Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on October 05, 2016, 11:20:41 AM
ASTRO BOY TPs (Dark Horse) - Skipping around various volumes, reading stories in chronological order (I'm up to 1957).
WONDER WOMAN '77 SPECIAL #4
ACTION MAN #4 (of 4)
REVOLUTION: MICRONAUTS #1 (one-shot)
REVOLUTION: M.A.S.K. #1 (one-shot)
SPEED RACER TP (2007, Seven Seas) - An OEL (original English-language) manga, done-in-one volume.
MONSTER MUSUME VOL. 1 TP
SQUADRON SUPREME #12
HELLBLAZER #2
SIXPACK AND DOGWELDER: HARD-TRAVELIN' HEROZ #2 (of 6)
RICK AND MORTY #18
LOONEY TUNES #233
UNCLE SCROOGE #19
ARCHIE MEETS RAMONES #1 - Totally awesome.
BETTY BOOP #1 (Dynamite) - ALSO totally awesome.
DEATH OF HAWKMAN #1 (of 6)
TITANS #3
UNCANNY X-MEN #14
SCOOBY-DOO TEAM UP #18 - So much fun!
FUTURE QUEST #5 - Still good, but beginning to stray a bit farther from the original cartoons...
BATMAN '66 MEETS STEED AND MRS. PEEL #4 (of 6)
REVOLUTION #2 (of 5)
SUPER F*CKERS FOREVER #3 (of 5) - Hilarious.
BETTY AND VERONICA JUMBO COMICS DIGEST #247 - Fun new lead story by Dan Parent!

Do you take every Wednesday off to read comics? Lucky.


Looking forward to your reviews on the Ramones and Betty Boop. How was monster musume?

I read Saga #38 & Josie & The Pussycats #1-Gisele's issue.

Quote from: irishmoxie on October 05, 2016, 02:33:39 PM

Do you take every Wednesday off to read comics? Lucky.

Looking forward to your reviews on the Ramones and Betty Boop. How was monster musume?

HaHa! I don't have to take every Wednesday off, because back when I was given the option of arranging my work schedule, I opted to take Tuesdays and Wednesdays off -- so my regular work week is Thursday through Monday.

This week is jam-packed though, so I'm not sure when I can get around to those reviews. I wanted to review those two though, so hopefully I'll find some time to squeeze those in before next week.

What to say about Monster Musume, (subtitled "Everyday Life With Monster Girls")? Not my usual type of thing, but I was able to borrow it to read (actually I was thinking it might be something like Eerie Cuties... but no, not really). That resulted in my spending hours on the internet researching various specialized subgenres (and terminology) of manga & anime, in order to understand the context of this particular specialized manga genre. I should mention that I'd not read much manga in the past 20 years or so prior to just the past few months (and I'm pretty sure this particular subgenre didn't exist then, at least not in any English translations), and I had mostly kept to my usual genres of shonen and seinin manga up to this point. That said, Monster Musume turned out to be all of the following: ecchi manga, also part of the "harem" subgenre, and to have as two of its three main characters the character archetypes of lolicon and yandere. It's also helpful to understand the concept of moe (MO-eh) in manga and anime characters. If any of the foregoing means anything to you. Basically, Monster Musume is an R-rated sex comedy, with some nudity (but no genitalia). It may or may not be offensive to women depending on how you feel about the nudity and/or stereotypes. The girls seem to have a hard time keeping their clothes on. It could be related to Archie only in the sense that the main character is a typical 'nice guy' who is surrounded by beautiful girls who insist on throwing themselves at him, yet issues of interspecies legality and strict rules involved in hosting 'monster girl' exchange students create barriers to following his natural impulses. Also, his "interspecies exchange coordinator" (who he may also have the hots for) has set up a situation in which this single young guy is playing "host family" to three different monster girl exchange students (a lamia, a harpy, and a centaur), all of whom are attracted to him, but rivals to each other, seemingly for the specific purpose of torturing him. I personally don't think it's worth the time for me to follow up with future volumes of this.

I still have plenty to read from yesterday. I only read one of my Josie & The Pussycats #1, I have a Deadly Class to read plus those Ramones issues.

