#Choose20 comics that stayed with you or influenced you. One comic a day, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
Day 5
Via @notcool
pickP. Djeli Clark is becoming an auto buy for me. This was much more tongue-in-cheek than I expected. There were some excellent action sequences, but the author was very smart in when to use blades vs. when to use words, which not only kept it from being overly violent but also from being predictable. I loved the twists and turns and at just over 200 pages, it tells the story it sets out to tell without dragging on.
bailedThis was unfortunately disappointing. Advertised as a handbook of international winter folklore, it was neither entertaining nor informative. A lot of the entries were very similar, which is a result of cultures borrowing from each other, but the blurbs were too short to provide much information about the differences. The same can be said for the illustrations, which felt too similar to be interesting. DNF at 75%
@chaoticmissadventures #333challenge
Auto-buy: V.E. Schwab, Patrick deWitt, P. Djèlí Clark
Read More: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Walter Mosley, Percival Everett
First Time: Malcolm Gladwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Brom
pickVenom was an early childhood favorite character of mine. My older brother was a Spider-Man fan, and he told me I looked like Venom with my braces (?), so I flipped it and became a fan 😅 This collection of Donny Cates' run introduces Knull and creates a lot of backstory for the symbiotes, while exploring the relationship between Eddie and Venom. Seems like a major source for the recent movies.
Sharon Jones was an amazing artist, and she put together an excellent holiday album! She didn't get her break until she was 40, and over her twenty years in the biz, she became a soul icon. This was released just one year before her untimely death. #tuesdaytunes
pickA beautifully tragic retelling of the first few days of the Hulk from a seasoned, but still traumatized, Banner to his psychiatrist friend. Not only does it tell a strong story of his past, but the psychiatric evaluation of events are subtle but very powerful. Hulk is drawn with exaggerated proportions, but of course Sale would know how to portray him as both innocent and terrifying. A brilliant entry to the Loeb/Sale Marvel colors series.
Thank you @Amiable for the #stuffedstockingswap package! So many excellent goodies and books❤️🎄☃️ A manhunt story seems particularly relevant 😬😉
@avanders #sss
We had a great turnout for our last book club meetup for the year and hosted a fun book exchange.
panI knew not to expect much from the source of one of my favorite Christmas movies, but this was still a strange read. Steeped heavily in Christian theology, yet still unexpectedly horny, with little of the charm and none of the humor of the film adaptation. Also, most of the plot points are completely abandoned by the end. An unsatisfying, but thankfully short, read.
I'm not crying; you're crying 😭
https://youtu.be/pSeaHfkd3M8?si=By7oWI1AfVnFQHqV
#fridayfidelity #tuesdaytunes
pickEssential reading for those open to learning real statistics and hearing personal experiences, as opposed to hiding behind blind faith, inflammatory partisanship, or unfounded personal opinions. This country is being forced to conform to the narrow beliefs of a minority who refuse to consider the consequences of their baseless preferences. Read the source, instead of some twisted media interpretation (because of course they have twisted it).
so-soWhile it was interesting to explore the origins of DC Comics' New Gods, this was a long read. In addition to the general tell-don't-show style of older comics, many of the original issues were oversized 52-page books. The cliffhanger left by obvious cancellation is disappointing. Some of the character designs are extremely silly. Still, the imagination on display is amazing, and there is interesting ground work laid for future DC storylines.
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bailedBail at 42%. This is my first DNF in a while, but I just couldn't with the writing. So many commas! I remember watching The Innocents, which is an adaptation of the book staring Deborah Kerr, and we weren't overly thrilled with the movie either. I guess this isn't an interesting story to me.
Continuing the Christmas-music theme for #tuesdaytunes, this compilation album was in heavy rotation in our house growing up. I actually think we had volume 2 with the green cover. Sales benefitted Special Olympics programs.
Happy #Krampusnacht. Saint Nicholas is celebrated in Europe on December 6, but the evening of December 5 is haunted by Krampus, a fearsome, horned creature who serves as the dark counterpart to Saint Nicholas; scaring naughty children, carrying them away in his sack, or whipping them with birch branches.
For a chance to win this self-published collection of yuletide tales, comment or repost with the hashtag. Winner will be drawn on December 11.
#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe
Potential new classics: Love Hard, Happiest Season, and Klaus; all less than 5 years old, but have become regular watches for us.
Three on my list for this year: The Preacher's Wife (a remake of the Bishop's Wife), Black Christmas, and Tokyo Godfathers
Also, HOW is Just Friends not on this list!?
What 'cha got @wildalaskabibliophile, @doppoetry, @yuki_onna
Happy December! I love Christmas music, but often get bored with the same songs, so I really like it when artists take a chance on new tunes, and Jamie Cullum's The Pianoman at Christmas is one of my recent favorite albums.
