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It’s time for the review of Secret Wars! ALL the Secret Wars from the first one in 1984 to the most recent one, Cory!! and Joe talk Secret Wars, Cosmic entities learning to use the bathroom, and other things that make Jin Wicked fall asleep. During this week’s nerdfest, they also discuss:

• A review of IDW’s Miami Vice remix
• Cory reviews Renee by Ludovic Debeurme
• Secret Wars toys, Super Powers toys, John Byrne and Editorial driven stories
• Secret Wars II, a comic story Cory!! still hasn’t been able to make it through almost 30 years later.
• Al Milgram inking
• Bendis’s Secret Wars
• Charles Atlas

Plus, what everyone has been up to lately, freaking and geeking and the usual shenanigans!

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Joe and Cory!! were told about a new kickstarter that wants to start up a new comics distributor, and we discuss comic book distribution. They talk what it was like before the collarless of the 90’s, how it worked during the collapse, what the business is like with only one distributor and the barriers for a new distributor to get into the business. They also discuss:

• 24^th anniversary of the founding of Image
• A Review of the first trade paperback of Image’s Starve
• Cory tells the story of his short, unsuccessful comic book writing career and how he was a company killer
• Why Diamond never got into the Twin Cities during the 80’s and 90’s
• Freaking and Geeking

And much, much more!

The kickstarter discussed is: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1886628783/comics-underground-distribution-the-catalog

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Cory and Joe start off the episode by introducing their new segment where Cory!! and Linden Palmer talk Anime and Manga. This leads to the reviews of comics that they have been sent to talk about, one of which is a new project called Octal (http://www.drivethrucomics.com/product/166649/Octal-Volume-1) which is a catalog of comics being pitched to publishers. When Jin Wicked FINALLY decides to join the show, they all talk about the idea as well as how comic creators are getting their ideas out into the world with or without publishers.

They also discuss:

• Andrew the Giant, Closer to Heaven is reviewed
• Joe read Andre the Giant Life and Legend instead.
• How Jin does it all herself without a publish and what ideas work best with that approach.
• A short interview with the publisher of Octal
• They talk the “30 cent variant comics” from the 70’s and how they came about.
• Where Marvel’s “Not Brand Ecch” came from
• Anniversaries all around!

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

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Jin Wicked is Back!  Cory!! and Joe never left!  And now that the crew is all here, they go over the comic sales and news from 2015 and go over the changes int he industry over the last year, as well as discuss the storm clouds on the horizon for 2016.  They also catch up with Jin on what she’s been doing, art-wise, and discuss a TONNE of other topics like:

• In catching up, we discover Jin has a VERY weird talent when it comes to identifying snack chips.
• Joe talks about how he would blow out stuff at the end of the year early in the new year to clean out dead product
• They talk “Operation Galactic Storm”. Have we found Cory!!’s Deathmate?
• Joe drops out of the call and Cory!! and Jin discuss the what the show would be without Joe
• And they discuss the cold because they are all in Minnesota and that’s what Minnesotans do. JIN IS NOW ONE OF US! Look forward to her saying “Ya, you betcha” and “Uff da” soon
• They discuss this column by Brian Hibbs:
  Joe and Cory!! discuss how accurate the sales charts on the internet are
• Joe does another “Ask the Strode”
• They discuss the ten best selling comics of the year: SPOILER!! LOTS of media tie-in books.
• Why the Fantastic Four was canceled and won’t be coming back any time soon
• Cory and Jin do X-Files discussing while Joe is trying to get his computer to work.
• Cory tells the story of how he met his bestest friend Jin Wicked and she actually says “Aw” as if she is on “Community”.
• Joe and Jin decide to crap all over one of Cory’s freakings.
• We decide once and for all if Cory!! is a Goody Two Shoes or a Lousy Rat Bastard?

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

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It’s an INSTANT podcast where Joe, Cory, Dangerous Dan Mohr and special guest listener and video podcaster Michael Carter discuss the news the snuck out today that DC is doing a relaunch/rebirth in June. Instant reactions, speculation and discussion from the four of us in a special Breaking News Instant Podcast! No time to clean it up, we’re getting what you think out as soon as we think it!

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Joe and Cory!! are joined by Joe’s friend and Star Wars expert Eric “Turbo” Jackson who is a sith lord who loves star wars and beer. They discuss the new Star Wars movie, the games, the books, the comics, the toys and all of the other stuff! So if you haven’t seen it yet, you may want to go see it and come back. So get ready for them to talk all things Jedi! They also discuss:

• What do each of them think of The Force Awakens
• Eric has theories about specific parts of the movies
• Reactions of fans to the end of the Extended Universe
• A LONG discussion of what goes into the dark side and if Kylo Ren is a good antagonist or not
• A discussion of the BIG SPOILER
• They talk about the new characters and how to do a reboot
• What do you want in Episode 8
• Eric drives off in the middle of the episode!
• Joe and Cory!! review the comic: http://baynelegacyapocalypse.weebly.com/
• Joe has a couple of Ask The Strode questions to see how much stupid comic info Cory has in his head.

All of this, Freaking and Geeking, tons of shenanigans and the usual much, much more!

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It’s the first recording of the new year, so Cory!! and Joe talk about what they have been doing, what they’ve been reading, the show (how meta!) and other comic book related topics!

• Cory!! tells Joe about changes in the show this year, which Joe knew nothing about because Cory!! never tells Joe a damn thing about the show.
• Cory!! announces his NEW podcast: weeklynewsupdate.solitairerose.com
• They review Six Gun Gorilla, available here: http://www.sixgungorilla.com/
• Cartoonist John Stanley and his work like Nancy, Little Lulu or 13 going on 18
• Roy Thomas at Marvel in the 1990’s.
• They point out some cool stuff in Previews this month.
• Why the post Secret Wars Avengers and the post-Convergence DC just aren’t grabbing them.
• A discussion of spoilers and how upset they get over them.
• Cory!! was a lousy rat bastard during the release of Return of the Jedi
• The annual New Year’s Eve Hangin’ at the Home story

They also discuss Freaking and geeking, Joe’s eBay stuff and much, much more!

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Being sick and comic books don’t seem like things that go together, but Cory!! ending up in the hospital reminds us that when we get sick, we want Comfort and what better to take comfort in than comics! Special Guest Butch drops by and Joe and Cory!! discuss hospital stays, comic books and much more like:

• What Cory!! has in his go-bag (comics and other things)
• The 80’s TV event “Special Bulletin”
• Cory!! going into the hospital 2 days before Christmas as a kid and being given a big stack of comics to read in the hospital
• Joe having to get people to watch his shop because of his surgery
• Why nose tubes are evil
• Cory!! saw the Hateful Eight for Christmas and was ignored by most everyone who said they would wish him a Merry Christmas, so bugger them.
• Butch doing a run in!!
• They talk about Driving Cory!! home
• Butch discusses what he did for Christmas
• Butch talking about comics he read when he was sick
• A discussion of Steve Ditko’s current publishing
• Joe’s eBay stuff

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

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