Kray Z Comics And Stories

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

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Free Comic Book Day was last weekend, but in this episode, Cory!! and Joe take a look at its history, what it has done for shops, fans and the business, and what can be done by shops, fans and the business to improve it.

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

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Joe and Cory!! read tons and tons of comics, and they also have tons and tons of opinions. Sometimes, they meet in an episode filled with reviews! This time, they review:

• Comics Illustrated
• Fire Power – Image
• Beware the Planet of the Apes – Marvel
• Giant Size Hulk #1 
• Roxxon Thor #1
• Archie and Friends Hot Rod Racing – Archie
• The Goon – Dark Horse
• Redcoat – Image
• Fantastic Four 19 – Marvel

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

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We have a lot to talk about in this week’s show, so rather than a long intro, we;’ll give you the greatest gift of all.  BULLET POINTS!

• The passing of Trina Robbins 
• Joni Mitchell’s song about Trina:  https://youtu.be/obRVlFCVlAg?si=A-UEeZAMevmCrFUi
• Joe has been out and about!
• Quad City Con in St Cloud, MN
• Mind’s Eye Comics in Burnsville
• EAKK Convention in 
• Joe bought the first issue of Marvel’s L’il Kids and Cory explains where the series came from.
• Cory!! Goes through the annual Bookscan numbers to go over how comics di din the Bookstore market in 2023
• https://www.comicsbeat.com/tilting-at-windmills-297-bookscan-2023-comics-sales-sag-but-scholastic-was-still-a-powerhouse/

Retro Review: Spidey Super Stories #1

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

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