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Your boys swigged their way through one of the premiere U.S. beer events: Snallygaster. Listen in as we preview all the beers we wanted to try on Pennsylvania Avenue steps from the White House, and the review ratings aftermath of trying to drink our way through over 400 beers. There’s nothing we won’t do for charity. 

 A few Breweries & Beers we were able to hit up:

•  Alesong Brewing & Blending, Double Barrle Maestro, Barleywine aged in Heaven Hill then Henry McKenna 10 Year Bourbon Barrels, 16.0%
• Cellarest Beer Project, Bot-ober Cellarfest 2023, Oak Barrel-Aged Festbier (Wooden Robot Collab.), 5.2%
• Crooked Run Fermentation: Sentimental Education, Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout w/ Hazelnuts, Walnuts, Vanilla Beans, Ceylon Cinnamon & Maple Syrup (Barreled Souls, Finback & Tripping Animals Collab.), 16.0% 
• De Struise Bouwers, Clash Of The Titans 2018: Grand Reserva, Wine & Sherry Barrel-Aged Barleywine, 12.6%
• Hill Farmstead Brewery: Vera Mae 2022, Wine Barrel-Aged Farmstead Ale w/ Wildflower Honey & Dandelion Flowers, 6.0%
• Inner Voice Brewing: Adjustable Rate, Brandy Barrel-Aged Barleywine w/ Caramelized Orange Peel & Vanilla (Magnanimous Collab.), 12.5%
• Off Color Brewing, Miscellanea Vol. 4, Foedre-Aged Wild Ale (Allagash, Jester King, Side Project, Jackie O's & Keeping Together Collab.), 6.2%
• Thin Man Brewery: Apple Brandy Barrel-Aged Awesome Jenkins, Apple Brandy Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout, 14.2%
• Weissbräu Schwendl, Festbock, Weizenbock, 7.0%

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Starlite from Overcast Comics.  
Starlitekickstarter.com
@starlitecomic
Writer - Travis Webb:  @webbwerx
Artist - Brett Weldele: @brettweldele
Writer - Greg Smith:  @thatamazingtwit

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Comic Books & Cold Ones is the codename for America’s dumb, highly inebriated, special podcast force. It’s purpose: Drink beers, talk $hit, relive 80s nostalgia. Yo, Beers!. Listen in as KMac and Yek along with their buddies JZ and Gempster conduct another Fantasty, Fantasy Draft. This time the classic 80s G.I. Joe cartoon. Drink along as we debate if Dr. Mindbender’s abs trump Lady Jaye’s pixie haircut, how nobody in the government paid attention to how accurate to reality Cobra’s schemes were, & why KMac was just the worst kid owning the USS Flagg Aircraft Carrier toy. As Cobra Commander always aid: “Listen or Perish, you Insolent Fools!”

 Draft Eligible: Any character, vehicle, or base that appeared on the Sunbow-Marvel G.I. Joe cartoon (1983-87) & G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987)

Rules: 

• Each person chooses a force: 2 Joe & 2 Cobra; Flip to choose force.
• Slithery Cobra: Joe, Cobra, Joe, Cobra; reverse each round.
• Flip to choose a 5 day plot:
• M.A.S.S. Device
• Revenge of Cobra: Weather Dominator
• Pyramid of Darkness
• Arise, Serpentor, Arise

The Curve Balls:

• Brig’em: Put someone’s pick into the Brig; any force can then draft.
• The Alley Dupe: Steal another force’s pick.
• Hijacked: Steal another force’s vehicle or base. 
• Half the Battle: Put someone on the spot by making them name a real or believable “Knowing is Half the Battle” PSA or they drop  to last in that round.
• Order of Battle: Challenge if someone’s pick is inbounds.

 Roster Spots:

• Leader: The team’s main main.
• Lacky #1: The one taking the lumps.
• Dynamic Duo: Got have a couple with chemistry.
• Beauty: Got make this look good.
• Specialist: A particular set of skills.
• Rowdy, Rowdy, Bowdy, Bowdy: Someone getting dirty, dirty.
• A Vehicle: How your rollin’.
• Base: Got have a fly crib. 

