What are you reading in March 2018?

What is everyone reading this month?

For my part, I raided a different library than usual and came back with an armload: Survivors' Club, Cairo, The Umbrella Academy: Dallas, The Undertaking of Lily Chen, and the nonfiction graphic novel Rolling Blackouts.

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, vol. 1. Pretty heavy on text at least in the beginning.

>2 defaults: LOVED My Favorite Thing is Monsters. I hope it ends up going well for you.

I just finished enjoying two graphic continuations of the Lunar Chronicles books by Marissa Meyer, Wires and Nerve, and Wires and Nerve Volume 2.

I am in the middle of Nexus Omnibus Volume 1. Wow... what a ride! Steve Rude has a place in the heart of every comic book fan, but I think the Mike Baron is a very underrated writer.

I have just received Batman: The Dark Knight - The Master Race: The Covers, which contains all variant covers of the lastest mini-series. It has its up and downs, but in average it is a good collection of Bat-Art with tons of homages to crucial scenes of The Dark Knight Returns. Me? I'm all smiles.

Reading Daytripper by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon, and am really enjoying it so far

I've finished Nimona, which tells a story placed in a medieval world that has a villian, Lord Ballister Blackheart, that is the sworn enemy of Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin. Suddenly, we are introduced to Nimona, a shapeshifting girl that want to be Ballister's new evil sidekick. Following the story, the boundaries between hero and villain, or good and evil start to blur as you are knowing the backstory and motivations of the characters and their very world.
Highly recommended!

I've just received The Complete Little Nemo by Winsor McCay: 1905-1909. The first part of the book (almost half of it) has an extensive research around the life and work of Winsor McCay, with lots of Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend strips, contextualizing the time when it was published. It also shows the perennial influence of the Dreams inspired strips on later works like The Strange World of your Dreams by Jack Kirby and Rare Bit Fiends by Rick Veitch.

The printing and the quality of the source is outstanding, and the big size of the book (14" x 17,75") is very suitable to the detailed designs. I'm only waiting for the next book that will probably collect 1906-1924, once the original version published by Taschen with 708 pages contained strips from 1905 to 1924.

Higly recommended.

Just finished (and enjoyed, although it was a very quick read) Jillian Tamaki's collection Boundless. Next up, I have the first two volumes of Clean Room.

I started a reread of the Asterix series. Somebody pointed out the meaning of the name Idefix (idée fixe) which had me going back to see what else I missed in the names of the characters. The names are so much fun.

I've finished The Vision: Complete series by Tom King. This series has nothing to do with superheroics. It tells an experience of The Vision, the Android Avenger, creating an artificial family and trying to live a normal live in the suburbs of Washington, but it start to burst at the seams. Sometimes it reminded of The Inhumans by Sean McKeever, but with an even darker tone.
One of the best comics that I read recently! Definitely, Tom King is a name to follow.

11> I really enjoyed The Vision as well, very dark, and well done.

Haven't really been reading any comics this month, but I have a few I read in recent months that I don't believe I mentioned here yet --

Gingerbread Girl by Paul Tobin with illustrations by Colleen Coover. I really like this creative pair generally speak, but this book was kind of a little too weird for me. It set up an interesting premise but the conclusion was completely open-ended.

Real Friends by Shannon Hale with illustrations by LeUyen Pham. Designed as a book for kids in the middle grades, it definitely hits the mark. Brings you right back to your own days in junior high, trying to fit in but still stay true to your own interests.

Cosmic Commandos by Christopher Eliopoulos. Also designed for kids in the middle grades, and I can see kids who like action-packed and/or silly books enjoying it. I myself didn't really care for the characters or the over-the-top illustrations.

The Secret Loves of Geek Girls edited by Hope Nicholson. This book is an anthology from a variety of writers and creators, including Margaret Atwood, Marguerite Bennett, Marjorie Liu, Trina Robbins, etc. etc. Some of the contributions are text-only, some are traditional comic panels, and some are something in-between. All are nonfiction works about love -- long-lasting romantic relationships, the heartache of love lost, the perils of dating in the Internet age, and the love between friends or between a creator and their creation (or creative process). Throughout, the love of all things "geeky" -- comics, gaming, science fiction, etc. -- is prevalent. I thought it was an interesting book, although short stories aren't my favorite style.

>13 sweetiegherkin:
If you liked Cosmic Commandos you can try Franklin Richards, Son of a Genius by Eliopoulos, which is kind like Calvin meets Fantastic Four.

In L'Arabe du Futur Riad Sattouf gives us insights into his childhood in Libya and Syria. Being a the son of a French mother and a Syrian father, looking like a blond angel, he gives us the perspective of a young child (he is 9 at the end of volume 3) at what goes on around him. Very well done from an artistic perspective (I really like how he pointed out some details in the drawings by commenting on them). I liked rather less that it seemed to ride on stereotypes.

I'm reading the very good Brazen: Rebel Ladies, a collection of short charming bios about women from all over the globe and different time periods. There are ones I knew, like Temple Grandin and Josephine Baker, but they're far outnumbered by ones I didn't.

I'm also reading the 4th in the Paper Girls series, which just came out.