HeyJaredSome of My Friends Read Comics
SOME OF MY FRIENDS READ COMICS is a book-club format podcast about reading the great comic book stories for the first time.
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264 - Out of Alcatraz + Ultimates #11 (opens the original)
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It's time for some modern crime stuff that's based on a true story and also totally made up. It's Christopher Cantwell and Tyler Crook's Out of Alcatraz! Based on the infamous escape from 1962, it follows the story of the 3 mysterious inmates who were never found again. Interesting stuff! Then we move onto Ultimates #11 which gave us a lot to talk about! Like why did the bad guy spend half the issue monologuing about his plan and then change it? Next Time: We investigate Secret Wars (2015) by re
263 - Archie Meets Batman '66 (opens the original)
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We decided it's time to try another comic book crossover and we think we may have finally picked a good one for once: Archie Meets Batman 66' by Jeff Parker and Michael Moreci. It's campy, it's old timey, and it knows it's dumb as hell, so let's go for it. Plus the art by Dan Parent and the covers by Mike Allred are perfectly primed to make middle-aged nerds weep. Then we read Ultimates 10, which unfortunately also made us weep. Next Time: Out of Alcatraz by Christopher Cantwell & Tyler Crook
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