Weekend Reading 171 [SDCC ‘23 HANGOVER EDITION]

San Diego Comic-Con 2023 is over, however Weekend Reading 171 is simply starting! Here at Stately Beat Manor, we’re able to spend a while getting misplaced in a great ebook.

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DEAN SIMONS: I’m baaaack. After weeks of intense secret/not-so-secret studying, my leisure studying time is my very own once more! First up: Ex-Yakuza & Stray Kitten by Riddle Kamimura; printed by Seven Seas, translated by Avery Hutley with adaptation by Emlyn Dornemann. As I’ve stated elsewhere: think about Chi’s Sweet Home (kitten will get adopted and you’ll perceive it) but when the kitten is adopted by an animal-loving former gangster. Charmingly healthful. As properly as that – I resume my sluggish 2000 AD catchup. I’ve reached the mid-October 2022 situation of the weekly (prog 2304). Lots of nice sequence. Zarjaz!

TAIMUR DAR: Like the remainder of the workforce, SDCC wiped me out tougher than I anticipated! However, I’m joyful to say I’m lastly feeling again to regular for essentially the most half. Just in time too as a result of I’m eager to take a look at a number of the graphic novels I picked up on the Image sales space final week. Bad Weekend, the comedian conference crime thriller, from author Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips is one thing that’s been on my checklist to learn. So the celebrities aligned for me to purchase a replica at SDCC final weekend. Likewise, after Prime Video dropped the shock Atom Eve Invincible animated particular, I not solely fell again in love with the franchise however realized there have been so many tie-in books exterior of the principle ongoing sequence I haven’t learn but. So I additionally bought a replica of the Invincible Compendium Volume 1 which collects the unique Atom Eve sequence that impressed the animated particular.

CY BELTRAN: I didn’t head out to SDCC like a lot of the workforce, however I did get pulled into Barbenheimer final weekend, which was nice (!), however didn’t give me a lot time to learn. So this weekend, I’m gonna wrap up the primary quantity of Ms. Marvel and transfer into Metamorphosis, the second of these nice digest collections, by G. Willow Wilson, Elmo Bondoc, Adrian Alphona, Takeshi Miyazawa, and Ian Herring. I additionally lastly wrapped up Firestarter this week, so I’ve began Stephen King’s Cujo, which I’m joyful to say is the shortest of those novels since… Carrie? I’m not too far into it, however I’m a bit unhappy to see no matter’s about to occur to this cute St. Bernard.