I've been trying to get some movies off my list while slammed with work lately, which hasn't been easy. Granted, if I could get off my ass and watch said movies while on the treadmill in the basement, I'd get this list knocked out more quickly. At any rate, much like my post back in …
Month: September 2019
Return of the Freedom is Tyranny of the To Do List
At one point, a couple of weeks ago, I had written "make to do list" in the margins of a legal pad I was using to take notes at a faculty meeting. Later that day, I sat down to make said list and when I was done, I saw that I had filled out the …
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How “Essential” Were They?
Sitting in the back of one of my long boxes behind some old Wizard magazines (all of which I will be offloading on eBay for very cheap) are some free graphic novel catalogues that I picked up from my LCS at one point or another. More importantly, when I picked them up, I went through …
Lingering Melodies
So "uncollecting" music has not been a huge priority in this venture, and I was thinking about this a couple of weeks ago when Dave Holmes' piece "A Decade of Music is Lost on Your iPod. These Are the Deleted Years. Now let us praise them" was published on Esquire. Holmes is a few years …
Eclipso #17
I literally bought this comic because I had heard that there was an issue of Eclipso that was a complete bloodbath with a bunch of heroes being killed off in an assault on Eclipso's base/temple in the Amazon. It wasn't. I will say that I've heard good things about this series, which spun out of …
Justice League Europe Annual #2
With the exception of a few issues, the 1991 Armageddon 2001 crossover from DC was meant to be read in any order, with the main title bookending all of the annuals that were the crossovers. Justice League Europe Annual #2 was one of those exceptions, as it was the penultimate chapter in the event with …
Kirby and After-Kirby Kirby
Why I have four comic books that were either created by, featured art by, or featured characters created by Jack Kirby is a case of me just randomly grabbing comics out of back issue bins because they looked interesting or they tied into something bigger or more important (or so I thought). I'll fully admit …
Regarding the Legion
So back when my LCS had its last "Shortboxtober" event, I took a deep dive into the bins and decided to grab a handful of Legion of Super-Heroes comics. I've only actively read the Legion's adventures once, starting in 1994 right before Zero Hour and going until about 1996 or so, probably quitting shortly after …
Secret Origins #12, 14, 21, 24, 25, 26, Annual 2
Lots of continuing my read through my incomplete run of Secret Origins, and I continue to enjoy at least one story per issue, sometimes even both. I'm going to wind up keeping all of these because the missing issues are on my want list and then I plan to read along with Ryan Daly's now-defunct …
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There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane
In 2009, 36-year-old Diane Schuler drove the wrong way on the Teconic Parkway in Upstate New York and ultimately collided head-on with an SUV. She, her daughter, her three nieces, and three people in the SUV were killed in the crash. The accident made headlines, especially after it was revealed that a postmortem toxicology test …
The Uncollecting 