Saturday’s right here, and it introduced Weekend Reading 153! Whether we’re holed up in Stately Beat Manor or reporting stay from WonderCon 2023, you’ll be able to wager that The Beat Elite will likely be doing what we do greatest: studying!
What are you planning on paging by this weekend? The Beat is ready to listen to from you! Give us a shout-out, right here within the remark part or over on social media @comicsbeat.
AVERY KAPLAN: In honor of William Shatner’s 92nd birthday, I’ll be studying his novel Star Trek: The Ashes of Eden, co-authored with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, one other excellent used-bookstore rating by my partner Rebecca Oliver Kaplan. So far, I’ve solely learn the “also by” part, however might the author behind classics like TekLords, Tek Secret, and Tek Money actually go mistaken? Then, so far as comics go, I’m lastly going to be trying out Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America by Box Brown.
ADAM KARENINA SHERIF: Avery, I really like Box Brown’s non-fiction stuff! I haven’t learn Cannabis but, however Andre The Giant and Is This Guy For Real? have been each wonderful. Meanwhile, I’ll be studying the current problems with Miles Morales: Spider-Man. I lastly bought round to the primary problem of Cody Ziglar and Federico Vicentini’s new run this week and that is the perfect Miles’ voice has ever sounded within the comics for me. The artistic staff additionally nailed the important Spider-Man tensions and themes so I’m excited to see this sequence develop.
DEAN SIMONS: It has taken me years (and a restart or two) however I’ve now reached the house stretch of Tite Kubo’s 74-volume manga opus Bleach. Currently at quantity 70. Can I end it this weekend?
ARPAD OKAY: I’m studying The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture by Samantha Baskind. The cowl of the ebook bought me: a Jon Bogdanove panel, Superman as Moses main his individuals out of hazard. So far I’ve been handled to Arthur Szyk’s Tom of Findland-esqe resistance artwork “Muscle Jews.” Now, on to the Rod Serling chapter, and utilizing style fiction to confront blacklisted social points. Avery and Adam, I haven’t learn Box Brown’s nonfiction, however I really like his stuff in Suspect Device… perhaps I’ll learn the ish I picked up at Desert Island…
TAIMUR DAR: I could also be busy as a part of Team Beat masking WonderCon proper now, however I’ve positively loaded my iPad to maintain me busy with studying materials throughout the weekend. To that finish, I discussed beforehand that I’ve been diving into the work of Junji Ito. I’m at present engaged in studying Black Paradox and Tomie.
REBECCA OLIVER KAPLAN: It’s WonderCon this weekend, so it’s all about purse-sized books. As Avery already talked about, I finished by the used bookstore to choose up some studying materials whereas I look ahead to panels this weekend. I will likely be trying out Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O’Malley and Neko Ramen by Kenji Sonishi. Hopefully, I will likely be including to the studying record over the weekend as properly!!
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