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Have a beer with use and Simon Roy talking his work Griz Grobus and the Tale of Azkon's Heart, Victoria breweries, and of course, the Gauntlet! 

Griz Grobus is available now in trade from Image Comics.
https://imagecomics.com/comics/releases/griz-grobus-tp

Check out Simon's stuff here:

https://x.com/simonroyart/

instagram.com/simonamroy/

https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/griz-grobus/list?title_no=741329

Beers:

KMac: Intellectual Property Ale, Motorworks Brewing, Bradenton, FL
Style: American IPA, 6.9% ABV

Yek: Northern Heights, Ten Bends Beer, Hyde Park, VT
Style: Vermont Style DIPA, 8% ABV

Simon: Electric Unicorn, Phillips Brewing & Malt Co., Victoria, BC
Style, White IPA, 6.5% ABV

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We like fine, fine beer, we like Superman, we like Batman. Let’s make this a World’s Finest all around by swigging away talking issues #7-#11 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora. So many guest stars that we barely noticed ol Bag o Bones. But, we never miss Zebra Man! Our fav of the “Were-Animal” family creatures.  Remember. What happens in the fortress of solitude stays in the fortress of solitude.

Beers:
KMac: Family Tradition, BarrieHaus Brewing Company, Tampa, FL
Style: Vienna Lager, 5.8% ABV, 19 IBUs

Yek: Spotted Cow, New Glarus Brewing Company, New Glarus, WI
Style Farm House Ale, 4.8% ABV

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Beers and X-Men '97!  After a few beers, Magneto also wonders "How did I get here?" Listen in & then face the Gauntlet. 

Beers:

KMac: An Awkward Friendship, Co-Lab: Common Dialect Beerworks, Tampa, FL & Arcane Aleworks, Largo, FL
Style: Cold IPA, 6.5% 
Rating: You got hair, I got’s none, Let’s call the whole dream off. 

Yek: Stormgazer, Elder Pine Brewing & Blending Co., Gaithersburg, MD
Style: DIPA, 8.4% ABV
Rating: Sentienenalt Chin Beard

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Every wonder what you can do with a super supportive mom? Well, if you are the High Evolutionary you can get a Transylvanian castle, evolve a bunch of farm animals, defeat an ancient evil Elder God, rule over a counter-earth as a god, and develop an army of Purifiers to extinguish all the bad genetics of mankind, which probably reflects your absent dad issues. Listen to KMac and Yek devolve this and as they do that themselves by swigging away. 

• Dominant:
  • Kickoff of Marvel Summer Annual Crossover Non-Crossover event. 
  • “You’re no Darwin, Apocolypse!”, “Yeah, you’re no Mendel yourself, High Evolutionary!”
  • Them so evolved artist: Terry Shoemaker, Mark Texiera, Art Adams, Mark Bright, Mark Bagley
• Recessive:
  • Eliminators? Purifiers? Young Gods? Did 10-year-old us write this?
  • All the plot potholes of holes? Really, Colombian drug dealers are what is slowing down evolution?
  • Magneto had a better gene bomb master plan. 

Beers:

KMac: Harder than You Think, Cigar City Brewing, Tampa, FL
Style: Rye Pilsner, 5.3% ABV, 39 IBUs

Yek: Wake up in the Future, DC Brau Brewing, Washington, DC
Style: BBA Stout, 15.5% ABV

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Sláinte or something, you dark beer loving spring drinkers. The boys are ready to rate Emerald Isle beers so you know what you must drink when wearing silly slogan-ed green tees to avoid getting pinched. That’s right, we review all three types of proper Irish black gold:  Guinness stout. And after we down a few, we riff on which comics characters are shameless stereotyped Leprechauns. Poor little guys. All they want to do is grant some wishes, keep their pot of gold, and hang in the ‘hood. 

Brewery: St. James's Gate Brewery, Dublin, Ireland

Guinness Extra Stout
Style: Irish Dry Stout, 5.6% ABV,
First Available: 1821
Tasting Notes: Hopped, bitter chocolate woody Black Tom flavors that drive you mad for a Juggernaughtin'. 
Rating: 3.6/5

Guinness Foreign Extra Stout
Style: Irish Dry Export Stout, 7.5% ABV,
First Available: 1801
Tasting Notes: Coffey, full bodied enough to let your Scottish girlfriend cut your face off and wear it without emitting your Banshee wail.
Rating: 3.7/5

Guinness Draught
Style: Irish Dry Stout, 4.2% ABV,
First Available: 1959
Tasting Notes: So slinky, smooth  you got to use a “gh” instead of an “f” and want to replace an “e” with a “y” to sing a Siryn song of Pogues lyrics. 
Rating: 3.85/5

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Welcome again to Masterpiece Comics Theater, an aural interwebs show where we debate all things graphic novels and imbibe all things barley brews. Lord KMacsworth III of Inkshire and Sir Yexington, Man of Comic Sans Letters bring you this time a heartpounding tale about a denary nighttides for a Slavic savage killing all in is path while being hunted by the Detective. The fashion minded killer won’t stop until all of those involved with creation of U.S. Millenium Falcon are мертвый. Can the Dark Knight get a step ahead in time to save the Gipper? Nancy does not D.A.R.E. to ask what will happen after 10 Nights of the Beast.

