RIPPA Posted January 1 Author Share Posted January 1 Just tweaking the topic - carry on 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 (edited) According to my pal Jess Nevins, The Saint is now in public domain. https://youtu.be/UWr_1uLjqic?si=sj71GQNPYPaWzMZi He's posting the long list of obscure characters and some actually known now in public domain. Edited January 1 by odessasteps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobholly138 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 13 books read in 2023,last was the tracy smothers bio. Guessing a few hundred comics read in 2023. Most in TPB form. Just finished Prophet vol 1 Remission TPB. Amazing art and good story and took what was the lesser of the Liefeld Extreme Studios stuff and made it into what feels like a series I could see in late 70s Heavy Metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Post-Christmas reading season is in full effect and the first of the Christmas books I finished was the Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski. Does it really matter the exact order of Babe Ruth, Henry Aaron, Willie Mays, and Barry Bonds in the list? No, not really. There's no shortage of radio stations that run a "top x of y" countdown at various times of the year, and past a point, it's not really worth fighting over about if the 306th best song of the 80s was actually better than the 304th best song of the 80s. Anyways, Joe admits he did put some guys in specific spots for symbolic reasons. By the end I was trying to figure out which players were left and which ones I hadn't read chapters about already. The book itself goes over 100 players in chapters of a various number of pages. I read 5 chapters per sitting once I got going. There's a variety of interesting information and stories that I hadn't known about players despite being a big baseball fan and Immaculate Grid player. So it's probably already hard enough to compare guys who played in the same league at the same time. Much less people who played in the majors at different times. Much less guys who didn't play their primes in the Major Leagues due to various reasons (mostly segregation). So there are Negro Leagues superstars in various spots of the list. There's at least one Japanese baseball megastar on the list who never played in the Majors who should be easy to guess. I did my best to not look ahead as to which guy was next in the book. Joe Posnanski was a Kansas City Star sportswriter when I was growing up. At one time the Star had Jason Whitlock and Joe Posnanski on the same sports pages and if you know either of them, you can figure out that their writing styles differed a little. Since leaving the Star, Whitlock is basically a bit of a troll on a variety of topics and Posnanski has mostly stayed away from controversy (aside from having the bad fortune to have his Joe Paterno biography come out a few months after Joe Paterno's career dissolved into a pile of dust). But being a bit of a pollyanna about the topics you're passionate about fits baseball a lot better than the habits of some people who talk/write about baseball as if the only worthwhile baseball was the baseball they saw when they were 10 in the 1960s (a similar phenomenon as the one we see in wrestling). So we really don't know where Mike Trout slots into a top 100 baseball players list since we still have his decline phase left. We don't really know where certain guys would have landed if they played in an area of weight training or night games or sharp breaking balls or not losing 3 seasons to fight in the War. So there's 4 other books around from the haul. Two of them are wrestling books and I'll probably write about them on a different forum when I get to them. But this time of year is a good bookreading time because you don't really wanna go outside anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 On 12/11/2023 at 9:41 AM, Kuetsar said: About half way through volume one of Kissinger's memoirs(roughly 750 out of 1500). Started it before he died, just because I felt like a deep dive into history. Yes I am a madman, why do you ask? at page 1300/1500. After I finish volume one, I'm getting into my christmas books reading. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 On 12/11/2023 at 9:41 AM, Kuetsar said: About half way through volume one of Kissinger's memoirs(roughly 750 out of 1500). Started it before he died, just because I felt like a deep dive into history. Yes I am a madman, why do you ask? at page 1300/1500. After I finish volume one, I'm getting into my christmas books reading. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 (edited) On 12/11/2023 at 9:41 AM, Kuetsar said: About half way through volume one of Kissinger's memoirs(roughly 750 out of 1500). Started it before he died, just because I felt like a deep dive into history. Yes I am a madman, why do you ask? UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry for the triple post, my screen didn't show that it had been submitted. Edited January 4 by Kuetsar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Just finished up “Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!” by Zucker/Abraham/Zucker which is an oral history of the movie Airplane and the events leading up to it (these three coming together in Wisconsin, Kentucky Fried Theater, Kentucky Fried Movie) and all the drama leading up to actually making the movie happen. The book sorta alternated from talk about Airplane and pre-Airplane for a point. Various talk about the getting various actors and having to fight off the studio on some matters, and screening the movie and people finding it funny. So that was a fun account of a funny movie. A little over 300 pages with pictures and the such to help it breeze by. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southofheavy Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby. Super solid crime noir. Up next is Kindred by Octavia Butler, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Lenin and Toward the African Revolution by Frantz Fanon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLSigman Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin is not her best work, but it's still light years beyond the usual run of the mill stuff. She explains what happened (COVID, editing, reality being way too fucking real) and I get it. There's definitely a couple points where you go, "Ah, yeah, this should've been explained already, and probably was in the first go." But definitely worth it if you read The City We Became. