Kray Z Comics And Stories

Free Comic Book Day was May 3rd, and as is tradition, we piled into Joe’s Cop Car and hit as many comics shops as we could. Joe Joe, Cory!!, Bunkhouse Butch, and Turbo for the nerdiest car ride in history!

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Last week, Cory!! Took the week off to cover Wrestlign events around WrestleMania, so he got a free day for geeking!  They discuss that as well as:

• It’s our first episode NOT on Skype
• Diamond News!
• Why isn’t Marvel doing new CrossGen comics
• Geek day!! Cory!! And Joe go to go to a bunch of local comics shops in the Twin Cities:
  • Nerdin’ Out
  • Mind’s Eye
  • Most Wanted
  • Dreamhave
• They also hit record store Electric Fetus
• Cory!!’s coverage of indy wrestling shows around WrestleMania

Retro Review: 

Dr. Kildare #3

All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!

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Every month, Joe and Cory!! go through Previews to highlight comics coming in the future. This time, they go through Previews for comics shipping in June 2025 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about!

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Joe’s partner in comics, Pat Gruber passed away a few weeks ago, and this week, we share stories and pay tribute to Pat.  Joe met Pat in High School over a shared love of comics. They started a convention based business together and then bought Hot Comics St. Paul in 1992. Joe and Cory!! Talk about:

• How Cory!! met Pat.
• Pat accidentally putting adult themed trading cards into MCBA giveaway 
• The Pat character in a minicomic made by two people at Hot Comics
• “The Shed”
• The infamous Wisconsin Dells comic convention
• How Pat outwitted a scammer by making sure he got cash
• The Poker game at MCBA cons and how Frank Cho lost a LOT of money and had to do commissions to make up the losses. 
• The infamous “blind guts” game
• Pat meeting Traci Lords
• “Hot Artist!!!!”

We also discuss Diamond Distribution news, freaking and geek, and the usual shenanigans. 

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Every month, Joe and Cory!! go through Previews to highlight comics coming in the future. This time, they go through Previews for comics shipping in May 2024 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about! AND because of time constraints, they cover everything BUT Marvel and DC who were in Last Week’s episode.

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Every month, Joe and Cory!! go through Previews to highlight comics coming in the future. This time, they go through Previews for comics shipping in May 2024 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about! AND because of time constraints, they only go through Marvel and DC, with everything else being in part 2, so it’s a Very Special Episode

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Cory found an old issue of Amazing Heroes in his vast files and sent Joe a copy of the top 100 selling comics list. Joe and Cory!! Go over the sales, what surprised them, what they bought, and some behind the scenes information on the comics named.

They also discuss:

• Joe and Cory give their “Five things they did at their jobs last week” report
• Cory has a trip to buy Previews and FAILS
• How did the comic Groo give us the phrase “Marvel Zombies”
• Cory!! Finding out about Alan Moore early on in his Swamp Thing run in the 1980’s
• We find a comic right outside the top 100 that NEITHER CORY NOR JOE KNOW ABOUT!! 
• Cory!! Talks about when DC comics bought ads in college newspapers in 1986.

A retro review of Amaing Spider-Man 178

All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!

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We have a NEW Segment:  Diamond Watch as we go over the news coming out of Diamond’s bankruptcy

After that, Cory and Joe discuss their Fave Five Comic Series Crossovers!  The stories they discuss are:

• Spider-Man 171/Nova 12
• The Avengers/Defenders War
• Peace on Earth Thor 371/Thor 372/Avengers 296/Avengers 297/Fantastic Four 350 – 354
• Acts of Vengance – Marvel
• Tomb of Dracula 41/Doctor Strange 14
• Fantastic Four Annual 11/Marvel Two In One Annual 1/Marvel Two in One 20
• Superman Family 190
• Avengers Annual 8/Marvel Two In One Annual 2

All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!

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Every month, Joe and Cory!! go through Previews to highlight comics coming in the future. This time, they go through Previews for comics shipping in March 2024 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about!

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Joe and Cory!! read a LOT of comics, and this week, they will review a big batch fo them, including:
-Dog Moon and Hell Eternal (Vertigo)

-Mad Magazine 44 (DC Comics) 

-Smarg – A local Minnesota comic 

-The Little Stooges (American Entertainment)

-Astro City Metrobook 6 (Image)

-Epitaphs From The Abyss 7 (Oni)

They also discuss:
-Cory!! hypes his Gwandanaland subscription and they don’t even pay him to do it.

-Joe talks about how he would watch The Monkees at 3 am when Twin Cities TV went 24 hours

-They wander off onto a rabbit trail about syndicated TV packages of the 1970s

All of this, the usual shenanigans, and much, much more!

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