Read in April 2018

I'm required to make a "cruelest month" joke here, right? Being a guy with an English degree from a fancy school and all. Well, take that as read.

Speaking of read, here's what I read in this month with its shoures soote:

Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, and various artist, Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1954 (4/1)

Lynda Barry, Syllabus (4/2)

Paul Levitz and Steve Lightle, Legion of Super-Heroes: The More Things Change (4/3)

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (4/3)

Kyle Baker, King David (4/4)

Gary Spencer Millidge, Strangehaven: Brotherhood (4/5)

Mike Grell, Jon Sable Freelance: Ashes of Eden (4/6)

Roberta Gregory, As Naughty As She Wants to Be! (4/7)

Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mezieres, Valerian: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1 (4/8)

Herge, The Adventures of Tintin, Vol. 1 (4/9)

Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin, Tank Girl, Vol. 1 (4/10)

Ryan North and Erica Henderson, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 4: I Kissed a Squirrel and I Liked It (4/11)

Lawrence Block, Borderline (4/11)

Neil Gaiman, et. al., Free Country: A Tale of the Children's Crusade (4/12)

Kurt Busiek and Brent Eric Anderson, Astro City: The Dark Age, Vol. 1: Brothers and Other Strangers (4/13)

Laura Lee, Around the World in 80 Cliches (4/14)

Marcel Beyer and Ulli Lust, Voices in the Dark (4/14)

Julia Wertz, Tenements, Towers & Trash (4/15)

Joe Ollmann, The Abominable Mr. Seabrook (4/16)

G. Willow Wilson and various artists, Ms. Marvel, Vol. 5: Super Famous (4/17)

Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, and Carolyn Nowak, Lunberjanes, Vol. 3: A Terrible Plan (4/18)

Jillian Tamaki, Boundless (4/19)

Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia (4/19)

John Porcellino, The Hospital Suite (4/20)

Roz Chast, Going Into Town (4/21)

Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta, The Vision, Vol. 1: Little Worse Than a Man (4/22)

Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta, The Vision, Vol. 2: Little Better Than a Beast (4/22)

Brahm Revel, Guerillas, Vol. 1 (digital) (4/23)

Brahm Revel, Guerillas, Vol. 2 (4/24)

Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin, Tank Girl, Vol. 2 (4/25)

P.G. Wodehouse, Louder and Funnier (4/25)

Stephen Murphy and Michael Zulli, The Puma Blues (4/26)

Bruce Marshall, Building New York (4/27)

Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Max Fiumara, and Sebastian Fiumara, Abe Sapien, Vol. 8: The Desolate Shore (4/28)

Mike Mignola and various collaborators, Abe Sapien, Vol. 9: Lost Lives and Other Stories (4/28)

Mawil, We Can Still Be Friends (4/29)

Dave McKean, Cages (4/30)


Still reading big piles of books each month as I hit the one-third point of the year, which is a good sign for this Book-A-Day thing.

On the other hand, the supplies of comics/graphic novels/BD/manga that I have are getting increasingly depleted, and I've started counting them to see if there's any chance that they'll last to the end of the year. (At current numbers: no.)

So I may have to shift focus in the back half of the year, or ransack libraries for every last comic they ever acquired. Or maybe revisit some things on my "read" shelf, but I don't want to do that wholesale: it's a cheat.