1000 books in 2017

[OldManBrian]

either divide the page count with 23 or just **** how it feels. I would count it 13 issues but I remember it having some pages with like 15 panels.

LOL! Every once in a while, a typo comes along to remind me how much one missing letter can really change a sentence.

[Balakin]

LOL! Every once in a while, a typo comes along to remind me how much one missing letter can really change a sentence.

darn, I usually reread my posts but I've missed this one oh well...

[bobellis75]

Recent reads:

Superman American Alien #4-7 (4 issues)
Justice League (Geoff Johns) #30-39 (10 issues)

Thor 350-353 (4 issues) (Yeah I went way back in time here)

Batman Inc Vol 2 #0-13 (14 issues)

32 to add to my initial 25

57 total for 2017

by the way this is the first year I've done this...new post for every update or should I have just edited my initial post?

[Balakin]

Recent reads:

Superman American Alien #4-7 (4 issues)
Justice League (Geoff Johns) #30-39 (10 issues)

Thor 350-353 (4 issues) (Yeah I went way back in time here)

Batman Inc Vol 2 #0-13 (14 issues)

32 to add to my initial 25

57 total for 2017

by the way this is the first year I've done this...new post for every update or should I have just edited my initial post?

really depends on you. I think if you just listing the issues and your list will be reeeeaaallly long, it's better to just update your first post but if you want to post your whole list all the time, it's up to you.

I keep a txt doc with all my current readings and post a review after every 50 or so issues so I always do a new post obviously but that's just how I like it. I think it's more fun though if people write a few lines of what they liked or disliked about their recent readings. I think Mister Mets started to do that last year and I quite enjoy reading these short reviews.

[TomSlick]

The Unwritten OHC
Frankenstein: Agent of Shade (both tpbs)
Infamous Iron Man 1-4

Total: 32

(Still making my way through Bendis' Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah, yeah, I know . . . .)

Made it through Guardians - 48 issues

Total: 80

Starting on The Incal.

[Tayne Japal]

Readings for the month of January:

The Goddamned #5
Mechanism 4-5
Shutter 24
Descender 15-16
Kill or Be Killed 3-4
Black Panther 9-10
Black 1-2
Seven to Eternity 3
Romulus 2
Monstress 8
Tarot, Witch of the Black Rose 1-4
Spider-Man 11-12
Old Man Logan 16
Coffin Hill Vol. 1-3 (20 issues)
Jungle Fantasy: Vixens 1-2
Moonshine 1-3
Jungle Fantasy: Ivory 1-5
IvX 2-3
Uncanny X-Men 17
All New Wolverine 16
Dr. Strange 12-14
Glitterbomb 1-3
Wayward 16-18
Uncanny X-Men Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire (12 issues)
Black Monday Murders 2-3
Eclipse 4
Horizon 3-5
Amazing Spider-Man Renew Your Vows 3
Extraordinary X-MEN 18
Red One 3-4
Southern Cross 1-9
The Spire 1-8

105 so far this year

[Germon]

The Boys #23-47
The Boys: Herogasm #1-6
The Boys: Highland Laddie #1-6
Red Sonja (2017) #0
Locke & Key: Small World #1
Black Hammer #6
Britannia #4
Manifest Destiny #1-12
Birthright #1-5
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Last Month: 58
Total: 58

[balootm]

Never got around to join this last year, but this year I will. So here is my reading for January.

Absolute Sandman vol 2 (part of) #30-39 10#
Big Hard Sex Criminals vol 1 10#
Blueberry: Storm över prärien (Tonnerre à l'ouest) 2#
Carl Barks Library - Donald Duck: Christmas on Bear Mountain (part of) 3#
Gotham Central Omnibus (part of) #26-40 15#
Hellblazer vol 1 - Original Sins 12#
Linda & Valentin: Den falska världen (Valérian et Laureline: Sur les Terres truquées) 2#
Locke & Key Master Edition Volume 1 12#
Locke & Key Master Edition Volume 2 12#
Locke & Key Master Edition Volume 3 13#
Marsupilami: Biba 2#
Rubine: Halloweenmysteriet (La disparue d'Halloween) 2#
Scalped Deluxe Volume 2 13#
Supergirl volume 1: The Girl of Steel 12#
Uti vår hage #5/2016 2#

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Total: 122

[krisis]

Week Four Reading = 86 issues!

2017 Total: 229 issues in 28 days - 23% done! (+152 issues from pace)

Average Issue Rating: 3.25/5 (-.04)

Most-Read Series:
1. Justice League (2011) 38 issues
2. Batman (2011) 18 issues
3. Aquaman (2011) 17 issues

Highest-Rated Series:
1. Clean Room (2015) - 4.42/5 (+1.17 avg)
2. Superman/Wonder Woman (2013) - 4.28 (+1.03 avg)
3. SemiAutoMagic - 3.75 (+.5 avg)

Week Five Reading = 60 issues!

After a solid month of reading outside of my element with New 52 DC (and a solid day reading the rather lengthy Superman: Doomed) my attention span for comics was waning. I wanted to stick with DC reading but read something tonally different from their new stuff, so I took a detour for the last two days to read all of Brubaker and Rucka's Gotham Central. It was good - at points, completely stunning - but has a flabby run in the 20s and I didn't find the end to be satisfying.

I should be able to put my New 52 read to bed in the next two weeks so I can move on to Rebirth and then finally catch up on all of ANAD Marvel in March when it's all on MU.

