What are you reading in July 2012?

I've add a few comics to my TBR pile for July so hopefully I'll actually have something to post this month! Until then, I'm still living vicariously through you all. So, what's everyone reading this month?

I am "reading" Cover Run: The DC Comics Art of Adam Hughes. Great art, great comments, but it is disappointing that DC can't put more covers in a book of 200 up pages. It is the same complaint that I have for the Brian Bolland book. Besides it, thumbs up!!

I am just resurfacing after a few months of not reading comics (one of those times...) and having fun with Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Lost in the Andes" which is as fun as you can imagine for a Ducks fan :)

The last comics I read were the complete Onslaught Epic (1-4) but that was prally a month or more ago. Actually in July; I'm trying to get through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo but it's a slow starter. I read Bill The Boy Wonder and it was great. I also need to start Superman: The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero but I have to be in the mood...

I'm working on an old James Bond Dr. No graphic I picked up at a book fair, that apparently compiles an old comic strip. A bit racier and violent than the daily comics I remember, which actually was a pleasant surprise.

>4 Death_By_Papercut: It took me a long time to get into The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo also. I somehow missed what all the fuss was about with that one.

I'm reading Absolute Death to round out my reread of The Sandman from last year. I've read everything in it before with the exception of a single short story (and a bit on collectibles). It's a lovely book - very nicely put together but it's heavy and oversized - not the best format for reading.

>7 lucien:

I have one of those laptop lap tables. It works as a charm for the Absolute volumes ;)

Currently I am reading quite a number of things but the only collected volumes I am reading are:

- Birds of Prey, the pre-New52 Gail Simone run
- John Constantine, Hellblazer: Bloodlines

I have read the book "Disconnected" on this month. This is great book related Internet information. The author of "Disconnected" book is A.K.Alder.

>9 ghilbrae:

They don't need to be collected to be listed here :)

#11 Great! So the list is much longer then :)

Winter Soldier, Buffy Season 9, Avengers vs. X-men, Wolverine & the X-men, Secret Avengers, Astonishing X-Men, Demon Knights, Elric the Balance Lost and Star Trek / Doctor Who.

Comixology is a very dangerous thing!

>8 AnnieMod:
Pretty good idea. I'll try it.

>12 ghilbrae:
I didn't know about a Star Trek / Doctor Who crossover. I'll look for it.

#13 You should :) I've just read the first two issues and it's promising. Though I may be a bit biased because I love both TNG and Doctor Who :)

I've just started Morning Glories Volume 3, and I'm enjoying it, but the series' plot sure is bizarre. The authors give off an aura of confidence that it will all make sense in the end. Kind of like the TV show "Lost". I'm going with it and hoping for the best.

Read Greg Rucka's The Question: Pipeline today. Has anyone else been reading this series? I felt like I was missing something with some of the characters/ plot lines. I've read 52, Vol. 1, etc. and The Question: Five Books of Blood but nothing else focusing on Rene Montoya before that so maybe that's the missing link.

Ah, never mind, I see my mistake now. Apparently I missed Final Crisis: Revelations, which covers the time in between Five Books of Blood and Pipeline.

One of the Final crisis books had something if I am not wrong - I can look up which one later if you cannot find it.

And while I was writing, you seem to have found it. :)

Yes, those messages must have come through simulatenously. Thanks anyway! I will have to go back and read that one now.

Today I finished up Sleeper: Season One and just started Sleeper: Season Two.

Yesterday evening I read the last two issues of the new Peter Bagge series, Reset, and the latest Tales Designed to Thrizzle.

Morning Glories Volume 3 sustained the pace of the first two, with some interesting twists. I'm still clueless as to what's really going on, although time travel and alternate realities are involved.

Just started a Season 9 with powerless and jubilant Buffy.

I've been reading mostly prose this month (everything from Sir Thomas More to Lovecraftian horror fiction), but I did take the time last night to dip back into Preludes & Nocturnes to reread the story "24 Hours". It had come up in a discussion in one of my Facebook groups and I wanted to look at it again to see if it's still as disturbing as I remember it being. Yes, it is. =:^O

>2 apokoliptian:

Read that one last month. Good stuff!

Went through Ignition City last weekend - review in the work. Ellis - with all that it entails.

Read Captain Marvel #1: "She's Back! The 'Mightiest' of Earth's Mightiest Heroes!" a couple of days ago and liked it. Never read Ms. Marvel or Captain Marvel before.

I finished off July with At Death's Door, a cutesy all (most?) ages retelling of Seasons of Mist - this time told from Death's point of view. A quick read but not too memorable.

>16 sweetiegherkin:+
It's too bad that Pipeline isn't a bit more self contained. I like the Helena Bertinelli character but wading in to Final Crisis intimidates me.

>25 lucien: Are any of those Jill Thompson Sandman minis better than the others, lucien? I know there's a Delirium one, too.

Season 9 Volume 1 of Buffy was okay, with post-seed destruction doings. I'm now enjoying Darwyn Cooke's new one, Parker: The Score.

>25 lucien: Yeah, I was a bit disappointed by that also. I get frustrated trying to find out where else a character might pop up outside of his/her usual run. I didn't know anything about Helena Bertinelli prior so I was really confused when she showed up in Pipeline.

> 26
Sorry, I couldn't say. This is the only one I've read. Her Scary Godmother stuff is a good kid-friendly comic if you are looking for some of her work in general.

OK, thanks. No, it was the "little Sandman" books I was curious about.