SHUT IN THEATER: Weekend Reading 155

The weekend is right here, and it’s introduced Weekend Reading 155! As traditional, we’ll be holing up in Stately Beat Manor and getting misplaced in a great guide.

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AVERY KAPLAN: This weekend, I’m trying out Fungirl by Elizabeth Pich. Then, so far as prose goes, I’m revisiting Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds by Bernd Heinrich. I beforehand included this guide in my entry for Weekend Reading 56, however with an everyday raven customer outdoors my window nowadays, I’m curious to revisit the guide to refresh myself on these attention-grabbing avians.

DEAN SIMONS: The one-hour commute I’ve for Star Wars Celebration Europe is a useful time to get some studying executed and I’m actually near ending Elizabeth Moon’s Moving Target in order that shall be my studying this weekend. And if I end that I would hop instantly on the follow-up, Engaging the Enemy. In phrases of comics, I’m at the moment delving right into a curious bande dessinée basic – Louis Salvérius and Raoul Cauvin’s Bluecoats (Les Tuniques Bleues), a comedy sequence in regards to the misadventures of two unionist troopers through the American Civil War. It has been operating since 1970 (over sixty volumes have been launched in French) however oddly the Cinebook translations (because the writer ceaselessly tends to do) skipped the early volumes and began at guide six. Anywho, I completed Robertsonville Prison a number of days in the past and can try quantity seven Navy Blues.

TAIMUR DAR: I wouldn’t describe myself as a significant anime fan, however I immediately fell in love with the Spy x Family anime a number of months again. After the current report that the Spy x Family Volume 9 was the best-selling guide final week, it dawned on me that as I look ahead to the second season it’s in all probability a good suggestion for me to learn the unique manga by Tatsuya Endo. So this weekend I’m going to start out at the start with the primary quantity of the Spy x Family manga.

CY BELTRAN: In the midst of an sudden look ahead to a bodily copy of Stephen King’s The Stand, I’ve determined to make this weekend one other catch-up weekend for my stack of floppies that’s been accumulating for slightly too lengthy. First I’m wrapping up Knights of X from Toni Howard, Bob Quinn, Erick Arciniega, and Ariana Maher, in preparation to leap proper into Betsy Braddock, Captain Britain #1-2. Then, on the advice of esteemed Beat editor Avery Kaplan, I’ll be trying out The Darkhold crossover (with 1,000,000 superb creators) from the tip of final 12 months, which I by some means missed in my quest to learn the whole lot Marvel.

REBECCA OLIVER KAPLAN: Cy Beltran‘s Darkhold crossover is such a great choice that I might have to re-read it this weekend! I’m very essential of most people who write Wanda Maximoff, however Steve Orlando understands that the character can defend herself with out the assistance of a person. In my opinion, the crossover can also be a key textual content for understanding Doctor Strange within the Multiverse of Madness. The complete premise of the occasion is that they grow to be bodily corrupted from studying the Darkhold, which is precisely what occurs to the Scarlet Witch on the finish of WandaImaginative and prescient and all through Multiverse of Madness; i.e., as Wanda turns into extra corrupted, her costume develops a “multiversal mold.”

I’m additionally enthusiastic about my different weekend studying, even whether it is for work functions. For the ultimate PanelxPanel, I shall be responding to Lillian Hochwender‘s essay from PanelxPanel #60, “The Color of Pain,” with my very own essay about how ache is represented in comics, notably in comics about Frida Kahlo‘s life. I shall be re-reading Frida: The Story of Her Life by Vanna Vinci, Frida Kahlo: Her Life, Her Work, Her Home by Francisco de la Mora, with translations by Lawrence Schimel, and the prose guide The Culture of Pain by David B. Morris.