sacorn
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Post by sacorn on Feb 28, 2018 1:44:18 GMT -5
Perusing everyone's listings today I am quite happy seeing so much variety in what is being read as well in so many decades being covered by all of us. Variety is the true spice of life and makes for some really great reading material. Gonna have to find me some afternoon time on a weekend for digging into the long boxes so I can read some things I haven't had out in awhile. With so many Essentials/Showcases I tend towards looking to them for quick reads since they are more readily available on the shelves versus opening up the boxes Yeah me too. It's one of the best things about doing this, you regularly check out everyone else to give you some ideas to go forward with. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2018 1:18:58 GMT -5
February is over, time for the tally.
167 issues
276 pp of comic related prose at 15 pp/issue equivalent yields another 18 issues
for a total of 185 for the month (equaling the January tally exactly surprisingly), and the YTD total so far 370 issues worth of material read.
I am also partway through 2 long OGNs (My Favorite Thing is Monsters-386 pages of which I am about halfway through and Tenements, Towers and Trash-284 pages and I am about a third of the way through) which will be tallied when I finish them (hopefully March)
Highlights for February include the intro of Panther in FF, the beginnings of the McGregor Jungle Action run, the beginning of Roger Stern;s Doc Strange run, the first volume of the Kate Spencer Manhunter series, Deadman Exorcism by Mike Baron & Kelly Jones, and the volume of Brave & Bold team-ups by JM Straczynski.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2018 13:10:48 GMT -5
I work tonight, so not going to get to anymore this month, so the March tally...
178 issues
1309 pages of OGNs at 20 pp/issue yields another 65 issues approximately
and 308 pages of comic-related prose at 15pp/issue yields another 20 issues approximetely
for a march total of the equivalent of 263 comics. Busy reading month.
Highlights include Hope #1 by Dirk Manning & K. Lynne Smith, Silver Age Hawkman, Sandman Mystery Theatre, Black Monday Murders by Hickman, the OGNs My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Nameless City and Shattered Warrior, The Atlantis Chronicles, Black Panther annual #1,Rise of the Black Panther #1-3, Dark Nights Metal, and Conan the Adventurer (at least the issues by Thomas and Kayanan), and the novel Roses and Rot by Kat Howard (who will be writing Books of magic in the Gaiman curated Sandman universe later this year).
-M
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 1, 2018 4:58:17 GMT -5
Finished the Month reading 70 books down from the 120 I read the previous month.
The Good-
Authority 1-8 by Ellis and Brian Hitch was a big screen slam bam spectacle and a fun read. I’ve had the run from 1-23 for a while now but haven’t read this run until now.
Hercules Unbound #8- I picked this up as a curiosity in a show and it had a nice post apocolyptic tale set with very nice Wally Wood inks. Makes me want to chase down the other issues.
Strikeforce Morituri 1-9
Man, I never realized how good these books were until now. Brent Anderson and Peter Gillis really do good work showcasing characters that go through a process that gives them powers to combat invaders to earth at the cost of living only 1 year after getting them. It’s refreshing to see the heroes die after getting attached to them, something you never see with the big two.
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Post by The Captain on Apr 3, 2018 14:30:01 GMT -5
March was my biggest month so far this year, with me reading 105 books.
Managed to finish the Power Man and Iron Fist series that I started earlier in the year. It really dropped in quality precipitously after issue #75, with it never maintaining any kind of consistency from issue to issue over the last few years of its existence. Few issues were really good, some issues were good, but most were either average or downright bad. Not something I will probably ever re-read.
