1000 comics in 2015 book club

[slym2none]

So how were the first issues of Fairest?

 

As always with Willingham written (or even, as in this case, co-written) stuff - pretty dang good. He has a very good handle on these characters, and it shows.

 

Gorgeous art on the later arc with Rapunzel and the fox-demon lady, too.

 

4.5 out of 5 stars!

 

 

 

-slym

[sharkbait]

We Can Never Go Home #1

 

Cool new book. I'll add it to my read pile.

[Hekla]

Three - 1

Chew 46, 47

Descender 1

Princess Leia (2015) - 1

Saga 25, 26

Southern Bastards 7

Birthright 1-3

5 ghosts - 1-5

iZombie 7, 8, 9

Silver Surfer (1968) 5

Star Wars (2015) 3

Surface 1

Pretty Deadly 1-6

Iron man: director of shield - 1

Daredevil (2013) 1

Secret Avengers 1-5

Invincible 118

Wicked & Divine - 1-3

The Empty - 2

 

For March - 39

 

Total for 2015 - 201

 

March Madness has impacted my comic reading for the month

 

[Ares]

I have probably downloaded over 1000 books

[slym2none]

I have probably downloaded over 1000 books

 

As I told rfoii, that doesn't count as reading them.

 

::

 

 

 

-slym

[BarryAllen]

I have probably downloaded over 1000 books

 

As I told rfoii, that doesn't count as reading them.

 

::

 

 

 

-slym

 

[slym2none]

 

 

 

-slym

[BarryAllen]

Just downloaded another 56 today. Gotta love Comixology sales!

 

Catching up on Fairest has been great, the story and art are my favorite of the year so far (close second is the Wicked and the Divine).

 

However, I am wondering when Fables 150 will finally come out... Anyone know? Is it really June?

[Scrooge]

 

Les Tuniques Bleues

T. 48 - Arabesque - count: 2

T. 49 - Mariage a Fort Bow - count: 2

T. 50 - La Traque - count 2

T. 51 - Stark sous toutes les coutures - count: 2

T. 52 - Des bleus dans le brouillard - count: 2

T. 53 - Sang bleu chez les bleus - count: 2

T. 54 - Miss Walker - count 2

T. 55 - Indien, mon frere - count: 2

T. 56 - Dent pour dent - count: 2

T. 57 - Colorado story - count: 2

 

Buddy Longway - count: 10 - Here's the western series for this batch. The stories are minimalist in this series. The author is more interested in the bucolic and naturalistic message in the struggles of this mixed (caucasian and native american) family circa 1840's (?) in the American West. Wonderfully nature illustration therein. The author, Derib, is better known for his longer running series about Yakiri, a native american youth and Little Thunder his horse, another series centered on animal life.

T. 7 - L'hiver des chevaux - count: 2

T. 8 - L'eau de feu - count: 2

T. 9 - Premieres chasses - count: 2

T. 10 - Le demon blanc - count: 2

T. 11 - La vengeance - count: 2

 

Cellule Poison

T. 4 - Dans les serres de l'aigle - count: 4

T. 5 - Comptines - count: 4

 

Chinaman

T. 6 - Freres de sang - count: 2

T. 7 - Affrontements a Blue Hill - count: 2

T. 8 - Les pendus - count: 2

T. 9 - Tucano - count: 2

 

Djinn: Count: 10 - Hard to pin down, I would classify this series as erotic mysticism. This second cycle in Africa was probably not as captivating as the first cycle but still a sight to behold.

