Comic Books and Cold Ones

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Welcome again to Masterpiece Comics Theater, an aural interwebs show where we debate all things graphic novels and imbibe all things barley brews. Lord KMacsworth III of Inkshire and Sir Yexington, Man of Comic Sans Letters bring you this time a heartpounding tale about a denary nighttides for a Slavic savage killing all in is path while being hunted by the Detective. The fashion minded killer won’t stop until all of those involved with creation of U.S. Millenium Falcon are мертвый. Can the Dark Knight get a step ahead in time to save the Gipper? Nancy does not D.A.R.E. to ask what will happen after 10 Nights of the Beast. Comic Details: Batman #417-#420 (March 1988-June 1988) Writer: Jim Starlin Artist: Jim Aparo Inker: Mike DeCarlo Covers: Mike Zeck Colorist: Adriene Roy Letter: Augustin Mas / John Costanza Editor: Denny O’Neil The Highlights: KGBeastBeers: KMacworth: 1888, Pinellas Ale Works, St. Petersburg, FL Style: Russian Imperial Stout, 11.5% ABV, 110 IBU Rating: Harder to cutoff the tap good than a rope wrapped around your wrist. Yexington: Hype Machine, Trouvaille Brewing Co., Haymarket, VAStyle: Champurrado Imperial Stout, 12.2% ABV, 74 IBU Rating: Getting the KGBeast clothes discount at the local S&M dungeon. Hit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

Beers, breweries, books, movies we loved in 2023. Beers, breweries, books, moves we want to love in 2024. Plus the 2nd highest grossing Kraven the Hunter movie of all time! Hit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

Swimming upstream is always tough, but especially when there’s a Yule tide! KMac & Yek gots the solution with their annual caroling in an ode to Aquaman-Mas! To help drink the chords, they synchronized along their fin friend, Aquaman Alex! Despite best efforts, we found out we cannot talk to fishes, just drink like them. Beers: KMac: Winter Warmer, Cage Brewing, St. Petersburg, FL Style: Spiced Scoth Ale, 8.0% ABV Rating: Topo, the Octopus Archer! Yek: Griswold’s Winterbock, Solace Brewing Company, Sterling, VA Style: Dopplebock, 8.2% ABV Rating: Super Sea Clown! Aquaman Alex: Christmas Ale, Great Lakes Brewing Co., Cleveland, OH Style: Winter Warmer, 7.5% ABV Rating: Aquatic Ace! Hit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

Our interview and brew time with creator Simon Birks. Antarctica from @topcow. Hit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

Ki Ki Ki, Ma ma ma ma. It’s the scariest time ever: October has a Friday the 13th! That means KMac & Yek must delve into the lore of Crystal Lake counselor killings by murdering over Friday the 13th, the comic, #1-#6 by Wildstorm. This is a rare hockey mask to hockey mask recording with the boys in the same room (but not because they all scared…ok, maybe a little scared). Boogity Books & Beer-tober, B**ches! Five Comic Slays: Beer: GWAR Blood Geyser, Devil’s Backbone Brewing Company, Lexington, VA. Style: Blood Orange IPA, 5.5% ABV, 21 IBUs Hit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

Your boys swigged their way through one of the premiere U.S. beer events: Snallygaster. Listen in as we preview all the beers we wanted to try on Pennsylvania Avenue steps from the White House, and the review ratings aftermath of trying to drink our way through over 400 beers. There’s nothing we won’t do for charity. A few Breweries & Beers we were able to hit up: Alesong Brewing & BlendingCellarest Beer ProjectCrooked Run FermentationDe Struise BouwersHill Farmstead BreweryInner Voice BrewingOff Color BrewingThin Man BreweryWeissbräu SchwendlHit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

Starlite from Overcast Comics. Starlitekickstarter.com @starlitecomic Writer - Travis Webb: @webbwerx Artist - Brett Weldele: @brettweldele Writer - Greg Smith: @thatamazingtwit Hit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

