Monthly Archives: June 2020

In an episode we’d rather not have done, we say good bye to our friend Mike Edmundson. Known as Big Mike, he was an employee at Joe’s shop, but more than that, he was our dear friend, and he passed away last week. He helped run the MCBA conventions, went with us to comics shows, wrestling matches, got married at one of the conventions, but more than that, he was our friend.

We tell stories of Mike’s life

How he started at Joe’s shop in the 90’s.

Mike’s first appearance in the Kray Z Comics Retailer comic book from back then.

Mike’s time as a bouncer and how it helped and affected the comic shop

Why Mike left the shop as a worked, but never stopped helping

We discuss Mike’s passion for art and helping greyhounds

We also discuss comics and the usual stuff, but please listen to our tribute to a great man and our brother in comics.

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The return of comics is moving into its new phase as we get the NEW Previews for July and August. You’d think because the Previews of comics coming out in July and August is shorter and doesn’t have as many books, the Previews episode would be shorter.

You’d think that.

You’d be wrong. It’s a SUPER SIZED episode where we go through Previews, go over comics we’ve read lately as well as:

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

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If things in comics weren’t messy enough, DC announced last week that they will no longer be using Diamond as their broker to comics shops, breaking an exclusive agreement that has lasted for 25 years, and a normal distribution agreement that goes back to the founding of Diamond Distribution! Cory!! ad Joe are here to break it all down, give historical perspective and ask questions about what will happen in the future

Joe tells the story of what it was like when Marvel went exclusive with Heroes World, which caused the great exclusivity war of the mid 90’s and gave us Diamond as the only comics distributor until this year.

They also discuss:

The perspective of the owner of Mind’s Eye Comics: https://mindseyecomics.com/

Cory!! goes into detail on the history of comics distribution for a bit

Joe goes through how this will affect shops and their financials

Advice for comic shops dealing with this

How will this affect comics fans?

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

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This episode is a day late due to :: waves hands around frantically :: but it IS ready for you and you can ride along with Cory!!, Joe and Butch as they complete their “Comic shops opening day” here in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul.

So, here is all of us talking about our trips to:

The College of Comic Book Knowledge

Hot Comics Richfield

The Source Comics and Games

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