The 2018 Reading Thread - The Extreme Ultimate Edition- May
CaptShazam
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A tradition unlike any other! Time for the May reading thread.
The rules as laid down by the great and powerful Torchsong are simple:
Log everything you've read this year. Just edit your existing post or you (and we) will get confused trying to keep up. At the end of each month I'll start a new thread and you can pick a "winner" from your favorite books. You can focus on just trades (which is usually what I do), or just write about the good stuff you've read.
January Winner: The Amazing Spiderman Omnibus vol 2
February Winner: The Walking Dead Compendium vol 2
March Winner: Classic GI Joe vol 5
April Winner: Star Wars: Vader Down (not a great book but the best of a subpar month for me)
May List:
Amazing Spiderman Omnibus vol 3
The rules as laid down by the great and powerful Torchsong are simple:
Log everything you've read this year. Just edit your existing post or you (and we) will get confused trying to keep up. At the end of each month I'll start a new thread and you can pick a "winner" from your favorite books. You can focus on just trades (which is usually what I do), or just write about the good stuff you've read.
January Winner: The Amazing Spiderman Omnibus vol 2
February Winner: The Walking Dead Compendium vol 2
March Winner: Classic GI Joe vol 5
April Winner: Star Wars: Vader Down (not a great book but the best of a subpar month for me)
May List:
Amazing Spiderman Omnibus vol 3
Comments
January winner: Mister Miracle #6
February winner: Royal City #3-9
March winner: Highest House #1-2
April winner: Highest House #3
May books
Barrier #1-2
Captain America #701-702
Coda #1
Eternity Girl #3
The Gravediggers Union #6
Highest House #4
Isola #2
Lumberjanes #25-28
Ody-C #1
Power Man & Iron Fist: Sweet Christmas Annual #1
The Prisoner #2
X-Men: Grand Design #1-2
Hellboy Makoma #1-2 (digital)
BPRD 1946 #1-5 (digital)
BPRD 1947 #1-5 (digital)
BPRD 1948 #1-5 (digital)
BPRD Vampired #1-5 (digital)
February winner: Vietnam Journal v.8: Brain Dead Horror
March winner: Inside Moebius v.1
April winner: TMNT Ultimate Collection v.1
I had never read these Turtle comics before--even though co-creator Kevin Eastman is a Maine native and there's a requirement to read anything that hits big-time from Maine natives up here--and I was surprised how much I enjoyed this and the second collection. The art may be raw, but the stories are fun and Laird & Eastman manage to propel you along, through each story, with an attentiveness to their layouts and visual storytelling that is impressive. Looking forward to reading more!
May books:
100 Bullets: First Shot, Last Call (v.1)
Michael Chabon's The Escapist: Amazing Adventures (v.1)
Starman Omnibus v.2
So What That You Can Draw!? The Sketchbook art of Joe Infurnari
Jon Sable, Freelance: Ashes of Eden
Warlock by Jim Starlin
Nexus: Into the Past and other stories
100 Bullets: Split Second Chance (v.2)
100 Bullets: Hang Up on the Hang Low (v.3)
TMNT Ultimate Collection v.3
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1
100 Bullets: A Foregone Tomorrow (v.4)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.2
100 Bullets: The Counterfifth Detective (v.5)
February Winner: Aaron’s Thor run
March Winner: Swamp Thing Winter Special
April Winner: Tom Kings Batman run
May books...
Futures End vol.1-3
DC Nation #0
Saga #50&51
Action Comics #1000
Hawkeye vols.1-4
Dark Days: The Forge
Dark Days: The Casting
Metal #1-6
Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt
Thor: God of Thunder vol.1-4
Superman Unchained #1-9
Secret Warriors vols.1-6
Justice League (New 52) vols.1-3
It was on a trade released by mirage studios. I think that the trade may have been the last tmnt thing mirage printed
February Winner: Swamp Thing Winter Special #1
March Winner: Quarry's War #4
April Winner: Highest House #1. Really dug this book, glad I saw everyone singing it's praises here. First 4.99 comic in a while that hasn't felt like a ripoff. I'm looking forward to picking up 2-3 at my LCS FBCD sale (enough acronyms for you?) and the rest of the series as it comes out.
May:
Current (2018) books:
Death or Glory #1
Sex Criminals #24
DC Nation #0
Astonishing X-Men #11
Xerxes... #2
East of West #37
Barrier #1-3
Lady Mechanika FBCD isssue
Highest House #2-4
Batgirl & The Birds of Prey #22
Analog #2
Domino #2
Batman: White Knight #8
Coda #1
Maestros #6
Calexit #3
Medieval Spawn / Witchblade #1
World’s Greatest Cartoonists FCBD 2018
Tank Girl FCBD 2018
Shadow Roads FCBD 2018
The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 6
Oblivion Song #3
A Walk Through Hell #1
Gideon Falls #3
X-Men Red #4
Rat Queens #9
Infidel #3
Moonshine #10
Barrier #4
Days of Hate #5
Deadly Class #34
Barrier #5
Kill or be Killed #19
Sword of Ages #4
X-Men Red Annual #1
Doomsday Clock #5
The Savage Lyrics #3
Descender #30
Lazarus #28
Back Issues:
Dean Koontz Frankenstein #1
Darth Maul #1
American Vampire Long Road to Hell
Lady Mechanika Halloween Comic Fest Issue
The Boys Vol. 4 - 7
Black Betty HCF
The Tick HCF
February winner: The Swords of Glass (Humanoids)
March winner: A Polar Bear in Love Vol. 2 (Yen Press)
April winner: Infinity 8 #1 (Lion Forge)
May:
The Ballad of Sang #2 (Oni Press)
Brilliant Trash #5 (Aftershock)
From Lone Mountain (Drawn & Quarterly)
Gideon Falls #2 (Image)
Factory #2 (Statix Press [Titan Comics])
April Winner: The Amazing Spider-Man #617: The Rage of the Rhino
May's Books
The Amazing Spider-Man #653-700
The Amazing Spider-Man #654.1
The Amazing Spider-Man #679.1
The Amazing Spider-Man #699.1
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #38-39
Avenging Spider-Man #1-22
Avenging Spider-Man #15.1
Avenging Spider-Man Annual #1
Peter Parker: Spider-Man #156.1
The Sensational Spider-Man #33.1-33.2
Web of Spider-Man #129.1-129.2
Spider-Men #1-5
The Superior Spider-Man #1-15
The Superior Spider-Man #6AU
The Superior Foes of Spider-Man #1
Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #1
Fantastic Four #588
FF #1-3
Daredevil Vol. 3 #8
Secret War (2004) #1-5
If this thread is going to keep going, someone else will have to pick it up next month. After a few deletes from the anonymous moderator in another thread, I think I am checking out of the forums.