The 2014 Reading List Thread - January
Torchsong
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I start this every year and peter out about 1/4 of the way though...not this time, dammit. I'm gonna break it out by months, and maybe that'll make it easier to keep up with.
Ever wonder just how much you actually read in a year? I do, which is why I like trying to chronicle it. If you're insane like me, start a list in this thread, and just keep going back to edit it to add every book you read (not purchased...read) in the month of January 2014. It's not a contest, or a race, but it'll be interesting, I think to not only see what everyone reads, but how much stuff we actually put away in a single month.
If we keep this going, we'll do one for February, March, etc...
Ever wonder just how much you actually read in a year? I do, which is why I like trying to chronicle it. If you're insane like me, start a list in this thread, and just keep going back to edit it to add every book you read (not purchased...read) in the month of January 2014. It's not a contest, or a race, but it'll be interesting, I think to not only see what everyone reads, but how much stuff we actually put away in a single month.
If we keep this going, we'll do one for February, March, etc...
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Marada, the She-Wolf (Titan)
West Coast Avengers - Assemble (Marvel Premiere HC)
Ultimate Comics: Ultimates Vol. 2 (Marvel)
Parker: Slayground (IDW)
Legion of Super-Heroes: Consequences (DC)
West Coast Avengers - Family Ties (Marvel Premiere HC)
Wolverine & The X-Men TPB 1 (Marvel)
Fables: Snow White TPB (DC/Vertigo)
Rainbow in the Dark (Love/Warren)
Wolverine & The X-Men TPB 2 (Marvel)
Vampirella: Death and Destruction (Harris)
Project: Superpowers Part 2, Vol. 2 (Dynamite)
Black Terror Vol. 2 (Dynamite)
Project: Superpowers - Meet the Bad Guys (Dynamite)
Black Terror Vol. 3 (Dynamite)
A Certain Scientific Railgun Vol. 7 (Seven Seas)
My Little Pony Annual: Equestria Girls (IDW) (Don't Judge Me!) :)
Captain America: War and Remembrance (Marvel Premiere HC)
Spinnerette Vol. 1 (Indie)
Spinnerette Vol. 2 (Indie)
Spinnerette Vol.3 (Indie)
Uncanny X-Men #1-5 (digital)
FF (vol. 2) #3 (digital)
Locke & Key: Omega #1-5 (digital)
Saga #1-12 (re-read) (digital)
Death: The Time of Your Life #1-3 (digital)
March (OGN) (digital)
Star Wars #12
The Star Wars #4
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters #1-4 (digital)
Spider-Man #18-23 (digital) (90s shock! Because a guy with spider powers isn't enough, Larson gives Spidey a pouch belt--with no less than thirty pouches, a cybernetic arm--they called it a "cast" to help heal his broken arm--riiiight, and a cybernetic eye. And the typos/grammar problems... Sheesh!)
Lost at Sea OGN (digital)
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth (vol. 5): The Pickens County Horror & Other Stories
Wonder Woman #1-24 (digital)
B.P.R.D. Vampire TPB
Abe Sapien: Dark Terrible and the New Race of Man TPB
The Uncanny X-Men #138-143 (Days of Future Past) (digital)
Local OGN (digital)
Fear Itself (re-read) (digital)
Midnight Nation TPB
Nephilites: Awakenings (Vol. 1) TPB
Adventure Time: Playing With Fire (BOOM! Studios, digital)...3/5
Archer & Armstrong #14 (Valiant, digital)...5/5
Archer & Armstrong #15 (Valiant, digital)...5/5
Art Monster # 1 (Monkeybrain, digital)...3/5
Bandette # 6 (Monkeybrain, digital)...4/5
Batman Vol. 2: The City of Owls (DC digital)...5/5
The Bunker # 2 (Hoarse and Buggy Productions, digital)...4/5
The Bunker # 3 (Hoarse and Buggy Productions, digital)...5/5
D4VE # 1 (Monkeybrain, digital)...5/5
D4VE # 2 (Monkeybrain, digital)...5/5
Doc Savage #1 (Dynamite, digital)...3/5
Edison Rex # 1 (Monkeybrain, digital)...4/5
Eternal Warrior # 1 (Valiant, digital)...5/5
Gandhi: A Manga Biography (Penguin Books, TP)...5/5
Green Arrow #23 (DC, digital)...5/5
Green Arrow #23.1: Featuring Count Vertigo (DC, digital)...5/5
Green Arrow #24 (DC, digital)...5/5
Hitsville UK # 1 (Great Beasts Comics, digital)... 2/5
Kranburn # 2 (FEC Comics, digital)...2/5
Letter 44 #2 (Oni Press, digital)...5/5
Locke & Key: Clockworks Vol. 5 (IDW, TP)...5/5
Locke & Key: Open the Moon (IDW, digital)...4/5
Locke & Key: Grindhouse (IDW,digital)...4/5
Motorcycle Samurai: A Very White Bolt Christmas (Top Shelf, digital)...3/5
Morning Glories Vol. 4: Truants (Image-Shadowline,TP)...3/5
Mysteryman (Matthew Todd, digital)...3/5
Night of 1,000 Wolves (IDW, digital)...3/5
Quantum and Woody # 3 (Valiant,digital)...4/5
Skyward # 1 (Action Lab, digital)...2/5
Sin of Omniscience # 1 (Odd 19 Studios, digital)... 3/5
Transformers: Dark Cybertron #1 (IDW, digital)...3/5
Transformers Classics Vol. 1 (IDW, digital)...1/5
UNITY # 1 (Valiant, digital)...5/5
UNITY # 2 (Valiant, digital)...5/5
Valiant 8-Bit Adventure: UNITY #1 (Valiant, digital)...3/5
X-O Manowar # 16 (Valiant, digital)...3/5
X-O Manowar # 17 (Valiant, digital)...4/5
X-O Manowar # 18 (Valiant, digital)...4/5
X-O Manowar # 19 (Valiant, digital)...5/5
Batman Chronicles tpb vol 1 (buy)
Star Wars # 12 (pants)
Harley Quinn #1 (borrow)
JSA: The Liberty Files tpb. (buy!!!)
