During last year's Shortboxtober event at my LCS, I grabbed a number of comic books that DC published featuring The Shadow in the late 1980s. I managed to find most of the Howard Chaykin series as well as these two issues of the book by Andrew Helfer and Kyle Baker. I'm going to see if …
The Punisher (1987) #14, 16, 21, 22
Professor Alan Strikes Again! I came home one day to a package with these four comics in my mailbox, all of which were from the Punisher ongoing that ran from the late 1980s into the early 1990s. I bought the first four issues when they came out (covered on episodes of "Origin Story" a few …
Requiem for a Dream
This is the second of three Darren Aronofksy fims that I've watched while trying to clear out my Netflix DVD queue (the others are The Wrestler, which I watched a while back, and Black Swan, which I have yet to see), and I'm probably not the only person who first found out who he is …
Uncollecting Update September 2019
As always, let’s start with the numbers. Media consumed # (remaining/total) Movies Watched 5 (109/161) Books Read: 5 (100/158) Comics Read: 0 (331/811) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 138 Well, the numbers don't lie. Things kind of fell off throughout the whole month of September. My LCS relocated and had a huge grand re-opening sale wherein I …
Some More Quickie Movie Reviews
I've been trying to get some movies off my list while slammed with work lately, which hasn't been easy. Granted, if I could get off my ass and watch said movies while on the treadmill in the basement, I'd get this list knocked out more quickly. At any rate, much like my post back in …
Return of the Freedom is Tyranny of the To Do List
At one point, a couple of weeks ago, I had written "make to do list" in the margins of a legal pad I was using to take notes at a faculty meeting. Later that day, I sat down to make said list and when I was done, I saw that I had filled out the …
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How “Essential” Were They?
Sitting in the back of one of my long boxes behind some old Wizard magazines (all of which I will be offloading on eBay for very cheap) are some free graphic novel catalogues that I picked up from my LCS at one point or another. More importantly, when I picked them up, I went through …
Lingering Melodies
So "uncollecting" music has not been a huge priority in this venture, and I was thinking about this a couple of weeks ago when Dave Holmes' piece "A Decade of Music is Lost on Your iPod. These Are the Deleted Years. Now let us praise them" was published on Esquire. Holmes is a few years …
Eclipso #17
I literally bought this comic because I had heard that there was an issue of Eclipso that was a complete bloodbath with a bunch of heroes being killed off in an assault on Eclipso's base/temple in the Amazon. It wasn't. I will say that I've heard good things about this series, which spun out of …
Justice League Europe Annual #2
With the exception of a few issues, the 1991 Armageddon 2001 crossover from DC was meant to be read in any order, with the main title bookending all of the annuals that were the crossovers. Justice League Europe Annual #2 was one of those exceptions, as it was the penultimate chapter in the event with …
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