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[RayJr]

On 1/1/2022 at 9:45 AM, kccoig14 said:

Well, It seems i slowed down after i reached 1,000 comics but overall it was a pretty good year for comic reading. I was averaging about 3-5 comics a day but after reaching the goal i went down to probably 2-4 a day. Here's what ive been reading the past few months...

8/29/21 -  12/31/21
MARVEL
-Fantastic Four (1998) #575-588
-FF (2011) #1-9
-Free Comic Book Day: Spiderman/ Venom (2020)
-Thanos Quest #1
-Dark Ages #1-3
-Captain America #638-640
-Punisher: The Trial of The Punisher#1-2
-FCBD 2021 Spider-Man/ Venom
-Marvel Action Origins #3
-Annihilation: Conquest #3
-Kang the Conqueror #2
-Fantastic Four: Life Story #4
-Extreme Carnage:  Omega #1
-Thor #17-19
-Amazing Fantasy (2021) #1
-Amazing Spider-Man #60
-Amazing Spider-Man Annual(2021)
-Darkhold: Iron Man #1
-Eternals: Thanos Rises
-Another Bad Night Halloween Special 2008
-Giant Size Dracula #3
-Aliens #7-8
-Venom Vol. 5 #1-3
-Symbiote Spider-Man: Crossroads #3-5
-Hulk #1
-Spider-Woman #11
-X-Men #4
-Halloween Comic Book Extravaganza: Daredevil Road to Devil's Reign
-The Defenders (vol.6) #2-4
-Darkhold: Spiderman #1
-Timeless #1

DC
-Batman: Fear State Alpha
-Batman #112-118
-Batman/Catwoman #7-9
-Joker #7-10
-Green Arrow (1988) #1-2
-Detective Comics #1043-1044
-Batman vs. Bigby! A Wolf in Gotham #1-4
-Batman: Reptilian #4-6
-Superman and The Authority #1
-Strange Adventures #12
-Batman: The Imposter #1-3
-DC Halloween Special #1 (2008)
-DC Halloween Special #2 (2009)
-Are You Afraid of Darkseid?
-Batman: Long Halloween Special
-Human Target #1-3
-Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #4-6
-Soul Plumber #1
-Batman & Robin
-Hellblazer #41-48, 51, 84
-Wonder Woman: Historia #1
-Joker Annual #1
-Justice League #66
-Sandman #1-12
-Dark Knights of Steel #1-2
-Joker's Asylum: Joker, Penguin, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow,  
-Batman: Dark Knight Gallery #1 (Does this still count? )
-Batman/ The Spirit #1
-Catwoman: Lonely City #1-2
-Batman Adventures Holiday Special #1
-Swamp Thing: Green Hell #1

INDIE/VINTAGE
-Psi-Judge Anderson: Engrams #1
-Spawn #321-324
-King Spawn #2-5
-Magic #6-9
-Hillbilly: The Lizard of Rusty Creek Cave
-A Man Named Hawken #1
-Predator: Hell Come Awalkin' #1-2
-Predator: 1718
-The Me You Love in the Dark #1
-Stray Dogs #1
-The Thing: The Northman Nightmare 

-Starship Troopers: Insect Touch #1-3
-Army of Darkness: 1979 #1
-Predator: Bad Blood #1-2
-Aliens vs. Predator 30th Anniversary Edition (7)
-Elric: The Dreaming City #2
-Aliens vs. Predator: War #0-4
-Aliens vs. Predator: Three World War #1-6
-Predator: Xenogenesis #1
-Aliens vs. Predator: Eternal #1-4
-Predator: Primal #1-2
-Archie vs Predator #1-4
-Archie vs. Predator 2 #1-2
-Aliens: Alchemy #1-3
-Magic The Gathering: Chandra #1-4
-Sea of Sorrows #1
-Magic the Gathering (2011) #1-4
-The Golem Walls Among Us #2
-Echolands #2-4
-Geiger #5
- Magic the Gathering: Spell Thief #1-4
-Magic the Gathering: Path of Vengeance #1-4
-Magic the Gathering: Theros #1-4
- Tracy Monthly (1949) #13-14
-Dune: Blood of the Sardaukar #1
-Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog #1
-Gunslinger Spawn #1-3
-Out of the Shadows (1953) #8
-Adventure into Darkness (1953) #9
-Beware (1954) #10
-Lady Baltimore #5
-Hellboy: The Silver Lantern Club #1-3
-Hellboy: Bones of Giants #1-2
-Orphan and the Five Beasts #3
-Two Moons #6-7
-Money Shot #1-5
-Black Stars Above #1-5
-What's the Furthest Place From Here #1
-The Autumnal #1-3
-The Electric Black: The Dark Caravan #1
-Friday #1
-Regarding the Matter of Oswald's Body
-Provenance of Secrets
-Magic: Master of Metal
-Magic Webcomics Plainswalkers: The Hunter and the Veil,  Flight of the White Cat,  Fuel for the Fire, The Seekers Fall,
-Sir Edward Grey: Atherton #1
-Animal Castle #1
-TMNT: Best Of Casey Jones, Leonardo
-Joe Palooka (1945) #1-4
-Green Hornet (1943) #13
-Four Color (1945) #83 Gene Autry
- Black Diamond Western 9
-The Witcher: House of Glass #1-5
-The Witcher: Fox Children #1-5
-Godzilla: Half Century War #1
-Gore Shriek #1-4
-Maw #1-4
-The Witcher: Killing Monsters
-The Witcher: Curse of Crows #1-2

