READING ROUND-UP FEBRUARY 2026

The second monthly summary, slightly delayed, of what I’ve been reading, listening to, and watching in 2026!

BOOKS

I read 10 books in January: 8 in print, 0 in e-book format, and 2 in audio format. They were:

1.       Twelve Months (Dresden Files #18) by Jim Butcher. (PRINT - HARDCOVER)

2.       Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds, And Other Handfuls of Hope by Ken Scholes (PRINT - SOFTCOVER)

3.       The Yards Between Us: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Football by R.K. Russell (AUDIOBOOK)

4.       Finding My Way by Malala Yousafzai. (AUDIOBOOK)

5.       And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. (PRINT - SOFTCOVER)

6.       The Decagon House Murders (House Murders #1) by Yukito Ayatsuji (trans. Ho-Ling Wong). (PRINT - SOFTCOVER) (STANZA BOOKS MYSTERY BOOK CLUB FEBRUARY PICK)

7.       Theo of Golden by Allen Levi. (PRINT - SOFTCOVER) (SPARTA BOOKS BOOK CLUB FEBRUARY PICK)

8.       Zane Carrington (Stormgate Press Quick Read #3) by Charles F. Millhouse (PRINT – SOFTCOVER)

9.       Nimona by ND Stevenson (PRINT – SOFTCOVER) (STANZA BOOKS GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK CLUB FEBRUARY PICK)

10.   Demon Lover Witch by Mark Harris (PRINT – SOFTCOVER)

STORIES

I have a goal of reading 365 short stories (1 per day, essentially, although it doesn’t always work out that way) once again this year. Here’s what I read this month and where you can find them if you’re interested in reading them too. If no source is noted, the story is from the same magazine or book as the story(ies) that precede(s) it.

1.       “Death Echoes Overlapping” by Megan Chee, in Lightspeed Magazine #189, edited by John Joseph Adams

2.       “The Worldbuilder” by Phoenix Alexander.

3.       “Sensor Ghosts” by Deborah L. Davitt

4.       “Warren's Tentacle” by Susan Palwick

5.       “Six Sides of a Fairy Tale” by Audrey Zhou

6.       “Dream Destinations (From the Lost Traveler's Tour Guide)” by Alexander Weinstein

7.       “The Salt and the Cure” by Ruleman Ragas

8.       “A Handbook to Spirit-Hunting” by Modupeowula Shelle

9.       “Wounds” by Celia Marsh from Sunday Morning Transport February 2026, edited by Fran Wilde and Julian Yap

10.   “Realm of the Shorn” by David Bowles

11.   “The Definition of a Second” by Carrie Vaughn

12.   “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and birds that fly above the earth across the expanse of sky” by P H Lee

13.   “Legacies” by Seanan McGuire, from the Author's Patreon

14.   “The Portobello Road” by Muriel Spark from All The Stories of Muriel Spark editor unknown

15.   “Harley Takes A Wife” by Ken Scholes, from Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds, and Other Handfuls of Hope, edited by Patrick Swenson

16.   “Of Anchor Chains and Slow Refrains and Light Long Lost in Darkness” by Ken Scholes

17.   “Stuck in Buenos Aires with Bob Dylan On My Mind” by Ken Scholes

18.   “Greatest Guns in the Galaxy” by Ken Scholes and Bryan Thomas Schmidt

19.   “The Monsters Underneath His Bed” by Ken Scholes

20.   “Let Me Hide Myself In Thee” by Ken Scholes

21.   “Better Dreams Than These” by Ken Scholes

22.   “That When I Waked I Cried to Dream Again” by Ken Scholes

23.   “Homeward Dreams and Fallen Seeds and Melody by Moonlight” by Ken Scholes

24.   “Business in Great Waters” by Ken Scholes

25.   “Evermore I Told The Raven” by Ken Scholes

26.   “Unsettled Nature” by Jordan Kurella, from Apex Magazine #154, edited by Lesley Conner

