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February Wrap Up part 2!

Action Comics (1938) issues 698 and 699

Dates Read: February 18, February 25

Review: 3 stars

Thoughts: the swelling arc thing was very… not great. Figuring out where to read 699 was also not great lol.

Supergirl (1994) issues 1-4

Dates Read: February 19, February 22, February 26

Review: 3 Stars

Thoughts: I really love Matrix and I wish people would read more about her :/ I want her to come back from war.

Actions Comics (2016) issues 1059-1062, 2023 Annual

Dates Read: February 20, February 21

Review: 3 stars for all of them

Thoughts: While I’m really enjoying the superfam all hanging out and being a family, the comics are definitely struggling a bit to consistently juggle that many characters. I was also going to say I miss when Superman got to be Clark Kent but I think he was for much of this arc, it’s just that I binged through all my backlogged super comics at the same time and he wasn’t clark in a single issue lol. If people got their own ongoings again maybe that would change. Or maybe the authors would change their entire personality for shits and giggles and piss me off (looking at YOU power girl)

Titans Beast World Tour Metropolis

Dates Read: February 20

Review: 3 stars

Thoughts: It wasn’t good enough to make me interested in reading the entire beast World arc so it couldn’t have been that good.

Superman (2023) issues 7-11

Dates Read: February 22

Review: 3 stars

Thoughts: This run is also pretty fun so far, I love the art. The filler issue where they were inexplicably old west cowboys on the east coast was interesting. Not sure the authors have a great grasp of ya know history and geography but whatever it’s a comic.

Superman the man of steel (1991) issue 33

Dates Read: February 22

Review: 2 stars

Thoughts: yeah this felt REALLY fetishtic… now for me

Superman (1987) issue 89

Dates Read: February 22

Review: 4 stars

Thoughts: this one was so bad it looped back around to being brilliant. Not a single panel could be taken seriously. The wild headliners somehow getting published at the Daily Planet, the explosions Lois just ignored, all of it absolutely brilliant.

Superboy (1994) issue 4 (reread)

Dates Read: February 23

Review: 3 stars

Thoughts: been a while since I’d read any of Kon’s run let alone the beginning of it. Forgot how YOUNG they had him looking (because he was young). I wasn’t here for the comedy parts so I skimmed over the Superboy show portions but I remember them being pretty funny.

Making It So: a Memoir by Patrick Stewart

Dates Read: January 30- February 25

Review: 4 stars

Thoughts: this took me so long to get through because I was NOT putting my mind to finishing it. Also I highly recommend putting the audiobook at at LEAST 1.2 speed lmao. Stewart is a great story teller and you could tell he really enjoyed narrating this. He might even have been enthusiastic enough to get me to read Shakespeare. We’ll see.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Dates Read: February 16- February 28

Review: 4 stars

Thoughts: very in line with Emily Austens work! Eleanor was such a fun protagonist and she clearly had no idea what an unreliable narrator she was.

The Return of Superman 30th Anniversary Special

Dates Read: February 23

Review: 3 stars

Thoughts: liked this more than the death of Superman anniversary. I think they did a good job writing shorts that felt accurate to the original comics although it was jarring to see smart phones lmao. Don’t ask me why the fuck Eradicator was there, they clearly needed an excuse to have all four of the super replacements hang out

All in all in February I read:

1 nonfiction

1 poetry collection

1 comic collected

4 novels

34 single issue comics

Bringing me to 54 books read so far for 2024, according to Goodreads 21 books behind schedule for my goal lol. On kindle my reading streak is 49 days and my weekly streak is up to 292. Woohoo

#mine #literature #monthly wrap up

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