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Post by berkley on Mar 31, 2020 1:19:26 GMT -5
Read a good number of older things this month but haven't been able to make up my mind what modern comic I want to read. I would have read Love and Rockets #8, the new issue that just came out if the LCS had been open to pick it up. Only 1 day left in the month so I'll probably just pick something at random.
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Post by shaxper on Mar 31, 2020 8:54:34 GMT -5
The only comics I seem to be reading these days are comics I read with others, which is actually kind of nice. My numbers are FAR lower than in previous years, but nearly every book read has a memory attached to it, so I can't complain. This month, I've mostly enjoyed trying to catch up with chadwilliam's Peer into the Eyes of The Spectre reviews. I've read quite a few, but haven't really organized my thoughts enough to give a proper response yet beyond "COOL art! Stooopid stories!" but man am I having fun reading them Next month, I have high hopes for the new CCF Reading Circle and all the good reading it will encourage me to do with others here!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2020 13:04:57 GMT -5
Got 83 books read this month, which is over double what I had read previously.
Obviously had more free time with less places to go and whatnot, but also starting getting around to tackling some of the trade paperback and graphic novels I've been sitting on for a while. I had taken a break from my read/reread of 100 Bullets, but started that up again and I'm now in the home stretch of issues. I started Brian K. Vaughn's Ex Machina and just about made it through the first two deluxe trades. I also finally got around to reading the New Avengers series by Bendis, which I had read sporadically back in the day, but it was kinda nice to revisit. I had completely missed the release of Jay Faerber's Image graphic novel Over My Dead Body, which featured his characters from the series Near Death and I was glad I finally picked it up. And while I was really excited and enjoyed it, the Humanoids graphic novel The Big Country wasn't quite as good as I had hoped it would be.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Apr 1, 2020 13:42:49 GMT -5
Got 83 books read this month, which is over double what I had read previously. Obviously had more free time with less places to go and whatnot, but also starting getting around to tackling some of the trade paperback and graphic novels I've been sitting on for a while. I had taken a break from my read/reread of 100 Bullets, but started that up again and I'm now in the home stretch of issues. I started Brian K. Vaughn's Ex Machina and just about made it through the first two deluxe trades. I also finally got around to reading the New Avengers series by Bendis, which I had read sporadically back in the day, but it was kinda nice to revisit. I had completely missed the release of Jay Faerber's Image graphic novel Over My Dead Body, which featured his characters from the series Near Death and I was glad I finally picked it up. And while I was really excited and enjoyed it, the Humanoids graphic novel The Big Country wasn't quite as good as I had hoped it would be. I just read New Avengers for the first time last month myself, I loved the solo stories but hated how it would end up getting tied into every event that came along.
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Post by The Captain on Apr 1, 2020 15:00:50 GMT -5
Read 112 books in March, as a lot of the normal distractions from life disappeared and I had some extra free time.
Best Thing I Read in March I enjoyed the few Jonah Hex stories in Weird Western Tales that I read, as well as some of the issues of Iron Man as I read my way through that series. Some of the IM stories between 65 and 100 are a little rough, but things start to pick up in the late 110s and really get going once they introduce Justin Hammer and his cadre of supervillain henchmen to the book.
Worst Thing I Read in March Current issue of Captain America, no question.
April Look-Ahead Will probably continue putting a lot of time into the Iron Man read-through, as well as picking up the second Showcase Presents: Jonah Hex collection. At my current pace, I will probably make it to IM #200 by the end of the month.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 1, 2020 15:26:04 GMT -5
March started out gangbusters and I figured I'd smash the first two months. But the virus actually slowed down my reading. Both my younger sons came home (from the Peace Corps and from college) and work has been nuts with extra meetings to try to figure out how to deal with the virus and with Court being disrupted, but not fully cancelled as I have a lot of Constitutionally mandated hearings.
I did a full re-read of Locke & Key which was over half my reading.
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Post by shaxper on Apr 1, 2020 15:32:45 GMT -5
Court being disrupted, but not fully cancelled as I have a lot of Constitutionally mandated hearings. Stay careful out there, my friend.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 1, 2020 18:02:47 GMT -5
Ended up with 62 comics read for the month. The highlights were a re-reading of Top Ten. That's a fun series. I started to read some of the Thor issues that I bought and started with the first issues that John Buscema drew ( 182, 183). I read the Death of Superman issues. Man, that arc is underrated, it seems to get better with every reading.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Apr 1, 2020 21:35:43 GMT -5
The only comics I seem to be reading these days are comics I read with others, which is actually kind of nice. My numbers are FAR lower than in previous years, but nearly every book read has a memory attached to it, so I can't complain. This month, I've mostly enjoyed trying to catch up with chadwilliam 's Peer into the Eyes of The Spectre reviews. I've read quite a few, but haven't really organized my thoughts enough to give a proper response yet beyond "COOL art! Stooopid stories!" but man am I having fun reading them Next month, I have high hopes for the new CCF Reading Circle and all the good reading it will encourage me to do with others here! That's a amazing idea Shax! (the reading circle) Not alot of comics for me this month... but I did get back to my silver age DC... hoping to keep that going
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Post by shaxper on Apr 1, 2020 21:54:03 GMT -5
]That's a amazing idea Shax! (the reading circle) Thanks! I hope you'll join us for our second book tomorrow!
