Monthly Archives: September 2017

Cory!! had last weekend off, so what did he and Joe do? They went on a Road Trip to Duluth!! The Dark Knight episode is delayed for a week as they talk about their trip, the shops that they hit while they were up there and Betty’s Pies! The shops they hit were:

• Globe News
• Level Up Games
• Rogue Robot
• Collector’s Connection
• Toy Galaxy

They also discuss:

• Why do people hate Wal-Mart and love Amazon
• Books that would have come out from Marvel in the 60’s if their distribution was better
• Archie, with Fawcett on their cover? What? And what does Fawcett comics have to do with a festival in Robbinsdale, MN?
• The difference between Duluth MN and Superior, WI.
• What happens when gamer 15 year olds are without supervision
• The odd connection between comic shops and the porn crackdown of the 1980’s.
• Shinder’s history and why comics shops put in security systems in the 90’s.
• Why there are so few Golden Age comics in the Twin Cities

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

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Joe and Cory discuss Len Wein’s passing and his out sized impact on comics. They discuss his creator credits, his time in the editorial chair and other things about his life. Len Wein created Wolverine, Swamp Thing, The New X-Men, and many more characters and stories.

They Review Dynamite’s John Carter: The End trade paperback

Then, they get into the theme of the episode, DC Dream Teams. A few weeks ago, they did Marvel dream teams, dream teams to create comics even if the creators don’t work together, don’t work on mainstream comics or can’t do a book monthly…these are DREAMS!!

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

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It’s been a few weeks of special shows, but Joe wants to do a normal episode! The bad thing is that there is never EVER a normal episode! Joe talks about comic shops he visited while he was away:

Rogue Robot – Duluth MN

Collector Collection – Duluth MN

And because our comics showed up last week, we talk about five things from Previews we are excited about, and 5 things we bought last month that we loved.

There’s also a review of Action Lab’s Spencer and Locke.

We also discuss:

• The Air Pirates underground comix
• The Super Bowl is coming to Minneapolis and will affect Joe’s job
• Cory!! and Joe’s vacations
• Why there are no current CrossGen books
• The new Professor Elemental CD: https://www.professorelemental.com/downloads-cds

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

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The host of Panels and Pizza, Adam Vermillion is is sitting in for Joe in the first part of the Big Summer Crossover! It’s starts here and concludes on Panels and Pizza on Wednesday!  They sit down at Red’s Savoy Pizza in Edina MN to talk about comics, the local Minneapolis/St. Paul comics scene, making podcasts and comics.  LOTS of comics!

Now, you’ll want to head over to Adam’s Panels and Pizza podcast for Part 2, as well as his interviews with Minnesota comic book creators at:

http://www.fancypantsgangsters.com/show-category/pnp/

We discuss

• The New Comic Book Day comedy show in Minneapolis
• They discuss Adam’s upcoming move to Iowa
• They discuss comics sales figures, so Cory!! wonders if conventions are doing anything to help comics sales
• They discuss the recent convention in Albert Lea MN and how the people involved pulled off a first time convention in a small town
• How TV commercials got Adam to read comic books

All of this, all NEW shenanigans and the proverbial much, much more!

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