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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2021 17:40:54 GMT -5
I love, love, love Englehart's Detective Comics run. He's probably one of my favorite writers, just on the strength of that run alone. But when I really think about it, I haven't read much else by him (especially his Marvel work) and that's been one of my 2021 goals. His Doctor Strange is pretty great. I need to check out more of his work, myself. His Doctor Strange is on my to-read list.
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Post by Trevor on Feb 15, 2021 16:22:14 GMT -5
So for the last three years, or more, I’ve used my OCD about lists and New Year’s Resolutions to join this thread and finally get serious about catching up on my backlog. 45 years of annually buying more comics than I read has created a queue of epic proportions.
So each year I create a list of the 30+ items, which comprise areas where I want to make headway or at least enjoy books that’s I’ve accumulated. The items are either the favorite subsets of my collections (digests, treasuries, dollar giants), or subscription-based things I want to make sure I get value from (Hoopla, Comixology Umlimited), or books that I want to do read-thrus of (Nexus, Avengers, Swamp Thing), or just generic genres/publishers to help me read a broad range each month. The monthly goal is to complete the checklist and also read at least 100 books total.
Oh, and my main goal for 2021 is to read every Swamp Thing appearance ever, at least one issue a day. Might take more than a year, but figure there are probably around 500 total.
And each year I fail, sometimes as early as January. But this year is different. I was stuck at home with Covid most of January, so got off to a good start. And I’m still maintaining my pace half way thru February, so I feel confident enough to finally share this here.
January 2021 Comic Reading Checklist
Aliens - Aliens: Dead Orbit #1, DH anthology - Mome #1, CU, 130 pg, (6) Avengers - Avengers #3 Bone - Bone #1 Boom - Talent Deluxe Edition, CU (4) Comixology - The Fearsome Doctor Fang #1 Comixology Unlimited - The Zombies That Ate the World #1-2, 108 pg, (5) Conan - Conan the Barbarian #1, DH Creepy/Eerie - Creepy #1, DH, 52 pg, (2) Dark Horse digital - The Whispering Dark #1 DC - The New Gods (1971) #1 World’s Finest #243 digest - The Best of DC #1, 100 pg (5) dollar/giant - World’s Finest #244, 84 pg (4) FCBD - Atomic Robo FCBD 2009 Godzilla - Godzilla (2011) #1, C Groupees - A Very Zombie Christmas #1, iBooks Halloweenfest - Wrapped Up Halloween ComicFest (2017), C Hellboy - Hellboy #1, DH holiday - PEP Digital #36: Betty & Veronica New Year’s Resolutions, C, 108 pg, (5) Hoopla - Something is Killing the Children #6-9 (4) horror - Haunted, Vol 5 #20, Charlton, physical Hulk - The Incredible Hulk #1 Humble Bundle - Revival #1, Chunky Image - Rain Like Hammers #1, physical Justice League - The Brave and the Bold #28, C magazine - Haunt of Horror #1, I, 68 pg, (3) Marvel - Legion of Monsters: Werewolf by Night #1 (2007), C Micronauts - Micronauts #1 Nexus - Nexus #1, DH original graphic novel - X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills extended cut, 95 pg, (4) physical collection - Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? Deluxe Edition, 130 pg, (6) physical single issue - Crimson Flower 1 promotional - Bad Idea Crass Promotional Module Lycanthrope #1, 1994 signed Star Trek - Star Trek: Boldly Go #1, C Star Wars - Star Wars #1-3, DH (3) Story Bundle - Dark Shadows #1, Chunky Swamp Thing - HoS #92, ST #1-24, B&B #122, Challengers of the Unknown #83-87 (31) 3D - Bozo the Clown 3D #1 treasury - Marvel Special Edition 2, Star Wars (reprints 4-6), physical (3) Twomorrows - Back Issue #1, 100 pg, (5) Usagi - Usagi Yojimbo Color Classics #1 western - The 7 Deadly Sins #1, C
Total = 119
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 15, 2021 18:34:45 GMT -5
Welcome to the reading club, Trevor. Did you come down with covid?
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Post by Trevor on Feb 20, 2021 16:43:36 GMT -5
Welcome to the reading club, Trevor. Did you come down with covid? Yeah, I got it right about New Year’s Eve probably, not sure where. I’m fine now, but that first week I hit a point where my doctor made me go to the hospital and I briefly thought that this was it. Spent a day in the ER but avoided admission. A week on steroids and an inhaler, taking all the recommended supplements, and sleeping on my belly finally got me over the hump. Work wouldn’t let me come back for almost a month though, so lots of time to read. It’s a killer man. So many people still taking this lightly. And I’m still not back to normal, could have lifetime issues like so many others. But thankful and blessed to survive largely unscathed.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 20, 2021 17:57:33 GMT -5
Welcome to the reading club, Trevor . Did you come down with covid? Yeah, I got it right about New Year’s Eve probably, not sure where. I’m fine now, but that first week I hit a point where my doctor made me go to the hospital and I briefly thought that this was it. Spent a day in the ER but avoided admission. A week on steroids and an inhaler, taking all the recommended supplements, and sleeping on my belly finally got me over the hump. Work wouldn’t let me come back for almost a month though, so lots of time to read. It’s a killer man. So many people still taking this lightly. And I’m still not back to normal, could have lifetime issues like so many others. But thankful and blessed to survive largely unscathed. Wow. Glad to see you up and around.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2021 15:15:45 GMT -5
Working tonight, so won't get any more read for the month. So in February I read the equivalent of 96 issues (a couple of 100 page spectaculars beef up the total a bit).
