Sitting somewhere in a mental queue and eventually knocked off of my Hulu list, We Need to Talk About Kevin is a movie that I was always interested in watching but at the same time didn't exactly want to see because of my job as a high school teacher. I guess that's why it took me four …
Month: July 2020
Personal Archaeology 12: Things Left in the Wake
Had I really been on my game last month, I would have written about my high school graduation 25 years ago on June 25 instead of a week or two later. As it happened, I didn't do much to commemorate the anniversary on the actual day, aside from making a comment on a friend's Facebook …
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Personal Archaeology 11: Standing on Ceremony
So I would be a complete liar if I said that I had forgotten that I held onto my cap, gown, medals, yearbooks, T-shirts, and other commemorative items from my senior year of high school. Oh sure, all of the stuff (with the exception of my class T-shirt and yearbooks) wound up in the same …
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Some Trade Paperbacks in Brief
I wound up receiving a few trades for my birthday and then bought a few more with Amazon gift cards, and while my original intent was to review each of them individually, I realized that I liked all of them and they're going to wind up staying on my shelf anyway. Plus, there comes a …
Coherence
One of the better things that the "leveling" of better technology has given us is more accessibility to it, and sometimes we see that in movies in a really good way because we have gotten some truly quality independent and lower-budget films in the the last decade or two. I want to say that horror …
Starslayer #31-34
This is it. Four issues left in a run that I didn't think was going to go as quickly as it did. When I started Starslayer with Mike Grell's run, I figured that I would read a few issues here and there and eventually get around to the entire thing. But since leftover Badger comics weren't hanging …
Starslayer #28-30
I know that I already reviewed issue #30 last year, but seeing that I'm doing the entire run of Starslayer, and the story is a continuing arc, I want to include it here, especially since that issue is the second of a two-parter and this means I finally got the other half of the story. These three …
Personal Archaeology 10: You’re a Pathetic, Lovesick Loser Charlie Brown!
Somewhere in the September 1991 part of my teenage journal is a transcript of the time I called up my crush and asked her out. I feel like I need to let that marinate for a moment because it might take a moment for you to understand that I called this girl up, asked her …
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The Black Flame (Starslayer backups and issue #27)
So whereas Grimjack had a few backup stories before a team-up with Starslayer and then his own title, the next backup feature, "The Black Flame", ran for the remainder of Starslayer's run (except for the final issue) and had its own full-length feature in issue #27. So since I've reached that issue in my reviews, I …
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Starslayer #24-26
After leaving the city of Parallax that was at "the beginning of time," the Jolly Roger heads back to Cynosure, which they're now considering home even though it's still an incredibly dangerous place. When they return in issue #25, it seems like Ariosto, who was killed in the castle heist storyline a few issues ago, …
The Uncollecting 