I was actually going to write more than one post here about King Conan so that I wasn't covering such a huge swath of it at once, but time and life get in the way and I found myself more absorbed by the comics than by the need to write about them. I guess that's …
Author: Tom Panarese
King Conan #1-12
It's #FantasyComicsMonth and I've been saving the entire run of King Conan (later retitled Conan the King) for now. I had gotten interested in the series a few years ago when I got a copy of issue #27 in a grab bag from my LCS. Prior to that, I'd never read that many Conan comic …
The Uncollecting Update August 2024
As always, let's start with the numbers ... Physical Comics: 0 (105/105)Digital Comics: 21 (436/)464Trades/Graphic Novels: 1 (0/1)Books: 2 (99/107)Movies: 1 (177/180)TV Series: 0 (63/63)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (115/115)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 126 I was going to write this last week but Labor Day weekend got away from me (or in the very least I wound …
Personal Archaeology 29: Climbing The Tree
50 by 50 Item #4: Trace my family tree on my Italian side further back than my great-grandparents. My research binder, items from my seventh-grade research project, and a death certificate. When I was in the seventh grade, we took time out of our study of the first half of American history to research our …
The Uncollecting Update July 2024
Physical Comics: 0 (105/105)Digital Comics: 7 (457/)464Trades/Graphic Novels: 0Books: 8 (99/107)Movies: 2 (178/180)TV Series: 0 (63/63)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (115/115)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 94 The road to anxiety is paid with set intentions. As I write this, I'm one week away from going back to work after summer break. Back in May, I'd written a "summer …
The Uncollecting Update June 2024
As always, let’s start with the numbers … which are all screwed up because I opened my planner this morning to start tallying things up and realized that I never kept track of things in June. More on that in a moment. But since I have tracking spreadsheets, I just went ahead and crossed off …
50 by 50
So back in the golden age of blogging--about 2003-2004, I'd say--there was a challenge going around the Internet called the "101 in 1001", which is a challenge to complete a list of 101 accomplishments in the span of 1001 days, which amounts to about 2.75 years. It's a variation on what's come to be known …
The Uncollecting Update May 2024
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 1 (31/42)Digital Comics Read: 7 (464/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 1 (0/0)Books Read: 3 (83/101)Movies Watched: 2 (191/194)TV Series Watched: 0 (49/49)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (94/95)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 118 Every month, the eternal battle with unlistened to podcast episodes continues, especially since I keep picking up new series that already have a ton of …
Personal Archaeology 28: Personalized
As I was cleaning/organizing our office closet the other day (read: moving boxes around and not really doing much else), I found a hockey jersey that was one of my prized possessions when I was a teenager. A lot of my friends and I owned hockey jerseys and some owned what the NHL shop calls …
The Uncollecting Update April 2024
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 0 (31/41)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 1 (0/0)Books Read: 7 (86/101)Movies Watched: 0 (194/194)TV Series Watched: 0 (49/49)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (94/95)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 89 So I did remember to log this month. And I was reading a lot. And actually watching a lot, but most of that was hockey …
The Uncollecting 