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The 2020 Reading Thread — The "Don’t July to Me" Edition

nweathingtonnweathington Posts: 6,751
edited July 2020 in Comics Talk Community - The On Topic Forum
Nearing the halfway point of the year, and I am running out of clever things to say. Think I'll go read some comics instead.

The Rules
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, or just write about the good stuff you've read.
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  • nweathingtonnweathington Posts: 6,751
    edited July 2020
    January Winner: Black Badge #6-12
    February Winner: Protector #1
    March Winner: Two Brothers GN
    April Winner: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Beast of Vargu
    May Winner: Descender #8-26
    June Winner: Wild’s End trilogy

    July Books
    Adventureman #1-2
    Adventure Time: Season 11 TP
    The After Realm #2
    Fire Power vol. 1 OGN
    Fire Power FCBD 2020 #1
    Strange Fruit #2-4
    Treasures Retold: The Lost Art of Alex Toth
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  • ChrisMurrinChrisMurrin Posts: 256
    edited August 2020
    May Winner: Something is Killing the Children v1
    June Winner: Daredevil v1 (2019)

    July Books
    Amazing Spider-Man 68-85
    Amazing Spider-Man Annual 5
    Barbra Macabre's Morbid Museum 1.1
    Eating Vampires 1
    Herbie 8
    Ice Witch 1
    Kona 10
    Mystery in Space 108
    New Funnies 107
    The Rippers 1
    Secret Origins 4 (Vigilante / Kid Eternity)
    Secret Six (1968) 2
    Shazam (1973) 19

    Adventureman 1
    All America Comix "One-shot"
    Green Lantern 80th Anniversary 100 Page Super Spectacular
    Iron Man 2020 4
    Joker 80th Anniversary 100 Page Super Spectacular
    The Kill Lock 5
    The Ludocrats 2
    The Man who F@#%ed Up Time 3
    Rescue 2
    Storm Kids: Hyperbreed 1 & 2
    Teen Titans 42
    That Texas Blood 1
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  • sharkjumper2sharkjumper2 Posts: 38
    edited August 2020
    January: Jeanne & Modigliani: Paris in the Dark (2018)
    February: Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams (2020)
    March: Strange Adventures #1 (2020)
    April: Le Major (Moebius) (2018)
    May: Pablo (Self Made Hero Art Masters series) (2015)
    June: Typex's Andy: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (Self Made Hero) (2018)


    July

    Dark Horse Comics
    Danger Unlimited #1 (1994)
    Danger Unlimited #2 (1994)
    Danger Unlimited #3 (1994)

    DC Comics
    Strange Adventures #3 (2020)

    Harvey Comics
    Richie Rich #220 (1986)
    Richie Rich, Casper, & Wendy - National League #1 (1976)

    Marvel Comics
    Empyre #1 (2020)
    Fantastic Four #21 (2020)
    Sub-Mariner: Marvel Snapshots #1 (2020)
    True Believers: Empyre - She-Hulk #1 (1980/2020)
    True Believers: Empyre - Hulkling #1 (2005/2020)

    Magazines
    Will Eisner's The Spirit #30 (1981)

    Trades/Graphic Novels
    Essential Avengers Vol. 1 (2005)
    Isadora (Self Made Hero) (2019)
    The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb (2006)

    Non-Sequential
    The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore (2014)
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  • BryanBryan Posts: 208
    edited August 2020
    January Winner: Strange Planet
    February Winner: Giant Sized X-Men: Jean Grey & Emma Frost #1
    March Winner: Undone by Blood or The Shadow of a Wanted Man
    April Winner: The New Frontier
    May Winner: The Low Low Woods #5
    June Winner: Adventureman #1 - Fraction & the Dodsons seem to have a winner on their hands.

    July Books:
    Adventureman #2
    Batman #94-95
    Batman: Secret Files #3
    The Batman’s Grave #8
    Bitter Root #9
    The Boys: Dear Becky #2
    Chu #1
    Daphne Byrne #6
    Daredevil #21
    Dark Nights: Death Metal #2
    DCeased: Dead Planet #1
    Death or Glory #11
    Decorum #3
    Devil’s Highway #1
    FBCD 2020 X-Men #1
    Giant Sized X-Men: Magneto #1
    Gideon Falls #23
    The Green Lantern Season Two #5
    The Man Who Effed up Time #4
    Mercy #4
    Moonshine #19
    Nailbiter Returns was #2
    Oblivion Song #25
    Plunge #5
    Pulp
    Something is Killing the Children #8
    Strange Adventures #3
    Undone by Blood #4
    X-Force #10
    X-Men / Fantastic 4 #4


    Older Books:
    Redneck Vol. 4
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  • sharkjumper2sharkjumper2 Posts: 38
    Bryan said:


    June Winner: Adventureman #1 - Fraction & the Dodsons seem to have a winner on their hands.

    What worked for you with this one? It did nothing for me.

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  • BryanBryan Posts: 208
    sharkjumper2 said:

    Bryan said:


    June Winner: Adventureman #1 - Fraction & the Dodsons seem to have a winner on their hands.

    What worked for you with this one? It did nothing for me.

    I thought it was a fun concept, loved the art, and you can’t beat a book that size for regular price these days.
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  • nweathingtonnweathington Posts: 6,751
    Bryan said:

    sharkjumper2 said:

    Bryan said:


    June Winner: Adventureman #1 - Fraction & the Dodsons seem to have a winner on their hands.

    What worked for you with this one? It did nothing for me.

    I thought it was a fun concept, loved the art, and you can’t beat a book that size for regular price these days.
    I enjoy the old pulp stuff, so the “Doc Savage for modern times" concept is something I'm on board with just from the solicitation. And Dodson is the best Adam Hughes not named Adam Hughes out there, so I knew the artwork would be lovely, and it was. I've read the first two issues now, and overall I give it B+. I think the storytelling in the first issue was a little off in the first issue. Despite its enormous page count, it felt like it was trying to cram just a little too much info in at once, and the layouts weren't always as clear as they should have been. I like an upbeat pace in an adventure comic (pun intended), but there were a couple of scenes that needed more room to breathe. The second issue was much better though, so I'm going to stick with it.
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  • mwhitt80mwhitt80 Posts: 4,641

    July reading.

    Predator omnibus vol 1

    Box Office Poison

    Knights of the dinner table bundle of trouble vol 1

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