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OK, it’s episode 69, so you know it’s going to be dirty. There will be bad words and Joe and Cory talk about bad things like selling porn and gambling. You may not want to play this episode for 5 year olds unless you want us calling child protection on you.

-Cory talks about his time working at a comic shop that also sold porn, and explains why some of the boxes of porn came wrapped by the department of defense.

-Joe wants to know if shops would reseal packs of baseball cards

-Why saying 69 means you have to bet

-Illicit poker games in the back rooms of comic shops

-People losing hundreds of dollars in those poker games

-What the best radio station on Sirius/XM is

-They talk more Avengers vs X-Men

-Why Avengers vs X-Men is reigniting the “What happens next?!?” excitement

-How much Cory like Young Avengers: Children’s Crusade

-Cory is loving the Ditko Spider-Man stories

-Joe and Cory have a debate over creator’s rights and how some creators are still getting screwed

All of this, plus the usual shenanigans, visits from crickets and Much Much More!

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Believe it or now, Joe and Cory!! start the show talking about comics! Superman comics!! It’s an early Festivus miracle!

-Bronze Age Superman stories that Joe remembers

-How the “Sandman Superman” came about

-Kevin Smith’s Bionic Man mini-series

-Shops that Joe visited in New York City

-The Empire State Building

-Joe seeing “Spider-Man: Turn Out The Dark”

-Geeking and freaking!

-A discussion of the Simon and Kirby library

-A long discussion of Avengers vs X-Men

-Different genres in comics including how Identity Crisis used a well worn trope in mystery novels that super-hero fans had never heard of

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

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It’s part one of a Very Special Episode giving the history of The Avengers! Joe begins by talking about the Japanese Ghost Ship and Cory!! talks about his love of big budget bomb movies, and it’s hard to believe they actually get to covering the Avengers comic.

In this episode, Cory!! and Joe discuss:

-Cory’s Easter Traditions

-Another New York Adventure from Joe

-The comic Liberality For All as well as the Hart Fischer comics of the 90’s

-What we know about Marvel starting the Avengers comic

-The early days of the Avengers written by Stan Lee

-Roy Thomas’s run on the book

-Steve Englehart’s run, including the Celestial Madonna story and the first pseudo JLA crossover

-Why Gerry Conway took over from Englehart

-Jim Shooter’s run including the Korvac saga and the infamous Avengers #200

-Avengers Annual 10

-Roger Stern’s run, including the Masters of Evil story and the Avengers on David Letterman

-Walt Simonson’s incredibly short run on the book

-Why John Byrne’s run on the book pissed Cory off.

-Larry Hama’s short run

-The long, poorly done

-Bob Harris run, including the worst Avengers story ever written

-The Rob Liefeld Avengers and Onslaught

-Kurt Busiek’s run and it;s followups

-The Bendis run as well as the Disassembled story arc

-What’s going on in the Avengers books currently

-What trades should you pick up if you want to know about the past of the Avengers

All of this and some of the usual shenanigans! What are you waiting for, download it!

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A NEW Episode where Joe orders us to hail the vintage Mr Spock figure. So Say We All! Joe then explains the reference, but Cory!!doesn’t explain his reference because Joe takes too much time explaining his reference. Kind of the entire idea of the show in a capsule.

This week, they talk about:

-Why the show was late last week (Cory’s schedule went screwy. Oh, and tree bukake)

-Midnight horror shows who give away a Free Dead Body

-Joe’s connections to Wrestlemania and how we used a wrestling ring at the shop

-The Legend of Admiral Ackbar!

-A rundown of a mini-comic based on Joe and the other people who worked at his shop

-Joe’s recent reads including the Archie books

-Cory!! is still geeking on Mad Men

-Marvel’s black and white magazines in the 70’s
-Joe is geeking on Dr. Who books

-A NEW New York adventure for Joe

And much, much more!

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We begin by discussing a possible guest appearance by Charles Nelson Reilley AND the “Beach Party” movies. No, really, it’s a comic book podcast that makes a Eric Von Zipper reference less than 3 minutes in!

Other topics discussed are:

-The finale of “Comic Book Men

-Joe’s trip into New York City (Spoiler: He doesn’t see any Marvel Super-heroes or the Avengers Tower)

-Toys R Us in NYC

-Joe gives a history lesson with his visit to the Intrepid.

-Joe goes to Midtown Comics (one of the biggest comic shops in NYC)

-What they’ve been reading lately

-Who would win between the Borg and the Daleks

-Geeking and Freaking

-Some of the worst left turns in comics and comic strips

All this and the usual shenanigans!

