June continues, and the second weekend brings Weekend Reading 164! The Beat Elite will probably be spending our weekend holed up in Stately Beat Manor, getting misplaced in a very good e-book (no surprises there).
What will you be studying this weekend? The Beat is ready to listen to from you! Give us a shout-out and tell us what you’ll be paging by, both right here within the remark part or over on social media @comicsbeat.
AVERY KAPLAN: This weekend I’m going to be studying My Pretty (*164*) by Katie Skelly. Having beforehand learn and loved Maids, I anticipate My Pretty (*164*) goes to be glorious, as properly!
TAIMUR DAR: After seeing Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse final week, I’m all of the sudden within the temper to dive into Miles Morales comics and different alternate-universe Spidey tales. I vaguely stored up when Miles Morales was first launched within the Ultimate Universe however it’s been such a very long time since I learn these early Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli. So this weekend I’m going approach again with the primary commerce of the Ultimate Comics Spider-Man sequence from 2011. And for good measure, I’ll even be studying the primary commerce of the unique Ultimate Spider-Man sequence from Bendis and Mark Bagley that began all of it.
CY BELTRAN: I’ve been a number of weeks behind on my weekly pull, so this weekend I’m gonna spend catching up on all the things I’ve missed, beginning with the unbelievable DC Pride 2023, from a who’s who of unbelievable creators within the house. Then, I plan to learn the newest problems with What’s the Furthest Place From Here? and w0rldtr33, the previous by Tyler Boss, Matthew Rosenberg and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, and the latter by James Tynion IV, Fernando Blanco, Jordie Bellaire, and Aditya Bidikar. I’ve additionally been banking Dead Boy Detectives till it concluded, and if I’ve time, I believe I’ll sit down and browse the six-issue mini from Pornsak Pichetshote, Jeff Stokely, Craig Taillefer, Miquel Muerto, and Javier Rodríguez. And after all, I’ll be wrapping up King’s Night Shift this weekend in some unspecified time in the future and transferring into The Dead Zone. Hopefully, I can cram all of this in.
REBECCA OLIVER KAPLAN: I checked out a brand new comedian store, Comickaze Comics, this week whereas I used to be caught in San Diego, California, ready for medical assessments. After having fun with the third and closing season of Star Trek: Picard, I’ve been mainlining previous Star Trek comics to maintain me going till Star Trek: Strange New Worlds airs on June 15. While at Comickaze, I picked up the commerce paperback for Star Trek: Picard – Stargazer, written by Kirsten Beyer and Mike Johnson, with artwork by Angel Hernandez, colours by J.D. Mettler, and letters by Neil Uyetake. In addition, I’m going to learn the Eisner-nominated The Comics Journal #308, which appropriately has Donald Drumpf taking a nostril dive off a waterfall on the again cowl.
You can peruse the 163 earlier entries in The Beat’s Weekend Reading archive by clicking right here. Weekend Reading is edited by Avery Kaplan.
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