San Diego Comic-Con 2023 is over, but Weekend Reading 171 is just beginning! Here at Stately Beat Manor, we’re ready to spend some time getting lost in a good book.
What will you be paging through this weekend? The Beat wants to hear from you! Give us a shout-out here in the comment section and let us know.
DEAN SIMONS: I’m baaaack. After weeks of intense secret/not-so-secret reading, my recreational reading time is my own again! First up: Ex-Yakuza & Stray Kitten by Riddle Kamimura; published by Seven Seas, translated by Avery Hutley with adaptation by Emlyn Dornemann. As I have said elsewhere: imagine Chi’s Sweet Home (kitten gets adopted and you can understand it) but if the kitten is adopted by an animal-loving former gangster. Charmingly wholesome. As well as that – I resume my slow 2000 AD catchup. I have reached the mid-October 2022 issue of the weekly (prog 2304). Lots of great series. Zarjaz!
TAIMUR DAR: Like the rest of the team, SDCC wiped me out harder than I expected! However, I’m happy to say I am finally feeling back to normal for the most part. Just in time too because I’m keen to check out some of the graphic novels I picked up at the Image booth last week. Bad Weekend, the comic convention crime thriller, from writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips is something that’s been on my list to read. So the stars aligned for me to buy a copy at SDCC last weekend. Likewise, after Prime Video dropped the surprise Atom Eve Invincible animated special, I not only fell back in love with the franchise but realized there were so many tie-in books outside of the main ongoing series I haven’t read yet. So I also purchased a copy of the Invincible Compendium Volume 1 which collects the original Atom Eve series that inspired the animated special.
CY BELTRAN: I didn’t head out to SDCC like most of the team, but I did get pulled into Barbenheimer last weekend, which was great (!), but didn’t give me much time to read. So this weekend, I’m gonna wrap up the first volume of Ms. Marvel and move into Metamorphosis, the second of those great digest collections, by G. Willow Wilson, Elmo Bondoc, Adrian Alphona, Takeshi Miyazawa, and Ian Herring. I also finally wrapped up Firestarter this week, so I’ve started Stephen King’s Cujo, which I’m happy to say is the shortest of these novels since… Carrie? I’m not too far into it, but I’m a bit sad to see whatever’s about to happen to this cute St. Bernard.
You can peruse the 170 previous entries in The Beat’s Weekend Reading archive by clicking here.
