If there's anything that is indicative of this accumulation disease that I have, it's the fact that at one point, I needed to seek out a few issues of Marvel Age for use in both "In Country" and my 2017-2018 podcast miniseries "Origin Story" and that eventually led to me just grabbing an issue of the …
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Vacation and a break from comics reading to read books and watch movies has slowed my progress through the box of independent comic books that I'm looking to pare down, but I do have six books that I can give quick verdicts on. A number of these were books that I actually never paid for …
All right, Gene, ya got me. To put that into context, about two years ago, I met Gene in person for the first time at the Baltimore Comic-Con. As we spent time comparing notes on who we met, who we talked to, and what we bought, he handed me this pile of Quasar comic books. …
I am a sucker for a good rockumentary (do they even use that word anymore?). To this day, The Last Waltz is one of the few Scorsese films I've seen in its entirety, and even though I don't have much love left for Metallica, the tour doc "A Year and a Half in the Life of …
The only reason I have this comic is that I once thought I was going to spend episode 99 of Pop Culture Affidavit going over 9 #99 issues from the 1990s. I already owned one of those and bought a couple more, this among them. Otherwise, I wouldn't have touched this issue. It's the epitome …
I continue to make my way through this pile of 1980s Secret Origins books that I accumulated via Shortboxtober a couple of years ago. Right now, I'm still in the first half of the series where Roy Thomas was still the driving force behind it and was ensuring that the origins of classic DC superheroes …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Uncollecting 