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Your fav beer-funny book heads have saved up all their vacay days and we are ready to break out for some fun, sun, cocktails, and large headed organisms designed for singular purposes! The only spot we found that meets all these criteria are the tropical shores of Boca Caliente, A.I.M. Island. For this trip, we are enjoying our fav high ABV beer tiki drinks. So fill up your fav tiki mug from Geeki Tikis or Mondo Tiki with some extra boozy recreation and enjoy the fun sounds of us trying to figure out how recline in a cosmic cube beach chair. 
 
Comic-ation Itinerary:

Tourism Slogan: So M.O.D.A.M Fun! Bring your big head to the Hot Mouth!

How to get there:
S.S. Superia Luxury Liner – Shuffle board with all its leggy, leotarded co-cruisers. 

Resort Staff:

• Host: Alessandro Brannex – Such a Super Adaptoid-able guy! Way better than Mr. Roarke.  
• Hostility Directors: M.O.D.A.M. & M.O.D.O.K.- Nothing better than a giant headed Segway tour.
• Recreation Director: Monica Rappaccini – Swim with the syphilitic manatees! 

 Attractions:

• Sun, sun, glorious death ray sun.
• Comic cube clean fresh air – Want some gypsies, just think them up!

Amenities:

• Spacious convention center - Large enough to give Stiltman legroom. 
• Refreshment center – To satiate a Crossbones sized super villain thirst.
• Day Care & Teen Zone – Playdough is not all you can eat

 Must do events:

• A.I.M.’s International Arms Sales Expo – Need a death ray, attend! Need an assault robot, come on down!
• Battle Royal Arena Throwdown– Fight Razor Fist in unarmed combat, but not unhanded. 

Tiki Beer Drinks:
KMAC: Radler-Rita
Beer: Porch Rocker, Samuel Adams Boston Brewery, Boston, MA
Recipe: 4 oz lemonade, 4 oz of Lemon Radler, 3 oz tequila
Rating: Super-Adaptoidly Alcoholy!

 Yek: M.O.Don Day Afternoon
Beer: Radler, Brauerie Schloss Eggenberg, Vorchdorf, Austria 
Recipe: ½ oz lime juice, ½ oz cinnamon syrup, ½ oz grenadine, 2 oz rhum agricole, 4 ounces radler
Rating: M.O.D.A.M, I’m M.O.D.R.O.N.K.!

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KMac & Yek, everyone’s favorite hop-heads of haute couture, are swiggin’ away at suds and swingin’ at fashion again. This time it’s a team tussle on the catwalk with everybody’s favorite B-Squad super teams strutting with the West Coast Avengers vs. the Justice League Europe. Listen in to hear us breakdown who wore it better in the both teams’ initial 1980s kickoff arcs. You know there will be some sweet Daisy Duke’s action, but did you expect it to be on those stunning Wonderman ionic thighs?  

 Categories:

Leaders: The stick shooter takes it. 
AWC: Hawkeye
JLE: Captain Atom

Initial Line-Up: JLE gots too much flava!
AWC: Mocking Bird, Tigra, Wonderman, Ironman (Rhodes & Stark), Wildcard: The Shroud?
JLE: Elongated Man (Sue Dinby coming along), Animal Man, Power Girl, Rocket Red, Metamorpho, the Flash (WW), Wildcard: Where’s Wonder Woman?

Base: Grillin’ & chillin’, West Coast 4 Life.

AWC: LA Beachfront Compound
JLE: Parisian Embassy that cannot keep out smelly Frenchmen. 

 Best Married Couple: Washout
AWC: Hank & Bobbi Barton, super spies!
JLE: Ralph & Sue Dinby, crime solvers!

Da Man: JLE’s sponsor is actually evil, not just playin’.
AWC: Janet Van Dyne, acting all Waspy.
JLE: Max Lord IV, bringing that big Hollywood production hate switcheroo. 

 Ladies Man: Wonderman ain’t play, he just crush alto.
AWC: Ironman / Wonderman
JLE: The Flash / Metamorpho

Villains: Even villains like LaLa land.
AWC: Graviton! Ultron! Grim Reaper!
JLE: Queen Bee & the Global Guardians (Even Captain Planet is hatin’)

Costumes: More skin, more shiny for the win!
AWC: Silver & Red armor! Cat thong bikini! Expedition jacket! Jorts!
JLE: Metamorpho looks kinda of fun. Nuthin’ wrong with Power Girl’s costume

 Winner:
AWC look so much finer at 5, 2, & 1 over JLE!

