Recent Book Acquisitions/What are You Reading

Another gift from Christmas. I own a lot of books, but haven't been reading much lately. Last book I read was Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs and that was a tough read. lol

Half broke horses
The 400 year history of immigrant new York

for xmas, i mostly got books:

- steven de rosa - writing with hitchc**k
- ring lardner - selected stories
- jaime hernandez - the love bunglars
- hayao miyazaki - nausicaa of the valley of the wind [boxed set]
- william inge - four plays

also got paths of glory and sunset blvd on blu-ray.

Hmm I think you should at least have some knowledge of the character and his background, but it's not like you need to go back and read the super early runs or anything.

He's one of those characters where the origin usually stays the same for the most part even though each writer might have a different take on him and his powers/multiple personalities. I recommend you check out a wiki page or something but Basically you just need to know that at one point he was a mercenary on a job in Egypt who was betrayed by the people he was working with. He died and then was resurrected by Khonshu, the Egyptian God of the moon/vengeance. Also, he has Dissociative Identity Disorder and is kinda bats**t crazy. Sorta like MF DOOM with the different personas in a way.

That's the gist of it, but i'd recommend at least reading the run that Warren Ellis did with Declan Shalvey back in 2014. It's really f**king good and would make you appreciate the Jeff Lemire run more, i think. It's 6 issues and is collected in one TPB called Moon Knight Volume 1: From the Dead. The series continues after that with different writers up to issue 17. it's still worth reading post-Ellis, but the thing I like the most about the 6 issues he did is that they're all self contained stories. It's a lot of fun and the art is great too.

I haven't read Descender yet, i've heard nothing but good things about it though. I have the first two trades on my shelf, just haven't gotten around to reading them yet. Maybe i'll start that next.

i don't know anything about invisible republic but the autumnlands is another series i've been meaning to check out for a while. i really like benjamin dewey's art in that, from what i've seen anyway. the second trade comes out at the end of february so i'll probably check it out then. i somehow always forget about kurt busiek even though i thought astro city and marvels were great, i don't think i've read anything else he's done though.

Re reading cats cradle and still making my way through " my struggle" vol 1

Rereading The Dark Tower series right now hope they dont f**k up the movie 🤷🏼‍♂️