1000 books in 2017

[Brewman]

Yeah i had the same issues with the Silver Age material i read. It just takes longer. Was that your first time reading Annihilation? What did you think of it?

No I had read it before and thought it was amazing first go round so I jumped all over the Omni on release day. The life that was breathed back into the languishing cosmic side was what really hooked me. What was good about this year was I had finally put together (I think) all the premium format Cosmic/Thanos collected editions (Marvel needs to Omni IW, IC, Abyss, W&IW, and the Thanos 2003 series) and have now read it straight through the end of RoK. I read the Warlock MMW's last year so they were still fresh in my mind. Now I need to put together my post RoK reading order for Thanos, but that might have to wait since they have announced the final Starlin trilogy at which point my interest in the furtherance of the character will end.

[Brewman]

Those things should count for at least 1.5 issues each

No kidding!!

[Taral-DLOS]

From 27 October to 18 December (see page 4 for my overall totals):

All-New Wolverine (2015): 25-28
Astonishing X-Men (2017): 4-5
Cable (1993): 150
Deadpool Corps (2010): 1-12
Deadpool Corps: Rank and Foul (2010): handbook
Deadpool Family (2011) one-shot
Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth (2009): 3-13
Edge of Venomverse (2017): 1
Excalibur (1988): 37-41
Excalibur: Weird War III (1990): graphic novel (counts as 3)
Flintstones (2016): 1-12
Generation X (2017): 7-8
Hawkeye (2016): 11-12
Jean Grey (2017): 8
Jetsons (2017): 1
Lady Deadpool (2010): one-shot
Mighty Thor (formerly "Journey into Mystery" and "Thor", 1952): 700-701
Power Pack (1984): 63
Prelude to Deadpool Corps (2010): 1-5
Silver Surfer (2016): 14
Star Wars Adventures (2017): 3
Thor (1998): 80-85
Thor (2007): 1-6
Uncanny X-Force (2010): 5-7, 5.1
Uncanny X-Men (1963; formerly "X-Men"): 278-280
Wolverine/Deadpool: The Decoy (2011): one-shot
X-Factor (1986): 69-70
X-Men Unlimited (1993): 12
X-Men Blue (2017): 14-17
X-Men Gold (2017): 15-17

Total: 100
Overall total: 898

On that basis, I suspect I won't make the 1,000 goal this year. Oh well.

[docgru]

2017 Week 50

Judge Dredd Complete Case Files 30 (284 pages, 13 issues)
Sillage Integrale 1 (6 issues)

Total for the week: 19
Total for the year: 1545

[awayne83]

Update

Fables HC v8-9 (22)

Last update fty. 1122 +22 = 1144. Pretty happy with the total considering where i was sitting at the end of summer. May try and come up with some sort of "best of" list b4 the end of year if time permits

[docgru]

2017 Week 51

Judge Dredd Trifecta (176 pages, 8 issues)
Magic Kaito 4 (8 issues)

Total for the week: 16
Total for the year: 1561

[Mister Mets]

Zot #28-36: The Earth issues of Zot take the series in a different direction, as Zot gets stuck on Earth in the domestic dramas of high-schoolers and those in their orbits. Groundbreaking at the time, it still works now. Even the excess earnestness (which McCloud cops to in the supplemental material) works in a series about a guy from a more innocent world coming to understand ours.

Xenozonic Tales #1-13: Schultz's series about an apocalyptic future where dinosaurs and man share space is clever, especially in the ways the world is slowly build up, from shorter EC style morality tales to something more epic.

All-Star Section Eight #1-6: Over the top Hitman follow-up. Sometimes rather one-note.

Ultimate Spider-Man #45-46:

Spider-Man II #1-5:

Amazing Spider-Man #252-254:

Superman: Earth One Volumes 1-3: Solid accessible reimaginings of Superman that are about something (the need for one person to do the right thing, the difficult choice Clark has to make to be an ordinary man when he could be rich and happy) and do it pretty well.

Total So Far: 1,817 Issues, 55 Graphic Novels

Personal Challenge Progress: 100 Issues from the 2010s complete, 100 issues from the 2000s complete, 100 issues from the 1990s complete, 100 issues from the 1980s complete, 100 issues from the 1970s complete, 100 issues from the 1960s closed, 38 issues from the 1950s, 31 issues from the 1940s, 100 black & white issues closed, 100 issues from Comics Journal's Top 100 complete, 52 Graphic Novels complete

I've met most of my challenges, but unless I plan to spend the next three days solely reading comics I'm going to fall short of the 2017 comics.