 Beers:
 KMAC: Nothing Lasts Forever, deBine Brewing Co., Palm Harbor, FL
Style: Berliner Weisse, 4.1% ABV, 5 IBU
Rating: Lemon sharp like Captain Atom, Blackberry flava like Tigra & Power Girl

 Yek: That New New, Solace Brewing Company, Sterling, VA
Style: IPA, 6.2% ABV
Rating: Sunny smooth as a Wonderman in jorts! 

Not Beers:
KMAC: Bud Light Lemon Lime Seltzer, Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, MO
Style: Hard Seltzer 6.0% ABV, 0 IBU

 Yek: Strange Beast, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., Chico, CA
Style: Hard Kombucha, 7.0% ABV

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I don’t know if you kids out there know that the good ol’ U.S. of A. turned 200 in 1976 and the result was that it turned people bicentennial batsh*t crazy. I mean seriously sh*t got strange…so strange KMac & Yek need to get some odd ball style beers just to cope with all the crazy that is 1976 Doctor Strange. As our inaugural Strange Brews episode, we had to choose the wackiest Sorcerer Supreme series we know of. You know the one where Ben Franklin total bangs Clea on a boat with his bifocals on! America has been hiding it’s Occult History too long. Get you something funky to drink & get ready for this ride!

Comics:

Doctor Strange (Vol 2)-

• Issue #17 (May 1976):

This seems normal Clea & the Doc all jonesing about our nation’s 200th birthday why not visit 1776….I mean 1618??? Francis Bacon? Blackguards? Stygyro? Love him with that cucumber sauce. Wait there’s supposed to be a New Atlantis? Englehart is one out of the box cat.

• Issue #18 (June 1976):

Woah that was fast trip to 1775. Cool a boat & Ben Franklin. You know he invented a new kind of stove, right? Holy Sh*t! Stgyro is a man faced sea serpent in Old Atlantis, where’s the New one? I got faith Doc can handle all that’s going on….Ahem, Ben Franklin is totally droppin his electricity line on Clea, there goes the light, there’s the spark, we have Poor Dick’s almanac... “Englehart!!!!, get into my office right now,” snarls Marv Wolfman.  

• Issue #19 (July 1976):

 “Hi, I’m Marv Wolfman, EOC of Marvel, please ignore all that founding father bangin’ a sorceress from a demon dimension stuff. Look here’s a new He-Man crossover villain, Xander the Great…F’ you, Englehart.”

Beers:
KMAC:ZFG, Hidden Springs Ale Works, Tampa, FL
Style: Pale Ale, 5.5% ABV, 0 IBU
Rating: This beer tases like the Zero F*cks Given by Ben Franklin & Steve Englehart!

 Yek: BEE, Center of the Universe Brewing Company, Ashland, VA
Style: Orange Blossom Honey, 7.2% ABV, 8 IBU
Rating: This beer is like finding the lost chapters of a pork product named philosopher’s anti-establishment work. 

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Welcome again to Master Piece Comics Theater, an aural interwebs show where we debate all things graphic novels and imbibe all things barley brews. Lord KMacworth III of Inkshire and Sir Yexington, Man of Comic Sans Letter this time revel with you in the torrid, twisted little tale that is Batman – Dark Knight, Dark City. If you like The Batman movie and want to find out when the Riddler flipped the dark switch from Jim Carrey to Paul Dano, then head on into Milliken’s Tavern with us and drink a few off duty’s with Sgt. McCarthy while you listen along. Oh did I forget to mention occultist ginger-head founding father, Thomas Jefferson, makes an appearance. Hopefully, Alfred can help unravel this all. 

Comic Details:                                                

Batman , #452-#454 (Aug. 1990 - Sep. 1990)
Writer: Peter Milligan
Artist: Kieron Dwyer
Cover Artist: Mike Mignola

All the Riddles & Rituals:

·         When in the course of human events, you need to summon Barbathos, the Bat Demon, to get your Declaration writing cred up.   

·         Bookworms and Gotham Library guard kisses

·         Blood bank blowout! That stain ain’t coming out unless you take a steam shower. Don’t forget to use the Bat-Bidet.

·         ‘Cause it’s Robot zombie Thriller Night. You lead, Bruce!

·         Dude, Batman totally killed a dog. 

·         Riddler, Ping Pong Ball, Bat Baby Tracheotomy. 

·         What more dancing? This time with a goat at the 5th abandon circus grounds in Gotham!

All these and henchman galore!!

