Monthly Archives: June 2014

Cory was out of town last weekend, so no podcast last week…so they make up for it this week! Cory discusses what happened when he went home to Central Illinois and Joe talks about what he did while Cory was gone. Joe visits a new bookstore while Cory gets his hands on Kitchen Cooked Potato Chips… Oh, and they DO talk about funny books, as well as:

• Joe’s wife has won an award, despite being married to Joe!
• Cory asks Joe about direct sales reps with Marvel and DC, and tales of sales conferences
• More tales of Shinder’s
• The questions and issues Joe had with DC and Marvel when they talked sales
• Dealing with trying to get Marvel and DC to help with TV ads for comic shops
• What small press publisher do to try to boost their sales in comic shops
• Having the Diamond Comics Distribution rep drop by the shop and watch TV with us
• Freaking and Geeking

And, as always, much, much more!

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Joe’s digging around in the garage again, and starts off with a Tale From The Shop about getting around Wizard’s “One Copy Per Person” rule for their Comic book promos. They also talk about:

• The rules of time travel
• The reboot of Prophet
• Will the Fantastic Four go away for a while?
• What happens when a character goes away for a while?
• How do shops deal with returning characters and trying to help readers fid them?
• Why do characters get changed when they are revived?
• Freaking and Geeking!

All of this plus the proverbial much, much more!

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Joe and Cory start talking about the massive tragedy of Ann B. Davis passing and the comic book connection therein!

• Joe tells the story of a single comic book that killed a comic shop!
• This leads to a discussion of when Marvel started showing how powerful Franklin Richards is
• Joe reviews DC’s big event Forever Evil
• A discussion of Perez on Wonder Woman and his War of the Gods mini-series/crossover
• Did the delays with Forever Evil hurt the sales and impact of the book?
• Freaking and geeking

And the usually shenanigans and the proverbial much, much more!

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Joe and Cory talk about the place where the early Minnesota Comic Conventions were held, one of the strangest hotels you’ve ever heard of. They then quickly move to talking about:

• Hangin’ at the Home
• Godzilla!
• Joe’s work stories
• Joe found a new comic shop while out and about
• Marvel’s monsters and mystic characters
• Comic book trading cards
• How comic shops can screw up medium selling comics
• An extended Trading Card Tales From The Shop
• Freaking and Geeking

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

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