Action Comics (2011) #32-35 & Annual 3
Batman (2011) #18-20
Gotham Central (2003) #1-40
Green Arrow (2011) #17-20
Supergirl (2011) #34
Superman (2011) #31
Superman/Wonder Woman (2013) #9-12 & Annual 1
Superman: Doomed (2014) #2

2017 Total: 289 issues in 35 days - 29% done! (+193 issues from pace)

Average Issue Rating: 3.35/5 (+.1)

Most-Read Series:
1. Gotham Central (2003) - 40 issues
1. Justice League (2011) - 38 issues
2. Batman (2011) - 21 issues

Highest-Rated Series:
1. Clean Room (2015) - 4.42/5 (+1.07 avg)
2. Gotham Central (2003) - 3.99/5 (+.64 avg)
3. Superman/Wonder Woman (2013) - 3.96/5 (+.61 avg)

[Dark-Flux]

Jan = 97

2000AD #1942
4001ad #4
4001ad: War Mother #1
A&A: The Adventures of Archer & Armstrong #1-4
All-New Wolverine #1-3
All-New X-Men #1-2
American Monster #1-5
Black Hammer #1-5
Black Widow #1
Bloodshot Reborn #14-18
Captain America: Sam Wilson #5
Deadly Class #12-16
Divinity II #1-4
Hitman #51-60
Hitman/JLA #1-2 (Double sized = 4 issues)
Hitman/Lobo: That Stupid Bastich #1
Khaal #1
Kings Quest #1-5
Monster #25-32
Power Man & Iron Fist #2
Prison School #1-15
Rai #16
The Revisionist #1-6
Revolution: Road to Revolution 100 Page Special (100 pages = 5 issues)
Spider-Gwen #1
Spider-man #1

Total = 97

[UltimateTy]

52 Omnibus (21-52) - It was pretty solid to the end but it had so dips with the art

Nailbiter #29 - I didn't really like this issue

Total = 137

[Mister Mets]

Thunderbolts #1-12/ Annual #1: It's an excellent dynamic for a series, as bad guys pretend to be heroes, and some get corrupted by the experience of being good. This is the Busiek of Astro City, showing the people affected by superheroes, with some nice art by Bagley. Pity the challenges the heroes face don't tend to be that interesting.

Hulk Grey #1-6: It's an interesting twist on the usual for Loeb and Sale, as they deal with a hero realizing something dark about himself. Sale's take on Grey Hulk is magnificent. This is a very quick read.

Action Comics #858-863, 866-870: Excellent reintroduction to the Legion of Superheroes and Brainiac from Johns and Frank, who deliver some A-list challenges to Superman.
Green Arrow Year One #1-6:

Batman: Europa #1-4: The art's nice, and the forced team-up with Joker is an interesting challenge. It's a solid Batman standalone; one of many.

Ms. Marvel #12-19: Well-done superhero series with terrific writing and art style. Kamala faces a major betrayal, and the possible end of the world.

SHIELD #2: Decent Ms. Marvel team-up.

And some Spider-Man comics...

Spider-Man Team Up #7: I'm reading this part of a larger Thunderbolts read. It's a solid story about a framed superhero where the twist is that the people hunting Spider-Man figure he's been framed, but want to use the opportunity to wipe out an old foe. It fits into the larger plan in Thunderbolts quite well, as they started getting corrupted by good.

Spider-Man #76-80: Some nice art by John Romita Jr, but largely forgettable stories by Mackie that remind me of better comics.

Spider-Man: Blue #1-6: This story has continued to get better every time I read it. Amazing art by Tim Sale, and almost a distillation of what makes Spider-Man work.

Web of Spider-Man #90: Generic "the last few years have been an illusion" story with some opportunities for interesting visuals for Tom Lyle, and a spotlight on one of the figures from Amazing Fantasy #15.

Amazing Spider-Man #348: Solid one-off with Larsen getting to illustrate Sandman and the Avengers, while Peter and Sandman deal with seperate crisis in purpose.

Plus one graphic novel.

Tetris: The Games People Play) Entertaining and often quite funny take on the philosophy of video games, and the legal fight over the rights to Tetris.

Total So Far: 212 Issues/ 5 Graphic Novels

Best of the batch

[TomSlick]

The Unwritten OHC
Frankenstein: Agent of Shade (both tpbs)
Infamous Iron Man 1-4
Guardians of the Galaxy omnibus: 48

Total: 80

Detective 947-949
TWD 161-163
Moon Knight 9-11
Old Man Logan 15-17
Action Comics 970-972
Star Wars 26-28
Daredevil 14-16
one third of the Incal (four issues)
Total: 25

Overall total: 105

[Mr`Orange]

Thunderbolts #1-12/ Annual #1: It's an excellent dynamic for a series, as bad guys pretend to be heroes, and some get corrupted by the experience of being good. This is the Busiek of Astro City, showing the people affected by superheroes, with some nice art by Bagley. Pity the challenges the heroes face don't tend to be that interesting.

Spider-Man: Blue #1-6: This story has continued to get better every time I read it. Amazing art by Tim Sale, and almost a distillation of what makes Spider-Man work.


Best of the batch

I loved the Thunderbolts when it came out and I'm still hoping for a Omnibus collection of the series...one that jumps over issues 76-81.

As for Spider-Man:Blue it was the only "colour" book I enjoyed, beautiful writing and art.

[krisis]

Batman: Europa #1-4: The art's nice, and the forced team-up with Joker is an interesting challenge. It's a solid Batman standalone; one of many.
[B]

I've been meaning to read this for a few months now, but this positive opinion should push it into my reading list for the week

EDIT: Wow. The art is transfixing and I LOVE a Batman/Joker team-up. I don't seem to like anything by Azzarello, but I could mostly just ignore the words and look at the art