Beers:
KMacworth: Duchesse De Bourgogne, Brouwerij Verhaeghe, Vichte, West Flanders, Belgium
Style: Flanders Red Sour Ale, 6.2% ABV
Rating: Decadent as bathing in human blood from an exploding dummy baby in a blood bank.

 Yexington: Goodnight Nobody, Right Proper Brewing Company, Washington, DC 
Style: Foeder Aged Dark Farmhouse Ale, 9.7% ABV
Rating: Like all those times in Milliken’s Tavern with Sgt. McCarthy slaying wild dogs with a silver dagger good.  

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March Madness is here but we at Comic Books and Cold Ones do it a little bit different. You root for putting an orange ball threw a steel hoop whereas KMac and Yek are all ‘bout the beer and funny books. Chalk it up to all the green-tinted lagers. This year we kickoff our inaugural battle bracket of our favorite Instagram Beer-fluencers and Cosplay-fluencers who entertain us with their savory suds shots and wow-ful wardrobe scenes. 4 Beer-fluencers vs. 4 Cosplay-fluencers battling for all the attention only a 5 fan having podcast can offer!!!

Listen & find out who will host the frothy beer, spadnexed chalice of victory!

Bracket Rules:             

• 4 Brew Gram & 4 Cosplay Instagram Influencers the show follows.                        
• Seeding based on total number of followers  
• Scoring limited to last year-ish’s worth of Instagram posts                    

Scoring Categories (Beer/Cosplay)

Name Punniness/Name Nerdiness

1. Variety Beers/Breweries Shown/Variety of Cosplay Costumes
2.  Best Single Beer Post/Best Single Cosplay Post
3.  Tiebreaker: Hop-X Factor/SpandeX Factor

 
Beer- fluencers Bracket: 

Seed / Name / (# of followers)

1 babels_cameron (52K)

4 thecraftbrewnette (3.4K)

2 the_pintsized_traveler (34.4K)

3 its_a_brewtiful_world (18.3K)                           

Cosplay- Fluencers Bracket:

Seed /Instagram Name / (# of followers)

1 cutiepiesensei (388K)

4 krissi.q (13.8K)        

2 lis.wonder (233K)    

3 sailorvirgo (65.5K)    [formerly virgocosplay]                                           
 
Beers:

KMAC: Guinness Draught Stout, St. James's Gate Brewery, Dublin, Ireland
Style: Dry Stout, 4.2% ABV,
Rating: It’s Guinness, It’s March, Sláinte or something. 

 Yek: Clink, Devil’s Backbone Brewing Company, Lexington, VA.
Style: Brut IPA, 8% ABV, 26 IBU
Rating: It’s Champagne, It’s Beer, It’s Beer-pagne!

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Oh man the Eighties were the best if you were Editor-in-Chief of the world’s greatest comic book company. You could totally hijack all the books for an entire year and force creators to follow your vision of an omnipotent-being happy-go-lucky himself through the human experience. ‘Cause that’s totally what Jim Shooter did with the beyond belief tale of the Beyonder in Marvel’s Secret Wars 2. As you can imagine, it is fabulous drinking material. 

Listen as KMAC & Yek review the 9 issue limited series while swigin’ and riffin’ about all the best parts:

·         Spiderman toilet trains an omnipotent being.

·         Paying people with gold buildings, sucka.

·         1980s New York just gangsters and hookers.

·         Don’t mind me, just flying my Lamborghini chopping some vegetables in my Cuisinart.

·         Wait why does the Beyonder now have black hair and look more Jim Shooter?

·         Celestial Park Land, where all the beer is from Pittsburgh.

·         Hangin’ in Sparta, IL with the Dave. 

·         Knocking of Death and then giving Dave that big promotion.

·         Is it really a cult if it’s started by a legit omnipotent being? 

·         Making a cyborg woman bits machine so you can give birth to yourself.

We will save Kitty Pryde’s flirtation with racial slurs for another episode covering all those star studded crossovers. 

 Beers:

KMAC: Floridan, Funky Buddha, Oakland Park, FL
Style: Hefeweizen, 5.2% ABV, 12 IBU\
Rating: Beyonder popping that collar in his purple dudes like a true Chad. 

And a special mystery beer???

Yek: STFU, Center of the Universe Brewing Company, Ashland, VA
Style: BBA Triple Belgo Stout, 16% ABV, 33 IBU
Rating: Beyonder rockin’ his Beat It look while get all them hoes.

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Ep. 32

Indie Views & Brews: Saga!

