The 2014 Reading List Thread - April

Torchsong

April showers may bring May flowers but for us it's another month to log what you've read, pick things that really stood out, and see if we can make it to the end of the year!

Links to Previous Reading List Threads:
January - http://thecomicforums.com/discussion/2596/the-2014-reading-list-thread-january#latest
February - http://thecomicforums.com/discussion/2662/the-2014-reading-list-thread-february#latest
March - http://thecomicforums.com/discussion/2723/the-2014-reading-list-thread-march#latest

As always - there are no real rules - just keep a list of what you read - singles or trades or whatever. I bold the top 5 or 6 books and pick a "winner" each month, but that's just me. I'm amazed at how much I've read this year already!

Above all - Have fun!

Torchsong

My List:

January Winner: Marada the She-Wolf (Titan)
February Winner: Will Eisner's The Spirit: Femme Fatales TPB (DC)
March Winner: Locke & Key: Alpha & Omega

April:
Superman - Codename:Patriot (DC)
Thanos Rising (Marvel)
Girl Genius: Volume 11 (Studio Foglio)
Saga Vol. 3 (Image)
The Sacred Blacksmith Vol. 4 (Seven Seas)
Lazarus Vol. 1 (Image)
From the New World Vol 3. (Vertical)
Quantum & Woody Vol 2: Maximum Insecurity (Valiant)
Strange Adventures (DC/Vertigo)
The Thanos Imperative (Marvel)
Cannon (Fantagraphics)
The Spirit Vol. 2 (DC)
The Trouble with Girls Vol. 1 (Checker)
Kisses, Sighs and Cherry Blossoms Pink (Seven Seas)
Red Sonja Omnibus V4 (Dynamite)
Earth 2 Vol. 1 (DC)
Huntress/Power Girl World's Finest (DC)
Threshold (DC) - Yeah, you read it right. This book is everything I've been wanting out of DC. :)

fredzilla

January Winner: Wonder Woman #1-24 (digital)
February Winner: Hawkeye #1-11 (digital)
March Winner: Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem
April Winner: Boxers & Saints

April List:
Daredevil #1
Superior Spider-Man #29-30
Black Widow #1
Samurai Jack #6
Silver Surfer #1
Silver Surfer Point One Infinite Comic (digital)
Amelia Cole #14 (digital)
Clockwork Angels #1
Samurai Jack #6
Sandman Overature #2
Batman #29
Superman Unchained #6
Star Wars (Ongoing) #15
The Star Wars #6
Skyward Vol. 1: Into the Woods (digital)
Skyward Vol. 2: Strange Creatures (digital) - fills a void left by Tellos
X-O Manowar #5-18 (digital)
Unity #1-4 (digital)
Lazarus #1-7 (digital)
Think Tank Vol. 1 (digital)
Boxers & Saints

mwhitt80

Jan Winner TMNT vol 1 (IDW new series)
Feb Winner Snow Piercer
Mar Winner Complete Dan Slott's She-Hulk vol 1
Man I've had 2 great months of reading.

Another good month so far AHHHHH BPRD has taken over my reading thankyou for the Digital sale Darkhorse
Lazarus vol 1
Pathfinder 1-12
BPRD Hollow Earth
BPRD The Soul of Venice
BPRD The Plague of Frogs
Abe Sapien The Drowning
Abe Sapien The Abysmal Plain
BPRD The Dead

mguy1977

January Winner
Hellboy Midnight Circus OGN (Dark Horse)

February Winner
Usagi Yojimbo Vol. 12 Grasscutter tpb (Dark Horse)

March Winner
Daredevil Dark Nights TPB (Marvel)

April
Showcase Jonah Hex Vol. 2 tpb
Superman Doomsday Hunter Prey Books 1 2 & 3
Brubaker Captain America Omnibus (1-25) after watching Captain America: The Winter Soldier film
Rocket Raccoon HC (Incredible Hulk issue & 4 part Rocket Raccoon miniseries)

