Well, as always, I'll start with my numbers for the month ... Media consumed # (remaining/total) Comics Read: 9 (346/355) Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 8 (66/74) Books Read: 7 (141/148) Movies to Watch: 2 (76/78) TV Shows Completed: 0 (17/17) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 47 Man, I did not come out of the gate this year …
Author: Tom Panarese
Personal Archaeology 8: Can I Quote You on That?
Perhaps it was a search for something profound. Maybe I was looking for a sense of identity. No matter the reason, I collected a serious number of quotes when I was in high school and college, and as I attempted to start the "next chapter" of my life (as dictated by the journal I got …
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Secret Origins #3, 43, 44, 47, 49, 50
I suppose that I should review these individually but I've been sitting on these comics for the better part of two weeks and every time I sit down to write individual reviews, I wind up getting distracted. So, in the interest of moving on and being able to put these back in their bags and …
Star Trek (2nd DC Series) #27, 34
I've been building a collection of Star Trek comics over the last couple of years, but have mainly been focusing on collecting DC's first series, which I will probably start reading once I feel that I've collected enough of the series (or at least after I've finished runs of other books). These two comics, however, …
Secret Origins #40 and 42
I'd been inserting issues of Secret Origins into my reading when I wanted to take a break from getting through runs of other books, such as Suicide Squad, although I'm going to have to find an alternative because I have all of seven or eight issues left before I have read through what I own. …
I Had It All Mapped Out
So in the last post, about the Mount Vernon Trail, I shared a scan of the official guide map that was published by the National Parks Service, which I had kept since I walked the trail in 2002. It wasn't the only one of those guidebooks that was in my filing cabinet--or better yet, piled …
A Walk on the Mount Vernon Trail
There was a point in the early 2000s when I was living in Arlington and I spent my weekend mornings going on long walks or hikes. A few of these were out to Great Falls National Park (mostly on the Virginia side), although most of the time I would hop on the Metro and take …
The Year in Uncollecting 2019
Well, I'll start with an update for December before I get into the year as a whole. Media consumed # (remaining/total) Movies Watched: 1 (102/161) Books Read: 7 (102/183) Comics Read: 20 (286/862) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 78 December kind of flew and I was more or less overwhelmed with work, so most of this was …
Suicide Squad #20, 21, 22
These are the last three issues in my Suicide Squad run before a hole appears. I'm getting pretty close to owning the entire run, but the problem with getting the issues I have left is that they are the ones that feature early Oracle appearances and are therefore hard to come by on the cheap. …
Personal Archaeology 7: The Next Chapter That Never Was?
I originally thought I would start recapping my old journals with the very first one, which I began when I was twelve and wrote in a medium-sized Mead notebook, but then I came across a random journal and the first "fancy type" of journal I ever owned. A green hard-bound journal with a sticker featuring …
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