SHUT IN THEATER: Weekend Reading 158

The finish of April approacheth, and it’s introduced Weekend Reading 158! As you possibly can in all probability predict, The Beat elite can be spending their time studying contained in the halls of Stately Beat Manor.

What will you be doing 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, and tell us what you’ll be paging by means of as you keep away from the arrival of Monday.

AVERY KAPLAN: This weekend I’m visiting Riverdale with The Archies & Josie and the Pussycats, written by Dan Parent, with pencils by Bill Galavan, inking by Rich Koslowski & Jim Amash, lettering by Jack Morelli, and coloring by Glenn Whitmore & Tom Chu. Flipping the ebook over, I see our personal fearless lead singer, Editor-in-Chief Heidi MacDonald, has a pull quote on the again. After Archie, I’ll be revisiting one in every of my favourite graphic novels: P.E.O.W.: Painfully Embarrassing Otaku Weekend. “The book based off the best selling t-shirt!”

DEAN SIMONS: Last weekend I used to be sick and stayed moderately sick by means of the week which gave me some further time for consolation studying – and that studying was Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece. Having blitzed by means of everything of the Fish Man Island arc (volumes 62-66), I’m now starting Punk Hazard – by which the crew lastly enter the Grand Line’s New World. What new foes and mates will the Straw Hat Pirates meet?

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CY BELTRAN: Still on my King-kick, I snagged a replica of The Shining to hunker down and see what it’s all about. Plus, I’m to see the way it differs from the Kubrick movie – to this point there are a bunch of attention-grabbing variations! I additionally had an opportunity to cease by Quimby’s Bookstore in Wicker Park final weekend, the place I grabbed Caroline Cash’s newest PeePee-PooPoo, together with the 2021 assortment (which I used to be unhappy to overlook the primary time round!). Lastly, don’t overlook right now is Indie Bookstore Day, so go help your native indie ebook/comedian retailers!

TAIMUR DAR: A couple of weeks again, I had the pleasure of attending the Count Crowley: Amateur Midnight Monster Hunter signing with writer David Dastmalchian at Midtown Comics. Having admired his work as an actor for years and even attending to interview him for his function as Calendar Man within the Batman: The Long Halloween animated film, I can verify he’s certainly as good as everybody says he’s. I’ve been so busy, my signed copy of the Count Crowley: Amateur Midnight Monster Hunter TPB has been sitting on my shelf all this time. So I intention to lastly correctly learn the commerce.

Weekend Reading 158: Black Cat Social Club & GLOW.

REBECCA OLIVER KAPLAN: It’s bizarre to have a lot free time on the weekend, however now that I don’t have a shitty Valnet job I’ve much more time… And I’m EXCITED about that. The sky’s the restrict! I’m beginning with some comics that I feel can be pure girly enjoyable as a small fuck you to all of the shitty males I’ve needed to cope with in my life. I’ll be studying a ebook from the Chris Ryall period of IDW, GLOW: The Stars Primas by Tini Howard, Hannah Templer, Rebecca Nalty, Christa Miesner, and editors Elizabeth Brei and Megan Brown. Then, I’m trying out Black Cat Social Club: A Pop Punk Apocalypse by Christopher Painter, Bob Quinn, Meg Casey, Fred C. Stresing, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.