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The Uncollecting
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A blog about trying to make my way through all that is unwatched, unlistened, and unread while decluttering and trying to find order in life
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A trio of Bat Books
Among the books that I gathered up at the Baltimore Comic-Con either from bins or mystery boxes were several Bat-books from different eras. Two of them were signed–Robin #40 and #41, which we…
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December 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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One last look at my old writing notebooks ...

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Personal Archaeology 34: Last Drafts
As I moved through these old creative writing notebooks, I had a feeling that they were going to get less and less interesting as far as the content inside was concerned. The first few years were f…
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August 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Uncollecting Update June 2025
Physical Comics Read: 40 (8/89) Digital Comics Read: 0 (418/435) Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 0 (0/0) Books Read: 6 (78/102) Movies Watched: 0 (206/209) TV Shows Watched:&nb…
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July 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Personal Archaeology 33: Adrift and Inane
My creative writing journals have a gap between 1998 and June of 2000. For the life of me, I don’t know why I didn’t have a notebook full of various ramblings and ideas for fiction, esp…
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June 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Personal Archaeology 32: Creative Writing, The College Years
Sometime during my senior year of high schoo, I decided that I wanted to bea writer. That’s com ewith its problems and roadblocks over the years, many of which are self-inflicted, but I was a…
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June 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Personal Archaeology 31: Love and Heartbreak in Creative Writing Class
The box had been sitting in my office closet for years. And even years before that, it was in our previous house and apartments. Like a number of other things, it just moved with me and was forgott…
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June 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Personal Archaeology 30: Notebooks Upon Notebooks Upon Notebooks
If you have been reading the blog long enough, you know that I have done a good amount of journaling in my life. You probably also know–or at least guessed–that I have a writer’s …
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June 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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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…
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May 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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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 (usua…
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May 19, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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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…
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May 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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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 …
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May 4, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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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 book…
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April 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Devil House
I was on a horror kick a few years ago–well, a “horror buying” kick, which means that here and there, I’m on a “horror reading” kick, but anyway–and when I…
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March 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Stay Cool
It’s extremely rare that I don’t finish anything. I’ve gone back and watched the last, sad season of a television series that I’d stopped watching just to make sure I got th…
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March 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The Intervention
I dont know why I went on this run of “everyone in the same house” movies or reunion movies recently. I think it’s because I’ve also been on this hunt for “smaller&#82…
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March 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Uncollecting Update February 2025
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 3 (82/89) Digital Comics Read: 0 (435/435) Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 0 (0/0) Books Read: 5 (81/91) Movies Watched: 0 (208/209) TV S…
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March 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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The latest episode of my podcast, Pop Culture Affidavit, is a conversation with Professor Alan all about Uncollecting.

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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 161: The Uncollecting IV — The Voyage Home
It’s become an annual tradition at this point to spend my first episode of the year talking about The Uncollecting, which is my effort to downsize my geek stuff. This time around, I’m j…
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February 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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How did I do last month?

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Uncollecting Update January 2025
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 4 (85/89) Digital Comics Read: 0 (435/435) Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 0 (0/0) Books Read: 5 (85/90) Movies Watched: 1 (2…
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February 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I reread Miracleman. Does it stay in the collection?

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Miracleman
I’m going to fully admit up front that this post–and the reading for it–were a result/reaction to the recent article about Neil Gaiman. I read it, was completely disgusted, and lo…
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January 31, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Giving Up the Ghost
This is going to be a little bit of an odd “review” of a book I just finished because I’m pretty sure it’s going to veer into “talking about me” territory in a w…
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January 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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How did I do this year? Is there anything to look forward to in 2025?

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The Year in Uncollecting 2024
How can you say “Happy New Year!” when you are looking down the barrel of something that is going to be flat-out awful? I mean, I try not to be a doomsayer; in fact, for all of the piss…
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January 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Superman Family #170, 174, 186, 200
So I will be the first person to admit that my experience with Superman comics has been spotty at best. When I was a kid, I owned a few because I loved the movies and shows like Super Friends, but …
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December 31, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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Mystery Box Marvels
At this year’s Baltimore Comic-Con, I once again bought a mystery box from Third Eye Comics. It was the second time I’d done so and even though I probably didn’t need a box of ran…
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December 29, 2024 at 4:19 PM