2037 - CGS Reads: West Coast Avengers (1984)

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🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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The Speakers of Geek continue their journey through Marvel Limited Series of the ‘80s with West Coast Avengers by Roger Stern, Bob Hall, Brett Breeding and company. Hear our reactions - favorable and not so favorable - to the first Avengers spinoff title, the spotlight on lesser known characters, the backstory and development, the villains, the art and more! (1:01:11)

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0:00.0	This is Comic Geek Speak episode 2037.
0:04.1	CGS reads the West Coast Avengers limited series.
0:12.0	You got it on Wednesday, and it was like about it going to the ball you love.
0:16.9	These guys will talk about it, everything the geeks love.
0:19.6	For kids a laser beam, the planes like the seas is seas On everything you read And comic, movie, games Toys, artists, Cove! Come on, come, come, come, come, Come on, come, come, come, come, come, geek speak, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, geek speak, coming, come, geek. Uniting the world's mightiest heroes.
0:38.6	This is!
0:41.0	And welcome to the show.
0:42.5	I'm Shane Kelly.
0:43.8	I'm Brian Deemer.
0:45.1	I'm Brian Christman.
0:46.6	I'm Peter Rios.
0:51.9	Comic Dink!
0:57.9	Okay, another CGS reads.
1:02.3	Not a book of the month, not a footnotes, not an off-the-rack of current issues,
1:07.5	just reading comics maybe that we've read before,
1:13.3	maybe that we haven't read before, this particular new topic thing we're doing, CGS reads started last time with the Machine Man limited series. We talked about reading
1:23.5	Marvel limited series from the 80s. So then the next one we said, let's read West Coast Avengers.
1:30.3	This may not always stick to a Marvel limited series.
1:33.9	Maybe in the future we'll do something else.
1:37.3	I know.
1:38.2	You're hankering for D.C.'s at the weird.
1:40.8	I know it.
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