Matthew

LibraryBoy

Updated 4/30

January winner - X-Factor Vol. 3: Many Lives of Madrox
February winner(s) - Ms. Marvel #1, She-Hulk #1, Flash: The Return of Barry Allen, Flash (New 52) Vol. 1: Move Forward, X-Factor Vol. 9: The Invisible Woman Has Vanished
March winner(s) - X-Factor Volume 12: Scar Tissue, She-Hulk #2

Single Issues:
Hawkeye #18
She-Hulk #3
Amazing X-Men #s 5 & 6
Superior Foes of Spider-Man #10 & 11 (Two fill-ins in a row?! Ugh.)
La Mano del Destino #s 1 & 2
Flash Gordon #1
Daredevil #1.50
Captain Marvel #2
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #200
Shutter #1
Lumberjanes #1
Amazing Spider-Man (v1) #s 229 & 230
Spidey Super Stories #s 31 & 42
Amazing X-Men #6
Superior Spider-Man #s 1-11, 30 & 31
Batman '66 #9
Silver Surfer #s 1 & 2
Captain Action Cat #1
Green Arrow #17
GI Joe: Cobra #1
Amazing Spider-Man (v3) #1


Collections/Graphic Novels:
Avengers Vol. 1: Avengers World
Avengers Vol. 2: The Last White Event
Mind MGMT Vol. 1: The Manager
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas
Amazing Spider-Man: Spider Island
X-Factor Vol. 13: Hard Labor
X-Men: Season One

mwhitt80

@LibraryBoy‌ how many volumes of XFactor have you read this year? Just what you have listed makes me think you've read at least 9.

Whirlwind

Oh! I see, we edit our post as we buy. Okay, I'll do it.

No January or February winners.
March winners: Gold: Loki Agent of Asgard #2. Silver: Moon Knight 1. Bronze: She-Hulk 2.

April buys:
Inhuman 1
Loki: Agent of Asgard 3
Magneto 2
Moon Knight 2
New Warriors 3
She-Hulk 3

PaulPhelan

Haven't read enough over the last few months to pick a winner per se, don't remember any stinkers, just enjoyable comics. Let's see how April plays out

LibraryBoy

mwhitt80 said:

@LibraryBoy‌ how many volumes of XFactor have you read this year? Just what you have listed makes me think you've read at least 9.

Since just after Christmas, I've read the first 12. I'm just a bit obsessed. :D

Torchsong

Bumping just to keep it on the ol' front page.

Torchsong

Another bump!

mwhitt80

After the 15th I'll start reading again.

Greg

I've lost track of what I've read so I have some do-overs in here.

Amazing X-Men #5
Moon Knight #2
Captain Marvel #2
Rat Queens #1-5
Skullkickers #25
All New X-Men #24
TF Dark Cybertron Finale
TF More Than Meets The Eye #27
TF Robots In Disguise #27
Sex Criminals #1-5
Casanova Vol 1 #1, 2
Fantastic Four Vol 1 #1-5
Tales To Astonish Vol 1 #27
Umbral #1-5
Jinri Vol 1
Original Sin #0
Pathfinder #7-12
Pathfinder Special #1
Thor Vol 1 the God Butcher
Thor Vol 2 Godbomb
Journey Into Mystery Vol 1 #83

Torchsong

With the advent of the new new forums it's likely most of the previous month's lists will be lost to time...I'll be copying my list and I'll leave it up to you guys to do the same...but this ongoing experiment will continue.

bralinator

Torchsong said:

With the advent of the new new forums it's likely most of the previous month's lists will be lost to time...I'll be copying my list and I'll leave it up to you guys to do the same...but this ongoing experiment will continue.

So is this a confirmation that we are definitely getting new forums?

fredzilla

bralinator said:

Torchsong said:

With the advent of the new new forums it's likely most of the previous month's lists will be lost to time...I'll be copying my list and I'll leave it up to you guys to do the same...but this ongoing experiment will continue.

So is this a confirmation that we are definitely getting new forums?

That's what I took it as...

Torchsong

I'd say it's about 80% likely. I have no actual say in the matter, so don't take my words as gospel.

luke52

I've got a little behind in updating these pages... been reading a lot. So instead of putting what I've read so far in April I'm just going to put everything I've read this year so far instead, along with my monthly winners...

