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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2023 23:39:53 GMT -5
May is upon us, time to reflect on comics read in April. Read a little over 130 for the month, putting me over 600 for the year.
Highlights for April include Parker Girls, Mice Templar, Age of Reptiles and the OGN Jimi Hendrix: Electric Requiem. Also enjoyed dipping into the earliest comic super-heroes reading the first 12 Batman stories in Detective and Batman #1 and the first 12 Superman stories in Action Comics.
Interesting rather than good books were the two George Perez rarities I got-Oracle and She-Devils. Loved seeing early Perez developing his chops, but neither story was anything to write home about.
Kind of meh-I finished the Mike Murdoch era of Daredevil. Sigh. Great Colan art, but the stories man, just no.
-M
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Post by commond on May 1, 2023 7:02:08 GMT -5
I can't read as many comics as before because of work. My tally this month was inflated by binge reading the first few volumes of Slam Dunk. I am slowly chipping away at my reading list, however. I'm entering the home stretch of Strangers in Paradise, which is probably my favorite book at the moment. Nexus has stabilized a bit now that Hugh Haynes is the regular penciler. I'm one issue away from finishing Roy Thomas' first run on Savage Sword of Conan, which I've been reading for over a year now.
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Post by antoine on May 2, 2023 14:42:47 GMT -5
81 comics in april. Thought it would be a small month since I'm reading the massive 800 pages book on Drawn and Quarterly, but 80 books is standard for me.
Highlights :
L'Arabe du Future 6 Une Jeunesse au Moyen Orient (1994-2011) (Last issue of the series, it's available in English (The Arab of the future), people should check out this excellent series about a young Syrian man with a french mother growing up between the 2 cultures.)
Jardin des Complexes (Jimmy Beaulieu) Jardin des Complexes
Mélange Festif (Iris & Cathon) Strips d'amitié 2019-2022
The worst book was Spider-Punk. I rarely read modern super-heroes comics anymore and this mini-series reminded me why. Nothing really happened, the are was often confusing, no story really. Terrible. Although they DID have a little nod to one of my favourite "punk" singer, Jeff Rosenstock.
Leaving for Turkey for 10-12 days, so May will be a small reading month for sure!
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Post by berkley on May 2, 2023 16:19:37 GMT -5
81 comics in april. Thought it would be a small month since I'm reading the massive 800 pages book on Drawn and Quarterly, but 80 books is standard for me. Highlights : L'Arabe du Future 6 Une Jeunesse au Moyen Orient (1994-2011) (Last issue of the series, it's available in English (The Arab of the future), people should check out this excellent series about a young Syrian man with a french mother growing up between the 2 cultures.) Jardin des Complexes (Jimmy Beaulieu) Jardin des Complexes Mélange Festif (Iris & Cathon) Strips d'amitié 2019-2022 The worst book was Spider-Punk. I rarely read modern super-heroes comics anymore and this mini-series reminded me why. Nothing really happened, the are was often confusing, no story really. Terrible. Although they DID have a little nod to one of my favourite "punk" singer, Jeff Rosenstock. Leaving for Turkey for 10-12 days, so May will be a small reading month for sure!
Iris & Cathon and Jimmy Beaulieu are all new to me - and all three are Quebec BD creators, I see, after looking them up. That's an area I know little about in terms of comics. I like the look of Beaulieu's artwork so I'll probably look for something of his soon. I have to do a little more looking around for Iris and Cathon, but their work looks interesting too, separately or together.
My April was a bit disappointing in terms of the amount of post-2000 things I managed to read: only one issue of Love and Rockets, the first book of Pierre Christin and Annie Goetzinger's 1950s detective series Agence Hardy, and around half of Goetzinger's own Jeune Fille en Dior. Ill try to do better this month and start one of the bigger newish books I have, Kate Beaton's Ducks, or BWS's Monster.