I fell short with older comics although one factor is that many of those are published in different formats (IE- The Fantagraphics collections of artists' EC comics work is a different package than the original singles; I'm not going to read the non-Plastic Man issues of Police Comics.) I did read a few stories in the first six months before I set up that sub-challenge, so an earlier start might help next year.

[Mr`Orange]

So got closer to my total for this year than I did last year. A slow patch around the middle of the year took me away from hitting the goal.


Spider-Verse - 28 issues
Decent, nice mix of characters and semi interesting story. Some amazing art though.

Realm #1 - one issue
Fantasy isn't my genre of choice but this was interesting.
Regression #1 - too light for a comic, read it too quickly.

I'm sure I read a few other single issues recently but I haven't jotted them down.


This "week": 30
Total: 648

[docgru]

2017 Week 52 (Last for the year)

Swamp thing by Alan Moore TPB 5, 6 (15 issues)
Lone Sloane Delirius 2 (3 issues)

Total for the week: 18
Total for the year: 1579

[Brewman]

2016 total: 1182

The Champions MMW 17 issues (first 5 counted in '16)
Spider-Woman MMW 14 issues
Sixth Gun Gunslinger 1 12 issues (11+Prose bonus)
Marvels 10th Anniversary Edition 5 issues (4+Extras)
The Maxx Maximized 1-7 35 issues
SHIELD Omnibus 31 issues (Read first 5 issues in 2016) Counted Sterankos interlude as 1/2 issue it is loooong winded.
Thor Siege PHC 6 issues
Astonishing X-Men Ghost Box 8 issues
Astonishing X-Men Exogenetic 5 issues
Astonishing X-Men Monstrous 4 issues
Astonishing X-Men Children of the Brood 4 issues
Astonishing X-Men Exalted 4 issues
Planet Hulk OHC 16 issues
World War Hulk OHC 6 issues
Captain Marvel MMW 1 11 issues
Captain Marvel MMW 2 12 issues
Man-Thing Omnibus 54 issues (by page count, 60 on ToC)
East of West Year 2 15 issues
Captain Marvel MMW 3 13 issues
Captain Marvel MMW 4 13 issues
Captain Marvel MMW 5 13 issues
Captain Marvel MMW 6 12 issues
The Defenders MMW 1 11 issues
The Defenders MMW 2 15 issues
The Defenders MMW 3 10 issues
The Defenders MMW 4 11 issues
Velvet Deluxe 15 issues
The Defenders MMW 5 13 issues
Sixth Gun Gunslinger 2 12 issues
Sixth Gun Gunslinger 3 12 issues
Mister X Archives 14 issues
Mister X The Brides of Mister X 13 issues
Mister X The Modern Age 15 issues
Guardians Solo Clasics Omnibus 48 issues
Thanos Rising 5 issues
Infinity Gauntlet Omnibus 45 issues
Ragnarok Vol 1 6 issues
Ragnarok Vol 2 6 issues
Annihilation Omnibus 28 issues
Annihilation Conquest Omnibus 33 issues
Road to War of Kings Omnibus 46 issues
War of Kings Omnibus 51 issues
Realm of Kings Omnibus 46 issues
Sixth Gun Gunslinger 4 11 issues
Dr. Strange Omnibus 17 issues
Master of Kung Fu Vol 1 28 issues
The Walking Dead Deluxe 14 12 issues
Master of Kung Fu Vol 2 33 issues
Wormwood Gentleman Corpse The First few Pints 14 issues
Master of Kung Fu Vol 3 32 issues
Here's Negan 1 issue
Master of Kung Fu Vol 4 31 issues
Criminal Deluxe Vol 1 13 issues
Criminal Deluxe Vol 2 13 issues
Incognito Deluxe 11 issues
Inhumans MMW Vol 1 10 issues
Inhumans MMW Vol 2 15 issues
Miss Don't Touch Me 8 issues (4 Albums)
Beauty 6 issues (3 Albums)
Deathlok MMW 16 issues

Total: 1036

Bumping my post for my final 2017 count. Didn't quite make 2016 numbers, but I was able to experience a lot of the MU that I had always wanted to. I started picking up MMWs last year for material that is unlikely for Omni IMO and man I wish I had been able to get in on the ground floor on that format. The age of the material slowed me down, but I think Bronze Age Marvel just might be my favorite. They had enough history for call backs and depth; however, there was still enough new territory to explore and not enough history so as to be oppressive. The Sixth Gun has been awesome as well.

