Kray Z Comics And Stories

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 January 2024 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about!

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Joe and Cory are delayed again so this is LAST week’s episode posting on Monday for THIS week.  How dare they have jobs and lives!  It will happen again! So, to take the edge off, they give a bunch of reviews of funny books, like

• Books of Magic Omnibus – Vertigo
• Fantastic Four 26 – Marvel
• The Kitchen – Vertigo
• Hyde Street – Image
• Go Girl – Image
• Conquest 2099 – Marvel
• Joe goes through a whole bunch of books quickly with short reviews
• Book of Genesis – R. Crumb

We also have:

• A rundown on schedule issues and how they will be addressed.
• A Retro Review of the 1974 Human Torch #1

All of this, the usual shenanigans and Much, Much More!

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The comic book equivalent of the Oscars are called the Eisners, and they are given out every year at the San Diego Comic Con. They are the awards for the best comics as voted on by comic book professionals and since 1988, and in this episode, Cory!! and Joe talk about the winners of Best New Series since those awards began up until 2015!
Do they remember them? Did they buy and read them? And did those series live up to their early potential? They discuss all fo this and much, much more!!

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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 December 2024 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about!

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So, where has Joe “Kray Z” Rider been lately? ON A ROAD TRIP TO RENO! And thsi week he talks all about it as Cory reads comics. He talks about:

• Going on a road trip!
• MN Candy Store
• South Dakota and Wall Drug
• The story of Cory!!’s last family trip as a teenager
• Nuclear Missiles
• MILE HIGH COMICS!
• The origin of Mile High Comics
• Salt Lake City 
• Jackass Joe’s!!
• Frank and Fred’s comics and cards
• Comic Kingdom

The Retro Review is by Cory!! and it is the comic:  Sad Sack Laugh Special 54

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

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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 December 2024 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about!

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Joe has been a busy, busy guy this summer, so we FINALLY got him to sit down for a bit to record a podcast, and we discussed:

Joe has gone nuts with buying autographed books.

Joe is heading to Reno on a Road Trip!!

Cory!! Left the house ON HIS OWN to a big used book sale.

Joe did a bunch of non-comics stuff!

Cory!! Tells a story about the first attempt at comics creators forming a union in the early 1950’s.

Joe had American Foooood at the Fair

The Retro Review is by Joe and it is the comic:  Miss America #70

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

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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 November 2024 and beyond, point out the new, the collected and the interesting for YOU to bother your comic shop about!

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Nostalgia. Is it a clear way to success for a comic book or a quick fix that fades rapidly?  This week, Cory!! and Joe talk about that as well as:

• When fans shut down an attempt for a reinaminging of a property. 
• What makes a reboot work 
• Can you reboot an ongoing series successfully?
• Marvel’s requirement for bringing back a failed property
• Cory!! Reviews the first “New EC” comic Epitaphs from the Abyss
• What properties should make a comeback?
• Why did this Transformers series work when the others have not created so big a splash.

Comics news potpourri

• Robert Downey Jr. San Diego news
• Joe Quesada returns to comics
• Transformers wins a Eisner award

Retro Review: Chamber of Chills #2 – Marvel 70’s horror anthology comic

All of this, the usual shenanigans, and Joe does not get a shiny new dime.

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