Some of My Friends Read Comics 145 – Avengers West Coast (aka What Happened to Scarlet Witch & Vision’s Kids) + Squadron Supreme #10

January 20, 2021January 20, 2021 Vincent Goodwin90s comics, john byrne, master pandemonium, mcu, scarlet witch, scarlet witch's kids, some of my friends read comics, somfrc, squadron supreme, vision, wanda maximoff, wandavision, west coast avengers, young avengersLeave a comment

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 as this guy came on the scene he stole the whole damn show like he stole those babies. BABYHANDS.

This was from West Coast Avengers 50-52 and 56-57, which was a strange selection of issues.

Over in Squadron Supreme #10, we get some spies on the team!

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Next Time: Superman & Lois Lane tie the knot in Superman: The Wedding Album (1996)

Some of My Friends Read Comics 144 – Amazing Spider-Man: The Death of Gwen Stacy + Squadron Supreme #9

January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 Vincent GoodwinLeave a comment

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 Spider-Man Had Rescued Gwen Stacy?” from What If #24. Special thanks to Uatu who hooked us up with this story, it’s good to know that Peter Parker makes dumb decisions no matter what happens.

We also continued with Squadron Supreme #9 in which a member of the team dies!

MP3: https://bit.ly/2LsZqMs

Next Time: Scarlet Witch & Vision find out the truth about their children in West Coast Avengers #50-52/56-57

Some of My Friends Read Comics 143 – Batman: Slayride & Christmas with the Joker + Squadron Supreme #8

December 23, 2020 Vincent Goodwinbatman the animated series, best joker comics, christmas cartoons, christmas comics, detective comics, detective comics 826, some of my friends read comics, somfrc, squadron supremeLeave a comment

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 cartoon too! Take that!

We went with Paul Dini’s “Slayride” in Detective Comics #826 as well as the “Christmas with the Joker” episode of Batman: The Animated Series.

And then we continued Squadron Supreme with issue #8, in which we get an actual honest to goodness superhero fight.

MP3: https://bit.ly/2LVXIn7

Next Time: The Death of Gwen Stacy (Amazing Spider-Man #121-122) and What If Spider-Man Had Rescued Gwen Stacy (What If? #24)

Some of My Friends Read Comics 142 – DC Christmas With the Superheroes 1988 + Squadron Supreme #7

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 Vincent Goodwinbest christmas comics, dc christmas with the superheroes 1988, holiday batman stories, holiday comic books, john stewart green lantern, legion of superheroes, some of my friends read comics, somfrcLeave a comment

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 6 different stories from throughout the years and we tried to guess how many would contain the real Santa. Or as real as a comic book Santa can get.

And then we got another shocking twist in Squadron Supreme #7.

MP3: https://bit.ly/3osASBI

Next Time: A double-dose of Paul Dini Holiday Fun with Batman: Slayride (Detective Comics #826) and Christmas with the Joker (Batman: The Animated Series Season 1, Episode 2)

Also, Chris mentions Titan Up the Defense’s episode about the Teen Titans Swingin’ Christmas Carol, which you can listen to at https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ttwasteland/episodes/2015-11-11T09_38_20-08_00

Some of My Friends Read Comics 141 – Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties + Squadron Supreme #6

November 25, 2020November 25, 2020 Vincent Goodwinbest kids comics, best modern comics, captain underpants, cat kid, dav pilkey, dog man, some of my friends read comics, somfrcLeave a comment

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, but not in like a gross way.

It’s cute, we promise. It’s a spinoff of that kids book, Captain Underpants and it’s published by Scholastic.

We jumped right into Dog Man Volume 3: A Tale of Two Kitties and then went on to Squadron Supreme #6, where we get some bigtime shakeups in the team roster.

MP3: https://bit.ly/3m5fKAy

Next Time: DC’s Christmas with the Superheroes (1988)

Some of My Friends Read Comics 140 – Harrow County + Squadron Supreme #5

October 28, 2020October 28, 2020 Vincent Goodwinbest horror comics, countless haints, cullen bunn, dark horse comics, harrow county, harrow county volume 1, some of my friends read comics, somfrc, spooky comics, tyler crookLeave a comment

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 by Tyler Crook, so we just had to try it!

The first volume, Countless Haints, was only 4 issues and the haints were honestly pretty countable.

Then we moved on to Squadron Supreme #5 where the entire team gets mind controlled AGAIN.

MP3: https://bit.ly/34zw0Uk

Next Time: Dog Man 3: A Tale of Two Kitties

Some of My Friends Read Comics 139 – Tales from the Crypt + Squadron Supreme #4

October 14, 2020October 14, 2020 Vincent Goodwinbest horror comics, crime patrol, crypt of terror, cryptkeeper, ec comics, some of my friends read comics, somfrc, squadron supreme, tales from the crypt, tales from the crypt comicsLeave a comment

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, we read the first issues (#17-19) called Crypt Of Terror before they changed the name. It was some weird crime stuff before that, I know it’s confusing, just listen to the episode and everything will be okay.

Until we continue our read of Squadron Supreme with #4 in which everything is definitely NOT okay.

MP3: https://bit.ly/3iXfJfF

Next Time: Harrow County: Countless Haints by Cullen Bunn & Tyler Crook

Some of My Friends 138 – Black Panther: DoomWar + Squadron Supreme #3

September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 Vincent Goodwinbest black panther comics, black panther, deadpool, doctor doom, doom war, doomwar, jonathan mayberry, scot eaton, shuri, some of my friends read comics, somfrc, squadron supreme, storm, x-menLeave a comment

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?!?!?! Oh no.

And wait until you see which Deadpool character named Deadpool shows up to help the Black Panther out, it’s a real shocker.

We also read Squadron Supreme #3 and got some pretty unacceptable behavior from one of them old boys.

MP3: https://bit.ly/34a0jPV

Next Time: Tales from the Crypt #17-19 (found in the Tales from the Crypt: The EC Archives Vol 1)

Some of My Friends Read Comics 137 – The Boys + Squadron Supreme #2

September 16, 2020September 16, 2020 Vincent Goodwindarick robertson, dynamite comics, garth ennis, some of my friends read comics, somfrc, squadron supreme, the boys amazon, the boys comicLeave a comment

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 unwise decision. The levels of sex and gore in these pages had us questioning if we had become our own moms.

We moved onto Squadron Supreme #2 as quickly as we could.

MP3: https://bit.ly/33uPWWw

Next Time: Black Panther: Doomwar

Some of My Friends Read Comics 136 – Rat Queens + Squadron Supreme #1

September 2, 2020September 2, 2020 Vincent Goodwinbest 2010s comics, dungeons & dragons, eiser award winning comics, female-led comics, glaad awards, image comics, independent comics, kurtis wiebe, mark gruenwald, rat queens, shadowline comics, some of my friends read comics, somfrc, squadron supremeLeave a comment

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 everywhere they go. We read the first volume of this Image title.

And then we begin our long read of Mark Gruenwald’s Squadron Supreme from 1984, which is some nice escapist fiction about fixing our broken brainwashed government.

MP3: https://bit.ly/31NGPR1

Next Time: The Boys: The Name of the Game by Garth Ennis & Darick Robertson