Black Widow #1 (pants)
Velvet # 1, 2, & 3. (buy,buy,buy)
Injustice Gods Among Us Y2 #1
(buy-orrow)
DC Showcase Superman vol 1 (buy)
Invincible Ironman Omnibus by Busiek & Chen
Scalped vol 1-4
TMNT vol 1 (new series, Nook)
Boys Digital Omnibus vol 1 (Nook)
Boys Digital Omnibus vol 2 (Nook)
Boys Herogasm (Dynamite did not include Herogasm or Highland Laddie in thier omnibus which sucks, Nook)
Star Wars - Dark Empire 1 & 2
HCs/TPBs:
X-Factor Vol. 2: Life and Death Matters
X-Factor Vol. 3: Many Lives of Madrox
Uncanny X-Men (current) Vol. 1: Revolution (liked what I've read of All New X-Men, but kinda hated this)
X-Factor Vol. 4: Heart of Ice
X-Factor Vol. 5: The Only Game in Town
Legends of the Dark Knight: Alan Davis
X-Factor Vol. 6: Secret Invasion
X-Factor Vol. 7: Time and a Half
Singles:
Superior Foes of Spider #s 6 & 7
FF #s 14 & 15
Batman '66 #6
Velvet #s 2 & 3
Avengers Origins: Ant-Man and the Wasp (read digitally)
Wolverine (1982 mini-series) #1 (read digitally)
Daredevil #s 34 & 35
Miracleman #1
Amazing X-Men #3
Mr. Peabody and Sherman #1
Doc Savage #s 1 & 2
WWE #1
Avengers Assemble #22
Harley Quinn #1
Black Widow #1
All New X-Factor #s 1 & 2
Alias #s 6-10
Through The Darkness: The Story of Machinations
Fun With Milk & Cheese
All New X-Men #1
Sex Criminals #1
Hellboy In Hell #5
Revival #15, 16
Worlds' Finest #18
Guardians of the Galaxy #10
Star Wars #12, 13
Hawkeye #14
Fearless Defenders #12
More Than Meets The Eye #25
Deadpool The Gauntlet #1
Dark Convergence
The Warcaster Chronicles: The Way of Caine
Fables Vol. 19 Snow White tpb
BPRD Vampire TPB
Filthy Rich tpb (Vertigo Crime)
Parker the Hunter Vol. 1 TPB SC
Hellboy Midnight Circus OGN
Superman Vol. 1 What Price Tomorrow? HC (new52) I wanted to reread this
Superman Under A Yellow Sun (A Novel by Clark Kent) OGN
Matthew
Attack on Titan Vol. 10 (manga)
Werewolves of Montpelier (Fantagraphics)
I Killed Adolf Hitler (Fantagraphics)
Strangers in Paradise Vol. 2
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Lazarus Vol. 1 (Image)
Lost Cat (Fantagraphics)
Helter Skelter (Vertical, manga)
Knights of Sidonia Vol. 6 (manga)
Jackie Rose and The Treasure of Captain Read (Kickstarter)
@Greg was right the X-men were taking on Juggernaut
Really that's how the incorporated a lot of the Marvel U without putting them in the main 7 part series all of the Hammer wielders were off causing trouble and different teams had to help take them out.
As for the Guardians of the Galaxy they were probably off fighting Annihilus or something.
Homefront and Youth in Revolt were two of my more favorite of the spin-offs
Legenderry # 1
Injustice Gods Among Us # 12
Amazing Spider-Man # 37 (July 2010)
Avengers Assemble vol 1
Gladstone's School for World Conquerors vol 1
Fear Itself - when did Stuart Immonen become such an amazing artist? This story line felt like Marvel's version of Blackest Night, instead of everyone getting a lantern ring, they got Asgardian weapons... the only lame part of the story was that if the world REALLY was ending, why were the only Marvel heroes defending the earth: the Avengers and some of the FF. Where was the X-Men, New Warriors, Guardians of the Galaxy, etc. etc...
Thor: God of Thunder #1-5... OMG! THIS SERIES IS AMAZING!!! THIS STUFF IS MIND BLOWINGLY GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I finished the first story arc and can't wait for the 2nd to go on sale on comixology!!!
Savage Wolverine #1-5 - Frank Cho is a god. Story was good too. Just a fun romp through the forest and it was nice to see Wolverine decapitate people... coz when you fight a guy with 6 adamantium blades, you should not wake away from that fight
Demon Knights Vol 1 - zzzZZzzZZzzzZZZzz... not sure why the Geeks loved this series so much... the art was subpar and the characters were not very well explained... maybe it works if you are already familiar with the pre-New52 versions of these characters... what is up with the female knight who pretends to be a man?
Already preparing for same thing due end of each month.
Demon Knights worked for me because it was about as far removed from what DC was doing at the time. I knew it would never last, but I supported it right up until it ended. I loved the characters, both old and new (never thought I'd see the day I was rooting FOR Vandal Savage), and even when it was revealed that these guys were essentially Stormwatch - Medieval, it still read better to me than about 90% of the rest of the New52.