August 1, 2012

August Reads

Congratulations to T Frances who completed the challenge in July. Please feel free to continue linking to your reviews throughout the rest of the year. Take a look at the rankings below.

Enter the names of the graphic novels you reviewed in August.  Enter in this format Name (Book by Author) i.e. Reader (The Big Book by Sir Writes A-Lot).  Any problems leave a comment and I'll get to it.

1. Nicola (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: One Dead Spy)  19. Nicola (Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 05)  
2. Sandy (Pariah, issue #2 by Aron Warner)  20. Mervi (Essential X-Men vol.3 by Claremont et al)  
3. Nicola (Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Vol. 9)  21. Bex (Fables Volumes 2, 3, 4 by Bill Willingham)  
4. Mervi (Avengers Forever by Busiek, Stern and Pacheco)  22. Bex (1602 by Neil Gaiman)  
5. John (Marvel Treasury Edition #26)  23. John (Black Hole)  
6. The Great Fables Crossover (Karissa's Reading Review)  24. John (The Contract With God)  
7. Nicola (Voltron Force #2: Tournament of the Lions by Brian Smitth)  25. Nicola (The Bionic Man Vol. 1: Some Assembly Required by Kevin Smith)  
8. Sandy (Maximum Ride, volume 5 by James Patterson)  26. Clockworks (Karissa's REading Review)  
9. Nicola (When Judges Go Bad by John Wagner)  27. John (The Pride of Baghdad)  
10. Joseph (Asterix in Britain)  28. Joseph (Complete Zombies vs Robots)  
11. Nicola (Orchid Vol. 1 by Tom Morello)  29. Nicola (Marathon by Boaz Yakin)  
12. Nicola (Victory, Resistance Book 3 by Carla Jablonski)  30. Tom (Maya Makes a Mess by Rutu Modan)  
13. Nicola (The Occultist, Vol. 1 by Tim Seely)  31. John (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns)  
14. Witches (Karissa's Reading Review)  32. Nicola (Creepy Presents Richard Corben)  
15. Nicola (Monocyte by Kasra Ghanbari)  33. John (Road to Perdition)  
16. Sandy (Alice in the Country of Hearts, volume 1 by QuinRose)  34. Nicola (Graphic Classics: Robert Louis Stevenson)  
17. Nicola (Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, Vol. 1 by Brian Lee O'Malley)  35. Sandy (Sorcerers and Secretaries, vol. 1 by Amy Kim Ganter)  
18. Nicola (Binky Under Pressure by Ashley Spires)  

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Status as of end of July:

Twelve and Over: 
 Nicola: 53
 Tom: 23
Karissa's Reading Review: 22
Aaron: 20
 T Frances: 15
Mervi: 14

 Rankings: 
 Larissa: 10
Sandy: 8
Joseph: 6
Jim Black: 5
Joe: 5
Reading Challenged: 4
Kat: 4
John: 3
 Tif: 3
 Chris@ Nerf Reader: 3
Bex: 2
 Healiel: 2
 GuadiRC: 2
 Nancy: 1
The misanthropologist:1
 Jean-Paul: 1

Individual Books Read Up and Including August:

Jason Aaron:  Punisher Max: Kingpin (Jim)


Ninomiya Ai: Are You Alice? Vol. 1 (Healiel) 

Natsumi Ando:  Arisa, Vol. 2 (Sandy)

Anthologies: Tall: Great American Folktales (Nicola)

Arnold Are: The Mythology Class (Nancy)

Hiroyuki Asada: Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee, Vol. 1 (Larissa); Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee, Vol. 7 (Nicola); Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee, Vol. 8 (Nicola)

Atsuko Asano: NO.6, Vol. 1 (Healiel)

Penelope Bagieu: 
Cadavre Exquis (Larissa); La Page Blanche (Larissa)

Frank Beddor: 
Hatter M, Vol. 1 (Karissa); (TFrances); Hatter M, Vol. 2 (TFrances); Hatter M, Vol. 3 (TFrances)

Alison Bechdel: Fun Home (Bex)

Arne Bellstorf: Baby's in Black (Nicola)

Brian Michael Bendis: Torso: A True Crime Graphic Novel (Nicola)

Hannah Berry: Britten and Brulightly (Chris@Nerfreader)

Ned Bowden: Holliday (Nicola)


