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Post by brutalis on Jun 4, 2018 9:01:48 GMT -5
Closed out May with 149 issues read. Might have gotten in a bit more but work went wonky with the Hospital awaiting Joint Commission annual review all month long and they finally arrived during the final week. That combined with last weekend spent at the Phoenix Comic Fest for 3 days made a few less days of reading time overall. I am wondering how summer shall progress for me. As it gets warm and hotter each day here in the Valley of the Sun the daily activities decline as I close myself off under the A/C. Will this be the advent for more reading or the old brain shutting down? Normally I turn to putting on DVD's of older television series for marathon running and will doze on/off throughout the heat of the day during the weekends rather than focusing upon reading too much. This year who knows what will occur?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 3:16:18 GMT -5
Time for the June tally...not as big of a month as some previous ones.
I read...
78 issues
1360 pages of OGN/collections/art books dividing by 20 yields another 68 issues worth of material
for a total of 146 issues (or equivalent) for the month.
June highlights include: Touching Evil Vol 1 by Dan Dougherty, Barrier 1-5 by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin, Piracy #1 from EC Comics, Cosa Nostra #1 by Dirk Manning and Dan Dougherty, the debut of the new Hawkman series by Robert Vendetti and Bryan Hitch, Infinite Kung Fu by Kagan MacLeod, Head Games by MacDonald & Singles, and The Art of Jim Starlin: A Life in Words & Pictures.
On to July...
-M
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2018 12:32:32 GMT -5
July was not as productive a reading month as previous months for me. I only got about 63 issues worth of reading done.
Highlights include Silver Age Flash, Hawks of the Sea, Hawkman and Invisible Republic, though there was nothing I read that I disliked.
-M
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Post by berkley on Aug 9, 2018 0:29:41 GMT -5
Reading a lot of the Kitchen Sink Spirit reprints has given me a better appreciation of the series: I always liked Eisner's artwork but until now had never developed much feeling for the stories themselves. But I do find myself now feeling some of the charm they hold for a lot of fans.
I think they really work in colour better than in black and white, which the KS reprints switched to after the first 10 or 12 issues. And I also feel they need to be printed in a slightly bigger format - sometimes it seems like there is text or details in the images that are not easy to discern, at least to my fifty-something year old eyes. Too bad the Spirit Archives reprints are all so expensive.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2018 23:40:03 GMT -5
Didn't get much read in August, only 23 issues and 2 novels, but enjoyed everything I read. Highlights included revisiting the start of Neil Gaiman's Sandman and the first two volumes of the Dragonlance saga, and finally getting to read Frank Miller's Ronin in its entirety, plus a new Bone story by Jeff Smith.
-M
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 4, 2018 4:43:28 GMT -5
I read a total of 30 comics. That's my all time low since we've been keeping count in this forum.
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Post by brutalis on Sept 4, 2018 16:03:50 GMT -5
I read a total of 30 comics. That's my all time low since we've been keeping count in this forum. Reading should never be about the quantity. It should be about the quality. Enjoy what you read and read what you enjoy as time allows. There are days and weeks when I won't pick up a comic or a book. Same goes for television and movies. All depends upon having time to really enjoy them or to being in the mood as well. A reading club shouldn't be about the statistical end but more a listing to inspire yourself and others for something that catches your interest within a list or inspiring a bit of change to our reading. This year I chose to start reading more historical fiction which I haven't pursued in many years. Dug deep into Amazon used listings and piled up a small box of biographies and history that I now pull from about every 3rd book I pick up to read. I adore my pulps and mysteries and sword/sorcery and science fiction as well but it's good to change up the reading cycle. I am finding much more pleasure and interest in each book I am reading and taking time to think and savor whatever book I have finished. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 4, 2018 20:03:00 GMT -5
In years past I read comics and recorded them here like it was a contest, and it became a burden. Since last year I made a change and allowed the reading to be more organic. The 30 I read last month had a lot to do with a new grandson in the house and working mega hours in the heat.
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Post by berkley on Oct 1, 2018 3:58:43 GMT -5
I finally caught up (almost) to the current issue of Heavy Metal, having accumulated most of Grant Morrison's stint as editor but not having read any of them until earlier this year. Looking forward to getting into some other modern comics now, since that was taking up a lot of my comics-reading time.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 2, 2018 6:22:59 GMT -5
Since July , I've been working 6 days a week more often than not. The last 2 weeks I've worked 11 and 12 hour days and I expect that my comic reading will fall off this month of December.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2018 14:58:47 GMT -5
Got my list updated and on track after not updating it since July.
I have read way less comics than I have in years past, and even fewer classic comics.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 31, 2018 10:12:35 GMT -5
Well this was my least productive year yet, largely due to a series of crises (and I don't use that term lightly) that rocked my personal life again this year, on top of all that occurred last year. Hopefully, 2019 will be quieter. Still, lots to celebrate this year. So here are my final numbers: Golden Age: Atom Age: 12 Silver Age: 15 Bronze Age: 96 Copper Age: 74 Modern Age: 106 Pretty decent spread. Most of the modern age books are from the late 1990s and not off the racks, FWIW. I consider the Modern Era to have begun around 1994, at the first signs of the '90s comic book speculator bubble beginning to burst. superhero: 99 humor: 93 action/adventure: 61 science fiction: 28 horror/occult: 14 fantasy/mythology: 7 biography/everyday life: drama/romance/soap opera: war: other: 1 Until December, I had read more humor books than superhero books, which has never happened before. I REALLY fell for Disney and Archie books in a major way this year. Gladstone: 74 DC: 68 Disney: 43 Marvel: 37 IDW: 18 Archie: 16 Boom!: 16 Gemstone: 12 Tower: 8 Fawcett: 5 Valiant: 5 Capital: 4 Cong, S.A.: 2 Dark Horse: 2 Dell: 1 Gemstone: 1 TwoMorrows: 1 Very little representation for Marvel this year until I started reading Bronze Age Avengers and Daredevil in December. Also, the best statistic of all: I am turning 40 in February, and (as of this year) I have read over 4,000 comics while in my 30s. Is that a major achievement or proof of a wasted life? You decide  |
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Post by brutalis on Jan 2, 2019 8:29:53 GMT -5
By bye 2018 and thank you to my comics and book collections for providing me endless entertainment and pleasure while taking my mind off the woes and wearies found in life and work. The simple joy of losing one's self for minutes or hours in easing the mind's troubles is invaluable and necessary for recharging and stimulating the tired old brain cells. Long life to reading and a long life of reading I says!!!
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 3, 2019 15:40:40 GMT -5
I fell just short of 1000 this year ( 996). A lot of work and a new Grandbaby contributed to my lowest reading total since I've followed it in the CCF.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2019 0:19:23 GMT -5
I had a very uneven year. From January to June I read the equivalent of 1234 comics (with prose included), but from July through mid-December (I stopped recording about the time I started reading stuff for the 12 Days of X-Mas theme) I had read only the equivalent of 477 comics. Still a good total (over 1700) for the year, but I read much less in the second half than the first.
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