Book Club - 1500 books or burst

[dupersuper]

Tomorrow is Wednesday: expect an update.

[dupersuper]

I predicted correctly: last post of page 2 edited yet again.

[MRP]

Updated my list on Page 1, current total ytd 251.

Classic highlight: Batman stories from the first Showcase collection
Current highlights: the new 52 Flash series

-M

[Cei-U!]

Update for 4/29/2012. Posted my final tally for April a day earlier as I'm going to treat myself to a day of no comics tomorrow.

Cei-U!
I summon the mini-vacation!

[Kid Montana]

Just updated my April totals, 426 for the year, 126 comics read in April. Keeping track of them is definitely encouraging me to read more books.

To Recap: Best books read: Huntress Minnie Series, Kato, Bat Lash Minnie Series (1-4, missing 5-6)
Honorable Mention: Last Phantom
Terrible: Buffy season 9, 6-7. Buffy is a black out drunk. Buffy gets taken advantage of ALOT while passed out. Buffy is Pregnant. Buffy is going to have an abortion. Buffy turns out to be a Robot (but can still pee on a pregnancy test, and get drunk). One potential date rapist boyfriend types quips at the end of issue 7 that 'he knows his way around a buffy-bot'. I tore up and threw away issue 6 after no-one bid on my comic lot, and read 7 in the bookstore. Really bad. bad.bad.bad.

[dupersuper]

Guess what I did? That's right: I read more books and added them to my post at the end of page 2.

[The Confessor]

OK, I admit that I was a bit snooty about this thread when it began. I thought that posting what you'd read in a year was a bit of a waste of time and really, does anybody care how many comics you've read? But, seeing this thread bounce up and down the board every week or so, as new posts are added, got me thinking, "yeah, I wonder how many comics I'll actually read this year?" This thought has nagged at me for two months and so, I've taken the plunge and bactracked to 1st of January to compile a list of every comic I've read so far in 2012. Hey, what can I say...I wanna play too, dammit!

I've decided to list my tally as single issues, even though some of them were read in TPB form. There's no way I'll make 1500 by year end, but my tally as of May 1st is 210 comic books, which actually surprised me...I thought it'd be less.

EDIT: Current tally is 425




Action Comics #583
Action Comics Annual #11
Aldebaran: The Catastrophe
Aldebaran: The Blonde
Aldebaran: The Photo
Aldebaran: The Group
Aldebaran: The Creature
All-Star Western (2011) #4-12
Amazing Fantasy #15
Amazing Spider-Man #1-70, #364, #440, #441, #677-692
Amazing Spider-Man #679.1
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1-5, #39
Amazing Spider-Man: Ends Of The Earth #1
Amazing Spider-Man: Hooky
Asterix And The Big Fight
Avengers (1963) #61, #93-97
Avengers (2010) #20-24
Avengers Annual (2012) #1
Avenging Spider-Man #3-11
Batman: Year 3 (Batman #436-439)
Betelgeuse: The Betelgeuse Planet
Blake & Mortimer: The Mystery Of The Great Pyramid - Book 1
Blake & Mortimer: The Mystery Of The Great Pyramid - Book 2
Captain America #100-102
Charley's War - Volume 1
Charley's War - Volume 2
Commando #1457 & #1483
A Contract With God
Daredevil (1964) #25-48
Daredevil Annual #1
Daredevil (2011) #8 & #11
DC Comics Presents #85
Doctor Octopus: Negative Exposure #1-5
Doctor Strange #169-178
Doomsday + 1 #1, #2
Dorothy And The Wizard In Oz #1-8
E-Man (1973) #4, #7, #8
Fantastic Four #1
Fantastic Four #73
Giant-Size Spider-Man #1
Hit-Girl #1 & #2
Hulk: Gray #1-6
Journey Into Mystery #87
Justice (New Universe) #1-32
Justice: Untold Tales Of The New Universe #1
Kick-Ass 2 #6 & #7
Lady Mechanika #3
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 2009
Malice In Wonderland #1
Marvel Illustrated: The Picture Of Dorian Gray #1-6
Marvel Super-Heroes #14
Marvel Team-Up #94
Mouse Guard: Autumn 1152 #1-6
Mouse Guard: Winter 1152 #1-6
Mouse Guard: FCBD 2012 #1
The 'Nam #16
Peter Parker: Spider-Man #156.1
Piracy #1
The Punisher (2011) #10
Sensational Spider-Man #32,#33, #33.1, #33.2
Spectacular Spider-Man Magazine #2
Spectacular Spider-Man #42, #262, #263
Spider-Man #96-98
Star Wars (Marvel) #86
Star Wars: Blood Ties #4
Star Wars: Crimson Empire #1-6
Star Wars: Crimson Empire II - Council Of Blood #1-6
Star Wars: Crimson Empire III - Empire Lost #1-6
Star Wars: Dark Times - Out Of The Wilderness #4 & #5
Strange Tales #103
Superman #423
Tales Of Suspense #59-99
The Twelve #1-12 + issues #0, #1/2 + "Spearhead" one-shot
Undersea Agent #4
Web Of Spider-Man #5, #94, #129.1, #129.2
Weird Science #14

[Cei-U!]

Update posted 5/7/2012. A short list this week. Too much real world interference for the usual high "body count."

Cei-U!
I summon the underachiever!

[dupersuper]

I have added my Free Comic Book Day books and shall doubtless have more to add on Wednesday.

[dupersuper]

I'm 2 or 3 days late, but my Wednesday comic haul has been added to my mythical last post of page 2.

[Cei-U!]

New numbers posted 5/14/12.

Cei-U!
I summon the update!

[MRP]

Updated list. YTD total now at 287, nearly halfway through the year but only 1/5 of the way to 1500, so it looks like a bust for me, but I am enjoying what I am reading. Recent highlights and lowlights include:

lowlights of current stuff: Ann Nocenti's Green Arrow (issues 7-9)-I enjoyed her Daredevil run but I just can't get into this take on Ollie.

highlights of current stuff: Ed Brubaker's Fatale continues to impress.

highlights of classic stuff: checked out some classic Frank McLaughlin Judomasters from Charlton. Great fun to read them.

-M

[The Confessor]

New numbers posted 5/14/12.

I see you've recently read the first Cloak & Dagger mini-series. This was a fav of mine as a kid and although it's still enjoyable, I do tend to regard it as a bit of a let down after the duo's previous appearances in Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man. Still, I'll always have a soft spot for C&D in my comic reading heart.

[dupersuper]

I have again updated my last post of page 2 with this Wednesdays haul.

[needler420]

I bust I don't want to read that much in one year too many books a day.

Not to mention too much money even if all 1,500 books were only a dollar I'm not sure id want to spend 1,500 dollars in one year on just comic books. That's assuming every book is one dollar when in reality that total is more like 5k on books in one year. Yeah I still make more then minimum wage but uh no thanks I bust.

Averaging 1.87 comics per day, or 684 comics for the year. Like I said, I doubt I'll be breaking 1,000.

Still, I've read some GREAT stuff this year, and I'm glad I'm chronicling all of it.

My updated list can be found here.

1.87 comics per day where is that equation from?