This episode was originally published February 17th, 2017.

Frank regales Tim with the tale of seeing George Takei at a live Q&A and screening of that most legendary of Star Trek films: The Wrath of KHAAAAAAN! Cheers!

Beers of the Week
Saranac Black Forest Ale
Saranac Cold Brew Coffee Lager

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Frank and Vactor get into the news that the original theatrical cut of A New Hope, the version Lucas kept buried for nearly fifty years, is coming back to theaters in 70mm IMAX for Star Wars' 50th. Tim's still on paternity leave, so it's a two-hander. Cheers!

Beers of the Week

• Sam Adams American Light
• Propel Fitness Water, in spirit, because he forgot it

More Vactor: This Comic COOKS! on YouTube and TikTok, plus weekly on Lanterns Live with his friend Ralph right after each new episode airs. He was last with us on #572.

Shout out to Derek and Graham over at Super House of El, and to our friend William Goodman, who joined them this week and writes about Lanterns for GQ and Men's Health.

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Special Guest: Vactor.

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Links:

• Star Wars 50th anniversary in IMAX — The original theatrical cut of A New Hope returns to select theaters in 70mm IMAX.
• The leaked 4K restoration of the original cut — The test shots that started the rumors.
• Acquired: The Walt Disney Company — Part one of the Disney history we get into.
• Acquired: Disney, The Renaissance and the Empire — Part two, and where the Disney Vault came from.
• This Comic COOKS! — More Vactor, on YouTube and TikTok.
• Super House of El — Derek and Graham, plus William Goodman this week.

Frank and Tim crack open a couple of beers and head back to 1989, where Tim Burton built an entire Gotham City from scratch on a soundstage and Jack Nicholson had his name above the title of a Batman movie.

Beers of the Week
Sam Adams American Light Lager
Little House Hornet's Honey Imperial Kölsch

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Right before Tim's parental leave, he and Frank finally did the thing they swore they'd never do: they watched The Return of Swamp Thing. Cheers!

Beers of the Week
Sam Adams Blueberry Lager
WhistlePig Rye

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Frank and Vactor from This Comic Cooks on YouTube and TikTok dig into My Adventures with Superman Season 3: the season that took an already-great show and somehow made it ten times better. Tim's out on the happiest possible assignment, so it's a two-hander. Cheers!

⚠️ Full spoilers throughout.

Beers of the Week

• Sam Adams Porch Rocker
• Waterloo Summer Berry

More Vactor: Trust In The Force. See all his past BwG appearances here.

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Tim and Frank finally sit down for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, the one Tim waited weeks to catch in 70mm IMAX. Cheers!

⚠️ Full spoilers throughout. It's a three-thousand-year-old story, but still.

Beers of the Week

• Stoneface Brewing Italian-Style Pilsner
• Bero Kingston Golden Pils

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Links:

• The Rest is History: The Odyssey | Hero of the Trojan Horse (Part 1)
• The Rest is History: The Odyssey | Return of the King (Part 2)

Frank, Tim, and Vactor from This Comic Cooks have seen Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and they’re bringing you their full review.

⚠️ Full spoilers start around 25:00.

We get into where it lands next to No Way Home, why Destin Daniel Cretton's Shang-Chi fight choreography and the PlayStation games are all over the web-swinging, and whether the new cloth suit is the most comic-accurate Spider-Man we've had on screen. Then the gripes: organic web-shooters vs. Peter's science brain, a Jean Grey who might be a little too mean, the Yelena spa scene, and the eternal question: how does a broke kid in New York afford the rent, the flowers, and that many Little Caesars?

Plus: a debate about theater-crowd etiquette ("on your left" cheerers vs. pin-drop-silence purists), the Hulk-remembers moment, and a villain wishlist that runs from Hobgoblin to the Jackal.

Beers of the Week

• Bero Kingston Golden Pils
• Bero Spider-Man: Brand New Day x Pils
• Sam Adams Summer Ale (2025 vintage)

Special Guest: Vactor.

