Monthly Archives: December 2020

Cory!! and Joe have a big ol’ stack of comics and they want to review them so you can know if you should BUY: Spend your hard earned cash on these comics, BORROW: read them on a service like Comixology Unlimited, Marvel Unlimited or DC Universe, or pick them up ina library, or IGNORE: Don’t waste your time ro money on it. The comics they review are:

• The Other History of the DC Universe #1 – DC
• Mad Magazine #17 – DC
• Happy Hour #1 and #2 – Ahoy comics
• The Autumnal #1 – Vault Comics
• Crossover #1 – Image
• A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night – Behemoth
• The Union #1 – Marvel
• Wolverine” Black, White and Blood #1 – Marvel
• King In Black #1 – Marvel
• X-Men: The Art And Making Of The Animated Series
• Fantastic Four Road Trip One Shot: Marvel

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

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It’s time for our annual tradition. FESTIVUS!!

As it is Festivus, we have the Airing of the Grievances! Cory!!, Joe, and special guests Dangerous Dan Mohr and Stephanie Cofell give their grievances for 2020, so you should be amazed it’s not a 20 hour episode!

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Out on the internet, Cory!! found a sales chart from the old magazine The Comics Reader, showing the top 100 selling comics from the month November 1980. So, Cory!! and Joe go through it, discussing the comics, the history behind them, and putting ti all in context. So, they pull a Casey Casem and discuss the comics on the list, as well as:

• What was the Comics Reader?
• How were X-Men sales in the late 70s and early 80’s.
• Creators who were great on some books and not so great on others.
• Comics from November 1980 that have skyrocketed in value
• The dominance of Richie Rich
• Which of these books are they still interested in
• The sales history of Batman in the 60’s and 70’s

So, you get to listen in and get the usual shenanigans and much, much more!

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It’s time for Cory!! and Joe to go through the Catalog of upcoming comics known as Previews! This time, it is for comics that start to come out in February of 2021. They highlight new series, hardcovers, trade paperbacks and other things that are NEW that they are either getting or are interested in, or want to point out to listeners.

They also discuss:

• Why we are the longest running episodic comic book podcast in history
• Stuff comic shops can do that Amazon does
• Cory!! Complains about the lack of Yoe Books.
• Why was Star Wars Dark Empire announced by Epic, but published by Dark Horse back in the day?

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

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There was so much talking as we drove around the Twin Cities on Black Friday that we have another episode of it! We went to Mind’s Eye Comics, Issues Needed Comics, and Nerdin’ Out in this episode looking for treasures and bargains. It’s Joe in the driver’s seat, Bunkhouse Butch next to him. and Cory!! in the back seat and you get to ride along! We also discuss:

• Why was War of the Gods delays back in the early 90’s?
• You know, the Wonder Woman crossover that Perez left Infinity Gauntlet to do
• Joe can’t stop talking about Secret Wars II
• We discuss how the Twin Cities comics market was with the 13 store chain Shinders in town.
• Behind the scenes at Roy Thomas’s second run on the Fantastic Four
• Mjolnir’s pronunciation.
• A discussion on DC’s Future’s Edge
• The economics of opening a comic shop

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