With John Byrne off the title after the "Days of Future Past" storyline, Chris Claremont begins what will be a long continuous run of writing the X-Men with a rotating lineup of artists with these two volumes featuring the return of Dave Cockrum as well as Paul Smith's short tenure as artist and the first …
Author: Tom Panarese
V: The Comic Book #1-4, 7, 8, 10, 17
I'm sure that I will have a lot more to say or write about V via Pop Culture Affidavit at some point in the future because while I didn't watch all of it when it first came on in 1983 (at six, I was definitely too young), I did watch parts of V: The Final Battle when it first …
Bettie Page Reveals All!
In my quest to find free entertainment via my public library, I discovered the movie streaming service called Kanopy, which seems to have its fair share of really great foreign and independent films as well as documentaries. Or at least that seems to be what I've been gravitating toward when I have added things to …
Timewalker #3, 4
Since I'm part of the "comic book circle of life", Professor Alan sent me these two Valiant books. And since it's Professor Alan, he sent them with the challenge of "Uncollect These!" Challenge accepted, sir. The publication date on these is 1994 (with an early 1995 cover date), so we are definitely in the "bust" …
Blood Sisters
So New Jersey has a pretty good track record when it comes to independent, low-budget movies and when I saw someone on social media link to this very random low budget horror flick from 1987 released by Cannon, I was intrigued. I mean, I love a good shitty horror movie and Cannon=boobs, so ... good, …
Uncollecting Update July 2020
Well, as always, I’ll start with my numbers for the month … Media consumed # (remaining/total) Comics Read: 20 (150/372) Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 2 (38/82) Books Read: 6 (127/161) Movies Watched: 8 (47/79) TV Shows Completed: 1 (13/17) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 128 July was kind of a "lost month." The numbers were still positive in terms of everything decreasing, …
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Sitting somewhere in a mental queue and eventually knocked off of my Hulu list, We Need to Talk About Kevin is a movie that I was always interested in watching but at the same time didn't exactly want to see because of my job as a high school teacher. I guess that's why it took me four …
Personal Archaeology 12: Things Left in the Wake
Had I really been on my game last month, I would have written about my high school graduation 25 years ago on June 25 instead of a week or two later. As it happened, I didn't do much to commemorate the anniversary on the actual day, aside from making a comment on a friend's Facebook …
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Personal Archaeology 11: Standing on Ceremony
So I would be a complete liar if I said that I had forgotten that I held onto my cap, gown, medals, yearbooks, T-shirts, and other commemorative items from my senior year of high school. Oh sure, all of the stuff (with the exception of my class T-shirt and yearbooks) wound up in the same …
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Some Trade Paperbacks in Brief
I wound up receiving a few trades for my birthday and then bought a few more with Amazon gift cards, and while my original intent was to review each of them individually, I realized that I liked all of them and they're going to wind up staying on my shelf anyway. Plus, there comes a …
The Uncollecting 