On June 3rd, Chris Honeywell, one of the founders of the Two True Freaks podcasting network, and his roommate Trudy lost their home due to a fire. Chris, Trudy, and Bernice the Cat are all fine and healthy, but they lost everything but the clothes on their backs. Chris has always been one to give …
Author: Tom Panarese
Uncollecting Update May 2023
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 45 (146/260)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 1 (6/11)Books Read: 1 (114/123)Movies Watched: 6 (178/194)TV Series Watched: 1 (56/58)TV Seasons Watched: 2 (100/105)Podcast episodes remaining: 185 Compared to last month, this is significantly better, especially where comics and podcasts are concerned. Now, honestly, I went through my podcasts and both …
What If (vol 1.) #35, 44; What If (vol 2.) #4
I've written about old What If comics in the past and I have always felt that they are worth grabbing from cheap bins whenever you see them. Brett's got a small collection going and I intend to add these to them (although I held on to my copy of "What If Phoenix Had Not Died?"). …
Continue reading What If (vol 1.) #35, 44; What If (vol 2.) #4
Some Quickie Reviews of Assorted Comics
So I've been motoring through some back issues lately and much like the Superman books I just reviewed, I thought I'd do some quick reviews here. There's a bunch of Marvel, DC, and independent books in here, and while it's quite a bit, I'm happy to be able to whittle down this pile of unread …
Quick Reviews of Assorted Superman Comics
In my FCBD quarter-bin grabs, I found a lot of Superman books. Most of them were from the triangle era and were books that I owned in trade or could easily read on DC Infinite, but here and there I came across a few that were old enough to pique my curiosity or were "deluxe" …
Wonder Woman (vol 1) #298
If there's any book from the DC's Bronze Age that could be called "underrated" at times, it has to be Wonder Woman. Yes, there's certainly some goofiness in the title, but there is a stretch where the book is pretty solid, especially with Gene Colan and Frank McLaughlin on art. This issue, titled "Catacombs", is …
DC Sampler #3
DC's efforts to do something a la Marvel Age have been varied over the years. I'd say that the most successful--and best--was their 1990s version of Direct Currents, which was a pamphlet-sized monthly publication that had features on each of the "big" books out every month along with listings of each book that was coming …
Blackhawk (1988) #1-3
I probably should have saved this one for #warcomicsmonth, but I found all three issues in a quarter bin on FCBD and couldn't wait to read it. I don't have much experience with Blackhawk as a comic book beyond their appearances in other books and crossovers as well as some of their animated appearances, but …
Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #85, 86; Web of Spider-Man #20
A few days ago, I wrote a review of a 2008 issue of The Amazing Spider-Man that was really critical of the violence of that era as well as the art and storytelling. At one point in the review, I noted that a story like that could have been done in the 1980s without as …
Continue reading Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #85, 86; Web of Spider-Man #20
Omega The Unknown
One of the great things about those giant quarter bin sales that my LCS has a couple of times every year is that I can grab random, beat-up copies of obscure superhero books and not worry about whether or not they have to occupy shortbox space if I don't feel like keeping them. Plus, if …
The Uncollecting 