As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 4 (56/63)Digital Comics Read: 0 (469/471)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 2 (15/51)Books Read: 9 (116/141)Movies Watched: 5 (105/123)TV Seasons Completed: 1 (80/90)TV Shows Completed: 0 (34/37)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 229 I'm writing this about two weeks later than I usually do, and on the weekend before I return to work. I guess it's appropriate …
Author: Tom Panarese
Conqueror of the Barren Earth
So I am a mark for 1980s DC science fiction books, especially since they tend to be the oddballs in the company's collection (alongside the licensed property books that aren't Star Trek). I've grabbed a couple here and there, most notably an issue or two of Hex, Atari Force, and the Atari Force-related graphic novel …
Siegel and Shuster: Dateline 1930s
Billed as "Previously Unpublished Works from the Creators of Superman", this is a comic book that was published by Eclipse comics in 1984 that I'd never heard of until I saw it for pretty cheap (definitely less than a new comic) in my LCS' back issue bins. I've never been the hugest aficionado of Golden …
Shoot to Kill
One of the advantages of the Netflix DVD queue was that I didn't have to hunt high and low for a number of movies that are getting increasingly hard to find on streaming platforms. One such movie is 1988's Shoot to Kill, a movie I saw around the time I came out (I want to …
Manhunter
There exists a Michael Mann film that clocks in under two hours. I am sure there are others, but I had been putting off watching 1986's Manhunter because I didn't know if I wanted to make the commitment to a Michael Mann film. I'd also seen it before, having watched it back in high school, …
Uncollecting Update June 2022
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 1 (50/53)Digital Comics Read: 0 (469/471)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 4 (15/49)Books Read: 2 (123/139)Movies Watched: 3 (110/123)TV Seasons Completed: 2 (81/90)TV Shows Completed: 1 (34/37)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 224 Podcast episodes gained - Podcast episodes completed = 0. Huh. Anyway, this is a tough update to write because it's been a tough …
Superman in the Seventies
My history with pre-Crisis Superman stories is spotty, to say the least. While I owned a few individual comics in the 1980s and count Superman: The Secret Years as the official "start" of my comics collection, I haven't owned or read a heck of a lot. In recent years, I've picked up some individual issues …
Revival
Called a "rural noir", Revival by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton was a series I first started noticing in Previews about halfway through its run (which happens often when I flip through Previews). So I decided to start reading it issue by issue on Comixology, sort of as a way to "test" the book without …
Uncollecting Update May 2022
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 2 (37/39)Digital Comics Read: 0 (469/471)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 5 (12/42)Books Read: 3 (116/130)Movies Watched: 2 (113/123)TV Seasons Completed: 0 (83/90)TV Shows Completed: 0 (35/37)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 224 Another month of nothing. I feel like most of this year has been me telling myself that I'm going to get more proactive when …
If I Disappear
I'm not a huge mystery novel reader. Now, I have nothing against the genre and enjoy it when I do read it, it's just not my go-to. But last year, I was bumming around my local Barnes & Noble and saw the rather striking cover to Eliza Jane Brazier's novel about a woman who goes …
The Uncollecting 