Tales of the Batman Alan Brennert

A new purchase based on the glowing review by Greg Hatcher on CBR.

I don't have any of the stories reprinted so it looks like a good volume to own.

What I...read on my Summer Holiday

I actually got to read THREE books whilst on the family holiday to Italy. Part of the reason for that is because the Kindle is so damn easy to carry around -so you can pull of the book to read anytime. Like when my wife and son were queueing for rides in Gardaland.

I read books 4 and 5 of Ben Aaronovitch's Peter Grant series. Number 4 "Broken Homes" wasn't that great but did have a shocking ending. Book 5 was a big improvement.

I've read "Railway Adventure" years ago but wanted to re-read this great book before I go to the Talyllyn Railway again in August. 

Pre-orders arriving at last

Some of these I've had on pre-order for months but one ot two were last minute purchases.

Most of these are continuations of series I'm already collecting but Damage Control was a 1980s series which got good reviews and sounded fun. So I've taken a chance on that when the price dropped on Amazon.

I really need to get on with reading some stuff!

Summary of 2016 so far

2016 has sucked so far in terms of the real world and the sporting world too.

But I'm pleased that my collections have grown and I'm almost up-to-date with everything and any new addtions will be new material.

I've bought some comics which have long been on my wants list.

And some lovely new hardback collections and Masterworks

And Harley Quinn of course!

So what have I bought so far this year?

Darth Vader vol 2

Giant-size Spider-man 1

Giant-size Spider-man 3

Daredevil 155

Iron Man 90

X-Men annual #7

Star Wars Vol 2

Daredevil mark Waid Vol 4

Batman Brubaker 1

atomic Robo omnibus 2

Superior foes of Spider-man

Harley Quinn

Harley & Ivy

Miracleman Book 4

Harley Quinn and Power-girl

Thor Masterworks 13

Thor masterworks 14

Daredevil masterworks 9

Vader down

Starfire

Criminal Deadly Hands

Gotham Central omnibus

Daredevil mark Waid Vol 5

Black Science 4

Thor Masterworks 9

Thor Masterworks 15

That's 13 trades, 5 Masterworks, 3 omnibus and the five original comics

I've read

Astrix and the Missing Scroll

Rat Queens 1

Star Wars vol 1

Star Wars vol 2

Superior foes

Fatale vols 1-5

Which is actually 9 trades and 1 omnibus. So I'm still buying more than I can read!

Reasons - well life really but I've spent I lot of time reading RPG material so that's my excuse.

I'm in the mood for reading at the moment and with a holiday imminent I'm hoping my "read" list will grow very soon!