If you have been reading the blog long enough, you know that I have done a good amount of journaling in my life. You probably also know--or at least guessed--that I have a writer's notebook that I keep with me or near me. I write a lot of drafts in longhand because it helps me …
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I should start by confessing that I've ready very little manga. There is no real reason for it except that my comic book preferences have always bent toward superheroes and the manga explosion of the last two decades passed me by because of other interests. The Legend of Kamui, therefore, is probably the first real …
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 6 (48/89) Digital Comics Read: 0 (418/435) Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 0 (0/0) Books Read: 2 (78/93) Movies Watched: 1 (206/209) TV Shows Watched: 0 (52/52) TV Seasons Watched: 0 (96/96) Podcast Episodes to Listen to: 76 You ever have times when reading something feels like you're swimming against a current? That …
So if you were online at an point in late 2023, you probably remember seeing an ad where Julia Roberts and her family were on a beach vacation and an oil tanker got closer and closer and closer and closer to the beach until it ran right up onto the shore. I never watched the …
In my mission statement of sorts, I've mentioned how I work in a few "cheat days" into every year. They consist of two Friends of the Library sales, tent day sales at my LCS (usually FCBD and Thanksgiving weekend) and the Baltimore Comic-Con. Well, the first set of those recently passed. I only started going …
I've written about this before, but the other day, I was flipping through a notebook of essay ideas and notes and realized that many of them have sat unwritten for nearly 5 years. I started flipping trhough them--mainly because I was procrastinating on writing--and wound up feeling a weird range of emotion. Okay, that sounds …
The vast majority of my digital comics are Star Trek books that were ripped from a DVD-ROM a few years ago (thanks to J. David Weter for sending it my way), and I've been slowly making my way through all of them. And the DVD-ROM, which came out sometime in the 2000s, was pretty comprehensive …
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 15 (54/89) Digital Comics Read: 7 (418/435) Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 2 (0/0) Books Read: 3 (80/93) Movies Watched: 0 (207/209) TV Shows Watched: 0 (52/52) TV Seasons Watched: 0 (96/96) Podcast Episodes to Listen to: 83 The month was busy. In fact, so busy that this weekend is the first "weekend" I …
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 13 (69/89) Digital Comics Read: 10 (425/435) Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 0 (0/0) Books Read: 2 (80/92) Movies Watched: 1 (207/209) TV Shows Watched: 0 (52/52) TV Seasons Watched: 0 (96/96) Podcast Episodes to Listen to: 87 Man, March flew. April's looking like it's going to be no different because every weekend and …
My experience with Mike Grell's Green Arrow run is cursory at best. I've read The Longbow Hunters as well as the prestige-format Shado series and a few random issues, but for the most part it's been a blind spot in my late 1980s DC reading. I know that the first 30 issues or so are …
Continue reading Green Arrow (1988) #9-12, Annual 4; Brave and the Bold (1991) #3
The Uncollecting 