Review of 2015

So it's now 2016 time to look at how I did in 2015. This is the forth year I've been keeping track of what I've bought and what I've read (with a count of movies seen at the cinema too)

2015 has really been a year of Star Wars. The Force Awakens finaly arrived in December but before that we had lots of new SW books from Marvel. Not read them yet but will do soon. I've also been reading SW role playing books from Fantasy Flight and we've got a nice Force and Destiny campaign going.

I've also completed my back issue collection with the purchase of Fantastic Four #72 but I've recently decided to get a few more back-issues.

This is what I bought in 2015 ( The numbers in brackets are the 2014 figures);

New comics/back-issues purchased      (33) 17
New trade collections                (33) 26
New copies of Epic Collections, Masterworks  & Omnibus editions     (16) 6


So it looks like I've continue to successfully cut-back on the purchases. As I've said before, I've now got the key material to start reading Marvel from the beginning but there are a number of collections and mini-series I want to read first.

So what did I read in 2015?

The Black Lung Captain
Order of the Stick - Blood Runs in the Family
Black Science 2
Wicked Divine
Guardians of the Galaxy by Abbnett and Lanning vol 1 & 2
rocket racoon
Izombie 1
Harley Quinn 2
Iron Jackel
Denver
Black Science 3
Ace of Skulls
Hawleye 1-4
Scarlett 1 – 4
DH Star Wars 1 – 4
Doc Unknown 1 -3
Black Widow 1 -3

To compare what I've read with what I've bought (which is the main purpose of this blog)

Comics/Back-issues read      (5) 5
Trade collections read          (34) 24
Epic Collections, Masterworks  & Omnibus editions  read   (1) 0
Movies 5
Books 3

So although I've bought about 33% less stuff last year, I've managed to read less. Part of the reason for that as I said in my half-year summary, is that The Order of the Stick "Blood Runs in the Family" was massive and the Guardians of the Galaxy trades took quite long as they were 12 issues each.

Another reason is that I've been reading RPG rulebooks. In fact reading plenty of them but they aren't included in the tallies above.

Plans for 2016.

Read another Robin Hobb trilogy
Read Miracleman
Read Brubaker Batman and Catwoman and Fatale series.

And of course I have things on pre-order.

Happy New Year.