This is the second of three Darren Aronofksy fims that I've watched while trying to clear out my Netflix DVD queue (the others are The Wrestler, which I watched a while back, and Black Swan, which I have yet to see), and I'm probably not the only person who first found out who he is …
Author: Tom Panarese
Uncollecting Update September 2019
As always, let’s start with the numbers. Media consumed # (remaining/total) Movies Watched 5 (109/161) Books Read: 5 (100/158) Comics Read: 0 (331/811) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 138 Well, the numbers don't lie. Things kind of fell off throughout the whole month of September. My LCS relocated and had a huge grand re-opening sale wherein I …
Some More Quickie Movie Reviews
I've been trying to get some movies off my list while slammed with work lately, which hasn't been easy. Granted, if I could get off my ass and watch said movies while on the treadmill in the basement, I'd get this list knocked out more quickly. At any rate, much like my post back in …
Return of the Freedom is Tyranny of the To Do List
At one point, a couple of weeks ago, I had written "make to do list" in the margins of a legal pad I was using to take notes at a faculty meeting. Later that day, I sat down to make said list and when I was done, I saw that I had filled out the …
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How “Essential” Were They?
Sitting in the back of one of my long boxes behind some old Wizard magazines (all of which I will be offloading on eBay for very cheap) are some free graphic novel catalogues that I picked up from my LCS at one point or another. More importantly, when I picked them up, I went through …
Lingering Melodies
So "uncollecting" music has not been a huge priority in this venture, and I was thinking about this a couple of weeks ago when Dave Holmes' piece "A Decade of Music is Lost on Your iPod. These Are the Deleted Years. Now let us praise them" was published on Esquire. Holmes is a few years …
Eclipso #17
I literally bought this comic because I had heard that there was an issue of Eclipso that was a complete bloodbath with a bunch of heroes being killed off in an assault on Eclipso's base/temple in the Amazon. It wasn't. I will say that I've heard good things about this series, which spun out of …
Justice League Europe Annual #2
With the exception of a few issues, the 1991 Armageddon 2001 crossover from DC was meant to be read in any order, with the main title bookending all of the annuals that were the crossovers. Justice League Europe Annual #2 was one of those exceptions, as it was the penultimate chapter in the event with …
Kirby and After-Kirby Kirby
Why I have four comic books that were either created by, featured art by, or featured characters created by Jack Kirby is a case of me just randomly grabbing comics out of back issue bins because they looked interesting or they tied into something bigger or more important (or so I thought). I'll fully admit …
Regarding the Legion
So back when my LCS had its last "Shortboxtober" event, I took a deep dive into the bins and decided to grab a handful of Legion of Super-Heroes comics. I've only actively read the Legion's adventures once, starting in 1994 right before Zero Hour and going until about 1996 or so, probably quitting shortly after …
The Uncollecting 