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Nostalgia. Is it a clear way to success for a comic book or a quick fix that fades rapidly?  This week, Cory!! and Joe talk about that as well as:

• When fans shut down an attempt for a reinaminging of a property. 
• What makes a reboot work 
• Can you reboot an ongoing series successfully?
• Marvel’s requirement for bringing back a failed property
• Cory!! Reviews the first “New EC” comic Epitaphs from the Abyss
• What properties should make a comeback?
• Why did this Transformers series work when the others have not created so big a splash.

Comics news potpourri

• Robert Downey Jr. San Diego news
• Joe Quesada returns to comics
• Transformers wins a Eisner award

Retro Review: Chamber of Chills #2 – Marvel 70’s horror anthology comic

All of this, the usual shenanigans, and Joe does not get a shiny new dime.

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Life got you down?  Needing a pick me up after a rough time of it?  We get it. Covid is back, the election is draining, and there’s only been one Marvel movie this year so far.  So, Joe and Cory!! Go over the comics they like to revisit for a warm, glow of entertainment and nostalgia.  They discuss:

• Walt Simonson on Thor
• Crossover Classics Volume 1
• Love and Capes
• Fantastic Four 40 – 100
• Fantastic Four under John Byrne
• The Invisibles

They also go over:

• What to collect in a crazy political season.
• Star Wars Oreos in American Food segment
• Breaking News: Diamond is opening a direct to consumer website

Joe does not have a retro review, but he goes over 5 random comics from his box of comics he bought from dollar bins.

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

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X-Men #1 has come out, the start of a new editorial era. It’s as good a time as any for Cory!! and Joe to talk about the end of the Krakoa Era and the start of the new one!

They also discuss:

• Cory!! has a scoop to share about a new line of reprints of Marvel stuff from Fantagraphics!
• What collectors are more obsessive than comic collectors?  Joe lets us know!
• DC’s big summer crossover Absolute Power
• The Retro Review is Godzilla: King of the Monsters by Marvel
• Cory has a new Hanging at the Home story from his time working in group homes
• By the way, Cory!! messes up. The Puzzler is in Spider-Boy 9, not 8.

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

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It’s time for a NEW Episode of your favoriute comic book podcast. This week we play with an idea floating around on Facebook:

Should Jean Grey have been brought back to life for X-Factor?  Cory!! goes into the plans behidn the scenes at Marvel at the time. They then discuss things that may or may not have been changed by Jean staying dead and a different character taking the “mystery character” role. Cory and Joe debate the issue, play with ideas that may have sprang from it, and if Jean Grey has been used well since her resurrection.

If you read the X-Men back in the 80’s, you’ll be yelling at us the whole time, and if you don’t know about the 80’s in the 80’s, get ready to sit back and learn about the X-Men as they started to become the most convoluted series of stories in comics!

They also discuss:

• Headphone trouble. 
• Cory!! tries Blueberry Donut flavored Potato Chips.
• AMERICAN FOOOOOOOD they discuss the new food at the Minnesotas State Fair
• How The X-Men had a big crossover to reveal a secret and revealed nothing at all.
• Joe goes dollar bin diving
• Cory!! talks about the weird world of TV tie in books. 

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 October 2024 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about!

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It’s time for a NEW Episode of yout favoriute comic book podcast. We will go into reviews of the stuff we got on Free Comic Book Day this year. We also discuss:

• An update on family issues that kept us from recording
• Everything in Minnesota is flooded!
• Cory!! talks editing podcasts
• The retro review forthis episode is WWE Battlemania #5 from Valiant BY STEVE DITKO!!

Comics reviewed!

• MAD
• Stories front he Atlas Comics Library
• Asterix
• Conan
• The Cursed Library
• One Piece
• Popeye
• Marvel Voices
• Overstreet Guide to Collecting Comics
• Flash Gordon

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 September 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 went to Reno NV for his eldest daughter’s graduation from graduate school!  He tells us about his adventures, and they also discuss:

• Cory!! taste testes Rooty Tootie Fresh and Fruit Lay’s Poato chips
• Cory!! Tries to ghet Joe to join in the testing of American Fooooooods.
• Joe talks about his trip to Comic Kingdom in Renoi NV
• Cory!! Talks about how his final article in college was rejected by people horrified he wrote it the way he wrote everything in college.
• Joe then goes to Uncle Junkie, an antique store
• Joe and Cory!! talk about DC comics surveys of the 70’s and 80’s. 
• Joe talks about this book in detail and when I was mixing the podcast and asked him about it, he denied knowing anything about it. 
• These Depthless Shores: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/p-h-low/these-deathless-shores/9780316569200/

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

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