Some of My Friends Read Comics
Episodes
062 - Promethea by Alan Moore
30 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Not sure what to read? There's always more Moore! We continue our tour of Alan Moore's ABC imprint with Promethea, his take on a female warrior goddes...
061 - The Tick
16 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Tick has had one heck of a ride. From black and white indie comics, to Saturday morning cartoon, to prime time sitcom, to a new streaming series...
060 - Spider-Man & the Sinister Six
02 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's a tale as old as time. Or the 60's, really. Spider-Man's villains all team up to fight him. They call themselves the Sinister Six because it soun...
059 - Preacher
19 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The television adaptation of Preacher just started its 2nd season, so we decided to read the first couple of stories from the classic Vertigo comic. B...
058 - Prez
05 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
His name is Prez. He was the first teenage president of the USA. Unfortunately he only got 4 issues from DC back in 1973. He sure made the most of t...
057 - Spider-Man: The Birth of Venom
21 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Spider-Man villains sure do love teasing their arrival before their full first appearances. "Dudes in Shadows" we like to call them. This time around ...
056 - The Infinity Gauntlet
07 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We're heading back out to space! As the Marvel Cinematic Universe keeps building towards Infinity War, we're doing the same with all of Jim Starlin's ...
055 - Wonder Woman by George Perez
24 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There's a Wonder Woman movie coming out, so we read some Wonder Woman comics because that's how these things work. We decided on George Perez's 1987 r...
054 - Supreme: Story of the Year, Pt. 2
10 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Story of the Year comes to a close! It's the second half of our first two-parter as we read issues 49-52 of Alan Moore's Supreme. Who will be Supr...
053 - Supreme: Story of the Year, Pt. 1
26 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The comics industry is full of Superman knock-offs. Every creator wants to be able to tell their own version of the story, but they've got to change a...
052 - Batman: Year Two / Two-Year Anniversary Celebration!
12 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's our 2nd year anniversary! So of course we had to keep the tradition alive and read Batman: Year Two from the late 80s, a shameless excuse to capi...
051 - Lockjaw & the Pet Avengers
29 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's become a little April Fools tradition of ours to do a silly comic, but we learned that Lockjaw & the Pet Avengers (a 4-issue mini from 2009) is s...
050 - Iron Fist by Claremont & Byrne
17 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Iron Fist is finally getting his own TV show and we're not entirely sure who's excited about that. We went back to the mid-70's to read his first solo...
049 - Wolverine: Old Man Logan
01 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Old Man Hawkeye. I mean… wait… Old Man Logan, a comic book about Venom-Dinos, Dumb Hulks, and the Red Skull doing creepy Captain America cosplay. ...
048 - Flash by Mark Waid
15 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For being one of DC's most important heroes, we sure haven't given the Flash much attention. We tried to remedy that by reading a classic Mark Waid st...
047 - Black Panther by Christopher Priest
01 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Can you believe the Black Panther is getting his own movie? Twenty years ago, most people had never even heard of him and now everyone's going crazy f...
046 - Donald Duck by Carl Barks
18 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ducks! Ducks! Ducks! If you ever loved Duck Tales as a kid, then you owe it all to Carl Barks, creator of Scrooge McDuck and the city of Duckburg in t...
045 - Swamp Thing by Alan Moore
04 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's been way too long since we read some Alan Moore, so it's time to remedy that with his run on Swamp Thing from the early 80's. It's dark, twisted ...
044 - Great Lakes Avengers and GLX-Mas
21 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It's the mid-2000's revival that nobody asked for! But hot damn was it amazing. It's Squirrel Girl! And she joined the Great Lakes Avengers in a littl...
043 - Robin: Year One
07 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Batman's not the only hero to get a Year One. This time around, the gang reads Robin: Year One to see how it compares to the Frank Miller classic. We'...
042 - Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.
23 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Nextwave! A little Marvel series you've maybe never heard of that's generated quite a bit of a cult following. Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen take us...
041 - Avengers: Under Siege
09 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a bunch of Avengers villains band together to form The Masters of Evil? They take over Avengers Mansion of course! We take a look at...
040 - Doctor Strange: The Oath
26 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Doctor Strange is almost here! If the trailers are to be believed, Marvel's next movie is going to have us unwrapping our minds, opening them up to ne...
039 - All-New Ghost Rider
12 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we read another fairly recent comic, All-New Ghost Rider 1-5 from 2014, because it introduced a new version of the Ghost Rider character tha...
038 - Power Man & Iron Fist
28 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sweet Christmas! Luke Cage is coming to Netflix! We're pretty familiar with his modern adventures, but hadn't read any of his older stuff like Power...
037 - Justice League International
14 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we go back to the late 1980s -- a time when most comics were trying to imitate that Frank Miller & Alan Moore were bringing with Dark Knigh...
036 - Ruse by Mark Waid
31 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It's about time we did another non-superhero book. This time we jump to the Crossgen universe (yes, they had a universe!) to read Ruse by one of our f...
035 - Damage Control by Dwayne McDuffie
17 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Nobody ever thinks about the little guys, the ones who have to clean up after all the superheroes. Nobody but Dwayne McDuffie, that is! He wrote a few...
034 - Paper Girls
03 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
And the Eisner for Best New Series goes to… PAPER GIRLS by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang! We took a look at the first story arc in issues 1-5 an...
033 - Past Eisner Award Winners
20 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It's our 2016 Eisner Pre-Show Spectacular! As we gear up for the awards, we take a look at three past winners of the "Best Single Issue" award. Astro ...
032 - Beasts of Burden
06 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dogs and cats! Cats and dogs! Ghosts and zombies and witches and frogs! Instead of our typical superhero fare, today we stray away from the pack (get ...