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Tim and Frank just got back from definitely actually going to San Diego Comic-Con for real life and not pretend. Cheers!

Beers of the Week:
Sam Adams Old Fezziwig spiced ale
Whistle Pig Piggy Back rye, with a water chaser

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Frank and Tim pour a drink and break down every reveal, theory, and Easter egg buried in the trailer for Avengers: Doomsday. Cheers!

We get into:

• The incursion, and why this is basically the first act of the movie (heroes miscommunicate, then find a bigger threat)
• The X-Men leading the cold open: Xavier's school on its last legs and what that window shot means
• Doctor Doom in live action for the "fifth" time, and why this one finally feels like it counts
• The RDJ voice debate: is that Downey under the mask, and does it matter if Doom just happens to have Tony's face?
• Crossover money shots Marvel wants you to care about (Shang-Chi vs. Gambit) and the ones that actually land
• Thor vs. Doom, and the magic rune on Doom's gauntlet that might belong to Wanda
• The Hydra Cap theory: how is a long-haired, bearded Steve worthy of Mjolnir?
• Is that Loki shot really pulled from the show? And is Doom collecting kids?
• The Kang problem nobody at Marvel wants to say out loud
• Where's Spider-Man, and why he's probably being saved for Secret Wars and Battleworld
• Tickets already selling out and a teaser that cleared 500 million views in a week

What we're drinking: Frank's on a Sam Adams Blueberry Lager (Red, White & Blueberry). Tim is drinking WhistlePig PiggyBack rye out of a porcelain Doctor Doom head he's had since childhood, whose brains have apparently been replaced by whiskey.

Next week: San Diego Comic-Con hype (and yeah, we still owe you Lois & Clark).

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Tim and Frank take on a deceptively simple question: is Spider-Man actually a street-level superhero? What starts as a debate about subgenres turns into a much bigger conversation — about tone, stakes, and whether the label helps or hurts a character when your hero is literally swinging above the street.

Beers of the Week
Sam Adams Porch Rocker Lemon Radler (Frank)
Stormalong Legendary Dry Hard Cider — Millis, MA (Tim)

In this episode

• Sam Adams Porch Rocker returns — the annual visit, and this year it's slightly less tart (in a good way)
• Sam Adams's new can design — Sam covering his own letters with a raised mug (or is that Paul Revere? or Thomas Jefferson?)
• Stormalong dry cider, heirloom + bittersweet apples, and the cracking-tentacles Kraken can
• H.P. Lovecraft geography detour: Providence vs. Newport, the racism asterisk, where Arkham actually came from
• The main question: is Spider-Man a street-level superhero at all?
• Defining street-level: it's about the tone and the stakes, not the powers — Daredevil pounds the tar, Batman is technically anything but blue-collar
• Peter Parker's sci-fi problem: his origin is basically Fantastic Four, the web shooters make him genius-tier, and Frank once asked his dad to build a pair
• Kraven the Hunter's magic jungle potion goes golfing
• A live tally of Spider-Man's rogues gallery — chameleon, vulture, Doc Ock, Sandman, Lizard, Electro, Mysterio, Green Goblin, Kraven, Scorpion, Morbius, Venom — and where each one lands on street / middle / cosmic
• The verdict: 5 street, 6 in-between, 1 cosmic — Spider-Man's distribution skews low-end, but he's genuinely hard to pin down
• "Spider-Man is a street-level hero the same way Breaking Bad is a show about a chemistry teacher." — the Breaking Bad Test
• Why pigeonholing hurts long-lived characters, and why the supporting cast is really what makes a hero viable
• Reading from Superman: The Never-Ending Battle by Roger Stern — Clark Kent finally becomes Superman across an entire beautiful page of prose

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Frank and Tim both showed up in green. Neither planned it. They discuss the trailer for the upcoming Green Lantern TV series Lanterns (2026). Cheers!

Beers of the Week
Sam Adams Winter Lager
Two Pitchers Nordic Jam

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