So there's no insightful intro or rhyme or reason to this post except to say that in the last week, I picked several comics up off the reading pile and read them. Some of them do share genres, but they were only chosen because they happened to be on the top of the pile. Anyway, …
Arion: Lord of Atlantis #25-27, 31
One of the benefits of a quarter-bin sale is coming across random issues of random series, even if they're from the middle of the run. Sometimes I like picking up those books, especially if they are from a long-running series, like The Amazing Spider-Man or Action Comics. Sometimes, I know the character from another series …
It’s Cult Documentary Season!
I swear that my wife and I could do a whole podcast episode about documentaries about cults. Yeah, we watch a few of the bigger true crime docs, but what we really enjoy is sitting down for a couple of hours and getting the inside story on fringe religious groups. Over the past several years, …
Uncollecting Update June 2026
Since June 30 marks the midpoint of the year, I've done a complete recount and updated the spreadsheet. But first, here are June's numbers. Physical Comics Read: 9Digital Comics Read: 0 Books Read: 6Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 1Movies Watched: 6TV Shows Watched: 3TV Seasons Watched: 6Podcast Episodes to Listen to: 68 And after the update here are my new totals: Physical Comics to Read: 146Digital …
Personal Archaeology 36: The Digital Age
Stop me if you heard this one before: my inbox/Google Drive/hard drive is a mess. My folder of files from high school ported over from a floppy disk. While everyone out there is not a collector or hoarder, I'm sure than more of a few of us have opened our computers and gone searching for …
Books I Read Last Week While on Vacation
I just got back from a week at the beach, and just like every year that I go on vacation, I blew threw more than a few books. In this case, four that I'd packed. I also picked up three more because we went to a used bookstore and I just can't help myself in …
The Free Fall and Relic
Ah, more random-assed horror courtesy of Kanopy. I swear there's more than just horror on that streaming service. Anyway, these two movies were sitting in the queue and I decided to check them out over the last couple of weeks. Both involve weird crap happening to young women and have haunted house/things aren't as they …
Horror Stories
To say that Liz Phair is an important voice of my generation is an understatement. That being said, I really didn't know who she was when I was a teenager (beyond a certain Rolling Stone cover), preferring male-fronted bands really to any of the great Nineties bands that were helmed by or featured women. I've …
Table 19
I needed a break from all of the crappy horror movies I was watching, so I decided to go in the rom-com direction. Sitting on HBO Max was ensemble this film from 2019 about a group of randoms forced to sit together at a wedding reception's worst table. The center of the movie is Eloise …
My full-length FCBD Grabs of 2026
I've said it before and I'll say it again: one of the cooler things about a quarter-bin sale is when you find an entire run of a series. Last year, I found most of the Vertigo series Coffin Hill and Clean Room. In the past, it's been miniseries like Howard Chaykin's Blackhawk or randomin independent …
The Uncollecting 