Raymond Briggs: 
When the Wind Blows (Nicola); Ethel & Ernest, a true story (Nicola)


Joe Brusha: Neverland (Karissa)

Charles Burns: Black Hole (John)

Kurt Busiek: 
Superstar: As Seen On TV (Jim Black);
Avengers: The Morgan Conquest (Mervi); Avengers: Assemble, vol.1 (Mervi); Avengers Assemble, vol. 2 (Mervi); Avengers: Living Legends (Mervi); Avengers Forever (Mervi)

Blair Butler:  Heart (Joe)

Gail Carriger:  Soulless, Vol. 1 (Sandy)

Michael Cavallero: The Wizard of Oz (Tom)

Scott Chantler: Two Generals (John)

Scott Ciencin: Power at the Plate (Nicola)

Clamp: X 3-in1. Vol.1 (Nicola); X 3-in-1. Vol. 2 (Nicola)

Chris Claremont:  Essential X-Men Vol. 3 (Mervi)

Daniel Clowes: The Death-Ray (Kat)

Max Allan Collins: Road to Perdition (John)

Tim Conrad: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Nicola)

Richard Corben: Creepy Presents Richard Corben (Nicola)

Paul Cornell: Batman & Robin: Dark Knight, White Knight (Karissa)

Willow Dawson: Hyena in Petticoats, The Story of Suffragette Nellie McClung (Nicola)

Keith R.A. DeCandido: Star Trek :TNG: Perchance to Dream (Mervi)

Nunzio DeFillipis: The Avalon Chronicles #1 (Nicola)

Guy DeLisle: Burma Chronicles (Larissa); Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City (Larissa)

Ian Edington:  Leviathon (Nicola)

Will Eisner: The Contract with God Trilogy (John)

Garth Ennis: The Boys, Vol. 9 (TFrances); The Boy, Vol.10 (TFrances)

Gerry Finley-Day: Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu-Earth Vol. 01 (Nicola)

Christos Gage:  Sunset (Nicola)

Michel Gagne: The Saga of Rex (Karissa)

Neil Gaiman: 

The Sandman #1: Preludes & Nocturnes (TFrances); The Sandman #2 (TFrances)The Sandman #4 (TFrances); The Sandman #5 (TFrances); 
Death: The High Cost of Living (Larissa); Death: Time of Your Life (Larissa)
1602 (Bex)


Amy Kin Ganter: Sorcerers and Secretaries, Vol. 2 (Sandy)

Rick Geary: The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans (Nicola)

Kasra Ghanbari: Monocyte (Nicola)

Rene Goscinny: Asterix in Britain (Joseph)

Graphic Classics: Vol. 9, Robert Louis Stevenson (Nicola); Vol. 22, African-American Classics (Nicola);

Alan Grant: Judge Andersen: The Psychic Crime Files (Nicola)

Justin Gray: Trailblazer (Jim Black)

Nathan Hale: One Dead Spy (Nicola)

Steve Henglehart: Marvel Treasury Edition #26, The Rampaging Hulk (John)

Jim Henson: Tale of Sand (Jean-Paul)

Herge:
Cigars of the Pharoah (Aaron); The Blue Lotus (Aaron); The Broken Ear (Aaron); The Black Island (Aaron); King Ottokar's Sceptre (Aaron); The Crab with the Golden Claws (Aaron); The Shooting Star (Aaron); The Secret of the Unicorn (Aaron); Red Rackham's Treasure (Aaron); The Seven Crystal Balls (Aaron); Prisoners of the Sun (Aaron); Land of Black Gold (Aaron); Destination Moon (Aaron); Explorers on the Moon (Aaron); The Calculus Affair (Aaron); The Red Sea Sharks (Aaron); Tintin in Tibet (Aaron); The Castsifiore Emerald (Aaron); Flight 714 (Aaron); Tintin and the Picaros (Aaron)

Faith Erin Hicks: 
Friends with Boys (Nicola); Zombies Calling (Nicola)

Joe Hill: Locke and Key #1: Welcome to Lovecraft (Tif); Locke and Key #5: Clockworks (Karissa)

Gareth Hinds: The Odyssey (Tom)

Shane Houghton:  Reed Gunther,The Bear Riding Cowboy: Volume 1 (Nicola)

Humayoun Ibrahim: Jack Vance's The Moon Moth (Nicola); (Karissa)

