 Hi everyone, this is Chih-chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book stream. And what we're going to do today is I just want to show you what I've been reading. Some of the random comics I've been reading over the last three months or so since I showed you guys, there's a couple of videos we've put out I think, where I showed you the stacks of comic books I've been reading. And right now for the last little while I've been sort of into reading just randoms. I am reading some stuff where I'm following but I'm way behind on everything that I'm pulling. So I'm not really reading any of the others in some randoms from the comics that I'm pulling because I'm just I have a lot of things going on right now and I'm sort of enjoying jumping from one thought to another, one concept to another. And when I do that, you know, get into this type of headspace. I just like picking up a comic book. Ideally, contain story and reading them right. I don't want to follow a huge event because I, you know, sometimes I can't get back into it for a few weeks or a couple of months and I've totally forgotten what happened in the past, right? So I want to show you sort of the randoms I've been reading just along the same lines as we did with the previous one or two videos, right? And this is the stack that we're going to go through right now. Okay and there's a couple of comics here that I have some comments about. Okay and this stack, all of these are dollar comics. They're dollar Canadian comics that I've bought. So they're basically about 75 cents. All of these comics are either 75 cents or less. Okay, that's what I bought them for. And I have one graphic novel that I want to show you, okay? And this is something that I showed you guys previously, this graphic novel. And that's what I want to start off with. And then we're going to get into the singles, the floppies, that I've had a chance, the pleasure to read through or the, well, pleasure to read through. Even if they're bad, it's fun to read through sometimes bad comics and you realize what good is, right? If you don't have bad, you wouldn't have a comparison to know what good is, okay? Sort of looking at it with a, as an optimistic perspective, right? Glass half full instead of half empty, right? But this is sort of a graphic novel that I read. I've read a couple other ones I believe too or I'm pretty sure I've told you what I thought about those ones. One of them was the graphic novel about Latka from Taxi, right? It's Andy Kaufman, sort of biography and it was very good. And this was the next one that I picked up. And this graphic novel is The Epic of Gilgamesh, okay? And it's translated by Kent Dixon and that's the father and it's illustrated by Kevin Dixon. So it's a father and son sort of collaboration that took, I think, over a decade to get it done. The translation anyway, where when Kent went into it and then got his son to start working on the art and whatnot, right? And just so, just to let you know what Epic of Gilgamesh is, I've read Epic of Gilgamesh, the translated works in text form before and I've listened to the audiobook before, right? So I've read it in translated text before and I've listened to the audiobook before and it hasn't really, because it jumps around, there's a lot of names and stuff, it didn't really sink in, it was just a nice story. And for those of you who don't know what Epic of Gilgamesh is, Epic of Gilgamesh is considered to be the oldest long story text in our present incarnation of civilization. It's the oldest one that we've found, okay? So the Epic of Gilgamesh this year was written on stone tablets and there's a few different tablets, I think there's 10 or whatever it is. It's all written here in the description of it, right? But it's basically longest text, longest story that we have in our present civilization, right? And it sort of goes into mythology and everything, majority of mythology or much of the mythology in our human civilization that we refer to right now may it be through religious texts, may it be through texts of mythology, may it be through whatever it might be, is based on Epic of Gilgamesh. So it's a must read if you're into trying to understand what human civilization is and what how information is portrayed and stuff like this, right? But having read the text, the translated text and having read the audio book, okay? The one thing I can tell you right now is this adaptation, this graphic novel is the best one that I've experienced so far, either through reading the book or listening to the audio book because it had images that I could relate to the names were associated with pics that I could see, right? Now I'm going to show you some of the pages inside here and my apologies for being wishy-washy with this sort of review of this book. As a comic book book, as far as in terms of how much it moved me, it wasn't personal, it was more informative. It was a version of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the story that stuck with me, right? It's the third time that I've gone through this and this is by far the easiest read, the easiest way of being able to understand it. Now the book starts off with a little introduction by this person, Russ kick, okay? So it's got basically a couple of pages by Russ kick as an introduction, okay? And these are the stone tablets that the book is based on, the stories based on, the stories told on, right? So there's, you know, a couple of pages with another thing, introduction. Must read before you read the graphic novel, okay? And then there is, you know, a page by the father explaining who he is and how he got into it. A must read, right? The translator's notes, a must read before you read the comic. And then there is, you know, for an artist, he wrote the most text introduction. There's four pages of the artist's introduction to this work. A must read before you read the comic, okay? Really. Read the text before you get into the graphic novel because that sort of lays down the foundation of the importance of Epic of Gilgamesh, how much effort the father and son team put into this work, okay? And this is basically a graphic novel from, I believe it's eight issues or twelve issues that they put out in single format, in floppy format, right? And I've been trying to find the floppies online. I've only found one of the issues on eBay and I haven't contacted them directly to find out if I can, if they have any more single issues available for me to get those single issues, because I think it's worth having those in a collection. I would really want, you know, the full set of my collection. I will at some point contact them to see if they have a set available, okay? But this was a good read. In the notes of the artist, he does explain that his art style is rough. It sort of grew, it got better. He started off doing some of the artwork in the middle of the book and then went back and started doing the beginning of the book and stuff like this. And the art style is very reminiscent of, you know, underground comics. I wouldn't call it an indie comics, but sort of underground comics. You know, it's very, it's not, well, I guess it is stylized according to his style, right? But it's, you know, reminiscent of the 1960s and 70s sort of Robert Crum and some of the other comics that I've shown you through that period, through my collection, right? And it sort of continues on like that, right? And as art style, I didn't really notice too much of a big difference in his art style for the characters. You know, the artist sort of, they're more harsh regarding their art than most critics are, right? The biggest critic of your own work should be you, right? And the artist, you know, goes through explaining that, you know, he was trying to improve his art and all that jazz. And it's sort of this type of artwork. And it's well worth the read if you