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 I picked up Curepedia - An A-Z of The Cure by Simon Price from the library. You'd have to be an insane superfan/nuts to read this whole thing down to the word, but it's fun to skim through. Collectively it functions as a biography plus, I suppose. There is some insane minutiae within but also plenty of generic information for the novice. Lots of neat little stories. It opens with "A Forest", the first Cure song I ever heard from a Carpathian Forest cover, so that is cool. Personally I'm not a superfan (obviously) but I love several of their albums, mostly on the more goth side of course. I have LPs of Pornography and Seventeen Seconds. Really I would like a copy of the US version of Standing by the Sea which is the first Cure I ever heard (hard to find) and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (expensive). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLSigman Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Finished up the Assassin's Creed: Dynasty manga and it's really, surprisingly good. Five volumes, moves along at a good pace, and there's a lot of neat information about ancient Chinese history tucked into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Campbell Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 I just finished the novelization of "The Omen" by David Seltzer. I've always been a big fan of the original trilogy, and then I found out that in addition to the original three movIes, there were novels penned for two other stories. Aside from a few odd changes from the movie (the main one being the protagonist's name is changed to Jeremy Thorn) it's quite good. There's some rudimentary backstory given to some of the side characters that makes for interesting reading. Next on my list is "Safari" by Parnell Hall. It's book number 19 in his Stanley Hastings mystery series. And I highly recommend them to anyone who enjoys either mysteries or light hearted stories. I've actually been taking my time in getting to this one because there's twenty books in the series. Parnell Hall passed away in 2020 (fuck Covid) and I'm dreading finishing the series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLSigman Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Read Clariel by Garth Nix. It's a short prequel to the other Abhorsen books. It wasn't bad, but it's too short and just kinda ends as things get interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLSigman Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 4/5 stars to Once and Future, vol 5, by Kieron Gillen. The mad lad did it - he stuck the landing in a way that made sense without an extreme amount of Dues Ex Machinas. And we even (finally!) got the reason why most of the Arthur's look like... that. At some point I will definite want to go back and read them all the way through in a much shorter timeline, just to see what I forgot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 I gave up on that at some point. Not because it was bad, I just didn't care to keep reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLSigman Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Million billion stars to Mistborn, by Brandon Sanderson. This is my first re-read of the year. Now that I finally own The Final Empire trilogy in hard back, I'm re-reading it. Then, with any luck, I'll remember to ask my brother to let me borrow the four part sequel later on. I love the characters, I love Allomancy, I love the unanswered questions. I'll start the second book in the morning. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 On 1/19/2024 at 3:11 PM, odessasteps said: I gave up on that at some point. Not because it was bad, I just didn't care to keep reading I made it through Wicked + Divine and want credit for that. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Campbell Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 I finished "Safari" last night. It was the usual Stanley Hastings affair, with several hilarious passages that had me cracking up and texting quotes to my best friend. It wasn't my favorite of the series, but I give Parnell Hall credit for stepping out of his "comfort zone" so to speak, and telling a story in a brand new setting without any of the usual supporting characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLSigman Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 While attempting to figure out how I was getting some prescription refills and dealing with much bureaucratic stupidity, I used my last Hoopla borrow for January to grab The Fellspyre Chronicle since it was long (over 400 pages) and I could easily look up and make eye contact with the receptionist every few moments. This was one of the best fantasy comics I have ever read. It's two stories at once, heartbreaking, infuriating, and ultimately triumphant. The art was incredible; there was often a lot going on but it never felt messy, you could always tell what was going on. There were a lot of interludes of prose, or song, that really added to the story. Just about as perfectly told as you could want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 (edited) Ordered RF Kuang's Poppy War because I hear good things about her writing and then find out after the fact about this Hugo Awards bullshit... well now I just want the book to get here faster! James Edited February 2 by J.H. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 I just got the ROM Omnibus. It is what it is, no better or worse than you’d expect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 4 hours ago, odessasteps said: I just got the ROM Omnibus. It is what it is, no better or worse than you’d expect. I always loved ROM and always thought it was one of the best licensed property comic and the fact it was in MU proper and crossed over always made it fun. Hell, the Dire Wraiths having such a huge part in X-Men was crazy James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Finished The Poppy War and boycdid I enjoy the hell out of it! Itcstarts kind of generically but takes an interesting turn a few chapters before part 2. Once you're in part it gets brutal yet maintains some its whimsy. The third part strips all the whimsy away, with a pretty catastrophic ending. Of course there are 2 more books in the series and already ordered the 2nd. Let's see if The Dragon Republic can climb out of the horrific ending of the first book (and by horrific rnding I do not mean the ending was bad but rather a GIGANTIC horrific event in world) James 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLSigman Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 10 hours ago, J.H. said: Finished The Poppy War and boycdid I enjoy the hell out of it! This has been in my TBR pile for a while, glad to hear good things about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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