Continuing with #SciFiComicsMonth, I continue to be amazed of how many books in this genre I've managed to accumulate in the last few months. I know that some of them have to do with this hashtag month, but others have to do with the fact that I found an entire run or miniseries at the …
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The Griffin #1-6
I mentioned the possibility of covering DC's sci-fi offerings in the post-Crisis 1980s in a podcast episode, and I'm still thinking of that, especially since while this was an early 1990s series, The Giffin falls into the sci-fi/superhero hybrid genre and was completely outside of the DC Universe of the time. My understanding is that …
A DC Science Fiction Two-Fer
I've got an enormous stack of DC science fiction books to read, most of which I found in that huge quarter sale back in the fall. Some of the series were fairly interesting to me when I grabbed the issues; others were fairly interesting to me back when they were solicited back when I was …
Tandy Computer Whiz Kids in “The Answer to a Riddle”
I think this is technically #SciFiComicsMonth? I mean, computer science is a science and this is fiction … Anyway, the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids comics are something that I didn't know existed until a few years ago when I ran across a beat-up copy of a Superman team-up issue in a cheap bin and grabbed …
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The Year in Uncollecting 2022
Four years in and I'm coming off one of the toughest years I've had, at least on an emotional level. I find that when my anxiety and depression are on a higher setting, I tend to fall into bad habits of spending money, eating more, getting out less, and overally not taking care of myself. …
Classics Illustrated #53 and Marvel Classics Comics #36
Why do two issues from two separate books that were published 30 years apart? Well, both of these issues adapt Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Story," the quintessential tale for #HolidayComicsMonth. I picked up both of these at my LCS for very little--maybe about a buck or two--and saved them for this week when we're …
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Three Classic DC Trades
So between the Baltimore Comic-Con and a sale at my LCS, I've gotten my fair share of trades and hardcovers lately. Some of them are books that looked interesting or cheap ways to read stories I've always been meaning to; others have been bona fide classics that I've read before or wanted to read and …
G.I. Joe Special Missions #14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 26, 28
A few years ago, I did a read-through of several G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero trades that I had collected over the years, beginning with issue #1 in 1982 and ending with the trade that went up to issue #70, which is just beyond when I stopped collecting the book with issue #66 in …
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A Batman Two-Fer for October
Because of a DC grab bag at my LCS and the store's "Fresh Fridays" promotion where they put out some recent big-deal purchases every Friday, I wound up with these two Batman comics, both of which are Bronze Age goodies. And being that I'm a little too lazy to write multiple reviews here, I've decided …
River’s Edge
A dead girl on a riverbank. A group of teen burnouts who know her boyfriend killed her. Nowadays, this would be the premise for a true crime podcast; in 1986, it was the premise of River's Edge, a teen drama directed by Tim Miller and starring Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, and Dennis Hopper. …
The Uncollecting 