This weekend marks the arrival of Weekend Reading 141 and the first night of Hannukah 2022! What book will you be reading to celebrate? The Beat is waiting to hear from you! Give us a shout-out, right here in the comment section or over on social media @comicsbeat.
AVERY KAPLAN: This weekend, I’m going to be revisited a series I’ve already read at least once since Weekend Reading began: the three Bongo Comics Treehouse of Horror collection, Heebie Jeebie Hullabaloo, Spine-Tingling Spooktacular, and From Beyond the Grave. Featuring the work of loads of cartoonists creating out-of-continuity comedy horror starring the denizens of 742 Evergreen Terrace? Sign me up!
TAIMUR DAR: Randomly browsing through Marvel digital books on the libby app, I stumbled across the Fantastic Four: Full Circle graphic novel by Alex Ross that came out earlier this year. It’s been on my list to read all year so I’m going to devote the weekend to reading it. Likewise the second issue of Superman: Space Age that has been sitting in my read pile for weeks now.
REBECCA OLIVER KAPLAN: I’ve missed several weeks of work now due to a confluence of health issues, so most of my weekend will be spent catching up on my “have to read” pile. At the top of that list is something that definitely deserves to be blown up several times over, the webseries House of Slay, with a second season by writer Barbara Perez Marquez and artist Dominic Bustamante. Then, for funsies, I will be finishing up Stephen King‘s The Dark Tower series… finally. I am half way through the final book and things are getting intense.
DEAN SIMONS: This weekend I am likely to be continuing my piecemeal reading of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s popular manga Death Note. I had originally tried reading the series some years ago but for some reason or another never got far. This year it finally clicked with me and I have been reading it a handful of chapters at a time. A very compelling cat and mouse mystery. Currently at volume 3. On the prose front, despite promising myself I wouldn’t before the end of the year, I started a novel last weekend and am currently halfway through Elizabeth Moon’s Trading in Danger, first book in the Vatta’s War series. The opening few chapters were rather dull and pedestrian for me but things pick up. Curious to see where this goes.
