I read "Heart of Darkness" just last month and saw a lot of parallels to Lovecraft. Glad to hear confirmation!

There is an Iron Man Heroes Reborn book. It's Thor that doesn't (his series becomes Journey Into Mystery) and his Heroes Return series is the last to launch.

The Brothers Karamazov is very uneven, there are passages where nothing at all happens. I think Crime and Punishment is a far better book. Two others of the greatest classics of all time are Proust: In Search of Lost Time (especially volume 1) and Stendhal: Red and Black.

I've watched Star Trek since it premiered one day before my 5th birthday, but when it came out into syndication I turned into a real Trekkie ("Trekker" wasn't a word yet). When I was 10, out of curiosity, I asked my mom -- a real sci-fi fan -- to find me a good SF book to try out (we were at the library). She grinned and said she had just the book, and brought me "Podkayne of Mars" by Robert Heinlein. After the first half-page, I was hooked. Great book to start young girls onto a science fiction path!

I’m looking forward to jumping on the My Novel Life bandwagon too. Love your take on it. Brilliant idea😊

Great job! As a young reader, I was quickly able to discern the difference of writing styles between REH and everyone else. I do appreciate the attempts of the other authors to “fill in the gaps” of the chronology; however, NO ONE can write Conan like REH.

I like the way you change the challenge to HPL's life, though I'm sure your life is much more interesting than you modestly say. Highlights for me: Wilde, James and Conrad, not least because I've taught all three to senior English students over the years. And is that cover illustration for "Heart Of Darkness" by Mike Mignola? It could almost have come from one of his Hellboy stories. My alternative choice for 1899 is Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", an intriguing proto-feminist work that introduced me to writers who of Louisiana Creole heritage. Now a personal question Michael, and you can of course choose not to answer: are you related to famed comics writer Brian K. Vaughn?

FF is my favourite too, mainly due to Kirby's art. I'm collecting the Marvel Masterworks, and will read them once they have published up to 1996, which will probably be another decade.

Calm yourself fellow human. Our alien overlords are our friends.

Cross the rainbow bridge of Asgard where the booming heavens roar you'll behold in breathless wonder Micheal Vaughan and the Pharoh Rodger. Together they have a fantastic plan.

Simonson's Run on Thor is a great (and rare) example of a "grim n' gritty" 1980s revamp of a series done right. It had epic scope, genuine stakes to the action, fully-fleshed out characters, and sometimes shocking violence, but tempered with a real modern sensibility.

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What do you think about Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant? It's clearly the best fantasy I've read.

thanks!

Commenting to say that the new show is pretty good. It definitely changes up things, so if you are book purist it may deter you. But changing the time period served the show quite well, and Louis being a black man added a whole new dimension to him and his struggles. The new guy playing Lestat is also pretty great. Now the show is definitely more explicit in gore and sex (the original novel is much more subtle), and can be crass at times (cussing and sexual antics in the brothels), but I guess it's somewhat a staple of most modern series. Overall, quite good. I would have probably been much less receptive to this series if this was the only adaptation out there, but the original movie was so great and faithful to the book, so I can roll with the new adaptation doing its own thing and exploring new themes.

We need a look into that master plan book 🤔

Are you going to pick up the two Golden Age Captain America omnibus's?

We Need more Thor

Steve Ditko’s Dr. Strange run is my favorite but Roger Stern’s run is great also.

Pants are overrated.

I wish every day was Wednesday so I could watch you and Steve talk comics every day! (Okay, maybe that's a little unrealistic...)

So what kind of tablet do you use to read comics? Do you like it or is there better one you would recommend?

I'd like to hear more from Rodger.

Good luck with the project!

I’ll admit….I cringed twice when you stated Hulk was in Tales of Suspense. Thank you for correcting yourself 😂

I've intended for a while to do a full Marvel re-read, starting with FF #1 and reading all the main books in order through around 1986, maybe 87 for a few of the books that hung on a bit longer. I lose interest in most Marvel stuff after around then.

will you be reading mini series stuff with associated characters as well?

