SHUT IN THEATER: Weekend Studying 136
The second weekend in November has arrived, and it has introduced Weekend Studying 136 alongside, too!
What are you studying this weekend? Give us a shout-out and tell us, both right here within the remark part or over on social media @comicsbeat (be aware: hyperlink inserted with the belief Twitter nonetheless exists on the time of this posting).
AVERY KAPLAN: This weekend, I’m wanting ahead to digging into The Multiversity: Deluxe Version, written by Grant Morrison and that includes a complete crew of creators. Credited on the quilt are Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Jim Lee, Doug Mahnke, Frank Quitely, Chris Sprouse, Ben Oliver, and Cameron Stewart. The ebook was gifted to me for my birthday earlier this Scorpio season by fellow Beat author Gregory Paul Silber, who launched me (and Rebecca Oliver Kaplan) to one of many points collected within the quantity over Zoom prematurely of the metafictional panel he moderated in summer time 2021, on which I appeared as a panelist. I’ve been dying to discover the remainder of the collection ever since, and because of Greg’s considerate present, I’ll lastly find a way to take action!
DEAN SIMONS: This weekend I’m studying the primary quantity of Rodolphe & Léo’s Trent. Described as a Western involving Canadian Mounties. Or a mountie: Sergeant Philip Trent. Trent’s job is to patrol the frozen wilderness of Northern Canada on the finish of the nineteenth century. Surprisingly intriguing (regardless of some imperfections with the interpretation/copy enhancing). The spotlight is Léo – who’s a unbelievable artist. Initially revealed in French by Dargaud in 1991, the Cinebook launch solely got here out a number of years in the past.
TAIMUR DAR: Like lots of people who grew up within the ‘90s, Don Bluth’s animated movies and work have been a seminal a part of my childhood. So that you higher imagine I used to be excited to get my arms on his memoir Someplace Out There: My Animated Life and begin studying it. On the comics entrance, with the discharge of Wakanda Ceaselessly it appears becoming to do some Black Panther studying. I first learn the TPB of Who’s the Black Panther from author Reginald Hudlin and artist John Romita Jr. a couple of decade in the past. It’s the storyline that relaunched the collection and character and debuted Shuri so I need to learn it once more because it’s been awhile.
