What are you reading in April/2020?

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What are you reading in April/2020?

1apokoliptian
Apr 5, 2020, 12:42 pm

It is no time for jokes, once we are seeing a full scale problem with worldwide reach, a pandemy that is affecting our close ones. But we can find some confort with our books, mainly in these quarentine days.

So let's share some tips and good vibrations.

2apokoliptian
Apr 5, 2020, 12:50 pm

I am reading Batman: Court of Owls. Scott Snyder has a style that sucks you into the story, with some good cliffhangers. Greg Capullo's art is very competent for the representation of Batman, machinery design and action scenes, but when it comes for Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson and some other characters it looks generic, in a point in which in the first issue all Batman family appears unmasked and it is not possible to tell who is who.
But it is a very good start and probably I will follow this run.

3Euryale
Apr 5, 2020, 1:01 pm

I'm reading Joe Hill's Locke & Key series; I haven't read it before or seen the adaptation, and I am enjoying it very much.

Being stuck at home all day every day, though, means I'll need more books very quickly, and with the libraries and bookstores closed, I'm depending on Kindle Unlimited and ebooks. (Not that I'm really complaining, I know how lucky I am at the moment to have this be my biggest problem.)

4brianjungwi
Apr 5, 2020, 7:33 pm

2> I enjoyed Snyder's run (some quibbles here and there, but overall I liked it). The Bat family all look remarkably similar though.

3> Locke and Key! I loved this series so much. I don't feel I can watch the series without being let down.

5apokoliptian
Modificato: Apr 18, 2020, 9:01 pm

I finished Avengers by Jason Aaron, Vol.1. I think the main objective was to bring the book in line with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in order that the public of the latter can enjoy (and buy) the books. The result: It is a simple and direct story with no ties to the burden of the chronology, with a feel of Superfriends (yeah, that one from the Brand Ecch).
It is good for kids, but I think that I will drop the series.

6apokoliptian
Apr 18, 2020, 8:54 pm

I've finished the 3 books of Beasts of Burden. I really strongly recommend these book with only one advice: if possible read the 3 at once, because there are some details through the development that build up to a climax, that I think that is yet to come.
Two paws... thumbs up!!!

7apokoliptian
Modificato: Apr 26, 2020, 6:55 pm

I've read The Silent Invasion, Book 1: Red Shadows which comes straight from the 80's B&W comics scene that gave us Cerebus and T.M.N.T. It is a very interesting book because it combines the ambience of Film Noir, Mistery, 50's Sci-Fi with a very good pace and cativating characters. The art is heavily influenced by the Atomic Art of Yves Chaland.