Ian and Jared sit down at the Featured table and take a look at the worker placement comic book publishing game, Age of Comics: The Golden Years, published by Lirius Games.

Publisher: Lirius Games

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Age of Comics: The Golden Years Age of Comics: The Golden Years is a worker placement management game in which players will run a publishing company during the golden age of comics (1938-54).

In each round the players, in turn, must position 4 meeples (workers called editors). They can choose 4 out of 6 spaces, called publishing tasks. There are 6 publishing tasks in total that can be performed in any order and lead to 6 specific player actions: hire, develop, ideas, print, sales, and royalties. The game lasts 5 rounds. The objective of the game is to accumulate the highest number of fans, make money by publishing comics and create the best portfolio of comic books. There are three main ways to accumulate fans:

Throughout the game, a fan chart will track the number of fans accumulated by the comics and will award victory points based on the players’ rankin