This show is Epic! Or is it Legend! No, no that’s not it. That’s right, It’s a Saga!!! KMac & Yek delve into the indie comics realm riffing about the first 3 trade paperback volumes of Brian K. Vaugn’s and Fiona Staples’ loved romp Saga. Since this is an indie trip, the guys swig on some indie brews while breaking down non-sequiturs and obscura that lead to a giant with a giant scrotum splash page. Find out which Saga toys the guys think need to be made first: Oversized box The Stalk with all those losable accessories and other action parts! D. Oswald Heist’s lighthouse play set with Prince Robot IV alternative action figure.  Also now Yek finally knows who that Taco Bell kid is supposed to be. What say you, Lying Cat? Not lying. 

Beers:

KMAC: Sci-Fi Hamster Wheel, Thin Man Brewery, Buffalo, NY
Style: IPA, 7% ABV
Rating: Like Alana’s fluttery flying wings on your palette.

Yek: Caramel Macchiato Stout, Old Bust Head Brewing Co., Vint Hill, VA
Style: Coffee Stout, 5.7% ABV, IBU 30
Rating: Like Marko’s ram horns to your taste buds. 

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Who’s pumped for 2022, the Double Deuce Caboose? Thirsty for a new year of beers? Nerding for all the new comic movies and shows? Want to get some prophesying on what’s in store for 2022 beer trends? Then listen on in as KMac & Yek tip back a few fine ales to warm up the winter night while discussing a lager forward 2022 year full of Marvel and DC movies and shows! 

All things we breakdown as crank down on some beers:

Marvel:

• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – Slicked back hair Benedict C.
• Ms. Marvel – Bigger budget Naomi.
• Thor: Love & Thunder – Portman wants to get paid.
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Part 1 – Hell yeah more Spider Ham
• Moon Knight – 3rd tier in primetime. 
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Halle Berry Storm shows up right?
• She-Hulk – Will the Jade Giantess hit the catwalk?
• The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special – Mariah Carey edition.
• What If..? Season 2 – What If Emily Blunt was Black Widow?
• Secret Invasion  - Skrulls got to get to work to show up this year.
• Spiderman turns 60 - More important Spiderman 2099 turns 30

DC:

• Peacemaker – Jon Cena, Oscar bound
• The Batman – Shiny vampire edition!
• Black Adam – Rock wants some superhero money.
• DC League of Super-Pets – Crytpo dropping the People’s Paw!
• The Flash – Didn’t the TV show already cover this?
• Aquaman & the Lost Kingdom – Did they check the L&F box?

Beers:

KMAC: 

Sunny Key Lime, Big Storm Brewing Co., Tampa Bay, FL
Style: Wheat ale, 4.5% ABV
Rating: Dr. Strange in Multiverse of Madness excitement 

 Meander Grapefruit Pale Ale, Mainstay Brewing, Philadelphia, PA
Style: APA, 5% ABV
Rating: $&*##! (Like drinking Iron Man 3)

 Wisconsinite, Lakefront Brewery, Milwaukee, WI
Style: Weiss, 5% ABV, 11 IBU
Rating: Aquaman & The Lost Kingdom type hype. 

 Yek: 

The Red Eclipse, Heavy Seas Beer, Halethorpe, MD
Style: BBA Stout with Vanilla & Cherries, 10% ABV
Rating: Return to the Spider-Verse: Part 1 fever! 

Dark Rye, Ardent Craft Ales, Richmond, VA
Style: Imperial Stout, 9.8% ABV
Rating: The Batman with Jeffrey Rush as Commissioner Gordon. 

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“Mockingbird roasting on an open Mephisto, bow strings nibbing at your finger tips…” KMac & Yek are back to fill up the backend of your holiday season with the final 6 days of Hawkeye-mas. We crack up some more toasty brews and carol on about that loveable gnome of the Avengers, Clint Barton. If you drink along, we are sure you will end up singing along.  

 Carol theme: All things Hawkeye! Don’t doubt the numbers, you comic Grinch Gyriches. 

 Carol Verse: On the “#” day of Hawekeye-mas,  Marvel Comics gave to me: 

·         7 Teams a-Joining: Super teams Hawkeye has been on: Avengers, West Coast Avengers, Great Lakes Avengers, Secret Avengers, Defenders, Thunderbolts, The Wild Pack

·         8  Actors a-Voicing: Actors who have voiced Hawekey: Chris Wiggins – The Marvel Superheroes, John Reilly – Iron Man (1990s), Andrew Francis – Iron Man Armored Adventures, Tony Daniels Avengers: United We Stand, Chris Cox – Avengers Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Troy Baker – Avengers Assemble/Ultimate Spiderman/Guardians of the Galaxy, Adrian Pasdar – Superhero Squad, Jeremy Renner – What if?

