SHUT IN THEATER: Weekend Reading 190

The penultimate weekend of 2023 is right here, and it introduced Weekend Reading 190! As typical, we’ll be holing up in Stately Beat Manor and getting misplaced in e-book.

What will you be paging by this weekend? Be positive and let The Beat know within the remark part!

AVERY KAPLAN: This weekend, I’m going to revisit a basic: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It’s been some time since I’ve learn the novella, and everybody appears to be speaking about it this yr. Then so far as comics go, this time of yr additionally places me within the temper for some Crisis Zone by Simon Hanselman. 

MERVE GİRAY: My plan for the rest of December is to finish a number of the collection I’ve began studying. Depending on the tolerance I’ve for Midori’s infuriating husband, I’m hoping to finish Battan’s Run Away With Me, Girl out from Kodansha this weekend. It’s a bittersweet GL about Maki and Midori’s reunion as adults, who’ve dated in highschool however separated after commencement. 

CY BELTRAN: Outside of the standard viewing of Muppets Christmas Carol, I determine I’ll tune in to Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor Who Christmas Special. I’ve fully caught up on the present and I’m so into the route they’re headed in (I feel). I’ll even be testing Judge Dredd Essentials: Dredd vs. Death from John Wagner, Brian Bolland, and co., because it’s been sitting on my shelf for too lengthy now. And ofc, I’ll be studying by Stephen King’s It, trigger what goes higher with Christmas than an interdimensional clown?

TAIMUR DAR: I’ve actually been having fun with the Fortune and Glory: The Musical comedian about his time on the notorious Spider-Man musical that Brian Michael Bendis has been publishing by his Substack. So I all of a sudden have the urge to revisit his authentic Fortune and Glory: A True Hollywood Comic Story over the weekend.

D. Morris: Like Cy Beltran, I additionally eagerly await the brand new Doctor Who Christmas particular. It by no means fairly appears like Christmas with out one. During my native comedian store’s e-book membership dialogue this week, somebody introduced up The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood as a e-book to additionally try. Penelope, the spouse of Odysseus, tells the story of The Odyssey from her perspective after she’s gone to the underworld. It’s a dry, humorous tackle the Greek epic and completely up my alley. Also with the announcement of Mickey Mouse coming into the general public area on January 1st, I picked up Michael Mouse by Mitch Lohmeier. I’m desirous to learn this satirical tackle acquainted characters.

REBECCA OLIVER KAPLAN: This weekend, I’m lastly testing the nonfiction e-book that took the comedian e-book and leisure trade by storm in 2023: MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards. So far, in a e-book filled with considered one of a sort interviews, there are some critical holes. Where are the feedback from Victoria Alonso? Now, perhaps she declined to remark or perhaps her interview isn’t cited within the again, and I nonetheless must get to it, however any e-book on the MCU with out remark from probably the most important queer girl on the studio’s roster is lacking an enormous piece of Marvel’s historical past. Plus, I’m not impressed with the dearth of ladies journalists and students (and there are many them they might have chosen from) who had been used as citations. Look at any e-book index: sexism abounds!