Beers:
KMac:  Taste Like Freedom, Tampa Bay Brewing Co., Tampa, FL
Style: Fruited Sout, 6.3% ABV
Rating: Shing dome Destro

Yek:  Ghost: Maiden Pain, Adroit Theory Brewing, Purcellville, VA
Style: Rye IPA, 7.5% ABV
Rating: Patten leather Baroness

JZ: Improvised Explosive Noms, Tactical Brewing Co., Orlando, FL
Style: Fruited Sour 4.8% ABV
Rating: Chef’s kiss Road Block.

Gempster: Duke’s cold nose Brown Ale, Bold City Brewing, Jacksonville, FL
Style: Brown Ale, 5% ABV
Rating: Oddly, Sgt. Slaughter

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Suns out, and the suns still out! That must mean KMac & Yek are slow sipping away on their annual summer Comic-cation in the long-lost land of Skartaris! Dinosaurs, Atlantean Technology, & lots & lots of skin! Turn up the 3 Dog Night & break out your booze to mixology some great beer Tiki drinks that only the boys can create! Drink along & read along to every splash page in the Scrolls of Blood. 

 Comic-ation Itinerary:

 Tourism Slogan: Sword, Sorcery, & Sun! Dirty dance your day awa…forever. 

How we getting there:
Them Big Holes in them Poles!

How we getting home:
Subway train to Machu Pichu, of course. 

Resort Staff: 

• Host: Warlord, Travis Morgan - Don’t stare directly at my Snow Leopard thong.  
• Hostility Directors:  Deimos – Rest, relax, reincarnate with him!
• Concierge: Machiste - Always ready with a helping mace.
• Refreshments Director: Mongo Ironhand – Minute ready magic martinis!
• Tour Guide: Mariah Romonova – Side, under, inner boob for you, Capitalist swine!
• Marquee Entertainment: Shakira, Whenever, wherever, Rowaar!

Attractions:

• Sun, sun, sun, then some sun, oh $hit it’s like there’s an eternal sun.
• Temple of Fear – Nothing scarier than a phallic Hall of Doom. 

 Amenities:

• How does your light shine in the Halls of Shamballah The Golden, hotel and convention center.
• Thieves Market Spa – Throw away your pants for a chainmail thong. 
• Drink at Crash Early’s saloon – Easy to find because the sign is in English. 

 Must do events:

• A genuine slave gallery experience – The kids will love it!
• Jennifer Morgan’s Magic Show – Nepo-baby making an Eldritch Blast!

Tiki Beer Drinks:
KMAC: Skartaris Sunburn! (Riff on a Tequilla Sunrise)
Beer: Corona Extra, Cerveceria Modelo, Mexico City, Mexico
Recipe: Large Tiki mug full of ice, 1½ oz tequila, splash grenadine, ½ bottle corona, fill rest with orange juice.
Rating: SPF SR-71

Yek: Travis Morgan (Riff on a Jet Pilot)
Beer: Stiegl-Radler Grapefruit, Stieglbrauerei, Salzburg, Austria
Recipe: Pour 1 oz hi-tess Jamaican rum, ¾ demerara rum, ¾ oz gold rum, ¾ oz lime juice, ½ oz cinnamon syrup, ½ oz falernum into a Tiki mug full of ice with a splash of absinthe & bitters then fill with Radler. 
Rating: Dirty Dancing Dinosaur Lift!

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Like something out of myth, your favorite two podcasters are swigging forward on their epic pub crawl through all the comic crossovers they can. This time KMac and Yek are taking their  imbibing form moderately famous to legendary with the mid-80s DC classic: Legends! You want to know how DC sorted out all the alternate Earths crisis crap? Buddy, grab you yourself a sixer and listen as we hit the highs and lows at the bottom of DC’s pints.  

Legends:

1)      That Fantom Stranger: The future scientist, wandering jew, fallen angel king.
2)      Suicide Squad gets Re-Dead! You can thank Legends, Mr. James Gunn!
3)      Blue Beetle Vs. Chronos: There will be sandwiches!
4)      Superman Savior of Apokolips! He'll save every one of us!

