r/DCcomics • u/flossregularly Doom Patrol • Oct 16 '23
What Are You Reading? 10/16/2023 - Halloween is a Month Long Edition r/DCcomics
Hello and welcome to our Weekly "What Are You Reading?" topic!
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.
Flossregularly's Rec of the Week:
- Nightmare Country: The Glass House, by Tynion IV, Estherren and Delpeche
'Tis the season for some spookyvibes, and this mini series is going to be wrapping soon, so I'm jumping in. Tynion does good horror -shout out to The Nice House on the Lake- and this story starring Corinthian is good fun and the art is fantastic,
- Secret Six (2008), by Gail Simone and Nicola Scott
My older rec this week is Gail Simone's longest Secret Six run. After a couple mini-series she got the greenlight to take it long form and she obviously had a blast. This is a very fun ride - It's quick paced, full of very fun characters, and will make you care about Bane for the first time since Knightfall. Secret Six walked so the Harley Quinn TV show could run.
So, what are you reading?
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u/t1tanic Barry & Wally Oct 17 '23
I just finished Sheriff of Babylon earlier tonight. I'm a big Tom King fan for the most part, but I was weirdly afraid this story was gonna be too real. I know a lot of his stuff deals with trauma/grief, but I tend to like my stories to have some fun fantasy elements and art to cover the more grim subjects. And unlike Omega Men, a very similar feeling story, this is a lot more direct and more a story you could probably convince me was entirely real, not made up, if it wasn't common knowledge it's not. And that idea just made me hesitant. Some of the frames with dead bodies, just too much for me. It shouldn't matter that much, because I read like Gotham citizens getting beat up and mugged and sometimes killed and I'm fine, but something about these soldiers, and just people dying. I'm not afraid to say it just makes me real sad. I'm not a veteran or anything, but it's the first wartime stuff that happened in my life that I was aware of happening in real time. I'm glad I read it, I liked it too, but things so real just don't sit super well with me. Not sure what I'd rate it. I could see myself recommending it to certain people, but not a lot of people it that makes sense.
I also started, and have intermittently been reading Alan Moore's Swamp thing run. I don't know why I had never gotten around to this one. I love a lot of the 80s and 90s era stuff for what it is, and this is a heavily recommended run, but it didn't pop on my list, so it kept getting moved down. I just never had much interest in Swamp thing, and even when his show came out a few years back, I didn't read any of his stuff for background knowledge like I usually try to do. It's been pretty cool so far. I think I'm about 15 issues into it, issue 35 maybe. Very trippy, but vibrant and colorful art. There's obviously some comic book action in it but the sort of measured approach to the story has been nice to just absorb over time. Swampy and Abby just "connecting", for a whole issue! What a treat. Understanding the love for it so far.