Kray Z Comics And Stories

The Marvel vs DC Omnibus has come out and both Joe and Cory!! have things to say about it, including the book itself, the stories, and their memories of when these crossovers came out. So, this week, they discuss:

• Superman vs Spider-Masan
  • What Earth does it take place onb?
  • Stories behind the scenes about the the art
  • How did it come to be?
• Spider-Man vs Superman
  • Why Cory!! Didn’t like thai as much
  • Differences between this and the first big crossover
• Batman vs Hulk
  • Editorial differences between hsi and the previous book
  • JOSE LUIS GARCIA LOPEZ ART!
• X-Men and the New Teen Titans
  • How big a deal this was
  • Walt Simonson art
  • The humor Claremont dropped in
  • How Louis Jones kept Marvel Editorial at bay.
  • Why Marvel and DC quit doing crossovers
• Darkseid vs Galactus
  • How just an odd crossover came about

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

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There are things we don’t quite finish up or feel are long enough for an entire episode, and this is one of those “clean up” episodes where we fishing what we started. For example, we finish up the Eisner winners for best new series, where we went over every award winner. We pick up where we left off, starting in 2015. We also discuss:

• Cory!! is horribly behind on everything!!
• They discuss some of the Marvel/DC crossovers
• Local Comic Shops who won an Eisner
• Cory!! Picks 5 obscure comic characters he likes more than he should

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 January 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 and Cory are delayed again so this is LAST week’s episode posting on Monday for THIS week.  How dare they have jobs and lives!  It will happen again! So, to take the edge off, they give a bunch of reviews of funny books, like

• Books of Magic Omnibus – Vertigo
• Fantastic Four 26 – Marvel
• The Kitchen – Vertigo
• Hyde Street – Image
• Go Girl – Image
• Conquest 2099 – Marvel
• Joe goes through a whole bunch of books quickly with short reviews
• Book of Genesis – R. Crumb

We also have:

• A rundown on schedule issues and how they will be addressed.
• A Retro Review of the 1974 Human Torch #1

All of this, the usual shenanigans and Much, Much More!

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The comic book equivalent of the Oscars are called the Eisners, and they are given out every year at the San Diego Comic Con. They are the awards for the best comics as voted on by comic book professionals and since 1988, and in this episode, Cory!! and Joe talk about the winners of Best New Series since those awards began up until 2015!
Do they remember them? Did they buy and read them? And did those series live up to their early potential? They discuss all fo this 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 December 2024 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about!

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So, where has Joe “Kray Z” Rider been lately? ON A ROAD TRIP TO RENO! And thsi week he talks all about it as Cory reads comics. He talks about:

• Going on a road trip!
• MN Candy Store
• South Dakota and Wall Drug
• The story of Cory!!’s last family trip as a teenager
• Nuclear Missiles
• MILE HIGH COMICS!
• The origin of Mile High Comics
• Salt Lake City 
• Jackass Joe’s!!
• Frank and Fred’s comics and cards
• Comic Kingdom

The Retro Review is by Cory!! and it is the comic:  Sad Sack Laugh Special 54

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 December 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 has been a busy, busy guy this summer, so we FINALLY got him to sit down for a bit to record a podcast, and we discussed:

Joe has gone nuts with buying autographed books.

Joe is heading to Reno on a Road Trip!!

Cory!! Left the house ON HIS OWN to a big used book sale.

Joe did a bunch of non-comics stuff!

Cory!! Tells a story about the first attempt at comics creators forming a union in the early 1950’s.

Joe had American Foooood at the Fair

The Retro Review is by Joe and it is the comic:  Miss America #70

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

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