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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 31, 2020 20:26:55 GMT -5
You’re a good dad. Both of you.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2020 1:11:53 GMT -5
Most of what I read in January,when I had time, was catching up on my backlog of current stuff (the Joe Hill Hill House books, Walmart DC Giants, Gideon Falls, Last God and House of Whispers), but I also dove into Matt Wagner's Grendel (the Comico series) and got abut halfway through it), and started a revisit to the Wein/Wrightson Swamp Thing run. I scratched a little Batman itch too, starting on a couple of omnibi I got from the library. I also finally got around to reading the first Sir Edward Grey Witchfinder series, which I picked up in trade for $5 late last year after having owned 3 of the 5 issues for several years and never running across the other two.
Overall, I got to 80 some odd comics, but that is counting the DC Giants as 1 comic, when each contains on average 1 new 12 page story and 3 reprint issues (or more new material and 2 reprints in the relaunched versions). Haven't had time to do much but did read a comic or two each night before bed, or while taking lunch.
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 1, 2020 15:42:08 GMT -5
So January ended with forty comics which is likely the most I’ve read in a month in eons. That’s probably close to what I’d read in the previous six months. Mostly it’s attributable to a re-read of Transmetropolitan. A great book that is possibly more timely than it was when it first came out.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 1, 2020 23:33:36 GMT -5
I had a couple Grendel issues in my dollar bin box that I'm working on... I didn't love it... too 80s, I think.
Totally agree that Transmet is amazingly relevant still.. I re-read a good chunk of it a little ways back and it was still brilliant.
I read more novels than comics this month, but I'm making good progress on going through stuff I've had hanging around forever. I did make a Mile High purchase this week to fill some holes and read more of some of the stuff I liked (that's why I buy stuff out of dollar bins, after all!)... the prices for comics that are after bronze age, but not current, are actually pretty good.
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Post by Trevor on Feb 8, 2020 10:24:09 GMT -5
I should probably hold myself accountable and post here as well. Been reading and collecting for about 45 years, but the last 20 has been too focused on collecting and not enough reading. Also, I have a weird “save the best for last” thing, where I read lot of first issues/arcs, pick some of them to collect, but then don’t get back to actually reading the entire runs. This year I vow to stop both of those negatives and read 100 comics a month, with a focus on classic and popular runs that I’ve been putting off for too long.
I’ve made similar vows most years of my recent life, but this year I’m really going to do it. January went well with over 100 books, highlights including finally reading Simonson’s Thor. Left my list at home, but I’ll post it here soon.
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Post by berkley on Feb 10, 2020 1:02:49 GMT -5
I should probably hold myself accountable and post here as well. Been reading and collecting for about 45 years, but the last 20 has been too focused on collecting and not enough reading. Also, I have a weird “save the best for last” thing, where I read lot of first issues/arcs, pick some of them to collect, but then don’t get back to actually reading the entire runs. This year I vow to stop both of those negatives and read 100 comics a month, with a focus on classic and popular runs that I’ve been putting off for too long. I’ve made similar vows most years of my recent life, but this year I’m really going to do it. January went well with over 100 books, highlights including finally reading Simonson’s Thor. Left my list at home, but I’ll post it here soon. I found that posting in this thread encouraged e to read a little more than I think I would have otherwise, though I haven't actually counted the numbers to confirm. I find there's a tiny but discernible sense of satisfaction when I update my list to add another comic read, so it's a nice little psychological trick to incite myself to read more regularly: as soon as I'm done with one thing I'm on to the next.
The last few years I've taken to keeping month by month lists of the books I've read and movies I've seen as well, and it's interesting to look back and see when I read or watched a particular thing, or to compare what the same month in different years, etc.
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Post by Trevor on Feb 10, 2020 12:32:02 GMT -5
I should probably hold myself accountable and post here as well. Been reading and collecting for about 45 years, but the last 20 has been too focused on collecting and not enough reading. Also, I have a weird “save the best for last” thing, where I read lot of first issues/arcs, pick some of them to collect, but then don’t get back to actually reading the entire runs. This year I vow to stop both of those negatives and read 100 comics a month, with a focus on classic and popular runs that I’ve been putting off for too long. I’ve made similar vows most years of my recent life, but this year I’m really going to do it. January went well with over 100 books, highlights including finally reading Simonson’s Thor. Left my list at home, but I’ll post it here soon. I found that posting in this thread encouraged e to read a little more than I think I would have otherwise, though I haven't actually counted the numbers to confirm. I find there's a tiny but discernible sense of satisfaction when I update my list to add another comic read, so it's a nice little psychological trick to incite myself to read more regularly: as soon as I'm done with one thing I'm on to the next. The last few years I've taken to keeping month by month lists of the books I've read and movies I've seen as well, and it's interesting to look back and see when I read or watched a particular thing, or to compare what the same month in different years, etc.
Tricks work. For me, it’s checklists, but they sort of fit my particular strain of OCD. My current monthly comic reading checklist has various items to make sure I use subscriptions and sample genres/types that I’ve been collecting. For example, I collect digests and treasuries, so they’re on the list to make sure I’m actually reading what I buy. My local library has hoopla, and I subscribe to Comixology Unlimited, so they’re on the list so,I don’t waste those “freebies”. Example below: February Comics - read at least one item from each Comixology Unlimited - Conan - DC - digest - Hoopla - Marvel - Nexus - Etc etc, my list is about 35 items.
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Post by The Captain on Mar 1, 2020 9:29:14 GMT -5
Only got 80 books in last month, as both my life (taking over my parents' finances due to my mom's illness) and my wife (she's been taking our older daughter to swim so she can study for a certification test, while that used to be when I read a lot) worked against me. Still, I'm averaging 3 books read per day, which, if, maintained, will allow me to easily surpass my goal of 1,000 issues read in 2020.