T. 5 - Africa

T. 6 - La perle noire

T. 7 - Pipiktu

T. 8 - Fievres

T. 9 - Le roi gorille

 

Lou Cale

T. 1 - La poupee brisee - count: 2

T. 2 - Le cadavre scalpe - count: 2

 

Le maitre de Benson Gate

T. 3 - Le sang noir - count: 3

T. 4 - Quintana Roo - count: 3

 

La Liste 66

T. 3 - Kansas - count: 2

T. 4 - Oklahoma / Texas - count: 2

T. 5 - ... Californie - count: 2

 

Les aigles de Rome - Illustrated and written by Enrico Marini (who also draws The Scorpion; he alternates an album of Les aigles with one of The Scorpion; each album is a fully painted 60 pages book)

V.1 to V. 4 - count: 8

 

Les demons d'Alexia

T. 4 - Le syndrome de Salem - count: 2

 

Orbital

T.4 - Ravages - count: 2

T. 5 - Justice - count: 2

 

Sherman

T. 5 - Les ruines, Berlin - count: 2

T. 6 - Le pardon, Jeannie - count: 2

 

Thorgal

T. 8 - Alinoe - count: 2

T. 9 - Les archers - count: 2

T. 10 - Le Pays Qa - count: 2

T. 11 - Les yeux de Tanatloc - count: 2

T. 12 - La cite du dieu perdu - count: 2

T 13 - Entre terre et lumiere - count: 2

T. 14 - Aaricia - count: 2

T. 15 - Le maitre des montagnes - count: 2

T. 16 - Louve - count: 2

T. 17 - La gardienne des cles - count: 2

T. 18 - L'epee soleil - count: 2

T. 19 - La fortresse invisible - count: 2

T. 20 - La marque des bannes - count: 2

T. 21 - La couronne d'Ogotai - count: 2

T. 22 - Geants - count: 2

T. 23 - La cage - count: 2

T. 24 - Arachnea - count: 2

 

Wayne Shelton - # 4 & 5 were probably the best, being essentially an origin story of sorts.

T. 4 - Le survivant - count: 2

T. 5 - La vengeance - count: 2

T. 6 - L'otage - count: 2

T. 7 - La lance de Longinus - count: 2

T. 8 - La nuit des aigles - count: 2

T. 9 - Son altesse Honesty - count: 2

T. 10 - La rancon - count: 2

T. 11 - Cent millions de pesos - count: 2

 

 

Le vol du corbeau T. 2 - count: 2

 

Les chroniques de la lune noire

T. 5 - La danse ecarlate - count: 2

 

Blacksad

T. 5 - Amarillo - count: 2

 

Picsou: count: 4

Le dernier du Clan Mc Picsou

Le roi du Mississippi

Buck Picsou des Badlands

L'aventurier de la Colline de Cuivre

 

All-new X-Men: 19 - 30 - count: 12

Amazing X-Men: 1 - 10 - count: 10

American Vampire - Second Cycle # 6

Astro City: 17 - 19

Autumnlands - Tooth & Claw: 1 - 3

Avenger A.I. - # 6 - 12 - count: 7

Avengers Annual # 1

Avengers Assemble: 21 - 25 - count: 5

Batman: 35 - 38

Batgirl: 35

Bodies: 4 - 7

Cable and X-Force - # 16 - 19 - count: 4

Conan the Avenger: 7 - 10

Daredevil:

