It’s Saturday in mid-May 2023, and meaning it’s time for Weekend Reading 160! As standard, The Beat Elite are getting misplaced in a very good e book inside Stately Beat Manor.
What will you be paging by way of this weekend? The Beat is ready to listen to from you! Give us a shout-out within the remark part or over on social media @comicsbeat, and tell us what you’re pondering!
ADAM KARENINA SHERIF: There are a few promising first points from DC Comics in my instant future together with Spirit World #1 by Alyssa Wong and Haining. I’m excited to see Wong within the DC sandbox having been a Marvel mainstay the previous few years and previews of Haining’s artwork with Sebastian Cheng’s colours have been fairly particular.
I’m additionally enthusiastic about Green Lantern #1 by Jeremy Adams and Xermánico. There have been some nice, trippy Hal Jordan tales just lately, however the promise of a extra grounded e book, disconnected from an excessive amount of cosmic shenanigans is kind of welcome for me.
And outdoors of the superhero realm, I’m right here to advocate The Great British Bump-Off to all followers of Giant Days, that baking present, homicide mysteries, and actually-funny humorous books. John Allison actually doesn’t miss with regards to character and humor, and Max Sarin remains to be top-of-the-line cartoonists working right this moment when it comes to rhythm and expression. Lovely, beautiful colours from Sammy Borras, too. The e book’s from Dark Horse and the second challenge got here out this week. Seek it out!
TAIMUR DAR: Among the various issues Brian Michael Bendis completed throughout his Avengers tenure and work at Marvel was placing Jessica Drew a.okay.a. Spider-Woman again within the limelight. It solely just lately occurred to me that I by no means learn the Spider-Woman: Origin miniseries that he co-wrote with Brian Reed with artwork by the Luna Brothers. As somebody who loved his work with the character and is wanting ahead to seeing Jessica Drew on the massive display in Across the Spider-Verse, I’m rectifying that by studying the Spider-Woman: Origin miniseries over the weekend.
BILLY HENEHAN: One of the intense spots of the pandemic was staying with my brother and sister-in-law for every week. We streamed season 1 of Locke & Key on Netflix nightly. I actually dug it. It’s now a few years later and I’m lastly studying the comedian e book collection that impressed the present. Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez, Jay Fotos and Robbie Robbins is my weekend learn this week.
AVERY KAPLAN: I’ve been impressed by Billy to pilfer his studying plans, so I’ll even be studying Welcome to Lovecraft. While I first learn Locke & Key years in the past, I acquired the prospect to fulfill Hill and Rodriguez at a Netflix occasion simply earlier than the present was launched for streaming. The expertise ended up being one of many final issues I did earlier than lockdown. However, it’s now been a few years since I learn the collection, so I’ll be pulling it from the shelf between The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom binges. In addition to Locke & Key, I’ll even be re-reading the primary quantity of the Animal Crossing manga by Kokonasu Rumba. Since we ended up with two copies, Rebecca Oliver Kaplan and I’ll each be studying it whereas he’s visiting New York City – or “Acrossing the Miles,” if you’ll.
REBECCA OLIVER KAPLAN: I’m touring this week, so I’ve downtime with out entry to screens and different applied sciences that usually distract me from weekend studying targets. In truth, due to having decreased the variety of distractions (even when it was thrust upon me), I completed the primary TPB on my weekend studying record earlier than 7 AM this morning: Plastic by Doug Wagner, Daniel Hillyard, Laura Martin, Ed Dukeshire, and emblem with e book design by Eben Matthews. It’s like a serial killer model of Lars and the Real Girl, and I liked it. I’m additionally studying the official Animal Crossing: New Horizons manga with Avery Kaplan and NBM Graphic Novel’s David Bowie in Comics by varied artists. Finally, I picked up an unofficial information to The Fast and the Furious movies to look like a badass as Gregory Paul Silber, Avery, and I proceed our FF watch occasion.
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