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Creative dream team

Bears and Beers 

Wolverine smells.

Temperament of a chair?

The Law of Conservation of Ninjitsu

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Ghost breaking time!  Get your ghost breaking doctorate ready for some beer drinking and listen up as we give the Boogity Books treatment to DC's Ghosts issues 97-99 starring the Ghostbreaker himself Dr. Terrance Thirteen and the Spectre. 

Spectre's out for vengeance but will he succeed if Dr. Thirteen doesn't believe in him?

This story features:

The fanciest dressing and draining terrorists 

Ghostbreaking is a family tradition, but Dr. Thirteen can't break 'em no matter how hard he tries

Doomsbury Hall's mustached nurse

Spectre's dead skull faced eyes

Jim Corrigan chewing pages, throwing shade

Red Skull guest spot

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Once again we are drafting things like only Comic Books and Cold Ones can! This year we celebrate 40 years of the debut of  the 1980s Transformers cartoon. To help KMac and Yek out, we wish a big “Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong” to special guests: Gempster and ADK. Tune in to find out what more than meet the eyes teams came from our intricate draft rules. Also, KMac, we all know Unicron is a base. We also collab beer in this one, till all are One!!!

Rules:

• Draft characters who appeared in the 1980s classic the Marvel Productions - Sunbow Transformers Cartoon: 1984-1987 & 1986 Movie
• Skyfired (or is it Jetfired): Choose a bot from the other team  you are drafting for (Autobot or Decepticon)
• Cerebro-shelled: Mind-control someone's else pick to join your team.
• It was just a hologram: Veto someone's pick and it goes back in the list.
• Code of Combat of Cybertron: Challenge somemone that there pick is out of bounds or wrong for category
• Transform & Roll-out: Allowed to challenge someone with a Transformer name and they must tell you what they transform into or drop to the last pick in the round.

Draft Position Categories:

• Matrix of Leadership: Who's got the touch!
• Gear Grinder: Bot that gets $parx done.
• You’re killing me Smalls: Mini-bot
• Every kid wants to play with a…: Non-vehicle bot
• No Millennial Beastwars BS: Dinobot or Insecticon
• Holy F***, That’s Awesome!: Combiner
• More, more than meets the eyes: Triple-changer bot or Base bot
• Flesh Creature: Non-bot character

 Beers:

KMac: Garage Days, Collab: The Liquid Garage Brewing Co., New Port Richey, FL & Brighter Days Brew Co., Tarpon Springs, FL
Style: Black IPA, 4.5% ABV

Yek: Interstellar Bonza, Collab: Three Floyds Brewing, Munster, IN & WarPigs Brewing, Munster, IN 
Style: DIPA, 9% ABV

Gempster: Oh Mama, Collab: Voodoo Brewing Co, Meadville, PA & the band Styx (Mr. Roboto!) 
Style: Golden Lager, 8.6% ABV

ADK: Beerless Boring Bot!

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Time for KMac & Yek to grab their Marvel-Rail passes & head out on their annual summer odyssey. Come along this year with our visit to the jewel of the Balkans: Latveria! Enjoy our slideshow of highlights of Doom-garden beers, the delirium of the Green Fairy chasing after some of Dr. Doom’s own private stock absinthe, & the subsequent visit to those oh-so scenic dungeons. 

• Official Travel Brochure: Why just lie in the sun when you can master all that lies before!
• Marketing Catch Phrase: Bah! Why vacation when you can Doom-Cation!
• Host: Dr. Victor Von Doom 
• Concierge: Boris Karela
• Activities Directors: Gustave & Gert Hauptmann
• Tour Guide: Valeria
• Riding Instructor: Dreadknight
• Performing Acts: Red Skull, Stryfe, & Kang
• All the other Staff: Doombots
• Events: Mid-Summer's Eve Demon Fighting Spectacular. Fight a demon for the soul of Doom's mom!
• For the kids: Pop goes the Doombot!
• Day Trips: Symkaria. Come for the silver haired roylaty, stay to become GDP increasing mercenary. 

Beers:

KMac:
Beer 1: Lager, Proof Brewing Co., Tallahassee, FL 
Style: Lager, 4.5% ABV

Beer 2: La La Land, Proof Brewing Co., Tallahassee, FL
Style: IPA, 7% ABV

Yek: Old Maps, Bingo Beer Co., Richmond, VA
Style: Dry Hopped Pilsner with heirloom Italian barley from the Adriatic coast & choice Slovenian hops, 5.6% ABV

Booze: Grande Absente Liqueur France, 69% ABV.

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Mega-blockbuster summer movies demand mega-blockbuster podcasts breaking down everything you need to know about said mega-blockbuster’s lead character: Deadpool! Yek and KMac give the Merc with the Mouth the “This is your Life!” treatment. For a guy rendered sterile and mentally instable, he sure has been able to have a lot of clone-spring. And of course, all those lady loves: 10 ex-wives, no wonder he needs the residuals from Deadpool and Wolverine!.

