Welcome to Weekend Reading 159: Free Comic Book Day 2023 version! Will you be heading to your Local Comic Shop to choose up among the FCBD choices this yr?
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AVERY KAPLAN: This weekend, I’m trying out Salome’s Last Dance by Daria Tessler. Then, impressed by Stephen King’s Danse Macabre, I’m revisiting one among my favourite prose novels ever: We Have Always Lived within the Castle by Shirley Jackson. My Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of the seminal e-book options an arresting illustrated cowl by Thomas Ott.
TAIMUR DAR: Scrolling via the libby app on the varied comedian collections obtainable to borrow, I found the primary quantity of The Sensational She-Hulk that encompasses the start of John Byrne’s run on the character. You’d assume I’d’ve dug into it final fall when the Disney+ Shulkie debuted, however I used to be extra seemingly so busy I didn’t assume to take a look at among the supply materials. My first actual dive into She-Hulk comics started again in 2006 once I first checked out Dan Slott’s run which I liked and naturally had lots of Byrne affect. So I determine it’s time to take a look at among the authentic Byrne Shulkie comics for myself. And after all, It being FCBD, I’ll clearly take a look at among the title choices. I’m most likely most excited for a brand new Umbrella Academy story.
BILLY HENEHAN: I’m scripting this from a really chill line outdoors of New York City’s legendary Forbidden Planet. Folks are chitchatting about NYCC, native outlets, King Charles’s coronation, the ‘86 Mets and where wrestling stars of yesteryear are now. We’re all right here for a standard aim, to get a fats bag of free comics and store at Forbidden Planet’s FCBD weekend sale. Once I get residence, I’m most excited to learn the brand new Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, in addition to Kotto Kotorra by David Alvarez and Sean Patrick O’Reilly. I do know my daughter will likely be excited to learn the brand new Spidey And Friends collectively later. You can take a look at my different Free Comic Book Day picks right here. Now excuse me, I’m turning again to the dialog in line to listen to which 90’s wrestler can also be a CPA.
CY BELTRAN: Well, I’m transferring residences this weekend so I’m unsure if I’ll be capable to learn or hit up FCBD… BUT I wished to shout out my LCS for anybody within the Chicago-area, so shout-out to First Aid Comics in Hyde Park! It’s my favourite store within the metropolis they usually have a 20% sale all day right this moment, so check-em out! I’ll be again subsequent week with extra ramblings about Stephen King for certain.
REBECCA OLIVER KAPLAN: I’m unhappy to overlook FCBD this yr, so I’m soothing my soul with a complete stack of weekend studying materials. I’m late to the social gathering, however I’m lastly trying out Zoe Thorogood‘s It’s Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth: An Auto-Bio-Graphic-Novel.
Last however not least, I’m trying out a few comics from the crowdfunding circuit, together with two volumes of Dax Gordine‘s Forest Folk and the start of the Asunda comedian sequence The Untamed by Sebastian A. Jones, Christopher Garner, James C. Webster, Darrell May, with lettering by A Larger World Studios.
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