So I should have liked this a lot more than I did. It is a romantic teen comedy with a soundtrack that a lot of people seemed to like. I missed it when it first came out in 2008 because I was 31 and had a one-year-old son at home, which meant that I was …
Month: July 2019
The Wackness
A 2008 comedy that I've had on my Netflix DVD queue probably since about 2010 (that's how long I've been sitting on a number of these movies), this is coming-of-age dramedy about a guy named Luke (Josh Peck) who is a drug dealer in New York City in 1994 and spends the summer after graduating …
Twenty-One Issues of Marvel Age in One Review
If there's anything that is indicative of this accumulation disease that I have, it's the fact that at one point, I needed to seek out a few issues of Marvel Age for use in both "In Country" and my 2017-2018 podcast miniseries "Origin Story" and that eventually led to me just grabbing an issue of the …
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Fighting the Independents, 6/13/19-7/13/19
Vacation and a break from comics reading to read books and watch movies has slowed my progress through the box of independent comic books that I'm looking to pare down, but I do have six books that I can give quick verdicts on. A number of these were books that I actually never paid for …
Quasar #14, 18, 33, 47, 51
All right, Gene, ya got me. To put that into context, about two years ago, I met Gene in person for the first time at the Baltimore Comic-Con. As we spent time comparing notes on who we met, who we talked to, and what we bought, he handed me this pile of Quasar comic books. …
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
I am a sucker for a good rockumentary (do they even use that word anymore?). To this day, The Last Waltz is one of the few Scorsese films I've seen in its entirety, and even though I don't have much love left for Metallica, the tour doc "A Year and a Half in the Life of …
Justice League America #99
The only reason I have this comic is that I once thought I was going to spend episode 99 of Pop Culture Affidavit going over 9 #99 issues from the 1990s. I already owned one of those and bought a couple more, this among them. Otherwise, I wouldn't have touched this issue. It's the epitome …
Secret Origins #19, 20, 22, 23, Annual 1
I continue to make my way through this pile of 1980s Secret Origins books that I accumulated via Shortboxtober a couple of years ago. Right now, I'm still in the first half of the series where Roy Thomas was still the driving force behind it and was ensuring that the origins of classic DC superheroes …
Uncollecting Update June 2019
As always, let’s start with the numbers. Media consumed # (remaining/total) Movies Watched 3 (149/156) Books Read: 9 (115/149) Comics Read: 24 (469/738) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 110 June was a bit of an odd month for all of this, and you'll notice that I didn't post very much. I spent about half the month on …
The Uncollecting 