Beers:

KMac: Dead Parrot, Florida Avenue Brewing Co., Tampa, FL
Style: Lite lager with sea salt and lime, 4.2% ABV

Yek: El Supremo, Dynasty Brewing, Ashburn, VA
Style: Double Dry Hopped Pilsner, 5.6% ABV

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Have a beer with use and Simon Roy talking his work Griz Grobus and the Tale of Azkon's Heart, Victoria breweries, and of course, the Gauntlet! 

Griz Grobus is available now in trade from Image Comics.
https://imagecomics.com/comics/releases/griz-grobus-tp

Check out Simon's stuff here:

https://x.com/simonroyart/

instagram.com/simonamroy/

https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/griz-grobus/list?title_no=741329

Beers:

KMac: Intellectual Property Ale, Motorworks Brewing, Bradenton, FL
Style: American IPA, 6.9% ABV

Yek: Northern Heights, Ten Bends Beer, Hyde Park, VT
Style: Vermont Style DIPA, 8% ABV

Simon: Electric Unicorn, Phillips Brewing & Malt Co., Victoria, BC
Style, White IPA, 6.5% ABV

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We like fine, fine beer, we like Superman, we like Batman. Let’s make this a World’s Finest all around by swigging away talking issues #7-#11 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora. So many guest stars that we barely noticed ol Bag o Bones. But, we never miss Zebra Man! Our fav of the “Were-Animal” family creatures.  Remember. What happens in the fortress of solitude stays in the fortress of solitude.

Beers:
KMac: Family Tradition, BarrieHaus Brewing Company, Tampa, FL
Style: Vienna Lager, 5.8% ABV, 19 IBUs

Yek: Spotted Cow, New Glarus Brewing Company, New Glarus, WI
Style Farm House Ale, 4.8% ABV

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Beers and X-Men '97!  After a few beers, Magneto also wonders "How did I get here?" Listen in & then face the Gauntlet. 

Beers:

KMac: An Awkward Friendship, Co-Lab: Common Dialect Beerworks, Tampa, FL & Arcane Aleworks, Largo, FL
Style: Cold IPA, 6.5% 
Rating: You got hair, I got’s none, Let’s call the whole dream off. 

Yek: Stormgazer, Elder Pine Brewing & Blending Co., Gaithersburg, MD
Style: DIPA, 8.4% ABV
Rating: Sentienenalt Chin Beard

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Every wonder what you can do with a super supportive mom? Well, if you are the High Evolutionary you can get a Transylvanian castle, evolve a bunch of farm animals, defeat an ancient evil Elder God, rule over a counter-earth as a god, and develop an army of Purifiers to extinguish all the bad genetics of mankind, which probably reflects your absent dad issues. Listen to KMac and Yek devolve this and as they do that themselves by swigging away. 

• Dominant:
  • Kickoff of Marvel Summer Annual Crossover Non-Crossover event. 
  • “You’re no Darwin, Apocolypse!”, “Yeah, you’re no Mendel yourself, High Evolutionary!”
  • Them so evolved artist: Terry Shoemaker, Mark Texiera, Art Adams, Mark Bright, Mark Bagley
• Recessive:
  • Eliminators? Purifiers? Young Gods? Did 10-year-old us write this?
  • All the plot potholes of holes? Really, Colombian drug dealers are what is slowing down evolution?
  • Magneto had a better gene bomb master plan. 

Beers:

KMac: Harder than You Think, Cigar City Brewing, Tampa, FL
Style: Rye Pilsner, 5.3% ABV, 39 IBUs

Yek: Wake up in the Future, DC Brau Brewing, Washington, DC
Style: BBA Stout, 15.5% ABV

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Sláinte or something, you dark beer loving spring drinkers. The boys are ready to rate Emerald Isle beers so you know what you must drink when wearing silly slogan-ed green tees to avoid getting pinched. That’s right, we review all three types of proper Irish black gold:  Guinness stout. And after we down a few, we riff on which comics characters are shameless stereotyped Leprechauns. Poor little guys. All they want to do is grant some wishes, keep their pot of gold, and hang in the ‘hood. 

Brewery: St. James's Gate Brewery, Dublin, Ireland

Guinness Extra Stout
Style: Irish Dry Stout, 5.6% ABV,
First Available: 1821
Tasting Notes: Hopped, bitter chocolate woody Black Tom flavors that drive you mad for a Juggernaughtin'. 
Rating: 3.6/5

Guinness Foreign Extra Stout
Style: Irish Dry Export Stout, 7.5% ABV,
First Available: 1801
Tasting Notes: Coffey, full bodied enough to let your Scottish girlfriend cut your face off and wear it without emitting your Banshee wail.
Rating: 3.7/5

Guinness Draught
Style: Irish Dry Stout, 4.2% ABV,
First Available: 1959
Tasting Notes: So slinky, smooth  you got to use a “gh” instead of an “f” and want to replace an “e” with a “y” to sing a Siryn song of Pogues lyrics. 
Rating: 3.85/5

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