want to read Epik of Gilgamesh. It's an easier way to understand what's going on in this story arc than reading the text or the audiobook was easy to listen to because when I listened to the audiobooks, I just did things around the house, either did my gardening, took care of the plants and listened to the audiobook. And it's sort of, it had a nice flow. It's sort of, believe it or not, sort of ASMR feel to it. It just really calmed me down listening to the audiobook and working with the plants and stuff like this, right? So it was very meditative, but I didn't really retain too much of the information when I listened to the audiobook, maybe because I did this like a long time ago, like 15, 18 years ago, I listened to the audiobook and the book I read like 18 years ago, around the same time, right? The reason I listened to the audiobook is because I read the text book format that it came, but it didn't really sink in because there's so much going on, so many words people jumping from here to here, right? So I listened to the audiobook to see if the story would sink in, right? And, you know, 18 years later, 15 years later, I find myself reading a graphic novel and now I can retain the information of the Epic of Gilgamesh. And this is the first graphic novel adaptation of Epic of Gilgamesh. This is the only one available as far as I know, okay? Well worth the read if you like human history, if you like human artifacts, if you want to know where a lot of mythology comes from and what the foundation, the basis of most of the mythology that, the well-known mythology in the world that we know where it's based from, right? Okay? That's the graphic novel review I had. And just to let you know, we're live streaming this as well and there's some comments being posted. I've mentioned to people that if there's anything they have to contribute regarding a comic book that I'm about to show you, if they can post a comment and I'm going to scan the chat and I'll share that information if it pops up, right? Okay, so let's do let me show you what we got. And here, let me show you the stack, right? I think I showed it to you, but this is it. They're all dollar, Canadian, or less. Okay. And let me show you the first book. And this is sort of, you know, definitely a reader's copy torn apart. And it's Magnus number 13. Okay, I've read this before. This must be, I don't know, either a third or fourth time I'm reading this. And it was a two story arc for this. It's Magnus number 13 and Magnus number 14. And this is from the 1990s, early 1990s, from the valiant, from the first valiant launch, the company when it came out. And Magnus was the first superhero title that they released, right? And this followed Magnus number 12, which was the first appearance of two rock dinosaur otter, right? And this was a fantastic read. I wish I had number 14 as well, because I want to read the continuation of this, right? The art style is, I'm not sure what it is. I don't think it's painted. Okay. It's definitely got its own style. This is the only comic, valiant comic that I know of that had this art style in it. And the artwork, it was written by Jim Shooter. Okay. And the art, it was written by Jim Shooter and Faye Prozich. And the artist is Ernie Golden. Okay. And the reason I'm telling this, because I want to read a page of this for you guys. Okay. And let me pop up for the people watching live. Let me pop up the page that we're going to read. Okay. Because this page that you're going to see right now, right? That you see right now is a fantastic introduction to the world of Magnus robot fighter, right? It's sort of, I wouldn't say it's an origin story, but it is part of the origin story. And it lays down sort of what the world is. And this is a futuristic, right? It's 4001. It sort of lays down, explains to you what the world is that Magnus robot fighter and Rai exist in. Okay. And this is, I don't know, this is towards the end of Magnus robot fighter number 13. Okay. And it's this page right here that you see beside you that I'm going to read. And this is sort of, you know, there's a story building up to this. And Magnus is fighting this other powerful person, mutated person, right? And he really doesn't want to fight this person. But this person thinks Magnus represents something, right? Represents the establishment. And this other person is sort of fighting on behalf of the people that the establishment has been has thrown aside, right? So this is the world of Magnus robot fighter. Okay. And this is during a battle with Magnus and this person and something's happened. And he's someone's thrown something electronic. And this projection of one, one a, which is the robot that the sentient being that controls this world of 4,001 where Magnus robot fighter exists right now, right? So the instrument is thrown and this electronic sort of screen pops up projection pops up. And this is what this one a, this robot, the sentient being is stating. Okay. I was created to serve in the military as a as a defender of North Am. And North Am is this civilization that exists, right? The city state, I guess. Early in my career, an accident gave me free will. I began to think independently, but remained dedicated to the goals of my original programming. I deserted, I deserted because I knew I could operate more efficiently on my own. I took upon upon myself to ensure the preservation of North Am. North Am, where technology has eliminated want and need, where robots perform all labor, freeing humans to pursue bliss. It is utopia. Disruptive elements, including social, deviant criminals and malcontents are rehabilitated using mind altering psychoprobes. This is good. The end of a tranquil, stable, well-ordered society justifies such means utopia must be protected at any cost. A few people flee to avoid the psychoprobes. True, true. But these are not worthy citizens. Not decent, respectable people. They are guffs who hide on the murky, lower levels. They are potentially dangerous. But until they become a problem, I will ignore them. There is a far greater threat. The citizens of North Am have become so totally dependent upon their robot servants that the robots themselves are a danger. If their robots were turned against them, or if another free will arises less benevolent than I, who will save them? I must create a robot fighter, an instrument with which to protect utopia. And then the robot, what happens in the last panel is Magnus Robot Fighter punches the instrument, the technology that's projecting this A1, 1A's monologue here, why he's saying where he came from and why he exists and why he created Magnus Robot Fighter, right? I thought this page was a fantastic little summary, sort of introduction to the world of Magnus Robot Fighter. And it's issue number 13. And what happens, you know, I'm going to give you a little spoiler. Basically in this series, when it first starts, Magnus Robot Fighter, as the name implies, fights robots. He's there to protect the human from robot. And 1A is sort of the ruler that sort of sends Magnus to do certain things, right? And by this issue, later on in this issue, well, I won't give you any spoilers if you want to read it. Okay. But there's a reason why Magnus punches the screen, right? And it's a fantastic science fiction series. It's one of the greatest series ever created, really. Magnus Robot Fighter in the world that exists. The existence is brilliant. And one of the things about this whole thing that I wanted to read for you, the reason was because recently I was watching or rewatching some of the stuff from Prisoners of Gravity. And if you recall, we put out a video called sort of me talking about this show that exists in the late 1980s, maybe just early 1990s. It ran for like three to four years. It was sort of a local Ontario TV program in Toronto, where it was sort of one host, where this host