It's not like I had forgot Topps Comics was a thing back in the 1990s because at one point I owned a Captain Victory comic book and I believe I might have bought their adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula when it came out. But when I looked at the cover of the book and saw …
Author: Tom Panarese
The Year in Uncollecting 2022
Four years in and I'm coming off one of the toughest years I've had, at least on an emotional level. I find that when my anxiety and depression are on a higher setting, I tend to fall into bad habits of spending money, eating more, getting out less, and overally not taking care of myself. …
Classics Illustrated #53 and Marvel Classics Comics #36
Why do two issues from two separate books that were published 30 years apart? Well, both of these issues adapt Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Story," the quintessential tale for #HolidayComicsMonth. I picked up both of these at my LCS for very little--maybe about a buck or two--and saved them for this week when we're …
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The Crow: Hark the Herald
You know, I'm not really familiar with The Crow as a franchise. I own a trade collection of the original James O'Barr comics that I bought around the time that the movie came out in 1994 and still own my VHS copy of the film. Other than listening to my college roommate's copy of the …
DC Comics Presents #67
I guess if you're a DC fan and you're going to read something for #HolidayComicsMonth, this is one of those books that you're eventually going to get around to? Well, I don't think I actually planned on reading this for December, but I will say that when I came across DC Comics Presents #67 at …
Uncollecting Update November 2022
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 15 (83/126)Digital Comics Read: 0 (469/471)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 2 (15/53)Books Read: 4 (105/146)Movies Watched: 1 (99/138)TV Seasons Completed: 1 (77/90)TV Shows Completed: 1 (33/37)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 248 It's a combination of things going up and things staying steady, fueled by various distractions and …
Three Classic DC Trades
So between the Baltimore Comic-Con and a sale at my LCS, I've gotten my fair share of trades and hardcovers lately. Some of them are books that looked interesting or cheap ways to read stories I've always been meaning to; others have been bona fide classics that I've read before or wanted to read and …
G.I. Joe Special Missions #14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 26, 28
A few years ago, I did a read-through of several G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero trades that I had collected over the years, beginning with issue #1 in 1982 and ending with the trade that went up to issue #70, which is just beyond when I stopped collecting the book with issue #66 in …
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Attack!
Even though I have more war comics to read and eventually review for this blog, I decided to close out #WarComicsMonth with this comic, which I found in a quarter bin back in May and whose cover was intriguing enough that I felt compelled to pick up. Published in 1975 by Spire Christian Comics, "Attack!" …
DC vs. Charlton: a #WarComicsMonth Battle
I guess I should start out by confessing that I considered reviewing all of these comics separately as part of a larger #WarComicsMonth review set, but the month of November got all sorts of crazy and I wanted to make sure I got them all in. Plus, I thought it would be interesting to do …
The Uncollecting 