What are you reading in March/2017?

March is the month of International Women's Day!
What about remebering the great female comics creators (and eventually their seminal runs) and strong characters (and their series) while we talk about our latest readings!?

When I talk about female comics creators, the frist that sprung to mind is Gail Simone and G. Willow Wilson.

While Simone can write action and develop characters skillfully, Air was the first series that I really felt a feminine view of the characters and dynamics.

I'm starting March with two very different graphic memoirs, both by women: A Game for Swallows and Diary of a Tokyo Teen.

Kelly Sue DeConnick too, and Marguerite Bennett, not to mention Babs Tarr and Amanda Conner.

But, I do definitely love Gail Simone's stuff the best. :)

And if you're looking for Graphic Memoir there's no one better than Alison Bechdel

2>apokoliptian: I agree about Air, i only read the first tpb, but had the same sense as you.

3> Euryale: i enjoyed A Game for Swallows, i thought it was really well done

I've been reading The Manhattan Projects

Actually been reading more comics than usual this month. And they all happen to either star female characters or be written by women.

Moving along with the new 52 Harley Quinn series, I finally read Power Outage. I also finished off the new 52 Batwoman* series with Unknowns. And I just finished the eerie set of short stories in Through the Woods.

*Out of curiosity, has anyone read the new Batwoman: Rebirth series at all?

I've re-read Menina Infinito by Fábio Lyra which is a Brazilian comic with the same vibe of Phonogram due to the references to indie music, but is about a young twenty-something girl and her friends and relationships.

I'm also reading Little Endless by Jill Thompson.

I'll read March by John Lewis.

>6 sweetiegherkin: If you enjoyed Through the Woods, Emily Carroll has more comics on her website: http://emcarroll.com/

>6 sweetiegherkin: I want to, I want to sooo badly because I've read the stuff she's been in, in the Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 1: Rise of the Batmen TPB, but I don't do the pull list and individual issues, and so I have to wait until (heck they don't even have a TPB up on amazon yet, so I don't know when it's coming out). But, I'm definitely looking forward to it!!!

Read the first TPB collection of Alan Moore and J.H. Williams III's Promethea series (Promethea Book 1) last month. Definitely made me want to read the rest of the series. Coincidentally, it features a female protagonist (and, come to think of it, mostly female characters).

I got Creepy Presents Bernie Wrightson and Howard the Duck: The Complete Collection Volume 1 in the mail from Amazon a couple of days ago - hoping to get to both of them soon. 8)

>11 artturnerjr:
I am ramdonly reading the Creepy Presents Steve Ditko and I'm very impressed by the quality of his work (which was produced after his departure from Marvel).

I'm reading the original New Gods run, which I postponed for long. Man... I don't have words. Kirby's creativity had no limits!

I bought the Image Comics Humble Bundle last month and am still slowly working my way through it. Over the past week or so, I've read:

Chew, Vol. 1 and Southern Bastards, Vol. 1--both very well done, but neither is really my thing

Drifter, Vol. 1--beautiful art but I have no clue what is going on with the overall plot

Birthright, Vol. 1--a great take on portal fantasy gone wrong

I Hate Fairyland, Vol. 1--another great take on portal fantasy gone wrong (only this one is really, really funny)

I've continued reading The Manhattan Projects, which is bizarre. I liked the earlier volumes, but the later ones lack the tension and wtf? factor the earlier ones had.

Started reading The Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates and I'm enjoying it so far.

I've read The Dark Knight Returns: The Last Crusade which is kind of prequel for the Dark Knight Returns. Well... it adds to the canon, mainly to the personality of Jason Todd. I liked it but I cannot say that it is totally unmissable.

>9 Euryale: Thanks. I enjoyed the book enough for what it was, but I'm not always the hugest horror/supernatural fan, so I'm not sure that I'd want more.

>10 DanieXJ: Oh okay, cool. Shows how much I know --- I hadn't even realized the trade wasn't out yet. I'll wait until then also.

Finished up a couple of comics recently:

Drama & Sisters by Raina Telegmeier - one fiction, the other nonfiction, both excellent reads for middle school-age children.

I also read volume 1 of The Twelve (touchstone won't work) by J. Michael Straczynski and thought it was "ok" but not compelling enough for me to want to read volume 2.

I've been reading Ex Machina and Saga. I really like both. Also reading Faith: California Scheming tonight.

I loved Moebius's World of Edena. Now I'm about 2/3 of the way through the very good Rolling Blackouts by Sarah Glidden.

I just stumbled onto Luc Besson's new movie, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, based on a rather long lived comic series; Valerian and Laureline. Anyone familiar with the series? Wondering if it stands up to all the superlatives used to describe the movie.

Looks like Valerian and The Last Jedi will be the years big blockbusters.

Visually, the trailer for Valerian was amazing, filled with eye candy. The plot looks a little thin though, still I think I may give it a go.

I'm not familiar with the Valerian and Laureline series, although now I want to check it out! My knowledge of European comics is very spotty. I love the Fifth Element, though, so I'll see this new Besson sci-fi in any case.

As far as reading goes, I'm still working on my Image bundle. The past two weeks, I've read Lazarus Vol. 1: Family and Shutter: Wanderlost, both of which I liked, and Revival Vol. 1 which was fine, although I'm not in a zombie mood at the moment. Next up is Nailbiter: There Will Be Blood.

>12 apokoliptian:

Warren put out a lot of great stuff in the 60s and 70s, a lot of which I am just catching up with now. I would imagine that a brilliant iconoclast like Ditko was much happier there than he ever was at Marvel, DC, etc., since he didn't have to conform to the expectations of the Comics Code Authority and so forth.

When Kirby was at his mid-60s to early-70s peak, it was like his hands couldn't get his ideas on the page as fast as his mind could come up with them (and he worked fast!). Sometimes it seemed like he threw away more ideas in a single issue than most creators come up with in a lifetime. A staggering talent.

^Good comments on Ditko and Kirby.

I've started Ed Brubaker's Coward, the first in the Criminal series.

>17 brianjungwi: I tried Faith, Vol. 1: Hollywood and Vine, but I just couldn't get into it, so I'll probably stay away from the 2nd Volume.

24> I read the second volume, it was more of the same.