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Dude!!! Sweet collection of epic volumes 👌 I been going back through a bunch of X-Men lately.

MM has already written another Elric story! See NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY.

Always enjoy your channel... The Well at the World's End, by William Morris is one of my 'All time' favorite stories. It is a long tale, which develops the trope of "The Water of Life", by the Brothers Grimm.... A Story that " Baptized my imagination",to use C.S.Lewis's phrase

Oh boy .. the fabled Black Book, Rites of Resurrection and a Marvel Masterplan, say no more, the scale of your diabolical scheme is staggering.

Tumultuous......such a good word!!!

Lead by your example, I started reading all of Doctor Strange. I've read through the Lee/Ditko issues thus far.

7:27 That shelf is just awesome. SO MUCH GEEKY GOODNESS!

Applause Applause Applause! I came to Marvel Comics just the month after Tales of Suspense and Tales to Astonish split into their four separate titles, around February 1968. In those days, I could tool around on my bike in Anaheim, and parts of East LA with my pal Herbie where a lot of liquor stores never sent the unsold comics back to the distributor, so I was able to fill in about 6 months worth of old back issues from their racks. Those were truly golden days in my past. You are dredging up a lot of beautiful memories for me with your Master Plan. And though you haven't mentioned it yet, I just KNOW you are saving the best for last, and I can't wait! Deathlok! It will be glorious!

No Nick Fury?

What a cool concept! And a great person to choose for this, because so much awesome stuff was written during the span of his life in particular. I hope you keep us updated throughout each decade, I'm sure you'll dig up some intriguing books!

Excelsior! This has to be the most ambitious reading project since Phil Connors, in an early draft of _Groundhog Day,_ read every book in the Punxsutawney Public Library at one page per day. I estimate it took forty thousand years by the time Phil was through the first pass.

There are John Byrne collections available.

Hello Michael Hello. This is one of the very best videos . why don't you write the book on Marvel Comics, or Comics at large? I listened carefully to every word you spoke and played back large portions to make sure I got it right. Thank you so much Michael. Marvel is just great. Their Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane, Punisher, Ghost Rider, and Defenders are my favorites plus the titles you discussed. Roy Thomas and Jim Shooter were ingenious. Thanks again

Read FF, Spiderman, Dr Strange, Nick Fury, Daredevil, Capt America back in 1966-1970. Great time in fiction.

When you show only the first volume covers, it looks like comic book bliss. As Dave and Patrick mention, probably because of the interweaving histories, it would help to read them all simultaneously as they came out, month by month, like in the recent Omnibus anthologies. For instance, Captain America was brought back in the Avengers months before his Tales of Suspense series started (and even earlier in Strange Tales, a fake Captain America appeared in the Torch series as a trial run.) The Hulk's nomadic stories through various Marvel titles, before he came back in a series of his own, are really unique to comics. If you actually read all of Marvel starting from August 1961, you'd get all of the other stuff that fed into the superhero books. Romance and humor and horror became part of the superhero stew. The sullen teenage Rawhide Kid, unfairly persecuted as an outlaw, is a prototype for Spider-Man. I think your method is a lot more enjoyable, though. If you read all the comics simultaneously, you'd probably want to check into a hospital before you even got to the 80's.

I could hear that bookcase groaning.😂😂😂

You are young yet, however,if you slow down your reading any, Roger will have to return the favor.

The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long

A plan worthy of a supervillain. Remember, Dr. Doom is for the children.

I am doing something similar, but I am only collecting Marvel from the 1960s to about 1992. That is the Marvel Universe that I love. Also buying all of the collected editions of the earlier Timely and Atlas stuff.

The original trilogy is the best, with Queen of the Damned being the weakest. I thought it kind of went downhill after that. To the point where I never even bothered with the later ones. She returned to it after she turned away from the church again, so I am curious about how those last few turned out.

Herakles! Oh, Herakles! Of many labours are glories 'tilled, but the first is where when not yet won? Serpentine with laurels nine, Aspiration's ambition delivers demand, 'Account in measure. Account in time. Account in course of measure and rhyme. ' Or, - haven't you got quite a lot on already?