sort of interviewed and talked to comic book creators, comic book writers and artists, and science fiction and fantasy writers and sort of world builders, right? And one of the episodes that I watched was about the dystopian society. And one person, one writer came on and said, or the utopian society, right? And one writer came on and said, I forget who the writer was, who the author was, and which book they were talking about. But they mentioned that there is no such thing as a utopia. You could never have a utopia because in a utopia what you would have is basically dystopia, right? Everyone, you know, the concept of utopia, the end game, the final road, never leads to a utopian society. You're always just on the road to a utopian society, okay? So that's Magnus robot fighter number three. I thought you'd find that interesting if you're into science fiction, okay? Here's another book that I read, okay? And let me pull it out of a bag. I just have it in this bag, but you know, again, all of these are sort of on the discount shelves that I bought. I've read all of the, it's almost commenting on the live stream, I've read all of the books that I'm showing you right now, okay? Here's the other book that I read, and it's a more recent book, okay? It's Infinity by Hickman. It was sort of a six-issue series, and I didn't pick it up when it first came out, and I saw it for a dollar, dollar Canadian, 75 cents US, right? So I picked it up. I wanted to read it, right? It didn't grab me. I was not impressed. And let me read you a panel, the text from a panel, and this text from this panel basically explains why it really didn't do much for me. And this is towards the end of the book, and it's Iron Man talking to Captain America, this panel right here, right? And you know, there's a whole bunch of stuff that happens here. There's a gazillion different characters jumping around from world to world, and it is the first issue. It might have gotten better. I don't know, but it didn't really get me to want to read more, okay? But here's what Iron Man says to Captain America before Captain America takes off to do what it is that they're going to do with a whole bunch of people. How about you just take care of this? This is in quotation marks. So Iron Man talking to Steve to Captain America. So how about you just take care of this? I'm getting tired of end of the world scenarios. Be safe Steve, right? That's the reason you didn't really grab me. I'm getting tired of end of the, it's not even end of the world scenarios, this thing that's happening right now, it's end of the universe scenarios that's taking place right now. So you know, if you think it was a good read, if you've read it, let me know. I might give it another shot. Maybe pick up number two in the discount page and read it, okay? Here's another book that I picked up in the discount page that I read and I really liked. Okay, Doomsday Clock. Good read. It was better than I expected. It had flaws. It had flaws. Definitely it had flaws. With the original Watchmen series that this is based on, the characters, because what they're doing is they're taking the Watchmen characters Alan Moore and given, I forget who the other first artist, I'm sorry my apologies, they've taken the world of the Watchmen and they're incorporating it with the DC universe, the main characters of the DC universe. Okay, and it was a decent enough job. The first Watchmen series, I couldn't find any flaws. This first read, they were minor flaws, but compared to this, this is a masterpiece, right? Very well done. Okay, well worth the read. At some point, I don't think it's finished yet. They had delays in Doomsday Clock. At some point, almost likely by the collected works and read the whole thing in one shot. Okay, but well worth the read. I enjoyed it very much. More so than I was expecting. Really, more so than I was expecting. Okay, I spam a lot. Another book that I read, now as you know, I'm collecting all the valiance, right? I'm pulling all the valiance, but I'm way behind on my reads. I haven't read continuing series valiant stuff I'm picking up for a while. I've been reading some randoms and this is the one of the randoms that was in the discount pin. I bought this when it first came out. Harbinger Renegade number zero. Okay, let me take it out of the bag so hopefully there's less gloss. But when I was going through the discount pin when I saw this, I thought for, you know, a dollar Canadian it was worth picking up and reading instead of me having to go through my boxes of finding it. Okay, good read. Good read. There's a lot, lot happens here. We're sort of, I believe it's the second appearance of this character here. The first appearance of this character happens in Harbinger Renegade number six. Okay, so it was, it was good read. It had good artwork and it got me interested into reading more of this event that's happening because this kicks into Harbinger Wars. It's ends, it takes off from a, you know, sort of a story arc that happened. It's called Massacre and it continues into builds up into Harbinger Wars number two, I believe anyway. That's the chronological chronology of it, but it's well worth the read. I was happy I picked this up and read it. Okay, okay. I'm pulling all the, someone's mentioning, Zara's mentioning, I'm just going to read this because it's related to doomsday clock. Okay. I'm pulling all issues of doomsday, bi-monthly release, makes it hard to retain store. Yeah, so bi-monthly. I didn't realize it was bi-monthly. Okay, cool. I saw somebody there. Cool. Okay. So it's bi-monthly. So I'm glad I'm holding off on reading doomsday clock until it's all released. Okay. Here's another book I picked up. I won't take it out of the bag. This is Seribus and Hal. Actually, let me take it out of the bag. Okay. Now, this is Dave Sim. And Dave Sim is one of the people, basically, he put out a 300-issue series of Seribus, the artwork, right? Are, I keep on messing up the words, but Seribus, right? 300-issue series, he's put out number one in 1977, right? It's a masterpiece of storytelling, at least to the point where I read it. The first, I believe most people would agree, the first 150 issues of Seribus, I haven't read all 150, I've read a nice chunk. Church and State is amazing. The story of Church and State, I believe that starts off with number 5051 or something like this. This is Seribus. And if you've never read Seribus, I highly recommend picking up Seribus, even starting off from number one, or starting off from where Church and State, the story arc from Church and State starts off, right? And I believe this is the sort of one of the few Seribus books have come out since the series, and then I believe the series, and then in early 2000s or so, okay? And as someone, and this is Dave Sem, by the way, right here, right? This guy, right? And he was, if you watched one of my previous videos, I went to university in the town that he was operating, he was living in, and the comic store that he was going at, as a childhood person, he bought his comic books and stuff like this. So I know a little bit about Dave Sem. I've read, and I've read, you know, rather than some people, I've read very few Seribus comic books, but I've read some of his books, and those are amazing, fantastic. This is sort of a pale reflection of what Seribus is all about, right? And it's not really related to the Seribus story arc, okay? This is Dave Sem sort of vomiting onto the pages of, you know, his ideas, random as they are, and putting him on paper and, you know, pasting them together, each one of these pages, and he has it like this, and I I saw this on the shelf when it first came out, and I didn't pick it up, but it's basically, you know, each one of these four panels, pages, is sort of like a comic strip, right? And the comic strips of these are sort of on the same level of a