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 2, 2023 21:21:31 GMT -5
Looks like 119 books for me... pretty good count for me. Definitely enjoyed Shadowpact... looking forward to 'reign in Hell'. Moving along nicely with my Spidey 2099 re-read, and enjoyed some classic X-Men. right now I'm just going through some books I hadn't owned before.. I might do a big read of that at some point in the future... they're doing a 2nd printing of the Epic collections with the Legion stories in it (Proteus), so I'll have those epics for the expensive part of the run.
I also read some old quarter bin odds and ends that lead me to some purchases for reading in May.
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Post by antoine on May 15, 2023 7:53:36 GMT -5
81 comics in april. Thought it would be a small month since I'm reading the massive 800 pages book on Drawn and Quarterly, but 80 books is standard for me. Highlights : L'Arabe du Future 6 Une Jeunesse au Moyen Orient (1994-2011) (Last issue of the series, it's available in English (The Arab of the future), people should check out this excellent series about a young Syrian man with a french mother growing up between the 2 cultures.) Jardin des Complexes (Jimmy Beaulieu) Jardin des Complexes Mélange Festif (Iris & Cathon) Strips d'amitié 2019-2022 The worst book was Spider-Punk. I rarely read modern super-heroes comics anymore and this mini-series reminded me why. Nothing really happened, the are was often confusing, no story really. Terrible. Although they DID have a little nod to one of my favourite "punk" singer, Jeff Rosenstock. Leaving for Turkey for 10-12 days, so May will be a small reading month for sure!
Iris & Cathon and Jimmy Beaulieu are all new to me - and all three are Quebec BD creators, I see, after looking them up. That's an area I know little about in terms of comics. I like the look of Beaulieu's artwork so I'll probably look for something of his soon. I have to do a little more looking around for Iris and Cathon, but their work looks interesting too, separately or together.
My April was a bit disappointing in terms of the amount of post-2000 things I managed to read: only one issue of Love and Rockets, the first book of Pierre Christin and Annie Goetzinger's 1950s detective series Agence Hardy, and around half of Goetzinger's own Jeune Fille en Dior. Ill try to do better this month and start one of the bigger newish books I have, Kate Beaton's Ducks, or BWS's Monster.
I'm originally from Québec so I try to read most of the stuff coming from there. You can check out Pow Pow, Mécanique Générale and La Pastèque, they are the main publisher. Not sure about english version thought, but I know Pow Pow have some. powpowpress.com/shop/product-category/comics/They are more like D&Q and Top Shelf than Marvel and DC. Some Québec artist were just translated by Top Shelf recently : Cab (Utown) and Axelle Lenoir (Secret Passages and Camp Spirit) |
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2023 23:34:58 GMT -5
Time to wrap up May!
Read 125ish comics for the month, bringing me to over 700 for the year so far. Pretty much on pace for my goal, give or take a few.
Highlights for May include:
-TMNT/Usagi Wherewhen
-Batman & Scooby Doo Mysteries
-SHK's Crimebuster
-Conan FCBD from Titan
-Parker Girls & early SiP from Terry Moore
-early Hellboy
-and the surprise of the month, the Count Dante comic from Scout Comics.
The lowlights for May:
-Avengers: War Against Time-pretty much disappointing on every level, just glad it's done
-The Dawn of DC Knight Terrors FCBD issue-again not much to recommend here except skip this event
-Conan: The Battle of the Serpent Crown-pretty much the nadir of Conan's second stint at Marvel-there was stuff I enjoyed from that second Conan license, but this one wasn't it. I read most of the second Marvel Conan stint this month (Conan 1-25, Savage Sword 1-12, King Conan 1-6, Exodus, King Size Conan, Conan: Serpent War and Conan: Battle of the Serpent Crown, but not Savage Avengers or the Belit, Valeria or Dark Agnes minis), and I liked most of it well enough, not anything all that memorable-the best was the Zub/Zircher arc on SSoC), but this mini was just outright terrible
-Crimebuster the Lev Gleeson FCBD-just had no charm or appeal for me
Let's see what June brings...
