Monthly Archives: April 2025

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 June 2025 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about!

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Joe’s partner in comics, Pat Gruber passed away a few weeks ago, and this week, we share stories and pay tribute to Pat.  Joe met Pat in High School over a shared love of comics. They started a convention based business together and then bought Hot Comics St. Paul in 1992. Joe and Cory!! Talk about:

• How Cory!! met Pat.
• Pat accidentally putting adult themed trading cards into MCBA giveaway 
• The Pat character in a minicomic made by two people at Hot Comics
• “The Shed”
• The infamous Wisconsin Dells comic convention
• How Pat outwitted a scammer by making sure he got cash
• The Poker game at MCBA cons and how Frank Cho lost a LOT of money and had to do commissions to make up the losses. 
• The infamous “blind guts” game
• Pat meeting Traci Lords
• “Hot Artist!!!!”

We also discuss Diamond Distribution news, freaking and geek, and the usual shenanigans. 

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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 May 2024 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about! AND because of time constraints, they cover everything BUT Marvel and DC who were in Last Week’s episode.

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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 May 2024 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about! AND because of time constraints, they only go through Marvel and DC, with everything else being in part 2, so it’s a Very Special Episode

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