Comic Details:

Batman #417-#420 (March 1988-June 1988)

Writer: Jim Starlin
Artist: Jim Aparo
Inker: Mike DeCarlo
Covers: Mike Zeck
Colorist: Adriene Roy
Letter: Augustin Mas / John Costanza
Editor: Denny O’Neil

The Highlights:

• KGBeast  (Anatoli Knyazev): He knows how to rock those leather Gimp briefs, he knows how to throw shurikens, he doesn’t know cutting a rope is easier than cutting off your own damn hand. Nightly average body count: 9.8. 
• A Complete Story Telling Ride: The covers make you want to read the book, the story keeps you turning the page, and the art and panel layout keeps the right pace for four fun issues.
• Batman gets the Beat Down: Proto-Bane just whales on the Bats. Two gunshots through the same shoulder hole. Good planning Dark Knight. 
• Batman, the Detective: Only Batman can harass every street hood to find out where a Russian assassin hunting the president is. Gotham is his home and he knows every sewer storage room cul de sac. 
• Reagan!: If you’re going to tell the ultimate 80s Cold War Story, you better not back off in featuring Ronnie hangin’ with Commissioner Gordon. 

Beers:
KMacworth: 1888, Pinellas Ale Works, St. Petersburg, FL
Style: Russian Imperial Stout, 11.5% ABV, 110 IBU
Rating: Harder to cutoff the tap good than a rope wrapped around your wrist.  

Yexington: Hype Machine, Trouvaille Brewing Co., Haymarket, VAStyle: Champurrado Imperial Stout, 12.2% ABV, 74 IBU
Rating: Getting the KGBeast clothes discount at the local S&M dungeon.    

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Beers, breweries, books, movies we loved in 2023.
Beers, breweries, books, moves we want to love in 2024.
Plus the 2nd highest grossing Kraven the Hunter movie of all time!

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Swimming upstream is always tough, but especially when there’s a Yule tide! KMac & Yek gots the solution with their annual caroling in an ode to Aquaman-Mas! To help drink the chords, they synchronized along their fin friend, Aquaman Alex! Despite best efforts, we found out we cannot talk to fishes, just drink like them. 

•  A Dank, Undersea Cave: The Aquacave!
• 2 Dynamic Teams: Justice League; The Others
• 3 Funky Origins: Undersea explorer dad training, Son of Tom & Atlanna, & Some werido kid left on a reef. 
• 4 Casting Aquamans: Davide Spade, Alan Ritchson, Justin Hartley, Jason Momoa.
• 5 Gone Fingers....For a Gold Harpoon: Piranha all nom, nom’ed on them Curry fish sticks. 
• 6 Girls a-Laying: Mera, Esther Maris, Dolphin, Kako, Wonder Woman, & Nera, an actual dolphin.
• 7 Seas a-Sloshing: Kingdoms of Atlantis, Xebel, The Fisherman, The Brine, The Trench, Deserters, & the Lost Kingdom (which CBCO knows is Skartaris!). 
• 8 Menaces a-Meddling: Shark, Thanatos, Scavenger, Fisherman, Kordax, Ocean Master, & Black Manta.
• 9 Powers Synchronizing: Breath underwater, Super Swimming, Night Vision, Thick Skin, Super Endurance, Super Strong, Fish Telepathy, Water Balls, Fligh. 
• 10 Relatives a-Relating: Tom Curry (Golden/Silver Age Dad), Aruther Curry (Post Crisis Dad), Atlan (Wizard Dad), Atlanna (Mom), Tula (Step Sister), Aqaua-Baby (1st son), Koryak (2nd son), Andrina Curry (Daugther), Aqualad I/Tempest (1st Ward), Aqualad II (2nd Ward). 
• 11 Appellations Announcing: Arthur Curry, Orin, Swimmer, AC, King of Atlantis, King of the Seven Seas, The Sea King, Protector of the Deep, Marine Marvel, Aquatic Ace, Wet Dave
• 12 Companions Campaigning: Ark the Seal, Porpy the Porpoise, Seahorses: Misty, Sea Imp, & Storm, Prom (Dolphin Mom), Karathen (Movie Kraken), Topo the Octopus, Salty the AquaDog, Fluke (Brave & Bold Dolphin), Tusky the Walrus, Aqua-Melvin the Super Sea Clown.  

Beers:
KMac: Winter Warmer, Cage Brewing, St. Petersburg, FL
Style: Spiced Scoth Ale, 8.0% ABV
Rating: Topo, the Octopus Archer!

Yek:  Griswold’s Winterbock, Solace Brewing Company, Sterling, VA
Style: Dopplebock, 8.2% ABV
Rating: Super Sea Clown!

 Aquaman Alex: Christmas Ale, Great Lakes Brewing Co., Cleveland, OH
Style: Winter Warmer, 7.5% ABV
Rating: Aquatic Ace!

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Our interview and brew time with creator Simon Birks.  Antarctica from @topcow. 

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Ki Ki Ki, Ma ma ma ma. It’s the scariest time ever: October has a Friday the 13th! That means KMac & Yek must delve into the lore of Crystal Lake counselor killings by murdering over Friday the 13th, the comic, #1-#6 by Wildstorm.  This is a rare hockey mask to hockey mask recording with the boys in the same room (but not because they all scared…ok, maybe a little scared). Boogity Books & Beer-tober, B**ches!  

Five Comic Slays:

• Crystal Lake Mythology: Wait, Jason ain’t the first one chasing boobs to slash…
• Unstoppable Jason: No flimsy cabin window slowing down our J-Dawg. 
• Adulty: Wowza, the woods of Crystal Lake have a lot of different type hooters. 
• Big Twists:  Who did the what now with the manchette, shovel…
• The Kills: He will straight drop a car on a dude’s head and who knew he was a 1984 U.S. Olympic archery alternate. 

 Beer:
GWAR Blood Geyser, Devil’s Backbone Brewing Company, Lexington, VA.
Style: Blood Orange IPA, 5.5% ABV, 21 IBUs 

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