I am not a true crime buff, which is something I guess I should state up front because what it does is put me in the category of quite a number of people who have listened to podcasts in the last few years. But I am a fan of good journalism (which sounds silly to …
Category: Reviews
The Abandoned Carousel
I think that I love listening to podcasts so much because it reminds me of going to the library when I was a kid--there's something for all of my interests. Thus, I have an eclectic collection of shows that reflect the way I bounce from topic to topic. And it's not surprising to me that …
Some Comics in Brief 11/21/19
The last month or two have not wanted to let go of me. Between doctor's appointments, after work meetings, before work meetings, professional development days, podcast recording podcast editing, grading, planning, and teaching, I have not been able to see an ending in sight and it's almost Thanksgiving. I mean, what I am thankful for …
Some Comics in Brief, 10/24/19
I've been back on the comics reading horse and decided to take a chance at reading some of the one-off comics of various genres that I've got lying around, making sure to read the horror books that I've pulled out of cheapie bins over the last few years. I haven't read as many comics as …
The Shadow (1988) #9, 10
During last year's Shortboxtober event at my LCS, I grabbed a number of comic books that DC published featuring The Shadow in the late 1980s. I managed to find most of the Howard Chaykin series as well as these two issues of the book by Andrew Helfer and Kyle Baker. I'm going to see if …
The Punisher (1987) #14, 16, 21, 22
Professor Alan Strikes Again! I came home one day to a package with these four comics in my mailbox, all of which were from the Punisher ongoing that ran from the late 1980s into the early 1990s. I bought the first four issues when they came out (covered on episodes of "Origin Story" a few …
Requiem for a Dream
This is the second of three Darren Aronofksy fims that I've watched while trying to clear out my Netflix DVD queue (the others are The Wrestler, which I watched a while back, and Black Swan, which I have yet to see), and I'm probably not the only person who first found out who he is …
Some More Quickie Movie Reviews
I've been trying to get some movies off my list while slammed with work lately, which hasn't been easy. Granted, if I could get off my ass and watch said movies while on the treadmill in the basement, I'd get this list knocked out more quickly. At any rate, much like my post back in …
How “Essential” Were They?
Sitting in the back of one of my long boxes behind some old Wizard magazines (all of which I will be offloading on eBay for very cheap) are some free graphic novel catalogues that I picked up from my LCS at one point or another. More importantly, when I picked them up, I went through …
Eclipso #17
I literally bought this comic because I had heard that there was an issue of Eclipso that was a complete bloodbath with a bunch of heroes being killed off in an assault on Eclipso's base/temple in the Amazon. It wasn't. I will say that I've heard good things about this series, which spun out of …
The Uncollecting 