The weekend is here, and so too is Weekend Reading 174! As usual, The Beat elite will be spending our weekend inside Stately Beat Manor, lost in a good book. What will you be paging through this weekend? The Beat wants to hear from you! Let us know in the comment section.
AJ FROST: I’m excited to check out Noah Van Sciver’s Paul Bunyan: The Invention of an American Legend. Look, I’m a mark for anything Noah releases, but what makes me really excited about this book is that it’s under the Toon Books publishing banner. From what I’ve read so far about Noah’s version of the Paul Bunyan legend, he spends time highlighting the Native perspective of the plundering of America’s precious resources. This tweak of the standard Bunyan legend is needed.
TAIMUR DAR: After Netflix unveiled the trailer for the upcoming Scott Pilgrim Takes Off anime, I now have the urge to revisit the original Bryan Lee O’Malley comics. I don’t think I’ve properly read them in over a decade, at least not since the Edgar Wright film was released. I definitely haven’t read the editions colored by Nathan Fairbairn which as it happens are available on comiXology. So I’ll be diving into some Scott Pilgrim this weekend.
AVERY KAPLAN: Coming up with my own reading choices is hard, and I’ve got incoming rain to worry about. So instead of fussing about and coming up with my own reading choices, I’ll just steal some re-reading suggestions from A.J. and Taimur! First up will be Joseph Smith and the Mormons by Noah Van Sciver. Then it’s on to Scott Pilgrim by Edgar Wright with color by Nathan Fairbairn.
DEAN SIMONS: I stumbled across My Elegant Yokai Apartment Life earlier this week and have been quickly drawn into the lives of Yushi and the residents of Kotobuki Manor. Waka Miyama’s manga skillfully adapts the light novels of the same name by Hinowa Kouzuki. The translation on volume 1 is by Adam Hirsch. The premise: orphaned student Yushi Inaba is about to start high school when the dorm he was going to live in burns down. Unable to afford anywhere else he is offered Kotobuki Manor, which turns out to be a tenement community of ghosts, spirits, paranormal creatures, and some unusual humans. Absolutely charming stuff.
CY BELTRAN: Just like Taimur, I was also inspired by the trailer for the new Scott Pilgrim anime to check out the original Bryan Lee O’Malley comics. Unlike Taimur, I’ve somehow never read them, so I went and found all 6 of the colored editions on Hoopla (with great colors by Nathan Fairbairn), and I plan on making my way through those over the next couple of days. Also, Cujo. Reaaaalllly trying to finish Cujo.
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