TPBs/GRAPHIC NOVELS
-Elric: The Ruby Throne (2)
-Elric: Stormbringer (2)
-Elric: The White Wolf (2)
-Essex County vol. 1: Tales From the Farm
-Essex County Vol. 2: Ghost Stories
-Essex County Vol. 3: The Country Nurse
-Batman: The World

-Reckless: Destroy All Monsters
-Dark Horse Book of Monsters
-Dark Horse Book of Hauntings
-Dark Horse Book of The Dead
-Witchfinder Omnibus Vol. 2 (City of the Dead, The Gates of Heaven, The Reign of Darkness, The Great Blizzard) 16
-The Complete Jack Kirby Vol. 1
-Monsters
-Bram Stoker's Death Ship: Dracula's Voyage to England (4)
-Batman: Noel
-Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 5 (Detective Comics #113-115, Batman #36-37, World's Finest Comics #23-24) 7

TOTAL: 349
2021 TOTAL: 1372
 

Looking forward to what 2022 will bring in the way of comics. hope everyone has a happy and safe new year!

That is fantastic. Congrats 

[kccoig14]

On 1/1/2022 at 12:04 AM, RayJr said:

That is fantastic. Congrats 

Thanks! 

[Scrooge]

December Count:

Comics: 46

By Night # 5 - 12

Champions (2016) # 13

Crossover # 1 - 6

Dr. Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme # 1

Geiger # 1 - 6

Ghost Tree # 1 - 4

Nocterra # 1 - 6

Plunge # 1 - 6

Radiant Black # 1 - 6

The Unworthy Thor # 1 - 2

European Albums: 20 @ 2 each = 40

Alix - 13 & 14

Blake & Mortimer - 13, 15, 19, 20, 21, 27, 28

Comanche - 6 - 8

Double 7

Karmela Krimm - 1

Lena - 3

Les Tuniques Bleues - 62

Michel Vaillant - 9

Rani - 8

Yoko Tsuno - 19

Manga: 32 @ 5 each = 160

20th Century Boys - 7 - 8

A school frozen in time  - 1 - 3

BL Metamorphosis - 5

Blue Giant - 5 - 6

Blue Period - 1

Heaven's Design Team - 6

Lone Wolf and Cub - 1

Mao - 1

Mermaid Saga - 2

No Gun's Life - 11

No. 5 - 1 - 2

Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Stone - 6

The King's Beast - 1 - 3

The Promised Neverland - 19

The Way of the Househusband - 6

Those not-so-sweet boys - 4

Yona of the Dawn - 32

Yowamushi Pedal - 17 - 18

Collections: 5 @ 29 total

Banned Book Club

My Last Summer with Cass

One Trick Pony

Rusty Riley - Dailies 1949 - 1951

The Dire Days of Willow Weep Manor

That's a total of 275 for November.

January - 219

February - 243

March - 268

April - 114

May - 177

Summer - 437

September - 127

October - 211

November - 209

December - 275

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Total - 2,280

Best Read: I would say the Blake & Mortimer series. As I mentioned through this past year, I am reading the album for the first time in the chronological order of the adventures and not of the publication date so it gives me a better insight how the different writers positioned their stories within the general timeline of the adventures. It has been pleasant to read them this way and rediscover books I'd only read maybe once when they were released. I kept finding myself digging for the next one to read.

Mission: Emptying my TBR pile from the library: ACCOMPLISHED. I have zero'ed out my library holdings; if I stay strong in the new year, I'll go light on Manga in 2022.

