Greetings @JusticeLeagueBookClub, and to all others who enjoy a frightfully fun good time during the Halloween season!
To get you in the mood for All Hallowās Eve nice and early, Iām handing out a grab bag of tricks and treats that features Halloween-based one-shots and one and done adventures starring characters you know and love, as well as characters that you may not yet know, but will hopefully come to love! Read one or read them all, just read what you like, Pumpkinhead!
Check out all of the sensationally spooky and grotesquely groovy goodness ahead!
Again, this is a grab bag selection of books, so you can read any of the above in any order at your leisure. Pick and choose your reading poison, pal!
Discuss:
Which books did you read? Were they tricks or treats? Will any of your picks haunt your memory for years to come in how deliciously delightful and/or fantastically frightful they were?
Do you have any DC-themed Halloween traditions that youād like to share? Sharing is caring, afterall.
Any other bone-rattling things and thoughts that shake up your mental sponge/brain, you groovy gals and ghouls.
Thatās the happs for a fun, very early Halloween celebration starring denizens of the Justice League, the Wildstorm Universe and so much more!
Choose your books, shovel down some delicious candy while reading and have a Happy Halloween, League!
SN: For any wondering, yes, there will be plenty more Halloween goodness to come from the JLBC! This is but the start, my kooky spookies and hearty harpies!
If I may, I recommend the Wildstorm Halloween Special and the Ex Machina Masquerade Special above all, as Wildstorm titles pair quite well with All Hallowās Eve, I find.
Ex Machina is on my long to-read list. I am finishing up Saga and then plan on moving to Y: The Last Man before I get there though. I donāt want to read too much BKV at once as I want to savor his stories. I should also add that I need to finish Paper Girls as well.
I remember reading Wildstorm Halloween Special and comparing it with the other DC Halloween specials, it was the odd man out. There was one story that I liked but the others, not so much.
Legend of the Swamp Thing, which we are also reading in HOH right now, is a lot of fun! I really liked the idea of seeing Swamp Thing through different eras. In a lot of ways, this reminded me of the Tales of the Witchblade series from years ago. The concept that there is a different host/avatar for every generation works for me in many ways. Legend of the Swamp Thing is a good lead to the current series The Swamp Thing.
Paper Girls was good stuff. I havenāt read the whole shebang, but what I did read was good.
I actually havenāt read it, as its been on my āWildstorm Schtuff to Readā list for a long time, now. Iām hoping its good. I canāt say Iāve ever disliked a book that Fairchild adorned the cover of, though.
It is! I bought it when it came out last year, and enjoyed it much more than I was expecting. Halloween specials can be hit and miss, but the Swamp Thing book was pretty slick.
That means an intrepid soul could pair the Halloween book with The Swamp Thing, should they want to focus that series in their club. I say go for it.
You can never go wrong with something that stars Lobo or The Demon, but thatās especially true when its something that stars both of them. Come to think of it, Iād love to see a Lobo/Demon mini and/or ongoing.
If you like that book, there will be plenty of Etrigan to come in the JLBC in aboutā¦two weeks, or so.
That andā¦Teen Titans Annual #1 as well, if memory serves.
I had forgotten all about the IC HS until you mentioned it. Iād be down for a digital re-read of it.
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