Carla Jablonski: Victory, Resistance Bk 3 (Nicola)

Jeff Jensen: Green River Killer: A True Detective Story (Nicola)

Jeff Johns: The Brightest Day, Vol. 2 (Tom); The Justice League, Vol. 1: The Origin (Nicola)

R. Kikuo Johnson: The Shark King (Tom)

Antony Johnston: The Coldest City (Nicola)

Chigusa Kawai: Alice the 101st, Vol. 2 (Reading Challenged)

Kazu Kibuishi: Amulet #5 (Karissa)

Robert Kirkman: 
Super Dinosaur, Vol. 1 (Nicola); 
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1 (GuadiRC); (Tom), The Walking Dead, Vol. 2 (Tom); The Walking Dead, Vol. 3 (Tom); The Walking Dead, Vol. 4 (Tom) (TFrances); The Walking Dead, Vol. 10 (Joseph); The Walking Dead, Vol. 11 (Joseph); The Walking Dead, Vol. 12 (Joseph)

Tite Kubo: Bleach, vol. 37 (Kat)

Lang, John: Lone Hawk: The Story of Air Ace Billy Bishop
 (Nicola)

Joseph Lanzara: 
Dante's The Inferno: The Graphic Novel (Tom); (Nicola)

Tony Lee:
Excalibur: The Legend of King Arthur (Tom); Doctor Who: The Forgotten (TFrances)

Jeff Lemire: Animal Man, Vol. 1 (Tom)

Robert James Luedke: Eyewitness: Unknown God (Tom)

Brian Lynch: Angel, vol. 6: Last Angel in Hell (Larissa)

Ellie Mamahara: Double Cast (Reading Challenged)

David Michelini: The Avengers: Nights of Wondergrore (Mervi)

Mike Mignola: B.P.R.D.: Being Human (Joseph); 
Masks & Monsters (Joseph)

Frank Miller: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (John)

Rutu Modan: Maya Makes a Mess (Tom)

Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba: Daytripper (the misanthropologist)

Alan Moore: 
Tom Strong, Book 3 (Mervi); Tom Strong, Book 4 (Mervi); Tom Strong, Book 6 (Mervi)

Leah Moore: Doctor Who: Through Time and Space (TFrances)

Tom Morello: Orchid, Vol. 1 (Nicola)

Grant Morrison: Judge Dredd: Crusade & Frankenstein Division (Nicola)

Mozchops: Salsa Invertebraxa (Nicola)

Ted Naifeh: 
Courtney Crumrin in the Twilight Kingdom (Karissa); Courtney Crumrin and the Coven of Mystics (Karissa); Courtney Crumrin's Monstrous Holiday (Karissa)


Jai Nitz: Tron: Betrayal (Tom)

George O'Connor: Hades: Lord of the Dead (Nicola)

Héctor Germán Oesterheld: El Eternauta (GuadiRC)

Bryan Lee O'Malley: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Nicola)

Megumi Osuga: 
MAOH: Juvenile Remix, Vol. 7 (Nicola); MAOH: Juvenile Remix, Vol. 8 (Nicola); MAOH: Juvenile Remix, Vol. 9 (Nicola); MAOH: Juvenile Remix, Vol. 10 (Nicola)

Greg Pak: Alpha Flight, Vol. 1 (Jim Black)

JT Petty: Bloody Chester (Nicola)

James Patterson: Maximum Ride, Vol. 3 (Sandy); Maximum Ride, Vol. 4 (Sandy); Maximum Ride, Vol. 5 (Sandy)

David Peterson: 
Mouse Guard: Fall of 1152 (Karissa); Mouse Guard: Winter of 1152 (Karissa)

Peyo: The Smurfs #8: The Smurf Apprentice (Tom); The Smurfs #10: The Return of Smurfette (Tom)

QuinRose: Alice in the Country of Hearts, v.1 (Sandy)

Mike Raicht: The Jungle (Karissa)

Scott Mitchell Rosenberg: Cowboys and Aliens (Tom)

Greg Rucka: Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia (Tom)

Chris Ryell: Complete Zombies Vs. Robots (Joseph)

Marjanne Satrapi: Embroideries (Larissa); Chicken with Plums (Larissa); Persepolis 1 (TFrances); Persepolis 2 (TFrances)

Bob Schrek: Jurassic Park: Redemption (Tom)