Also finished reading the Iron Man portions of Tales of Suspense in March. Typical Silver Age stuff, with a lot of silly science (apparently, transistors can do anything!). However, it certainly grew as a series over time, with the quality of the stories, some of which stretched multiple issues, improving month over month. I could have done without the "I love the girl but because of my being a hero, I can't be with her" storyline, but maybe it's because I have read a lot of SA Thor and Daredevil, which have the same exact riff in each of them as well.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 4, 2018 7:19:05 GMT -5
March was my biggest month so far this year, with me reading 105 books. Managed to finish the Power Man and Iron Fist series that I started earlier in the year. It really dropped in quality precipitously after issue #75, with it never maintaining any kind of consistency from issue to issue over the last few years of its existence. Few issues were really good, some issues were good, but most were either average or downright bad. Not something I will probably ever re-read. Also finished reading the Iron Man portions of Tales of Suspense in March. Typical Silver Age stuff, with a lot of silly science (apparently, transistors can do anything!). However, it certainly grew as a series over time, with the quality of the stories, some of which stretched multiple issues, improving month over month. I could have done without the "I love the girl but because of my being a hero, I can't be with her" storyline, but maybe it's because I have read a lot of SA Thor and Daredevil, which have the same exact riff in each of them as well. Quoted for truth. I did like the soap opera angle to the books but only if it went someplace. Hey man, Thor got his butt kicked by Hercules over Jane Foster.  |
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Post by The Captain on Apr 30, 2018 16:20:47 GMT -5
Won't be getting anything else on the books today, so let's call April a wrap. It was an odd month, as I had my highest total for the year thus far, at 118 books read, but it was my smallest total for Classics, at only 22. A big part of this was because my local library got a whole bunch of new TPBs in recently for modern stuff and I borrowed a lot of them; they're easy to read, like eating potato chips, so I can plow through a lot of stories in a short amount of time.
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Post by brutalis on Apr 30, 2018 16:26:55 GMT -5
Won't be getting anything else on the books today, so let's call April a wrap. It was an odd month, as I had my highest total for the year thus far, at 118 books read, but it was my smallest total for Classics, at only 22. A big part of this was because my local library got a whole bunch of new TPBs in recently for modern stuff and I borrowed a lot of them; they're easy to read, like eating potato chips, so I can plow through a lot of stories in a short amount of time. Agree completely about the new stuff. Seems like 5 minutes and done. Where classic material can take me 15-20 minutes. So easy to plow through the newer comics in record breaking times. And IMOP this means for new comics an even less chance of being remembered or considered as classics down the line. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2018 23:46:30 GMT -5
Wrapping up April. big month of reading for me, and I seem to have been on a fairly big DC kick this month. Highlights for me include...
Wonder Woman Year One OGN
Green Lantern Year One OGN
The DC Art of Darwyn Cooke tpb
Bitch Planet Vol. 1 & 2
Kirby's Eternals #1-3
Druillet's Lone Slaone Gail
Gaiman's Books of Magic 1-4
The Adventures of Cthulhu Jr. and Dastardly Dirk #1
Action Comics #1000
James Robinson's Shade #1-6
Eisner/Miller
the totals...
187 individual issues plus
1811 pages of OGN or collections of shorter materials/20 yielding the equivalent of 90 more individual issues
347 pages of prose about comics/15 yielding the equivalent of 23 more comics
totaling the equivalent of 300 individual issues (277 if you don;t include the prose).
like I said big month. Lots of rainy days where I couldn't work on house projects, so I read instead.
-M
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Post by brutalis on May 1, 2018 8:11:53 GMT -5
April was my 2nd largest month of comic reading with 161 issues. It being the in-between time at work as we have passed the initial surge of insurance/patient ratio changes and settled into a rhythm. Weather is for the most part spectacular so can sit home after work with the doors open allowing a cool breeze into the house relaxing with comics reading and movies on the television. Most of my reading is focused upon graphic novels and collected editions as currently I seem to only hit the LCS about every 3-4 months for a handful of monthly comics I remain faithful too. With this year I have been looking towards building up my collection of newspaper strip comics collecting and Disney strips. Ever so slowly it begins due to costs but with so few monthly purchases anymore it is becoming easier to spend that $30-50 dollars for a hardback or two each month.