Comic Books & Cold Ones is the codename for America’s dumb, highly inebriated, special podcast force. It’s purpose: Drink beers, talk $hit, relive 80s nostalgia. Yo, Beers!. Listen in as KMac and Yek along with their buddies JZ and Gempster conduct another Fantasty, Fantasy Draft. This time the classic 80s G.I. Joe cartoon. Drink along as we debate if Dr. Mindbender’s abs trump Lady Jaye’s pixie haircut, how nobody in the government paid attention to how accurate to reality Cobra’s schemes were, & why KMac was just the worst kid owning the USS Flagg Aircraft Carrier toy. As Cobra Commander always aid: “Listen or Perish, you Insolent Fools!” Draft Eligible: Any character, vehicle, or base that appeared on the Sunbow-Marvel G.I. Joe cartoon (1983-87) & G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987) Rules: The Curve Balls: Roster Spots: Beers: KMac: Taste Like Freedom, Tampa Bay Brewing Co., Tampa, FL Style: Fruited Sout, 6.3% ABV Rating: Shing dome Destro Yek: Ghost: Maiden Pain, Adroit Theory Brewing, Purcellville, VA Style: Rye IPA, 7.5% ABV Rating: Patten leather Baroness JZ: Improvised Explosive Noms, Tactical Brewing Co., Orlando, FL Style: Fruited Sour 4.8% ABV Rating: Chef’s kiss Road Block. Gempster: Duke’s cold nose Brown Ale, Bold City Brewing, Jacksonville, FL Style: Brown Ale, 5% ABV Rating: Oddly, Sgt. Slaughter Hit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

Suns out, and the suns still out! That must mean KMac & Yek are slow sipping away on their annual summer Comic-cation in the long-lost land of Skartaris! Dinosaurs, Atlantean Technology, & lots & lots of skin! Turn up the 3 Dog Night & break out your booze to mixology some great beer Tiki drinks that only the boys can create! Drink along & read along to every splash page in the Scrolls of Blood. Comic-ation Itinerary: Tourism Slogan: Sword, Sorcery, & Sun! Dirty dance your day awa…forever. How we getting there: Them Big Holes in them Poles! How we getting home: Subway train to Machu Pichu, of course. Resort Staff: Warlord, Travis MorganDeimosMachisteMongo IronhandMariah RomonovaShakiraAttractions: Amenities: Halls of Shamballah Must do events: Jennifer MorganTiki Beer Drinks: KMAC: Skartaris Sunburn! (Riff on a Tequilla Sunrise) Beer: Corona Extra, Cerveceria Modelo, Mexico City, Mexico Recipe: Large Tiki mug full of ice, 1½ oz tequila, splash grenadine, ½ bottle corona, fill rest with orange juice. Rating: SPF SR-71 Yek: Travis Morgan (Riff on a Jet Pilot) Beer: Stiegl-Radler Grapefruit, Stieglbrauerei, Salzburg, Austria Recipe: Pour 1 oz hi-tess Jamaican rum, ¾ demerara rum, ¾ oz gold rum, ¾ oz lime juice, ½ oz cinnamon syrup, ½ oz falernum into a Tiki mug full of ice with a splash of absinthe & bitters then fill with Radler. Rating: Dirty Dancing Dinosaur Lift! Hit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

Like something out of myth, your favorite two podcasters are swigging forward on their epic pub crawl through all the comic crossovers they can. This time KMac and Yek are taking their imbibing form moderately famous to legendary with the mid-80s DC classic: Legends! You want to know how DC sorted out all the alternate Earths crisis crap? Buddy, grab you yourself a sixer and listen as we hit the highs and lows at the bottom of DC’s pints. Legends: 1) That Fantom Stranger: The future scientist, wandering jew, fallen angel king. 2) Suicide Squad gets Re-Dead! You can thank Legends, Mr. James Gunn! 3) Blue Beetle Vs. Chronos: There will be sandwiches! 4) Superman Savior of Apokolips! He'll save every one of us! Lessengends: 1) The Justice League of @$$: Martian Manhunter, Vibe, Vixen, Gypsy, Elongated Man and muther’ f’in trash Steel. 2) Just like DC Cinematic, Captain Marvel fails to launch. 3) Jason Todd takes a beaten, but sadly stays alive. Joker just stealing Legends’ valor. 4) Warhounds? WTF is a Warhound? Who’s master plan hinges on robotic dogs? Beers: KMac: Voodoo Ranger 1985, New Belgium Brewing Company, Ft. Collins, CO Style: NEIPA, 6.7% ABV, 30 IBU Rating: Like giving Jason Todd a 1985 tune up street style. Yek: A Gateway to Inhabitable Vast Magnificent Worlds, Burial Brewing Co, Asheville, NC Style: Kolsch, 4.9% ABV Rating: Like a Superman who rises from the Hunger Dogs, a style born anew. Hit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

