Monthly Archives: August 2021

Every year, comic book companies get together to offer Free Comic Books as a way to bring people into comic shops and promote upcoming books. And every year, Cory!! and Joe go to shop to see what they are putting on sale and pick up a big ol’ box of everything that is available so they are review them and tell you what they think! This episode, we recap the day and go over these books:

• DC’s 4 free comics
• 10 Tons of Fun
• Tales of a Grown Up Nothing
• On Tyranny
• Archie Past, Present, and Future
• Bountiful Garden
• Marvel’s 2 Free Comics

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

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It’s that time again! The new comics catalog for comics coming out in October has arrived, and Joe and Cory!! go through to point out the new stuff they find interesting, fun and worth their money!

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Joe has been on the road for the last two weeks and came back with stories of the road. He hit comic shops, Wall Drug, and other fun things as he drove from St. Paul to Reno Nevada! They discuss:

• Joe and Cory wax philosophical about how people with money don’t know much about how normal people live
• Joe praises the rental van while his daughter’s car went through a series of breakdowns.
• Cory talks about his LAST family trip as a teenager
• How Joe scared his wife and daughter to death on a mountainside

All of this, the usual shenanigans and 43 Man Squamish, too!

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Joe is out of town this week, so rather than have Cory!! just go on and on and on about whatever pops into his head, we have a fill-in episode of Joe, Cory!! and special guest Bunkhouse Butch driving around the Twin Cities for yet another Geek Day!

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Joe had a spare afternoon before taking off for Reno for two weeks, so he and Cory!! sat down to play a Rebooking game:

in 1993, the creators on the Spider-Man comics pitched an idea to have Peter Parker find out he was the clone from issue 149 of Amazon Spider-Man, and the character we thought was the clone was the real Peter Parker and had been wandering the country for 5 years.

So, they discuss what would they have done as the Editor of the Spider-Man comics when the Clone Saga was pitched. They discuss:

Why the clone saga was started

What it was supposed to accomplish.
How to avoid the mistakes make in the story
And where would they have gone from there?

Plus, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!

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