As always, let’s start with the numbers. Media consumed # (remaining/total) Movies Watched 2 (103/161) Books Read: 10 (102/179) Comics Read: 50 (300/856) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 140 So the holidays have begun. Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorites, mainly because it's an entire holiday devoted to gluttony and sloth. Okay, there's the whole …
Author: Tom Panarese
Podcasts Ripped from Today’s Headlines
I am not a true crime buff, which is something I guess I should state up front because what it does is put me in the category of quite a number of people who have listened to podcasts in the last few years. But I am a fan of good journalism (which sounds silly to …
The Abandoned Carousel
I think that I love listening to podcasts so much because it reminds me of going to the library when I was a kid--there's something for all of my interests. Thus, I have an eclectic collection of shows that reflect the way I bounce from topic to topic. And it's not surprising to me that …
Some Comics in Brief 11/21/19
The last month or two have not wanted to let go of me. Between doctor's appointments, after work meetings, before work meetings, professional development days, podcast recording podcast editing, grading, planning, and teaching, I have not been able to see an ending in sight and it's almost Thanksgiving. I mean, what I am thankful for …
Uncollecting Update October 2019
As always, let’s start with the numbers. Media consumed # (remaining/total) Movies Watched 4 (105/161) Books Read: 10 (102/170) Comics Read: 26 (331/837) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 154 I swear, I keep adding new podcast feeds to my iPod and that means that I have more and more episodes left to listen to. Or, because I …
Some Comics in Brief, 10/24/19
I've been back on the comics reading horse and decided to take a chance at reading some of the one-off comics of various genres that I've got lying around, making sure to read the horror books that I've pulled out of cheapie bins over the last few years. I haven't read as many comics as …
The CON-undrum Part Two: My Post-Convention Report Card
So there I was, having finally found my favorite comics booth at the Baltimore Comic-Con, with my handwritten list of needed back issues. After ten months of reading books and deciding if I should hold onto them, the moment had finally arrived where I would be put to the test. Could I shop for back …
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The CON-undrum Part One: Planning to Get More When You Need to Own Less
I'll be attending the Baltimore Comic-Con tomorrow, just like I have been every year for the past five or six years, and while I'm doing some of my usual con prep of getting my signing list together (much smaller than last year because we're spending less time there), I have also been thinking of how …
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The Shadow (1988) #9, 10
During last year's Shortboxtober event at my LCS, I grabbed a number of comic books that DC published featuring The Shadow in the late 1980s. I managed to find most of the Howard Chaykin series as well as these two issues of the book by Andrew Helfer and Kyle Baker. I'm going to see if …
The Punisher (1987) #14, 16, 21, 22
Professor Alan Strikes Again! I came home one day to a package with these four comics in my mailbox, all of which were from the Punisher ongoing that ran from the late 1980s into the early 1990s. I bought the first four issues when they came out (covered on episodes of "Origin Story" a few …
The Uncollecting 