Lessengends:

1)      The Justice League of @$$: Martian Manhunter, Vibe, Vixen, Gypsy, Elongated Man and muther’ f’in trash Steel.
2)      Just like DC Cinematic, Captain Marvel fails to launch.
3)      Jason Todd takes a beaten, but sadly stays alive. Joker just stealing Legends’ valor.
4)      Warhounds? WTF is a Warhound? Who’s master plan hinges on robotic dogs? 

Beers:

KMac:
Voodoo Ranger 1985, New Belgium Brewing Company, Ft. Collins, CO
Style: NEIPA, 6.7% ABV, 30 IBU
Rating: Like giving Jason Todd a 1985 tune up street style. 

Yek: 
A Gateway to Inhabitable Vast Magnificent Worlds, Burial Brewing Co, Asheville, NC
Style: Kolsch, 4.9% ABV
Rating: Like a Superman who rises from the Hunger Dogs, a style born anew. 

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If we do say so ourselves, KMac & Yek are the world’s finest combo when it comes to reading beer and drinking comic books 😊! So it’s only fitting to tune in to hear as they drink two of the finest beers in the world while chatting about DC World’s Finest starring Superman & Batman. The boys breakdown the recent 2020 incarnation first five issue run by Mark Waid & Dan Mora. Try to keep up with all the easter egg shoutouts and Green Lantern wiffle ball bat beat down as you get top notch beer tasting review notes like “clementine” and “cloudy malt”. Bonus! Learn the secret 1492 West Indies origin of India Pale Ales and how the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria brought craft beer to Florida. Hey, it’s better than reading a World’s Worst starring Guy Gardner, Warrior and Bloodwynd!

Beers:
KMac:
Jai Alai, Cigar City Brewing, Tampa, FL
Style: IPA, 7.5% ABV, 65 IBU

Yek: 
Saison Dupont, Brasserie Dupont, Tourpes, Belgium
Style: Saison, 6.5% ABV

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Summer is here and that means blow out spectaculars of beer and comic book movies! This year of course marks the final installment of James Gunn’s opus, Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy. KMac and Yek bring you up to speed on all the info you need to enjoy watching and rewatching all the GoG goodness. That means we cover the original GoG, the iconic team form up from Annihilation Conquest, and anything and everything in the MCU GoG.  Of course, lots and lots of Taserface thoughts! The real trilogy hero. Listen in as we rate who is a BeerBuster and who is just a Buster in the GoG Universe all while enjoying some Cosmic themed craft brews. Get emotionally gifted like us!

KMac:
Cosmic Crown, Cigar City Brewing, Tampa, FL
Style: Belgian-Style Strong Golden Ale, 9% ABV, 36 IBUs

Yek:  Galaxy Queen, Mully’s Brewery, Prince Frederick, MD
Style: Double Dry Hopped Blond Ale, 6.5% ABV

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K-Mac & Yek are bringing it Bock for with our spring green edition of Who Wore It Better: Poison Ivy or Plantman! Who creeps down the root runner way better: the Lettuce Lass or the Leaffy Lad! Listen up & drink down the bad bud puns with us. 

 Categories: 

• Origin: Plantman – Tinkering on a garden hoe Samuel Smithers way more interesting than tinkered on garden ho Pamela Isley. 
• Powers/Abilities: Poison Ivy – Pheromones, philling me? 
• Fashion: Poison Ivy - Showing off those leggy roots gets drops Dick Grayson’s walnuts instantly. 
• Weapons/Tools - Poison Ivy: Just ask Bell Biv DeVoe, that girl is POISON.  Also took glass craft in Arkham. 
• Silly Schemes & Battles - Plantman: Will frame yo @$$ and then return to the scene to brag about it to any superheroes who show up. 
• X-Factor - Plantman: He’s got a submarine and tries to make Central Park his homebase. No fig leaf covering his pistil. 

It’s a split pea tie.!

 KMac:
Screaming Goats, J. Wakefield Brewing, Tampa, FL
Style: Doppelbock, 9.3% ABV

Yek:  Macadocious Maibock, Denizens Brewing Co., Silver Spring, MD
Style: Maibock, 7.1% ABV

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Who would have thought to lovers of beer and comics could possibly find a way to chat about beer comics 50 times on the internet? But, here we are amazingly. Anything for the fan! K-Mac and Yek are celebrating this golden episode level with 2 golden age classic #50s and 2 other super classic #50s. Enjoy this double beer to fisting celebration of all things #50 comics have to offer.

