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KMac and Yek talk another tale of comicverse spookiness.  The site of the first ever DC/Marvel crossover: the annual Rutland, Vermont Halloween parade.  This tale has them all: the Avengers, JLA, Defenders, Web-slinger Lad, DC Havok!  Crack open your favorite fall beer and enjoy the show!

The Beginnings 

• Avengers #83 (Dec. 1970): Tom Fagan invites the Avengers along with Roy & Jeannie Thomas to Vermont’s second biggest town for its 11th Annual Halloween Parade! Avengers vs the Masters of Evil & that cement gun. Maybe the Liberators can help! Who? That’s right, wenches! 
• Batman #237 (Dec. 1971):  Dick Grayson & his DC  buddies (Alan Weiss, Gerry Conway & Bernie Wrightson) gots to check out the 12th Annual Parade. Too bad some Nazis hot for Nazi gold have other ideas. Batman is hot on the trail to stop them & a vengeful Grim Reaper. Is that Denny O’Neil talking to normal hammer Thor? 
• Marvel Feature #2 (Mar. 1972): Some cultists want to bring Dormammu to play at the 12th An. Parade. Can the Defenders with a Mr. Spock Namor stop them so Fagan’s party goes on? 

The First DC/Marvel Cross-Over 

Follow the multi-verse adventures of DC & Marvel Creators: Steve Englehart, Gerry Conway, Len Wein, & Glynis “Supergirl/Powergirl” Wein (nee Oliver). (Numbers show the real time reading order)

• Thor #206 (Dec. 1972): (1: All Pg.) Absorbing man gets zapped back to life and dragged  to Rutland with Thor, Sif, and Hildegarde in pursuit. Is that Loki petting Tom Fagan’s dogs, Satan and Diablo. 
• Amazing Adventures #16 (Jan. 1973): (3: Pg. 1-6; 6: Pg. 7-9; 8: Pg. 10-14; 12: Pg:15-18 15: Pg. 19-20)  Beast gets stuck in Rutland for the 13th An. Parade. Too bad someone conjures Juggernaut to crush floats!
• Justice League of America #103 (Dec. 1972):(2: Pg. 1-7; 5: Pg. 8-9; 9: Pg. 10-16; 11: Pg. 17-19; 13: Pg. 20-21; 16: Pg. 23)  Phantom Stranger leads the JLA to Rutland. Will Felix Faust with Commando America & Norse Thunder God knock off the JLA ? 
• Thor #207 (Jan. 1973): (4: Pg. 1-3, 7: Pg. 4-8; 10: 9-14, 14: Pg. 15-20; 17: Pg. 21)  Absorbing Man fights Thor through Rutland's forests in a set up for Loki to make the Firesword! Ach, blinded by the lightning! 

Aftermath

• Avengers #119 (Jan. 1974): Looks like the 14th An. Parade will go on. Can the Avengers “collect” all their treats instead of tricks? Hey Fagan, take care of my blind, dumb Loki for me. 
• Thor #232 (Feb. 1975): Loki swaps out his bedroom spot at Fagan’s for local Bunker. No more portal?
• Justice League #145 (Aug. 1977): Count Crystal wants to collect JLA souls for Azgore in Rutland outside the Halloween season. Looks like the Phantom Stranger closes off the portal for good. 

Spoilers: Does Loki = Felix Faust? What's Dormammu really knows? Can Len Wein eat more hamburgers than Fat Superman? 

Beer:
Graham Cracker Sammich, Troubled Waters Brewing, Safety Harbor, FL
Style: Porter, 8.4% ABV
KMAC Rating: 5 out of 5 flaming sorcerer demon heads. 
YEK Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Juggernaut destroyed parade floats.

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The weather is changing and the frightening things are coming out to play. Time for KMAC and Yek to start drinking heavier beers while recounting steampunk powered tales of the macabre in jolly ol’London town with the DC Victorian Undead series. All manner of ghouls abound - Zombies, a Two-faced monster, Vampires, Queen Victoria & Insurance Executives!

 Comics:

• Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs Zombies, #1-6 (Jan. 2010 - June 2010) 
  • What the Deuce? Automatons! 
  • Stuck in a zombie filled underground village, Sherlock sabring heads off and Dr. Watson crackalacking with his strap like an OG. 
  • Steam punk grenadiers machine gunning and torching to the rescue. 
  • Mycroft, pass that English KFC Bowl of Kidneys and Kedegree, please. 
  • Moriarty and his celestial zombie body knowledge. 
  • A reanimated corpse with a barely restrained taste for flesh, but now you think he's crazy? 
  • Zombie's don't sleep, don't feel pain, don't fear, and their ranks swell with every bite and tear! Burn it all down! **Mic-Drop**
  • Silly zombie, don’t bring a gun to a grenade fight. 
• Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Jekyll and Hyde, #1 (Dec. 2010) 
  • No, you’re a jack-in-office. 
  • Zombie-demic pro-tip: Chinese herbalist can clear up that dual personality. 
  • What the Deuce? I shot out your head!
  • Hyde SMASH! 
• Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula, #1-5 (Jan. 2011 - May 2011) 
  • Lloyds of London: We cover J-Lo’s booty and dead Russian sailors. 
  • Queen Victoria & inbred royal cousins gots the sugars. 
  • Bring in Dapper Drac! 
  • Not gypsies, Szganys, OPA! 
  • Queen Bee Gypsy driving ghost car kind of scary. 
  • Lucy – All the Single Ladies Vampire! 
  • Mustache, cowboy hat got a silvered blade. 
  • Early round knock out - Sherlock drops fangs in 2 panels. 
  • If an actress dies in character, does anyone even care.  

Beers:
KMAC: Unholy, Coppertail Brewing Co., Tampa, FL
Style: American Trippel Ale, 9.2% ABV
Rating: 5 out of 5 phosphorous magnesium grenades. 

Yek: Bust Head, Old Bust Head Brewing Co., Vint Hill, VA
Style: English Style Ale, 5.6% ABV, 21 IBUs, Hops: Goldings, Fuggle, & Cascade
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 bust Zombie heads.

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Join KMac and Yek as they fill in the cosmic void of the new Thor series run as he aids Galactus. Enjoy mugs of ale, really big heads, & cheesy molten planet cores as tasty as crusty microwave sandwiches! Thunder!!!

• Comics: Thor #1 – 4 (2020), Story by Donny Cates, Art by Nic Klein 
• All-Father, King Thor 
• Volstagg wants his beer! 
• Sif, It's Rainbow Bright Bridge, Bitches
• Beta Ray Bill, Why the long face? 
• That Black Winter 
• Many deaths of Galactus (Death/Resurrection): 
  • Creeping Plague takes out Galan/Watcher watches him (Thor #169, Oct. 1969) 
  • Tummy full of Impossible Man/World Ship reverse devours (FF #175, Oct. 1976) 
  • Mostly dead from sling shotted Thing to that big head/Mjolnir juice (FF #243, June 1982) 
  • World Ship imploded/Abraxas switcharoo (Galactus The Devour #6, Feb. 2000) 
• Know Them Heralds (Power Cosmic Manifestation): 
  • Fallen One(Void) Always on the ground. 
  • Silver Surfer(Water) Doesn’t buy vowels. 
  • Air-Walker/Automaton (Air) Blow that Horn of Galactus 
  • Fire Lord, (Fire) Spiderman’s bitch. 
  • Destroyer, (N/A) What does used Asgardian robot armor blue book at? 
  • Terrax the Tamer, (Earth) Make rock move. 
  • Nova (Stars) Heartsy for Galacty. 
  • Morg, (ummm Executioners?) Don’t be a morg.
  • Red Shift (Radiation) Blah 
  • Stardust (Cosmos) Blah 2
  • Praeter (Faith) Broxton, OK 
  • Anti-Man (Life) Huh? 
  • Cosmic Ghost Rider (Vengeance) Ridin’ durty. 
• What's next?

Beers:

KMac: Tropic of Thunder Lager, Stone Brewing Co., Escondido, CA
Style: Lager, 5.8% ABV, 45 IBUs Hops: Cashmere, Citra, & Mosaic
Rating: Herald Level- Silver Surfer

Yek: Shattered Galaxy, Hellbender Brewing Co. Washington, DC
Style: Belgian Pale Ale, 5.2% ABV, 25 IBUs, Hops: Galaxy & Citra 
Rating: Herald Level – Air-Walker

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Welcome to Masterpiece Comics Theatre with Sir YeXington, Man of Comic Sans Letters, and Lord KMacworth III of Inkinshire.. Someone has killed the Batman, but who? This classic tale recounts the rogues gallery trial for who felled the Dark Knight!

Trial Location: Colonel Jack “The Claw” van Cleeve’s palatial estate
The Judge: Ra’s Al Ghul, Infamous Master of Legal Intricacies
The Prosecutor: Two-Face, Attorney at Law
The Jurors: Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, Mad Hatter (II), The Spook, The Scarecrow, & Signalman
Cameos: Killer Moth, The Cluemaster, Captain Stingaree, The Getaway Genius, Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Guest Witness: Superman

Comics:

• Batman #291: Catwoman. Even Bongo knows Brazilian Pepperwood don’t’ float. Batman gets head wacked on Pg. 13
• Batman #292: Riddler. Watch the Batman handstand windmill-kick henchmen. Watch him head dunk scissor-kick them as well. Look at the bling on that typewriter. Batman gets head wacked on Pg. 11. Dynamite don’t go boom when it goes smokey??? (Don’t try this at home). $25K to the courts, Riddles.
• Batman #293: Luthor. In his pimp “L” Luthor suit, the Sinister Sultan of Science drops Maser beams and pain-inducing glove bombs on that Superman @ss. Not Batman, no head wack.
• Batman #294:Joker. Don’t lose your face on Joker’s acid pepper-mill! Batman gets head wacked on Pg. 7, or did he?

