Physical Comics Read: 5 (42/48) Digital Comics Read: 0 (418/418) Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 1 (3/4) Books Read: 2 (98/101) Movies Watched: 2 (217/222) TV Shows Watched: 0 (52/52) TV Seasons Watched: 0 (95/96) Podcast Episodes to Listen to: 90 I'm half a month late with this. Ooops. Well, it is the beginning of the school year and so I'm swamped, or at least …
Uncollecting Update July 2025
Physical Comics Read: 1 (42/43) Digital Comics Read: 0 (418/418) Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 0 (0/0) Books Read: 10 (99/101) Movies Watched: 3 (219/222) TV Shows Watched: 0 (52/52) TV Seasons Watched: 1 (95/96) Podcast Episodes to Listen to: 71 I'm what ... two weeks late on posting this? It seemed that once I got back to work at the beginning of this month, …
Personal Archaeology 34: Last Drafts
As I moved through these old creative writing notebooks, I had a feeling that they were going to get less and less interesting as far as the content inside was concerned. The first few years were filled with random assignments, an entire conversation with an old girlfriend, and tons of cringe-worth and vomit-laded poetry (literally). …
Uncollecting Update June 2025
Physical Comics Read: 40 (8/89) Digital Comics Read: 0 (418/435) Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 0 (0/0) Books Read: 6 (78/102) Movies Watched: 0 (206/209) TV Shows Watched: 0 (52/52) TV Seasons Watched: 0 (96/96) Podcast Episodes to Listen to: 78 I swear, I think I listen to a gabillion podcast episodes a month and then I see that the needle hasn't moved. I guess …
Personal Archaeology 33: Adrift and Inane
My creative writing journals have a gap between 1998 and June of 2000. For the life of me, I don't know why I didn't have a notebook full of various ramblings and ideas for fiction, especially since I know I was writing quite a bit. 1998-1999 was my senior year of college, so I was …
Comics from the Depths of the Nineties
I've been working my way through a pile of back issues that I've bought over the last couple of years, mostly from my LCS' quarter bin sale. In a number of cases, they're beat-up copies of Eighties Marvel books that are so damaged and mildewed, recycling them is really the only option. In other cases, …
Personal Archaeology 32: Creative Writing, The College Years
Sometime during my senior year of high schoo, I decided that I wanted to bea writer. That's com ewith its problems and roadblocks over the years, many of which are self-inflicted, but I was a determined teenager with enough of an ego to believe that my voice was going to be the next big thing. …
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Personal Archaeology 31: Love and Heartbreak in Creative Writing Class
The box had been sitting in my office closet for years. And even years before that, it was in our previous house and apartments. Like a number of other things, it just moved with me and was forgotten. But unlike the piles of senior year mementos and old letters and cards that I found easy …
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Personal Archaeology 30: Notebooks Upon Notebooks Upon Notebooks
If you have been reading the blog long enough, you know that I have done a good amount of journaling in my life. You probably also know--or at least guessed--that I have a writer's notebook that I keep with me or near me. I write a lot of drafts in longhand because it helps me …
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The Legend of Kamui
I should start by confessing that I've ready very little manga. There is no real reason for it except that my comic book preferences have always bent toward superheroes and the manga explosion of the last two decades passed me by because of other interests. The Legend of Kamui, therefore, is probably the first real …
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