Kray Z Comics And Stories

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 December 2024 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about!

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So, where has Joe “Kray Z” Rider been lately? ON A ROAD TRIP TO RENO! And thsi week he talks all about it as Cory reads comics. He talks about:

• Going on a road trip!
• MN Candy Store
• South Dakota and Wall Drug
• The story of Cory!!’s last family trip as a teenager
• Nuclear Missiles
• MILE HIGH COMICS!
• The origin of Mile High Comics
• Salt Lake City 
• Jackass Joe’s!!
• Frank and Fred’s comics and cards
• Comic Kingdom

The Retro Review is by Cory!! and it is the comic:  Sad Sack Laugh Special 54

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

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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 December 2024 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about!

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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!

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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!

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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:

• When fans shut down an attempt for a reinaminging of a property. 
• What makes a reboot work 
• Can you reboot an ongoing series successfully?
• Marvel’s requirement for bringing back a failed property
• Cory!! Reviews the first “New EC” comic Epitaphs from the Abyss
• What properties should make a comeback?
• Why did this Transformers series work when the others have not created so big a splash.

Comics news potpourri

• Robert Downey Jr. San Diego news
• Joe Quesada returns to comics
• Transformers wins a Eisner award

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.

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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:

• Walt Simonson on Thor
• Crossover Classics Volume 1
• Love and Capes
• Fantastic Four 40 – 100
• Fantastic Four under John Byrne
• The Invisibles

They also go over:

• What to collect in a crazy political season.
• Star Wars Oreos in American Food segment
• Breaking News: Diamond is opening a direct to consumer website

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!

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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:

• Cory!! has a scoop to share about a new line of reprints of Marvel stuff from Fantagraphics!
• What collectors are more obsessive than comic collectors?  Joe lets us know!
• DC’s big summer crossover Absolute Power
• The Retro Review is Godzilla: King of the Monsters by Marvel
• Cory has a new Hanging at the Home story from his time working in group homes
• By the way, Cory!! messes up. The Puzzler is in Spider-Boy 9, not 8.

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

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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:

• Headphone trouble. 
• Cory!! tries Blueberry Donut flavored Potato Chips.
• AMERICAN FOOOOOOOD they discuss the new food at the Minnesotas State Fair
• How The X-Men had a big crossover to reveal a secret and revealed nothing at all.
• Joe goes dollar bin diving
• Cory!! talks about the weird world of TV tie in books. 

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

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