Another movie off of my Netflix DVD queue and another movie I don't remember adding to it in the first place or why. Perhaps it was mentioned in an AV Club post or by somebody on YouTube. At any rate Amazon had The Sweet Hereafter available for streaming on Prime, so I sat down and …
Month: August 2019
“Your Experiences Are Valid”
I've been doing a lot of mental and emotional cleaning along with the physical uncollecting and one of the most important parts of that has been my efforts to restore and reestablish the self-confidence I seemed to have lost over the last few years. I can't pinpoint one specific thing except to say that myriad …
Indian Summer
I have a soft spot in my heart for reunion flicks. This isn't recent, by the way. Even as far back as my early twenties, when Grosse Pointe Blank and Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion came out, I loved any chance to watch a solid cast get together and pretend like they'd known one …
Starslayer: The Legend of the Jolly Roger #30
Published in 1985 by First Comics, this probably should have been something that I wrote about during the "Fighting the Independents" series, but it wound up being forgotten and I picked it up to read and review on its own. I guess that's how these things go. Anyway, this is space pirates created by Mike …
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Hex #2, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14
If I am to give credit where credit is due, it's my early years of comics collecting where I was buying all of Crisis on Infinite Earths and as many of its crossovers as I could that got me slightly interested in Hex, the post-apocalyptic sci-fi series that was the follow-up to the Jonah Hex …
Jersey Guy
Is it embarrassing to say that I only saw this movie because one of the actress in it was one of my first "celebrity crushes"? Some explanation, I guess. I started watching Degrassi Junior High when I was in fifth grade and kept up with it almost to the end--when WNET 13 moved the show …
Testament
I turned six years old in 1983 and my parents did a pretty good job at sheltering me from the violence of the real world. All I knew from violence was Star Wars and the cartoons that I was watching before and after school. I had no idea that in the early 1980s, America was …
Personal Archaeology 5: Confessions of an Achievement Junkie
Among the piles of personal ephemera that I've found in my office are awards. Many, many awards from elementary school, junior high, and high school. A few are sports-related, but most are certificates for participation in service events, citizenship and service awards, and academic honors. They're all going the way of the trash heap and …
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A Valiant Effort: Turok, Dinosaur Hunter
The Valiant Effort comes to a close with one of the company's most notable titles, a book that had its origins in the Gold Key series Turok Son of Stone and made a chromium splash when its first issue hit because it was so over-ordered and so de-valued by speculators that it became a symbol …
A Valiant Effort: Solar, Man of the Atom
The penultimate title in the stack was one of the more marquee characters in Valiant's lineup, a character that like Magnus and Turok, was published by another comic company back in the 1960s and to my knowledge is not part of the current Valiant lineup--in fact, I think that the relaunch was only with the …
The Uncollecting 