1000 books in 2021 6 6

[THE_BEYONDER]

4 hours ago, Savoyard23 said:

I am actually collecting the Miller DD run as we speak.  I don't have a 168, unfortunately, and may want to wait for a price correction there, if that ever happens.  (Or a good deal.). I bought a few off the stands here and there.  I'm enjoying reading your thoughts on it.

171 & 172 were great.   Can’t go wrong with Miller Bullseye stories.   Hopefully I’ll find the time to read 173-180 tonight. 

[ttfitz]

On 1/10/2021 at 10:42 PM, s-man said:

I just started reading the Tick Omnibus (covers issues 1-6).  Read the first two issues in it and really like the fun poking it does on Supes.  Also I like Edlund's art work.

Feeling like I need to dig out the old issues and read those, rather than the FCBD issues I have been reading.

[ttfitz]

Last count - 8

Latest additions:

Deceivers 1-6

Stephen Grant gives us loads of action and spy intrigue in this series. I enjoyed it a great deal - it had more twists and turns than a road in West Virginia, as Lincoln McCord might say. Well, he probably wouldn't, he's too cool for that sort of thing. Really like the character, though, wish Grant would do a follow up series.

First Law of Mad Science 1-8 + "Three Card Games"

So the writers of this book had a booth at Baltimore Comic Con a few years back, the title caught my eye, so my daughter and I stopped and talked to them - I made some stupid joke about the title (hopefully not an overdone Fight Club riff), they pretended to find it funny, so we got along splendidly. They talked me into buying the first issue - which promptly sat around the house until the following year, when we were walking thru the con and saw their table, "Quick" says I to the girl, "turn around before they see us!" But eventually I read the book, enjoyed it enough to talk to them again, and picked up some more issues.

Anyway, the first 5 issues plus "Three Card Games" are available in a collection called "Work Until Your Family Is Sad". I will say that I found these first issues a little bit busy, a little hard to keep track of the characters, the action jumps around a little too much between the number of different plot threads, and the dark coloring makes the art hard to follow. But I still found it grabbed my attention. The later issues they finally started to hit their stride, and I look forward to all this trouble to end, so I can go to a con and tell them.

Recommended.

Looks like that pushes the count to... 23.

Edited January 13, 2021 by ttfitz

[Savoyard23]

21 hours ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

171 & 172 were great.   Can’t go wrong with Miller Bullseye stories.   Hopefully I’ll find the time to read 173-180 tonight. 

Those were actually the first issues I bought back then.  I thought it was cool that he was fighting the Kingpin and that cover on 171 just drew me in.

I bought some sporadically after that.  I was 9, on a 9-year-old's budget, and probably not ready to appreciate the...grit in Miller's stories.  I'm gonna read them all together when I finally finish the run.  (I have 158-160 en route from Superworld, actually.)

Look forward to your thoughts on the others.

[THE_BEYONDER]

2 minutes ago, Savoyard23 said:

Those were actually the first issues I bought back then.  I thought it was cool that he was fighting the Kingpin and that cover on 171 just drew me in.

I bought some sporadically after that.  I was 9, on a 9-year-old's budget, and probably not ready to appreciate the...grit in Miller's stories.  I'm gonna read them all together when I finally finish the run.  (I have 158-160 en route from Superworld, actually.)

Look forward to your thoughts on the others.

How much of the rest of the run are you missing?

[srezvan]

I'm up to 25 for the year already.

We're almost done with the main Age of Apocalypse storyline. I think just 3 more, then my daughter wants to go back and read the backup stories. Some stories are better than others, but I really enjoy the storyline. 

    

 

The Matt Fraction Hawkeye series was really hyped on the reading thread last year. And it lived up to the hype. I have no idea why a book about Hawkeye is go engaging and entertaining, but it really works. Great story, humor, fun characters and situations. I'm almost done with the second TPB and I've already ordered #3 and #4 so I can finish up the series.

[ttfitz]

39 minutes ago, srezvan said:

The Matt Fraction Hawkeye series was really hyped on the reading thread last year. And it lived up to the hype. I have no idea why a book about Hawkeye is go engaging and entertaining, but it really works. Great story, humor, fun characters and situations. I'm almost done with the second TPB and I've already ordered #3 and #4 so I can finish up the series.

