The end of the big longbox of independent comics that I obtained for free a few years ago features a pile of books from one of the bigger indie publishers of the early 1990s, Valiant. Now, I've already looked at Image and did it all in one post because while I did get out of …
Author: Tom Panarese
Uncollecting Update July 2019
As always, let’s start with the numbers. Media consumed # (remaining/total) Movies Watched 23 (126/159) Books Read: 8 (107/152) Comics Read: 122 (347/742) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 179 WAIT A SECOND, THE TOTALS ALL WENT UP! HOW THE HELL DID THIS HAPPEN?! There's a reasonable explanation for this and I did not break any of my …
The Last of the Independents
So this is the final entry in "Fighting the Independents", even though these aren't the last indie comics I'm going to read as part of this project. I'll get into what's up with that after I look at the individual comics, of which there are only five, all of which were FCBD grabs or free …
Fighting the Independents, 7/25/19-8/3/19
Well, this summer of reading independent comics has been pretty successful because at the time I'm writing this, I have made my way through most of that longbox and have a pile of Valiant comics as well as a couple of other random books left and can now spend my time focusing on the Marvel …
The Crimson Avenger #1-3
Coming off of the story told in Secret Origins #5, Roy Thomas wrote a four-issue miniseries in 1988 that tells the story of the next adventure of the Crimson Avenger, this time illustrated by Greg Brooks and Mike Gustovich. I had grabbed the first three issues of the series as part of my haul for …
What do I do with these Ultraverse comics?
In the big box of independent comics that I'm making my way through (and nearing the end of), there are several comics from Malibu's Ultraverse line. I'm sure that anyone who was collecting comics back in the early 1990s is familiar with them and may have even dabbled in them. If you're not, just know …
Justice League
I'd been avoiding this film for a while. Mind you, it wasn't deliberate at first. I believe that when this came out, I had intended to see it in the theater but life got in the way of such things and I never got the chance. I figured I'd wait for it to come out …
Fighting the Independents, 7/18/19-7/24/19
And now we come to early Nineties Image Comics. Granted, we've been here before because I've mentioned Brigade, but what I decided to do this time around was grab all of the early Image books that were in my independent comics longbox and read through them. Whomever owned these comics before me seemed to like …
Cloverfield
A found footage monster movie that had a big budget when some of the more notable found footage flicks are filmed on a low budget, Cloverfield is a 2008 film that takes the familiar premise of a monster attacking a city (a la Godzilla) and tells it from the point of view of a group …
Personal Archaeology 4: The People Who Barely Knew You Probably Knew You Best
My wife and I were talking on a recent episode of my podcast about who we were when we graduated high school and went away to college. One of the things that came up was the idea that when you leave a place that has been your home for a very long time and head …
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