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We start the episode with Walking Dead Spoilers! Joe can’t wait! So if you don’t want to know what happened on last week’s episode, skip to about 14 minutes into the episode any you’ll also miss Joe spoiling the last 6 months or so of WWE Wrestling. Like you care about THOSE spoilers.

Our Tales from the Shop this week is about two shops that Joe visited out in New Jersey, including the infamous Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash.

We then have our first PUBLISHED interview, or recorded interview that has made it to the show…with Terrance Griep, writer of Scooby Doo, Professional Wrestler and prose author. Terrance tells Cory about his short story in the Dark Spectrum anthology, stories about working in comics, stories about conventions and professional wrestling tales.

We end the show with Geeking and Freaking where Cory talks about comics he’s looking for and the price increase of Marvel’s Masterworks volumes. All of this, plus the usual shenanigans and much much more!

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Joe and Cory start talking about SpringCon, the big 2 day convention in St. Paul. Big warning, Joe must have found a joke book, since he’s all over the place for most of the episode. They jump in with Geeking and Freaking.

Cory is geeking on the special issue of Jack Kirby Collector 58 that goes into detail on the 102 issue run of the Fantastic Four. Cory is also reading the new Creeper hardcover filled with stories by Steve Ditko

Joe is geeking on the upcoming Dr Who/ Star Trek crossover and the Star Trek novel he took out to New Jersey with him. He discusses how the books are moving forward with the TV continuity and how they are using the Borg in the novels. Cory also chimes in about the novels he is reading, the Elmore Leonard “Raylan Givens” novels. He couldn’t remember the name, but the one he is reading is “Riding the Rap” and the other one is Pronto.

This leads to a discussion of DVD commentaries and different version fo movies and if you need to buy them or not and why Cory won’t buy Blue Ray.

Freaking leads to a discussion of comics sales figures (Cory thinks they are pretty scary), which actually leads to a talk about downloading stuff from iTunes and a LOAD of Walking Dead spoilers. The other freaking Cory has is that Marvel is going to a Self-Cover format. What is Self Cover? LISTEN TO THE DAMN EPISODE!!! Geez, people, do we have to do everything for you?

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Not a lot of time for a recap, so here goes:  Cory tries to keep things on task while Joe throws in a bunch of silliness.  That’s pretty much every show, right?

In this episode they talk about where Joe is hiding, Cancelled Comics Cavalcade, the wonders of the library, Muhammad Ali beating the crap out of Superman, the infamous water gun wars and how soap bubbles react when it is 35 below zero.  All this and much much more in this week’s episode!

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We start off with a NEW episode of “Where in the world is Joe Rider”, since Joe has been called up to travel somewhere. We’ll send a cookie to anyone who can guess where Joe has been sent. He’d like to know, since he had to go with only a day’s notice. This leads to a discussion of having comics and other geeky things ready in case you have to quickly travel or do an extra overnight shift. Cory explains why they haven’t had a new show for the last couple of weeks.

As we get into the show, Cory talks about the passing of John Severin and explains a little about his career. That’s right, they really don’t start talking about the stuff around the show itself until about 15 minutes into the show. We know Cory loves Wrestlecrap radio, but does he have to rip off THAT part of the show?

This leads to Geeking and Freaking: Joe is geeking about the things he brought to read on his most recent assignment, and Cory is geeking about some older comics stories and DVDs series that he brings to watch on his overnights. Cory break the news as to what Brian Michael Bendis will be working on after he leaves the Avengers books…well, they discuss the rumor that is circulating. When we get to Tales From The Shop, they first talk about the show “Comic Book Men” and how it’s pretty rare that rare, cool things were brought in by people to sell and the show has for to five cool things every episode.

We then have ANOTHER Tales From The Shop story as one of the local shops is moving to a new location, and Joe tells the story of when he moved from a small store to a larger store right next door! All this and the usual shenanigans and foolishness!

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Joe begins the episode by explaining who the city of Chaska is named after. I can’t explain the stuff, I just tell you about it. When they start talking comics, they discuss the closing of Dreamhaven Books, the people they met there, the celebration Dreamhaven held and the stuff they bought. After they talk about the shop, Cory talks about his running through all four seasons of Mad Men in two weeks, DVD commentary and redheads. Always redheads.

When we do Geeking and Freaking, Cory is geeking about Spider-Man and the AMC lineup while Joe is geeking on giveaway comics.

Oh, enough of the prelims. Cory and Joe talk about “Before Watchmen!” They argue and…OK, Cory bellyaches about it and Joe is much more reasonable. They also discuss the issues of creator’s rights, history around Watchmen and much, much more. All of this and the usual shenanigans!

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