Quick takes: Banned Book Club about cultural restriction in South Korea opened up a part of the country's history heretofore unknown to me ... By Night by John Allison is weaker than his prior work on Giant Days, his wit is there but not as prominent ... Nocterra was entertaining but the story structure is quite predictable, following a pattern recognized across many Image series. Not necessarily a bad thing but appears repetitive across several series ... Crossover did not win me over, I'll stop at what I read ... Same with several of the Marvel series, I sampled, a lot of one and done for me, I'll move on to the next one that catches my interest; too bad I expected more out of some of those series (Champions is one good example of a book that didn't deliver) ... No. 5 is a weird book but it pays off to keep up with it as a story is emerging but, boy, do you have to work to get into it ... The Dire Days of Willow Weep Manor was probably a very popular release last year for young readers and stocked at libraries and it's frustrating. The book is okay so, on the one hand, I am glad it is getting praises and attracting readers but, on the other hand, it's annoying that a comic that's only so-so is one receiving that praise. These OGNs are bringing in readers for sure but these readers deserve better material than what I see offered here ... 

That's bring my total for 2021 to 2,280 "comics" read.

That's 972 individual books read (be it single comic, European album, manga tankobon or collected edition / OGN). That's a little more than in recent years when I clocked at ~ 1,800 / 1,900 a year.

On to 2022!

[srezvan]

To close out 2021 for me, I read 607 comics. That's more than double my 2020 total. I'm in the middle of the Dr. Aphra Omnibus, plus the new Thrawn book, so that slowed me down a bit near the end of the year.

[RayJr]

On 1/3/2022 at 1:13 PM, Scrooge said:

December Count:

Comics: 46

By Night # 5 - 12

Champions (2016) # 13

Crossover # 1 - 6

Dr. Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme # 1

Geiger # 1 - 6

Ghost Tree # 1 - 4

Nocterra # 1 - 6

Plunge # 1 - 6

Radiant Black # 1 - 6

The Unworthy Thor # 1 - 2

European Albums: 20 @ 2 each = 40

Alix - 13 & 14

Blake & Mortimer - 13, 15, 19, 20, 21, 27, 28

Comanche - 6 - 8

Double 7

Karmela Krimm - 1

Lena - 3

Les Tuniques Bleues - 62

Michel Vaillant - 9

Rani - 8

Yoko Tsuno - 19

Manga: 32 @ 5 each = 160

20th Century Boys - 7 - 8

A school frozen in time  - 1 - 3

BL Metamorphosis - 5

Blue Giant - 5 - 6

Blue Period - 1

Heaven's Design Team - 6

Lone Wolf and Cub - 1

Mao - 1

Mermaid Saga - 2

No Gun's Life - 11

No. 5 - 1 - 2

Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Stone - 6

The King's Beast - 1 - 3

The Promised Neverland - 19

The Way of the Househusband - 6

Those not-so-sweet boys - 4

Yona of the Dawn - 32

Yowamushi Pedal - 17 - 18

Collections: 5 @ 29 total

Banned Book Club

My Last Summer with Cass

One Trick Pony

Rusty Riley - Dailies 1949 - 1951

The Dire Days of Willow Weep Manor

That's a total of 275 for November.

January - 219

February - 243

March - 268

April - 114

May - 177

Summer - 437

September - 127

October - 211

November - 209

December - 275

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Total - 2,280

Best Read: I would say the Blake & Mortimer series. As I mentioned through this past year, I am reading the album for the first time in the chronological order of the adventures and not of the publication date so it gives me a better insight how the different writers positioned their stories within the general timeline of the adventures. It has been pleasant to read them this way and rediscover books I'd only read maybe once when they were released. I kept finding myself digging for the next one to read.

Mission: Emptying my TBR pile from the library: ACCOMPLISHED. I have zero'ed out my library holdings; if I stay strong in the new year, I'll go light on Manga in 2022.

Quick takes: Banned Book Club about cultural restriction in South Korea opened up a part of the country's history heretofore unknown to me ... By Night by John Allison is weaker than his prior work on Giant Days, his wit is there but not as prominent ... Nocterra was entertaining but the story structure is quite predictable, following a pattern recognized across many Image series. Not necessarily a bad thing but appears repetitive across several series ... Crossover did not win me over, I'll stop at what I read ... Same with several of the Marvel series, I sampled, a lot of one and done for me, I'll move on to the next one that catches my interest; too bad I expected more out of some of those series (Champions is one good example of a book that didn't deliver) ... No. 5 is a weird book but it pays off to keep up with it as a story is emerging but, boy, do you have to work to get into it ... The Dire Days of Willow Weep Manor was probably a very popular release last year for young readers and stocked at libraries and it's frustrating. The book is okay so, on the one hand, I am glad it is getting praises and attracting readers but, on the other hand, it's annoying that a comic that's only so-so is one receiving that praise. These OGNs are bringing in readers for sure but these readers deserve better material than what I see offered here ... 

That's bring my total for 2021 to 2,280 "comics" read.

That's 972 individual books read (be it single comic, European album, manga tankobon or collected edition / OGN). That's a little more than in recent years when I clocked at ~ 1,800 / 1,900 a year.

On to 2022!

😮😮That is freakin awesome