Superhuman Registration Podcast

Castlevania Christianity

The folks at the Superhuman Registration Podcast appear to be mining Marvel Snap for their story ideas, as they are reading primarily stories focused on their favorite cards from the game. In this week’s installment, they tackle a Blade-centric story in 2004’s Tomb of Dracula. After that, it’s a return to Ironheart when the character gets her own ongoing series in 2019. How does the character’s solo story hold up now that she’s out of Iron Man’s shadow? Give it a listen and find out!

Thoughts of Sexy Hutts

We kick off the new year by visiting the Star Wars side of Marvel with a couple of weirdly Empire-specific tie-ins.

First, we look at the alternate-timeline series Star Wars Infinities, where the story of the original Empire Strikes Back plays out after Luke escapes the wampa on Hoth and… dies. Huh.

The second story is a modern take on some of the events bridging Empire and Return of the Jedi, where the worst eBay bidding war takes place over the body of Han Solo. Also, some bounty hunters fight. It’s War of the Bounty Hunters.

The H in White

We’re back from sick leave with our technically holiday episode! There’s not much to celebrate when the King in Black comes around, except for maybe we like Venom now? Also, we visited the world of Marvel’s Champions, because what says Christmas more than teen heroes?

Fill-in Issue: Chris Eliopoulos

Well, the plague has come to the Superhuman Registration Podcast, and none are spared. So we’re skipping our usual episode format this week, and instead Stephen is taking a closer look at the career of letterer extraordinaire Chris Eliopoulos!

Here’s How I Suck

We take a break from the tights and flights this week to discuss some classic literature. We look first at the Marvel adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (no zombies - October was last month), and then we review The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (no music - comics are a visual medium).

The X-Men Neighborhood

We took a break from playing Marvel Snap to try something a little different. We still read a bunch of comics (in this case, Giant Size Dracula #2, The New Mutants Special Edition #1, and The Chris Claremont Anniversary Special), but this time we chose to focus on the career of one individual. There’s a clue to who the topic of our exploration this week was in one of the issue titles. Can you figure it out?

Gaslight, Gravedig, Girlboss

The spookiest season of ‘22 concludes with the traditional observation of All Hallow’s Eve: trick or treating, singing the Monster Mash around a trash fire… and, of course, the annual reading of Marvel Zombies. This year, we tackle Marvel Zombies Return, and we follow that up with a little Halloween cheesecake in the form of 2001’s Bloodstone.

My Boy, He’s Stylized

Welcome to the last* episode of the Superhuman Registration Podcast! We go out with a bang. A big one, like the bang of a backfiring motorcycle from hell. We’ve got a double-feature of Ghost Rider this week, specifically focusing on Robbie Reyes, both as a soloist and an Avenger.

 

*not actually the last, even though John is wrong about soup.

NAPowrimo

We got another threefer - this one, a trip through the history!  We start at the beginning, with the creation of a (counter) Earth in Marvel Premiere #1. From there, we move to the birth of modern mutant storytelling with Giant Size X-Men #1. Lastly, we conclude with a jaunt to an alternate history in Spider-Man Life Story Annual.

Rick O’Shea, Irish Assassin

It’s been a while coming: this week, the gang tackles John’s Holy Grail, his White Whale, the conclusion to the Hope Summers trilogy of X-events: Second Coming.

And then Stephen and Aldo put it at the bottom of the list JUST KIDDING!

…or am I?