university newspaper comic strip, okay? So that's the level that they're at. There is a deeper sort of message that Dave Sem is sharing there, because he is, he is brilliant, as chaotic as it is, right? He is an amazing storyteller, right? But this isn't really a coherent story where you're going from one page to another. Each one of these pages could be in a university newspaper as a comic strip to, as a pun, as a, as a stab, as civilizations, as a stab to the artists themselves, right? There's a little bit of, I don't know what it's called, say, you know, masochist, or whatever it is, sort of self-harm in this. But for me, knowing, you know, a little bit about Dave Sem, reading a little bit about therapists, okay, and some of the controversy involving Dave Sem and all that jazz, I found it enjoyable, okay, because it sort of showed me the state of mind that Dave Sem is in. And he just recently, in the last couple of years or so, put up a YouTube channel where he's making videos and he's got a Twitter feed and, you know, he's sharing information. Last year, a couple of years ago, he actually put out a message, put out a video saying that the warehouse that they were storing, a lot of the Cerebus comics, right, like his, the printed copies, the stuff that he had in storage. The storage house was closing down and he had to get rid of his comics. So he put out a little video saying, as long as you're willing to pay for the shipping, he would send you the comics for free. So a lot of people took advantage of that. I tried to get some here as well, but I didn't get my hands on any. I contacted them and I talked to one of the associates of Dave Sem, but I wasn't able to get any shipped out to me, okay. So if you're a Cerebus Dave Sem, if you want to know where he's at mentally, it's okay, okay, worth it. And this was sort of the intro number zero. And at the back here, he has, he released four more Cerebus and Hell. And I picked up another one I had in the bins that was Cerebus and Hell number three. I believe it was this one. And I'll add it, I've added it to my pile and this is just basically from my pile. I might give it a read, I might not because right now I have a pretty good idea of the state of mind of Dave Sem, right. Here's another book that I read. And I liked Intrigue Me and I wouldn't mind reading more of. Okay, Holy Grail. This is number one. I picked this up when it first came out I believe, but I didn't, you know, read it so I didn't pick up number two or three or anything like this. And this is Colin Bunn. And it's a sort of a take on King Arthur and Excalibur and Merlin. Well Excalibur hasn't, well I guess Excalibur is about to come in towards the end of this, right. But Merlin and stuff like this. And I like to take, so if you like sort of British mythology, I would recommend this, right. Issue number one was pretty good. Pick up issue number one. You should be able to get it on the cheap. I picked this up again in a dollar bins, right. And it's basically verifying condition. After verifying plus or near mint, it was near mint minors when I picked it up. It's probably verifying minors now because I took this to the beach and read it. So it was a good read. I highly recommend if you like, you know, King Arthur and Excalibur and the Knights and stuff like this, worth the read, worth the read. Here's another book. And this is put out by Aftershock by the way. And as you know, I started reading Aftershock comics basically from day one when they started putting stuff out. Some of their original, some of the first stuff that they put out a few years ago about five, six years ago they came out, right. And I like some of their series. I'm pulling some of their series, right. I loved, it stopped, but I loved Super Zero, sort of from the first wave of Aftershock comics coming out. Super Zero and replica and stuff like this. We're streaming this live and I mentioned to people that I'm mainly going to read, people are chatting away, that I've mentioned that I'm mainly going to be reading, commenting to articles that are related to the comic books that I'm showing. And then later on, when we finish this recording, I go back to the live stream and read the comments and interact with people, right. So people are chatting away there. This is something that I picked up from Free Comic Book Day, okay. And I highly recommend first May Free Comic Book Day, when is it? First Saturday in May, March? Oh, I forget what it is. Someone might correct me on this, right. And this is called The Mall, Hatfield and Hague Laurel. I don't, you know, it's from Scout Comics. I've shown you guys some comics that I bought from Scout Comics, and I like Scout Comics, right. And this is called The Mall. And after reading this one, I'm interested in reading more, okay. It was a good story. It was heartfelt. You fell in love with the characters right away. And by the way, let me show you the artwork for this, The Holy Grail, right. Here's the artwork for The Holy Grail. It's nice, enjoyable artwork. I highly recommend aftershock comics. Someone mentioning aftershock comics is their preferred publication. Yeah, I like Aftershock. It's Image, Valiant, Aftershock, Scout Comics, Black Masks. Those are some of the publishers that I buy from. But this was very good. I like the story. Okay, I want to show you the last page. I don't want to give you any spoilers. But this is sort of the story arc, or the artwork. And the story is about, you know, high school kid. And there's sort of, you know, in the first couple of pages, you realize that, you know, he's inherited a store and he's part of a sort of a family gangsters, right? Sort of the mob and he's part of that family and he's doing deals on the side and stuff like this. It was good. And it's a teenager's perspective and he's in love and all that jazz. And I really found the character very endearing, very endearing. Okay. Now, as you know, I've been reading a lot of true believer stuff. And this is fantastic for Galactus Hungers. Okay. And this is the story by Roy Thomas. And the artwork is John Bushima. And this is, this is the original cover. Fantastic for 175. And it was a good read. I like that. I like these sort of 60s, 70s, 80s comic books. This is, I believe, in the 70s. How much was the cover? The cover was 30 cents. So it would have been in the late 70s, mid 70s or so. But the artwork is nice. It's John Bushima. Classic. Okay. Worth the read. The true believers, about 80% or so, you know, throwing percentages, as if they're meaningful, like I've taken stats on it or I've crushed the numbers. But, you know, majority of true believers I've been reading, they're worth the read. They're worth the read. There are some, which I'm surprised on. I was like, wow, why they reprint this one. This is, I don't know what issue this is from. This is Wolverine evolution. I guess it wouldn't matter. Stand alone. Another true believers. I read some of the, you know, in the previous video reads that we did, I showed you some of the other true believers that I read. Some of them were, hmm, if he, this one was not bad. It sort of solidified the relationship between Wolverine and Sabertooth. Sort of gave us a little bit background and, you know, it's got a lot of fight scenes and stuff, but it gave us a little bit of a history of what happened, what transpired between Wolverine and Sabertooth and why Sabertooth has been hounding Wolverine for so long. Okay. And why Wolverine totally detests Sabertooth. It was worth the read. Worth the read. True believers, exiles, number one. This is, I believe it's from exiles. It should be from exiles, number one. Okay. I believe that's the original cover. Maybe it was a version cover or something like this. And this was written by, who was it written by? Was it Hickman? No. Ah, John Winnick. Oh, John Winnick. Nice. John Winnick is Barry Winn. Where