The Twists:  Is Joker a master Yogi? Is The Claw van Cleeve’s place really just Wayne Manor? Did Signalman send out the signal that Batman was still alive?

Beers:
KMAC: Champagne Velvet, Upland Brewing Co, Bloomington, IN
Style: Bohemian Lager, 5.5%, Hops: Cluster, German Tettnang
Rating: 5 out of 6 Back of Batman’s head wacks. 

Yek: Raspberry Snakeden Saison – Rye Barrel Aged, 7 Locks Brewing, Rockville, MD
Style: Saison, 6.8% ABV
Rating: 5 out 6 Criminal Jurors. Singalman doesn't like it hides the barrel aging.

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To celebrate Fantasy Draft Season K-Mac and Yek go head to head assembling their own team of Avengers.  Who can draft the best team? Feel the Peer Pressure, show some Respeto, perform Rocket Surgery, and find out here!  Vote for your favorite team @CBCO_Podcast.

Draft Rules:

Contest of Champions Rules
Henry Gyrich Rule: 7 main members + 2 reserve members & 1 support (e.g, Jarvis, etc.)
5 A-listers only
Must have a leader & comic relief member
Spider-Man Rule (Actually the Speedball Rule): Only get to count Hank Pym once
Skippy Snake Draft Order / 5 rounds

K-Mac won the M.O.D.O.K comic toss so he went first. 

Draft Results
Name, A-Lister (Y/N), Role, 1st Avg. Mem. App

K-Mac
Captain America, Y, Leader, Av 4
Iron Man, Y, Av 1
Wasp, Y, Av 1
Hawkeye, Y, Com. Rel., Av 16
Hercules, N, Av 45
Spider-Man, Y, Av 329
She-Hulk, N, Av 221
Luke Cage, N, Reserve, New Av 3
Black Widow, N, Reserve, Av 111
Stingray, N, Support, Av 319

Yek:
Thor, Y, Leader, Av 1
The Vision, Y, Av 58
Scarlet Witch, Y, Av 16
Yellowjacket, N, Av 59
Quasar, N, Av 305
Beast, N, Com. Rel., Av 151
Black Panther, Y, Av 52
Black Knight, N, Reserve, Av 71
The Hulk, Y, Reserve, Av 1
Jocasta, N. Support, Av 170

Comparison –
K-Mac - Leadership, funding, & stealth!
Yek - Power, mysticism, & science!
What does the fan think????

Beers:
K-Mac: Peer Pressure, Mason Ale Works, San Diego County, CA, collab with Artifex Beer, San Clemente, CA
Style: Hazy IPA, 7.2% ABV
Rating: Avengers Tower – Summer blockbuster Avenger’s base. 

Respeto, Mason Ale Works, San Diego County, CA.
Style: Mexican-Style Lager, 4.5% ABV
Rating: Hydrobase – A great beach to land your Quinjets on.

Yek: Rocket Surgery, Aslin Breer Co., Alexandria/Herndon, VA.
Style: Double Dry Hopped, DIPA, 8.5% ABV
Rating: Evaporates off your tongue like Vision phasing.

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It's summer comic-ation time!  Join K-Mac and Yek on journeys to two of their favorite summer vacation destinations in the Marvel and DC universes.  If your idea of a vacation is big game hunting, meditation, battling assassins, finding eternal youth, or tinkering with random celestial machinery, then come along for the ride!

Comics:
K-Mac: Savage Land – The Ultimate Big Game Hunting Experience! 

• Your Host: Ka-Zar & Shanna the She-Devil
• Hostility Directors: Magneto, Sauron,& Zala Dane 
  • 1st Appearance & Ka-Zar (Kevin Plunder) – Silver Age: Uncanny X-Men #10
    • Ka-Zar (David Rand) - Golden Age: Marvel Mystery Comics #22
  • How to get there: Sea Caverns: Astonishing Tales #8  – #9
  • Attractions & Sites: 
    • Skull Island: Daredevil #12 – #13
    • Galaxy Master's mystery machine: Incredible Hulk #109, #110, & #111
  • For the Kids: Robot Triceratops: Ka-Zar #2

Yek: Nanda Parbat  - Come for Tranquility, Stay for the Assassins!

