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MabusIncarnate posted...

East of West, Stone Star and All-New Ghost Rider were my favorites recently, I didn't get much into Fables, I tried about 5 or 6 books.

I think I'll check out East of West actually, been awhile since I read Hickman and I do like the sounds of sci-fi+Western.

^^^^Nice Taschens^^^^
Not sure what to read next, maybe another comic...

Intro2Logic posted...

Cormac McCarthy died. Haven't gotten around to reading his work yet

Rest in peace to him
Came in to say that John Romita Sr had passed too :(

MabusIncarnate posted...

Finishing vol 4 of Preacher tonight, I've got too many open stories right now I need to finish some. May go back to The Boys after.

I look forward to your thoughts on both!
Still have to read the epilogue to The Boys, not sure what I'll start after that.

Just saw there was an epilogue volume for The Boys so I guess I'm not done yet...

Actually got time to read this weekend and finished up both Preacher AND The Boys. Usually Hitman goes under the radar so it was nice to see Garth include the three in one thought for the last volume of Boys.

Preacher thoughts:
Fantastic covers
I really liked Cassidy and Jesse's friendship until the whole Tulip thing
Ending was nice. I think it would have had more impact if not for the previous spoiler, though.

The Boys thoughts:
Ending was a good middle ground between Preacher and Hitman
I enjoyed the Preacher references I spotted, and it was fun seeing which cape comics Garth had a bone to pick with
The characters were fairly solid, I wouldn't say any in particular were my stand out favorites, but they were an interesting bunch. Good visual design on all The Boys.

That being said, for me...Hitman is still the peak.

MabusIncarnate posted... Happy birthday to her and I hope she does too, haven't read it myself but I do remember the good reviews MF Hawkeye received.

Questionmarktarius posted...
Always neat to see what was kept in and changed around between adaptations, good stuff.

Almost done with Preacher, hopefully I can finish it this weekend.

TheLiarParadox posted...

I finished East of Eden. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Awesome :D Easily one of the best novels I've read. Don't think I'll ever forget that ending.

He sure does^

Did a little reading today, almost done with the next year of Preacher, read the first of The Boys.

Mr_hulk88 posted...

The profundis by Oscar Wilde

I haven't yet, just Dorian Gray, Importance of Being Earnest and Selfish Giant.

Questionmarktarius posted...

I dunno what would be edited in a veterinary memoir, though.

The review stated the US releases were omnibus format/two books combined into one, so probably just a few things shuffled around to suit that.

MabusIncarnate posted...

Starr is trying to find a solution to cover his uh, head

Lol that part was hilarious, great use of repeating panels.
Gonna take a short break from Preacher and start The Boys.
I'm unfamiliar with Vox Machina but looking it up quick, Dark Horse did a Library Edition of the first 2 volumes. Usually their LEs are very high quality, oversized pages, good printing and binding--trade off being the size/weight. Might be worth checking out, its about 22$ on Amazon right now.

Finished the fourth year of Preacher. Gotta say, its taken some weird turns...
The covers are beautiful though, love em.

cuh posted... I love Walden! Awesome!!

Questionmarktarius posted... About 7.50 a book, I'd say so if you're enjoying the TV series. Also worth noting from the reviews, they seem to be the OG British printings. Always a fan of reading unedited works.

Might have to check Sara out, thanks for the info^^ :)

ImAMarvel posted...

(Yes, I've been reading through stuff slowly)

Me too lol.

MabusIncarnate posted...Doubled down today, just finished the third year. Absolutely crazy, I wonder how its gonna end...
Haven't heard of Sara/heard of The Boys but haven't read it. I might pick something else up to read alongside Preacher, too.

MabusIncarnate posted...

I finished Volume 2 of Preacher last night, so i'm on book 18 I think. Hadn't done much reading the last few days.

It's hard to rattle me, but the coffin punishment thing stuck with me, not sure why. Maybe it taps into a couple fears, but the thought of that is so awful.

I feel you, it really made my skin crawl. I'm still working through the second year, been too busy to read much this weekend. Maybe tomorrow.

cuh posted... That was excellent, as always wrinkled my brain.

Just working on the next year of Preacher.
That poor armadillo <_<

Antifar posted...