If we do say so ourselves, KMac & Yek are the world’s finest combo when it comes to reading beer and drinking comic books 😊! So it’s only fitting to tune in to hear as they drink two of the finest beers in the world while chatting about DC World’s Finest starring Superman & Batman. The boys breakdown the recent 2020 incarnation first five issue run by Mark Waid & Dan Mora. Try to keep up with all the easter egg shoutouts and Green Lantern wiffle ball bat beat down as you get top notch beer tasting review notes like “clementine” and “cloudy malt”. Bonus! Learn the secret 1492 West Indies origin of India Pale Ales and how the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria brought craft beer to Florida. Hey, it’s better than reading a World’s Worst starring Guy Gardner, Warrior and Bloodwynd! Beers: KMac: Jai Alai, Cigar City Brewing, Tampa, FL Style: IPA, 7.5% ABV, 65 IBU Yek: Saison Dupont, Brasserie Dupont, Tourpes, Belgium Style: Saison, 6.5% ABV Hit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

Summer is here and that means blow out spectaculars of beer and comic book movies! This year of course marks the final installment of James Gunn’s opus, Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy. KMac and Yek bring you up to speed on all the info you need to enjoy watching and rewatching all the GoG goodness. That means we cover the original GoG, the iconic team form up from Annihilation Conquest, and anything and everything in the MCU GoG. Of course, lots and lots of Taserface thoughts! The real trilogy hero. Listen in as we rate who is a BeerBuster and who is just a Buster in the GoG Universe all while enjoying some Cosmic themed craft brews. Get emotionally gifted like us! KMac: Cosmic Crown, Cigar City Brewing, Tampa, FL Style: Belgian-Style Strong Golden Ale, 9% ABV, 36 IBUs Yek: Galaxy Queen, Mully’s Brewery, Prince Frederick, MD Style: Double Dry Hopped Blond Ale, 6.5% ABV Hit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

K-Mac & Yek are bringing it Bock for with our spring green edition of Who Wore It Better: Poison Ivy or Plantman! Who creeps down the root runner way better: the Lettuce Lass or the Leaffy Lad! Listen up & drink down the bad bud puns with us. Categories: It’s a split pea tie.! KMac: Screaming Goats, J. Wakefield Brewing, Tampa, FL Style: Doppelbock, 9.3% ABV Yek: Macadocious Maibock, Denizens Brewing Co., Silver Spring, MD Style: Maibock, 7.1% ABV Hit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

Who would have thought to lovers of beer and comics could possibly find a way to chat about beer comics 50 times on the internet? But, here we are amazingly. Anything for the fan! K-Mac and Yek are celebrating this golden episode level with 2 golden age classic #50s and 2 other super classic #50s. Enjoy this double beer to fisting celebration of all things #50 comics have to offer. Detective Comics #50: The Three Devils Action Comics #50: Metropolis RavensAmazing Spider-Man #50: That cover!The Big ManWolverine #50 (Vol 2): StryfeKMac: Beer 1: Luminescence, Florida Avenue Brewing Co., Tampa, FL Style: Tropical Hazy IPA, 7% ABV Beer 2: Wild Little Thing, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., Chico, CA Style: Slightly Sour Ale, 5.5% ABV Yek: Beer 1: Ten Fidy - Barrel Aged, Oskar Blues Brewer, Longmont, CO Style: Bourbon Barrel Aged Stout, 12.5% ABV Beer 2: Golden Goat, Silver Branch Brewing Co., Silver Spring, MD Style: Blonde Bock, 6.6% ABV Hit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

Born in the 30th century AD, tripped out to the 30 century BC, warred up in the 40th century AD, and trying to rule all the centuries BC and AD….Kang the Conqueror – This is your life! Listen as KMac and Yek draw up the murder board of Kang and his infinite-selves so you can be just as confused as us. Before you see Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania, you will be glad you swigged some brews with us to get lost in time on what that blue face, floating invisible BarcaLounger reclining Inventor of Blue Kang Kooler Kool Aid is all about. All the Kangs, So Much Time: Kang the ConquerorRama TutImmortusScarlet CenturionVictory Timely (Jr., III)Iron LadKid ImmortusBaby KangDoom the Annihilating ConquerorKangaroo the ConquerorCouncil of KangsTransdimensional Group of SelvesKang CollectiveBeers: KMac: You’re My Boy Blue, Florida Avenue Brewing Co., Tampa, FL Style: Blueberry Wheat Ale, 5.3% ABV Rating: Doom the Annihilating Conqueror. All mashed up and good. Yek: Creator / Destroyer, Oliver Brewing Company, Baltimore, MD. Style: Espresso Brown Ale, 6% ABV Rating: Victory Timely. A classic style with an out time touch. Hit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

