April continues unabated, and to show it, right here’s the arrival of Weekend Studying 157!
As ever, we’re hoping that you simply’ll share your weekend studying plans with us. Tell us what you intend to web page by, both proper right here within the remark part or over on social media @comicsbeat!
CY BELTRAN: I’ve lastly accomplished my trek through Stephen King’s The Stand… and now it’s time to proceed my march towards The Darkish Tower with… Danse Macabre? Okay okay, so I is perhaps taking one other slight detour, however there are some actually cool essays and concepts from the ebook that I wanna take a look at (together with an essay about The Stand I wanna learn) earlier than I leap into the rest. As for comics, I plan to move to my LCBS in some unspecified time in the future and seize the most recent problems with Superman, Nightcrawlers, Superb Spider-Man and Poison Ivy (all by a bunch of wonderful creators!).
AVERY KAPLAN: This weekend, I’m going to be persevering with Hidden Methods: Water, Electrical energy, the Web, and the Secrets and techniques Behind the Methods We Use Each Day by Dan Nott. This fascinating non-fiction comedian illuminates a few of the titular hidden programs which encompass us and have an effect on us each day, however which we would take with no consideration. Then, so far as prose goes, I’m impressed by Cy’s entry to revisit Danse Macabre.
Taimur Dar: The Milestone thirtieth Anniversary one-shot has been sitting on the prime of my learn pile for weeks now. I’ve been ready to have much less stuff on my plate so I can really and correctly take pleasure in it. This weekend seems to be to be the perfect time so I’ll be digging into it in the end.
DEAN SIMONS: As I nurse a foul chilly (in April?!) I shall be participating in consolation studying – primarily persevering with my read-through of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece. At the moment at quantity 62, the place the Straw Hat crew lastly attain Fish Man Island. Sadly, my Comixology HD editions have been downgraded over a yr in the past by Amazon and never restored so it’s exhausting to learn the copies I paid for – Oda can have very busy panels with character particulars occurring within the background – so I’m alternating between the poor Comixology downgrades and Shuesha’s free Manga Plus app – which supplies the choice to pick decision (if solely the Shonen Soar app have been this superior) on the main drawback you could solely learn it as soon as – so keep centered and don’t go away the app!
You possibly can peruse the 156 earlier entries in The Beat’s Weekend Studying archive by clicking right here. Weekend Studying is edited by Avery Kaplan.
