Monthly Archives: July 2014

150 is over, and you’d think Cory!! and Joe would take a break, but you would be WRONG! They start up chatting about San Diego Comic Con, Batman day, and Barnes and Noble bribing comic book fans to come in their stores! They also discuss:

• Cory’s film geekery shows up as he talks about the new version of Metropolis
• Joe talks gangster movies
• Cory talks Marvel Star Wars comics
• John Carter Warlord of Mars Omnibuses. Omnibi? Omnibuseseseses?  I don’t know.  Those big damn books Marvel makes.
• Lots of TV talk because Cory and Joe love the TV shows
• Comic book media crossing over so that you can actually get from Charlie Chaplin to Futurama through comic book crossovers.
• Cory and Joe discuss a memo from Marvel where Marvel nearly got the rights to publish DC’s comics back in the 80’s and what THEY would do.
• Geeking and Freaking

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

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We got voice mail on Episode 150, so Cory!! goes through it, listens to it and answers it while Joe hides somewhere.

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It’s the 150th Episode!  Super-Sized with more Tales From The Shop than you can shake an iPod at, and a LONG discussion about opening a comic shop in today’s world!  Be There!

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It’s a new episode, Joe is excited about the new Weird Al album and Cory is ready to talk comics! He’s got a format list and everything!!

There’s a LOT of Tales From The Shop this week, including:

• The FIRST variant cover comic and other important variant cover comics
• Spider-Man #1 from Marvel in 1990
• X-Factor #1
• X-Men #1
• And all of the records those broke.
• Is there any monetary value to any of these special covers?
• Freaking and Geeking!

All of this, the usual shenanigans and the proverbial Much Much more!!

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We start the episode with talking about 70’s Saturday morning shows, since Joe done bought himself the Hudson Brother Razzle Dazzle Show on DVD. BE AFRAID! We also find out WHY Joe was GOING to hate Cory, but instead, he gets to laugh at Cory trying to see a sneak preview of Guardians of the Galaxy. They also discuss:

• Sneak preview tickets given to comic shops
• Record breaking concession sales when comic book fans show up at the movies
• Joe goes through an old invoice from his days in the shop where they discuss how they ordered, what they remember about the book and other stories about the comic shop
• Freaking and Geeking

And the proverbial much, much more!

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Joe DEMANDED we start podcasting early, so he obviously has a lot to talk about, right? Nope. So Cory!! has to come up with things to talk about. Things such as:

• How do Cory and Joe (and many other comics fans) read their comics now.
• How Netflix has affected comic reading
• How can comic shops cater to the new way people read comics and consume media
• Marvel’s future history chronology
• The different philosophy between Marvel and DC when it comes to capitalizing on tie-ins.
• Back when Diamond would get MAD about trying to sell comics directly to shops and fans
• Freaking and Geeking, where Joe will send you FREE STUFF!!

All of this and much, much more!

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