#tuesdaytunes
December #bookspinbingo board 😁 @thearomaofbooks
My lunch breaks have been pretty busy recently, and I probably went about 2 weeks without reading at home, so I'm pretty happy with what I still got in last month. Lots of graphic novels during down time at work 😁
pickA delightful and informative picture book looking at various animals and their survival tactics during the snowy winter.
pickThis was a pretty cool little book. A teen accused of a crime he didn't commit is sent to a correctional facility where the kids dig a hole each day. Lots of well-crafted, subtle foreshadowing that comes together nicely as the truth of the area and Stanley's family are slowly revealed.
pickA mysterious assassin is hunting down the previous colleagues of Last Mechanika's associate. An excellent little mystery.
pickMost well-known as the creator of Bojack Horseman, Raphael offers up a great variety of themes and styles in this short story collection. It was great as an audiobook listen, read by a variety of actors, including James Urbaniak and Natalie Morales. The rock band drama “Up-and-Comers“ and the marriage tale “Most Blessed and Auspicious Occasion“ highlight his ability to insert the absurd into a recognizable narrative to create something special.
pickI read a lot of sci-fi and fantasy, so it is sometimes jarring to read a book that is so incredibly real and human. Senhor Jose works at the Central Registry, which records citizens birth and death. His side hobby is collecting records of famous people, but one day he finds the record of "an unknown woman" stuck to the back of a famous person's file. And so begins his quest to learn about her and break the mundanity of his bureaucratic existence.
Does anyone else listen to Alice's Restaurant on Thanksgiving? I haven't heard it in a few years, but both WXPN and WMMR in Philadelphia have an annual airing of the "song" on Thanksgiving Day. I have a reminder on my phone to tune in tomorrow morning ??
#Two4TuesdayTunes 😜
#TuesdayTunes Jon Batiste is a brilliant musician, and I love his new album interpreting the music of Beethoven (special shout-out to Michael Kiwanuka's new album!)
#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
1. The Origin of Love from Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2. I Just Haven't Met You Yet by Michael Bublé or From Above by Ben Folds & Nick Hornby (currently reading All The Names by Jose Saramago)
pickA total blast! 13-year-old Ashley Rayburn finds experimental “warpaint“ created from superhero DNA that gives its wearer superpowers. While a little narrow in scope, a good story is told and this character has a lot of potential for future adventures. I loved the color and the humor. Not sure why the artist changed during the second book; Nicoletta's work isn't bad, but Lusky's art is just really good!
so-soI read this quick history of a town we visited once and will likely never see again 🤪 Somehow it survived the moving purge. It was alright; pretty typical mid West mining area history.
Wicked is in theaters this weekend: a book that became a Broadway show that is now a movie. Are you excited?!
For #tuesdaytunes today, I'm sharing my favorite stage show adapted into a movie. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock musical about an East German singer who tells the story of her betrayal by a collaborator who used their work to gain fame for himself. Created by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask.
Did anyone else watch the Penguin on HBO? As much as I'm ready for a more light-hearted take on the Dark Knight, Matt Reeves' Batman universe is very compelling. The Penguin had an amazing cast, and they told a great mob story set in Gotham. I'm excited to see how the story continues.
pickA direct continuation of book 8, book 9 is a solid quest that starts at Eleanor's school and journeys through several worlds. The dino world is a minor part of the story, but still pretty cool 😁
pickA middle-aged couple face the horrors of nuclear war in this sweet, but devastating adult picture book. A mis/under informed husband tries to man-splain away his worries while his caring but oblivious wife absent-mindedly goes along with his plans. Feels freshly relevant in our age of misinformation, as this couple could only operate with the information they had available, while so many today operate only with the info they choose to accept.
pickReread. It's been a while since I've read Scott Snyder's Batman, but this comic is still amazing. While he would still play in the DC sandbox with Dark Nights, Last Knight is a proper conclusion to Snyder's iconic Batman run. The world has gone to hell, but that's not going to stop Batman from finding the truth, making a plan, and inspiring others to fight one more time.
News to me: Stephen King had authorized a new collection of short stories set in the world of The Stand
https://gizmodo.com/the-stand-stephen-king-anthology-1850948210
#losersclub #constantreader
pickAn android mother writes a letter to her daughter . . .
Originally appearing in Catapult magazine, this short story imagines the process of replication for a future android model, sharing an alien experience through very human terms. Not available in the tagged collection, but available for free at Reactormag.com
https://reactormag.com/become-of-me-veronica-roth/
pickI enjoyed this. I see what he was going for with the excerpts from news reports and hearings, but I don't think it was very effective, since it didn't really add much to the story and the subplot of trying to bury the story didn't really lead anywhere. I also didn't love the choppy editing to insert these asides. The story was solid, though, and the buildup was very tense. #losersclub @BarkingMadRead
#tuesdaytunes is back! I'm excited for several albums in November, but I wanted to highlight three artists I've been following for over a decade who have all earned their first Grammy nominations! Waxahatchee, Madi Diaz, and Lake Street Dive. So exciting. Full Grammy list below, then a link for a Lake Street Dive music video
https://grammy.com/news/2025-grammys-nominations-full-winners-nominees-list
Click for joy: https://youtu.be/n_h4E0AsaJw
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