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I haven't read so much this month because of work. However, I reread the N52 Batman. I loved the initial Court of Owls stories, but the whole Gordon as Batman thing didn't work for me. I think the idea was fine and I was happy to read it, it just didn't read well in the end. I also wasn't keen on the whole collection of one shots to wrap up his run. I'm not sure if they were spread out and more meaningful whilst writing and then just collected as the final TPB, but whatever. I would have preferred an extra arc.
[B][COLOR="#FF0000"]Goals[/COLOR][/B]
Comics - 1000
Books - 30
[COLOR="#00FF00"][B]This Month[/B][/COLOR]
[U]Comics - 87[/U]
New 52 Batman - 87
[U]Books - 0[/U]
[COLOR="#FFA500"][B]Overall[/B][/COLOR]
[U]Comics - 697[/U]
January: 181
February: 128
March: 48
April: 132
May: 121
June: 87
July:
August:
September:
October:
November:
December:
[U]Books - 19[/U]
January: 5
February: 2
March: 2
April: 7
May: 3
June: 0
July:
August:
September:
October:
November:
December:
[B][COLOR="#0000CD"]Complete Reading Record 2020[/COLOR][/B]
[U]Comics[/U]
An Inspector Calls - 6
Batman: New 52 - 87
Batman: Venom - 5
Black 47 - 4
Bloodthirsty: One Nation Under Water - 5
Chew - 64
Doctor Who Tenth Doctor Year One - 15
Ether V1 - 5
Green Valley - 9
Hacktivists - 4
I Kill Giants - 7
Kingdom of the Wicked - 4
Midas - 8
My Friend Dahmer - 10
Negation - 37
Ordinary - 3
Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood - 7
Pride of Baghdad - 6
Sabrina - 9
Sally Heathcote: Suffragette - 8
Secret - 7
Tex: The Lonesome Rider - 10
The Clock #1-2 - 2
The Facts of Life - 10
The Fade Out - 12
The Last Days of American Crime - 3
The Underwater Welder - 10
To End All Wars - 15
The Walking Dead: Book I to XVI - 193
Violent Cases - 2
Virgil - 4
Water Baby - 7
WW: Deodato/Messner-Loebs - 15
WW: Gail Simone - 34
WW: John Byrne - 39
WW: Phil Jimenez - 31
[U]Books[/U]
Barnaby: Death in Disguise
Beauty and the Brooding Boss
Diablo: Storm of Light
Doctor Who: The Stealers of Dreams
Gerritsen: Girl Missing
Gerritsen: In Their Footsteps
Gerritsen: Presumed Guilty
James Bond: Goldfinger
James Bond: Solo
King: Salems Lot
King: Carrie
Languedoc Trilogy: Sepulchre
Morse: Service of all the Dead
Morse: The Dead of Jericho
The Starling & Other Stories
TWD: The Rise of the Governor
TWD: The Road to Woodbury
TWD: The Fall of the Governor I
TWD: The Fall of the Governor II
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June
Jack of Fables 2-3 (30)
Fables 4 (9)
Fullmetal Alchemist 9 (6)
DMZ 3-5 (46)
The Underwater Welder (8)
Lady Killer (10)
Hellblazer omnibus (48)
Izombie omnibus (28)
House of Secrets omnibus (29)
Teen Titans omnibus Wolfman & Perez (13)
Total for month: 227 issues
Total so far: 1331 issues
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Didn't read a lot of comics in June as I was consumed reading a lot of prose novels this month that took up all my reading time.
Here's what comics I did read...