are we? Barry Winn, Barry Winn, Adventures of Barry Winn, Adventures of Barry Winn. Where is Adventures of Barry Winn? I can't see it. Adventures of Barry Winn. What's going on? Where's my Adventures of Barry Winn? Maybe it's not here. Should be here. I'm just not seeing it. So it's by John Winnick and Pencils by Mike McCone, Inks by Mark McKenna. Okay. It was a fun read. It was okay. The artwork was sort of in a slapstick format to a certain degree and a lot of colored backgrounds. So there isn't a lot of detail in it. Okay. But not bad. It didn't want me to read anymore. But as a standalone single, if you want to read a sort of a superhero deal, it's okay. Here's another true believer's death of Phoenix. I believe this is Grant Morrison. It should be anywhere. Is it Grant Morrison? Yeah, Grant Morrison, film, james, his pencils and cover and stuff like this and Inks and the landing. The artwork is nice. The story, again, I've read a fair bit of Grant Morrison's X-Men. So this is, I believe, towards the end of the arc. Okay. I didn't read this far. So it was fun reading this to see where it was going. All right. It was okay. I liked the earlier issues of Grant Morrison's work that I read. And this wasn't bad. This was pretty good. But because I have a little gap between where I left off and where this takes continues on from, I think my emotional attachment had decreased a lot for the characters. It's a nice theory that at some point I will sit down and continue Grant Morrison's X-Men from where I left off. Phoenix. Bizarre adventures. Again, true believers. And these true believers, that's one of the reasons I just started reading Grant. That was so many of them, right? So this is the original cover for it. And I don't understand more of all. They keep on, sometimes they put the original covers in there, sometimes they don't, sometimes they put in the back, sometimes they put in the front. Not consistent, right? But this is, I believe this is written by Chris Claremont. I believe so anyway. I believe this is Claremont for some reason. Yeah, it was written by Chris Claremont and Pencils by John Bushima and Inks by Klaus Jason, right? Jansen. And the artwork's beautiful. And it's well worth the read. It was fun. I love reading Chris Claremont's X-Men. Fantastic reads. He has a sort of endearing quality to the books that he writes, to the characters that he writes, with the X-Men anyway. I want to show you double pages here, right? So take a look. Let's see if this focuses. Nice artwork. It's a story about Jean Gray, Phoenix, and slowly Phoenix Rising, I guess, right? Ant-Man presents Iron Man. This is really just Iron Man. I don't know why they put Ant-Man in there. They're pushing the Ant-Man, right? True believers. This should be Iron Man 219. So this would have been the 80s, right? That's the cover. It was okay. Not a bad read. Yeah, who's the writer? Oh, Marvel. Where do you put the writers and the creators of this? We don't know. Not in the front. Okay, check this out. Straight out, you know, simple panels, panel layouts. If you like Iron Man, it's worth the read. True believers. I read a lot of true believers back to back, and this is sort of the order that I read, the man that I piled up, right? Fantastic Four. John Byron's Fantastic Four. And this Fantastic Four 232. Not a bad read. Self-contained story. So it was nice just sitting down and just reading a self-contained story. Fantastic Four. These are true believers that we're releasing with just building up to the Fantastic Four number one release, right? And this is Fantastic Four 209, reprint of it, right? All true believers are reprints. And this was by Marv Wolfman and John Byron and Joe Sinot. It was good. It wasn't bad. You know, here's the artwork and stuff like this. Beginning of an epic story. This was being given away for free, so I picked it up and just flipped through it. Just the pencils for Amazing Spider-Man number one. The new one that came out, right? So it was just fun flipping through it. True believers. Fantastic Four. Walter Simpson. Again, the beginning telling the story of the beginning of an epic story arc. Fantastic Four 337. This would have been the early 90s. Okay, reprint of that. Not bad. It was very curbie-ish to a certain degree with time and universe and folding of space and stuff like this. Not bad. I've never been a huge Fantastic Four fan. So here's Fantastic Four, the birth of Valeria. And this is, see, here's the kicker. They don't have the cover from before, so you don't really know reprint of what unless you read the fine print. And the fine print says it. It contains material originally published in magazine form as Fantastic Four 54, published as a one-shot by Marvel Comics. And it doesn't have the date of the original publication. And we don't have the price of the original publication, but based on the artwork, check this out. Based on the artwork, it would have been in the late 90s or early 2000s maybe. Okay. I believe Zara's asking if I'm reading the new Venom. I'm picking it up. I read issue number three with the white cover with Venom and falling down and the mouth coming up. And I believe I read issue number four with the origin of call, call, call, call? I like it. I didn't pick up the first two though. So I'm not going to read anymore until I get the first two. Yeah, for sure. A different take on the symbiote story, right? Boom. Number one. This came out a while ago. And I've been, you know, I've had it out. I've been reading some of the articles and stuff like this sort of magazine sort of fume is a series that they put out in the 1960s. Fume had the first appearance of the X-Men, I believe, on Canny X-Men before the uncanny X-Men with 95 or something like this. I can't remember really, but it's a magazine format that Marvel Comics put out in the 1960s. So they revamped it. I don't know if there's a fume tour or not, but it's basically articles telling what Marvel was doing and whatnot. Sort of sort of a promo piece that they put out. Okay. Fantastic Four versus the Fantastic Four. This was okay. So this is Fantastic Four 374. So it came out in the 1990s. Okay. It gets held by the price tag as $1.25. It was okay read. The first time that Wolverine, Ghost Rider, Hulk, and Spider-Man I think was those four that took over as a Fantastic Four. It was the first time or not. It was 361, 64, something like this. There was a few issues before this one came out. So this one is sort of the human torch has gone Nova and he's on the run. So Spider-Man gets together with whatnot and Hulk and Ghost Rider and Wolverine to try to track him down and it was okay. Right? If you were reading Fantastic Four at the time, this would have been a sort of a two or three issue run and it's sort of a filler. It wasn't, it didn't get, it has some personal moments, but it was it was an okay read. It wasn't bad. I reread Ninjak number one from Valiant Comics. Found that in the dollar bins, I just want to read it again. Good story. Good story. I've read a few issues of this. I dropped it, not dropped it. I kept on picking it up, but I didn't continue reading it for, you know, I haven't finished this series and Ninjak has come back. After this, they've released another series called Ninja K. So Ninjak really, you find out Ninjak really is Ninja K. It's sort of like Weapon X, I guess, right? Weapon X isn't really Weapon X is Weapon X, right? So Ninja K, they did the alphabet and this. And it was a good story. And it's the first appearance of Roku, this character right here. Let me show you Roku. And Roku is a main character. Where's Roku? Come on. This is Roku right here. First full appearance of Roku. It's a nice character, Roku actually. And that's a good series. If you want to read Ninjak, know what it's all about. Well worth reading. True Believers. What if Spider-Man joined the Fantastic Four? More