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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 1, 2022 8:30:52 GMT -5
My reading total for the month was 125 , which is my highest for 2022. Most of it was digital which factored in to making the total larger. Just by not having to retrieve physical comics and handling them , it adds the amount I can read. For the first time I did a read through of the Claremont X-men from 94-115. Now I see what everyone finds so special about that run. When Byrne was added to the book it took a huge jump in quality. Before now, I only ever read from about 125 and up, Good stuff. I read Captain America from 100-117. Mostly Lee/Kirby for the run, and mostly just fight scene after fight scene. I read 5 issues of DC's Secret origins 50 issue run. They are kind of a dry read as Roy Thomas seems to fit a story around dopey origin stories. He wrote stories that tried to do damage control for the recently concluded COIE. Many of the attempts come off as clumsy. I'm thinking that Thomas should just have gone back to Marvel, as his first love was eliminated by the event.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2022 9:54:58 GMT -5
November has come and gone and I read a little over 100 issues worth of comics, but read a lot of OGN rather than single issues.
Best thing I read all month was the newest Reckless OGN by Brubaker & Phillips-Follow Me Down.
Other standouts include Gareth Hinds adaptations of the the Iliad and the Odyssey, the initial 12 issues of the Runaways by BKV, and the delightful return of the Batman & Scooby Doo Mysteries. I also dug the first 7 issues of the new Black Panther series by John Ridley.
Slightly disappointing was The Bone Orchard Passageway-I usually like Jeff Lemire horror books, but this one may have suffered form trying to set up a shared horror universe, because it felt inconsequential and unsatisfying because it spent its time setting things up rather than paying things off, which is fine in a first issue of a series, but not in what is supposed to be a standalone OGN.
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Post by commond on Dec 1, 2022 19:11:36 GMT -5
I went at it pretty hard this month, trying to clear some stuff off my plate for next year. Perhaps a little too hard, but hey, I stopped reading comics for 20 years and I've got a lot of catching up to do.
I'm reading a lot of great stuff at the moment. My biggest discoveries this month were American Splendor and The Desert Peach. The latter was recommended on this site and is an absolute peach of a series. I don't know why it took me so long to read American Splendor. Talk about a book that was made for me. I read a lot of great Eisners-related stuff too. Age of Bronze and Strangehaven remain my two favorite series, but I have about 20 different books that I look forward to reading right now. What a great place to be.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 1, 2022 21:56:11 GMT -5
Finished the month just shy of averaging one book a day and one review a week. Not amazing, but not bad either. Highlights this month were getting back to my Complete Batman: 1954-1978 reviews and putting a huge dent in my Avengers collection, finally nearing the apex of the Stern/Buscema run.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2022 23:23:47 GMT -5
Also just noticed that I surpassed last years reading total by almost 350 comics with a month left to go. Glad I was more productive in my reading this year. I read a lot more digitally than I had in previous years, since I had a Marvel mood carry over form the end of last year and I read a bunch of stuff via Unlimited. I'm a little behind pace in the number of trades I have read though. Not sure if it is a temporary shift in reading habits, or the beginning of a trend for me.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 2, 2022 19:31:28 GMT -5
I just noticed that I blew past my previous years total. Last year I had 741 and this year it’s 903.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 22, 2022 14:03:23 GMT -5
I'm thirteen comics and seventeen reviews away from having my highest totals since 2016. I'll get thirteen comics read easily. Sixteen reviews in nine more days will be an interesting challenge...
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 30, 2022 8:22:37 GMT -5
4 comics to read until I reach 1000 for the year. I plan to pick 4 of my all time favorites.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2022 19:08:13 GMT -5
So I don't think I will get to anything else tonight or tomorrow with the holiday weekend, so I am going to call it for the year and wrap up. Read the equivalent of just over 100 comics for the month giving me 1749 for the year, so not a bad tally.
Highlights for December include The Lee/Kirby Surfer OGN, Thorgal Vol. 3, The Incal: Psychoverse, the Lily Renee biocomic, Chasin' The Bird-the Charlie Parker biocomic, Parker Girls, Dr. Strange Fall Sunrise, and First Kingdom.
There were a whole lot of enjoyable, but median level comics, but nothing that stood out as bad.
On to '23.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 31, 2022 13:24:37 GMT -5
Highlights for September include The Lee/Kirby Surfer OGN One of my absolute favorite works in all of comicdom. I'm jealous and wish I could have that feeling of reading it for the first time again.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 31, 2022 13:29:31 GMT -5
REALLY good year for me! While I still read a lot less than pretty much everyone, I read and reviewed more than I have in any year since 2016! 432 books, and 80 reviews! Averaging more than a book a day and a review a week is a total win in my book. Some highlights from the year included reading the Peter David Incredible Hulk run, finishing Avengers up through #300, discovering Herbie Popnecker, re-experiencing the Conway/Moench Batman run from the early 1980s with Amber, and reading Roquefort Raider's The Orion Arm from the beginning up to the current release. Very good year.
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Post by commond on Dec 31, 2022 18:24:30 GMT -5
I read less than I thought I would over the holidays, but still a solid amount. Crunching the numbers, it was clear which titles I was interested in the most: Strangehaven, Age of Bronze, and Omaha the Cat Dancer were my favourite ongoing titles, Palooka-ville was the best alternative title, and Scalped my favorite "modern" book. I made a push to finish some of those titles before the end of the year but discovered that a few of them continued on in different forms. Roguefort Raider turned me onto Finder and Luther Arkwright, and I enjoyed reading Kyle Baker's Why I Hate Saturn over Christmas.
I'm thinking of changing tack next year and finishing entire runs instead of reading 2 or 3 issues a month of each title. I'm like a kid in a candy store when it comes to comics and my reading list is a bit unwieldy.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 1, 2023 5:19:52 GMT -5
I finished the month of December with 99 comics read. ( Oh so close...) I literally couldn't keep my eyes open last night after working in the rain. But it makes my 2022 total 1002. That's my highest reading total since 2019 when I read 1030. Highlights were Nexus, Dreadstar and quite a bit of Avengers the first volume. A lot of reading became digital. I guess if you can't beat em, join em. I had a blast this year tracking along with everyone. Have a great New Year everyone !
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Post by berkley on Jan 2, 2023 2:12:23 GMT -5
I haven't counted up the over-all total of all comics read last year but generally speaking, I'm happy that I read a fair number of things from the 1950s and late 1980s to early '90s, my two main currents of classic comics reading, but disappointed that I didn't read more comics from recent decades. The first six months of 2022 were OK but then I went several months without anything from the 2000s onwards until in November and December I finally got around to a few things. I want to be more consistent this year and not skip any months.
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