Just as 2022 was challenging both mentally and emotionally, 2023 was more of the same with the added bonus of physical challenges--COVID, a couple of really bad checkups at the doctor, and continuous sleep issues (despite the CPAP). So just as it has in the past, my numbers (and my debt) went down, up, down, up, …
Personal Archaeology 27: Voices Inside
My "collection" of student newspapers from high school. The first one is from September 1992; the last is from June 1995. In my senior year of high school, I decided I wanted to be a writer, and I figured that the easiest way to make that happen was to go into a career in journalism. Why that …
Bizarre Adventures #34
December is #HolidayComicsMonth and while I usually have a few books for each of these theme months, I only had one, which was the final issue of Bizarre Adventures, a book that started in magazine form as Marvel Preview, was retitled in 1981 and eventually was sized down to your regular comic book size. This is …
Uncollecting Update November 2023
As always, let's start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 16 (34/267)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 2 (4/16)Books Read: 4 (107/126)Movies Watched: 1 (164/194)TV Series Watched: 0 (55/58)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (99/105)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 182 I have to admit that I'm sitting here a little stuck on what to write about. As …
Vertigo
A couple of years ago, I received an Alfred Hitchcock Blu-Ray boxed set for Christmas. I haven't really cracked it beyond the movies I'm very familiar with--Psycho, North by Northwest, Rear Window--so with nothing on a couple of Saturdays ago, we threw in Vertigo, which I think is safe to say is within the Pantheon …
What If … (vol. 2) #48, 49
Whenever I am diving into the really cheap stuff--we're talking the stuff that's beat-to-shit, so it doesn't matter if you keep it--old issues of What If ...? are always a good bet. Plus, my kid likes the series, so I can just offload the books onto them. And they're mostly one-and-done stories (although there's the …
Semper Fi #WarComicsMonth
With the success of The 'Nam in 1986, Marvel had a popular war comic that wasn't a licensed product tie-in for the first time in ... well, probably since Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos saw its last battle. And much like any other time you've got a successful property, there was a need to …
Back into the ‘nam for #WarComicsMonth
When it comes to war comics, I'm partial to ones that have stories featuring the Vietnam War, and that should be a shock to no one since I did a podcast that covered The 'Nam. But with the exception of old issues of that Marvel book, I don't often come across Vietnam stories in the …
A War Comics Grab Bag #WarComicsMonth
So in the small stack of war comics that I've collected since last November, I have some books that I guess you'd consider the more "classic" type of war comics: books that center mostly around World War II and were published in either the Silver Age or Bronze Age by one of the major comic …
My first War Comics? #WarComicsMonth
So, I started my #WarComicsMonth reading with G.I. Joe #55 and #59. And that begs the question: how do you review two comics that you've read multiple times but happened to randomly get in a grab bag? Moreover, how do you review two comic books that have always been two of the most important in …
The Uncollecting 