One-hundred fifty weekends later (give or take) and the Beat Elite are nonetheless spending our Saturdays holed up in Stately Beat Manor for Weekend Reading 150! It’s been an extended highway, getting from there to right here. What recent hell will we discover ourselves in after we’ve been via one other 150 weekends? Place your bets now! My cash’s on extraterrestrial invasion.
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AVERY KAPLAN: This weekend I’m going to be testing This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone. Then, I’ll be testing Marvel Graphic Novel No. 14: Swords of the Swashbucklers by Bill Mantlo, Jackson Guice, Ken Bruzenak, and Alfred Ramirez. Published in 1984, I don’t know a lot about this outsized OGN, however I’m desirous to dive in.
RICARDO SERRANO: This yr marks the 125th anniversary of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a landmark horror story that’s maybe one of the tailored and reinterpreted items of fiction in historical past. Not solely am I watching Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 model of the story this weekend (with Gary Oldman taking part in my favourite model of The Count), however I plan on studying the comedian ebook adaptation by Mike Mignola and Roy Thomas, a fantastic adaptation of an adaptation that earns the learn because of Mignola’s signature artwork model and Thomas’ already huge expertise writing Dracula with different artists (Dick Giordano amongst them). Looks prefer it’s a weekend filled with blood, of the consuming variety I hope.
TAIMUR DAR: I’ve begun my journey into the works of acclaimed horror manga artist Junji Ito and I’ve preferred what I’ve learn to date. This weekend I’ll be studying his Deserter and Shiver quick story collections. For years I’ve been which means to learn the unique comics run of The Authority however have been hesitant for quite a lot of causes, not the least of which is the truth that its trademark cynicism and brutality isn’t one thing that appeals to me in these occasions. Nevertheless, the workforce and characters have managed to endure and be a part of the DC Universe plus a movie adaptation is on the slate from DC Studios. I’ve learn the primary 12 points and loved it sufficient to maneuver on to the second quantity.
CY BELTRAN: I burnt myself out a bit from all of the X-Force I learn final week, so I’ll be holding it gentle with X-Force Annual #2 and X-Force #26-28, by Fabian Nicieza, Mat Broome, and Tony Daniel (joined by a military of inkers). I additionally plan to dive into The Girl From H.O.P.P.E.R.S. by Jaime Hernandez, as I’ve been slowly working my means via Love & Rockets, beginning with Jaime’s Locas. Maggie and the Mechanics was unbelievable, and from what I’ve checked out of the start of this second quantity, it retains getting higher.
REBECCA OLIVER KAPLAN: After years of looking, I lastly discovered extra of the Marvel Comics adaptation of Stephen King‘s The Stand at Southern California Comics in San Diego, CA. I found the hardcover collections of “Hardcases” and “The Night Has Come,” both by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Mike Perkins, and Laura Martin. Since we’re snowed in, I’ve massive stack of “to-read” for the weekend, together with a TON of Star Trek comics, Super-Abled Comics, edited by Travis Rivas, and The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol J. Adam.
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