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Comic Book Club Four Year Anniversary Meeting: The Life & Times of Martha Washington, Transmet vols 3+4
Holy smokes, it’s the Ash Ave Comic Book Club’s fourth anniversary, and the beginning of our fifth year reading across the many genres of the comics medium. I promise, it’s not an intentional tradition, but we’ll once again be tackling another comic from Frank Miller for our September 9 anniversary (last year we read and […]
Comic Book Club August Meetings: Transmetropolitan vols 1+2
For August we will begin our latest long read with Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson’s sci-fi classic Transmetropolitan (For those keeping track we’ve now read most of the Vertigo classics; Saga of the Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, Preacher, The Invisibles, Sandman, and Y The Last Man), we’ll begin with volume 1 on August 5, volume 2 on August […]
Comic Book Club July Meeting: My Favorite Thing is Monsters
Our July title is a big one, and one of the most critically acclaimed, lauded, and awarded comic works in recent memory. For our Sunday, July 8 Comic Book Club we will be discussing Emil Ferris’ My Favorite Thing is Monsters, and we will begin our next ongoing comic book club in August with Warren […]
Comic Book Club June Meeting: Hellboy Omnibus Seed of Destruction
As summer finally arrives with June, it’s fitting that the Ash Ave Comic Book Club plumb the depths of darkness and horror with a character accustomed to the heat, with Mike Mignola’s classic comic creation Hellboy. This month we will be reading and discussing Mike Mignola’s Eisner Award winning Dark Horse in the new chronologically […]
Comic Book Club May Meetings: Vision + Hellblazer vol 8
May is nearly here, and with it comes the high temps, and another month of the Ash Ave Comic Book Club! This month we will be reading and discussing Tom King, Gabriel Hernandez Walta, Michael Walsh, and Mike Del Mundo’s Eisner Award winning Marvel mini-series Vision, and we will be concluding our reading of writer Garth […]