YTD through May 638
June
Planetary Vol. 2 The Fourth Man (includes #7-12; Wildstorm/DC; 2000-2001)
Planetary Vol. 3 Leaving the 20th Century (includes #13-18; Wildstorm/DC; 2001-2004)
Planetary Vol. 4 Spacetime Archaeology (includes #19-27; Wildstorm/DC: 20014-2009)
Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower GN (262 pp; Abrams Comicarts; 2020)
Black Moon Chronicles Vol. 1: The Sign of Darkness (48 pp; Dargaud/Europe comics; 2017)
Green Arrow #1-4 (DC; 1983)
Green Arrow #81-85 (DC; 1993-1994)
June total the equivalent of 45 comics
new YTD total: 683
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January: 62
Feb / March: 295
April: 32
May: 92
June: 180
July:
Lady Killer Library Edition: 10
Agent 327 Integraal 5 (Dutch): 12
Alias omnibus: 29
Total: 712
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Action Comics # 1017 - 1021 (5 issues)
Animal (1988) # 1
Annihilation The Scourge Alpha # 1
Annihilation The Scourge Nova # 1
Annihilation The Scourge The Fantastic Four # 1
Annihilation The Scourge Beta Ray Bill # 1
Annihilation Scourge Silver Surfer # 1
Annihilation The Scourge Omega # 1
(6 issues)
Archer & Armstrong (Vol. 2) (2012) # 1 - 9 (9 issues)
Avengers (Vol. 4) (2010) # 8
Batman The Smile Killer # 1
Batman Shadow of the Bat # 75 , Batman # 555, Detective Comics # 722, Batman Shadow of the Bat # 76 , Robin # 54 (5 issues)
Batman Beyond (Vol. 6) (2016) # 31 - 42
(11 issues)
Bloodshot (Vol. 3) (2012) #'s 1 - 13, # 0 (15 issues)
Bloodshot & H.A.R.D Corps # 15 - 18 (4 issues)
Dark Nights Death Metal # 1
Eternal Warrior (Vol. 2) (2013) # 1 - 4 ( 4 issues)
The Flash (Vol. 5) (2016) # 52 - 57 (6 issues)
Green Lantern 80th Anniversary ( 5 issues)
Harbinger (Vol. 2) (2012) #'s 0, 1 - 14 (15 issues)
Harbinger Wars (2013) # 1 - 4 (4 issues)
Hell Arisen (2019) # 1 - 4 (4 issues)
Hellsing # 3- 14 (12 issues)
Joker : Killer Smile (2019) # 1 - 3 (3 issues)
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (2016) # 0 - 13 (14 issues)
Onslaught Marvel Universe (2 issues)
Superman (Vol. 5) (2018) # 17 - 19 (3 issues)
Superman Villains # 1
Superman Heroes # 1 (2 issues)
X-O Manowar (Vol. 3) (2012) #'s 1 - 14 (14 issues)
X-Men # 65
Issues read this month : 152
Issues read this year: 480
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Here is my list for June. Not a bad list seeing how I havnt read any comics in the last 9 days.
Lois Lane - 1
All Winners Squad - 8
Black Cat - 1
Black Panther - 3
Marvel Mystery Comics - 3
Marvel Zombies Volume 1 - 5
Marvel Zombies Volume 2 - 5
Marvel Zombies Dead Days - 1
Sub Mariner - 1
Ultimates - 8
Ultimate Elektra - 5
Ultimate Fantastic Four - 21
Ultimate Nightmare - 5
Ultimate Secret - 4
Ultimate Six - 4
Ultimate Spiderman - 29
Ultimate Xmen -23
USA Comics - 4
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 4
Monthly Total - 135
Yearly Total - 1395
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My reads for June:
[B]Transformers: Lost Light #14-25[/B] (12)
[B]Optimus Prime 15-25[/B] (11)
[B]Transformers: Unicron #0-6[/B] (7)
-This finished out my IDW Transformers binge. Revolution and all the Hasbro crossover stuff did nothing for me (I have no attachment to any of those franchises) but I enjoyed the run overall. Lost Light and its predecessor title were the highlights for me, even if I did have a bit of trouble keeping all the characters across all the books straight due to not knowing much about Transformers aside from a few characters I recall from childhood.
[B]Sex Criminals #29[/B]
[B]Batman (2016) #92-93 [/B](2)
[B]Nightwing (2016) #71[/B]
[B]Nightwing (2016) Annual #3[/B]
[B]Batman: Gotham Nights (2020) #7, 9 [/B](2)
[B]Joker 80th Anniversary Special #1 [/B](3)
[B]Catwoman 80th Anniversary Special #1[/B] (3)
[B]Batman: The Smile Killer #1[/B]
[B]Birds of Prey (2020) #1
Strange Adventures (2020) #2
Flash (2016) #755-756 [/B](2)
[B]Flash (2016) Annual #3
Lois Lane (2019) #11
Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (2019) #11
Swamp Thing: New Roots #6[/B]
[B]Valkyrie: Jane Foster #10
Black Panther (2016) #1-18 [/B](18)
[B]Black Panther #166-172 (7)
Black Panther (2018) #1-22[/B] (22)
-I definitely enjoyed this run much more before the most recent relaunch with all the space stuff, but at least it eventually ties all the stories together. Wish the final issues of the run would be put out though!
