I Read Comic Books

Episode 156 | Mike and Rene are Fighting about Skins

Episode Summary

Kait and Rene join Mike to discuss the always-growing, always weird, world of comics that are used to expand on a TV or Movie universe. What works about these stories? What doesn’t? Do we even need them? And Mike and Rene almost get into an audio fist-fight about the UK E4 series Skins.

Episode Notes

This episode was recorded on April 15th, 2018.

Kait and Rene join Mike to discuss the always-growing, always weird, world of comics that are used to expand on a TV or Movie universe. What works about these stories? What doesn’t? Do we even need them? And Mike and Rene almost get into an audio fist-fight about the UK E4 series Skins.

Timestamps

• 00:00:00 – Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:13:37 – Comic Picks
• 00:22:38 – Expanding TV Universes With Comics
• 00:57:05 – Wrap/Credits

Comic Reads/Picks for this week

• Pretty Deadly Volume 1
• Exiles #1
• Domino #1
• Kekkaishi Volume 30
• Platinum End Volumes 3 & 4
• Spider-Girl #3-#5
• Spider-Man 2099 #1-#3
• Hotel Africa Vol. 1
• Giant Days #37
• Isola #1
• Thrawn #2
• Tokyo Ghoul tome 1
• Fence #5
• Action Comics #1000
• Musketeers #3

Relevant Links/Information

• Mike – @mikerapin
• Kait – @KaitLPhere
• Rene – @Rodrigur29

Music provided by Infinity Shred. Find them on Bandcamp.

This week’s episode was produced by Mike Rapin and edited by Zander Riggs.

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