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How To Play Comic Hunters

You want to own the best comic collection. And that’s your goal in the game, get the best one available. The more different groups of comics you have, or the larger collection of a character, all provide different scoring opportunities. As well as you get more points for collecting key issues or firsts or first appearances, and more. All of that to at the end of three rounds of building your collection, the most points wins.

The Drafting

This is done over four different types of drafting or auctions. Each one has it’s own twist to it. And you do three of them each of the three rounds.

Standard Draft is the first one that you do. This one is going to be your typical take one card and pass it along.

Slide Puzzle Draft is a new one for me, and this is going to be in a five by five grid of comics. The middle one is open and players take turns sliding a card, like a slide puzzle, and then picking a row or column and taking all of a single character from it. It comes back again but in reverse turn order for players to make a second selection.

Winston Draft is the next one that happens. I use this term because it’s related to Magic the Gathering drafting. But outside of that it might not mean much. A player number of rows are put out. Players then can either take a row or add to a row. Rows can never have more than four cards in them, so you need to think about what you add or when a row becomes tempting enough to take.

Auction is the final one and it’s not really a draft. Again player number of rows are put out. And players put one row up for auction each time. Eventually every player will get a row. And the final player has to pay one per card in that row. But the rows vary from five long to three long. And what you bid with are points.

Building Your Collection

After three of those drafts, which I generally would teach when the draft comes up, is building your collection. As you build your collection you need to create groups of at least two of a character. And you need to think about the costs. Each card has a cost and each card can be used to pay for a cost. These are actually the same numbers. So you put together your collection, but you also need to spend cards to pay for them as well, so it’s optimizing what is your best collection to cost. And you can only keep two cards in your hand at the end of each round.

What Doesn’t Work

I like this game, and there is a reason that The Dice Tower and companies have been looking to bring it over. But I think there is one main concern with the game. I even call it out when I talk about building the collection. If you teach all four auctions at once, it’s not going to be fun. There is so much information that it’s an overload for players. Instead, I think it’s key when playing and getting into the game to teach each auction as it comes up.

The other thing is less about the game play, but more beware of the components. They are inconsistent, or that’s the best way to put it. Some of the cardboard pieces are too thin. And the marker as to what action is coming up next, that is too large. But the cards are a great thickness which is good because they’ll be handled and shuffled a lot.

What Works

Drafts and Auctions

I think the each auction or draft is fun. Yes, the first draft is basic. But I think that works well to get people into the game. And the subsequent drafts should get people excited to play the game. That combination is impressive to me because it could have easily gotten bloated or complicated. But because there is space to teach it after each round, I think it works well.

Cost and Value of Comics

I also appreciate the dual uses of the cards. I either use it for a collection or I use it to pay for it. That is a puzzle in and of itself. And I think it makes some of the drafts more interesting. I want to get as many high value comics as I can because I can pay for more. But also, high value comics provide more points at the end of the game. So I want them for two reasons and that is a good and simple tension in the game.

Game Length

The game length is also a positive for me with the game. I find that Comic Hunters is a game that isn’t too long or too short. And it is likely to play even faster as you play it more often. If everyone knows the game, it should play very quickly, almost a filler, but it feels like more. Even with teaching the game, which I expect I’ll do often, it is a fast game.

Marvel

And, finally, I think the theme is important. People like Marvel, even with less consistent movies and shows recently, people still like it a lot. And that is some of what took it forever to get to the United States. To get the theme and artwork truly done right it required a lot of licensing of images. It could have worked with generic comics, but it feels better with the Marvel IP.

Who Is It For

I think this is a great game for a number of different people. The Marvel theme might make it seem like the target is Marvel fans. This is not a money grab for that, though. Players still need to engage with the game on different levels each draft or auction.

For me, I think this is more of a gamers filler game, or for a very casual person, a game like Catan or Ticket to Ride where, because of the theme, it’s one of five games in their collection. It will get played, and when they want to play a game, it’s going to be the one they always pick. But I don’t think it’s a great game for putting into a rotation without the expectation of repeated plays for very casual gamers. It needs to become the game that they play.