Vol. 3 - # 33 - 36

Vol. 4 - # 1 - 7

Ex-Con: 2 - 5

Fables: 145 - 148

The Fade Out: 3 - 4

Fairest: 32 - 33

Fantastic Four - # 14 - 16

Fearless Defenders # 12

Guardians of the Galaxy # 9 - 17

Hinterkind: 13 - 15

Infinity: Heist: 3 - 4

Infinity: The Hunt: 4

Justice Inc. 3 - 6

Lazarus: 12 - 14

Little Nemo returns to Slumberland: 2 - 3

The Massive: 28 - 30

Nova: 10 - 20 - count: 11

Rachel Rising: 29 - 30

Saga: 24 - 25

Secret Avengers - # 11 - 16 - count: 6

Southern Bastards: 7

Spider-Man # 700.1 - 700.5 - count: 5

Star Wars: 1 - 2

Starlight: 6

Stumptown - The case of the king of clubs: 2 - 5

Superior Spider-Man: 22 - 32 - count: 13

Superior Spider-Man Annual # 1 - count: 1

Superior Spider-Man Team-Up # 6 - 12 - count: 7

Uncanny Avengers: 14 - 22 - count: 9

Uncanny X-Force: 14 - 17 - count: 4

The Unwritten - Apocalypse: 10 - 12

Thunderbolts: 18 - 29 - count: 12

Uncanny X-Men: 14 - 24 - count: 11

Veil: 5

What if: # 1

Wild's End: 2 - 5

Winterworld: 3 - 7

Wolverine & the X-Men: 38 - 42 and Annual # 1 - count: 6

Wytches: 1 - 4

X-Men: 7 - 18 - count: 12

 

 

Rat Queens - T.1 - Sass & Sorcery - # 1 - 5 - count: 5

 

Captain Midnight - T.1 - On the run - # 0 - 3 - count: 4

 

Coffin Hill - T. 1 - Forest of the night - # 1 - 7 - count: 7

 

Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom - # 1 - 6 - count: 6

Locke & Key: Clockworks - count: 6

Locke & Key: Alpha & Omega - count: 7

 

Chew:

T. 4 - Flambé: 16 to 20 - count: 5

T. 5 - Major League Chew: 21 - 25 - count: 5

T. 6 - Space Cakes: 26 - 30 - count: 5

T. 7 - Bad Apples: 31 - 35 - count: 5

T. 8 - Family Recipes: 36 - 40 - count: 5

 

Prophet

Remission: 21 - 26 - count: 6

Brothers: 27 - 31 and 33 - count: 6

 

The Manhattan Projects:

T. 2 - # 6 - 10 - count: 5

T. 3 - # 11 - 15 - count: 5

T. 4 - # 16 - 20 - ct: 5

 

Revival:

T.1 - You're among friends - # 1 - 5 - count: 5

T.2 - Live like you mean it - # 6 - 11 - count: 6

T.3 - A faraway place - # 12 - 17 - count: 6

 

The Sixth Gun:

T1 - Cold dead fingers: 1 - 6

T2 - Crossroads: 7 - 11

T3 - Bound: 12 - 17

 

Before Watchmen:

Minutemen: 1 - 6

Silk Spectre: 1 - 4

 

Doug Wildey's Rio - The Complete Saga - count: 12

 

Andre the Giant - Life & Legend - count: 10

 

The Harlem Hellfighters - count: 10

 

Louis L'Amour - Law of the Desert Born - count: 6

 

Feynman - count: 11 - entertaining

 

Punk Rock Jesus - count: 9

 

Xenozoic Tales - count: 15

 

Marzi - Count: 10 - Childhood memories of the title character in '80's Poland before the fall of the iron curtain. Very well put together but soooo text heavy. Took me forever to complete these 230 pages since it's autobiographical and the image in many ways only support the text and don't carry the story themselves.

 

Avengers: 4, 5

Tomb of Dracula: 6, 7

 

Polly and her Pals, vol. 1 - 1913 - 1927 - count: 7

 

 

Update:

 

Marvel U. reading:

Thor: God of Thunder - # 16 - 25 - ct: 10 - A+++ Very sad to see this one end. Hoping I'll enjoy Thor the series that replaced this.

Avengers - # 24 - 35 & 34.1 - ct: 14 - Very good Hickman

New Avengers - # 13 - 23 - ct: 11 - Even better Hickman

All-new X-Factor - # 1 - 14 - ct: 14 - Average PAD; has a feeling of déjà-vu to it.

Avengers World # 1 - 13 - ct: 13 - Average Hickman

Black Widow # 1 - 10 - ct: 10 - If Notto wasn't drawing it, I am not sure I would like it as much.

Savage Wolverine # 14 - 22 - ct: 9 - Probably the best Wolverine series out there since it's done in anthology style with stories set in Wolverine's past in the pre-WW II era. Of course, this got cancelled.

