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Play Comics

by Chris Osborne

Play Comics is a show that looks at video games based on comic properties and how faithful those games stay to the source material.

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DC Universe Online with David Gallaher

Read transcript Congratulations! You’ve been hired by the Justice League. Your title is “Hero,” your qualifications are “showed up,” and your first assignment is standin

Oct 18
49 min

X-Men Origins Wolverine with Grant Stoye

Read transcript Wolverine is the best there is at what he does, and what he does is get stabbed, shot, and set on fire before shrugging it off and asking where the neare

Oct 11
43 min

Garfield a Tail of Two Kitties with Chris Maynard (Following Films)

Read transcript Garfield has spent decades perfecting one skill: refusing to leave the couch. So of course Hollywood sent him to England, handed him a royal lookalike, a

Oct 4
44 min

Digimon World 3 with Chels Eichholz (The Q Division, Across the Whoniverse)

Read transcript By the time Digimon World 3 rolled around in 2002, a franchise that started as an egg-shaped virtual pet and spun off into a manga and an anime around th

Sep 27
45 min

Link to the Past with Josh Garvey

Read transcript Most podcast guests call in from a spare bedroom, a closet lined with winter coats, or a parked car outside a grocery store. Josh Garvey is joining us fr

Sep 20
45 min

Hellboy The Science of Evil with George Marston (Spawnography)

Read transcript Every generation needs a reminder that games-based-on-movies-based-on-comics are their own strange little ecosystem, and Hellboy: The Science of Evil is

Sep 13
52 min

Marvel Trading Card Game with Gen Moonen (“Fun” & Games)

Read transcript >Let’s just say it up front: turning a trading card game into a video game is a magic trick where the “trading” and the “card” both quietly slip out the

Sep 6
43 min

Yu-Gi-Oh World Championship with William Morgan (The Geek Gauntlet Podcast)

Read transcript Every kid who ever begged a parent for money to hit GameStop on release day understands the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship series in their bones: it’s the

Aug 30
34 min

Garfield and His 9 Lives with Derek B Gayle (Gimmicks, Walloping Websnappers, Lee Carvallo’s Podding Challenge, Skreeonk!, Falling with Style)

Back in 1988, CBS gave us Garfield: His 9 Lives, an anthology special where our favorite lasagna enthusiast got to be a caveman, a pampered Egyptian god-cat, and an hones

Aug 23
46 min

TMNT with Jeremy Powers (Zenspath Entertainment Network)

Read transcript Let’s talk about the year 2007, when Ubisoft looked at Konami’s TMNT license, going up for grabs after three straight beat-em-ups, and said “yeah, we’ll

Aug 16
41 min

Naruto Path of the Ninja with Merrilee O'neil (Fear Coded)

Read transcript By the mid-2000s, Naruto had pulled off something most manga-to-anime properties never manage: it wasn’t just popular, it was everywhere, spinning off a

Aug 9
34 min

Spider-Man 3 with Harry Steele (Games On Film)

Read transcript Let’s talk about Spider-Man 3, the movie where Sam Raimi looked at “menacing single antagonist” and said no thank you, I would like three, please, and al

Aug 2
1 h 03 min

Yu-Gi-Oh Nightmare Troubadour with The Gaming Anthropologist

Read transcript Video game licensing runs on a very simple equation: if a popular franchise exists, and a handheld system exists, someone will eventually put a game toge

Jul 26
42 min

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 Mutant Nightmare with Pierce Lydon (Spawnography)

Read transcript By 2005, Konami had made three TMNT beat-em-ups based on the 2003 animated series, which is the kind of commitment usually reserved for tax filings or lo

Jul 19
1 h 00 min

Flash Gordon Defenders of the Earth with Ryan Estrada

Read transcript In 1986, King Features looked at its stable of unrelated newspaper strip heroes and decided the responsible thing to do was throw them all in a blender.

Jul 12
40 min

Garfield’s Nightmare & Scary Scavenger Hunt With Dee Parson (Supr Dee)

Garfield has spent I don’t want to think about how long being terrified for our entertainment, and somehow this is only the second time we’ve noticed. Today we’re looking

Jul 5
52 min

Superman Returns with Adam Williamson

Read transcript Superman Returns came out in 2006 and asked audiences a very sincere question: what if Superman, but sad? Brandon Routh brooded his way across the big sc

Jun 28
37 min

The Multipath Adventures of Superman with Chris Baker (SuperHero.VG)

Read transcript Somewhere out there is a piece of Superman history that almost nobody remembers exists. Not because it was bad. Not because it flopped. It just… vanished

Jun 21
59 min

Justice League Chronicles with Doug Adamson (The Monitor Tapes)

Read transcript Look, at some point you have to respect the audacity of putting the entire Justice League on a Game Boy Advance cartridge. Not one hero. Not two heroes d

Jun 14
44 min

Justice League Heroes The Flash with Merrilee O’Neil (Fear Coded)

Read transcript The year was 2006. The Game Boy Advance was winding down, the Justice League animated series had wrapped up, and someone at WayForward Technologies looke

Jun 7
40 min

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