Swim Reads Comics

07/01/2025

Got to see the Charles Schultz (Peanuts) exhibit today! It's a touring museum exhibit ! Def check it out when it comes to a museum near you! I thought it was super interesting, it'll be at until Jan 17th !! Def check it out if you're close by!

22/11/2024

Swamp Thing by Micheal Zulli. Probably one of the greatest pieces of comic art I've ever seen. Mr Zulli passed away a few months ago, but I feel grateful for the beautiful body of artwork he left behind

20/11/2024

Next time someone pulls the, "Batman just beats up impoverished mentally ill homeless people" line, I'm gonna pull out these pages. Batman punching the prince of an alien race called the "new gods," has to be the opposite of beating up insane poor people. There are other moments too, but man, this is a good one. Really shows Bruce's heart and humanity.

27/10/2024

Hate when this happens

17/08/2024

"Just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man's name." Got my Marvel Legends Cabal of villains in order. Doom looks good on the Mobius chair.

17/08/2024

Norman is looking a lil stressed, but this Doctor Doom figure is next level

15/08/2024

Shout out to for the banger deals on these Marvel Legends. 200 dollars worth of comics and figures for hardly 90

07/08/2024

All I could think of watching

24/07/2024

Hasbro is ending the Lightning Collection, (allegedly,) so a lot of Rangers figs are going on the cheap. Swooped two from when I was a kid. Wild Force will always be my fave season

25/06/2024

Why do superheroes wear their underwear on the outside? There are more reasons than I can count, and it might go deeper than you think. We’re taking a look at the history of superheroes, character costume design for comics, and delving into the history of comics in general to get to the bottom of this age old question.

14/04/2024

Fun lil comic show!

17/11/2023

From the perfectly Spider-Man opening scene of Peter bumbling around as a teacher, to the race with Miles to catch up to a Sandman kaiju in the middle of a sandstorm, The game’s tutorial boss fight teaches you all the new mechanics for each character and slowly unravels everything you need to know about the world and lore, It’s the perfect tutorial level, and I was just amazed by it. I spent a lot of time playing Spider-Man remastered on stream recently, So small things about the swinging mechanics and maneuverability of your character were instantly noticeable to me. It felt like the leap from the mechanics of Spider-Man the movie the game to Spider-Man 2 the movie the game. It feels like you’re less on rails when web swinging or wall crawling, and when you’re using the web wings, the maneuverability and freedom you feel is massive. I kept saying this over and over again on stream, but it’s like Insomniac accidentally created the PERFECT flying mechanic for a Superman game. But praise aside, the game isn’t perfect. Or at the very least, the maneuverability still isn’t as good as Spider-Man 2. Another surprise was how much inspiration the game takes from Web of Shadows, There’s even a Web of Shadows easter egg on Osborn’s piano, The giant symbiote next spirals are the most obvious bit of influence Web of Shadows has on the game, But seeing that kind of thing in general just wasn’t what I expected A surprise but a pleasant one to be sure I’ve done a lot of videos recently, where I knock other modern comic book games So it really restored a lot of my faith in the games industry to see this game fly so high and achieve most of what the community had hoped it would Obviously, this is a game that’s gonna hold up way better than games as a service bu****it like Avengers, or Gotham Knights, but how does it stack up against other Spidey games? The way the physics and traversal of the city worked really felt like a step up from Spider-Man 1, It felt like the leap from the first Spider-Man movie game to the second in an odd way. The city of Spider-Man 1 was neat, but never really convincing. The city of Spider-Man 2 feels a lot more real and lived in, it’s a much more believable backdrop than the original, Stuff like the Baxter Building’s giant 4 not being finished painting feels really significant, or the eviction notice where Nelson and Murdoc was in the last game, Comparing the game to Web of Shadows and Ultimate Spider-Man specifically, I feel like it ups Web of Shadows on every conceivable level, The only thing Web of Shadows has on SM2, or any Spider-Man game really, is the air combat and wall crawling combat.

03/10/2023

"They're making who the new herald of Galactus?" "Yeah he's from the realm of darkness, haven't you played the dlc for Kingdom Hearts 616?"

21/05/2023

LIVE NOW!!! Come drop in and say hi!! Lets talk comics!!!

02/04/2023

Streaming some vidya, come talk comics!

22/02/2023