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 …
Uncollecting Update May 2025
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 …
The Uncollecting 