I've known about this movie and have been wanting to see it since it came out 35 years ago, even though it's a very adult science fiction piece and definitely would not have been appropriate for me at eight years old. This is what happens, I guess, when you watch At The Movies every week …
Author: Tom Panarese
Superman (vol. 1) #404 and Superman (vol. 2) #3
These were two comics that I legitimately had to search the blog to check and see if they were misfiled. I've had them for a long time and I could have sworn I had already read and reviewed them. But I guess I mistook them for other late pre-Crisis/early post-Crisis Superman books. Not that they're …
Continue reading Superman (vol. 1) #404 and Superman (vol. 2) #3
Personal Archaeology, 9: When I Was Twenty
There's been this thing going around the internet this week where people post pictures of themselves at the age of twenty. It's coincided with people sharing their senior class photos, which was some sort of "solidarity with the class of 2020" thing that I didn't understand*, but I don't know the reason behind the twenty-year-old …
Solaris (2002)
So they send George Clooney to a spaceship that is orbiting a random planet named Solaris where he is supposed to retrieve members of the troubled mission team. While there, he starts seeing his dead wife but it turns out she's an alien mimicking his dead wife and he kind of starts to lose it …
Goodfellas
So like a number of movies on my Netflix DVD queue, Goodfellas was added because I'd wanted to watch it at some point a few years ago and couldn't find it on streaming. Then, I forgot about it and moved on until very recently when Netflix put it back on streaming. So I get to …
Tackling the Pile
The picture here is my current work pile. At least the one my kitchen, that is. I have several smaller piles that have taken over my guestroom. Anyway, this is what I am contending with during my time working from home and it has proven to be one of my many, many sources of stress, …
Uncollecting Update March 2020
Well, as always, I’ll start with my numbers for the month … Media consumed # (remaining/total) Comics Read: 53 (273/355) Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 1 (63/74) Books Read: 7 (138/153) Movies to Watch: 5 (68/78) TV Shows Completed: 0 (17/17) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 74 I'm actually surprised that I only read one graphic novel/trade paperback. …
The Badger #34, 35, 36, 37, 38
Last year I did two whole series called "Fighting the Indepdendents" and "A Valiant Effort), where I deliberately read all of the independent comics in my backlog (at the time). Most of those books wound up in the donation or trash piles but kept a few with the hopes of collecting more. Mike Grell's Starslayer …
What The–?! #5
There was a time in the early 1990s when I read Mad and Cracked like crazy every summer. That's a really specific time to read those two magazines, but those were my version of Rob Kelly's "Mountain Comics" because I'd only ever buy them while on vacation in New Hampshire. The silly humor appealed to …
Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld (1984 ongoing) #12, 13, 14, 15, Special; (1987 miniseries) #1, 2
Amethyst has been on my "series to complete" list for quite a while now, ever since I bought the Showcase edition and discovered that it did not hold the entire run of the series. I thought that five issues and a special would be easy to find, especially since that comic is not that in …
The Uncollecting 