Fantastic Four. True Believers stuff that came out. This one was actually a fun read. It's sort of the watcher. You know, telling the story, recapping some of the stuff that happened. And this was a what if reprint. I don't know what if, which number it was. It'll be in the fine print, but it's reprint of what if number one. That's cool. And it's Roy Thomas. And Roy Thomas is an amazing writer. I love Roy Thomas' work. Right there. Roy Thomas' work from Conan the Barbarian, right? Nice artwork, right? Splash pages and just mixing it up. And who did the artwork? Jim Craig and Pablo Marco. Pencils and inks. Again, very courteous. Cool angles. It was worth the read. I liked it. And it's basically exactly what it says. What if Spider-Man joined the Fantastic Four? Animosity from Aftershock Comics. Rise. Number one. And this is sort of, it's not the original, like the original animosity series. It's animosity rise. So it's sort of a parallel story arc being told in the same universe, same timeline. And it goes back to the beginning of what happened. While worth the read, Margaret Bennett and Juan Do, the artwork. Animosity is worth reading. Aftershock Comics, again, they're worth reading. Oh, I'm gonna add one more copy of Exiles Number One. I'll put this one on the side. Oh, here's another one of the same one evolution. So I must have picked up two. Check this out. Fantastic Four, The Coming of Galactus. First appearance. I believe it's the first appearance of Silver Surfer. Yeah. Fantastic Four, Number 48. Okay. First appearance of Silver Surfer. And it should be, yeah, first appearance of Silver Surfer. Galactus, I believe. Makes a little appearance of Galactus, doesn't he? Check out Galactus and his original colors, right? As soon as his original colors. And this was, it should be Stanley. Stanley and Jack Kirby. Is a pencil and Joe Synod Inker and Artie Simic. I guess he'd be the letter, right? Here's the first page on it. Worth reading. And just a story regarding this. It's basically Jack Kirby that created that, right? Jack Kirby, Stanley had laid out, you know, very general broad stroke what he was thinking. And Jack Kirby did all the details. And with the details, I mean he put in the Silver Surfer in there. Like Stanley had no idea what the Silver Surfer was, right? So Jack Kirby created the Silver Surfer, right? So he put it in there, right? And then Stanley filled in the bubbles after the art was done. So the dialogue wasn't done before the art. The art was done before the dialogue. Sort of the Marvel way, I believe that's what it's called. So straight out of the minds of Jack Kirby comes the Fantastic Four, number 48, the first appearance of Silver Surfer in Galactus. Ant-Man and the Wasp on the Trail of Spider-Man. True believers. This is Tales to Stonage 57. Okay, reprint of Tales to Stonage 57. It was okay. It was silly. Okay, brilliantly written, I'll read you this. Brilliantly written by good old Stanley, bashfully drawn by Dick Heirs, right? Dick Heirs. Fantastic. Same guy that the cover for One of the comics we published, right? Landor number one, right? Boldly inked by painful old Paul Reiman, right? Lettered by S. Rosen. Tales to Stonage number first time. It was okay. It's very 60s comic book. The heroes, you know, they are their PhD, you know, Ant-Man has a PhD, or a giant man has a PhD, and you know, he's a genius and Spider-Man is pretty smart and stuff like this, but they get into fistfights for the silliest reasons, right? This type of storytelling would not hold up now at present. Okay? At the time, it was all self-contained and they had to have a reason to create conflict. Justice League, number 13. Justice League versus Suicide Squad, number 13, tie-in, right? It was okay. It was dollar thing. I picked it up to read it just to see where things are going. The artwork's nice, it's okay. And we're the writers for this. Do we know? Do we know? Do we know? Do they even do? Usually they have it on the splash page. They say who the artists and writers are, but we don't know. Is it a masterpiece? Definitely not. Does it lead up to something? I don't know. It kicks something up. They try to, you know, next to be going to Justice League versus Suicide Squad 61, welcome to Clipso. So is Clipso doing his thing? It was okay. There's much better comics I would recommend, such as this one, believe it or not. I enjoyed this read. It was fun. I like the characters. Sea of Thieves, Titan Comics, number one. Okay. If you like pirates, fun characters, this I would say is okay for all readers based on the first issue. Look at the art style. It's nice. I like that. There are fight scenes and stuff, but it's pirates. They're following pirates around and there's, you know, in the seek of a treasure and seek of a map. And it was a fun read. If I was into reading something like this, humor, this has humor in it, right? A little bit of conflict and stuff like this. I would read this or I would, you know, give this as a present to someone who's of age to be able to read something like this. Harbinger from the original series, number 14. Worth the read. I liked it. But I'm a valiant lover, right? For the first beginning of the 1990s and obviously the rebounds as well, right? Written by Maurice Fontet, Pencils by Howard Simpson, Inc. by Gonzalo Mayo. This really, Mayo, this kicks off from Unity. Okay. To a certain degree, we see the events from Unity. This is from Unity taking place. If you want no sort of recapping. It's an important book actually in the valiant universe, recapping what happened and it ties into Magnus robot fighter and whatnot. But I highly recommend not just picking this up to read it. Unity is a must read for the valiant universe. Pre-Unity and Unity and a few issues after Unity. These sort of are very tight storytelling, very tight storytelling. Okay. Another one I picked up and again, these are from the dollar store, from the dollar bins, right? I just wanted to reread them and I've read these ones before obviously. But Harbinger number 12. It was a good read, very good read. I had read this before again, right? Fun read. Sort of telling you, recapping some of the stuff with Flamingo and whatnot. And I'll leave it at that. Solar manate atom number 23. I'm not sure if I've shown you this before. It rings a bell that I've shown you. I might have mentioned that I think in a previous haul. Okay. And this was good. Kevin Vanhook is a writer. Peter, Guru, pencils, Stan Drake, Inker. The colors again in the valiant universe were brilliant. A solar manate atom was fantastic. Beautiful, beautiful. Really just vibrant color. A nice storytelling. Master Dark comes into play in this one. Very nice. Very nice. Check out Master Dark. One of the greatest villains in comic book history, really. Valiant has two of the greatest villains in comic book history. Master Dark on her out. I would make it three. The eternal enemies, amazing. This character in Harbinger renegade number zero that you learn a little bit more about. A fantastic character, Solomon. Fantastic character. The evil for a lot of comic books is the villains that really make the comic book. May it be Batman or Spider-Man or whatnot. I guess some of the best villains. Valiant has some of the best villains in the comic book universe. All right. Beautiful. Nice storytelling. And on that note, check this out. Solar manate atom. Number four. Nice read. Nice read. I believe this would have been Jim Shooter. Number 14. Not number four. Number 14. Should be Jim Shooter. Yeah, Jim Shooter. Story by Jim Shooter and Steve Ditko. Really? Wow. What? Written by Kevin Vanhoek. Penciled by Steve Ditko. Penciled by Steve Ditko. Finished in Inks by Howard Simpson and Paul Otto. Cover of Color by Miko Cavallaro. Take a look at this artwork. Really. Fantastic. Right? Steve Ditko recently, I believe, passed away. Take a look at this. Nice