Lots of continuing my read through my incomplete run of Secret Origins, and I continue to enjoy at least one story per issue, sometimes even both. I'm going to wind up keeping all of these because the missing issues are on my want list and then I plan to read along with Ryan Daly's now-defunct …
Continue reading Secret Origins #12, 14, 21, 24, 25, 26, Annual 2
In 2009, 36-year-old Diane Schuler drove the wrong way on the Teconic Parkway in Upstate New York and ultimately collided head-on with an SUV. She, her daughter, her three nieces, and three people in the SUV were killed in the crash. The accident made headlines, especially after it was revealed that a postmortem toxicology test …
As always, let’s start with the numbers. Media consumed # (remaining/total) Movies Watched 14 (114/161) Books Read: 8 (105/158) Comics Read: 85 (270/750) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 137 I guess it's against the whole philosophy of things that the piles got slightly bigger this month even though the remainders also shrunk. I gained two movies because …
Another movie off of my Netflix DVD queue and another movie I don't remember adding to it in the first place or why. Perhaps it was mentioned in an AV Club post or by somebody on YouTube. At any rate Amazon had The Sweet Hereafter available for streaming on Prime, so I sat down and …
I've been doing a lot of mental and emotional cleaning along with the physical uncollecting and one of the most important parts of that has been my efforts to restore and reestablish the self-confidence I seemed to have lost over the last few years. I can't pinpoint one specific thing except to say that myriad …
I have a soft spot in my heart for reunion flicks. This isn't recent, by the way. Even as far back as my early twenties, when Grosse Pointe Blank and Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion came out, I loved any chance to watch a solid cast get together and pretend like they'd known one …
Published in 1985 by First Comics, this probably should have been something that I wrote about during the "Fighting the Independents" series, but it wound up being forgotten and I picked it up to read and review on its own. I guess that's how these things go. Anyway, this is space pirates created by Mike …
Continue reading Starslayer: The Legend of the Jolly Roger #30
If I am to give credit where credit is due, it's my early years of comics collecting where I was buying all of Crisis on Infinite Earths and as many of its crossovers as I could that got me slightly interested in Hex, the post-apocalyptic sci-fi series that was the follow-up to the Jonah Hex …
Is it embarrassing to say that I only saw this movie because one of the actress in it was one of my first "celebrity crushes"? Some explanation, I guess. I started watching Degrassi Junior High when I was in fifth grade and kept up with it almost to the end--when WNET 13 moved the show …
I turned six years old in 1983 and my parents did a pretty good job at sheltering me from the violence of the real world. All I knew from violence was Star Wars and the cartoons that I was watching before and after school. I had no idea that in the early 1980s, America was …
The Uncollecting 