 

So I actually know where my copies of this book are located. Can it read without being immersed in the whole Marvel Universe (which I'm not opposed to, but I haven't kept up for years so I wouldn't want to pull this out if it was)?

[srezvan]

10 minutes ago, ttfitz said:

So I actually know where my copies of this book are located. Can it read without being immersed in the whole Marvel Universe (which I'm not opposed to, but I haven't kept up for years so I wouldn't want to pull this out if it was)?

I couldn't tell you the last recent Marvel book I've read. There are clearly larger Marvel universe things that have happened, but it didn't bother me. I did look up one character on wikipedia. 

Oh, I read X-Men stuff, but it's completely unrelated. Go for it!

[THE_BEYONDER]

Book 6/ 1000

 

DD 173

Nice little story that addresses mental illness, as well as the impact violence has on its victims and their willingness to come forward. 
 

Next up : the return of Elektra 

[Savoyard23]

20 hours ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

How much of the rest of the run are you missing?

Ah, off the top of my head without digging out the box in the next room, let me see...

158-160 are on the way.  I have 167, 171-174, and 180-184.  And 191, I think.  Missing all the others for now.

I also have 128-157 and am slowly working my way back.  One reason I'm going for Daredevil is, it's one of the mainstream Marvel titles where I don't already go deep into the Silver Age, and as opposed to ASM or Hulk, fewer big keys in the way to make it unaffordable.  I actually scored a 131 in a lot on eBay a year or two ago - 131-157 for $75!  The 131 isn't high grade but not a rag either.

Thanks for asking!

[THE_BEYONDER]

8/1000

DD 174 & 175

Elektra is back

The Hand has dispatched its ninja 🥷 assassins 

And DD has lost his radar sense!!!

Great stuff

[Old_Man_Adam]

On 1/13/2021 at 8:01 PM, srezvan said:

I'm up to 25 for the year already.

We're almost done with the main Age of Apocalypse storyline. I think just 3 more, then my daughter wants to go back and read the backup stories. Some stories are better than others, but I really enjoy the storyline. 

    

 

The Matt Fraction Hawkeye series was really hyped on the reading thread last year. And it lived up to the hype. I have no idea why a book about Hawkeye is go engaging and entertaining, but it really works. Great story, humor, fun characters and situations. I'm almost done with the second TPB and I've already ordered #3 and #4 so I can finish up the series.

Hawkeye was a Great run - upon re read - as an x-man fanatic the age of apocalypse wasn’t as good... as painful as this is to admit 

[kccoig14]

I'm gonna go ahead and join in on this again this year. Last year I was keeping track of my progress over on the DC app and was able to repost most of my submissions from over there to here on these boards before the end of the year. But ill be trying to make a post here at least once every couple weeks since I seem to be going through a lot of comics so far this year already. Ill also be posting pics of my favorite books that I read on each of the lists I post and some covers that I just think are cool. Lately I've been reading a lot of Marvel, trying to get caught up on runs/ events that I missed. I'm also going to be going through my golden age books (mostly) in alphabetical order and reading some of those that I haven't read yet. Anyway, here's my first list of everything that I've read since January 1st.

-King in Black: Namor #2, Symbiote Spider-Man #3, Return of the Valkyries #1, Iron Man/Doom #1, Planet of the Symbiotes #1, Gwen's vs. Carnage #1, Thunderbolts #1 (7)
-Taskmaster #1-2 (2)
-Thor #11
-Guardians of the Galaxy #10
-Venom #32
-Amazing Spider-Man #55-57 (3)
-Spider-Woman #8
-Wolverine #8

-Dark Knights: Death Metal #7, :The Secret Origin #1, :The Last Stories of the DC Universe #1, The Last 52: War of the Multiverses #1 (4)
-Detective Comics #1033
-Future State: The Next Batman #1, Dark Detective #1, Swamp Thing #1 (3)
-Batman Annual #5
-Detective Comics #1033

-Crossover #2,3 (2)
-Spawn #312, 313 (2)
-Buster Brown Comics (1945) #7, 10 (2)
-Jack Armstrong (1947) #8
-Buck Roger's in the 25th Century (1951) #101
-Justice Traps the Guilty (1947) #29

