Why I have four comic books that were either created by, featured art by, or featured characters created by Jack Kirby is a case of me just randomly grabbing comics out of back issue bins because they looked interesting or they tied into something bigger or more important (or so I thought). I'll fully admit …
Regarding the Legion
So back when my LCS had its last "Shortboxtober" event, I took a deep dive into the bins and decided to grab a handful of Legion of Super-Heroes comics. I've only actively read the Legion's adventures once, starting in 1994 right before Zero Hour and going until about 1996 or so, probably quitting shortly after …
Secret Origins #12, 14, 21, 24, 25, 26, Annual 2
Lots of continuing my read through my incomplete run of Secret Origins, and I continue to enjoy at least one story per issue, sometimes even both. I'm going to wind up keeping all of these because the missing issues are on my want list and then I plan to read along with Ryan Daly's now-defunct …
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There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane
In 2009, 36-year-old Diane Schuler drove the wrong way on the Teconic Parkway in Upstate New York and ultimately collided head-on with an SUV. She, her daughter, her three nieces, and three people in the SUV were killed in the crash. The accident made headlines, especially after it was revealed that a postmortem toxicology test …
Uncollecting Update August 2019
As always, let’s start with the numbers. Media consumed # (remaining/total) Movies Watched 14 (114/161) Books Read: 8 (105/158) Comics Read: 85 (270/750) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 137 I guess it's against the whole philosophy of things that the piles got slightly bigger this month even though the remainders also shrunk. I gained two movies because …
The Sweet Hereafter
Another movie off of my Netflix DVD queue and another movie I don't remember adding to it in the first place or why. Perhaps it was mentioned in an AV Club post or by somebody on YouTube. At any rate Amazon had The Sweet Hereafter available for streaming on Prime, so I sat down and …
“Your Experiences Are Valid”
I've been doing a lot of mental and emotional cleaning along with the physical uncollecting and one of the most important parts of that has been my efforts to restore and reestablish the self-confidence I seemed to have lost over the last few years. I can't pinpoint one specific thing except to say that myriad …
Indian Summer
I have a soft spot in my heart for reunion flicks. This isn't recent, by the way. Even as far back as my early twenties, when Grosse Pointe Blank and Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion came out, I loved any chance to watch a solid cast get together and pretend like they'd known one …
Starslayer: The Legend of the Jolly Roger #30
Published in 1985 by First Comics, this probably should have been something that I wrote about during the "Fighting the Independents" series, but it wound up being forgotten and I picked it up to read and review on its own. I guess that's how these things go. Anyway, this is space pirates created by Mike …
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Hex #2, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14
If I am to give credit where credit is due, it's my early years of comics collecting where I was buying all of Crisis on Infinite Earths and as many of its crossovers as I could that got me slightly interested in Hex, the post-apocalyptic sci-fi series that was the follow-up to the Jonah Hex …
The Uncollecting 