All-new Invaders # 1 - 10 - ct: 10 - Robinson does his best to write an interest storyline for these

characters but it's always difficult to carry their history into relevance. It's mildly successful, still a B- series

Amazing X-Men # 11 - Let's move on already

Uncanny X-Men: 26 - Most powerful mutant, blah blah blah

Uncanny Avengers: 24 (the worst of the Avengers series)

Superior Spider-Man # 33 - Weirdly entertaining

Nova # 21 - Still so much fun.

 

Saga # 26 - drugs

Wild's End # 6 - Ending on a so-so note

Rachel Rising # 31 - feels like the series is stalled

Conan # 11 - still no sign of improvement

 

Prophet:

T.3. - Empire - # 32, 34-38 - ct: 6 - I don't typically like sci-fi but I am still strangely mesmerized by the creativity of the worlds in this book. The storyline is secondary to my enjoyment of this series.

 

The Wicked + the Divine:

T.1. - The Faust Act - # 1 - 5 - ct: 5 - Pure tripe. I am not the target audience and I won't return to this series.

 

Onward towards our noble deaths by Shigeru Mizuki - ct: 15 - Non-fiction account of life and death as a Japanese WW II soldier on a pacific island and the repercussion of surviving a suicide attack. Let's just say, these guys were sent back to die on another hopeless attack while the officers were asked to commit suicide.

 

Vietnamerica - A family's journey by GB Tran - ct: 12 - Interesting bio comic about Tran tracing his family history around his parents' departure from Vietnam in 197? (can't recall). A lot of characters and family relationship to recall so this one is better in one sitting. I'd recommend this book to anyone.

 

Nico: Illustrated by Berthet (see Pin-Up), this is a fun spy-thriller that doesn't take itself seriously in an alternate timeline in which the US and the USSR use the technology of the Roswell alien ships to make technological advancements possible in the 1950's.

T.1 - Atomium-Express - ct: 2

T.2 - Operation Caraïbes - ct: 2

 

Total: 683 + 142 = 825

[james1miller]

Prophet is great! I love how one of the Prophets recovers from his arm injury.

Each Prophet issue takes me a while to read not because its wordy but because I love to soak up all the details in the art.

[Scrooge]

Here are the covers for Nico -

 

[Hammerhead]

Avengers #59-60, #127, #167-168, #170-177, #181-187 and Annual #16

Contest Of Champions #1-3

Dardevil: The Man Without Fear #1-5

Fantastic Four #150, Annual #3

Incredible Hulk #319

Thor Annual #6

West Coast Avengers Annual #2

X-Men #30 (90's series)

Amazing Spider-Man #4-15 (current series)

The Walking Dead #134-135

Wolverine #20-32 (2004 Millar/Romita Jr.)

The Walking Dead #136-138--- it's getting good.....

Marvel Fanfare #18

Captain America #302-317

Kick-*spoon* #1-8

Miles Morales Ultimate Spider-Man #5-11

Hit-Girl #1-5

Kick-*spoon* 2 #1-7

Iron Man #258-277

Silk #1

Outcast #1-6

Spider-Woman #1 (current)

Kick-*spoon* 3 #1-8

Fantastic Four #52-53 (Lee/Kirby)

Black Panther #1-6 (Hudlin/Romita Jr.)

The Amazing Spider-Man Learning to crawl #1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4.