Finished Rum Punch, by Elmore Leonard. You might know it as the book that resulted in the movie Jackie Brown, or Leonard because his books inspired Justified. I can see why his stuff works on TV/movies,but as a book I found it a little understated for my tastes.

Very cool, an author I know and have read before. Never got much out of his modern/crime settings but he's my favorite Western writer. Valdez is Coming is definitely top ten material.

The covers are great, too
https://i.vgy.me/uVLoqf.jpg

MabusIncarnate posted...

At least i'll have Preacher fresh in my mind, i'm through a majority of the series. It can get real dark at times.

Finished the first 12 issues, some thoughts so far:
Ennis has this way of pinwheeling between edgy, dark and juvenile...and then he does these immaculate, meaningful scenes with his cast of lowlives and holier than thous. He really nails "man," the good, bad and everything in between.
Dillon, I'm usually not a fan of his art but I think Hollingsworth on colors really evened it out.
Plot is interesting so far, although I don't think it's reached Hitman level yet in terms of impact (which IMO was already a 10/10 by the close of its first year).
On that note Tommy from Hitman pulls a ton from Jesse and Cassidy, its cool seeing his "bloodline" in action.
Looking forward to starting the next year tomorrow.

!!!!!!
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/rom-the-spaceknights-all-new-omnibus-collections
Aw yeah
https://i.imgur.com/PVOnipH.jpg

Finished Baron Bean. Early 1916 was definitely the best, never quite reached the heights of Krazy Kat after that. Tad bit more racist than Kat, too.
https://i.imgur.com/QkxKO1W.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/WSMs8zK.jpg
Preacher next.

cuh posted...

^^love it

I havent been to an art museum recently, I should go soon. But I need to get new glasses first, so I can appreciate the art sufficiently

He was such a good artist, really one of a kind.
There's a couple in my area I haven't been to yet but things have been pretty busy. I'd like to go back to the City someday too.
and I also need new glasses lol

One year since I went to NYC and saw some Basquiat. Fascinating combination of art and writing.
https://i.vgy.me/rZPuGc.jpg
https://i.vgy.me/a5NGXe.jpg
How the time flies.

Read a little more of Baron Bean today, about half thru 1917

tfw you didn't get any reading done today
https://i.imgur.com/uOJpvAz.jpg

cuh posted...

Good deals here: https://twitter.com/princetonupress/status/1658077376381612033

Nice, thank you. I'll check it out!

Also welcome to the thread Bookworms, please make yourselves at home.

MabusIncarnate posted...

Preacher has its, uh moments lol.

Ennis and Vertigo? I can only imagine lol
I've actually had it on my backlog for awhile, I'll check it out after I'm done with Baron Bean

Finished the first volume of Baron Bean
https://i.imgur.com/W3pjwhW.jpg
Onto the second

Slowly but surely progressing through Baron Bean
https://i.imgur.com/DPZD4if.jpg

Didn't get any reading done today, maybe tomorrow

Some of the Baron and his man Grimes
https://i.imgur.com/RpDxcdn.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/iQOaS1e.jpg

Life will be one long, sweet song
https://i.imgur.com/uXSZu9L.jpg
And the one long, sweet song will be life

https://i.imgur.com/BwyXQ8P.jpg

Worked through a little more of Baron Bean today, it's pretty funny. I'll have to post some pictures later.
cuh posted...

I started Julio Cortzars Hopscotch, which is good so far (Im reading it with the full jump-around method).

Just looked it up and wow that sounds dope. Adding that to my reading list.

I think the two Alias are just a weird coincidence^^

https://i.imgur.com/GNPw7m7.jpg

The Little King is a baller, that's some good stuff

Finished the first volume of Jonah Hex, it was alright. Kinda lost the plot when they tried to introduce one IMO, should have kept it Enemy Ace style with one-off stories.
https://i.imgur.com/VtwYBsv.jpg
Kubert did a cover though, that was nice

cuh posted...

That site had a 100-day free trial for Mothers Day so I made an account ^_^ and I want to get a digital NYPL card like you too (sadly Im not in NY though )

I checked it out and you can apparently sign up for a 3 month card as an out of state resident! Just need name/email/address etc
100 days is awesome, I hope they have the early ones.

MabusIncarnate posted... That's too bad about Comixology, it sound really ungainly. Too many apps that should be user-friendly seem like they've been developed by people that never had to use em...

cuh posted...