Final Thoughts and Rating of Comic Hunters

I definitely enjoy Comic Hunters. I knew I would after my first play. For me, the combination of drafts and auctions works really well. And each of them has the same goal, which I think is important. It doesn’t make the game feel too large or bloated because it is always about building the best comic book collection.

Obviously for me, the theme of Comic Hunters is going to help. I love Marvel, so a game about Marvel Comics, that’s great. But there is more than just that theme in the game. It’s about how you want to build the collection. I didn’t dive deep into scoring, but there are a lot of ways to get points. And whether you want to collect all of one character or collect a little of a lot can really change up your strategy. So I think that offers even more variability and replay value to the game.

My Grade: A
Casual Grade: B-
Gamer Grade: B+

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Plus in the news we have a last few Deadpool and Wolverine notes from characters in some later trailers, to the Russo brothers in talks to return. And rumors around what could be announced at San Diego Comic Con.

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Comments or Questions: Who Has the Best X-Men Team?

Who is the person who drafted your favorite X-Men team. Is there one that stood out to you over the others or one you’d like to see most in the movies?

Plus, do you have thoughts on the Russo brothers returning?

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Plus we talk about the news. Marvel isn’t doing a big Hall H Panel at Comic Con this year. Why aren’t they doing it? A new cameo for Deadpool 3 and a possible plot details for Loki. And two comics coming out, including Werewolf by Night after the success of that Disney+ special.

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Comments or Questions: Secret Invasion?

What are your thoughts on Secret Invasion? With our theories, which one sounds the best, which is the most farfetched, and which one do you hope is true?

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And of course the trailers:

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

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Comments or Questions

What did you think of the two trailers, which one looks better to you? And are you going opening weekend to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever? And what do you think about the character that Emilia Clarke seems to be playing? How do you think she’ll tie into the story of Secret Invasion?

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And with a massive multiversial event coming up with The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars at the end of Phase 6, it got me thinking, what characters do I really want to see in the MCU that we haven’t so far. I am going to skip characters who might be coming up soon that we know about. The Hood for example in Ironheart might have made the list. The Fantastic Four would be obvious choices but we know we’re getting them. So without much more writing, let’s get to the list.

Top 10 Marvel Characters I Want in the MCU

10 – Squirrel Girl

Almost didn’t make my list. Squirrel Girl is such a meme at this point that it feels odd to put her on there. But she is a fun character and one of those grounded characters that works well. I’d love to see her and some other ground level characters work together. Once Ms Marvel is done with Captain Marvel, team her up with Squirrel Girl and Spider-Man and make a NY street level movie out of it.

9 – Beta Ray Bill

A character who is already hinted at in the MCU is Beta Ray Bill, but no casting and as far as I know, no plans. Beta Ray Bill’s face, or something similar, was on the Grandmasters tower with Hulks face. I’m glad they didn’t try and squeeze him into Thor: Ragnarok plot. But eventually Chris Hemsworth will be done with Thor. And instead of killing him off or recasting him, why not have a horse faced alien take over?

8 – Beast

This list could have just been X-Men and mutants. We’re obviously waiting for them to come up, but one of my favorites that I wanted to talk about is Beast. Beast, I like him because he’s like Smart Hulk without the other personality. But unlike Smart Hulk where eventually there will be smashing, Beast really never wants to use his strength. So it’d feel like a character with different motivations and I think he’s key to forming an X-Men team.

7 – Magik

I’m not sure if New Mutants technically came out after Disney bought 20th Century Fox, it was in the works for so long, but I want Magik in the MCU. We’ve had hints of things like other realms and demonic realms, so bring in Magik. Someone who has the ability to go through realms because, well, she has a lot of story connections to there. Even learning her dark magic in Limbo. Plus her character with a giant sword that can slice through dimensions is great.

