Monthly Archives: November 2020

The tradition continues. The day after Thanksgiving, Cory!!, Joe, and Bunkhouse Butch pile into a truck and drive around the Twin Cities looking for deals at the local comic shops! It’s different this year because of the pandemic, but that won’t stop them for looking for cheap reads, comics deals, and adventures on the road!

They bring along a recorder, so you can ride along, and they hit these comics shops:

• The Source Comics and Games
• Dreamhaven Books and Comics
• Time Bomb
• Wizard Wax
• The College of Comic Book Knowledge!

They also discuss:

• Beatles tunes
• What everyone did on Thanksgiving.
• Butch’s hamburger
• An update on the Minnesota conventions
• An explanation of the “Rural Purge” where CBS canceled the majority of their comedies in the early 1970’s.
• Crappy 70’s cartoons and kid’s shows
• How late was Camelot 3000?
• Eric Larson’s reaction to being in a Mini-comic Butch did
• What shops to they go to on vacation

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

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Marvel comics has a long, rich history of super-heroes, but since the first Fantastic Four issue in 1961, they have also had series that and NOT super-heroes. So, this week, Joe and Cory!! discuss their Fave Fave non-super-hero comics from Marvel!

They also discuss:

• A discussion of the Overstreet Price Guide
• How we track our comics
• Joe discusses why Overstreet is not the best price guide for currently hot comics
• Where did the first Star Wars tie-in book “Splinter of the Mind’s Eye” come from?
• What is the story around Steve Gerber’s Void Indigo series and how does a retailer in Texas have to do with it’s cancellation.

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

Our charity for this week is: https://www.heroinitiative.org/

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It’s time for our monthly EXTRA LONG episode because we are going over this month’s Previews catalog of comics coming in the month of January. There’s a LOT of discussion as we go through what comics we are looking forward to outside of our normal pull list., So, join along with uis as we talk upcoming comics and all of this stuff:

• Winter hit us like bomb.
• How hard it is to get the info from DC at comic shops
• Cory!! recommends an out of print book because that’s the type of stoopid crap he does.
• What in the flaming blue hell is DC’s Future State, coming out in January?
• Joe’s Tale From The Past
• Why our pal Butch is now called Bunkhouse Butch
• Jake and the Fatman

All of this, the usual shenanigans and way too damn much talking!

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Cory!! and Joe have been reading comics, because that’s what this here podcast is all about. So, this week, they go over the comics they have been reading and advise if you should Buy, Borrow, Or Ignore!

The comics they review are:

• Spider-Man II – Marvel
• Luthor – DC Black Label
• Cerebus #1 – What the what?
• Watchmen Companion – DC Black Label
• Department of Truth 1 and 2 – Image
• Joe goes over Beatles Comics
• Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Too Long A Sacrifice 1 & 2 – IDW
• Unsacred – Ablaze Press
• X of Swords – Marvel

They also discuss:

• This was recorded before the US election, so Joe and Cory!! let us know what their voting plan was.
• How did Joe and Cory!! spend Halloween
• Hammer films!
• The story of why Dave Sim didn’t care when Cerebus #1 was counterfeited.

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

During the holiday season, we turn our ads over to charities we support, and the charity in our ads this week is https://www.heroinitiative.org/

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Every month, Cory!! and Joe go over the new things in Previews that they are buying or excited about. However, the vast majority of comics aren’t first issues, special issues, omnibuses, or trade paperbacks, so what are the comics they buy month in and month out? They go over their pull lists, and explain how and why they buy the books they do.

They also discuss:

• A discussion of Schoolhouse Rock and In The News
• UCS no longer a distributor for DC Comics
• Cory!! and Joe talk about where The Enterprise was exploring during the first Star Trek series.

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

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