[B]Excalibur (2019) #10
New Mutants (2019) #10
Uncanny X-Men#231-280[/B] (50)
[B]New Mutants (1983) #95-97[/B] (3)
[B]X-Factor (1986) #35-39, #60-62, 65-70[/B] (14)
[B]X-Men (1991) #1-3[/B] (3)
[B]X-Men: Fatal Attractions (Milestones TPB) [/B](12)
[B]X-Men: Phalanx Covenant (Milestones TPB)[/B](17)
[B]Generation X (1994) #1-15 [/B](15)
[B]Generation X Annual 1995 #1
X-Men: Legionquest TPB [/B](12)
[B]X-Force (1991) #42
X-Men: Age Of Apocalypse: Dawn TPB[/B] (10)
[B]X-Men: Age Of Apocalypse Vol 1 - Alpha TPB [/B](9)
[B]X-Men: Age Of Apocalypse Vol 2 - Reign TPB[/B] (14)
[B]X-Men: Age Of Apocalypse Vol 3 - Omega TPB [/B](13)
[B]X-Men: Road to Onslaught 1 TPB [/B](12)
[B]X-Men: Road to Onslaught 2 TPB[/B] (4)
-Finally finished my Claremont re-read (after only having read his run for the first time last year, I decided almost immediately to re-read it at a slower pace to better absorb and savor it) and enjoyed even more than the first time. I then re-read some select storylines through Age of Apocalypse before finally diving into the post AoA material for the first time. My goal is to eventually have read all the X-Books up to the present, if I can stand it.
[B]Total for June: 292
Year to Date Total: 1716[/B]
Looks like Im on track to possibly top 2000 by end of July if I can keep up my current pace!
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[B]Powers of X #1-6/ House of X #1-6:[/B] Awesome launching pad for Hickman's X-Men relaunch.
[B]Half Past Danger #1-6/ Volume 2 #1-5: [/B]Solid World War 2 adventure story. With some dinosaurs and decent characterization.
[B]Once & Future #1-8:[/B]Decent beginning to a modern fantasy series with clever dynamics (the idea that resurrecting King Arthur may go badly, the hero's grandmother as the hero-scholar.)
[B]The Boys #52-72:[/B] I don't know if the series needed 72 issues, but the final arcs do go in some interesting directions.
[B]Transformers: All Hail Megatron #1-12/ Drift #1-4/ Spotlight: Drift:[/B] Drift seemed like a Dinobot ripoff, but the stories are okay. The main arc uses the villain's victory as a soft reboot. It's okay Transformers comics, and more accessible than the norm.
[B]Spawn #26-28/ Angela #0, 1-3/ Violator #1-3:[/B] These aren't great comics, with Alan Moore & Neil Gaiman having different takes on Spawn than what we see in the main book, which wasn't all that interesting to begin with, although they have some fun with the ridiculous mythos.
[B]No One Left to Fight #1-5:[/B] I really should like a Dragon Ball Z influenced comic, but the fights are too low-stakes, which kinda makes sense with the theme of victorious heroes who have nothing to do, but isn't that interesting.
[B]Silver Surfer Black #1-5: [/B]Trippy but satisfying cosmic Marvel arc.
Comics So Far: 760
Best of the batch: House of X #2. A great standalone story in which everything changes.
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[B]June[/B]
Even slower month. Should change soon.
[B]Drax the Destroyer[/B] #1 - #4 (4)
[B]Annihilation Prologue[/B] (2)
[B]Annihilation: Nova[/B] #1 - #3 (3)
[B]Total for June[/B] = 9
[B]Total for Year[/B] = 602
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Second quarter readings:
Grimm Fairy Tales: Tarot 1-6
Black Cat 8-10
The Complete Suiciders: The Big Shake (12 issues)
Dejah Thoris 3-4
X-Force 5-9 (5 issues)
Marauders 5-9 (5 issues)
X-men 5-6
Excalibur 5
Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy 6
Authority Vol. 1-2 (29 issues)
Fathom Vol 7 (8 issues)
Reaver 3-6 (4 issues)
Zombie Tramp Vol 11-12 (8 issues)
Spirit Hunters 1-12
Giant Size Jean Grey and Emma Frost
Lady Mechanika: Sangre 5
Robyn Hood: Vigilante 5-6
Oblivion Song 16-21 (6 issues)
Catwoman 21
Persuasion 1
Lucy Claire: Redemption 4
Grimm Tales of Terror 2019 Halloween Special
Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity 1-3
Lazarus: Risen 2-3 (6 issues)
Red Sonja: Age of Chaos 1-3
Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 2 19-25 (7 issues)
Grimm Fairy Tales 2019 Annual
Grimm Fairy Tales 2019 Giant Size
129 issues for a 2020 total of 243.
