With beautiful art by Alex Ross, a script by Mark Waid this DC Elseworlds mini-series made a splash in 1996.  This week we are discussing Kingdom Come.  A futuristic story that deals with the conflict between the out of touch heroes we know, and a new group of dangerous vigilantes.

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This week Q has give us four drinks to correspond with the four horsemen 

Big Blue:

1oz Hypnotiq

1/4oz chambord

Sink the Chambord to the bottom

Dark Knight:

Rim glass with lemon sugar

1.25oz jaegermister

Amazon:

1pt Passion Fruit Rum

1pt Cranberry Juice

1pt Mango Purée

Splash of Grenadine

Gold Leaf Flakes

Add all ingredients, shake over ice, strain into shot glass; float gold flakes on top with tweezers

Spear of God:

1pt Midori Liqueur

1pt Banana Liqueur

1pt Pineapple Juice

Mix in ice and strain into glass

Monday morning we are please to discuss the 2009 Chew trade paperback: Tasters Choice.  From the minds of John Layman, and Rob Guillory comes a humorous look at police work, chicken prohibition, cannibalism, love, murder, psychic powers, and alien invasions.

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Adam

Piña Colada

There are many recipes of how to make a piña colada but the one that his friends tell in the book of José L. Díaz de Villegas to be the original recipe created by Monchito, is the following:

3 oz Coconut Cream

6 oz Pineapple Juice

1.5 oz White Rum

Pour 3 ounces of coconut cream, 6 ounces of pineapple juice and 11⁄2 ounces of white rum into a blender or shaker with crushed ice, and blend or shake very well until smooth. Pour into chilled glass, garnish with pineapple wedge and/or a maraschino cherry

An alcoholic drink that you can both sip and chew on.

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Bryan

Amelia Mintz

1.25 oz Strawberry Moonshine

.75 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

3 oz Ginger Beer

Mix all ingredients together over ice.  Garnish with mint leaf if desired.

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Q

The Vodka Chu

Gummy Body Parts

Vodka

Soak the Gummy Body Parts in a bottle of Vodka.  Done!

This little gem has come from the drunken mind of Q.

Monday morning we are please to discuss the 2009 Chew trade paperback: Tasters Choice.  From the minds of John Layman, and Rob Guillory comes a humorous look at police work, chicken prohibition, cannibalism, love, murder, psychic powers, and alien invasions.

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Todd

The Hot Pink

For the Beet, Celery, and Horseradish Shrub Syrup:

6 ounces celery, sliced 1/4 inch thick

1 medium beet (4 ounces), peeled and grated

1 tablespoon grated fresh horseradish, tightly packed

1 cup granulated sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup apple cider vinegar

For the Hot Pink Cocktail:

3/4 ounce Beet, Celery, and Horseradish Shrub

2 ounces Tanqueray gin

3 ounces seltzer

DIRECTIONS

1. For the Beet, Celery, and Horseradish Shrub Syrup: Combine the celery, beets, horseradish, sugar, and salt in a quart jar. Shake to combine and refrigerate for 72 hours, shaking once a day to help dissolve the sugar.

2. Strain the mixture through a fine mesh sieve, pressing the solids to extract as much of the syrupy liquid as possible. Discard solids and add the vinegar to the syrup. Refrigerate until ready to use. 

3. For the Hot Pink Cocktail: Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add shrub syrup and gin. Shake until well-chilled, about 20 seconds. 

4. Strain into an ice-filled highball glass, top with seltzer, stir to combine and serve.

Todd does not recommend this drink.  He was a brave soul, and put up with this drink for the good of the show, and for that we both salute him, and condem him for his stupidity.   If you want to feel the pains of Tony Chu's every day life, this might be a step in the right direction. But you will likely end up seriously wondering about your life choices.

On the next episode of the Funnybooks and Firewater podcast, we discuss the classic X-Men Arc, the Dark Phoenix Saga. Here is a preview of the panels drink choices to get you start your weekend.  On Monday you can rise from the ashes and join us for our discussion of the Dark Phoenix.

