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Joe picked the theme again, so it sucks. We have decided to let the listeners decide, so let us know what theme YOU would like us to stick with! There’s a lot gong on in this episode including:

• -The upcoming Minnesota Conventions
• -Cory’s adventures with Russian hackers
• -William Shatner Going Commando
• -Comics that Joe picked up to read while in Vegas
• -A man who is putting together a complete collection of everything DC has ever published
• -Specific collections, Joe with Photo covers, Cory with Ecs, Marvel monster reprints, and Black and White magazines.
• -Cory talks about a friend who’s collection dream was a complete run of the Avengers and how it saved a comic shop
• – Geeking and Freaking
• -Cory talks about the Comics Bulletin interview with Don McGregor about his Black Panther run.
• -Don McGregor’s work at Warren
• -Joe talks about the latest Star Trek novels
• -Cory talks about the current Spider-Man comics and Walt Simonson on Avenges
• -Joe went to see the Blue Man Group
• -Grant Morrison’s leaving DC and super-hero comics
• -Star Trek conventions

And proverbial much much more as well as the usual shenanigans.

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It’s time for a NEW Episode, and while Cory!! And Joe are still having an issue with the theme song, but they cover a lot of ground!. They discuss:

• Joe buying San Diego variants
• Sandman returning
• Stuff Joe picked up at a comic shop in Vegas
• Infernal Man Thing
• Incorruptible and Irredeemable
• Black Dynamite
• Joe’s Vegas Trading cards
• Joe’s favorite publisher when he owned his shop
• Professional wrestlers going through airport security
• How Marvel built comic shops in the 80’s
• What comic company thy think works well with publishers now
• Why Cory never did get a Walking Dead #1

And the usual shenanigans and the proverbial much, much more!

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The search for a new theme song continues with what is, quite possibly, the worst theme song in the history of mankind. Naturally, Joe loves it. We join Joe as he’s geeking on the big Las Vegas Star Trek convention, and he find out who Joe is most excited to see…the answer may surprise you!

Remember, the NEW Sponsor is http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/395428603/squatchd-seeing-isnt-always-believing?ref=email Go check it out! Cory plays a drunken hobo in the video!

There is a TON of both Star Trek talk and comics talk including:

• How Cory met Michael Chabon at a San Diego Comic Con without knowing it
• What things in comics they are geeking and freakingon
• Joe goes over the comics he bought last week
• Cory is geeking on Walking Dead 100 and Avengers vs X-Men
• Joe tells a Tale from the shop that starts being about exclusive comic book covers and ends up explaining how the tax code affects your local funny book store
• And they also discuss The douche burger
• Plus the usual shenanigans and silliness!

Don’t ask! Just download it and listen!

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A NEW Theme! That’s right, Joe made Cory change the theme song, but he’s still not happy, but is Joe ever happy? It’s a show filled with Comic Talk AND a NEW Sponsor: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/395428603/squatchd-seeing-isnt-always-believing?ref=email

Topics include:

•  Joe fills us in on his latest adventures in Las Vegas.
•  Geeking and Freaking –
• Joe hit three comic shops in Vegas and gives a report on them
• The 56 different covers for Mars Attacks #1
• Everything you wanted to know about Gabe Kaplan
• The on going Star Trek comic series
• Batman Incorporated
• Marvel’s creative changes
• DC’s Zero issues
• Tales from the Shop
• How did Joe deal with the gimmicks like Zero issues, the negative one issues, Nuff sad (silent) issues
• The Spider-Man marriage
• The Turok Prismatic foil cover
• Chrome comic book covers

They also discuss the situation with former comics writer Bill Mantlo, the rights to ROM, and a lot of other comics and non-comics stuff.

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It’s our 75^th Episode! We have all of the usual shenanigans and have a LOT of stories about Diamond Distribution and how distributors and comic shops work together in this special Extra-Length Episode! Like Jack Kirby said, DON’T ASK, JUST LISTEN!

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We find out Joe’s big secret from last episode at the very beginning of the show. SPOILER don’t look at the title of the episode if you want to be surprised. Being Minnesotan, we talk weather at the beginning of the show, and how Cory had to spend hours in a bathroom with 6 Developmentally Disabled adults when bad weather hits. Good times, good times.

Topics covered this week include:

• Joe talks about what’s been reading, including a novelization of a movie. I was amazed that they still do those, and now Joe has shown us that at least one person still reads them.
• Geeking and freaking:
• Joe’s still geeking on the Babylon 5 interview books
• Cory’s geeking on “Ends of the Earth” story on Spider-Man and the book Collapse
• They discuss the book “Why does Batman Carry Shark Repellant”?
• Cory is freaking about no more Mad Men for a while, how Howard the Duck is being written in Marvel Zombies
• They talk sales, how Walking Dead is the number one selling book in July, how DC has lost most of the sales from the new DC Universe.
• Is it possible to keep readers who come in for an event covered in the news media? Joe and Cory talk about experiences in shops when news stories hit, why the stories hit 2 months before the books come out and if its possible to get those readers to keep coming back.
• They also discuss Indy comics, digital comics and how retailers might be on borrowed time.
• A short discussion on Irredeemable
• In Tales from the shop, we talk Marvel vs DC, Valeria the She Bat, dealing with publishers who wouldn’t accept returns, the Book of Mormon and what comics should be in hotel rooms.

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

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It’s a NEW Episode, and we start by explaining where we’ve been the last few weeks, and what happened while we weren’t able to record.

Joe’s been away from home for a couple of months, so he picked up his box o’ comics and fills everyone in on what he liked and that he’s regained the reading bug, which went away while he was in Jersey, as well as his will to live. Hey, it’s Jersey, EVERYONE who stays there loses the will to live. They also discuss how both Marvel and DC are building long-term stories, and how DC seems to be editorially driven while Marvel is writer driven.

They also discuss:

• Before Watchmen AGAIN
• A local signing by friend of the show Terrance Griep
• Joe’s old records from the shop
• Marvel’s subway promotion from the mid 90’s
• Signings by comic creators in general
• Freaking and Geeking
• Cory rants about comics advertising. Again.

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

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We start off filling people in on how The Avengers has done since it opened. And since we recorded, Avengers has crossed the one BILLION mark world wide. It’s the week before SpringCon, the 24^th annual Big Convention in Minnesota, so Cory and Joe are going to talk about Conventions!

Topics include:

-Guests who will be at the convention

-The charity table Cory and Joe run

-Advice on coming to this (or any other) comic book convention

-Stuff to bring and some things you haven’t thought of to bring to a comic convention

-Tales from the shop: What did Joe do with his shop while he was at the convention?

-Joe hit 3 comic shops in New York in his New York Adventures!

-Geeking and Freaking

All this, the usual shenanigans and the proverbial Much Much more!

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It’s all right there in the title.  We went and saw the Avengers and we talk about it for almost as long as the movie lasted.

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It’s a jam packed episode, and no, that doesn’t mean you get free jam when you download it. What are you, crazy?

-Cory has hot water again

-Joe explains how the podcast could be worth $10,000 to you

-What was Joe’s latest New York Adventure? The answer may surprise you.

-Joe seeing the Enterprise fly into New York

-The most obscure Bob Crane joke you’ll hear all week

-Geeking and Freaking

-Free comic book day from the perspective of a comic retailer

All of this, plus the usual shenanigans and the proverbial Much, Much more!  What are ya waiting for, download it!

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