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Post by wildfire2099 on Apr 1, 2020 23:06:56 GMT -5
You say that like you think I've skipped the first one... au contraire, fearless leader!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 1, 2020 7:41:03 GMT -5
Well... that was not much. 14.5 books. Which is kind of where I would have been last year. The boys being home and work stuff has just killed my reading both comics and prose.
What I read was good stuff though. Start of a re-read of Planetary ave the Books of Magic mini.
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Post by The Captain on May 1, 2020 10:24:16 GMT -5
Read 108 books in April. It was a lot of "binge reading", where I'd get through 6-10 issues in a day, then not read anything for three days following that.
Reached 400 issues read for the year at the end of the month, which puts me slightly ahead of my goal of 1,000 stories. Currently at 92.3% classic books read, but that is to be expected, as there is nothing new coming out.
Best Thing I Read in April I read my way through Planetary from start to finish, and it never disappoints.
Once I got to the Denny O'Neill issues of Iron Man, starting at issue #161, the series starts to pick back up again after a mediocre half-year's worth of issues. I really enjoyed the Obadiah Stane takeover of Stark International and the subsequent "Rhodey as Iron Man" stretch while Tony drank himself into the gutter.
Worst Thing I Read in April There were some pretty dire issues of Iron Man out of the 55 or so I read this month. The worst run was from 155 to 159, where the title was in transition. It seemed as though every issue was a fill-in script, although all of the issues were written by Dave Michelinie, so maybe he was just burning through throw-away stories until Denny O'Neill took over with issue #161, which was
May Look-Ahead Will probably continue putting a lot of time into the Iron Man read-through. It was one of the series that I identified in my 2020 goals to read from start to finish, so I want to keep making progress.
As well, I think I am going to re-read Ruse, which I saw in the short box behind Planetary this month. Not a long series, but it's been a few years since I gave it a full read-through, so it will be a nice change of pace from Iron Man when I need to read something else.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2020 11:12:40 GMT -5
Read the equivalent of 150 issues in April, almost none of it qualifying as classic, for a couple of reasons-a) I am working my way through the backlog of stuff I picked up from my lcs this year and hadn't gotten to yet, and b)as I work on finishing up the comic room I am in process of organizing my older stuff and collections so I am not pulling a lot of it out until I get the organizing done
Highlights
-read Greg Rucka and Michael Lark's Lazarus-the first four volumes were a reread but caught up with the stuff I had not gotten around to.
-Mark Waid's 2018 Doctor Strange run/series
-The Spirit Returns by Matt Wagner from Dynamite-doesn't quite have the magic of Darwyn Cooke's Spirit revival from a decade ago (and few people can capture Cooke's magic), but this was an excellent take on the Spirit. No one will ever measure up to Eisner's Spirit, but this was a worthy torchbearer for the character.
-The Woods- a smart little sci-fi series by James Tynion from BOOM! that came out circa 2014. I've been working my way through it (it's 9 volumes-4 issues each volume total) on Hoopla and I got through 3 volumes this month putting me about 2/3 of the way through the series.
-The Hill House books-I caught up on all these books, it's the horror imprint curated by Joe Hill (Stephen King's son) from DC/Black Label.
-The DC Giants-I am getting them through my lcs now to support them, but I have been getting these since they debuted at Walmart a year and a half ago. I don't like every story in every issue, but there is something I like in every issue and like all the new content and a lot of the reprints which are new to me.
Kind of meh stuff
-I read a handful of the Hard Case Crime Comics from Titan-I love the book imprint, but none of the comics really stood out. I had high hopes for them, and they were decent, but none really blew me away. I didn't dislike them, but I was glad I was reading them via Hoopla rather than having bought them.
Nothing I read ventured into the realm of the terrible, which is good.
-M
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 2, 2020 19:30:16 GMT -5
I spent more time on organizing this month than reading, but I've now got all my trades in some semblance of order in my limited shelf space and all the issues integrated with my regular list, so that's exciting. Definitely made me make a list of stuff I want to re-read and maybe get the next book of... but I'm going to try to say on finishing what I have first.
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