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Q

The Kitty Pryde

Mix Sprite and Skittles

Q invented this drink.  Its virgin, cause, well Kitty Pryde is like 15 in the Dark Phoenix saga.

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Q

The Emma Frost

1 Part Vanilla Vodka

1 Part Sprite

1 splash of Key Lime Juice

1 Sliced Lemon

Optional: 1 oz Cranberry Juice

Optional: 1 oz Southern Comfort

Combine vodka, sprite and ice in a collins glass, then add the Key Lime juice and stir. Garnish with the lemon.

For a Scott and Emma, combine the cranberry juice and Southern Comfort in a  shot glass to server as a side car to the Emma Frost.

Q got this recipe from the ComicsAlliance page.

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Q

The Jean Grey / Phoenix

2 tsp 151-proof White Rum

1 Part Green Chartreuse

1 Part Midori

1 Part Vodka

1 Part Peach Schnapps

1 Part Grenadine

This cocktail consists of 3 carefully constructed parts, and you need a think Collins glass to serve it properly:

Part 1: Blend grenadine and beach schnapps with ice cubes.  You want a slushy mixer.  Pour this into the pre-chilled glass.

Part 2: Blend the Midori, Chartreuse & Vodka with ice to create the second, green layer.

Part 3: Layer the 151-proof rum on top of the drink so it floats.  Very carefully, light it on fire.  Use a splint or extended lighter, do not get this on you.

On the next episode of the Funnybooks and Firewater podcast, we discuss the classic X-Men Arc, the Dark Phoenix Saga. Here is a preview of the panels drink choices to get you start your weekend.  On Monday you can rise from the ashes and join us for our discussion of the Dark Phoenix.

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Bryan

The Corpse Reviver # 2

1 oz Gin

1 oz Cointreau

1 oz Lillet Blanc

1 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

1 dash Absinth

Shake all the ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled glass.  Garnish with Orange Peel.

This is one of Bryan's all time favorite drinks, so he may have used the whole Phoenix rising from the ashes thing as an excuse to attempt to make his favorite drink.  

On the next episode of the Funnybooks and Firewater podcast, we discuss the classic X-Men Arc, the Dark Phoenix Saga. Here is a preview of the panels drink choices to get you start your weekend.  On Monday you can rise from the ashes and join us for our discussion of the Dark Phoenix.

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Adam

Rising Phoenix

1 oz of Vodka,

0.5 oz of Grenadine

4 oz Orange Juice.

Shake and serve over ice

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Q

The Dazzler

1 oz Blue Curaçao 

Champagne 

Orange Juice

Pop Rocks

Rim a champagne flute with pop rocks

Mix Champagne and Orange Juice.  Float the Blue Curacao on top.

To be honest, Q made this recipe up, so we have no idea what the exact measurements should be.  

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Todd

Jean Grey Goose Martini

 1-1/2 oz Grey Goose Vodka

 1-1/2 oz Goldschlager

 3/4 oz Vermouth

 2-3 dashes Orange Bitters

  ice

Olive and an Orange Peel for garnish

Pour ingredients over ice. Shake until cold. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish.

On Monday mornings episode, we are discussing Preacher: Gone to Texas.  To get your weekend started, we have drink recommendations from all of our panelists to get you in the Texas state of mind, and perhaps give the power of the Word of God.

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Andy

Andy, is not a drinker by he recommends Baby Blue Whiskey to get that Texas feel.

Blood and Whiskey (Mocktail)

Pepsi 1893 w/ginger flavor

Grenadine

Cherry

Mix Pepsi and Grenadine to taste, garnish with a Cherry.

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Adam

The Creative Whiskey

1  oz Triple Sec

2 oz Jamenson

1 Orange Wedge

1 Lime Wedge

Muddle the Orange and Lime with 1 oz of Triple Sec.  Add 2 oz Jameson and shake.  Strain into a glass over ice, fill with club soda.