[Balakin]

Last day of the year folks! Congrats to everyone who was keeping track regardless if they've managed to complete the 1000 issues, it's all for fun.

Last year I've made a best of and worst of list but honestly I can't remember anything that was too horrible this year, maybe only stuff that I've started but didn't really get (Elektra omnibus) or some that didn't really live up to its reputation (Death note).

As for the best: probably my favourite series this year was Sunstone and the biggest surprise too, I was really hesitant to read this series because I'm not into erotic fiction but it did a really good job of defining itself as something different.
Sejic is also possibly my favourite artist of the year along with Schuiten, Katsuhiro Otomo and Adrian Alphona.

Some other series that were almost the best: Transformers phase 2 (especially the 2 twin series), Nimona, DD by Brubaker, Alex+Ada, Phonogram, Ms Marvel and a good chunk of the Valiant universe (controversial opinion but I really enjoyed Q&W too) especially Ivar since it's a nice standalone Doctor Who story.

[awayne83]

Managed to wrap up Batman: Year One at the last moment. Don't get all the praise. Maybe because it's so ingrained in Batman lore at this point, but I enjoyed many other books/stories much more than this (Sandman for example)


As promised, yearly awards!!

Best Series: Velvet

Honorable Mentions: Black Hammer, Daredevil (Brubaker), Wonder Woman (Rebirth)

Best Artist: Steve Epting (Velvet)

HM: Dustin Nguyen (Descender), Chris Bachalo (UXM)

Biggest Surprise: Cannibal

HM: Black Hammer, Peter Panzerfaust

Biggest Disappointment: Hard Boiled

Dis-HM: Snotgirl, Batman: Year One, Kraven's Last Hunt

Most Unnecessarily Long Title: War of Kings Prelude: Road to War of Kings Omnibus



Happy New Year everyone!!

[Balakin]

just flipped through Descender yesterday when I got it and yeah, that book is gorgeous! Also Velvet was great too, dunno why I didn't mention it, it's such a fun ride and begs to be am ovie or tv series.

Not sure what to tell you about year one, I think you have to look at it as something that was never done before. Sorta like Batman begins, which redefined the tone for superhero movies (well, maybe that was the Dark knight just because it was more successful but Batman Begins started it).

[krisis]

2017 Total: 1260 issues in 273 days - about 4.5 issues a day.
(+512 issues from 1k/yr pace, -249 issues from 2017/yr pace)

I buckled down and had my biggest reading month of the year in September - most issues, most series, and most publishers! It helped that I had to do a lot of sitting around and waiting for things to happen without any of my worldly possessions but with tons of digital comics available (we just moved to New Zealand, and our shipment of belongings didn't arrive until 9/27). I'm still pretty far off my goal of reading 2017 issues this year, but I think I'll wind up pretty close.

I finished reading my 2017th comic of 2017 just eight minutes shy of midnight. It's been quite a journey! I've learned a ton about DC's Universe, caught up with much of current Marvel, and *vastly* expanded my reading of smaller publishers like Vault and Aftershock.

I've attached graphs of my reading pace and my ratings distribution, because what's the fun of reading 2017 comics in one year if you don't analyze and visualize the data!

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[Enigma]

As a science student, I love a good graph!

After finishing The Twelfth Doctor: Year One this morning, I have finished short of 1000 for 2017. I only started counting in March though :P

Totals
Comics - 969
Books - 25
Audiobooks - 4



Latest Contributions: - 166
IDW Transformers Vol 5 (16)
IDW Transformers Vol 6 (16)
James Bond Comic Strip Collections (10)
JB Solstice (1)
JB Kill Chain #5 (1)
Crosswind - #5 (1)
Motor Crush - #8 (1)
Curse Words #10 (1)
Curse Words Holiday Special (1)
MMPR - #21 (1)
MMPR - Year One DE - (15)
The Way of Shadows (9)
Negation - (28)
Negation: Lawbringer - (1)
Mark of Charon (5)
Negation War - (2)
CrossGen Chronicles #7 - (1)
Tenth Doctor Year One (15)
Eleventh Doctor Year One (15)
Twelfth Doctor Year One (17)
The Wolf Gift (9)


Other Books - 2
Ben Shapiro: Bullies
The Way of Shadows



Audiobooks -