What are you reading in October 2020?

I've been catching up with the latest iteration of Marvel's Runaways, scripted by Rainbow Rowell, and enjoying it very much. Not all series are as good when they change authors--when G. Willow Wilson left Ms. Marvel, the new stories were disappointing. I think the editorial direction was toward a middle-grade book, so it seemed dumbed down to me; but there was also less of the cultural detail that Wilson threw in.

I thought Kelly Thomson did a great job writing Jessica Jones stories, after originator Brian Bendis left Marvel.

>1 edgewood: I agree, series can be very hit or miss after creative team changes or reboots.

I'm currently binge reading Ed Brubaker's Criminal and also planning to pick up Gene Luen Yang's Superman Smashes the Klan.

Hi peeps - I'm new in this group and am relatively new to comics/GNs. I'm reading the two collections of the Hit crime series. Right now I'm into the 1957 storyline and wow, it's even grittier than the 1955 story.

>3 Bookmarque: Welcome!

2> I think I got 3 or 4 books into Criminal. I enjoyed it.

Picked up a comic for the first time in aaages, on a whim, Kazuo Umezu's The drifting classroom. It was originally published as long as 1969-70/2?

The protagonists are mostly children but it's hard for me to believe this was read by children... or if they did, how freaked out must they have been? Nightmarish stuff.

In the first installment an entire elementary school--the whole building complex--finds itself inexplicably and suddenly, following a quake and/or massive explosion, in a horrific desolate lifeless landscape. Hysterical panic takes hold of children and their teachers. One of the teachers tortures his own son in order to shock the kids into calm.

/stunned