Best thing I read in February: I've really been enjoying the Jonah Hex stories in All-Star Western and Weird Western Tales. Had never been introduced to them before this month, but they are fantastic (one thing I'm a little bummed about is that, with the Showcase Presents format, I'm not getting them in color, but that is a minor quibble).
Worst thing I read in February: Said it before in another thread, will say it one more time here. Silver Age Wonder Woman by Robert Kanigher is possibly the worst garbage I have ever read in my 40 years as a comics fan. I have literally put the Showcase Presents book aside and will never open it again. It makes me sad that these issues were ever published and foisted on an unsuspecting public.
March Look-Ahead: Will be continuing to read the Jonah Hex stories (just got Showcase Presents: Jonah Hex, v2 in the mail yesterday). As well, I will keep reading my way through Iron Man from the beginning. I just got past a really rough patch in the late-30s/early-40s where there was a lot of supernatural influence on the book, which was really out of place, but once you get past the Thanos issue, the book takes a turn back toward technology-based villains (and the Mandarin, but he gets a pass since he's Iron Man's greatest foe).
One interesting thing to note about issue #55 is how much they played it up as the introduction of Drax rather than of Thanos. Even the letter pages a few months later had a lot to say about Drax but none were printed that mentioned anything about Thanos, even though it is his first appearance in that book that makes it worth 100s of dollars today.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 1, 2020 10:03:04 GMT -5
Huh! Well what do you know? 73 funnybooks. Almost double January. I’d venture it’s the most I’ve read in a month in years. Largely attributable to finishing my re-read off Transmetropolitan and a re-read of American Century plus a few other things thrown in.
We shall see how March goes. I have a couple of trials set this month which tends to slow things down. Not sure what I’m going to read. Leaving toward a re-read off Locke & Key and possibly Miracleman as well as continuing to dip into early Plastic Man.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 3, 2020 0:05:14 GMT -5
Got to a few more comics in February, mostly inspired by a Mile High comics order... I was disappointed in Tor, but Sword of the Swashbucklers was good fun. While it ended far too abruptly to really be good, Infinity Inc was a good start.. too bad it didn't last, would have like to see it develop into Natasha's team I was glad to have read Red Sonja and Star Wars on Hoopla, both were fine, but neither would have pleased me to have paid full price for.. it seems I stopped buying Star Wars at the right time. Guns of the Dragon was definitely the best of the month
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 18, 2020 16:11:24 GMT -5
I'm not getting very far in my reading so far this year.
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Post by Trevor on Mar 18, 2020 16:28:34 GMT -5
I'm not getting very far in my reading so far this year. Mother Nature is looking out for your goals.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 18, 2020 16:52:35 GMT -5
I'm not getting very far in my reading so far this year. I've been rocking it. But my prose reading has suffered a fair bit.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 19, 2020 21:40:11 GMT -5
I'm not getting very far in my reading so far this year. I've been rocking it. But my prose reading has suffered a fair bit. I've been the opposite.. mostly prose for me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2020 2:44:31 GMT -5
There's still a few days left in the month, so I will probably read a bit more in March, but I have already read more this month than the previous two, which is not surprising considering I have been out of work for 2 weeks now. Even though I have a stack of back issues and new single issues waiting to be read, I found myself reading a lot more OGNs and series of collected editions this month, and have been plowing through a bunch of stuff that past week or so especially, including,,,
Black Canary Ignite-YA version of the Canary story that is part of the YA line that started out as Ink/Zoom
Savage Town OGN-Declan Shalvey's crime story featuring small time Irish mobs in Ireland
The Woods Vol. 3 & 4 (via Hoopla) working my way through Tynion's sci-fi tale about a typical Amrican high school that gets mysteriously transported to an alien moon and their struggles to survive there.
Black Magick Vol. 1 & 2l Gerg Rucka & Nicola Scott's occult crime drama series
Injection Vol. 1-3 Warren Ellis & Declan Shalvey's story of a group of geniuses who create a magically infused computer code that awakens and gains sentience and the the chaos that ensues
The Last Fair Deal Gone Down-the second GN adaptation from Ace Atkins Nick Travers series
Ascender Vol 1 Lemire & Nguyen's follow up to Descender
Peter Cannon Thunderbolt-Kieron Gillen's formalist super-hero tale that is a spiritual successor to Watchmen
Something is Killing the Children Vol. 1-a reread as I read the issues on Hoopla but grabbed the tpb when it was released earlier this month; Tynion's tale of a young woman who is a kick-ass monster hunter trying to stop a monster preying on the children or a small rural town
Richard Stark's Parker Vol. 1-4; Cooke's masterful adaptations of Stark's crime stories, Vol. 1-3 were rereads but 4 was a first time read; I wanted to revisit the first 3 before diving into Slayground.
I have read some single issue stuff-mostly DC giants and the Hill House stuff off my new singles pile, but also continuing my way through the Batman Eternal series off of the DC Universe service, sampling a few other things there and starting on the Dragonlance series DC did in the late 80s.
next up on my trade pike is to revisit Rucka & Lark's Lazarus and get caught up on the volumes I haven't read yet and another of the YA DC OGN, this one Zatanna and the House of Secrets, but I am not sure if I will get to those before March ends or whether they will fall into April.
I was a bit disappointed with Savage Town, and kind of meh on Peter Cannon (it got a lot of hype/buzz, and it was good, but didn't really resonate with me), but I have really enjoyed everything else I dove into in trades/OGN so far this month.
-M
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