I've been back on the comics reading horse and decided to take a chance at reading some of the one-off comics of various genres that I've got lying around, making sure to read the horror books that I've pulled out of cheapie bins over the last few years. I haven't read as many comics as …
Month: October 2019
The CON-undrum Part Two: My Post-Convention Report Card
So there I was, having finally found my favorite comics booth at the Baltimore Comic-Con, with my handwritten list of needed back issues. After ten months of reading books and deciding if I should hold onto them, the moment had finally arrived where I would be put to the test. Could I shop for back …
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The CON-undrum Part One: Planning to Get More When You Need to Own Less
I'll be attending the Baltimore Comic-Con tomorrow, just like I have been every year for the past five or six years, and while I'm doing some of my usual con prep of getting my signing list together (much smaller than last year because we're spending less time there), I have also been thinking of how …
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The Shadow (1988) #9, 10
During last year's Shortboxtober event at my LCS, I grabbed a number of comic books that DC published featuring The Shadow in the late 1980s. I managed to find most of the Howard Chaykin series as well as these two issues of the book by Andrew Helfer and Kyle Baker. I'm going to see if …
The Punisher (1987) #14, 16, 21, 22
Professor Alan Strikes Again! I came home one day to a package with these four comics in my mailbox, all of which were from the Punisher ongoing that ran from the late 1980s into the early 1990s. I bought the first four issues when they came out (covered on episodes of "Origin Story" a few …
Requiem for a Dream
This is the second of three Darren Aronofksy fims that I've watched while trying to clear out my Netflix DVD queue (the others are The Wrestler, which I watched a while back, and Black Swan, which I have yet to see), and I'm probably not the only person who first found out who he is …
Uncollecting Update September 2019
As always, let’s start with the numbers. Media consumed # (remaining/total) Movies Watched 5 (109/161) Books Read: 5 (100/158) Comics Read: 0 (331/811) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 138 Well, the numbers don't lie. Things kind of fell off throughout the whole month of September. My LCS relocated and had a huge grand re-opening sale wherein I …