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[B]Knight & Squire #1-6:[/B] Decent series about the wacky world of British superheroes.
[B]Locke & Key Volumes 1, 2 & 3:[/B] 18 issues total. It's a great dynamic, explored effectively, and with some big moments, like the way everything changes in the second volume.
[B]Sugar & Spike #24-30:[/B] Cute charming series about misbehaving toddlers, and how they see the world.
[B]JSA #76-81:[/B] The Geoff Johns issues are decent superhero comics.
[B]The Man of Steel #1-6, Superman #1-6, Action Comics #1001-1006:[/B] Bendis and a bevy of great artists, explore Superman's heart and character, though there are some structural flaws. The big bad is a bit unearned.
[B]X-Men #1-9, Giant Sized: Nightcrawler, Giant Sized: Magneto, Giant Sized: Emma Frost & Jean Grey:[/B] Hickman & company explore the ramifications of the mutants becoming a major superpower, with some interesting new concepts (Krakoa's twin, evil elderly horticulturalists.)
[B]The Old Guard #1-5, The Old Guard: Force Multiplied #1-5:[/B] Solid action series about jaded immortals. I love the match of Fernandez with this style of coloring.
Comics So Far: 837 Issues
Best of the batch: Locke & Key Volume 2
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[B]July[/B]
Teen Titans omnibus 1 (17)
Trillium deluxe (8)
We3 deluxe (3)
Berserk deluxe 5 (28)
Teen Titans omnibus 2 (24)
Blacksad TP (10)
James Bond by Ellis HB (12)
Teen Titans omnibus 3 (26)
Irredeemable compedium (40)
Punk Rock Jesus deluxe (6)
Teen Titans omnibus 4 (25)
Teen Titans by Geoff Johns omnibus (60)
[B]
Total for month: 259 issues
Total so far: 1590 issues[/B]
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Not much in the way of comics this month...
[B][COLOR="#FF0000"]Goals[/COLOR][/B]
Comics - 1000
Books - 30
[COLOR="#00FF00"][B]This Month[/B][/COLOR]
[U]Comics - 19[/U]
• JB: The Quasimodo Gambit - 3
• Mercy #1-2 - 2
• Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide - 14
[U]Books - 10[/U]
• Barnaby: Written in Blood
• Belgariad: Pawn of Prophecy
• Belgariad: Queen of Sorcery
• Belgariad: Magician’s Gambit
• Belgariad: Castle of Wizardry
• Conundrum
• Doctor Who: The Stone Rose
• East of Eden
• Invisible Library: The Invisible Library
• The Secret History of Wonder Woman
[COLOR="#FFA500"][B]Overall[/B][/COLOR]
[U]Comics - 716[/U]
January: 181
February: 128
March: 48
April: 132
May: 121
June: 87
July: 19
August:
September:
October:
November:
December:
[U]Books - 29[/U]
January: 5
February: 2
March: 2
April: 7
May: 3
June: 0
July: 10
August:
September:
October:
November:
December:
[B][COLOR="#0000CD"]Complete Reading Record 2020[/COLOR][/B]
[U]Comics[/U]
• An Inspector Calls - 6
• Batman: New 52 - 87
• Batman: Venom - 5
• Black ’47 - 4
• Bloodthirsty: One Nation Under Water - 5
• Chew - 64
• Doctor Who Tenth Doctor Year One - 15
• Ether V1 - 5
• Green Valley - 9
• Hacktivists - 4
• I Kill Giants - 7
• JB: The Quasimodo Gambit - 3
• Kingdom of the Wicked - 4
• Mercy #1-2 - 2
• Midas - 8
• My Friend Dahmer - 10
• Negation - 37
• Ordinary - 3
• Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood - 7
• Pride of Baghdad - 6
• Sabrina - 9
• Sally Heathcote: Suffragette - 8
• Secret - 7
• Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide - 14
• Tex: The Lonesome Rider - 10
• The Clock #1-2 - 2
• The Facts of Life - 10
• The Fade Out - 12
• The Last Days of American Crime - 3
• The Underwater Welder - 10
• To End All Wars - 15
• The Walking Dead: Book I to XVI - 193
• Violent Cases - 2
• Virgil - 4
• Water Baby - 7
• WW: Deodato/Messner-Loebs - 15
• WW: Gail Simone - 34
• WW: John Byrne - 39
• WW: Phil Jimenez - 31
[U]Books[/U]
• Barnaby: Death in Disguise
• Barnaby: Written in Blood
• Beauty and the Brooding Boss
• Belgariad: Pawn of Prophecy
• Belgariad: Queen of Sorcery
• Belgariad: Magician’s Gambit
• Belgariad: Castle of Wizardry
• Conundrum
• Diablo: Storm of Light
• Doctor Who: The Stealers of Dreams
• Doctor Who: The Stone Rose
• East of Eden
• Gerritsen: Girl Missing
• Gerritsen: In Their Footsteps
• Gerritsen: Presumed Guilty
• Invisible Library: The Invisible Library
• James Bond: Goldfinger
• James Bond: Solo
• King: Salem’s Lot
• King: Carrie
• Languedoc Trilogy: Sepulchre
• Morse: Service of all the Dead
• Morse: The Dead of Jericho
• The Secret History of Wonder Woman
• The Starling & Other Stories
• TWD: The Rise of the Governor
• TWD: The Road to Woodbury
• TWD: The Fall of the Governor I
• TWD: The Fall of the Governor II
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I broke 2000 this month, with the vast majority of it being 90s X-books as I continue my big X-Read-A-Thon.