Jan Winner - Ghostbusters Vol 4

Feb Winner(s) - Saga of the Swamp Thing vols 4&5 and Thor: God of Thunder vols 1&2

March Winner - Think Tank vol1


Ghostbusters 9 - 24 (vols 3,4,5&6)
Iron Man 158 - 177
Iron Man annual 5
Leaving Megalopolis
Batman Year One
Flash 1-8 (vol1)
Suicide Squad 1-7 (vol1)
Earth 2 19 - 22
Earth 2 Annual 2
Swamp Thing 27 - 30
Forever Evil Argus 3 - 6
Forever Evil Arkham war 4 - 6
Forever Evil - 5 - 6
JLA 11 - 13
JL3000 2 - 4
Sex Criminals 4 - 5
JL 27 - 29
Animal Man 27 - 29
Deadly Class 1 - 3
Infinity Gauntlet 1-6
Saga 18 -
It Girl and the Atomics 1-6 (vol1)
Saga of the Swamp Thing 43-56 (vols 4&5)
Batman 608-619 (Hush)
Thor God of Thunder 1 - 11 (The God Butcher & Godbomb)
Civil War 1 - 6
Civil War Front Line 1
Civil War Choosing Sides 1
Civil War House of M 1
Civil War Young scavengers and Runaways 1
Aquaman 0, 14 -16 (Throne of Atlantis)
Justice League 15 - 17 (Throne of Atlantis)
She-Hulk 1 - 3
Umbral 1-3
Code Monkey Save World
Uncanny X-Men 172-173, annual 11, 256
Wolverine vol2 - 10
Hinterkind 3-6
Revenge 1
Cyberforce 1-6
X-Men Season One
Alex + Ada 1
Avengers Forever 1-12
X-O Manowar 1-4
Grimm Fairy tales 1-6
The Ultimates 1-4
Faker 1-6
Think Tank 1-4
Star Trek On going 1-4
Batman 655 - 658, 663 - 669, 672 - 675 (Batman and Son)
Guardians of the Galaxy 4 - 10
Demon Knights 0, 8 - 23
Green Lantern Corps 1-7
Justice League Dark 14-21
Green Arrow: Longbow Hunters 1-3
DC/Marvel All Access 1-4
Strange Tales vol3. 1
Doom 1-3
The dark tower the man in black 1-5
Amazing spiderman 666-673
Venom 6-9
Spider island deadly foes
Amazing spiderman infested (all spider island)
Adam Strange planet heist 1-8
Identity crisis 1-7
JLA 115-119
Rann-Thanagar War 1-6

Last update for April

mwhitt80

Finally I've had time to read some books.

Torchsong

Last Day for April, folks! Get your books in. New thread starts up tomorrow!

fredzilla

I had a beginning of the month binge and have been reading prose the last couple of weeks. I may try to get something in tonight. If I can't buy books in my comiXology app I don't see me reading a whole lot more digital in the near future.

mwhitt80

So Darkhorse had a crazy digital sale over the weekend and I decided to get some BPRD. I've read (and enjoyed) lots of Hellboy, but never read it's sister series. A few BPRD trades turned into me buying 6 (plus 4 Abe Sapien trades) and reading 4 of them.

fredzilla

I've been picking up Hellboy religiously (ha!) since the first movie. Soon after the first couple of trades I got into BPRD and I haven't looked back since. There's a whole shelf in my bookcase dedicated to Hellboy, et al. trades. I'm glad you like them.

Quick note: It took me nearly a year to figure out why BPRD wasn't being published anymore. Since the events from the war on frogs, the title changed to BPRD: Hell in Earth.

mwhitt80

I've read the first 8 trades of Hellboy. It's not been something I pick up regularly, but I really like Hellboy stories. I'll get them 2-3 trades at a time, but this was the first time I've read BPRD. I love these just as much as Hellboy. At this rate I'm going to be out of my BPRD books by the weekend.

fredzilla

I was able to get a couple of books in under the wire, both by Gene Luen Yang: Boxers and Saints. Uh-maze-ing. They've been sitting on my shelf for a couple of months and I was glad to finish out April with these.

mwhitt80

Two more Mignola books BPRD The Dead and AbeSapien The Abyssmal Plain