The summer time continues with July, and so does our long-running column, with Weekend Reading 167! No spoilers, however The Beat Elite will probably be spending our scorching summer time weekend inside with an enormous stack of comics!
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AVERY KAPLAN: The different day, my Mother-in-Law despatched me an NPR article on “splooting,” the act of squirrels mendacity on their stomachs so as to survive in any other case insufferable warmth. This has inevitably led to a want to re-read The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl! I’ll be beginning with the quantity amassing the primary 2015 run by Ryan North, Erica Henderson, Maris Wicks, Kyle Starks, Chris Giarrusso, Rico Renzi, and Clayton Cowles. How far will I get within the collection? Possibly to the Derek Charm period!
TAIMUR DAR: As I discussed final week, I’ve been on a little bit of a Mark Russell kick recently. Finished Exit Stage Left final weekend, so I’m transferring onto The Flintstones comedian collection he did with artist Steve Pugh. Again, like Snagglepuss, I hear Russell elevated admittedly foolish materials to craft fairly a complicated collection. Likewise, I’ll be diving into Daredevil: Man Without Fear by Frank Miller and John Romita Jr. which I should have learn years in the past but it surely’s been some time so it deserves a reread.
CY BELTRAN: In honor of the film popping out on Netflix, I’ll lastly be testing ND Stevenson’s Nimona, which I simply occurred to attain a replica of inside the final couple of weeks. I’ve heard such nice issues concerning the guide that I simply needed to get my palms on it. I can also’t bear in mind if I’ve introduced it up right here earlier than, however I’ve received a replica of Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer that I’ve been desperately making an attempt to get to, and in mild of all the things happening on this planet and the lengthy weekend, I feel now’s the precise time to sit down down and test it out. Then, making an attempt to get through my big stack of unread books, I’m additionally gonna have a look at Pulp and Night Fever from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (with Jacob Phillips on colours for the previous).
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