As the arrival of Midsummer Night approaches, so too does Weekend Reading 165! No matter the season, you may guess The Beat Elite can be spending our weekends inside, getting misplaced in e-book.
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AVERY KAPLAN: This weekend, I’ll be having fun with The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1916 – 1918. I’ve by no means truly learn any of this seminal Krazy Kat cartoon, regardless of the truth that it’s cited by lots of my very favourite cartoonists as a foundational inspiration. This weekend, that will get remedied!
DEAN SIMONS: Due to unhealthy hay fever and a heatwave within the UK, sleeping has been a little bit of a difficulty – luckily I used to be in a position to get some studying finished whereas I tossed and turned. A number of days in the past I completed Elizabeth Moon’s Engaging the Enemy (Vatta’s War Book 3). With that out of the way in which – and earlier than shifting to the fourth e-book – I’m spending a while catching up with my quick story anthology subscriptions. Forever Magazine being the primary one. Currently studying the January concern which has reprinted the Ian Creasey novella Super Sprouts, and the quick tales The Shadow of His Wings, by Ray Nayler and The Liberator by Nick Wolven. As for comics – I’m nonetheless slowly catching up on my 2000 AD subscription backlog. I’ve reached Prog 2294 which has the penultimate installment of the latest collection of Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard’s Brink: Mercury Retrograde. One attention-grabbing factor about 2000 AD final yr was that, as a part of its forty fifth anniversary celebrations, it ran summaries of great issues that have been printed in every year of the anthology’s existence – written by Scott Montgomery. Prog 2294’s abstract (no. 30 of Brimful of Thrills on the 45!) covers 2006 which was the yr I grew to become a reader of the longstanding British weekly.
TAIMUR DAR: For pretty apparent causes, I’ve been feeling a bit nostalgic for the unique Disney The Little Mermaid animated film and have been doing a deep dive (pun meant) into its manufacturing historical past. Part of that additionally contains studying Ariel voice actress Jodi Benson’s memoir Part of My World: What I’ve Learned from The Little Mermaid about Love, Faith, and Finding My Voice. While the parts about her Christian religion don’t ring a bell with me, it’s positively fascinating studying about her early Broadway profession earlier than touchdown the function of Ariel.
REBECCA OLIVER KAPLAN: I had a very thrilling weekend deliberate. Instead, I can be spending a number of days in mattress recovering from one other surgical procedure (it’s surgical procedure season apparently). I’m behind on a few of my weekend readings from the previous few weeks, so I hope to atone for these this weekend. I’m additionally going to complete Out of Body by Peter Milligan, Inaki Miranda, Eva de la Cruz, and Sal Cipriano. Hell, it’s Milligan, so possibly I’ll even take my medical Ketamine and test it out. Then, I’m going to learn extra Trekkie content material, Star Trek: Khan – Ruling in Hell by Scott & David Tipton, Fabio Mantovani, Chiara Cinabro, and Neil Uyetake.
You can peruse the 164 earlier entries in The Beat’s Weekend Reading archive by clicking right here. Weekend Reading is edited by Avery Kaplan.
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