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A Podcast from Joe "Kray Z" Rider and Cory!! Strode
32 Episodes
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This week, they review:
Superman vs Spider-Man
Aliens vs Captain America
Erotech
Dungeons of Doom
They also discuss:
Joe is cold. COLD, I TELL YOU!
Joe was working hard on the eBay to keep warm
Why Cory!! would not want to run a comic shop
All of the new things shop owners have to do that Joe didn’t have to do when he owned Hot Comics
Cory!! has AMERICAN FOOD!
Retro Review: Marvel 2 in 1 #96
All of this, the usual shenanigans, and much, much more!!
A note; As this episode was recorded, Alex Pretti was killed in Minneapolis and this leads to political discussions during the Freaking and Geeking portion of the show.
After being away from Marvel for about 8 years, Brian Michael Bendis is returning to Marvel. In this episode, Joe and Cory!! discuss what that means, and give out Fave Five Bendis stories!
They also discuss:
Avengers 800
Has Joe found a new children’s joke book?
When a comic creator returning works and why
And why it doesn’t work
Joe and Cory!! Have done this before!
The history behind people freaking out about comics maturing in their subject matter
The sales figures for 2025 for MAD Magazine are in and they are dire
Retro Review: Post Cereal Presents the Super Friends!
All of this, the usual shenanigans, and much, much more!!
We are running behind on getting these out, and I apologize for that. The combination of being sick over New Year’s Week, extra hours and work have slowed the editing process. ALSO Cory had a new headset which picked up his breathing and keyboard work much more than in the past. It gets corrected soon.In this episode, Cory!! and Joe went to Hot Comics Minneapolis that last week of its existance and they discuss:
Neither Cory!! Nor Joe could record the first week of 2026 because of Bad Food
MAD annuals
Some of the trade paperbacks that Joe and Cory!! bought
How much money did Joe save?
The feeling of a store closing
Odd things they noticed
Mind’s Eye Comics has moved
Joe opens a blind bag!
Joe’s Retro Review: Lidsville #5
All of this, the usual shenanigans, and much, much more!!
2025 is in the books, so Joe and Cory!! Are going to go over their favorite comics they read in 2025:
Kill Train – Mad Cave
The Atlas Library – Fantagraphics
Assorted Crisis Events – Image
Fantastic Four – Marvel
Sleep – Image
The Knives – Image
Animal Pound – Boom
They also discuss:-Free Comic Book Day is going to happen in 2026
-Oni is doing a revamp of Archie comics
-Peanuts has been purchased by Sony
Our Retro review is for Marvel’s Tomb of Terror!
Our new sponsor: HOPE! Heroes Organized To Save Earth
WE GOT A LOTTA PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE, AND NOW, YOU’RE GONNA HEAR ABOUT IT!The Airing of Grievances: At the beginning of the Festivus dinner, each participant tells friends and family all the times they have disappointed him or her the past year. As quoted by Frank Costanza: “I’ve got a lot of problems with you people, and now you’re going to hear about it!”
Joe has been gallivanting all over the place, going to comic conventions, book shows and shops and fills us in on all of them.
Cory!! stayed home.
They also discuss:
We start with an all new American Foods taste test!!
Talking to folks who think comics are dying and how they don’t pay attention to the evidence to the contrary.
Sales figures are showing this year’s comic sales are up year of year.
How people outside of comics don’t know how to sell comics
Should Marvel use the way they put together the new Ultimate Universe for their “Events”.
The current editors in chief at Marvel and DC being more behind the scenes people.
Retro Review: Kid Komics 1 from Timely
A NOTE Cory!! had the microphone too close to his face and was dealing with asthma issues. Sorry.
All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!!
Cory!! found a listing of the top 100 comics for June of 1993 on an old issue of Overstreet Fan.
They go over what they remember with Joe owning a shop, it being on the eve of the 90’s comics sales implosion, and LOT of new super hero universes. It’s a trip down memory lane for a time period that people have a lot of opinions about, the 90’s!They also discuss:
Blind Bag Comics: Threat or Menace!
Why Alan Moore and Frank Miller are incredibly wealthy men.
How Joe’s shop did so well in the early 90’s because of the X-Men cartoon
Joe’s criteria for getting an autograph.
How a bad advertising killed the Minneapolis Show Comic Zone
Why Marvel has a series called Fantastic Force
A new sponsor! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gatorman/the-apostasy
All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!!
Cory!! found a listing of the top 100 comics for June of 1993 on an old issue of Overstreet Fan.
They go over what they remember with Joe owning a shop, it being on the eve of the 90’s comics sales implosion, and LOT of new super hero universes. It’s a trip down memory lane for a time period that people have a lot of opinions about, the 90’s!They also discuss:
Joe giving cars away and Butch covering them with magnets. How do they work?
Why Cory!! hated the original Magnus Robot Fighter
The Early Image book Cory!! fell in love with.
Is there any old inventory left floating around at Marvel?
What character created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz at Marvel had his own series, but was MADE TO DIE!