Preacher #1-12

Daredevil #5-7 (current series)

 

 

UPDATE:

Red One #1

Outcast #7

The Walking Dead #139

Marvel Knights Inhumans #1-12

 

 

TOTAL : 200

 

 

[azureXchocobo]

March:

 

[Funeral For A Friend]

Justice League America #70

Adventures of Superman #498

Action Comics #685

Superman: The Man of Steel #20

Superman *{v.2} #76

Adventures of Superman #499

Action Comics #686

Superman: The Man of Steel #21

Superman * #77

Legacy of Superman #1

Supergirl and Team Luthor #1 (236)

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What If {v.1} #1

Postal #2

Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return #1

Darth Vader #1-2

Princess Leia #1

S.H.I.E.L.D {v.3} #1-3 (245)

Altered States: Vampirella

Altered States: Red Sonja

Altered States: Doc Savage

GFT The Little Mermaid #1

Howard the Duck {v.5} #1 (250)

Outcast #7

Princess Leia #2

Munchkin #2

The Walking Dead #77-78 (255)

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[House of M]

The Incredible Hulk {v.3} #85

New Thunderbolds #11

Mutopia X #2

Spider-Man: House of M #3

Black Panther {v.4} #7 (260)

New X-Men {v.2} #17

Captain America {v.5} #10

House of M #6

Exiles #69

Fantastic Four: House of M #3 (265)

The Incredible Hulk #86

Iron Man: House of M #3

Uncanny X-Men #464

Mutopia X #3

Exiles #70 (270)

Spider-Man: House of M #4

House of M #7

New X-Men #18

Wolverine {v.3} #33

Uncanny X-Men #465 (275)

Wolverine #34

Mutopia X #4

Exiles #71

Wolverine #35

New X-Men #19 (280)

Spider-Man: House of M #5

House of M #8

House of M: Civil War #1-5

House of M: Avengers #1-5 (292)

House of M: Masters of Evil #1-4

What If? House of M #1

What If? Spider-Man: House of M #1 (298)

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Gotham Academy #5-6 (300)

Star Wars #3

Thor {v.4} Annual #1 & Issue #6

The Walking Dead #79-108 (333)

[paperheart]

Superman/Savage Dragon: Chicago

Superman Annual #11

Drywall Unzipped

Suicide Squad #40-43

Angel mini #1-5

Aka Goldfish: Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Joker

30 Days of Night #1-3

Transmetropolitan: Filth of the City

Criminal Special Edition

Fade Out #1-4

Dinosaurs for Hire #1-9 + Fall Classic

[slym2none]

I was just recently lamenting on how my library is running out of TPBs for me to read, and even had a wonderful boardie send me some stuff, but last time I went to the library to return some books, it is like they read my mind - 7 volumes (is that all of them?) of the Akira TPB telephone books, the last Alan Moore Swamp Thing trade, 7 Animal Man trades (that title has been on my list of 'want to read' for a while) and a few others. I hope more are there next time I go back - which will be a while, I have all 7 of the Animal Man trades, vol. 1 of Akira, Vertigo's Cinderella, and much more to read!

 

 

 

 

-slym

[Scrooge]

You're in for a treat with the Animal Man trades. Cindy's minis are also enjoyable. :thumbsup:

 

I went to the library yesterday and scored as well. McCloud's The Sculptor OGN, Mechner's Templar OGN, Manhattan Projects TPB 5 and Outcast TPB 1. The two OGNs are huuuuge. Will take me a while to read through esp. since I have to read through O'Malley's Seconds first.

[Scrooge]

Fade Out #1-4

 

Opinion?

[paperheart]

Fade Out #1-4

 

Opinion?

 

brubaker & noir fan, so i'm (thumbs u (thumbs u

[Scrooge]

Fade Out #1-4

 

Opinion?

 

brubaker & noir fan, so i'm (thumbs u (thumbs u

 

Did you pay attention to Brub's comment in the letter col of issue # 2 where he was miffed folks misinterpreted what happened in issue # 1? I never went back to read it but I believe I also missed the boat based on his comment.

[paperheart]

Fade Out #1-4

 

Opinion?

 

brubaker & noir fan, so i'm (thumbs u (thumbs u

 

Did you pay attention to Brub's comment in the letter col of issue # 2 where he was miffed folks misinterpreted what happened in issue # 1? I never went back to read it but I believe I also missed the boat based on his comment.

 

yep and me too