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Post by The Captain on Oct 1, 2015 5:48:35 GMT -5
111 books in September, which is my second-highest monthly total so far this year. Last year, the fall months killed my pace, as I was spending a lot of time running my girls to and from activities, but I managed to keep up with my reading and am still on pace to meet my goal of 1,000 books read this year.
Reading highlight of the month was the first 40 issues of Daredevil. Some of it was hokey, some of it was bad (Mike Murdock--why???), but most of it was a lot of fun. Some other good stuff were the Thor issues between 370 and 410.
Reading lowlight of the month was the last book I read, that being Aquaman #44. Cullen Bunn has managed to completely undermine all of the good work that Johns and Parker did on the title in the span of just four issues. The only thing worse than the pointless story in this issue was the artwork, which had Aquaman looking like Silver Age Foggy Nelson in some panels, pudgy and pathetic rather than ripped and regal. The first and only DCU book ever to make my pull list has officially been removed, as I don't care where the story goes from here.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 1, 2015 9:48:33 GMT -5
Slowed down a bit from the frantic pace of the past two months of reading, but still read the equivalent of 154 comics this month. Highlights included: Chase, the end of the Nick Fury run in Strange Tales by Steranko, Velvet Vol. 2, Rachel Rising Vol. 1, the Marado the She Wolf stories by Bolton and Claremont, the first year's worth of Jon Sable Freelance, Five Ghosts Vol. 3 and a chunk of Priest's run on Black Panther... on to October...and what horrific delights await me there. -M Chase was brilliant. And Jon Sable is one of my favorite books of all time. |
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Post by Action Ace on Oct 1, 2015 20:30:20 GMT -5
I'll be in a Flash mood for the rest of the year.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 6, 2015 14:14:52 GMT -5
I'm never sure how to count comic strip collections.
Any thoughts?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2015 14:37:01 GMT -5
I'm never sure how to count comic strip collections. Any thoughts? I usually do 1 month of dailies + Sundays as 1 comic and for Sundays only strips 1 storyline (if it's an adventure strip like Flash Gordon) as 1 comic. Not perfect, but just the guideline I use. A month of Steve Canyon dailies has more text than an average 22 page comic book. A month of Peanuts probably has far less. So I might consider a split between the way I count adventure strips vs. gag strips, but I haven't done so in the past. -M |
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Post by dupersuper on Oct 6, 2015 23:04:53 GMT -5
I'm never sure how to count comic strip collections. Any thoughts? I put stuff like collections of Calvin & Hobbes and Dilbert under graphic novels, but I only count graphic novels and prose novels as 1, I know most break them up into roughly their equivalent in floppies for the final count. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 7, 2015 11:30:35 GMT -5
I'm never sure how to count comic strip collections. Any thoughts? I do it by page count, so roughly 20-25 pages count as a book in my mind. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 8, 2015 15:02:50 GMT -5
I go by page count as well, but sometimes not when it's something that is a really quick read (like most Mango), or a really slow read (9 nine panel grids), Ill adjust a bit.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 26, 2015 3:58:43 GMT -5
I have passed my reading totals for last year. I am at 1163 and last year I hit 1129.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2015 20:35:26 GMT -5
Only 14 issues this month, very busy month for me. But it was 100% classic and 100% horror, which was fun.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2015 1:14:05 GMT -5
Big month, the equivalent of 211 comics but a lot of it was prose. A lot of horror but not exclusively so-read a lot of Star Wars related stuff too (got the Force Awakens anticipation bug I guess).
I started my chrono read through of comics I own in floppy form-deciding to begin with the Bronze Age, and read most of the books I had from 1970-which including everything from Our Army at War to Caspar's Ghostland, read some modern stuff including the entire run of the new Edmonson/Noto Black Widow series available on Unlimited, the new Dr. Strange launch, the first 2 volumes of Mind the Gap and caught up on the new Marvel Star Wars stuff on Unlimited; plus a lot of other classic stuff ranging from a bunch of Golden & Silver Age DC (Superman Chronicles vol. 2 and Showcase reprints form volumes of Blackhawk, Hawkman and Martian Manhunter back up from Tec) to Silver and Bronze Marvel (Iron Man from Tales of Suspense, Micronauts, the Dracula/Dr. Strange x-over from '76, some Claremont/Byrne X-Men and Lee/Kirby FF; dipped into a little Brubaker (Criminal Vol. 1, The Marvels Project), some Eisner (Spirit Archives), Warren stuff (random Creepy and Vampirella issues from the Warren Archives site), the Wein/Wrightson Swamp Thing stories reprinted in Roots of the Swamp Thing, some random minis-Slash Maruad, John Bolton's Halls of Horror and others-plus read a little Lovecraft and other horror shorts for the feel of the season.
There were a few stinkers, especially in some of the random 1970 stuff, but overall I enjoyed most of what I read.
-M
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 1, 2015 19:17:50 GMT -5
The Superman Monster was my favorite for the month, I loved the mash up between Superman's story and Frankenstein.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2015 19:47:34 GMT -5
I am only a newbie here and my classic comic reading is amatuer compared to most here, but I did finish the Werewolf by Night omnibus today, and before that the 1st Volume of the Doctor Strange Masterworks series, (as there was a new printing on Amazon), if that counts as comic reading? Two nice collections for October that reminded me of bygone comic reading days. I think these stories are so much better than the stuff they put out today in comic books, and maybe in part even a bit more stranger! Leading in to Halloween Werewolf by Night was just brilliant... although I would read all that type of stuff all year long if I could!
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 1, 2015 20:52:18 GMT -5
I am only a newbie here and my classic comic reading is amatuer compared to most here, but I did finish the Werewolf by Night omnibus today, and before that the 1st Volume of the Doctor Strange Masterworks series, (as there was a new printing on Amazon), if that counts as comic reading? Two nice collections for October that reminded me of bygone comic reading days. I think these stories are so much better than the stuff they put out today in comic books, and maybe in part even a bit more stranger! Leading in to Halloween Werewolf by Night was just brilliant... although I would read all that type of stuff all year long if I could! Collections definitely count and I love Werewolf by Night. |
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Post by Action Ace on Nov 1, 2015 21:39:56 GMT -5
124 to hit a thousand for the year. I might even hit it right on the number.  |
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