AlexH Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 And we are back. If you are new to this thread, it’s basically about reading comics. No pressure, just enjoying the books. Your goal doesn’t even have to be 1000 books. It could be any amount. Just enjoy the ride. So, what counts as a comic? I usually count 22 pages as a book, but that will vary depending on the genre. Use your best guess, and remember this is not a competition. This was originally started as I had a couple of long boxes of books that I had not read and needed some encouragement. Today I’m going to read TMNT The last Ronin. How about you? SpideyFein, Raze, F For Fake and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raze Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 @AlexH Last ronin was good. I read it last year. I debating on what to start, Walt Simonsons Thor run or Last house on the lake. RayJr and AlexH 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post paperheart Posted January 1, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 1, 2023 (edited) #1-24 Sleeper Season 1 #1-12 Sleeper Season 2 #1-12 Edited January 2, 2023 by paperheart ttfitz, AlexH, rlextherobot and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ken Aldred Posted January 1, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 1, 2023 I completely lost track of things last year. I'll attempt to do better. AlexH, Raze, Scrooge and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jeffreyk Posted January 2, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2023 Several years ago, I decided to stop reading print comics and graphic novels and went digital with the Marvel and DC Apps. It was a lot cheaper and the books looked very nice on my tablet. While I enjoy the Apps, I miss the holding of a book and seeing a true printed page. I just ordered a bunch of Marvel and DC Omnibus books and am looking forward to reading them. I dont know if I will read 500 individual comics in the omnibus' this year, but I am going to have a great time reading as much as time allows! Happy New Year everyone! Ken Aldred, ttfitz, SpideyFein and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cbalroman Posted January 4, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2023 Gonna try and keep track this year. Will be a mix of new moderns as well as marvel masterworks stuff (really would like to read ASM up to the McFarlane run) in between the new monthly stuff. 1. Creepshow #4 2. Manifest destiny #48 3. Amazing Spider-Man vol 6 #16 4. Amazing Fantasy #15 5-15. Amazing Spider-Man vol 1 #1-10 sevans1979, ttfitz, F For Fake and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F For Fake Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Came up well short in 2022, so I'm trying to get ahead of the game. Started off New Year's Day reading some comics! Alien V2 (2022) 1-4 - Still not loving the Marvel Alien books, but they are improving. Biggest boost is that Salvador Larroca and his ugly photoshopped "art" are finally gone, and that's a big help. Tales of the Human Target 1 Human Target 7,8,9 - Still loving everything about the Human Target book. Tickles my nostalgia as a JLI fan, engages my brain as an adult comic fan, and dazzles my eyes with the gorgeous work by Greg Smallwood. Feels tailor-made for me. Hellboy in Love 1,2 Hellboy and the BPRD 1957 Falling Sky Young Hellboy: Assault on Castle Death 1-3 Leonide the Vampyr- I'm always down for anything in the Mignola-verse. Of course, none of them have the same power as Mike working on his own stuff, but these various one-shots and minis help slake the thirst until he formally returns. I may be forgetting something, but that's most of it. 15 books in 2023 SO FAR! AlexH, Brandon Shepherd, Ken Aldred and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Norrin_Radd Posted January 5, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2023 For 2023, my first reading goal is to read Tintin from the beginning. First volume is Tintin and the Land of the Soviets (1929 - 139 pgs). Needless to say Tintin finds a lot of corruption in communist Russia and is targeted with many narrow escapes. Next, is Tintin in the Congo (1930 - 110 pgs). The obviously controversial Tintin story with crude depictions of native Africans and Tintin is rather belittling of them. But is does lead into the next story of gangsters in Chicago with Al Capone being referenced in the story. steveinthecity, srezvan, Raze and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letsgrumble Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 Been stockpiling Detectives since Ram V took over: So far, 7 out of 1000 read this year: Detective Comics #1062 Detective Comics #1063 Detective Comics #1064 Detective Comics #1065 Detective Comics #1066 Detective Comics #1067 Detective Comics 2022 Annual F For Fake, JWKyle, Raze and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norrin_Radd Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 Just read Tintin in America (1931 - 62 pgs). Non-stop action as our intrepid reporter is on a mission to clean up gangsters in Chicago. Many narrow escapes from being kidnapped, killed by indians, lynched, run over by a train, chopped into corned beef in a canning factory, and thrown into Lake Michigan. But luck is with him and he succeeds in bringing down three mob bosses and their gang before departing again for Europe. ttfitz, Raze, JWKyle and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srezvan Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 