What are you reading in August/2015?

I can read your mind. You are anxious to tell me what you are reading. Do it now!!!!

Pillaging the local library and reading Ed Brubraker's Daredevil run

Back in time for me with Marvel's Masterworks (the first X-Men volume - Wolverine was not in the initial lineup? I learned something new) and DC Archives (The second All Star and the second JLA volumes). It's very obvious which ones belongs to which era...

Crap, Spider-Verse is kicking my butt, and I didn't realize that it was in title order and not story order. Grrr Marvel. Stupid idea. It's a TPB collection, put it in story order.

>3 AnnieMod:

Wolverine was not in the initial lineup?

Noooo. Wolverine doesn't come into the picture until Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975), twelve years after X-Men #1 (1963).

I've started Yo, Miss, a graphic teacher's memoir. Pretty good so far.

>5 artturnerjr:

Yeah, well. :) By the time I looked at it and all the older trades I had seen, he was as much part of the core group as Cyclops or Beast or Iceman or Jane Grey or Angel (which were the initial lineup). For some reason I had decided in my mind that he had been there all along.

Well - sounds like I have some reading to do before getting to him.

I just finished Rat Queens, loved it!! Now on to some old Crossgen stuff.

I've finished Ghosted vol. 4, which wraps up the big arc that started on Ghosted vol.2.

Damn... it is quite impossible to explain the story without spoiling it, so I will only tell you that if you like works by Stephen King like Under the Dome and/ or Joe Hill's Locke & Key, you should pick it up.

>8 davisfamily: Good to hear! I want to try Rat Queens.

>10 jnwelch:
Oh do give it a try, so awesome!!

>11 davisfamily: :-) Will do!

>8 davisfamily: I love the old CrossGen stuff. I collected just about everything they put out. I was so disappointed when they went under. Things were just starting to get interesting!

Finally got a hold of Akira volumes 2, 3 & 4 all in one glorious rush. Am also working my way through 20th Century Boys and almost done (sadly) the amazing Nausicaa series.

>13 tottman:
Some time ago, Marvel re-launched Ruse. I think they wraped up the series.

Opus by Satoshi Kon

Yo Miss was much better than I expected (review here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/194352#5239639). Now I'm trying to sort through all the gods in The Wicked The Divine.

>8 davisfamily:

I need to read that one again. It was merely bleh when I read it but then I was in a weird mood and this may have been the reason...

Nearing the end of Shutter Volume 1.

Shutter Volume 1 was pretty good, but not as ground-breaking as buzzed. I'm now a ways into Wayward Volume 1: String Theory, and liking it very much.

>15 apokoliptian: I did enjoy Ruse. I'll have to try to track that down. The main universe was just heating up though. I'm curious where they were going.

I just finished Divinity by Matt Kindt . Really impressive! I'm glad there's a follow up planned.

I've watched a New Gods fan-made animation that is incredible. The link is below:
https://vimeo.com/136705678

Also related to Jack Kirby, there is a campaign launched by his granddaughter to help Hero Initiative. See the video in the link below:
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2015/08/celebrate-kirbys-legacy-help-hero-i...

I'm reading ramdonly the online adventures of Dr. McNinja. His is a doctor, he is a ninja and has gorilla as assistant. Besides the Robot Chicken-like craziness, the stories are well written and the art is suitable.
http://drmcninja.com/

There is also a compilation by Dark Horse.

Caught up with a few X-graphic novels: X-Men: Magneto Testament, The New Mutants (Marvel Graphic Novel #4), and X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills (Marvel Graphic Novels, No. 5), all quite well done.

On the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, I read the comics account A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, which follows the experience of 7 residents, some of whom evacuated and some who stayed. Good journalistic history.

Peter Bagge's Sweatshop collection was good fun, following the antics of misfit art assistants working for the despotic, clueless creator of an insipid newspaper daily cartoon.

Loved Hawkeye Volume 4: Rio Bravo, alas the final collection by Matt Fraction & David Aja. This is a case where I follow the creators, not the character, so probably won't be reading the current Hawkeye stories.

The latest DD collection, Daredevil Vol. 3: The Daredevil You Know was okay. This is a case where I follow the character through various creators.

I strongly disliked S.H.I.E.L.D.: Architects of Forever, a bombastic "secret history" story imagining historical figures (Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, Galileo, Newton) as illuminati protecting humanity from threats local & galactic. There are no women in this book. Heartless and humorless characterizations. (My reading mistake--I thought it would have something to do with the show Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, which I greatly enjoy.)

I'm enjoying the first Rat Queens.