Kray Z Comics And Stories

August 8, 2025 · 4:46 pm

Kray Z Comics and Stories 682: Jim Shooter Was A Complicated Man, Part 2

It’s the second part of our look at Jim Shooter’s life in comics as we discuss:

Shooter’s attempt to buy Marvel after being fired leading to Valiant
Valiant’s early failures before becoming a hit via Wizard
STEVE DITKO DREW WWF COMICS
Joe’s shop making money with Valiant comics
How Shooter was forced out of Valiant and the companies he started after that
The rise and rapid fall of Defiant comics and Broadway comics
Shooter at Marvel and DC in the 2000s
Cory at a convention after party where Jim Shooter told stories until 3 am.

Rather than a retro review, they talk about the new Superman movie!

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

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August 1, 2025 · 4:06 pm

Kray Z Comics and Stories 681: Jim Shooter Was A Complicated Man

Former comics writer, editor and publisher Jim Shooter recently passed and in this first of two episode, Cory!! and Joe go over his career from his first comics sale at age 13 to his last days as Marvel editor in chief. There are a LOT of stories, history and more as they discuss the life of one of the most influential people to ever work in comic books.

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July 18, 2025 · 12:14 pm

Kray Z Comics and Stories 680: Fave Five Peter David

Long time comics writer, novelist and TV writer Peter David passed away recently, and to memorialize him Cory!! And Kray will be talking about their Favorite Five works he wrote such as:

Star Trek: Q in Law

Star Trek: Vendetta

The Atlantis Chronicles

Future Imperfect

The Death of Jean DeWolff

Sir Apropos of Nothing

Babylon 5: Out of the Darkness

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

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July 17, 2025 · 4:44 pm

Solitaire Rose Radio 89: Does Bigfoot Know Karate? Dan Price Says YES!

In this episode, Cory!! Interviews Dan Price about the most interesting title in the Homebrew comics line: Bigfoot Knows Karate. After talking to Homebrew Publisher, Christopher Michael, he HAD to know more about this series.

Dan Price is a comic writer/artist from Austin, TX. He has worked on several indie comic titles such as Lesser Known Comics, Latex Avenger, Halloween Man Meets Latex Avenger, Masters of the Obvious for Hound Comics, and Excelsi-ish! for the Stan Lee Foundation. Cory talks to Dan about Bigfoot Knows Karate, how he got into comics, where the idea comes from, switching from humor to other genres, and much more!

Be there, aloha
You can buy back issues at HBHcomics.com

And the Kickstarter is at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bigfootknowskarate/bigfoot-knows-karate-chapters-1-3?ref=profile_created&category_id=250

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June 26, 2025 · 5:23 pm

Solitaire Rose Radio 88: Christopher Michael of Home Brew Comics

After more than 20 years of creating characters, and writing stories, Christopher Michael is the creator of CRIT, and the universe they live in. When he decided to create CRIT, he used a resource that he knew well: Dungeons and Dragons. What is a cool and different way to write a story? Organically through the actions of players. But the problem was that there were no source books with material he wanted to use, so he took the rules and created his own game to master. Chris records the game sessions, and turns the story into the comic you read.

He started taking his plots from a D&D group and turned it into a comic
He taught himself how to draw to create his comic
How the company came together
Navigating the current distribution world for comics right now.
We go through all of the books Home Brew will be printing, their Kickstarter timeline and the timeline for shops to get the books.

Buy his books at: HBHcomics.com

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June 25, 2025 · 3:32 pm

Kray Z Comics and Stories 679: Free Comic Book Day Part 2: Four Geeks In A Cop Car

Free Comic Book Day was May 3rd, and as is tradition, we piled into Joe’s Cop Car and hit as many comics shops as we could. Joe Joe, Cory!!, Bunkhouse Butch, and Turbo for the nerdiest car ride in history! This is the second of 3 episodes we use for fillins, so BEWARE THE DREADED DEADLINE DOOM!

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June 3, 2025 · 9:52 am

Kray Z Comics and Stories 678: All The Rest Of Previews May 2025

Every month, Joe and Cory!! go through Previews to highlight comics coming in the future. Last week they did it for Marvel and DC and this week it’s for all the other publishers! This time, they go through Previews for comics shipping in July 2025 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about!

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May 27, 2025 · 11:48 am

Kray Z Comics and Stories 677: May 2025 Previews: Marvel and DC

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 July 2025 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about! This month we will have a two parter due to schedule stuff, BUT you get both parts this week!

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May 21, 2025 · 2:04 pm

Solitaire Rose Radio 87: Going Angel Hunting with Rich Davis

Rich Davis is someone who has done a lot of different things in his life, playwright, star on the Netlfix series “Swap Shop”, concert booker, volunteer with 2 Presidential campaigns, and comic book writer. His new Kickstarter is for Angel/Hunter, which he discusses with Cory!! as well as his previous comics Cult of Dracula (a twist on the Dracula mythos) and Promoethia in Chains.

Angel/Hunter’s Kickstarter is right here: Solitaire Rose Radio 87: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/angelhunter/angel-hunter?ref=profile_created&category_id=252

AND you can get his previous books from Amazon and your local comics shop!