I'm definitely go read those issues in my room today because I want to change my wall. I'm going keep that commission from Gisele on the wall because that Reggie was inspired by the Archie Meets Ramones, when I saw a picture of it last year. I asked her draw Reggie similar to that picture.
I still have plenty to read from yesterday. I only read one of my Josie & The Pussycats #1, I have a Deadly Class to read plus those Ramones issues.
On Friday I read
Deadly Class #22
Josie & The  Pussycats #1-Derek Charm
Archie Meets Ramones-Gisele, the issue that I got free from Archie Comics.

BETTY AND VERONICA JUMBO COMICS #247
B&V FRIENDS HALLOWEEN ANNUAL #251
BETTY AND VERONICA SPECTACULAR #30 (July 1998)
SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH (1997) #5, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31
RAGNAROK #10
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS' THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT #2
TANK GIRL: GOLD #1 (of 4)

I have those 2 books I picked up yesterday at Forbidden Planet Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics #247 & Betty & Veronica- Girls Rule. I'll probably read them in a while.

I read these books for 12 minutes each
Archie 1000 Comics Pages 75th Anniversary Bash
Betty & Veronica-Girls Rule
Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #247

I read
Josie & The Pussycats #1-Hack
Archie Meets Ramones-Veronica Fish

Betty Boop # 1 - cute art but I didn't really get the story. Maybe it's because I'm not that familiar with Betty Boop.

I took a break from reading anything today. My mom & I went out instead.

I read Josie & The Pussycats #1-Veronica Fish's issue

I read each of these for 12 minutes
Archie 1000 Page Comics 75th Anniversary Bash
Archie 1000 Page Comics Gala
Archie 1000 Page Comics Shindig
Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #247
Betty & Veronica-Girls Rule

HCF 2016 ARCHIE'S MADHOUSE

HOWARD THE DUCK #11 - Final issue. I'll miss this, one of my favorite Marvel titles.
PUNISHER #6
MOON KNIGHT #7
GREAT LAKES AVENGERS #1

ACTION COMICS #965
HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS #6
DOOM PATROL #2
MIDNIGHTER AND APOLLO #1 (of 6) - I think I'm pretty much giving up on all of these DC comics.

REVOLUTION #3 (of 5)
KILL OR BE KILLED #3
JONESY #7 - Better than the last one I read.
HENCHGIRL #11 - Apparently the final issue. I didn't understand the ending.
THE SHADOW: THE DEATH OF MARGO LANE #5 (of 5) - Good ending. Can't say I was surprised to find out that she wasn't really dead after all, but I liked the way it was handled.
GODZILLA: RAGE ACROSS TIME #2 (of 5) - A lot weaker than the first issue, which was great, but they're all stand-alone stories set in different time periods.
SPAWN #266 - Only read it because it was a crossover story with SAVAGE DRAGON.
ASTRO BOY - Various stories: "Black Lux", "The Mysterious Ball", "Super Cyclone", closing out the year 1956.
HOTEL HARBOR VIEW (Viz, 1990) - A one-shot trade paperback, seinin manga. Pretty good hard-boiled noir stuff.
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA/ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK #1 (of 6) - Turns out that Jack Burton and Snake Plisskin are actually parallel-universe counterparts of each other. Interesting concept based on the fact that they were both portrayed on film by the same actor, Kurt Russell.
MOONSHINE #1 - By Brian Azarrello & Eduardo Rizzo. The "100 BULLETS" team together again on a story set in the Prohibition-era 1920s, with backwoods hillbillies, a New York bootlegging mobster, G-Men, and (unless I miss my guess) werewolves, all in the mix. Very atmospheric. I liked it quite a bit.
REBORN #1 - By Mark Millar and Greg Capulo. I usually like Millar's stuff, but both EMPRESS and this aren't really doing it for me. I'll probably pass on future issues of this. Never been a big fan of Capulo to begin with.
DUCK AVENGER #1

Donald Duck, Timeless Tales

I read
Archie #12, Fish- the issue that came from subscription.
Saga #37
Jem & The Holograms #18