X-Men: Road to Onslaught 2 TPB (7)
X-Men: Road to Onslaught 3 TPB (13)
Excalibur 83-103 (21)
X-Factor (1986) 112-135 (24)
Wolverine (1988) 91-115 (25)
Wolverine (1988) Annual '95
Cable & X-Force Classic TPB (13)
Wolverine/Gambit: Victims 1-4 (4)
Ghost Rider (1990) 67-68 (2)
X-Man (1995) 5-29 (25)
Starjammers 1-4 (4)
Cable & X-Force: Onslaught Rising TPB (12)
Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix 1-4 (4)
Storm (1996) 1-4 (4)
Cable 32-47 (16)
Uncanny X-Men 333-346 (14)
X-Men Unlimited (1993) 11-16 (6)
X-Men (1991) 53-66 (14)
X-Men: Onslaught 1
X-Force (1991) 57-69 (13)
Incredible Hulk 444
Avengers 401
Fantastic Four 415-416 (2)
Generation X (1994) 17-28 (12)
Punisher 11
Marvel Universe: Onslaught 1
Onslaught: Epilogue 1
Pryde and Wisdom 1-3 (3)
Wolverine (1988) Annual '96
Uncanny X-Men Annual 20-21 (2)
Magneto (1996) 1-4 (4)
X.S.E. 1-4 (4)
X-Men (1991) Annual '96
Generation X Annual '96
The Beast (1997) 1-3 (3)
X-Man Annual '96
Amazing Spider-Man 420
X-Men (1991) Annual '97
Cable & X-Force Annual '96
Cable & X-Force Annual '97
New Mutants: Truth or Death 1-3 (3)
Domino (1997) 1-3 (3)
X-Force (2019) 10
FCBD 2020: X-Men 1
Giant Size X-Men: Magneto 1
X-Men/Fantastic Four (2020) 4
Empire: X-Men 1
New Mutants (2019) 11
Hellions (2020) 2
Wolverine (2020) 3
X-Men (2019) 10
X-Factor (2020) 1
Batman (2016) 94 -95 (2)
Flash (2016) 757-758 (2)
Batman: Gotham Nights 12, 15 (2)
Lois Lane (2019) 12
Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (2019) 12
Nightwing (2016) 72
Strange Adventures (2020) 3
Ghostbusters: Year One 4
[B]Total for July: 293[/B]
[B]Year to Date Total: 2010[/B]
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Αrcher & Armstrong (Vol. 2) (2012) # 's 10 - 13 (4 issues)
Avengers (Vol. 7) (2018) #'s 21 - 25 (5 issues)
Cable (1993) # 47
Dark Nights Death Metal (2020) # 2
Detective Comics # 989 - 1005 (23 issues)
Detective Comics Annual # 2
Go Go Power Rangers (2017) # 1 - 32 (32 issues)
Go Go Power Rangers Forever Rangers (2019) # 1 (2 issues)
Harley Quinn Black White Red (2020) # 1( 1 issue)
The L.A.W. (1999) # 1 - 2 (2 issues)
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (2016) #'s 14 - 50 (37 issues)
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Annual 2018 # 1 (2 issues)
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Shattered Grid (2018) # 1 (2 issues)
Uncanny X-Men # 346 , Cable (1993) #'s 45 - 47, X-men # 66 - 68, Wolverine (Vol 2) (1988) # 115
(8 issues)
Wonder Woman (Vol. 5) (2016) # 759
Issues read this month : 133
Issues read this year: 613