-Defenders: The Best Defense TPB (5)
-Marvel Universe: The End TPB (6)
-Infinity Omnibus HC (24)
-Sub-Mariner: The Depths (5)
-Famous First Editions New Fun #1
-Guardians of the Galaxy & X-Men: The Black Vortex HC (13)
-Inhumanity TPB (20)
-Harrow County Omnibus vol. 1 (16)

TOTAL: 126
2021 TOTAL: 126

[Scrooge]

On 1/13/2021 at 8:55 PM, srezvan said:

On 1/13/2021 at 8:40 PM, ttfitz said:

So I actually know where my copies of this book are located. Can it read without being immersed in the whole Marvel Universe (which I'm not opposed to, but I haven't kept up for years so I wouldn't want to pull this out if it was)?

I couldn't tell you the last recent Marvel book I've read. There are clearly larger Marvel universe things that have happened, but it didn't bother me.

Agreed. No need to be bathed in Marvel mythos to catch on to the story and it's a fast reader and just fantastic. You'll enjoy finishing it and ttfitz will enjoy it from the start. Simple, well designed art that serves the story. Amazing what some people can do with just a few well placed lines.

[Ken Aldred]

On 1/15/2021 at 1:17 AM, Old_Man_Adam said:

Hawkeye was a Great run 

Fraction and Aja work well together.  Immortal Iron Fist is worth looking at too.

[Old_Man_Adam]

1 minute ago, Ken Aldred said:

Fraction and Aja work well together.  Immortal Iron Fist is worth looking at too.

I’ll check it out - funny you mention it , I bought the first TPB ( iron fist ) of that run years ago but haven’t read it yet ...

[srezvan]

34 comics for the year!

Age of Apocalypse is almost complete. It's so funny to hear my daughter get so excited to read X-Men Omega and then go back and read the backup stories. She's very interested in how Scarlet Witch died - the reader knows early on that she's dead, so not really a spoiler. Not all the AoA books are great, but I still really enjoy the "what if" storyline. X-Calibre may be my least favorite.

  

 

I also finished the second Hawkeye TPB. Still a fantastic series, and I've already purchased TPBs 3 and 4 so I can finish the run. I'm still very happy about my decision to start selling off my floppies and switch to TPBs. Great series, but I was thrown off by the "Pizza Dog" story at first. I really had no idea that was such a popular/famous issue. That's how little I keep up with modern comics. I went back and read it again and enjoyed it more the second time. Grills!!!!!!!!

 

After all this talk of Iron Fist, I went and added the first TPB to my want list. I've only read one Iron Fist story, and that was the 1st appearance of Sabretooth. All I know of Iron Fist is the awful Netflix series with the most whiny billionaire superhero known to humankind. But, I don't think I've had a bad recommendation from this thread yet, so I'll give it a try, eventually.

 

I've got some Conan books started already. Should be a quick read. And then? Maybe Tag and Bink. How knows?

[WeR138]

Amazing Spider-Man

24 more issues between 138 and 185.  Pretty much all Ross Andru now, but that's all right with me. I associate him with Spider-Man more than probably any other artist.
Still missing a lot of issues, so I'm not getting much in the way of completed arcs.

Highlight: 

I have a soft spot for the Nightcrawler, Punisher, Jigsaw story in 161 and 162. If I had more of the issues, the Clone story-line would have rated much higher. 

48 issues read in 2021

[piper]

On 1/3/2021 at 7:54 PM, piper said:

How are people tracking their reads?  With my venture into Collected Editions and my digital reading on Hoopla/Marvel Unlimited.  This sounds doable.  We'll see if that's still the case once I head back to work tomorrow.

Reads so far:

Deadly Class 17 - 44 (27 issues)

Black Magick 1 - 11 (11 issues)

Money Shot 1 - 5 (5 issues)

 

I’m on a Jason Aaron’s Thor kick. I just finished Thor God of Thunder 1 to 25. This is a great Thor story, right up with Simonson’s run.  Highly recommended!

New tally is 68 issues.

[Artboy99]

5 minutes ago, piper said:

I’m on a Jason Aaron’s Thor kick. I just finished Thor God of Thunder 1 to 25. This is a great Thor story, right up with Simonson’s run.  Highly recommended!

New tally is 68 issues.

but your trades/ omnibus are one book.