-M
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Post by shaxper on Jun 1, 2023 8:35:10 GMT -5
It's been a rough year, but I stopped licking my wounds recently and got back to living. Thus, my reading and reviewing numbers shot way up! I busted out 13 reviews this month (most in the past two weeks!), averaged one comic a day, and finished my Batman Family review thread after 4.5 years! Highlights of the month included finishing Brian K. Vaughan's Paper Girls, reading a whole bunch of non-superhero stuff from the 1950s that I'd never experienced before (Holy crud did Dell's Lone Ranger have great art for the era!), and I think the biggest highlight was continuing my second attempt to "get" Walt Simonson's run on Thor and finally arriving at the point (#337) where I do finally see why it's amazing beyond that first issue. I previously stopped one issue earlier with the last of the vikings. Up to that point, I felt that the issues after Beta Ray Bill was introduced were adequate but not really memorable. Boy did that change with the start of the Surtur Saga! |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 1, 2023 8:42:37 GMT -5
-Crimebuster the Lev Gleeson FCBD-just had no charm or appeal for me I suspect the creator of a certain other comic may have set the bar too high for that one. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 1, 2023 8:58:44 GMT -5
30 funny books (or the equivalent) this month. So less than last. But quality-wise it was pretty high as I did re-reads of V For Vendetta and Maus.
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Post by shaxper on Jun 1, 2023 9:05:44 GMT -5
I did re-reads of V For Vendetta and Maus. I sense a theme here.  |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 1, 2023 10:57:19 GMT -5
kinda a slow May for me.. other than my pull list, I did finish the Wolverine Epic vol. 2 (which I liked for the most part, but not as much as the first one). I definitely enjoyed finishing up my Challengers Showcase too... I might get the 2nd one some time (when I'm more caught up on my back log).
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2023 17:30:11 GMT -5
I ended with 95 for the month. I really thought it was going to be a slow month, but I was pretty much in line with March and April. Up to 593 for the year.
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Post by antoine on Jun 5, 2023 8:37:12 GMT -5
Slow month for me as I spent 12 days in Turkey, read the book on Dungeons and Dragons art and continue reading the massive D&Q books. The equivalent of 38 comics
The best one was Géants aux Pieds d'Argile. It talks about the struggle of a stay at home father. I was a SAH dad for a few years with three young daughters and this book really resonated with me.
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Post by commond on Jun 6, 2023 17:51:06 GMT -5
Slow reading month for me. My total was greatly inflated by binge reading Strangers in Paradise, Brubaker and Lark's Daredevil, and the Japanese basketball manga, Slam Dunk.
Strangers in Paradise has been my favorite comic for the past month or so. A lot of ups and downs, but when Moore hits the right notes, few comic book creators compare. Francine and Katchoo are unforgettable characters. SiP was a book I always saw on the shelves in the 90s, and I was collecting books that (in my mind) I associated with it, such as Bone, Stray Bullets, and A Distant Soil, but I never bit the bullet on SiP. Glad, I knocked it off, and happy to move onto Moore's other work.
Brubaker's run on Daredevil follows immediately after Bendis' run. It's nowhere near as creative or daring as Bendis' run, and not Brubaker's best work, but it's solid and an easy read. Lark is extremely good at choreographing fight scenes. The action sequences look fantastic. He's a guy who deserves more praise around here.
I started binge reading Slam Dunk because of the Sports comics thread. The fact that it's the NBA playoffs helped sustain my interest. Really great read, though I do think you have to be a basketball fan to truly enjoy it, which makes me wonder why it's so hugely popular in Japan where basketball is far from the number one sport. I can only assume it has something to do with high school nostalgia.
I finished Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye, which ended well, and I finally made it through my re-read of Roy Thomas' first run on Savage Sword of Conan. It ended with a whimper, as it was far from Roy's best issue, but after 60 odd weekends I knocked that bad boy off. Personally, I don't see the point of King Conan, and find the book borderline annoying, but the king years have always been my least favorite period of Conan's career.
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