SHUT IN THEATER: Weekend Studying 167

The summer time continues with July, and so does our long-running column, with Weekend Studying 167! No spoilers, however The Beat Elite shall be spending our scorching summer time weekend inside with an enormous stack of comics!

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AVERY KAPLAN: The opposite day, my Mom-in-Regulation despatched me an NPR article on “splooting,” the act of squirrels mendacity on their stomachs so as to survive in any other case insufferable warmth. This has inevitably led to a need to re-read The Unbeatable Squirrel Woman! I’ll be beginning with the amount gathering the primary 2015 run by Ryan North, Erica Henderson, Maris Wicks, Kyle Starks, Chris Giarrusso, Rico Renzi, and Clayton Cowles. How far will I get within the sequence? Probably to the Derek Appeal period!

Weekend Reading 167 — Weekend Studying 167: The Flintstones.

TAIMUR DAR: As I discussed final week, I’ve been on a little bit of a Mark Russell kick these days. Completed Exit Stage Left final weekend, so I’m transferring onto The Flintstones comedian sequence he did with artist Steve Pugh. Once more, like Snagglepuss, I hear Russell elevated admittedly foolish materials to craft fairly a complicated sequence. Likewise, I’ll be diving into Daredevil: Man With out Worry by Frank Miller and John Romita Jr. which I will need to have learn years in the past but it surely’s been some time so it deserves a reread.

CY BELTRAN: In honor of the film popping out on Netflix, I’ll lastly be trying out ND Stevenson’s Nimona, which I simply occurred to attain a replica of throughout the final couple of weeks. I’ve heard such nice issues concerning the e-book that I simply needed to get my fingers on it. I can also’t keep in mind if I’ve introduced it up right here earlier than, however I’ve received a replica of Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer that I’ve been desperately attempting to get to, and in mild of the whole lot occurring on the planet and the lengthy weekend, I feel now could be the appropriate time to sit down down and test it out. Then, attempting to get via my enormous stack of unread books, I’m additionally gonna have a look at Pulp and Evening Fever from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (with Jacob Phillips on colours for the previous).