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Post by rberman on May 1, 2018 17:23:32 GMT -5
Strikeforce Morituri 1-9Man, I never realized how good these books were until now. Brent Anderson and Peter Gillis really do good work showcasing characters that go through a process that gives them powers to combat invaders to earth at the cost of living only 1 year after getting them. It’s refreshing to see the heroes die after getting attached to them, something you never see with the big two. I plan on tackling this series for reviews in the next month or so. |
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Post by The Captain on May 4, 2018 14:55:05 GMT -5
Won't be getting anything else on the books today, so let's call April a wrap. It was an odd month, as I had my highest total for the year thus far, at 118 books read, but it was my smallest total for Classics, at only 22. A big part of this was because my local library got a whole bunch of new TPBs in recently for modern stuff and I borrowed a lot of them; they're easy to read, like eating potato chips, so I can plow through a lot of stories in a short amount of time. Agree completely about the new stuff. Seems like 5 minutes and done. Where classic material can take me 15-20 minutes. So easy to plow through the newer comics in record breaking times. It's true that the classics (especially in the Silver early-Bronze Age) can take a while to read, but how much of that is exposition? My primary frame of reference for that period is Marvel, and those books had tons of clunky dialogue explaining what happened the issue before, asides from Stan and the other writers about the action, and descriptions of the action instead of letting the art tell the story. This might be true, but it's unfair. I've read almost the entire series of Thor from the beginning (I've missed some of the JiM stories), and I would put the work that Jason Aaron has done over the past 6 years up with the great runs of all time. Also, can you tell me that no one is going to remember Fables (at least the first 75 issues) or Preacher or Planetary down the road, because those are transcendent works in the medium that rival the greatest runs on any title ever? |
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Post by brutalis on May 4, 2018 15:22:12 GMT -5
Agree completely about the new stuff. Seems like 5 minutes and done. Where classic material can take me 15-20 minutes. So easy to plow through the newer comics in record breaking times. It's true that the classics (especially in the Silver early-Bronze Age) can take a while to read, but how much of that is exposition? My primary frame of reference for that period is Marvel, and those books had tons of clunky dialogue explaining what happened the issue before, asides from Stan and the other writers about the action, and descriptions of the action instead of letting the art tell the story. This might be true, but it's unfair. I've read almost the entire series of Thor from the beginning (I've missed some of the JiM stories), and I would put the work that Jason Aaron has done over the past 6 years up with the great runs of all time. Also, can you tell me that no one is going to remember Fables (at least the first 75 issues) or Preacher or Planetary down the road, because those are transcendent works in the medium that rival the greatest runs on any title ever? Real treasures will jump out and stand the test of time and be remembered. What I meant to say is that much of the "classic" comics required more reading, so that the more you read and spent looking you will visualize the comic in your mind and memory so it is all the more likely it will remain with you longer.In much of the new stuff I have blown through them once only so they don't stick with me as if I had pored over them more deeply. I will give an example: I can remember much of the X-Men up into the late 80's and I have read a lot of the 90's and current runs of X-Men and can honestly say outside of a few big occurrences (like Wolverine becoming "old man Logan" or killed by smothering in Adamantium or Cyclops turned into a killer jerk, or Beast having multiple mutations or original X-Men teens coming from the past) that I don't really recall much of the actual stories or comics that I have read the last few years. |
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2018 23:07:28 GMT -5
May wrap up, not as prolific as the previous couple of month and mostly contemporary stuff, but overall
135 issues
280 pp of OGN for the equivalent of 14 issues
588 pp of prose for the equivalent of 39 more issues
for a total of 188 issues (149 if you don't count prose).
The highlights include the early issues of Rampaging Hulk, the first 2 issues of Aaron's Avengers, The Justice League: No Justice 4 issue weekly, Crossroads Blues, Space Riders, Port of Earth, Bendis' Man of Steel #1, and the first half of the Saucer Country series (I haven't quite finished it yet).
On to June...
-M
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 3, 2018 20:15:57 GMT -5
Reading for May was 52 comics mostly digital Avengers books. I had a blast revisiting the Silver Age assemblers and some of the books past 300. I had company in the house and went away for 9 days , so the reading went down bit.
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