So towards the yearly goals, I again read 72 issues I own (same total as January) yielding 144 out of 1000 towards the goal (so still on pace of 864 rather than 1000) for trades/OGN, I read 3, making 9 for the year (out of the goal of 50) so on pace for 54.
On the prose front, still not finished book of the Wheel of Time, making progress, but not finished. AS for other prose, only finished 1 prose novels (the first Destroyer novel) which gives me 3 towards my goal of 10 for the year).
Highlights of the month: JSA, Jonny Quest, Dr. Strange vs. Dracula (Doc 57-62) and some of the new releases I read (Department of Truth, Norse Mythology, Batman: Black and White
Biggest disappointments: Manhunter 2020 (Showcase 91-93), Blue Devil Annual 1, Defenders of the Earth
nothing really captured me this month, and a couple things I read felt a slog, which slowed me up some, but it is what it is.
-M
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Post by shaxper on Feb 28, 2021 23:47:36 GMT -5
February was just plain embarrassing for me. Seven comics read and one review written. I truly have lost any sense of "me time" while sheltering in place with three kids, and I'm going to have to figure out what to do about that.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2021 2:05:17 GMT -5
For February I managed 49 issues, which is up by 9 from January, better, but still not where I want to be.
Favorites for the month were probably Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham (an Elseworlds tale I'd never read before), the Connor Hawke Dragon's Blood mini-series, and rereading of some old favorites of Detective Comics #27 and Preacher #1.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 1, 2021 10:36:27 GMT -5
Well February was 128 issues which is almost certainly the most I've had in a given month in years. It was definitely spurred on by finishing up my re-read of Sandman Mystery Theatre and a re-read of Jon Sable. Both held up well, though Sable had a pronounced dip in quality as it went along. I also re-read all of Dave Stevens' Rocketeer work.
I don't expect to hit this high again as trials are set to restart this month after not having any for a year and they are stacked deep and often.
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Post by berkley on Mar 1, 2021 19:04:21 GMT -5
February started off well for me, catching up on the most recent Hernandez brothers' stuff and finishing the collected edition of Jaime's God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls. But that was it for the rest of the month, I think mainly because I got caught up in a very long novel and also a tv series that I had thought was done a few years ago but turned out to have come back for 3 more years that I hadn't known about. But I'm determined to do better and read more comics in March.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2021 22:53:13 GMT -5
March totals
read the equivalent of 83 issues for March, bringing YTD to over 300, so still on pace for my 1000 read for the year. Read more digital and trades this month than actual comics because of the Wanda read through and annotation.
Highlights for the month-the Jezebel Jade mini from Comico, James Robinson's Scarlet Witch run, Crimebusters #3, and the wrap up of the latest arc of Something is Killing the Children.
I enjoyed revisiting the Silver Age Marvel material for the Wanda read, but wouldn't call it a highlight of the month's reading. It was solid super-hero stuff, which is how I would rate the 3 JSA volumes I read as well.
Nothing disappointing this month, and no regrets except that I seem to be in a prose slump, and I've not made much headway on any of the prose books I tried to read this month.
-M
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 1, 2021 5:53:37 GMT -5
I finished the month with 92 which wasn't bad considering I am over committed to a few family things these days. Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed reading Fantastic Four from 141-150. These issues chronicle Reed and Susans breakup and almost divorce after Reed zaps Franklin and turns him into a vegetable in order to save the universe from blowing up. The run culminates in the Crystal/Quicksilver wedding in Issue # 150. The late Rich Buckler joins the FF during this run. I love Rich Bucklers art and it brings me back to my youth. The month had many really good books. I read Gunhawks # 5 , man if that run was affordable, I would totally get it. On the DC end, I read some Triangle era Superman stories for the first time after having these books for over 30 years. I read Krisis of the Krimson Kryptonite , Exile and Time and Time again and they were all pretty entertaining. I don't remember reading any clunkers, which is always a good thing.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 1, 2021 10:31:56 GMT -5
124 so just a shade off last month. About a third of that was a re-read of Sweet Tooth.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Apr 1, 2021 20:34:05 GMT -5
Got a lot read this month.. finished off the JLA Silver Age Omnibus, and got about 1/2 way through the Tomb of Dracula I got... not bad. I don't usually like Horror, and there's definitely a certain sameness to the stories, but fantastic art (especially in black and white). I also got some interesting recent stuff from a $1 sale from Westfield comics... definitely going to read Ringside at some point.
It was today (so April technically) but also read the original Young Avengers series.. I'd grabbed them for my daughter to read, and we had a really nice afternoon watching some baseball and reading the comics in between innings.
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Post by berkley on Apr 1, 2021 22:13:48 GMT -5
March was a good Classics Comics month in that I got back to reading some of the 1950s and 1980s things I've been doing the last few years, but a bad Modern Comics month in that I read only one new book, though that was a good one - a very smart and funny French album called Il faut pas prendre les cons pour des gens (roughly, "One mustn't mistake idiots for people").
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