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 …
Author: Tom Panarese
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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Teen Titans Spotlight #21
With the ongoing (though slightly waning) success of The New Teen Titans, in 1986, DC published Teen Titans Spotlight, a series much like Solo Avengers, featured the various team members in their own stories. It's a series that I will get into more later on when I am finally into the "Baxter Series" era of …
Teen Titans Annual #1 (1999)
A quick look at Mike's Amazing World of Comics shows me that between 1998 and 2004, DC produced several replica/reprint and "lost" classic Silver and Bronze Age 80-page giant annuals (the "Teen Titans Lost Annual" from 2008 is on that list as well but I'm going to say it doesn't qualify because it has different …
Uncollecting Update October 2020
Well, as always, I’ll start with my numbers for the month … Media consumed # (remaining/total)Physical Comics Read: 24 (51/379)Digital Comics Read: 8 (511/538)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 1 (24/83)Books Read: 3 (120/164)Movies Watched: 4 (108/118)TV Shows Completed: 0 (38/38)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 150 This is a weird month to recap and a weird entry to write because while it's going up on Election Day 2020, it's being written the day …
Silver Age: Teen Titans
So I have to admit that the early 2000s are a period of time I don't remember well, at least when it comes to comics. I think this is probably because I was in in my early twenties and therefore occupied with other things; plus, I had moved from New York to Arlington, Virginia, and …
Teen Titans Lost Annual #1
My rereading all of my Titans comics is going to wind up including books that I have already read through, especially when I hit anything starting with DC Comics Presents #26. And though I'm clearly in the middle of the Silver Age adventures of the team (between Showcase collections), there are a few individual comics …
It Comes At Night
I guess since it's Halloween, I should look at a horror movie. And since we're in the middle of a pandemic, I guess I should look at a pandemic horror movie? It Comes At Night is an A24 release and that alone is what drew me to the film because everything I've seen from the …
The Uncollecting 