As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 6 (48/89) Digital Comics Read: 0 (418/435) Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 0 (0/0) Books Read: 2 (78/93) Movies Watched: 1 (206/209) TV Shows Watched: 0 (52/52) TV Seasons Watched: 0 (96/96) Podcast Episodes to Listen to: 76 You ever have times when reading something feels like you're swimming against a current? That …
Leave the World Behind
So if you were online at an point in late 2023, you probably remember seeing an ad where Julia Roberts and her family were on a beach vacation and an oil tanker got closer and closer and closer and closer to the beach until it ran right up onto the shore. I never watched the …
Cheat Days
In my mission statement of sorts, I've mentioned how I work in a few "cheat days" into every year. They consist of two Friends of the Library sales, tent day sales at my LCS (usually FCBD and Thanksgiving weekend) and the Baltimore Comic-Con. Well, the first set of those recently passed. I only started going …
Return of the Abandoned Writing Projects
I've written about this before, but the other day, I was flipping through a notebook of essay ideas and notes and realized that many of them have sat unwritten for nearly 5 years. I started flipping trhough them--mainly because I was procrastinating on writing--and wound up feeling a weird range of emotion. Okay, that sounds …
Star Trek (DC Comics, 2nd Series)
The vast majority of my digital comics are Star Trek books that were ripped from a DVD-ROM a few years ago (thanks to J. David Weter for sending it my way), and I've been slowly making my way through all of them. And the DVD-ROM, which came out sometime in the 2000s, was pretty comprehensive …
Uncollecting Update April 2025
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 15 (54/89) Digital Comics Read: 7 (418/435) Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 2 (0/0) Books Read: 3 (80/93) Movies Watched: 0 (207/209) TV Shows Watched: 0 (52/52) TV Seasons Watched: 0 (96/96) Podcast Episodes to Listen to: 83 The month was busy. In fact, so busy that this weekend is the first "weekend" I …
Uncollecting Update March 2025
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 13 (69/89) Digital Comics Read: 10 (425/435) Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 0 (0/0) Books Read: 2 (80/92) Movies Watched: 1 (207/209) TV Shows Watched: 0 (52/52) TV Seasons Watched: 0 (96/96) Podcast Episodes to Listen to: 87 Man, March flew. April's looking like it's going to be no different because every weekend and …
Green Arrow (1988) #9-12, Annual 4; Brave and the Bold (1991) #3
My experience with Mike Grell's Green Arrow run is cursory at best. I've read The Longbow Hunters as well as the prestige-format Shado series and a few random issues, but for the most part it's been a blind spot in my late 1980s DC reading. I know that the first 30 issues or so are …
Continue reading Green Arrow (1988) #9-12, Annual 4; Brave and the Bold (1991) #3
Star Brand and The Pitt
If I have ever read a New Universe comic, it's been in passing. I remember the books coming out back in the late 1980s because I would see them on the shelves while I grabbed my G.I. Joe books and definitely remember seeing the ads for the line, but it never really seemed interesting to …
Devil House
I was on a horror kick a few years ago--well, a "horror buying" kick, which means that here and there, I'm on a "horror reading" kick, but anyway--and when I was in my local independent bookstore (oh God that sounds so pretentious, I'm sorry), the cover of John Darnielle's Devil House caught my eye. I …
The Uncollecting 