The early 1990s were an odd time for Sylvester Stallone movies. The Rocky and Rambo franchises had ended but he was still in that "bankable action star" phase where he could thrown his weight around Hollywood, and even ventured into restaurant franchising (Planet Hollywood still exists but is not as huge as it used to …
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OMAC by John Byrne #1-3
I have to admit that Jack Kirby's DC work is a bit of a blind spot for me. I've read a little bit here and there via one-off reprints or a story being collected in a trade paperback collection like The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, but most of my encounters with Fourth World, Kamandi, …
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (DC Comics Adaptation)
If there's a movie that's at the bottom of my rankings for the original crew films, it's definitely Star Trek V. Directed by William Shatner and coming a few years after the mega success of The Voyage Home, it's a mess of a picture that leans a little too much into its jokeiness and doesn't …
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Uncollecting Update January 2021
As always, let's get started with the numbers ... Media consumed # (remaining/total)Physical Comics Read: 7 (26/398)Digital Comics Read: 0 (500/538)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 1 (20/91)Books Read: 2 (121/167)Movies Watched: 6 (114/135)TV Shows Completed: 1 (36/38)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 152 I feel like this is an inadequate start to the year, although I had the same problem last year. What is it about January that can just kick your ass? …
V: The Comic Book #5, 6, 9, 11
You know, I'm not trying to pay a lot for some of the comics that I need, but books like V can be hard to come by, even in cheap bins, so when I saw a stack of them at my LCS for about $3.00 each, I decided to grab a few. After all, there's …
The New Teen Titans Vol 2
I don't know if I said this or not when I was writing about the first trade paperback of the Wolfman-Perez Titans, but it's weird to "review" something that you know you're going to keep both in trade and single issue format, and you only own in trade because you don't want to have to …
Classic G.I. Joe Vol. 4
As I move through these trades of Marvel's "A Real American Hero" series, I find myself getting closer to the year and a half's worth of stories that I read and collected in 1987 (for the record, I read issues #59-66 as they were published and my back issues stretched continuously to issue #46). I …
The Year in Uncollecting 2020
Well, I’ll start with an update for December before I get into the year as a whole. Media consumed # (remaining/total)Physical Comics Read: 18 (32/398)Digital Comics Read: 11 (500/538)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 7 (21/91)Books Read: 0 (122/167)Movies Watched: 2 (120/135)TV Shows Completed: 1 (37/38)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 178 I completely eliminated that last longbox this month and everything is now in a "currently reading" shortbox that includes both unread back …
Favorites of 2020, Part 3: Podcasts
So I looked at things read and things watched, and this time I wanted to write about what I have listened to. This could conceivably cover music, but my listening on Spotify and iTunes this year was mostly random instrumental folk music that I used for background noise while working as well as Bruce Springsteen's …
Favorites of 2020, Part 2: Movies, TV, and YouTube
Yesterday's entry was what I read throughout the year (with a quick note that I'm probably going to have a book-related one on the Required Reading blog at some point before December 31); today's is going to be about what I watched. 2020 being a weird year is an understatement, and as I said in …
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