Among the inevitabilities of the Internet is the occasional media story about financial hardships hitting people whoa re just like you and me. These could be student loan debt, medical-related bankruptcies, massive issues with credit cards, subprime mortgages, or a number of other money problems. Accompanying them will also be self-righteous comments that are not …
Marvel Fanfare #18
I feel like I should qualify all of my Marvel Fanfare posts by saying that all of my copies aren't in the best condition but I find that okay because I didn't pay that much for it. Ergo, these aren't really going to net me very much in the way of a sale, so if …
Marvel Fanfare #12
I can't remember exactly what I was looking for when I found this in my LCS' bins, but I know that I grabbed it because it was 50 cents and had a George Perez cover. It's not in the best condition--it has cracks in the spine and the bottom corner is bent--but I'm not going …
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Reblogging this for posterity's sake. I'm keeping this one. -Tom
Vigilante #45-50
I have a macabre reason for wanting to own these issues and that is the events of issue #50--which features the suicide of its main character (which should have had a spoiler alert? Maybe? The fate of Adrian Chase is pretty known to many a DC Comics fan). I came across most of these issues …
Deadman (1986) #1-4
In the wake of Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC rebooted or tweaked a number of its characters. In some cases, you had the from-the-ground-up approach of Superman and Wonder Woman; in other cases, you have the "soft reboot" approach where the character is more or less who he/she was before Crisis but with some adjustments …
Justice League International Special #2
This is an issue I didn't know existed until I was thumbing through the back issue bins during my LCS' "Shortboxtober" event. I saw the cover and that it was by the same creative team as the Huntress series I'd recently purchased on eBay. And while it does feature several JLI members, the story is …
Uncollecting Update: January 2019
Let's start with the numbers. Media consumed # (remaining/total) Movies Watched 1 (154/155) Books Read: 4 (135/139) Comics Read: 50 (688/738) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 182 Movies I haven't been watching many movies this month. We've been going through a number of the MCU films that we haven't seen or haven't watched in a long time, …
The Huntress (1989) #17-19
So we finally get Batman. I'm sure that one of the reasons that this ongoing series existed in the first place was because of the pre-Crisis Helena Wayne character and the idea that comic fans who knew of her would see the connection to Batman and that would sell the book. In fact, I'm surprised …
The Huntress (1989) #14-16
One of the more dominant tropes of "urban" action movies and shows that started with The French Connection and ran right through the Steven Seagal flicks of the early 1990s was that of a neighborhood that resembled a war zone more than an actual city streetscape. I imagine this had to do with New York …
The Uncollecting 