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 …
Help Chris Honeywell
On June 3rd, Chris Honeywell, one of the founders of the Two True Freaks podcasting network, and his roommate Trudy lost their home due to a fire. Chris, Trudy, and Bernice the Cat are all fine and healthy, but they lost everything but the clothes on their backs. Chris has always been one to give …
Uncollecting Update May 2023
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 45 (146/260)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 1 (6/11)Books Read: 1 (114/123)Movies Watched: 6 (178/194)TV Series Watched: 1 (56/58)TV Seasons Watched: 2 (100/105)Podcast episodes remaining: 185 Compared to last month, this is significantly better, especially where comics and podcasts are concerned. Now, honestly, I went through my podcasts and both …
What If (vol 1.) #35, 44; What If (vol 2.) #4
I've written about old What If comics in the past and I have always felt that they are worth grabbing from cheap bins whenever you see them. Brett's got a small collection going and I intend to add these to them (although I held on to my copy of "What If Phoenix Had Not Died?"). …
Continue reading What If (vol 1.) #35, 44; What If (vol 2.) #4
Some Quickie Reviews of Assorted Comics
So I've been motoring through some back issues lately and much like the Superman books I just reviewed, I thought I'd do some quick reviews here. There's a bunch of Marvel, DC, and independent books in here, and while it's quite a bit, I'm happy to be able to whittle down this pile of unread …
Quick Reviews of Assorted Superman Comics
In my FCBD quarter-bin grabs, I found a lot of Superman books. Most of them were from the triangle era and were books that I owned in trade or could easily read on DC Infinite, but here and there I came across a few that were old enough to pique my curiosity or were "deluxe" …
Wonder Woman (vol 1) #298
If there's any book from the DC's Bronze Age that could be called "underrated" at times, it has to be Wonder Woman. Yes, there's certainly some goofiness in the title, but there is a stretch where the book is pretty solid, especially with Gene Colan and Frank McLaughlin on art. This issue, titled "Catacombs", is …
DC Sampler #3
DC's efforts to do something a la Marvel Age have been varied over the years. I'd say that the most successful--and best--was their 1990s version of Direct Currents, which was a pamphlet-sized monthly publication that had features on each of the "big" books out every month along with listings of each book that was coming …
The Uncollecting 