Saturday’s right here, and so is Weekend Reading 199! All collectively now: this weekend, the Beat Elite will likely be holing up in Stately Beat Manor and getting misplaced in an excellent e-book. What will you be paging via? Be certain and tell us in the remark part, or over at The Beat’s web page on Bluesky.
AVERY KAPLAN: When I blurbed Demon Wars: Scarlet Sin #1 by Peach Momoko for the Marvel Rundown again in May 2023, I wrote that I hoped the problem would get a pleasant oversize printing. Well, excellent news, everybody: it did! This weekend I’ll be testing the oversize Demon Wars Saga commerce paperback by Momoko, with English adaptation and dialogue by Zack Davisson, lettering by Ariana Maher, and edited by Lindsey Cohick. Then so far as prose goes, I’m testing The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu. I used to be made conscious of this trilogy because of Rosalind Chao, who performed Keiko O’Brien on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Not solely is she showing in the Netflix adaptation of the novel, 3 Body Problem, however she’s additionally narrating the audiobook. However, I will likely be having fun with the learn in commerce paperback kind!
GREGORY PAUL SILBER: Over the previous yr, there have been at the very least 4 motion pictures that riff on Frankenstein (Birth/Rebirth; An Angry Black Girl and Her Monster; Poor Things; Lisa Frankenstein), and at the very least two upcoming Frankenstein movie variations are in the works by filmmakers Guillermo del Toro and Maggie Gyllenhaal, respectively. Clearly, one thing is occurring in the zeitgeist that’s received everybody serious about Frankenstein once more… however what? To examine this phenomenon, I’m going straight to the supply: Mary Shelley’s unique 1818 Frankenstein novel. I’m already a number of chapters in, so keep tuned for a future Silber Linings in which I’ll discover why mad scientists and reanimated corpses appear to be on everybody’s minds nowadays.
TAIMUR DAR: As I discussed final week, I’m abruptly all on board the Deadpool prepare because of the upcoming film. Still working my approach via the Gerry Duggan/Brian Posehn run. But it appears becoming to go to the early ‘pool years so I’m going to learn the Joe Kelly and Ed McGuinness Deadpool run that can outlined the character.
DEAN SIMONS: “By Jove! You’re STILL reading the 1957 Edgar Jacobs’ Blake & Mortimer adventure Atlantis Mystery?!” Why sure, outdated chap. Yes I’m. One merely shouldn’t rush such issues.
KRISTINA ELYSE BUTKE: I’m testing a brand new BL manga by Scarlet Beriko referred to as Nagahama To Be, Or Not To Be. It’s a narrative a few teen named Nagisa who’s unfairly labeled a delinquent, and his greatest good friend Issa who loves the fish market and the ocean, the place they hang around every day. When it looks like Issa may need a girlfriend, Nagisa’s world is thrown into turmoil…does he like Issa greater than only a good friend? Is there an opportunity any of his emotions could possibly be reciprocated? This appears like a candy little love story whose major plot could also be slightly acquainted to me, however I don’t care. BL is my consolation meals.
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