Kane became the star of the title and creators Greg Rucka ...

088 - The Goon

29 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Even the undead fear… The Goon! But who is The Goon? We take a look at Eric Powell's strange pulpy horror adventure crime comic series about a tough...

087 - Hellboy: Krampusnacht and Hellboy/Beasts of Burden + Crisis 8

15 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It's Eisner season again! This year we took a look at the winner for best single issue, Hellboy: Krampusnacht. But of course one issue's not enough fo...

086 - Steve Ditko's Blue Beetle and Question + Crisis 7

01 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we honor Steve Ditko's memory by reading one of his rare solo creations as both writer and penciller with Charloton Comics' Blue Beet...

085 - X-Force 70-75 + Crisis 6

18 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Now that Cable and Domino have appeared on the big screen in Deadpool 2, the team of X-Force is all the more well-known. We take a look at one of the ...

084 - Prez (2015) + Crisis 5

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Happy 4th of July! Last year we talked about Prez, the 1st teen president, so this year we decided to celebrate America's upcoming reboot by reading t...

083 - FF 2012: Scott Lang Takes Over the Fantastic Faux + Crisis 4

20 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We continue our tradition of celebrating Marvel movies by looking at the time that hero took over the Fantastic Four. This time, it's Scott Lang's tur...

082 - Fantastic Four 57-60: Dr. Doom Steals the Silver Surfer's Powers + Crisis 3

06 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Doctor Doom loves to steal powers! After touching on it in our last episode, we wanted to see more of his crazy schemes, so we went back to Fantastic ...

081 - Infinity War (the Comic)

23 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Infinity War "The Comic" is a little different from Infinity War "The Movie."   There are lots of evil doppelgangers, Adam Warlock is the most import...

080 - Action Comics #1000, Crisis on Infinite Earths #1, and Free Comic Book Day 2018

09 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It's a major milestone for the Man of Steel as we read the newly released Action Comics #1000, filled with stories honoring Superman as well as Brian ...

079 - Annihilation: Conquest

25 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Time to head back to outer space! After the events of Annihilation, Marvel's reinvigorated galactic universe gets taken over by robots. Sequel time! A...

078 - Batman: Year 3 / 3rd Anniversary Celebration!

11 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It's our 3-year anniversary, so we had to continue the tradition by reading Batman: Year 3 from 1989 by Marv Wolfman with art by Pat Broderick. No rea...

077 - Moon Knight by Doug Moench & Bill Sienkiewicz

28 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Has anyone even heard of Moon Knight? We read the first 6 issues from his ongoing series in 1980 and we've learned that he might be crazy or he might ...

076 - Batman: Gotham by Gaslight

14 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The burning question on everyone's lips: Would Batman have been able to solve the Jack the Ripper murders? Duh, obviously yeah. Gotham by Gaslight, an...

075 - Black Panther & Storm Join the Fantastic Four

28 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We heard that Black Panther was kind of a big deal (btw, check out last week's spoilercast about the movie), so this week we're looking at his short-l...

Special - Black Panther Movie Spoilercast

23 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Spoilers spoilers spoilers! We have a very special episode to talk about the biggest movie in the world, Black Panther!  Was Killmonger right?  How ...

074 - Marvel Weddings

14 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Valentine's Day! We're celebrating in the traditional way, which is to doubt all love right before your wedding, but go through with it anyways....

073 - She-Hulk (2004) by Dan Slott

31 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Anyone else ever been in a court room, representing a ghost or maybe Spider-Man, and just dying to change into She-Hulk? But you can't because your bo...

072 - Amazing Spider-Man #400: The Death of Aunt May

17 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Aunt May. It's really a miracle that she lived as long as she did. The woman was in her 70's for about 30 years, always on the verge of death from som...

071 - The Death of Captain Marvel

03 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Does it count as a spoiler if it's in the title? Jim Starlin don't care, he does what he wants. He and Marvel changed up their regular comic book form...

070 - X-Mas Special: Uncanny X-Men #143 & Gotham Central: Soft Targets

20 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Holidays! We're embracing the spirit of togetherness by reading seasonal comics by both DC AND Marvel! For DC, we're covering Gotham Central #12...

069 - Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire

06 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In the mid-90s, Lucasfilm decided to fill in the Star Wars gap between episodes 5 and 6 with Shadows of the Empire. There was a game, a book, a soundt...

068 - The Flash: Iron Heights

22 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Geoff Johns has been one of the important modern writers for DC, so it's about time we talked about him. Before becoming one of the main architects of...

067 - Kingdom Come

08 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Justice League's almost out, but we had the brilliant idea of reading about the FUTURE JLA from Alex Ross and Mark Waid's Kingdom Come in 1996. A beau...

066 - Thor by Walt Simonson

25 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

If we've learned anything from this show, the best way to make a cool Thor comic is to take a non-human character and put Thor clothes on it. It worke...

065 - The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

11 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Sabrina the Teenage Witch, once a beloved TGIF star, has finally received a reboot. And believe it or not, it's one of the best horror comics we've ev...

064 - Annihilation

27 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Marvel goes back to space! After several decades of neglecting some of their outer space properties, they decided to bring it all back to the spotligh...

063 - Marvel Knights

13 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode, we're reading Marvel's comic about all their street-level heroes teaming up, The Defenders! … wait…no, Marvel Knights! It's like...