storytelling. Beautiful storytelling. Well worth the read. Solar manate atom up to the mid-20s or so from the first Valiant relaunch. It was fantastic. My Hero Academia. Free comic book day. Fun, fun, fun. It was a fun read. I loved the animation. I've watched the first series of My Hero Academia. Fantastic. I still haven't watched the second series yet or second season. Black and white manga. Some people are asking if I read manga before. I do pick up randoms and I read them. Nothing close to, you know, Western comics. Fun. Fun book. This was also a fun book. The Legend of Korra. Free comic book day. Avatar. Fantastic. Fantastic stuff. Right? The animated series. I've watched that series twice and I watched all of Korra as well. Korra I thought was a little bit too intense, too mature and had some political overtones to it that I didn't like. That avatar was more chill on. But again I liked this. It was a good read. And G-rated to a certain degree. On the same level as Thief of the pirate one. Sea of Thieves. Generations. The mighty Thor. The unworthy Thor. This was, it was a good read. It was fun in terms of Thor, lore I guess. Mythology. Right? The artwork was decent. Decent enough. But didn't really grab me to read more. Okay. Free comic book day. World's greatest cartoonist. Not bad. It's sort of a mix of again very, when we looked at Dave Sims, the service and how. I would say this is more intricate. Well no, sorry. The Epic of Gilgamesh. I would sort of say, some of the stuff was iffy. Some of the artwork. It was self-indulgent to a certain degree. It's very much in line with Dave Sims cartoon style. So this is something that you would get through, you know, university sort of comic strips or that kind of artwork. Free comic book day. DC Supergirls. It didn't really do anything. I wouldn't recommend it to children either. Okay. It's just, they should stay true to the characters I think, even on that level. For example, promoting Harley Quinn to the tweens. I don't think that's the best idea in the world. I would pass on that. It was just worth picking up and reading, flipping through random. 25 cents. Everything you need to know about Michael Turner's Phantom. Sort of first issue. I believe it's the first from Aspen Comics, by the way. And I think it was sort of lost in the 90s. Check that out. Right? 90s artwork style, which is okay. But I, you know, had no desire to pick up any more of this. I've read some Aspen Comics in the past, and I've had the same feeling with Aspen Comics as I had for this one. Okay. Free comic book day. Young Yonex Studios. Malica. I can see where they're going and stuff, but the story had lots of holes, lots of gaps, lots of jumping around. In Hindi, it was worth the effort, right? Hopefully they continued this. And I believe they have, if they're releasing a free comic book day. So I believe they build all these characters or they plan on building all these characters. It'd be interesting to see how they evolve. Nice try as an Indian, I guess. Bongo. Free for all. This was fun. Simpsons. Really, it was a fun read. I enjoyed it very much. The artwork is obviously a Simpsons comics, right? It was worth it. I might have actually read this before. So it was worth reread if I read it before. It just seemed familiar to me a little bit, right? But maybe you've seen it. I've seen one of the episodes where they're doing some of the things here. Before, people have mentioned Lovecraft, right? Free comic book day. Big book of summer fun. Let me show you this. So there was a couple of stories here. One of them was this. It was Edgar Allen polls, I believe. Oh, HP Lovecraft. Sorry. HP Lovecraft is one of the world's greatest horror authors, right? So it basically takes one of the polls, one of the stories of Lovecraft and shares it. And then there's another story going on here. Steam engines of Oz. This was interesting as well. Nice science fiction. Okay, story time. That's sort of a random read. Not bad. It was okay. This was interesting. Again, free comic book day. I pick up a lot of free comic book day stuff and read them over the year if I need them. The author of the Lovecraft one. Let's check it out. I believe it's Lovecraft. It's just the artist. Someone in the comments is asking what the careers of these are. Is Sean Patrick or Riley? So you are a can of studios. There's nothing here. There's a couple stories from Lovecraft. The undersea kingdom. Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom. The undersea kingdom. There might even be three, actually. Let's check the sites. Animated feature film. At the end, they have something. The conclusion will be revealed in the third animated feature film. Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness. So part three of that is there. Official selection of Spring International. The Frozen Kingdom. Oh, there we go. In the advertisement, you can see. So that's the last page. And then they have a little ad here. And that is Jane Curtin and Ron Perman with Christopher Plummer. Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom. So I'm assuming it's the same people that created the animation. That I've put this together. Okay. That's what I'm assuming. I don't know too much about it. And here, let me show you the cover again. So you should be able to, through that, find the additional info online if you're interested in that. Okay. This one again was from Free Comic Book Day. Ian Boothie and Nina Matsumoto. Sparks. It was a fun read for children's book. It was a fun read. It's really, I enjoyed it. It made me laugh. It made me go, what? Which is good storytelling from comics to a certain degree should do. And I would pick this up at random again. And add characters that you got interested in. Okay. That puts out characters in one issue that you find interesting has done a fantastic job with their work. Right? That's the key to good comic book storytelling. If you care about the characters in one single issue, it doesn't make a difference if it's the first issue or middle of an arc or end of a story or whatever it is. Right? Again, Free Comic Book Day Lady Mechanica. I read some Lady Mechanica before. Includes the first story, the demon of Satan's ally plus a new, all new story too. Okay. I hadn't read these stories before. The artwork was decent enough. I'm assuming maybe Lady Mechanica came out. I don't know too much about Lady Mechanica. If it came out in the 90s, might have been or early 2000s or so. But the art style is nice. I just didn't find the story too engaging for my like. Right? I love the universe. I love the world, the steampunk sort of feel to it. The artwork is for sure nice, but it's not something that would, you know, dive into personally. What can you read? I think we definitely have its appeals. Check this out. Again, Free Comic Book Day Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, Zero's Journey. And it's sort of done in manga format, starts off from the left side, goes to the right. It was okay. I love Nightmare Before Christmas, the movie. But I've yet to read anything in comic book form which got me engaged or interested the way the movie did. I read it again. Scotty Young's I Hate Image. Fantastic. Highly recommend reading this. Very good. If you know about image comics, the artwork's brilliant. Fantastic. And this is Scotty Young just going, going at it, just tearing image creators apart in a fun way. And their books, this is true. Right? Gertrude going through and killing image, killing the creators, killing the characters, just going on a massacre. Very reminiscent of Lobo and the last Zarnian, just going ballistic and just throwing Lobo and almost anything, just going ballistic and just shooting everything up. Take a look at that. This was one of the best Free Comic Day books I've read. Okay. Got to love it. Got to love it. Maxwell's Demons. Check it out. Free