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Post by antoine on Jan 8, 2023 17:34:02 GMT -5
I had randomly saved Kriss of Valinor to read on Hoopla a while back, having no idea it was related.. definitely going to start reading some Thorgal before I continue the side series  . I don't usually come anywhere need my library's 10 borrows a month, but that might change with the small chunks both Thorgal and Lucky Luke come in. Your library has a borrowing limit? Poor you! Here I can borrow as many as I want and from any of the 20+ branches of the libraries, and when you reserve online they bring the book to the branch the closest to you. We (me, wife + 3 daughters) always have around 40 books borrowed at home. You can ask them to buy any books and they will (if not too old). I recently had them buy a book about a band called Leftover Crack, and they did. They can also have a book from another library in Canada shipped to them if you want to read it. Did it once and they got the book from some public library in Manitoba. You can also borrow DVD, video games, musical instrument, museum passes, etc. Anyway, that was my love letter to the Ottawa Public Library System. I love you xoxo |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 8, 2023 19:55:59 GMT -5
Just Hoopla.... which is a digital thing. Not the regular library... that would be very sad indeed! I personally am mostly a one book at a time person... I worry I'll lose them, but my wife definitely takes things out in bunches. We definitely have the other stuff too, which we definitely use... big fan  |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 13, 2023 23:24:30 GMT -5
Read the first Cinebook Volume of Thorgal... wow! great stuff!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2023 23:41:30 GMT -5
Read the first Cinebook Volume of Thorgal... wow! great stuff! I am only through Vol. 4, I have Vol, 5 currently borrowed via hoopla but haven't gotten to it yet -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2023 18:15:41 GMT -5
January is wrapping up. Read upwards of 160 comics (or the equivalent of that with OGN pages) this month, or just under 10% of last years total.
Highlights included Jeff Smith's Tuki, Thorgal. Peter Tomasi's The Bridge, some Ditko Dr. Strange, Liam Sharp's Starhenge, Terry Moore's Parker Girls, Catwoman: Lonely City, some Kirby era Thor and FF, and James Tynion's Wynd.
Lowlights included Aardwolf and Savage Avengers.
-M
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 31, 2023 22:17:41 GMT -5
I picked up the current Savage Avengers story... feels like they've made it Exiles. It's fun having Jake Gallows and Doom 2099 around, but it's far from a classic.
125 comics for me.. pretty good amount of stuff. Alot of hoopla, I'll definitely continue with Thorgal, and maybe some more Lucky Luke too. I got through a couple trades while keeping up with my pull list, which is always good. I definitely enjoyed Black Max (though don't need to get any more) and Spider-Woman has been good, though not as connected to the later Wolverine appearances as I would have thought.
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Post by shaxper on Jan 31, 2023 23:04:50 GMT -5
Big month for me with 66 books read (hey, that's a lot for me!) and 12 reviews written. Highlights for me included reading Black Hole, The Great Darkness Saga, Lee/Kirby's Thor, revisiting Simonson's Thor, finishing my run of U.K. Disney comics, and stumbling upon some truly satisfying early Post-Crisis Nightwing and Batgirl stories that I had the pleasure of reviewing. A very very good month, indeed!
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 1, 2023 6:36:42 GMT -5
I ended up reading 94 comics for the month of January. I'm consciously keeping track of the number of books I read in digital form. This month it was 42 out of the 94. I still rather curl up with physical comics , I find I enjoy it better.
This month:
I read a run of the Satellite era JLA from 77-90. Despite the lackluster Dillan art, it was nice to revisit the socially relevant tales involving pollution and over population. Also, the famous kiss between Batman and Black Canary was in that run.
I read the James Robinson run of FF from 2014 , and I was surprised at how well put together the stories were. That series ended with the FF being cancelled for a while because of Movie rights shenanigans.
Finally, I read Spider-man 143-160 where Conway and Wein did the writing and Ross Andru handled the artwork. It was not bad. I really wanted to read the first clone saga that brought back a version of Gwen Stacy.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 1, 2023 8:32:24 GMT -5
Big month for me with 66 books read (hey, that's a lot for me!) and 12 reviews written. Highlights for me included reading Black Hole, The Great Darkness Saga, Lee/Kirby's Thor, revisiting Simonson's Thor, finishing my run of U.K. Disney comics, and stumbling upon some truly satisfying early Post-Crisis Nightwing and Batgirl stories that I had the pleasure of reviewing. A very very good month, indeed! The Chuck Dixon Nightwing stuff is pretty good.. I don't remember alot of details, but I definitely pulled it for quite a while an enjoyed it. |
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Post by commond on Feb 1, 2023 9:27:07 GMT -5
This month, I focused on reading comics that I like. I'm trying to clear my reading slate and start from scratch. I want to go back to binge reading a few titles per month instead of starting a billion new books and never finishing anything. To that end, aside from the 2014 Eisner nominations, I didn't start a single new book this month. That took some discipline!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 1, 2023 10:29:57 GMT -5
The equivalent of 17 books this month. So not much. Most of them related to review threads. Which I didn't honestly make much headway on either.
So...Yeah. I suck as a nerd.
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Post by shaxper on Feb 1, 2023 11:28:46 GMT -5
Big month for me with 66 books read (hey, that's a lot for me!) and 12 reviews written. Highlights for me included reading Black Hole, The Great Darkness Saga, Lee/Kirby's Thor, revisiting Simonson's Thor, finishing my run of U.K. Disney comics, and stumbling upon some truly satisfying early Post-Crisis Nightwing and Batgirl stories that I had the pleasure of reviewing. A very very good month, indeed! The Chuck Dixon Nightwing stuff is pretty good.. I don't remember alot of details, but I definitely pulled it for quite a while an enjoyed it. Oh, I'm a long way off from Dixon at this point. I'm looking at stories from '87 and '88. |
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Post by shaxper on Feb 1, 2023 11:29:33 GMT -5
This month, I focused on reading comics that I like. I'm trying to clear my reading slate and start from scratch. I want to go back to binge reading a few titles per month instead of starting a billion new books and never finishing anything. To that end, aside from the 2014 Eisner nominations, I didn't start a single new book this month. That took some discipline! Hope it pays off! I've similarly begun to remember that my most fun reading experiences have almost always been during massive run binges. |
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Post by shaxper on Feb 1, 2023 11:30:35 GMT -5
Most of them related to review threads. Which I didn't honestly make much headway on either. A single review is still a step in the right direction. I'm really excited to see you reviewing again and hope you'll keep it going this time, even if it's only four or five reviews per year. |
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Post by antoine on Feb 1, 2023 15:18:00 GMT -5
I read the equivalent of 122 comics in January, the best ones being
01/01/2023
Mooncop (Tom Gauld) Drawn & Quarterly
Factory Summers (Guy Delisle) Drawn & Quarterly
Blast (Manu Larcenet) #1-4 Dargaud
Calfboy #1 La Pastèque
The Alcoholic Vertigo
Incidents in the Night (David B.)Uncivilized Books
The Handmaid's Tale Nan A. Talese
But yeah, Blast was amazing, higly recommended.
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