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Joe has been a busy, busy guy this summer, so we FINALLY got him to sit down for a bit to record a podcast, and we discussed:

Joe has gone nuts with buying autographed books.

Joe is heading to Reno on a Road Trip!!

Cory!! Left the house ON HIS OWN to a big used book sale.

Joe did a bunch of non-comics stuff!

Cory!! Tells a story about the first attempt at comics creators forming a union in the early 1950’s.

Joe had American Foooood at the Fair

The Retro Review is by Joe and it is the comic:  Miss America #70

All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!

Every month, Joe and Cory!! go through Previews to highlight comics coming in the future. This time, they go through Previews for comics shipping in November 2024 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about!

Nostalgia. Is it a clear way to success for a comic book or a quick fix that fades rapidly?  This week, Cory!! and Joe talk about that as well as:

Comics news potpourri

Retro Review: Chamber of Chills #2 – Marvel 70’s horror anthology comic

All of this, the usual shenanigans, and Joe does not get a shiny new dime.

Life got you down?  Needing a pick me up after a rough time of it?  We get it. Covid is back, the election is draining, and there’s only been one Marvel movie this year so far.  So, Joe and Cory!! Go over the comics they like to revisit for a warm, glow of entertainment and nostalgia.  They discuss:

They also go over:

Joe does not have a retro review, but he goes over 5 random comics from his box of comics he bought from dollar bins.

All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!

For this episode, Cory!! interviews Dave Swartz about his comic Confederate Monster, a story of Frankenstein (and his monster) during the Civil War! They also discuss the logistics of funding a project on different platforms, how Frankenstein works in the time period of the original novel, and much more.

It’s a great talk about a unique idea in comics.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/daveswartzart/confederate-monster-issue-4?ref=clipboard-prelaunch

X-Men #1 has come out, the start of a new editorial era. It’s as good a time as any for Cory!! and Joe to talk about the end of the Krakoa Era and the start of the new one!

They also discuss:

All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!

It’s time for a NEW Episode of your favoriute comic book podcast. This week we play with an idea floating around on Facebook:

Should Jean Grey have been brought back to life for X-Factor?  Cory!! goes into the plans behidn the scenes at Marvel at the time. They then discuss things that may or may not have been changed by Jean staying dead and a different character taking the “mystery character” role. Cory and Joe debate the issue, play with ideas that may have sprang from it, and if Jean Grey has been used well since her resurrection.

If you read the X-Men back in the 80’s, you’ll be yelling at us the whole time, and if you don’t know about the 80’s in the 80’s, get ready to sit back and learn about the X-Men as they started to become the most convoluted series of stories in comics!

They also discuss:

All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!

Every month, Joe and Cory!! go through Previews to highlight comics coming in the future. This time, they go through Previews for comics shipping in October 2024 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about!

It’s time for a NEW Episode of yout favoriute comic book podcast. We will go into reviews of the stuff we got on Free Comic Book Day this year. We also discuss:

Comics reviewed!

All of this, the usual shenanigans, and much, much more!

Every month, Joe and Cory!! go through Previews to highlight comics coming in the future. This time, they go through Previews for comics shipping in September 2024 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about!