It's #FantasyComicsMonth courtesy of Professor Alan, who sent me this via the #ComicBookCircleofLife. Can I use more hashtags. I need to do a longer blog post or perhaps even a podcast episode about my history with Conan. As it is with many in my generation, it starts with the Arnold Schwarzenegger films, of which Conan …
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Classics Illustrated #108: The Knights of the Round Table
I have this unwritten rule with Classics Illustrated issues: if I see a book that looks interesting and it's under $2.00, I will probably grab it. That's important because sometimes those books go for upwards of $5, especially if they're in good condition and I honestly am not here to collect CGC-quality copies. In fact, …
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Sgt. Preston of the Yukon
I have no explanation as to why I own this comic except to say that I Found it in a quarter bin on Free Comic Book Day and thought it was so random that I had to grab it. So yeah, pretty much that. This is a Dell publication that came out in 1953 and …
Personal Archaeology 25: Pictures You Never Took of Things That Are No Longer There
It's September 11, which means that my social media feeds have more than one commemorative status. They're not as abundant this year as they were last year, which marked 20 years since the attacks, so I didn't find myself facing as many eagles, flags, and "Never Forget" posts as usual. That's made scrolling a little …
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River’s Edge
A dead girl on a riverbank. A group of teen burnouts who know her boyfriend killed her. Nowadays, this would be the premise for a true crime podcast; in 1986, it was the premise of River's Edge, a teen drama directed by Tim Miller and starring Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, and Dennis Hopper. …
Uncollecting Update August 2022
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 3 (61/63)Digital Comics Read: 0 (469/471)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 0 (15/51)Books Read: 6 (115/141)Movies Watched: 4 (101/123)TV Seasons Completed: 1 (79/90)TV Shows Completed: 1 (33/37)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 221 Behind again with the updates. But that's just how it is, I guess? At any rate, …
Uncollecting Update July 2022
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 …
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 …
The Uncollecting 