Ever get that feeling that you have other earth-selves wanting to horn in on your gig? If so, you probably need to look around and see if there’s some a’hole in a medieval-space cosplay costume screaming “The end….!”. Because if so, you just got your @zz DC Comics Crisis-ed! This time on the Big Swig Pub Craw KMac and Yek breakdown that very first DC company crossover, Crisis on Infinite Earth. Get out your Who’s Who volumes ‘cause you are going to need them as we drink our way through this one. And what better way to sum up a multiverse colipase, then letting KMac and Yek sum up their enumerated hits and misses: 5 Hits: Villainsthe Sea DevilsSupergirl died.Pariah!!!5 Misses: look dinosaurs in MetropolisCastle Grayskull in spaceNo more Barry AllenKMac: Stay Noided, OverFlow Brewing Co., St. Petersburg, FL Style: NEIPA, 6.5% ABV Rating: Earth 3 at home, but Earth 1 at the bar. Yek: Midnight Sun, Ithaca Beer Co., Ithaca, NY Style: Black Lager, 5,8% ABV Rating: Earth Prime only one son that turns out dark. Hit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

New year, new levels of pumptitude by KMac and Yek on all new things comics and beer. Listen in as we breakdown all the great things in the 2022 Double Deuce Caboose had and what we are fanboying on for 2023 all while KMac stumbles through his first ever growler and Yek drinks a beer made by 6 breweries. How do they even… 2023 Comics Stuff: Goblin King2023 Beer Things: Little Kings are Mutha’ F’in Back!KMac: Turbid 7, Green Bench Brewing Co., St. Petersburg, FL Style: Triple Dry-Hopped Hazy, 6.5% ABV Yek: Collaborator, 2 Silos Brewing Co., Manassas, VA Fairwinds Brewing, Lorton, VA Old Bust Head Brewing Co., Vint Hill, VA Old Ox Brewery, Ashburn, VA Three Notch’d Brewing Co., Charlottesville, VA The Virginia Beer Co., Williamsburg, VA Style: Double Bock, 8.1% ABV Hit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

As the world’s elite soccer players gather for their 4 year tradition, KMac and Yek are tackling the most pressing question of the FIFA 2020 World Cup: Which country makes the best pale larger (Or actually, which one are we happy to suck down 10 of while making soccer watchable). As the boys swig our way through the challenge, listen to them breakdown the best comic book team made of characters from each the beer brewing nations! Our participants in the 2022 Beer Cup are: SapporoHeinekenModelo EspecialListen to find who was crowned the Champion Smooth Drinker and why Katana makes an awful midfielder that ruins the game for everyone else. Hit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

Welcome again to Master Piece Comics Theater, an aural interwebs show where we debate all things graphic novels and imbibe all things barley brews. Lord KMacsworth III of Inkshire and Sir Yexington, Man of Comic Sans Letter bring you this time an international tryst about a crimson covered gem, and we’re not talking that plebian DiCaprio film. Pour your snifter full as you join us on a classic inter-continental romp as the Captain of the Americas and the fair Rachel, Lady with the Back of Diamonds match wits and wills with the dastardly Baron Zemo and his retinue, Monsieur Batroc’s Brigands. Their goal? The powerful sternum stone of Ulysses Bloodstone. Uncork your fanciest of ales and saga along. Just don’t drag your linen like that old money, the Living Mummy. Comic Details: Captain America #357-#362 (May 1989-July 1989) Writer: Mark Gruenwald Artist/Co-Plotter: Kieron Dwyer Inker: Al Milgrom Colorist: Gregory Wright Letter: Jack Morelli Editor: Ralph Macchio EIC: Tom DeFalco All the Destinations: KMacworth: Grateful Red, Folklore Brewing & Meadery, Dothan, AL Style: Flanders German Red, 6% ABV, 18 IBU Rating: MF’in Hellfire Helix of red in your tummy. Yexington: Black Forest, Ale Werks Brewing Co., Williamsburg, VA Style: BBA Chocolate Stout with Cherries, 9.5% ABV Rating: A fancy savate kick to your Chamber of Conspiracy dome. Hit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/