Kray Z Comics And Stories

We’re not talking about late comics any more!! After 3 episodes on late comics, it’s back to the shenanigans you’ve come to expect from us. Joe downs a 40, as we finally are able to connect over the Alaskan internets. Then, Joe talks about what he’s been reading up in Alaska and Cory explains his Box Day adventures, dealing with two jobs and the neighborhood cats thinking he’s their best friend.

There’s also facebook news, Fox News is upset about the new Wonder Woman costume, and sad news before we get into tales from the shop! Joe and Cory tell stories about their days in comics shops, starting with the rise and fall of pogs, comic shop spies, the Teenage Fan Club of the shop and tattoo parlors!

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It’s PART 3 of our discussion on late books! We also discuss snacks at movie theaters, the cost of pizza in Alaska, Cory’s new Part Time job, and other silliness!  Then, we pick up where we left off with Brian Hibbs’s lawsuit against Marvel, how late comics killed a chain of video stores, how late comics were dealt with in modern era. We also talk about how Civil War caused comic shops to close, how late books can cause a comic shop to lose money. Cory crunches the numbers to give an example of how a late book would ruin a business. Then, as we speed toward the mighty conclusion, we discuss how we personally handle late books and hint at the first Kray Z Gathering!

Links!!

Brian Hibbs interview on the Marvel Lawsuit

Void Indigo plots for issues 3 – 6

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It’s part two of our late book discussion! However, there are the usual digressions into the Jonah Hex movie, text based adventure games, Marvel Fanfare, Fantastic Four “The Lost Adventure”, Marvel Zombies, people who used to buy 2 copies of every comic they bought, Image and other stories from our time in comics.

But the main focus is how late books were handled in the 80’s and how things worked in the early 90’s. We make it up to the end of the comics boom of the 90’s…so this will be continued Yet Again!! And if we’re talking late books in the 90’s, you KNOW we’re talking about Deathmate!

And here’s the Warlock story

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Think that late comics are something new?  Well it’s NOT!  After reading one of our listeners talk about late comics, we decided to jump in with a history of late comics.  We talk about comics being late from the 40’s to the 70’s, with discussions of how they were handled in the Golden Age, late books of the 50’s (including MAD as a magazine), how Marvel used Jack Kirby to keep the trains running on time, and the disaster that was Marvel’s publishing schedule of the 70’s.

We also deal with Joe’s internet issues in the foreign land of Alaska, updates on Cory’s job hunt, endless editing together of dropped Skype calls and the latest comic EVER:  Detective Comics 567, which had a story that was turned in 15 years late!

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Where in the world is Joe Rider?  Dillingham Alaska! That means we have stories to tell about Dillingham, the secret origin of the podcast, what a geek takes on the road and other odd discussions.  We talk about digital comics, old computers, Joe’s obsession with Duke Nukem and where to work out when you’re in the north woods of Minnesota!  Lots of odd discussions and even some comics news in this week’s Kray Z Comics and Stories!

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After last week’s sad news avalanche, we have one more bit of sad news before we get into the podcast.  OK, two more, but if we said there was a LOT more bad news it may depress you too much to listen.  However, we talk sales figures, so that can be sad news as well.

We count down the top ten comics and graphic novels for April 2010,m with snarky commentary and stories along the way.  Cory goes into detail about what he thinks the figures mean as Joe gives his own personal perspective.  We then discuss why people quit collecting, talk about previous price hikes, and discuss how Marvel going from 15 cents to 25 cents and then 20 cents over a three month period finally made them the best selling comics company in the 70’s.   All this and the usual shenanigans into this week’s podcast!

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It’s time for this week’s Kray Z Comics and Stories, and Cory!! is upset at the ends of both Lost and 24, so we’re inundated with sad news!  From comic series cancellations, to the Mars Rover shutting down we’re simply buried with sad news.  We also go over comics series, comics companies and creative teams from the past that we wish would have gone on longer.  We’ve even got stories of Cory!! being a jerk to comic company representatives back in the 90’s.  All this and the usual shenanigans on this week’s podcast!

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The MNCBA SpringCon is in the history books, and Cory and Joe were there, selling stuff for charity.  We talk about what happened at the convention, as well as the first conventions we ever went to, our trip to the Sandy Eggo Convention, MNCBA conventions of the past and the proverbial much, much more.  PLUS:  Cory apologizes for things he’s said in the past, Sad News, the end of an era and the usual shenanigans.

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That’s right, with Iron Man 2 coming out this weekend, we’re gonna talk about the strange relationship between comics and movies.  We also go into a LOT of hype about next weeks’ local Comic Con and find out if Joe’s caught up on Spider-Man yet.  Then it’s right into movie/comic talk with:

How Star Wars saved Marvel, why Logan’s Run got Marvel in trouble, how Return of the Jedi got spoiled, why Dell did so many movie adaptations fan and retailer reaction to the 1989 Batman movi8e and loads of shenanigans!

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It’s FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!  Well, not really, it was Saturday May 1st, and Joe and Cory went around to shops to get free comics and buy stuff on sale.  We talk about Free Comic Book Day, the comics we liked the most and other shenanigans.  And we don’t even GET to if Joe has read Amazing Spider-Man yet, but we do have Sad News, A Tale From The Shop and Cory gets on his soapbox again!

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