Free Comic Book Day was last Saturday. I've gone just about every year for the past six or seven years, and I have the same M.O. every year. I go in completely blind to what is available (i.e., I don't look at the solicits in Previews) and plan on dropping at least a little money …
Continue reading Breaking Rules on and Reaping the Benefits of FCBD 2019
Picking up random issues of Secret Origins between winding my way through entire runs of comics seems to have been a good idea, as long as this series remains as good as it has when it comes to the one-and-done type of story. In this one, there's Hourman by Roy Thomas and Michael Bair along …
I am a long-suffering New York Mets fan who is part of a specific generation where the "suffering" part of that compound adjective took a while to come along. I began following the team in the 1985 season and was nine years old when they won their second (and to date last) World Series in …
As always, let’s start with the numbers. Media consumed # (remaining/total) Movies Watched 2 (151/155) Books Read: 4 (123/139) Comics Read: 82 (549/738) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 120 Movies I knocked one of those Netflix DVDs out--the last disc of the first season of The Greatest American Hero, which I'll be covering at some point on …
It was the Nineties. Dear God, it was the Nineties. I'm reviewing these in a huge chunk because honestly, they are the very epitome of everything that people make fun of about the early part of the decade. Coming out right during the same month--at least based on cover date because Image was notorious for …
Continue reading Brigade (ongoing) #1, 3, 0, 4, 5, 6, 7, 14; The Ferret #1-3
On episode 96 of my podcast Pop Culture Affidavit, I talk about The Uncollecting, going through my motivation for it as well as how I was inspired by Oprah, Clean House, Marie Kondo, and the YouTube series Curiosity, Inc.
When you look back on the sepia-toned memories of your life as a teenager, you definitely begin to think of the hallmark moments. You know, your first love, your first broken heart, losing your virginity, getting into college, going to prom, graduating, and winning the homecoming float competition. I know that a pile of wood, …
My first Superman comics were pre-Crisis, but they were so close to the Byrne reboot and I was so young, so it's not like I can tell you that I have a deep history with the Man of Steel's comics. In fact, it's been through reading The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told and by finding …
Back when I first started collecting comics, I was a huge fan of Crisis on Infinite Earths and The History of the DC Universe. I mean, I"m still a huge fan of both of those and have even gone so far as to get my copies of the collected editions signed. But back in the …
I have to admit that as much as I have written in the twenty years since I graduated form college (and if you even go back further, to writing stories and stuff in junior high and high school), I have never considered myself a writer. I think it's a personal hangup at this point--writers have …
The Uncollecting 