I cannot look at this title and want to say "Camelot! Camelot! Camelot!" "It's only a model" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4tWBILtrSU Okay, with that out of the way, let's get to the comic. Camelot 3000 is a book that has an interesting place in both comics history and my collecting history. As far as comics history is concerned, …
Author: Tom Panarese
Uncollecting Update November 2020
Well, as always, I’ll start with my numbers for the month … Media consumed # (remaining/total)Physical Comics Read: 20 (46/394)Digital Comics Read: 0 (511/538)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 4 (21/84)Books Read: 1 (119/164)Movies Watched: 3 (105/118)TV Shows Completed: 0 (38/38)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 176 You know, I sit here at home thinking that maybe I have been going slower through everything because I have been busy at work, and that's definitely …
Starman (1988) #37, 38
A recent huge sale at my LCS saw 30,000 comics on sale for a quarter and while I didn't really have the time to go through every single longbox that was there, I bought a pretty decent stack of about 10-20 comics, some of which plugged holes in my collection (although I've got to admit …
Marvel Classic Comics #22: Food of the Gods
Professor Alan, in his infinite wisdom, has taken to sending me comic book adaptations of classic literature via the #comicbookcircleoflife. The reading results have been mixed--some of those Classics Illustrated issues were a bit of a slog to get through--but a great positive result has been the growing library of comic literature adaptations in my …
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The New Teen Titans Vol. 1
Here. We. Go! I have to confess that I only ever intended to buy this trade when DC started reprinting the Wolfman/Perez Titans because while I have owned all of these issues for more than twenty years, I know that they're pretty valuable and since I have a few of them signed by Marv Wolfman, …
Legends of the DC Universe #18, 80-Page Giant #1
My Teen Titans read-through takes me on a detour into the late Nineties, when DC was publishing books with legacy characters and was also taking the time to dive into the "untold" stories of its history. Legends of the DC Universe was one such title, and while I have only read four issues (these two, …
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Classic G.I. Joe Vol. 3
When a trade paperback begins with "Silent Interlude", which is easily one of the most famous issues of the series, you know it's going to be good. It would be about thirty issues and three or four years until I actually started collecting and reading G.I. Joe as it came out, so this stretch of …
Gratitude.
When I was in high school, a couple of my English teachers had a small poster on their classroom walls that, I believe, came from William Safire. One of the rules was "Avoid clichés like the plague." I keep thinking about that while trying to write this entry. It's supposed to be all about what …
While We’re Young
I have to admit that while I had saved Noah Baumbach's 2014 "people confronting middle age" comedy to my Kanopy watchlist a while ago, I kept skipping it in favor of other movies (mostly crappy horror movies and rockumentaries). I'd tried watching his film Kicking and Screaming sometime back in the Nineties, but never got …
Showcase Presents: Teen Titans Vol. 2 and The Bronze Age Teen Titans Omnibus
So nearly halfway through this second Showcase reprint trade of my favorite teen team, I picked up my hardcover of the Bronze Age reprints to see if there was any gap that I might have to compensate for; after all, I was working with a black and white reprint from one particular cycle of trade …
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