I can't remember exactly what I was looking for when I found this in my LCS' bins, but I know that I grabbed it because it was 50 cents and had a George Perez cover. It's not in the best condition--it has cracks in the spine and the bottom corner is bent--but I'm not going …
Author: Tom Panarese
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Reblogging this for posterity's sake. I'm keeping this one. -Tom
Vigilante #45-50
I have a macabre reason for wanting to own these issues and that is the events of issue #50--which features the suicide of its main character (which should have had a spoiler alert? Maybe? The fate of Adrian Chase is pretty known to many a DC Comics fan). I came across most of these issues …
Deadman (1986) #1-4
In the wake of Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC rebooted or tweaked a number of its characters. In some cases, you had the from-the-ground-up approach of Superman and Wonder Woman; in other cases, you have the "soft reboot" approach where the character is more or less who he/she was before Crisis but with some adjustments …
Justice League International Special #2
This is an issue I didn't know existed until I was thumbing through the back issue bins during my LCS' "Shortboxtober" event. I saw the cover and that it was by the same creative team as the Huntress series I'd recently purchased on eBay. And while it does feature several JLI members, the story is …
Uncollecting Update: January 2019
Let's start with the numbers. Media consumed # (remaining/total) Movies Watched 1 (154/155) Books Read: 4 (135/139) Comics Read: 50 (688/738) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 182 Movies I haven't been watching many movies this month. We've been going through a number of the MCU films that we haven't seen or haven't watched in a long time, …
The Huntress (1989) #17-19
So we finally get Batman. I'm sure that one of the reasons that this ongoing series existed in the first place was because of the pre-Crisis Helena Wayne character and the idea that comic fans who knew of her would see the connection to Batman and that would sell the book. In fact, I'm surprised …
The Huntress (1989) #14-16
One of the more dominant tropes of "urban" action movies and shows that started with The French Connection and ran right through the Steven Seagal flicks of the early 1990s was that of a neighborhood that resembled a war zone more than an actual city streetscape. I imagine this had to do with New York …
The Huntress (1989) #13
After two six-issue storylines, we get a one-and-done story where Helena Bertinelli is dealing with the fallout from everything that she has been through with her family, the mob, the serial killer, and the mob. It's presented at the very beginning as her being pulled in two different directions and literally being torn apart in …
The Huntress (1989) #7-12
After taking us through Helena Bertinelli's rather brutal origin story in issues #1-6 of her solo series, Joey Cavalieri, Joe Staton, and Bob Smith had the task of following that up with a storyline that kept the reader interested. Personally, I think this is actually harder than an initial arc, much like the second season …
The Uncollecting 