On 1/7/2023 at 7:51 AM, Norinn Radd said: Just read Tintin in America (1931 - 62 pgs). Non-stop action as our intrepid reporter is on a mission to clean up gangsters in Chicago. Many narrow escapes from being kidnapped, killed by indians, lynched, run over by a train, chopped into corned beef in a canning factory, and thrown into Lake Michigan. But luck is with him and he succeeds in bringing down three mob bosses and their gang before departing again for Europe. This looks like a lot of fun. I've been a fan of Tintin since seeing the cartoon series in my younger years. I'm missing Tintin in the Congo, but I have the rest. It's on my (long) reading list to read the entire series. Ken Aldred and Norrin_Radd 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srezvan Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 My first reads of 2023: Twig TPB: I have mixed feelings about the book. The series was a recommendation from a friend who raved about the artwork. The artwork was great, but at times too much. As Twig went on his journey, there was numerous landscapes, taking readers from panel to panel. It felt like they were just trying to throw in every cool landscape idea they could come up with. Great artwork, but it was just one place after another without any real story about the areas. Along those lines, my biggest complaint was on the story itself. There was not a lot of depth to the story and not a lot of detail about WHY things needed to happen. The story would have worked better if there was more done in the world building and not just the visuals. House of M Sketchbook: As described...but it counts! I have a few other random House of M stories to read to close out that arc. Raze and Ken Aldred 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JWKyle Posted January 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 8, 2023 Just finished Tomb of Dracula the 1972 Marvel run 1-70. Pretty good and I think it made me appeciate Gene Colan more. Probably should get the Giant Size Draculas and the Dracula Lives Magazines in at some point. Going to read the Star Wars 1977 marvel run next Total ----70 srezvan, steveinthecity, Ken Aldred and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cbalroman Posted January 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 8, 2023 So far this week.. 16. Batman vol.3 #131 17. Detective Comics #1067 18. Parkers Girls #4 19. Planet Hulk Worldbreaker #3 20. Stillwater #17 21. The Nice House on the Lake #12 22. Dead Boy Detectives #1 23. Walking Dead Deluxe #54 With new books done I will turn my attention back to volume 1 of ASM JWKyle, Raze, Ken Aldred and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Aldred Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 On 1/6/2023 at 12:40 AM, letsgrumble said: Been stockpiling Detectives since Ram V took over: So far, 7 out of 1000 read this year: Detective Comics #1062 Detective Comics #1063 Detective Comics #1064 Detective Comics #1065 Detective Comics #1066 Detective Comics #1067 Detective Comics 2022 Annual Very good writer. Like his Swamp Thing story. Raze and letsgrumble 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norrin_Radd Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 Read Cigars of the Pharaoh (1932 - 62 pgs). A classic Tintin adventure as Hergé was getting the formula down. This story introduces detectives Thomson & Thompson (or Dupont & Dupond as they were called in the original Belgian comics). This story is also the first appearance of the recurring villain Allan whom @chromium was named after. Tintin stumbles upon an international drug smuggling ring that he ends up foiling. Along the way he saves the life of a local maharaja and his son and is hailed as a hero once again by story's end. Raze and Ken Aldred 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chromium Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 (edited) Quote This story is also the first appearance of the recurring villain Allan whom @chromium was named after. Good catch ! @Norrin Radd Edited January 8, 2023 by chromium Ken Aldred, Norrin_Radd and greggy 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperheart Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 #25-49 Guardians of the Galaxy #1-25 (Abnett/Lanning) Ken Aldred, greggy and JWKyle 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chromium Posted January 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 8, 2023 I’ll be quietly joining again this year, I haven’t missed a single year since 2011, This is the result of the previous 12 years, 2022 was a bumper year, been a long time since I crossed the 1500 comics line, as always I’m gunning for 1000 per year, but I’m always disappointed if I don’t reach an average of 100 per month. 2022 : 1565 comics read 2021 : 1241 comic read 2020 : 1013 comics read 2019 : 1161 comics read 2018 : 1289 comics read 2017 : 1305 comics read 2016 : 1668 comics read 2015 : 1785 comics read 2014 : 2226 comics read 2013 : 2563 comics read 2012 : 2500 comics read 2011 : 2245 comics read ttfitz, Raze, Ken Aldred and 3 others 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raze Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 (edited) 1-35 Nice house on the lake 1-12 Killadelphia 1-6 Bible 2 This was a real fun read! Something is killing the children 1-5 Moon Knight 1-12 Edited January 9, 2023 by Raze Added pics Ken Aldred, JWKyle and srezvan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
