So this was a digital graphic novel from one of Amazon's deep-discount Marvel sales that I got for about $1.99 a while ago and I had been saving it for when I was completely done with my Essential X-Men volumes (and had read what was in between). But I am only up to the first …
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First Strike: The Invasion! Podcast
Invasion! was a DC Comics crossover event that I wasn't present for and out of the four that were published before I jumped on with Armageddon 2001 in 1991, it was the one I probably read the least when I did own the issues back in the 1990s. I thought it was fine but was …
Barb Wire: Ace of Spades #1
I honestly can't remember how I got this comic. Either it was in the box of random comics that a woman gave to me after a PD session some years ago or Professor Alan sent it my way. Either way, I never paid for it and I'm honestly glad that I didn't. My love of …
Blasters Special #1, Starman #6
As I made my way through the "First Strike" podcast that looked at every issue and tie-in to the 1988 DC Comics crossover Invasion!, I would pull out any comic that I owned and read it before I listened to the episode. This wasn't very time consuming because I only have the trade paperback of …
Letter 44 #1-35
The new President of the United States, Stephen Blades, gets the traditional "welcome to the job" letter from the outgoing POTUS, and while he expects the usual words of encouragement and advice that one president gives to another, he gets something entirely different: aliens are out there in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter …
This American Life
A couple of weeks ago, I read a piece in the Washington Post where the writer lamented how podcasts have taken over our ears and that blah blah blah problems for people without actual problems. Seriously. It's one of those cranky white male laments of how "podcasts are taking over something something something" and how …
Shrill
For episode 10 of Required Reading, Stella and I covered biography, autobiography, and memoir as a genre. Had I read Lindy West's Shrill back then, I would have heartily recommended it on that episode. If you're not familiar with Lindy West, she is a writer who was a longtime columnist for Jezebel and currently contributes …
Secret Origins #15, 18
My steady look at Secret Origins continues--though I have to admit here that I'm not picking one up the minute I put another one down and take breaks or read something else between them--and here we have newer, updated origins for characters that I, at best, was only ever marginally interested in: The Spectre, Deadman, …
Thor by Walt Simonson vols 1 and 2
About a year ago, Amazon was having one of those massive Kindle graphic novel sales that was all Marvel books (it may have been because Infinity War was coming out) and I think I bought what had to be a couple of hundred dollars' worth of digital trade paperbacks for $.99-$2.99. Among them were the …
What’s On My iPod?
I've been meaning to review podcasts here since it's one of my four categories, but unlike, say, books or back issues that I'm reading or movies I'm watching, these aren't pieces of physical media and a number of them are ongoing in the same way a television show would be, but a number of podcasts …
The Uncollecting 