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I received this Criterion Collection Wall-E 4K Blu-Ray for Christmas in 2025. While the art is fantastic, the container it comes in isn't the best, being a box made of cardboard around a fairly loose cardboard book. What I really like about this release is the special features, of which there are many, including deep dives into nearly every aspect of the production. I watched them all on New Years' Eve.
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, being my favorite movie of all time, was the one blu-ray I was looking to buy the most for the longest time, and when the Criterion Collection announced they'd be releasing it in 2025, I was ecstatic. I just so happened to find it in my local Barnes & Noble while going shopping with my older brother, but unfortunately I only had enough money for the standard blu-ray, so that is what I purchased.
The A24 Marty Supreme blu-ray, while not exactly being something I was holding my breath waiting for, was definitely a release I had planned on getting since watching the movie in January of 2026. I went with my two friends Andres and Zander, along with my father. The blu-ray itself was purchased during a job dogsitting for my aunt, and features some really nice photocards and a documentary.
I'm pretty sure I genuinely bought Non-Stop Spider-Man because it was the cheapest Spider-Man comic book I could find. What's funny about the title is due to multiple reasons including COVID-19, the series was, well, stopped short, at only five issues. Fortunately the story continued in Savage Spider-Man, of which I have the first issue.
My copy of Amazing Fantastic Incredible has lost its "incredible" slipcover since I've gotten it, but what really stands out to me about this book is just the way it's presented. Stan Lee making a comic book memoir is about the most Stan Lee thing he could've done.
My best friend Andres told me about Invincible right after the first season was released and he described it to me in such a way that made me become hooked before even knowing what it looked like. I then proceeded to read the entire comic online, before watching the first two seasons about a year later. I purchased this first volume in 2025.
I bought my copy of Venom #1 not long after it came out, in December of 2021 walking downtown after a day at school. I distinctly remember this being the last copy available and of course I bought it because I love venom, and the cover is just incredible. I also currently own the next 3 issues in this run.
I bought the Short n' Sweet Deluxe Edition CD for seven dollars at a medium-sized record shop in Nevada, at which I was looking mostly for Blu-Rays and DVDs. I didn't think much of Sabrina Carpenter at that point in time beyond seeing her in Girl Meets World and the Adventures in Babysitting remake. However, buying this CD was just about the best decision I could've made at that store, especially considering the fact they had no good movies nor hip-hop albums. The graphic design featured on the booklet inside the CD case is simply phenomenal, and the whole aesthetic just fits the music brilliantly.
Dare to Be Stupid is one of three Weird Al CDs I luckily came upon at my local record store. While all three of the albums I picked up (those being this one, Off the Deep End, and In 3-D) are phenomenally funny albums, this one stands out above the rest for one simple reason... the printing on the side of the case is backwards. While most CDs have the side text so that the side that faces upwards while reading is the cover, Dare to Be Stupid has it so the upward-facing side is the back of the case. This forces you to either deal with the backwards text while displaying your collection on a shelf, or flip it around backwards to fit with the rest.
St. Elsewhere by Gnarls Barkley is an album I got purely for the most popular track, "Crazy." The song came out in my birth year and it's really the one song I associate most with the 2000s, since it is definitely one of the best songs of the 2000s. Even though I bought the CD purely for one song, I was very pleased to discover that I liked just about every other song on the album. "Just a Thought" is actually what sent me down a rabbithole that led me to discovering the genres of jungle, d&b, and breakcore, which have influenced my music taste greatly for the past couple years. I also love the slow build of "Storm Coming," and the very beginning of "Transformer" influenced the first song "childbirth" on my first EP.
Alec Empire's The Destroyer is officially considered the first breakcore record ever released. That's actually the whole reason I wanted it, because at the time I was unaware of Alec Empire and his involvement in Atari Teenage Riot, or really of the existence of Atari Teenage Riot beyond the name alone. When I received this CD for Christmas of 2025, I was just getting into mostly jungle and d&b, and I wanted to go a little more hardcore and see what was out there, and breakcore was the first genre to catch my eye. Of course what is considered true breakcore is widely up for debate though, so I went with the first officially breakcore album I could find, and this was it.
The Resident Evil: Apocalypse DVD I have features a very unique cover, with the main character as well as the text and effects being printed directly onto the case's plastic, while the background, including the dog, zombies, and Nemesis, are all printed on a standard DVD cover that is slid behind the plastic. Other than that, the rest of the case is a very nice glossy black plastic, as opposed to the usual matte dark gray DVD cases you find on other movies.
The Adventure Time DVD Box Set features a very nice, albeit slightly cheap-feeling, clear plastic case. The interior holds a bunch of fairly standard clear DVD spindles as you'd find in any other multi-DVD case. What really stands out to me is the box art, featuring a design that looks like a green version of the Enchiridion from the show. The original release features a much more accurately colored Enchiridion, complete with pop-up art in between discs, but those run into the hundreds of dollars nowadays.
While I'm not exactly a massive fan of the film Blade Trinity itself, I am a massive fan of the packaging. The DVD case is standard, but the cover has a slight reflectivity to it so it gives off a rainbow effect when looked at from the right angle. Inside, it comes with two discs, one featuring the throwing weapons Blade uses, while the other features an awesome photo of Blade himself on a red background. The best part of the packaging however is the unique prequel comic that only came with this release.
Vinyl Favorites
The 3 Feet High and Rising vinyl I have is actually not the original release, but rather the 2023 rerelease. However, I honestly think this is the best release I could've gotten, because not only does the original comic come with it on a separate insert, but the vinyl itself is a beautiful bright yellow. The audio quality is, of course, superb, and it comes on 2 separate vinyl records as opposed to the original 1.
I had listened to only Tyler, the Creator's Chromakopia at the time of purchasing this album, so I had no idea what to expect from it. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I love every single song on the album, which is great seeing as I spent a good thirty dollars on it. My good friend Zander Renzi had recommended I listen to the album for a solid 3 months straight before I eventually gave in and purchased it.
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