Kray Z Comics and Stories 691: Festivus 2025

WE GOT A LOTTA PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE, AND NOW, YOU’RE GONNA HEAR ABOUT IT!

The Airing of Grievances: At the beginning of the Festivus dinner, each participant tells friends and family all the times they have disappointed him or her the past year. As quoted by Frank Costanza: “I’ve got a lot of problems with you people, and now you’re going to hear about it!”

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Kray Z Comics and Stories 690: Joe’s Been Gallivanting!

Joe has been gallivanting all over the place, going to comic conventions, book shows and shops and fills us in on all of them. 

Cory!! stayed home.

They also discuss:

  • We start with an all new American Foods taste test!!
  • Talking to folks who think comics are dying and how they don’t pay attention to the evidence to the contrary. 
  • Sales figures are showing this year’s comic sales are up year of year.
  • How people outside of comics don’t know how to sell comics
  • Should Marvel use the way they put together the new Ultimate Universe for their “Events”.
  • The current editors in chief at Marvel and DC being more behind the scenes people.
  • Retro Review: Kid Komics 1 from Timely 
  • A NOTE Cory!!  had the microphone too close to his face and was dealing with asthma issues. Sorry.

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

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Kray Z Comics and Stories 689: The 100 Top Selling Comics for June 1993 – 81 -100

Cory!! found a listing of the top 100 comics for June of 1993 on an old issue of Overstreet Fan. 

They go over what they remember with Joe owning a shop, it being on the eve of the 90’s comics sales implosion, and LOT of new super hero universes.  It’s a trip down memory lane for a time period that people have a lot of opinions about, the 90’s!

They also discuss:

  • Blind Bag Comics: Threat or Menace!
  • Why Alan Moore and Frank Miller are incredibly wealthy men. 
  • How Joe’s shop did so well in the early 90’s because of the X-Men cartoon
  • Joe’s criteria for getting an autograph. 
  • How a bad advertising killed the Minneapolis Show Comic Zone
  • Why Marvel has a series called Fantastic Force
  • A new sponsor!  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gatorman/the-apostasy

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

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Kray Z Comics and Stories 688: The 100 Top Selling Comics for June 1993 51 – 80

Cory!! found a listing of the top 100 comics for June of 1993 on an old issue of Overstreet Fan. 

They go over what they remember with Joe owning a shop, it being on the eve of the 90’s comics sales implosion, and LOT of new super hero universes.  It’s a trip down memory lane for a time period that people have a lot of opinions about, the 90’s!

They also discuss:

  • Joe giving cars away and Butch covering them with magnets. How do they work?
  • Why Cory!! hated the original Magnus Robot Fighter
  • The Early Image book Cory!! fell in love with. 
  • Is there any old inventory left floating around at Marvel?
  • What character created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz at Marvel had his own series, but was MADE TO DIE!
  • Cory!! Reviews First Issue Special #6 in the Retro review
  • A new sponsor!  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gatorman/the-apostasy

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

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Kray Z Comics and Stories 687: The 100 Top Selling Comics for June 1993 21 – 50

Cory!! found a listing of the top 100 comics for June of 1993 on an old issue of Overstreet Fan. 

They go over what they remember with Joe owning a shop, it being on the eve of the 90’s comics sales implosion, and LOT of new super hero universes.  It’s a trip down memory lane for a time period that people have a lot of opinions about, the 90’s!

They also discuss:

  • RUB THE BLOOD on a comic
  • They are confused about how different parts of a continued story aren’t interested in buying all of the parts.
  • The start of the Ultraverse from Malibu
  • Jack Kirby and Charles Band worked together?  
  • Freaking and Geeking

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

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Kray Z Comics and Stories 686: The 100 Top Selling Comics for June 1993

Cory!! found a listing of the top 100 comics for June of 1993 on an old issue of Overstreet Fan. 

They go over what they remember with Joe owning a shop, it being on the eve of the 90’s comics sales implosion, and LOT of new super hero universes.  It’s a trip down memory lane for a time period that people have a lot of opinions about, the 90’s!

They also discuss:

  • A PSA on the lottery
  • DC’s first “multi cover” comic and why they did it with no warning to retailers.
  • DEATHMATE!!!
  • Why did DC kill Superman
  • Joe’s Retro Review is Ren and Stimpy with Spider-Man!

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

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Solitaire Rose Radio 90: Benjamin Hunting takes us to the Model UN

Benjamin Hunting is a man of many hats, professional journalist, computer coder, musician, record label owner, car lover and, since there are a few minutes left int he day, comic book creator.  

He doesn’t do ALL of those jobs any more, but he is incredibly busy, and he sits down with Cory!! to talk about his new Kickstarter manga-style comic where a high school model UN is contacted by aliens who think they are the real thing.

And that’s just the start of the comic and the discussion you’ll hear in this episode!

The kickstarter is at:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/benjaminhunting/model-un-aliens-high-school-90s-manga-pt-1

And Benjamin’s website for his past comics and other projects is:  https://benjaminhunting.com/

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Kray Z Comics and Stories 685: They still make monthly comics?

This week, since Previews has died and gone to magazine heaven, Joe and Cory!! go over the comics they still buy or read as individual comics, not trades or graphic novels collections.  It’s an episode of recommendations, nostalgia and the comic collectors desire to “keep the run intact.” 

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

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Kray Z Comics and Stories 684: Fave Five Fantastic Four Stories 

The Fantastic Four are the core of the Marvel Universe, and they just got another movie, so Joe and Cory!! have their Fave Five FF stories to tell you about! 

  • Fantastic Four 191 – 200
  • The Trial of Reed Richards
  • Solve Everything 
  • Fantastic Four 1-2-3-4
  • Fantastic Four 176 – 184
  • What If #1
  • Fantastic Four 84 – 87
  • Fantastic Four 51: This Man, This Monster

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

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Kray Z Comics and Stories 683: Joe’s been wandering again

Yes, we have been away from the show for a bit, but that is because Joe was out wandering the world again, driving his daughter Daner from Reno NV to Cincinnati OH.  He tells stories of hsi road trip as well as:

  • Joe is no longer interested in modern wrestling. FOR SHAME!
  • Air travel without doing the “Let me tell you about airline food” jokes. 
  • Cory’s last discussion with his grandmother.
  • The story of Cory’s last family trip.
  • Joe only got to go to ONE comic shop of the trip
  • Once they got to Cincinnati, Joe was able to get into bookstores, and some had comics.
  • DEATH CRAZED TEENAGE SUPERHEROES!!!!

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

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