Mark Schultz: Tom Strong, Book5 (Mervi)

Chris Schweizer: Crogan's Loyalty (Nicola)

Tim Seeley: The Occultist, Vol. 1 (Nicola)

Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Manga Edition (TFrances)

Hiroshi Shiibashi: 
Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Vol. 5 (Nicola); Nura:Rise of the Yokai Clan, Vol. 6 (Nicola); Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Vol. 7 (Nicola), Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Vol. 8 (Nicola); Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Vol. 9 (Nicola)

Brian Smith: The Stuff of Legend #3: A Jester's Tale (Karissa); 

Voltron Force, vol. 1: Shelter From the Storm (Nicola); Volton Force v.2: Tournament of Lions (Nicola)

Kevin Smith: The Bionic Man Vol. 1 (Nicola)

Scott Snyder: 
American Vampire Vol.1 (Tom); American Vampire vol. 2 (Tom); Batman: Black Mirror (Tom); (Joe)

Kean Soo: Jellaby (Nicola); (Chris@Nerfreader); Jellaby:Monster in the City (Nicola)

Nadja Speigelman:  Zig and Wikki in the Cow (Tom); (Nicola)

Ashley Spires: Binky, The Space Cat (Karissa); Binky Under Pressure (Nicola)


John Stanley:   Yow! Drawn & Quarterly Presents A "John Stanley Library" Grab-Bag for Free Comic Book Day 2010 (Nicola)


Roger Stern: Avengers: Under Siege (Mervi) 

Studio Ghibli: 
The Secret World of Arrietty, vol. 1 (Nicola); The Secret World of Arrietty, vol. 2 (Nicola)


Mary M Talbot - Dotter of her Father's Eyes (Nicola)


Brandon Terrell: Riptide Pride (Nicola) 

Yumi Tsukirino: 
Fluffy, Fluffy Cinamoroll, Vol.1 (Nicola); Fluffy, Fluffy, Cinnamoroll, vol. 2 (Nicola)

Sara Varon: Bake Sale (Karissa)


Brian K. Vaughn: Pride of Baghdad (John)

John Wagner: Judge Dredd: When Judges Go Bad (Nicola); Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 05 (Nicola)

Aron Warner: Pariah, Issue #2 (Sandy)
Zeb Wells: X-Men: Second Coming (Merv)

Scott Westerfield:
Ugly's: Shays Story (Karissa)

Joshua Williamson:  Xenoholics, Vol. 1 (Nicola)

Willingham, Bill: 

Fables #2: Animal Farm (Bex); 
Fables #3: Storybook Love (Bex); 
Fables #4: March of the Wooden Soldiers (Karissa) (Larissa) (Bex); 
Fables #5: The Mean Seasons (Karissa); 
Fables #8: Wolves (Karissa); 
Fables #10: The Good Prince (Karissa); 
Fables #11: War and Pieces (Karissa); 
Fables #12: The Dark Ages (Karissa); 
Fables #13: The Great Fables Crossover (Karissa); 
Fables 14: Witches (Karissa); 
Fables #16:Super Team (Kat)

Marv Wolfman: Teen Titans: Games (Jim Black)

Craig Yoe: Bob Powell's Terror, Vol. 2 (Kat)

Boaz Yakin: Marathon (Nicola)

Jane Yolen: The Last Dragon (Nicola); (Chris@NerfReader

Kiiro Yumi: Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 7 (Nicola)

10 comments:

Sandy said...

I actually have 8 :). 4 in June, 4 in July.

Sandy

Nikki in Niagara said...

Fixed it Sandy! Sorry about that.

Sandy said...

No worries and thank-you ^_^.

John Mutford said...

Hi Nicola, that's 4 for me actually:
- Two Generals
- Fruits Basket
- Electric Girl
- Marvel Treasury #26

Nikki in Niagara said...

OK John gotcha. I put you at 3 since Marvel Treasury is down on the August links.
I've even made a mess with my own count but since it's over 12 I'm leaving as is! LOL Next year, I'll have people leave me their count like you and a few other hosts do, much easier on the host me thinks :-)

John Mutford said...

Black Hole is book #5.

John Mutford said...

The Contract With God makes 6— halfway there!

John Mutford said...

7/12

John Mutford said...

8/12

John Mutford said...

9/12 (I hope you don't mind me tallying here. I figured it'd help you track better. Me too actually.)