While I am not sure that horror fans would classify The Scottish Play as part of the genre, I'm going to say that an encounter with witches who play with the fate of a mad Scottish King can definitely qualify for #HorrorComicsMonth. So I saved this one for October. Macbeth is my favorite of Shakespeare's …
Author: Tom Panarese
Complaining is my Default Setting
There's a scene in The Matrix where Agent Smith is villain monologuing at Morpheus and he says: "Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some …
Fear Case #1-4
I've got a pile of independent comics from the past five years that I'm currently rereading. The reason for this is that they're mostly miniseries or longer full runs, and I'm trying to figure out if I want to keep them around. Did I enjoy them the first time I read them? Will I enjoy …
Justice League of America #202
I probably shouldn't be buying these DC and Marvel grab bags at my LCS, but sometimes I can't help myself. Three bucks for five comics that are in meh condition or aren't really key issues? Yeah, you would too. So this George Perez cover on a pretty beat up copy of Justice League of America …
Dracula: A Symphony in Moonlight and Nightmares
The 1980s graphic novels from Marvel and DC have proven to be discount shelf catnip for me lately. That's probably because they've been popping up a lot at my LCS and at fairly reasonable prices. For years, the only ones I had were a couple of random DC ones as well as the "God Loves …
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Horror Anthologies for #HorrorComicsMonth
I don't know why I'm drawn to anthology comics, especially those with three or four stories in them. Maybe it's the fact that they, by and large, aren't published these days with any regularity beyond a few specials or tribute comics. So they have a certain old-school newsstand charm to them. I've got three that …
Vampirella FCBD 2022 Special
So this is my first Vampirella comic ever. I've been familiar with the character, of course, ever since she was being published by Harris Comics back in the 1990s and I would gawk over her rather skimpy outfit and provocative poses in the pages of Previews (and sometimes, I think, Wizard). But I never bought …
The Original Ghost Rider #7
What is it with late Bronze Age books and cults? I think I know the answer to that one, and it honestly shouldn't have been a surprise to see a Satanic cult in a Ghost Rider comic, but when I came across this story that details the origin of Witch Woman (I think that's what …
A Batman Two-Fer for October
Because of a DC grab bag at my LCS and the store's "Fresh Fridays" promotion where they put out some recent big-deal purchases every Friday, I wound up with these two Batman comics, both of which are Bronze Age goodies. And being that I'm a little too lazy to write multiple reviews here, I've decided …
Uncollecting Update September 2022
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 7 (54/63)Digital Comics Read: 0 (469/471)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 2 (15/53)Books Read: 1 (114/141)Movies Watched: 1 (100/123)TV Seasons Completed: 1 (78/90)TV Shows Completed: 1 (32/37)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 238 I have to say that I had fun with #FantasyComicsMonth and am looking forward to #HorrorComicsMonth in October and #WarComicsMonth in November. I guess …
The Uncollecting 