Detective Comics #50:  

•  Are The Three Devils comics first ever super villains? Perhaps, Oui Oui.
• Batman just straight jeeping gangsters.
• Robin Rocket Skates,  damsel in distress railroad track hijinks.
• Who knew a gangster named Trigger would be willing to shoot someone. 
• Oh Freddie, if your 1920s parents only knew that name would make you a “fence”.

 Action Comics #50:

• “Baseball is a man’s game, Lois” Superman or Super-misogynist, Clark Kent?
• The Metropolis Ravens sure looking in good in Lauderville spring training.
• Star baseball players in drunken brawls. Somethings never change. 
• Madame Lois just straight man-whoring out Clark. 
• Mabel Dawson, DC’s best villain. She’ll straight cap your dome.

Amazing Spider-Man #50:

• That cover!
• Well, Aunt May you getting sick again is why we cannot have Spider-Man.
• Gwen Stacy is always willing to hang on a line to date guys.
• First Kingpin! Ironically, last The Big Man.
• Hey isn’t that the guard from Spider-Man’s wrestling days? Damn it Stan Lee, you got us again with that sneaky origin story retell. 

Wolverine #50 (Vol 2): 

• Something,  X-caliber rifle, something, 6.75 mm round, something, something Larry Hama dialogue.
• Who are we going to get to pay for this super Weapon X project?  CIA, no. SHIELD, no, Depart. of Agriculture, that’s it. 
• But how can we afford the budget for these “Fake” memory shoots? I know, Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit. Just like Stargate SG-1 and every Fox Friday night show.
• Guess what? Adamantium works on budget rate robot Stryfe. 

KMac:
Beer 1: Luminescence, Florida Avenue Brewing Co., Tampa, FL
Style: Tropical Hazy IPA, 7% ABV
Beer 2: Wild Little Thing, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., Chico, CA
Style: Slightly Sour Ale, 5.5% ABV

Yek: 
Beer 1: Ten Fidy - Barrel Aged, Oskar Blues Brewer, Longmont, CO
Style: Bourbon Barrel Aged Stout, 12.5% ABV
Beer 2:  Golden Goat, Silver Branch Brewing Co., Silver Spring, MD
Style: Blonde Bock, 6.6% ABV

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Born in the 30th century AD, tripped out to the 30 century BC, warred up in the 40th century AD, and trying to rule all the centuries BC and AD….Kang the Conqueror – This is your life! Listen as KMac and Yek draw up the murder board of Kang and his infinite-selves so you can be just as confused as us. Before you see Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania, you will be glad you swigged some brews with us to get lost in time on what that blue face, floating invisible BarcaLounger reclining Inventor of Blue Kang Kooler Kool Aid is all about. 

 All the Kangs, So Much Time:

• Kang the Conqueror: Blue Ballz Kang! 
• Rama Tut: Chin Beard Ballz Kang!
• Immortus: Old Ballz Kang!
• Scarlet Centurion: Ginger Ballz Kang!
• Victory Timely (Jr., III): Wisconsin Cheese Ballz Kang!
• Iron Lad: Steel Cup Ballz Kang
• Kid Immortus: Old Soul Ballz Kang!
• Baby Kang: No Ballz Kang!
• Doom the Annihilating Conqueror: East European Manscaped Ballz Kang!
• Kangaroo the Conqueror: Ball Pouch Ballz Kang!
• Council of Kangs: Multi-Ballz Kang!
• Transdimensional Group of Selves: Multi-Multi-Ballz Kang! 
• Kang Collective: All Types of Ballz Kang!

Beers:
KMac: You’re My Boy Blue, Florida Avenue Brewing Co., Tampa, FL
Style: Blueberry Wheat Ale, 5.3% ABV
Rating: Doom the Annihilating Conqueror. All mashed up and good. 

Yek: Creator / Destroyer, Oliver Brewing Company, Baltimore, MD.
Style: Espresso Brown Ale, 6% ABV
Rating: Victory Timely. A classic style with an out time touch. 

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