Adam's friend invented this drink for his bar themed Ad Agency. Something to let you drink with a client and not get totally smashed.

Holy Water

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Bryan

Holy Water

 2 oz Blue Curaca

 2 oz. Sour Raspberry Pucker (I substituted Watermelon Pucker)

Fill rest with Sprite

Mix together, serve over ice.

Bryan will admit that it's a bit of a cheerleader drink.  But it can be dangerous, its sweet, but packs a punch.

On Monday mornings episode, we are discussing Preacher: Gone to Texas.  To get your weekend started, we have drink recommendations from all of our panelists to get you in the Texas state of mind, and perhaps give the power of the Word of God.

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Q

As Q likes to point out, there is a lot of blood in this book.  One of his go to recommendations is the Bloody Mary.

Bloody Mary  

Celery salt

1 Lemon wedge

1 Lime wedge

2 oz Premium Vodka

4 oz Tomato juice

2 dashes Tabasco Sauce

2 tsp Prepared horseradish

2 dashes Worcestershire sauce

1 pinch Celery salt

1 pinch Ground black pepper

1 pinch Smoked paprika

Pour some celery salt onto a small plate.

Rub the juicy side of the lemon or lime wedge along the lip of a pint glass.

Roll the outer edge of the glass in celery salt until fully coated.

Fill with ice and set aside.

Squeeze the lemon and lime wedges into a shaker and drop them in.

Add the remaining ingredients and fill with ice.

Shake gently and strain into the prepared glass.

Garnish with a celery stalk and a lime wedge.

On Monday mornings episode, we are discussing Preacher: Gone to Texas.  To get your weekend started, we have drink recommendations from all of our panelists to get you in the Texas state of mind, and perhaps give the power of the Word of God.

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Todd

A 6 Pack of Shiner Bock

Ok, its nothing fancy, but it's a Texas beer.  It may not get an A for creativity, but having a beer while reading Preacher sound like as good of a way to spend an afternoon as any.

This week, I made another attempt to be a bartender.  Since this week we are reading the 2015 revival of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I did a google search, and found  recipe for a drink appropriately called, a Ninja Turtle. 

It's a very simple drink to make, its basically a gin and juice (what up LBC!) with blue curaçao. That being said, its still pretty tasty. 

0.5 oz Blue Curacao

1.5 oz Gin

1 fill Orange Juice

Mix it all together and you have a drink that is in no way guaranteed to give you mutant powers, but you will likely be singing the cartoon theme song for at least an hour.

No sun ever sets on the evil empire, so of course there is no time off for a minion of the empire.  However, IF I were to get a day off, and on a Jedi holiday no less, I would like to relax with a Star Wars cocktail.  I haven't tried any of these personally, but I hope at some point I will be able to.  Enjoy, and May the force be with you!

Harrison Ford

1.5 oz Coffee Liqueur

3 oz Irish Cream

2.25 oz Vodka

Mix together with crushed ice in a glass and garnish with mint leaves.

-Ok, so its basically a white Russian, with a fun name, but its worth a shot.

Yoda

2 parts Apple Schnapps

1 part Blue Curacao

0.5 handful of ice

1 part Melon liqueur

1 part Sweet and Sour mix

1 splash Vodka

Mix together with crushed ice in a glass and garnish with mint leaves.

-Simple enough even I could make it.

The weekend is here, and Monday morning there will be a new episode of the Funnybooks and Firewater podcast discussing the 2007 Marvel event comic Civil War (just in time for the new Captain America movie coming out on Friday).  With a minor amount of internet research I found a recipe for a Civil War themed cocktail appropriately named, "The Civil War".

6 oz Cola

1/2 oz Grenadine

2 oz Jack Daniels

2 oz Southern Comfort

Simply mix it all together in a glass with ice.  Garnish with mint leaves if you're feeling fancy.  

When I was making this, I skipped the Grenadine (cause I didn't have any) and it turned out fine.  So good in fact, my wife even asked me to make one for her, and as we have stated before, I'm a terrible bar tender.