A little more than five years ago (wow, has this blog really been around that long?), I reviewed the masterpiece that was the Andrew Helfer/Jose Luis Garcia Lopez (praised be his name) four-issue Deadman miniseries from 1986. As I was reading, I saw a couple of references to a recently-published series, which is where that …
Secret Origins #31, 45, 46
I don't know how this has happened but in the last month, I've been able to complete two comic book runs and come closer to completing a third just by stopping by my LCS to see what they have in their "Fresh Friday" backstock bins (which, btw, is one of the most simple and best …
Uncollecting Update January 2024
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 1 (31/32)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 0 (0/0)Books Read: 7 (90/97)Movies Watched: (/159)TV Series Watched: 0 (49/49)TV Seasons Watched: 1 (94/95)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 83 I barely posted this month, and when I thought about that it seemed like I was barely doing …
Spare me the woo
Photo credit: https://bestpicko.com/ So I meditate every morning. It's something I've been doing for years, and when the app I use--Insight Timer--said they were having a "refresh and reset" challenge for January 2024, I decided to give it a try. Why not? It was free, the meditations were ten minutes, and I do it every …
The Year in Uncollecting 2023
Just as 2022 was challenging both mentally and emotionally, 2023 was more of the same with the added bonus of physical challenges--COVID, a couple of really bad checkups at the doctor, and continuous sleep issues (despite the CPAP). So just as it has in the past, my numbers (and my debt) went down, up, down, up, …
Personal Archaeology 27: Voices Inside
My "collection" of student newspapers from high school. The first one is from September 1992; the last is from June 1995. In my senior year of high school, I decided I wanted to be a writer, and I figured that the easiest way to make that happen was to go into a career in journalism. Why that …
Bizarre Adventures #34
December is #HolidayComicsMonth and while I usually have a few books for each of these theme months, I only had one, which was the final issue of Bizarre Adventures, a book that started in magazine form as Marvel Preview, was retitled in 1981 and eventually was sized down to your regular comic book size. This is …
Uncollecting Update November 2023
As always, let's start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 16 (34/267)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 2 (4/16)Books Read: 4 (107/126)Movies Watched: 1 (164/194)TV Series Watched: 0 (55/58)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (99/105)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 182 I have to admit that I'm sitting here a little stuck on what to write about. As …
Vertigo
A couple of years ago, I received an Alfred Hitchcock Blu-Ray boxed set for Christmas. I haven't really cracked it beyond the movies I'm very familiar with--Psycho, North by Northwest, Rear Window--so with nothing on a couple of Saturdays ago, we threw in Vertigo, which I think is safe to say is within the Pantheon …
What If … (vol. 2) #48, 49
Whenever I am diving into the really cheap stuff--we're talking the stuff that's beat-to-shit, so it doesn't matter if you keep it--old issues of What If ...? are always a good bet. Plus, my kid likes the series, so I can just offload the books onto them. And they're mostly one-and-done stories (although there's the …
The Uncollecting 