Monthly Archives: May 2020

Kray Z Comics and Stories 461: Road Trip 2020 Part 1

First: Both Joe and Cory!! live in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, and they gives an update on how they are doing as well as how the local comic shops are doing after the riots.

Here is a list of places that you can donate money to to help the people in Minneapolis affected by the riots.

After the update, we get into some comics news and then it’s time for the Road Trip episode!

Cory!!, Joe, and their friend Butch take the first Saturday of comics being back to drive around the Twin Cities, talk comics and look for, of course, comics! And YOU get to ride along!

We went to:

Time Bomb: https://www.timebombvintage.com/
Dreamhaven: http://dreamhavenbooks.com/
The College of Comic Book Knowledge: https://www.comicbookcollege.com/

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Kray Z Comics and Stories 460: Fave Five Comics Shop Memories

Comics are back! And over the last weekend, we have been able to make it to comics shops, but before that, we recorded this episode./ So, what is our theme? Our Fave Five Comic Shop memories! Joe and Cory!! have been going into comics shops for ages., so these are our five favorite times.

Joe grew up in the Twin Cities, and had comic shops from the time he started reading comics. Cory!!, on the other hand, grew up in the middle of nowhere, so there weren’t comics shops around him until after he got out of high school. They talk about a LOT of geeky memories, secrets of comics shops, and all of these things:

  • Cory!! runs down the top ten trades and comics for March
  • Joe’s first comic shop still exists
  • Why video rental was different than most people remember
  • A comics shop in an arcade and how Cory!! was a sneaky bastard when he went
  • God wants comics and SF books
  • Joe was desired all over the twin cities
  • The 24 hour sale Joe had at his old shop

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

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Kray Z Comics and Stories 459: May Comics Reviews

Cory!! and Joe talk about how the shops in Minnesota are reopening, and Diamond is starting to ship new books to shops this week. They also discuss the history of “New Comics Day” over the last 30 or so years. They go into detail about how comics will be coming to shops and other shipping information.

But that is just the start of things! (LOTS to cover this week) as they also do reviews of these comics:

Infinite Punishment: Shadows of War

Avengers Subterranean War

King of Nowhere

Berserker Unbound

Join the Future

Untold Legends of Batman

Avant Guards

Underdog

The art by Katy Irons Cory!! is talking about is here: https://www.facebook.com/UlyllaDesigns/

And you can get original art from Sal Buscema like Cory!! here: http://www.catskillcomics.com/

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

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Kray Z Comics and Stories 458: Comic Reviews You Were Not Meant To Hear

The thing that was never meant to escape has gotten out. Joe and Cory!! started reviewing comics, and it all just falls apart from there. Along the way, they discuss comics history, Amazing Heroes magazine, Joe’s twitter account, and all of these ACTUAL REAL COMIC BOOKS!

No Romance in Hell

Dingbats of Danger Street #2

Poop Man and Corn Boy

Skateman #1

I think our friend Dan might be a dolphin

The Generic Comic Book

101 Uses for a condom

Fred Hembeck Destroys the Marvel Universe

The Masked Potato

There’s all of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!

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Kray Z Comics and Stories 457: Joe’s Convention Sketchbook

Cory!! and Joe give a quick update on comics shipping to shops now before they dig into Joe’s Legend….wait for it….dary Sketchbook. He gives the stories about how he got each sketch, as well as stuff created by artist involved.

https://www.facebook.com/krayz/media_set?set=a.10158155685689731&type=3

There are artists such as:

Don Simpson

Chas Truog

Reed Waller

Phil Fogilo

Pete Krause

Bob Burden

Sergio Aragones

Art Spiegleman

Trina Robbins

Peter Gross

They discuss these and many more subjects, the usual shenanigans and, as always, much,much more!

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