Thank you, wow! Very knowledgeable ^_^

I'm always glad to help!!
Following up, I did some sleuthing for the early New Yorker mags and found the New York Public Library has access to their digital archive. Signed up for a digital card, checked out the June 7th magazine and sure enough, The Little King was on page 14--if the earliest one in the Comics Kingdom archive looks like this:
https://i.vgy.me/XoIqz8.png
Then that'd favor point 2 above. Another favor: I leafed through the rest of June 1930's issues and so far we can knock 2355 down to 2352, there hasn't been a second strip yet.

ImAMarvel posted... Good work!! I'm glad :D

cuh posted... I am indeed familiar with this topic :)

Comics Kingdom is legit, it's the official King Features Syndicate website (the big name in strip publishing, going back to early 1900s--if you've heard of a comic strip, its a pretty safe bet that it ran under KFS). I've never subscribed to them personally but

With the caveat that strips, especially early ones, are oftentimes incomplete due to the ephemeral matter upon which they were printed

I think you might be cleared to subscribe.
Just doing some estimates:
The Little King ran for 45 years
Started June 7 1930 in The New Yorker, switched to King Features Syndicate on September 9 1934, ran until July 20 1975
Since it was a Sunday comic, we can compare the 2235 strips Comics Kingdom has to the number of Sundays between 1930-1975 and 1934-1975: 2355 for the first set, 2133 for the second.

Four possible explanations for the discrepancy:
1. They have the whole 1930-1975 run but are missing 120 strips
2. They have the whole 1930-1975 run and the missing 120 are just holiday/vacation days
3. They have the whole 1934-1975 run and the extra 102 are repeats
4. My math is bad

Most likely I'd guess at number 2 (or 4 lol).

It does look like they have a 30 day trial for free, so maybe give it a go and see what's what?

Alternative option for the early strips would be to track down 1930-1934 of the New Yorker, maybe Internet Archive has em...

MabusIncarnate posted...

Is Fables part of that Wolf Among Us game? Noticing the same characters and names, I'd be surprised if it isnt.

Yup, I think the game is a prequel to the comic.
OG TMNT is pretty good, I believe I stopped at the artist change. Don't forget to read the one-shots too, Raphael and Donatello have cool issues.

ImAMarvel posted...

I meant to read today and last night but I was so stressed out over my final results that I basically just kept fucking around on the internet and refreshing my grade results and student email to see if it had finally updated. >_>

How'd your finals go? Fingers crossed for well.

cuh posted... That wrinkled my brain.

https://i.imgur.com/IUTzdok.jpg

Didn't get any reading done today, worn out from spring cleaning

Actually started reading Jonah Hex via Showcase Presents. Albano's writing has its moments and DeZuniga's art is mesmerizing. I was aware of Jonah's appearance before hand but totally forgot; they actually keep his face half-hidden until five or six pages in then whammo
https://i.vgy.me/daUURm.jpg
https://i.vgy.me/3KdYZt.jpg
Pretty great so far.

Might start reading Baron Bean today

MabusIncarnate posted...

Took a short break from Saga and read the first 6 TMNT comics, it's great so far.

Eastman/Laird black and whites?
https://i.imgur.com/wGxLt8b.jpg

Very nice^^ I'm unfamiliar with his body of work, I'll have to check it out sometime

Didn't get any reading done since yesterday, spent the day moving and rearranging my bookshelves. Found some material I'd forgotten about in the process, just gotta pick one out to read now lol

Finished the first two years of Prince Valiant. Highly recommended reading. First page started out kinda dull but then this panel caught me:
https://i.vgy.me/wl2XCs.jpg

Excellent writing and art
https://i.vgy.me/tklcRi.jpg

Humor too
https://i.vgy.me/Ek55yW.jpg

Very nice, some good variation in material there^^ Ghost Rider is the coolest

One thing worth noting for the comic readers ITT, IDW's financial troubles are getting worse
https://idwmediaholdings.com/idw-media-announces-cost-cutting-measures/
Now might be a good time to pick up any physical editions you've had an eye on...

MabusIncarnate posted...

After 880 comics read in the Marvel app since November, joined Comixology and I'm starting on Saga per someone's suggestion.

Good show!! What was your favorite series/moment from Marvel so far?