I finished reading Shazam! A Celebration of 75 Years HC. An overall enjoyable read. The earlier stories were pretty corny of course but they had very decent art. As with all of these 75 Years HC books, it would be so much better if they would include more pages of text and history. Each era has a page or so but they are mostly reprints or abridged pieces from the HC Archives or other collections. It would have been cool if they had also included the issues including the first appearances of Captain Marvel Jr and Mister Tawky Tawny. Other than those, a decent collection of issues. The last issue included was from Justice League #21 (New 52) in which the whole issue was devoted to Captain Marvel (normally just a backup story in the earlier JL issues). This issue rounded off the story by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank which the Shazam movie was in the majority based on. I pulled out all my Justice League issues to reread it. I wouldn't mind Johns and Frank's story getting the OHC deluxe treatment. Pretty good overall.
It’s apparently happening (unless it was cancelled): https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic...deluxe-edition
Wasteland: the apocalyptic editions. Read the first, now the second. I really like this. And it's nice that it's completed so I can binge it
Deadly Class LE 2, read the first one and it didn’t really click, then started watching the TV show, which I thought sucked, so held off reading book 2 as I couldn’t drum up any enthusiasm for it, but it has been fantastic, full of shocking twists and turns, now I’m wondering if I should give the show another go, but the book, heartily recommended
It's been a while since I picked up and read a collected edition of any kind, but I'm now reading Tom King's Mr Miracle TPB.
Pull List: Daredevil, Radiant Black, Rogue Sun, No One, Time Before Time
“We never lose our demons. We only learn to live above them"
I just finished Knightfall, so now I can finally get to rereading my first ever comic series; Y: The Last Man
“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
I just finished the new Death and Return of Superman Omnibus.
I had never read these before now. There were a few loose ends, like what is Doomsday, and who created him. Far different from the animated takes I had seen on this story.
Overall, it was an enjoyable story with mostly mediocre art, which unfortunately seemed the industry standard at the time it came out. It was also around the same time I had stopped reading comics for almost 15 years.
On to Absolute Sandman book two at home and thankfully, it’s as good as it was all those years ago, at work, It’s Chew, the Smorgasbord editions, read the first 4 deluxe editions ages ago and I loved them, then I realised there were some slipcase editions, so I sold the deluxes, But I never got around to reading them until now, so looking forward to finishing the series for the first time
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Rereading Iron Man from Extremis through Civil War II (skipping Taylor and Gillen runs as I didn't like them). The Fraction run is especially good and holds up pretty well in my opinion.
Next up:
Daredevil by Brubaker. Never read this before so I'm excited. Love Bru.
Avengers West Coast by Byrne. First read also.
Conan the Adventurer #1-14. Single issues. I don't know if this was ever released as TPB.