Post by berkley on Nov 2, 2024 1:52:00 GMT -5
My comics reading in October didn't turn out at all how I'd thought it would in some respects:
I usually try to match the era of my comics, movies, music, tv, etc to the era of whatever book I'm reading at the time and as it happened some of the books I had lined up to read in October turned out to cover different times to what I'd expected. For example, I hadn't realised that William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land was published so early as 1912 - but by the time I noticed this I was already too involved to stop, so I tried to find something in comics, etc that at least approximated that era, which led me to Winsor McCay's Little Nemo.
And then I started what I'd meant to be my 80s book for the month, Ramsey Campbell's Cold Print, but I'd forgotten that it was an anthology of stories that started in the early 60s - which led me to start reading the first few issues of Warren's Creepy and then jump to some Marvel horror mags (Dracula Lives, Vampire Tales, Monsters Unleashed) when it got to the 70s.
I usually try to match the era of my comics, movies, music, tv, etc to the era of whatever book I'm reading at the time and as it happened some of the books I had lined up to read in October turned out to cover different times to what I'd expected. For example, I hadn't realised that William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land was published so early as 1912 - but by the time I noticed this I was already too involved to stop, so I tried to find something in comics, etc that at least approximated that era, which led me to Winsor McCay's Little Nemo.
And then I started what I'd meant to be my 80s book for the month, Ramsey Campbell's Cold Print, but I'd forgotten that it was an anthology of stories that started in the early 60s - which led me to start reading the first few issues of Warren's Creepy and then jump to some Marvel horror mags (Dracula Lives, Vampire Tales, Monsters Unleashed) when it got to the 70s.
All this was a lot of fun - a pleasant surprise, in a way, since I hadn't been planning to read any comics from those two eras (1900s-1910s and 60s-70s) until quite some time in the future - but it did prevent me from reading the 21st century comics I'd been hoping to get to in October, so that's my one disappointment. I did finish Marc-Antoine Mathieu's Dieu en personne (2009) but that was it.
