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Roger is socializing with his friends in other parts of your house. He's dancing with Frankenstein's bride and smoozing with Dracula and the Wolfman. Ah that Wolfman. What a sense of humor :)
Thanks, Michael! I had Captain Blood on my TBR a while back and never got around to it. I'll try to get to it for Spring Into Adventure. I hope you get your room back soon. 😄
I’m so behind on my comments I just saw this. I suck! And I will be getting back to Amber hopefully next week. Right after I finish that Holmes/Dracula book you are FORCING me to read.
I assume that The Lady of the Manor is using your usual room so it’s a very loving sacrifice on your part to film elsewhere. I love the “pile of possibilities” that’s my usual TBR because I’m a mood reader for the most part. I’m looking forward to Captain Blood though.
At least we get a cameo appearance by Roger. Simonson's Thor run is the equal of Stan and Jack's in my opinion for creativity but Walt outdoes them in that his is a one-man show, doing both script and art. That's very concentrated comic book inventiveness there. Haggard's She will always look like Ursula Andress to me.
Goodness! Roger SPEAKS! And once again, we are on the same wavelength when it comes to planning our monthly TBR. I've had Varney waiting to be read for about nine years. This October I dedicated to giving Varney my complete attention!
I've been inspired by our overlapping tastes. This last week, during a road trip from Wisconsin to Texas, and back, I read three novels that I found at a terrific shop in Houston. Kaboom Books has an admirably large vintage paperback section. Also, best newspaper comic strip book selection outside a library or private collection. I read Silverberg's "Hawksbill Station", Simak's "Heritage of Stars", and Jack Vance's "The Killing Machine", a re-read. It was better the second read.
The Simonson Thor was coming out right when I was in my early teens, and will ALWAYS be my favorite Thor comics. The fact that he was not only writing those, but also doing the artwork is just ASTOUNDING. Some of the most iconic, at least to me, comics ever. Almost to many to list. Beta Ray Bill getting his hammer run. (Check) Thor's all splash page fight with the Midgard Serpent (Check) Thor's BAD ASS armor he was wearing during that fight to protect him from the curse weakening his body. (Still like it more than his traditional costume.) (Check) Thor's journey into Hell, with Skurge sacrificing himself armed with machine guns to let them escape. (Check) That cover with Kurse standing over the defeated Thor and Beta Ray. (Check) The build up of Sutur forging his sword that he will attack Asguard with. (Check) I could go on and on, but MAN, I love those comics.
Cor! I like the cover to your fancypants copy of She, sure is pretty. After a hundred years I'm still surprised how busy you are, shoehorning books and events into your reading plans, you'd have made a wonderful plate spinner, captivating the audience in the penny theatres. I've no idea what I'll be reading .. once I finish my Elric odyssey it's going to be comics as I've not read any this year and I'm starved, after that I don't know, shrouded in mystery, maybe mythology, maybe right back to Moorcock and a whole new set of eternal champion stories.
Due to a recent family loss, I have to push «The Fort» (City of Victory Trilogy #1) by Adrian Goldsworthy (Historical Military Fiction set during Emperor Trajan’s Campaigns) & «After Rome» by Morgan Llywelyn (Historical Fiction set in Post-Roman Britain) back from my March TBR until April. My April TBR schedule: «The Green Pearl» (Lyonesse Trilogy #2) by Jack Vance ((Pre-)Arthurian Fantasy) «Ash: A Secret History» by Mary Gentle (Alt-Historical Military Fiction inspired by the Mercenary Wars of the Renaissance) «The City» (City of Victory Trilogy #2) by Adrian Goldsworthy (Historical Military Fiction set during Emperor Trajan’s Campaigns) «Empire of Silence» (Sun Eater, #1) by Christopher Ruocchio (Space opera) My April MBR/Spring TBR list: «Idoru» by William Gibson (Cyberpunk) «Kings of the Wyld» by Nicholas Eames (Fantasy Humor) Might get to «Lord of Light» later this year!
Are you worried that Roger has been left alone with all the people talking in your filming space? This could be bad… Also, I must have missed the booktube meeting when we decided to change TBR to Pile of Possibilities 😂… These sound like great books!
I’m guessing you were hiring new staff for the manor and Roger had to sit in on the interviews. Definitely join you for Capt blood and found she out in the loft so try and join y’all for TV hat too
Hopefully Roger's not freaking the guests out unnecessarily. Only necessary freaking out. I can't even remember when I last read Lovecraft in full, quite possibly not for a couple of decades (though I've reread some individual stories in that time), so I may well join you in the Dunwich December thing. And I will at least put Captain Blood on my April reading list (just read 39 Steps the other day for the March installment of Roger's book club, a lot of fun).
I never plan my monthly reading in advance, as so many book tubers seem to do, so I'm not sure why I'm even watching this -- just to get a sense of your ordinary reading, I guess, as it differs from your all-time favorites. You could have set up a green screen, you know, and FAKED the wall of books and the mummy. Ha! I read those Simonson Thor/Beta Ray Bill comics when they were current, but gave them to my nephew at some point and never saw them again. The Kirby Thors should be better thought of today, but they were the focus of fan hatred for the inking of Vince Colleta.
Michael K. Vaughan, the don Quixote of book enthusiasts on RU-vid. (I bet you can't guess what book I'm in the middle of now.) He's missing his Sancho Panza today. Pity.
I'm reading every issue of Incredible Hulk. I'm currently in mid 1981 (Bill Mantlo), so sad what happened to him. Speaking of early Thor, how often could things have been resolved faster if Odin had not been asleep?
Not sure if you know this, Micheal… but being a booktube heavyweight you probably do. Brian Lee Durfee is in a pretty bad way, heath wise. Hoping he recovers soon.
I try not to bother you, but the S.O. keeps asking me about health updates for the Goblin Monkey. I hope Rhonda and all your family are doing well, and that my email didn't frighten you. . .
Well I'm gonna keep guilting you into reading A Fire Upon the Deep!! There's too many events, and apart from JotR and GarbAugust, most are kinda lame 🤭🤭 Plus they're out of season for me. I'm gonna do booktube at War in July, but no one is invited, it's just me, me, me. 🪖🪖