031 - Doom Patrol by Grant Morrison
22 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Doom Patrol! A name some of us have heard far too often, but do we really know what it means? To find out, we travel back to the late '80s to read the...
030 - X-Men: Apocalypse vs Dracula
08 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate his big screen arrival, we took a look at the weirdest Apocalypse miniseries we could find, and that was X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula! S...
029 - DC: The New Frontier
25 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Darwyn Cooke, one of our favorite comic book creators, passed away last week at the age of 53. To honor him, we decided to cover his magnum opus, DC: ...
028 - Power Pack
11 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How was there not a Power Pack cartoon in the '80s? How is there not one NOW?!? We took a look at issues 1-4 of this 1984 Marvel superteam created by ...
027 - Civil War
27 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Next week, the Marvel Cinematic Universe tears itself apart in Captain America: Civil War, based on the best-selling Marvel comic CIVIL WAR! We go bac...
026 - Batman: Year One / One-Year Anniversary Special!
13 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It’s our one year anniversary special! And what better way to celebrate a full year of comics than with the definitive Batman origin story, Year One...
025 - Not Brand Echh
30 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It's April Fools Day and Chris played one hell of an unintentional prank on us by choosing Not Brand Echh for this week's episode. We read the first ...
024 - Superman vs. Muhammad Ali
16 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Ladies and gentlemen and aliens, tonight's heavyweight qualifier match is coming to you LIVE from the planet Bodace and will determine the fate of our...
023 - Warlock by Jim Starlin
02 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Before we recorded our Thanos episode a couple months back, we knew we were gonna eventually head back to outer space to cover the Infinity Guantlet. ...
022 - Deadpool
17 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody’s got Deadpool-mania! His new film just broke box office records for an R-rated release… unprecedented for a comic book character less t...
021 - Batman: Mad Love
03 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
All around me are the Batman’s cases: Joker chases, makeup faces. Harley Quinn just wants the Joker’s embraces. Plays her Aces, schemes take plac...
020 - The New Teen Titans
20 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to classic superteams, one of the first names that comes up is the Teen Titans. It started out as kid versions of DC’s big guns, but ...
019 - Thanos Quest
06 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Thanos! He’s a big purple dude that keeps showing up in the Marvel movies… but why is everyone always freaking out about him? Since he’s gonna ...
018 - Punisher Christmas Specials
23 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals! Few things go together better than The Punisher and Christmas (maybe peanut butter & jelly, spaghetti & meatba...
017 - Star Wars: Dark Empire
09 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A long time ago in a continuity far, far away… Dark Horse Comics made a TON of Star Wars comics, more than 500 of 'em. And they kicked the whole thi...
016 - Spider-Man and the Origin of the Hobgoblin
25 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The majority of Spider-Man's most memorable villains have been around since the early days when he was still under the care of Stan Lee, but one of th...
015 - Alias: The Underneath (AKA Jessica Jones)
11 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Jones is almost on Netflix! We’re pumped but we didn’t want to accidentally spoil anything, so we read a story from her debut series, Alia...
014 - Batman: The Long Halloween
28 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Batman embarks on a search for the mysterious “Holiday” Killer who, starting on Halloween, kills mobsters on major holidays until Batman finally c...
013 - Runaways by Brian K. Vaughan
14 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Kids run away for lots of reasons, but most of the time it’s because they find out their parents are supervillains, right? Right?! Brian K. Vaugh...
012 - Top Ten by Alan Moore
30 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In the Criminal Justice System, the super-people gotta deal with two separate, yet equally important groups. The Top Ten precinct and their dog-boss w...
011 - Superman: Red Son
16 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Boy, America sure did luck out when Superman landed here, right? This friggin’ alien could have landed ANYWHERE ELSE on Earth! How much would that h...
010 - Giant-Size X-Men #1
02 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We finally read about the mutant menace as our friends, Scott and Richard, join us to discuss Giant-Size X-Men #1 from 1975, one of the most important...
009 - Spider-Man: The Clone Saga
19 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
If you've ever heard of The Clone Saga before, you probably know that it’s one of the most controversial storylines in Spider-Man’s history, and w...
008 - The Fantastic Four Fight Dinosaurs and Robo-Stalin by Walt Simonson
05 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Time travel & alternate universes, robot Josef Stalins, and triceratopses -- all the silly staples of any good Fantastic Four story. On today's SOMFR...
007 - Batman: The Killing Joke
22 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
75 years ago, if you had told us that a guy who runs around in clown makeup stealing jewels would one day become the most iconic supervillain in com...
006 - The Many Origins of Ant-Man
08 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The Scientist, The Criminal, and The Sexist Douchebag! Primetime sitcom? Nope! It’s the three different guys that have been Ant-Man. In this episode...
005 - Captain America by Jim Steranko
24 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Ready for some trippy 60's comic book art? We sure are, and you can bet your American flag that Steve Rogers is too! For only three issues in 1969, Ji...
004 - JLA by Grant Morrison
10 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In 1997, frustrated with struggling sales, DC cancelled all four of their Justice League titles and brought the original "Big 7" back to the team for ...
003 - Godzilla Fight the Fantastic Four and Avengers
27 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Remember that time in the 70’s when Godzilla was shrunken down by Ant-Man, fought the Fantastic Four and the Avengers as he grew large again, travel...
002 - Avengers: Ultron Double Feature
13 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There’s more than one way to skin an evil murderous robot. Vince, Chris, and Kia took a look back at a couple of classic Ultron stories written 30 y...
001 - Daredevil: Born Again
19 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Big bad nurses, stabby Santas, and bowling balls to the head. It’s all right here in Born Again, a classic Daredevil story by the master of superher...