Cory!! Reviews First Issue Special #6 in the Retro review
A new sponsor! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gatorman/the-apostasy
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All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!!
Cory!! found a listing of the top 100 comics for June of 1993 on an old issue of Overstreet Fan.
They go over what they remember with Joe owning a shop, it being on the eve of the 90’s comics sales implosion, and LOT of new super hero universes. It’s a trip down memory lane for a time period that people have a lot of opinions about, the 90’s!They also discuss:
RUB THE BLOOD on a comic
They are confused about how different parts of a continued story aren’t interested in buying all of the parts.
The start of the Ultraverse from Malibu
Jack Kirby and Charles Band worked together?
Freaking and Geeking
All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!!
Cory!! found a listing of the top 100 comics for June of 1993 on an old issue of Overstreet Fan.
They go over what they remember with Joe owning a shop, it being on the eve of the 90’s comics sales implosion, and LOT of new super hero universes. It’s a trip down memory lane for a time period that people have a lot of opinions about, the 90’s!They also discuss:
A PSA on the lottery
DC’s first “multi cover” comic and why they did it with no warning to retailers.
DEATHMATE!!!
Why did DC kill Superman
Joe’s Retro Review is Ren and Stimpy with Spider-Man!
All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!!
Benjamin Hunting is a man of many hats, professional journalist, computer coder, musician, record label owner, car lover and, since there are a few minutes left int he day, comic book creator.
He doesn’t do ALL of those jobs any more, but he is incredibly busy, and he sits down with Cory!! to talk about his new Kickstarter manga-style comic where a high school model UN is contacted by aliens who think they are the real thing.And that’s just the start of the comic and the discussion you’ll hear in this episode!
The kickstarter is at:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/benjaminhunting/model-un-aliens-high-school-90s-manga-pt-1
And Benjamin’s website for his past comics and other projects is: https://benjaminhunting.com/
This week, since Previews has died and gone to magazine heaven, Joe and Cory!! go over the comics they still buy or read as individual comics, not trades or graphic novels collections. It’s an episode of recommendations, nostalgia and the comic collectors desire to “keep the run intact.”
All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!!
The Fantastic Four are the core of the Marvel Universe, and they just got another movie, so Joe and Cory!! have their Fave Five FF stories to tell you about!
Fantastic Four 191 – 200
The Trial of Reed Richards
Solve Everything
Fantastic Four 1-2-3-4
Fantastic Four 176 – 184
What If #1
Fantastic Four 84 – 87
Fantastic Four 51: This Man, This Monster
All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!!
Yes, we have been away from the show for a bit, but that is because Joe was out wandering the world again, driving his daughter Daner from Reno NV to Cincinnati OH. He tells stories of hsi road trip as well as:
Joe is no longer interested in modern wrestling. FOR SHAME!
Air travel without doing the “Let me tell you about airline food” jokes.
Cory’s last discussion with his grandmother.
The story of Cory’s last family trip.
Joe only got to go to ONE comic shop of the trip
Once they got to Cincinnati, Joe was able to get into bookstores, and some had comics.
DEATH CRAZED TEENAGE SUPERHEROES!!!!
All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!
It’s the second part of our look at Jim Shooter’s life in comics as we discuss:
Shooter’s attempt to buy Marvel after being fired leading to Valiant
Valiant’s early failures before becoming a hit via Wizard
STEVE DITKO DREW WWF COMICS
Joe’s shop making money with Valiant comics
How Shooter was forced out of Valiant and the companies he started after that
The rise and rapid fall of Defiant comics and Broadway comics
Shooter at Marvel and DC in the 2000s
Cory at a convention after party where Jim Shooter told stories until 3 am.
Rather than a retro review, they talk about the new Superman movie!
All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!
Former comics writer, editor and publisher Jim Shooter recently passed and in this first of two episode, Cory!! and Joe go over his career from his first comics sale at age 13 to his last days as Marvel editor in chief. There are a LOT of stories, history and more as they discuss the life of one of the most influential people to ever work in comic books.
Long time comics writer, novelist and TV writer Peter David passed away recently, and to memorialize him Cory!! And Kray will be talking about their Favorite Five works he wrote such as: Star Trek: Q in Law Star Trek: Vendetta … Continue reading →
In this episode, Cory!! Interviews Dan Price about the most interesting title in the Homebrew comics line: Bigfoot Knows Karate. After talking to Homebrew Publisher, Christopher Michael, he HAD to know more about this series. Dan Price is a comic … Continue reading →
After more than 20 years of creating characters, and writing stories, Christopher Michael is the creator of CRIT, and the universe they live in. When he decided to create CRIT, he used a resource that he knew well: Dungeons and … Continue reading →
Free Comic Book Day was May 3rd, and as is tradition, we piled into Joe’s Cop Car and hit as many comics shops as we could. Joe Joe, Cory!!, Bunkhouse Butch, and Turbo for the nerdiest car ride in history! … Continue reading →
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