Ashleigh’s Comments (group member since Dec 22, 2016)

Ashleigh’s comments from the I Read Comic Books group.

I am going to read Chews Your Destiny - Gumazing Gum Girl

21/24

From The Podcast Crew:
[ ] Erin - Ballad for Sophie
[X] Kait L - The Arrival ✪✪✪✪ ♡
[X] Kate S - Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands ✪✪✪.5
[X] Mike - Aquaman: Andromeda ✪✪✪
[ ] Nick - Kaya, Volume 1
[X] Paloma - Friday, Book One: The First Day of Christmas
[ ] Paul - The River at Night
[X] Tia - Dracula, Motherf**ker! ✪✪✪

Patreon Supporters
[X] Tom - One Hundred Demons ✪✪✪
[X] Stephanie - Broken Frontier: Anthology ✪✪✪
[X] CK - Promethea, Book One ✪✪✪.5
[X] Matt - Stray Dogs ✪✪✪✪
[X] Geoff - PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Osamu Tezuka, Volume 001 ✪✪✪.5 ♡ (Read the entire series)

Theme of the Month:
[X] January 2023 BotM : Nuclear Winter Vol. 1 ✪✪✪✪
[X] February: Farmhand #1 ✪✪✪✪
[X] March: The Encyclopedia of Early Earth ✪✪✪✪
[X] April: Sensor ✪✪✪
[X] May: Chews Your Destiny ✪✪
[X] June: Séance Tea Party ✪✪✪✪
[X] July: The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel ✪✪✪✪
[X] August: Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun 1 ✪✪✪
[X] September: Lore Olympus: Volume One ✪✪✪
[X] October: Fragments of Horror ✪✪✪✪
[X] November: PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 2 ✪✪✪✪
[ ] December:

I ended up reading the first part of Distant sky #1

If anyone could give me some recommendations it would be greatly appreciated.

I will be reading Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

The best comics I read in 2021 are by Junji Ito

Fav - Tomie
Also read - Uzumaki, Gyo & Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection

Instead of re-reading one of these I am going to read something I have not read yet by Junji Ito, which ever I can get from the library.

Ashleigh wrote: "I will be picking The Beauty, Vol. 1 because it is already on my TBR.

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I enjoyed this comic I ended up reading more! Up to Vol, 3.

I will be picking The Beauty, Vol. 1 because it is already on my TBR.

I will be reading Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts

Ashleigh wrote: "I am tossing up between Concrete Park, Vol. 1: You Send Me or Eve #1"

I have changed my mind and am reading LaGuardia by Nnedi Okorafor

I am tossing up between Concrete Park, Vol. 1: You Send Me or Eve #1

Ben wrote: "This month I read My Favorite Thing is Monsters vol. 1 by Emil Ferris, I read it through Hoopla and kept forgetting to lock my screen orientation so tilting it this way and that was..."

I loved that comic, the ballpoint pen art was amazing.

It states on the rules - Read all 11 picks from the podcasters/GR mods - but I'm only counting 10.

Did I miss something?

I would like to read Behind You: One-Shot Horror Stories if it fits in this category.

- Read all 11 picks from the podcasters/GR mods
- Pick the remaining 13 (or more if you’re up for it!) books from 2022 Books of the Month and Patreon supporter picks

25/25

From The Podcast Crew:
[X] Tia - The Black Monday Murders, Volume 1: All Hail, God Mammon ✪✪
[X] Paul - The Book Tour ✪✪
[X] Kait - Algeria Is Beautiful Like America ✪✪
[X] Kara - Afterlife with Archie, Vol. 1: Escape from Riverdale ✪✪✪ (previously read)
[X] Kate - Guts ✪✪✪
[X] Brian - Spider-Man: The Spider's Shadow ✪✪✪
[X] Nick - The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 1 ✪✪✪
[X] René - Burn the Witch, Vol. 1 ✪✪
[X] Zander - The Good Asian, Vol. 1 ✪✪✪✪
[X] Mike - Aster of Pan ✪✪✪
[X] Erin - The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott ✪✪✪✪

Patreon:

[X] Geoff - Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 ✪✪✪
[X] Brandon - The Many Deaths of Laila Starr ✪✪✪✪ ♡
[X] Tom - Vinland Saga, Vol. 1 ✪✪✪✪ ♡

Book of the Month:
[X] February: In the Pines: 5 Murder Ballads ✪✪✪
[X] March: LaGuardia ✪✪✪✪
[X] April: Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts ✪✪
[X] May: The Beauty, Vol. 1 ✪✪✪✪
[X] June: Deserter: Junji Ito Story Collection ✪✪✪
[X] July: SLAM! Vol. 1 ✪✪✪
[X] August: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood ✪✪✪
[X] September: The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 ✪✪✪
[X] October: Through the Woods ✪✪✪
[X] November: Distant sky #1 ✪✪✪
[X] December: Brave New World: A Graphic Novel ✪✪✪

I really enjoyed this! Very simple and unique.
Starts off very basic and then explores the complex questions of 'What is art?' and 'What is the purpose of Art?'.