Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[Adam Scribentis]

Originally Posted by drofgnal

It's been many a year, but I really enjoyed Frankenstein.

Same here, the best part of 40 years! One of the things that impressed me most about it was the Russian-doll-like stack of first-person narratives within first-person narratives.

[Solitaire1]

Legion of Super-Heroes #1
Creative Team: Writer - Joshua Williamson, Artist - Hayden Sherman, Colorist - Tamra Bonvillain, and Letterer: Hassan Otsmane-Elhdou

It's a complete reboot of The Legion of Super-Heroes, and is an excellent read. It's the first time I've enjoyed an issue in years. Although there is much that has previously been used, they also have given us a new and fresh take on these characters. As an example, the Government requires that anyone who has super powers has to be registered with The Persuaders (the Police Force). It is also illegal for anyone who has powers to use those powers for crime fighting.

They also establish that what sets Earth apart from other planets is that while individuals on other planets have superpowers, they all have the same superpowers (Brall - Magnetism, Titan (a moon of Saturn) - Telepathy, Bismoll - Ability to eat anything). On Earth some people have a large variety of superpowers.

It begins with a murder mystery being investigated by Brainiac 5 (assumed name) and Tenzel (his bodyguard). The victim: J. R. Brande.

This issue gave me hope that The Legion will finally return to greatness after decades of reboots and changes.

BTW: Alternate cover (the issue has an alternate cover covering the regular cover) contains another mystery: It shows Michael J. Fox coming out of a time machine like Marty McFly did on the poster for Back to the Future and it shows Fox and Superman standing back to back.

[DJUNGELSKOG]

I’m having a great time reading Dungeon Crawler Carl. My colleagues were raving about it so I decided to give it a chance, had to snipe it from a library in a different city but it was totally worth it!

[issybird]

I've finished Cool Machine, the third novel in Colson Whitehead's Harlem Trilogy. I thought the middle segment of this book dragged a bit as the protagonist was largely absent, but it was still a compelling conclusion to a terrific series.

[astrangerhere]

I'm reading some nice, challenging books right now in the lead up to my sabbatical next month.

• Kobo: A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker: 1925-2025 edited by Deborah Treisman - I am getting mired down in a number of stories in a row written by men who have since shown a lot of bad behavior and I am not one of those "separate the art from the artist" people. I just need to skip some of them to keep this moving.
• Kobo: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - a re-read along with my wife who has never read it before. We're on a chapter a day pace.
• Paperback: Riverwork by Lisa Robertson
• Hardcover: The 2024 edition of The Letters of Emily Dickinson edited by Christanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell
• Audio/Library: Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds by Lyndall Gordon