Comic Book Day. You can get a lot of great reads during Free Comic Book Day. So if you, you know, when the time comes, just look at Free Comic Book Day and find a store near you and go pick up all the comics you want and you can get a fair bit. You know, comic shops do put limits on them and they do sell out like people come and grab them. But usually the next day they have a whole bunch laid out. So if you go to a comic store the day after, you can go to the day of the Free Comic Book Day and get a bunch of comic books, whatever their limit is, if they have a limit. But in the next day, the next few days, you can go and pick up anything else you didn't get. That's why I have sometimes double copies. Sometimes, you know, I'm in one city or another city. I just go on. I don't know if I read it, but this was very good. Beautiful artwork. I enjoyed the story. Really. It was mature. It was intelligent. The artwork was very good, dialing into the child's imagination, dealing with their life. Beautiful artwork. I'd be into picking up more of this. And this is Vault Comics and I've read some stuff. This is their logo. I've read some stuff from Vault Comics before. Right? And it's worth it. They put out some good stuff and here he is back. Maxwell's Demons. I'll keep this in mind. Free Comic Book Day 2017 Summer Blast. This was a fun read as well. G-rated. The main story anyway. Monster City. This beginning one was interesting. Beautiful artwork. Mouse guard. The tale of the wild wolf. Story and art. David Peterson. Beautiful artwork. This guy's artwork should be used for books as well. For children's books. Beautiful artwork. You know, I can only zoom in so much. The thing getting nice artwork. Nice story. Meaningful. Okay. And Monster City. I enjoyed this one a lot too. This story. Monster City. And you like the characters right off the bat. Free Comic Book Day. This was sort of a promo short little thing they sent out. Sponsored by League. Justice League too. It's very small. Very thin. It was okay. I liked the Injustice series. I read some of the original ones. This was interesting as well. I'd be, it was a good read if I was into it. If I was still reading the Injustice stuff. This was sort of a random Star Wars free preview. Star Wars reads. I'm not really reading any Star Wars comics right now. The artwork was good. But I've sort of had my fill of Star Wars. I rather read the sci-fi that delivers every time. Start of every now and then randomly. Very few times. Street Angels Dog. Free Comic Book Day. And who's this by? This is Image Comics. Fun Read. You like the character. It was a little trippy. Little weird. Fun Read. Not bad. The artwork was cool. It's about this girl. Homeless girl. I don't know anything about this. This is the first time I've read this character. But worth the read. Jim Jugg and Brian Maruka. Oh here's another one. Check this out. Another Bongo and Maxwell's Demons. I'm gonna put these over here. Check out this one. We only got like three more. Two more. Oh I got one more of the original here. I'll show you this one too. I got one more copy of the Book of Summer Fun as well. So I'm gonna put this one here. They're doubles. This one Star Burns presents Free Comic Book Day. Yesh. Tough crowd. Pat Olson. Dan Harmon. Eric M. Esquiv. It was fun. It was sort of spoof. Check out the artwork. Cool artwork. I enjoyed it. Sort of anthology. Here's the art from another story. And here's Hilarious. Don't torture yourself. That's her job. Check this out. This is another story that was in that. Nice read. These little just standalone stories. They're fun. Right. They're fun reads. Here's another one. This was interesting actually this last bit. It was okay. Sound bites. Okay. Star Burns presents. And who is this? SBI Press. These are the guys here. SBI Press. This is their logo. Okay. So they put a whole bunch of little things that they were putting together and sort of sent it out. Right. Ian Fleming's James Bond. Burger. It was Free Comic Book Day. Warren Ellis. Right. There's Warren Ellis. It was okay. I used to like James Bond a lot back in the day but I don't really follow any James Bond movies anymore or read any James Bond comics. I picked this one up just to see what it was like. It wasn't bad. Interesting. If you're into this kind of story, I would definitely recommend Ninjack over this personally but I have a personal preference to the Valley of Comics. Right. And I was expecting a little bit more intense from Warren Ellis. But Warren Ellis builds up his stories over time. Right. Over fear issues. So you know, I haven't given this enough time or a chance to grab me. For a first issue, it wasn't bad. The last one in my reads that I've read so far, the only living boy under the light of the broken moon. This is free. Yeah. This is Free Comic Book Day as well. It wasn't bad. I sort of want to sidelines with this. It has potential. It could be a lot more than what was here. And maybe it is. Okay. Writer, co-creator, David Galler. Artist, co-creator Steve Ellis. Art, recomposition, gin, lightfoot and so on and so forth. Right. It had potential. It had potential. Okay. The only living boy. I don't know anything else about this. Sort of endearing to a certain degree, but it had huge gaps. It jumped all over the place. Not jumped all over the place, but it rushed the story a little bit I guess. Okay. And those are the reads that I have. And I have a whole bunch of stuff here. You know, my pile, I still have another pile going, but it's not as large as this. So, you know, my pile gets bigger and bigger. But here's what I've, I got a few other things that I'm reading here. I won't bother showing you right now. There might, to read this, but I'll show you the next one that I'm going to read, which is Kitty Pride and Wolverine, number one. And I have this series. This is a, this was a four issue mini series that came out in the 1980s, I believe. And it's Chris Claremont should be anyway. Okay. So this is a six issue limited series. This is original cover. So it's a reprint of this. Right. And it's Chris Claremont, I believe. Yeah. The writer is Chris Claremont and Alan Milgrom is the artist. And here's the first page. And Chris Claremont, especially X-Men have a lot of this, just one page splash page at the beginning with text telling you what's going on. Right. We did, we did one reading of these for classic X-Men story with Jean Grey. But this is one I'm going to read in the next couple of days, maybe even today when I get a chance. Okay. So this is the next one I'm going to read. And I love Chris Claremont's storytelling. Really. It's beautiful. It's well paced. You like the characters right off the bat or you feel for the characters right off the bat. You don't have to like them necessarily. It might be evil. It might be the villains, right. But you end up liking the characters getting involved with the story. So that's what I got lined up to read next. Plus some other ones from my poll list and things I bought off the racks in the last couple of weeks, two or three weeks that I hope to read. Okay. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to show you guys what I'm reading. That way I can put these away and start another pile and in a couple of months, two or three months, we'll go through that again. But we're going to, we're getting into the comic book readings right now. Most likely next week we're going to start those up. So the odds are what I end up reading is we're going to be shooting videos on. So we'll do the readings together. We'll do them live. Maybe all of them live. I'm not sure how else it's going to work out. And most definitely be recording a favorite of comic book readings that we're going to do. Okay. That's about it. I hope you enjoy it. And I hope you read some amazing comic books. I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye for now.