As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 3 (98/261)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 4 (6/14)Books Read: 0 (110/125)Movies Watched: 7 (171/194)TV Series Watched: 1 (55/58)TV Seasons Watched: 1 (99/105)Podcast episodes remaining: 156 Okay, so this is my second attempt at this point because WordPress decided to freeze on me and ate my entire first draft. So …
Personal Archaeology 26: Scrapped Books
It started with a class project. The scrapbooks as they originally existed. There were five albums total, all with essays and/or captions. Truthfully, it started with a trip to Europe in the summer of 1994--between my junior and senior years of high school--because if not for that trip, I wouldn't have had any pictures to …
Surviving the Game
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Carroll is one of those short stories that for at least a couple of generations in high school English. The premise, in case you're not familiar with it, is that a big game hunter named Rainsford falls off of a yacht and washes up on the private island of …
Lucky Them
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Lucky_Them.jpg Ten years ago, Matthew Smith, one of the more influential voices of his generation, played his final show and disappeared. Nobody has been able to find him, although plenty of people on the Internet and other places swear they've seen him or heard him perform. Especially affected was his then-girlfriend, Ellie Klug . She's …
Uncollecting Update June 2023
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 35 (101/261)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 3 (6/14)Books Read: 6 (110/125)Movies Watched: 7 (171/194)TV Series Watched: 0 (56/58)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (100/105)Podcast episodes remaining: 198 I will say that summer break plus a vacation means that you wind up reading a lot of comics and watching a good amount …
A Week Sick is a Week Uncollected
I tested positive for COVID on Sunday. It wasn't a surprise because everyone else in the house had it, and I was fortunate enough to just wind up with a really bad cold for most of the week. As I type this, I'm pretty much better but taking it easy for one more day just …
H1/Humanoids Ignition (FCBD 2019), Ignited #1-10
Back in 2019, Mark Waid and a bunch of other creators re-launched Humanoids, an independent publisher that had been around since the 1970s and had once been the publisher of Heavy Metal and other magazines and creator-owned comics. This was a push for creator-owned superhero books, and the "event" that got it started was 2019's …
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Uncollecting Catch-Up 6/16/23-6/27/23
After my last post, I went on vacation for the better part of a week and a half and it's taken me a few days to come back and "recover" from it (so to speak). Prior to heading out, I'd put a dent in my piles and lists and had planned to write way more …
Dammit, Alan!
So, I 've got two #adventurecomicsmonth books here and I gave this post this title because I read them under the influence of one Professor Alan. In one case, he sent this directly to me courtesy of the #comicbookcircleoflife (and I have since returned the favor), but in the other he had covered it as …
Red Atlantis and The Dead Hand
It's #adventurecomicsmonth and while my first thoughts turn to Indiana Jones-type escapades, I am going to stretch the definition here to include spy comics and political thrillers. I mean, Alan seems to be including them in his reads, so why not? I've always enjoyed spy movies and political thrillers; having been raised on a healthy …
The Uncollecting 
