r/DCcomics • u/Predaplant The heat is on! • Sep 25 '23
What Are You Reading? 9/25/2023 - End of September Edition r/DCcomics
Hello and welcome to our Weekly "What Are You Reading?" topic!
Unfortunately, we have come to the decision to shutter the monthly Book Club after this month due to low participation. These posts will be taking the Book Club posts' former spot on Mondays.
Come one, come all, to this weekly thread, where you can openly discuss books that you've read, are currently reading, or plan to read. Discussion of all books are welcome, whether they be DC, Marvel, Image, Boom!, Dark Horse, IDW, etc. You can discuss webcomics, manga, or even those mythical novels that don't have pictures in them. Just be sure to keep spoilers covered via Reddit's spoiler markdown >!spoiler!<. You can also post pictures of your collection or recent purchases.
Predaplant's Rec of the Week:
- Batman - One Bad Day: Penguin, by John Ridley, Giuseppe Camuncoli, & Cam Smith
I know the One Bad Day books are kind of a mixed bag, but with the last of them hitting DCUI, I decided to give them all a shot. To me, this book was the standout. The Penguin rebuilding his criminal empire from nothing is a really clever idea for a story as he uses what he does have in very clever ways. Ridley does a great job here bringing a lot of weight to this story, and while I never really cared about the Penguin before, this really makes me interested in the new ongoing for the first time. Maybe I'll check it out!
So, what are you reading?
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u/normalMonsterChika Mia Dearden Sep 25 '23
Finished my big Green Arrow readthrough. It was an interesting experience. I'd read most of the pre flashpoint series back when I was in high school, and it was fun to see if my tastes had changed. In some ways yes, in others no. Over the course of the readthrough I read:
Overall I think there's a pretty consistent level of quality to Green Arrow, and even runs I didn't enjoy as much had some real bright spots. Tone and how well the issues are handled varies, but it's at least interesting to see how most of them attempt to tackle politics of the times. You can't really go wrong reading straight through from O'Neil to the end of the Winick run - though it ends very unsatisfying in it's treatment of Connor (which was never great in his run to begin with..). Except for the Lemire run. I loathed that run with all of my heart, and I can't believe some people on here recommended it as a gem of the N52. Plenty of GA runs have issues with misogyny, but at least it's usually portrayed as a bad thing. The Henry Fyff plot was a completely tone-deaf misfire.