If
you haven’t heard, there’s this website out there called Good Reads where you basically build a virtual bookshelf of all the books you’ve
read, are reading, and plan to read.
And
it’s addictive. I joined three days ago and I have already listed over 400
books in my “My Books” shelf, all star-rated and a few with reviews.
According
to my “stats”, apparently my top two most-read (i.e. Favorite) writers
are Grant Morrison and Geoff Johns, which (no offense to either of them)
is far from the truth. They’re both comic book writers and I read a lot
of comics, especially Batman and Green Lantern. And it just so happens
that both Morrison and Johns have been writing those characters since 2004/2006. Morrison on Batman, Johns on Green Lantern. And since I’ve read every Morrison Batman and Johns Green Lantern book they’ve written in the past 6-7 years, well that comes out to a lot of comic books.
Side note: In case you were wondering (and I know you weren’t)
I own every Green Lantern comic book published since 1976 (starting
with issue 90, which was published 4 years after issue 89)*. No fooling.
That’s 36 years worth of the Emerald Crusader’s adventures. Money well
spent, you ask me. Money well spent.
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| This is what I say to women after I tell them I read comics. Especially after I tell them I prefer Kyle Rayner as GL. |
*Full Disclosure: I am missing a few Action Comics Weekly issues that were published after the cancellation of Green Lantern Vol. 2 and the start of GL Vol. 3 (circa 1988, a dark period in the life of all the Green Lanterns). Mainly because they’re not very good and I refuse to pay more than 50 cents an issue. Right off the bat, Hal Jordan pimp slaps Carol
Ferris (his on again/off again girlfriend) several times. To be fair,
she was Star Sapphire at the time [was she, or was she just dressed like
SS? I forget]. Yeah, she was evil for a while. She got better.
Image from Green Lantern Reborn, art by Ethan "I draw one crazy Sinestro" Van Sciver