·         9 Ladies Costuming: Hawkeye’s Love Interest Costumed Cuties:  Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff), Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff), Mocking Bird (Barbara "Bobbi" Morse), Spider Woman (Jessica Drew), Wasp (J. Van Dyne), She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters), Moonstone (Karla Sofen), Echo (Maya Lopez), Night Nurse (Linda Carter)

·         10 Names a-Nicking: Nicknames given by Hawkeye: Visioin - Vizh, Scarlet Witch – Witchie, Goliath/Giant Man - High Pockets, Captain American – Curly/Glamor Pants,/Cornball (Shield Slingin’)/Steverino/Leader Man/Methuselah/Winghead

·         11 Shows Showing:  Shows on Disney+ featuring Hawkeye: MCU – Thor, Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Endgame, Hawkeye; Animated: What if?, Iron Man Avengers: United We Stand, Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Avengers Assemble

·         12 Arrows Arrowing: Trick Arrows: Putty, Exploding, Smoke/Gas, Pym, Computer Hack/USB, Grappling Cable, Web, Suction Cup, Sonic/Shockwave, Burst Shot, Incendiary/Disintegrating, & Boomerang (For extra holiday cheer – Disruptor/Electricity, Acid, Flare, Bola…).

Full song:
A dog with a pizza slice
2 Crime Mentors
3 Dead Bartons
4 Dying Hawks
5 Shitty Jobs
6 Threads a-Gearing
7 Teams a-Joining
8 Actors a-Voicing
9 Ladies Costuming
10 Names a-Nicking
11 Shows Showing
12 Arrows Arrowing

Beers:

KMAC: BroMosa, Big Storm Brewing Co., Tampa Bay, FL
Style: Tangerine IPA, 7% ABV
Rating: Just like leading your first West Coast Avengers team bro.

Yek: Gnome for the Holidays, Silver Branch Brewing Co., Silver Spring, MD
Style: Saison with holiday spices, 7.6% ABV
Rating: Troy Baker, the real voice of Hawkeye, or was it Tory Barker, man I love holiday beers. 

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12 Days of Hawkeye-mas! – Part 1

 The holiday season has hit like a purple adamantium tip arrow to our festive hearts and we just have to sing…..but to do that we really need to have some beers. To help fill your heart with holiday trick arrows & help you follow along with Hawkeye on Disney+, this year KMac & Yek will be singing down the 12 days of Hawkeye-mas. Sing along with the catchiest holiday Christmas Bow-men lyrics! Perhaps if you sing joyful enough Jack Black Trick Shot will make a guest appearance under your Hawkeye-mas tree.   

Carol theme: All things Hawkeye! The numbers are perfect. Don’t doubt you nit picky comic Scrooges! 

 Carol Verse: On the “#” day of Hawekeye-mas, DC Marvel Comics gave to me: 

 Lyric:

·         A Dog with a pizza slice: Lucky the Pizza Dog

·         2 Crime Mentors: Swordsman (Jacques Duquesne), Trick Shot (Buck Chisholm)

·         3 Dead Bartons: Hawkeyes Bio-Family Members: Harold Barton (Father), Edith Barton (Mom), Barney Barton (Bro, 2nd Trickshot)

·         4 Dying Hawks: Times Hawkeye has died or sorta died: End of the Kree Skrull War, Onslaught, Wanda killed Disassembled, Ultron smashed What If? Show.

·         5 $hitty Jobs: Event the world’s greatest artist has to earn a buck: Roustabout – Carson Carnival of Traveling Wonders, Performer – Keibler Circus, Head of Security – Cross Technologies Enterprises, Agent – World Counter-terrorism Agency (WCA), Agent – S.H.I.E.L.D.

·         6 Threads a-gearin; Hawkeye’s snazzy duds: Classic, Tunic, Battle Armor, Tactical, Ronin (Honorable mention: Goliath suspender onsie)

Beers:
KMAC: Adoptable Lager, Motorworks Brewing, Bradenton, FL
Style: Golden Lager, 4.9% ABV, 24 IBUs
Rating: Totally an adoptable pizza dog

Yek: N’ice Chouffe, Brasserie d'Achouffe, Houffalize, Belgium
Style: Belgian Strong Dark Ale, 10% ABV
Rating: Circus Tunic Archer with a strong D Arrow 

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