• Your Host: Rama Kushna
• Hostility Directors: Jonah, Sensei, & Ra’s Al Ghul
• 1st Appearance: Strange Adventures #216
• How to get there: Invisible Map: The Resurrection of Ra’s Al Ghul
• Attractions & Sites: 
  • 9,999 steps: 52 #27
  • Books of Magic: Justice League Dark Annual #1
• For the Kids: Play with the abandon kids from 100 years worth of evil humans & opium: Deadman #4

Beers:
KMAC: Summer Shandy, Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company, Chippewa Falls, WI.
Style: Shandy, 4.2%, 11 IBUs
Rating: Beats the Savage Land sweltering heat and smooth enough to mellow Sauron’s siren call. 

Yek: This Floor is Snakes, Oliver Brewing Company, Baltimore, MD.
Style: Double India Pale Ale, 10% ABV, Hops: Simcoe, Mosaic, & Centennial
Rating: Rama Kushna Blessed! Makes your forget 9,994 of 9,999 steps to Nanda Parbat.

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If you love folk music, orphans, alien cows, suspenders, and rocket skates, accompanied by intergalactic hijinks then this is the podcast for you.  Join Yek "the Man of the Kree" and "Secret Invasion" K-Mac on a Big Swig through the classic Avengers story the Kree-Skrull War.

Comics:

• Main Story:
  • The Kree-Skrull War: Avengers #89 - #97 (July 1971-  March 1972) - So all Rick Jones had to do is concentrate!
• Prelude:
  • Captain Marvel #17 (October 1969) - Get stuck with a Folk Singer in your head!
  • Fantastic Four #110 (May 1971) - Look at all those Mr. Fantastics! 
• Aftermath:
  • Skrull Kill Krew (1995/96; 2009) - Mmmmm, Skrull burgers.
  • Secret Invasion (2008/09) - You're a Skrull, I'm a Skrull, We're all Skrulls!

 
Beers:
K-Mac: Tybee Island Blonde, Coastal Empire Beer Co., Savannah, GA.
Style: Kolsch, 4.7%, 17 IBUs
Rating: 2 out of 4 Super Skrull Powers on!!!

Yek: Surrender Dorthy, 7 Locks Brewing, Rockville MD. 
Style: Rye Pale Ale, 6.2% ABV
Rating: Refined enough for a White Kree to drink, but bold enough for a Blue Kree to war to!!!

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In this inaugural episode of Comic Books and Cold Ones, Yek and K-Mac throw back some cold ones to talk about their favorite times the Ol' Canucklehead threw back some cold ones of his own.

Comics  - Just Some Wolverine Beers:

• Foamy Mug Lager - ‘Mending Colossus heart on ‘suds and Juggernaut's face: Uncanny X-Men #183 (July 1984)
• Carpasia Commie Kolsch – Knocking’em back with Nick Fury: Wolverine/Nick Fury Scorpio Rising (Oct. 1994)
• Sexy, sexy Misty Knight Saison – What you got in that fridge, girl?: Uncanny X-men #159 (July 1982)
• Whatever is Australian for beer - Awesome blossoms and aliens: Uncanny X-Men #245 (June 1989)
• Seedy City Seedy Stout – Punch Baron von Strucker Nazi Drunk: Uncanny X-Men #268 (Sep. 1990)
• Birthday Murder Pilsner – Sabretooth is the worst kind of brother: Wolverine #10 (Aug. 1989)
• Moose… – Puck, Spanish Civil War, & Hemingway’s wine: Wolverine #35 (Jan. 1991)
• Auger Inn Tap #1 – Dancing with Mystique: Wolverine #51 (Feb. 1992)
• Auger Inn Tap #2 – Juggie wheezing the juice: Wolverine #93 (Sep. 1995)
• Phoenix Force Double Galactic Ale – Loki cannot trick s’faced: Wolverine Infinity Watch #1 (April 2019)
• Not Namor Ale – Hercules sized Punch Baron von Strucker Nazi Drunk: Wolverine & Hercules: Myths, Monsters & Mutants #1 (May 2011)
• Damn Good India Pale Ale – The origin of beer: Astonishing Spider-Man and Wolverine #3 (Nov. 2010)
• Eyepatch Beer & Original Zayas Beer – Cyclops tries to be a dude: Wolverine & the X-Men #40 (March 2014)

Beers:
K-Mac: Tropic Pressure, Big Storm Brewing Co., Tampa Bay, FL.
Style: Florida Ale, 4.4%, 17 IBUs
Rating: After 6, you will think you have implanted memories too!

Yek: Gold Leaf Lager, Devil’s Backbone Brewing Company, Lexington, VA.
Style: Golden Lager, 4.5% ABV, 21 IBUs
Rating: 3.5 claws snicket. Order 2 Pitchers at the Auger Inn!

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