6 – Amadeus Cho

Amadeus Cho, a hulk, and a character that I wish would have shown up in She Hulk but I don’t think will. But it’d be another chance to introduce another Hulk into the MCU. And one who isn’t blasted with gamma radiation, but instead using his smarts comes up with nanotechnology that allows him to control the gamma radiation and when he changes. Yes, we already do have a lot of Hulks, and I think we end She Hulk with one more, but Amadeus Cho is different enough, I think to work.

5 – Ghost Rider

Ghost Rider I hope we see sooner rather than later. I really enjoy him as a character and even Nicholas Cage’s Ghost Rider was fun. This would again like Magik tie into a story line with Mephisto or some other demon. Since Ghost Rider gets his powers that way as well. I really don’t care which version we get, I’d just like to see him show up and work with Moon Knight or Blade.

4 – Brother Voodoo

Brother Voodoo was actually rumored at one point in time to be in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. He wasn’t and I’m okay with that. How do you bring him in, well, I want a Werewolf by Night, coming out so soon, style special with him. Give me in 2023 or 2024 a creepy Halloween special where Brother Voodoo is investigating something in the Louisiana Bayou, maybe even teamed up with a character higher on my list. It’d be a great vibe and he’s a character who takes the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme as well, which I think would be interesting to have Doctor Strange passed by again.

3 – Doctor Doom

I thought about, much like with X-Men stuffing the list full of villains. There are a lot of good ones out there, but Doctor Doom is the one who made it onto the list and very high on the list. I suspect we’ll see him first of any of these characters. I think he might even show up as soon as Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but more like Fantastic Four. But Doom is such a great villain that I want him now.

I’ve talked on some a bit about how I’d bring them in, but I want Doom to already exist in the world. No origin story, but during the blip, he creates Latveria, the country he rules. He uses the political unrest to cut out a little country for himself. And when people come back, he greats them with open arms, but eventually we figure out that he is really a villain. Give me all that backstory before The Fantastic Four film, please.

2 – Rogue

Final two are X-Men and both of them could team up with Brother Voodoo for the Halloween special that I want to happen. Rogue is a great character mainly because she is very powerful. But with her power there is a massive drawback. There are rumors, unfounded, that she’ll be in The Marvels. There is a storyline where she drains Captain Marvel’s powers and leaves her in a coma, I doubt that they do that, though. But put her down south with my top character, put them on the run, and let them be somewhat shady good guys dealing with weird things, I’m cool with that.

1 – Gambit

My number one is Gambit. I just find his powers awesome. But to go along with that, I think he often has very interesting storylines. Gambit is a character who I wouldn’t mind seeing more of an origin for. Mainly because like an Ant-Man he goes from criminal to hero. But to get that full story and to get to see him as a criminal I think would be good. Ant-Man/Scott Lang, always seems like he was on the right side. What I like about Gambit is that he was on the wrong side and then comes over.

Plus, he’s a perfect character to provide a bit of levity to a Halloween special. Team him up with Brother Voodoo, Gambit is probably in over his head. But he’s the type of character who always tries to make it work even when the odds are against him.

Who Would Be On Your List?

Let me know who would make your list? If I had more of a connection to stuff like Jessica Jones or Luke Cage, I could see maybe having put them on the list. I like them as characters in the comics. But not enough and I need to watch the Defenders shows that they were in on Netflix. And there are some characters I’d like to see make more MCU debuts like Miles Morales, but he’s with Sony.

So this is my list, definitely could have come up with more. And I do think a number of them, will be coming in the next handful of years. But what that’ll look like, I’m not sure.

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There’s a lot to talk about this week. Not only was there a bunch of news and rumors that have come out, during the Super Bowl we got a new Black Widow teaser spot. But bigger than that, we got a teaser for not one, not two, but three Disney+ shows. Our first real glimpses of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, WandaVision, and Loki.

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Some big news from Marvel right after last weeks episode as they named a Chief Creative Officer for the company, wonder who that could be. Then I take a look at Iron Man 3, which I watched recently, how does that movie hold up against the other Iron Man movies and other MCU movies?

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