Monthly Archives: August 2023

We have a dear friend in a dangerous situation. If you can donate, please do so:

https://gofund.me/37919470

This is NOT the musical episode of our podcast. Instead, it’s a REVIEW show, but before we give you the reviews, we discuss:

• Joe is super excited about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
• Cory!! was sent a letter he doesn’t remember writing to Amazing Heroes in 1990
• It’s History Time as Cory!! Explains how DC screwed Alan Moore out of his rights to books he created. You will not believe how THAT discretion stated.

Reviews:

• Beware the Eye of Odin – Image
• Quest – Image
• Nuking Alaska – Psu Press
• X-Men Hellfire Gala – Marvel
• Parallel – Oni 
• Conan the Barbarian – Titan

• We have a Promo from our pals The Cinema Judge:

https://www.deezer.com/us/show/1085482

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIRrqxTBdt0wneZzdP84AIw

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• We start with Listener mail
• Cory!! Gives the history of Andrew Rev, former owner of Comico and other comics companies that have gone away.
• Joe gives a report on the Minnesota Comics Exchange convention
• Cory!! Tells stories about the Minnesota chain, Shinders.
• Shinders had comics, baseball cards, comics, magazines, paperbacks, and PORN!
• They discuss how Baseball cards were where investors were during the late 80’s/early 90’s.
• They go into the business of porn from 1988 – 2005 and how that affected the Shinders chain.
• Cory!!’s retro review for Death Crazed Teenage Super-Heroes!
• We have a Promo from our pals The Cinema Judge:

https://www.deezer.com/us/show/1085482

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIRrqxTBdt0wneZzdP84AIw

• Articles about Shinder’s:
  

https://gizmodo.com/comics-contracts-and-covid-inside-the-scandal-at-ter-1845120487

https://icv2.com/articles/comics/view/10921/lawyers-guns-drugs-cards-comics

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/54504/the-direct-market-juggernaut-you-never-knew

http://historyapolis.com/blog/2014/03/17/feminist-protest-and-the-minneapolis-pornography-district/

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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 October and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother you comic shop about!

Our friend’s GoFundMe is here:

Be there, aloha!

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It’s an odds and sodds episode where Joe goes through notes he has floating around, plus a LOT of comics talk!

• They get into comics trivia,
• Cory!! explains why Marvel’s 70’s horror comics were mostly reprint from the 50’s
• Archie Spire Comics are still in print
• Yes, Jack Chick comics are still in print.
• Heavy Metal magazine has ended
• The 6:30 slot on TV channels and why does that have to do with Tom and Jerry

We have a Promo from our pals The Cinema Judge:

https://www.deezer.com/us/show/1085482

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIRrqxTBdt0wneZzdP84AIw

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