Whatcha reading in Aug/2020?

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Whatcha reading in Aug/2020?

1apokoliptian
Editado: Ago 2, 2020, 9:24 pm

Hey Bub, watcha reading in these days?

2apokoliptian
Editado: Ago 8, 2020, 12:40 am

I've finished Bloodstrike: Brutalists. I am not a first hour Image fan (I was too old for it in the 90s), but this book has the feel of an alternative band making a cover of an old weak song and making it better. Michel Fiffe uses all Image's cliches, but his art style (that looks like a teenager doing a fanzine) makes them work. It is worth a look.

3brianjungwi
Ago 4, 2020, 1:41 pm

Wrapped up reading Kill or Be Killed by Ed Brubaker. I thought it was a well done vigilante story.
Reading Ghosted by Joshua Williamson which is kind of a mix between heist story and horror.
Also reading The Flash because a little Barry Allen optimism is a good thing these days.

4Euryale
Ago 4, 2020, 6:57 pm

I'm starting my August reading with Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg and On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden. Other than that I'm still wading through last month's impulsive Humble Bundle purchase, starting with Farmhand for my (currently virtual) book club.

5brianjungwi
Ago 5, 2020, 5:30 pm

Finished two volumes of Fatale by Ed Brubaker as well this week. Noir-ish horror, weird/Cthulhu vibes.

6apokoliptian
Editado: Ago 8, 2020, 12:40 am

>4 Euryale:
Last month you asked about Copra. Well, I didn't read it, but I think that Michel Fiffe is worth checking, as can be seen above.

7apokoliptian
Editado: Ago 8, 2020, 12:26 am

>3 brianjungwi:
Ghosted is great. Have you tried Beasts of Burden?

8apokoliptian
Editado: Ago 8, 2020, 12:39 am

I've bought The Airship Adventures of Little Nemo and started flipping through this little charming book (it is a very small edition, smaller than a regular comic book). While this isn't the best format for admiring Winsor McCay's art, the Alexander Braun's introduction is inspiring.

9apokoliptian
Editado: Ago 8, 2020, 1:01 am

Talking about charming editions, Taschen re-edited The Golden Age of DC Comics in their Bibliotheca Universalis line, which has the format 8" x 5.75" and is less expensive. I was not atracted by the first edition of this book (mainly because it was pricey and I tought that it was a DC's narcissistic homage), but I was amazed by the wide spectrum of this work.
I will read it and come back to share some thoughts.

10edgewood
Ago 9, 2020, 12:51 am

I've read & enjoyed recent graphic novels by two of the hardest working surviving underground cartoonists:

Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead, the moving life story of the sideshow performer who inspired Griffith's Zippy the Pinhead (via Tod Browning's cult film Freaks, that Griffith saw while an art student in the early 1960s).

Reincarnation Stories, the usual wild, unpredictable yarn from Kim Deitch. I love his stuff.

11Euryale
Ago 9, 2020, 4:09 pm

>6 apokoliptian: Thanks for the recommendation. I did get Copra (and Invincible) with the Humble Bundle last month, so I'll be getting around to them in a couple weeks (assuming, as always, that I don't get distracted by something shiny in the meantime).

12defaults
Set 2, 2020, 3:40 pm

Memories of Emanon, which I ran into via the automatic recommendations. The first volume isn't very promising - talking heads speculative fiction where a university student self-insertion of the author meets the titular mysterious fantasy girl.

13brianjungwi
Set 3, 2020, 8:33 am

7> ooh, no. i'll look that up. thanks!