27.   “Twelve Facts About the Dermestid Beetle” by Marisca Pichette, from Nightmare Magazine #161, edited by Wendy N. Wagner

28.   ” The Ghost in Apartment 5K” by Everdeen Mason

29.   “Rest Stop” by Pedro Iriguez

30.   “Remember Me in the Meat” by Sarah Pauling, from Clarkesworld #233, edited by Neil Clarke

31.   “Chip” by D.A. Xiaolin Spires

32.   “The Doorkeepers” by A.T. Greenblatt, from Uncanny Magazine #41, edited by Michael Damian Thomas

33.   “The Source of the Spread” by Sam J. Miller, from the Author’s Newsletter

34.   “The Skull of Francisco Xalbec” by Alan M. Fisher, from The Deadlands #41, edited by Vajra Chandrasekara

35.   “The Uninvited Guest” by Josh Reynolds, from the Author’s Newsletter

36.   “Confessions of the Little Seer: An Accidental Ghost Story” by Emily Linstrom, from Kaleidotrope Winter 2025, edited by Fred Coppersmith

37.   “Water Softener People” by EC Dorgan

38.   “The Trial For Murder” by Charles Dickens, from The Collected Short Stories of Charles Dickens, editor unknown

39.   “The Man Who Lost the Sea” by Theodore Sturgeon, from Strange Horizons Website April 2009, editor unknown

40.   “Really A Sukkah!” by Sholom Aleichem, from Holiday Tales, edited by Aliza Shevrin

41.   “The Sisters” by James Joyce, from Dubliners, editor unknown

42.   “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison, from Bergen Community College website, editor unknown

43.   “Dust to Dust” by Mary Robinette Kowal, from Fireside Magazine, edited by Julia Rios

44.   “Jana Dives” by Tsitsi Dangarembga, from Yale Review website, editor unknown

45.   “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson, from Button, Button: Uncanny Stories), editor unknown

46.   “A Drama in Mexico” by Jules Verne (Trans. W.H.G. Kingston), from Four Short Stories, editor unknown

47.   “In Absentia” by Suzan Palumbo, from The Dark #129, edited by Sean Wallace

48.   “A Night's Lodging” by Stefan Grabinski (trans. Anthony Sciscione), from Orchard of the Dead and Other Macabre Tales, edited by Anthony Sciscione

49.   “The Fortune Teller” by Patricia A. McKillip, from Coyote Road, edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling

50.   “Hollow in the Hope” by Aimee Ogden, from Beneath Ceaseless Skies #451, edited by Scott H. Andrews

51.   “Breakfast” by John Steinbeck, from The Long Valley, editor unknown

52.   “The Best in the Country” by Walter Tevis, from The King is Dead: Stories, edited by Kevin Brockmeier

53.   “A Meeting in Valadolid” by Anthony Burgess, from The Devil's Mode: Stories editor unknown

54.   “Dr. Mid-Nite Thinks Fast” by Charles Reizenstein, from All-Star Comics #6 (1941), editor unknown

55.   “Testament of a Forgotten God” by Charles F. Millhouse, from Pulp Reality #1, edited by Charles F. Millhouse

56.   “The Barbarian” by Joanna Russ, from The Future is Female, edited by Lisa Yaszek

57.   “First Hunt” by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, from Aliens Vs. Predator: Ultimate Prey, edited by Jonathan Maberry & Bryan Thomas Schmidt

58.   “Kaddish For The Last Survivor” by Michael A. Burstein, from I Remember The Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein, edited by Jason Sizmore

59.   “Lusting For Jenny, Inverted” by Elizabeth George, From Two of the Deadliest, edited by Elizabeth George

60.   “The Adventure of the Frightened Baronet” by August Derleth, from The Adventures of Solar Pons, edited by Vincent Starrett

61.   “Paper Casualty” by Len Deighton, from Declarations of War, editor unknown

So that’s 61 short stories in February. A bit more than “1 per day,” ha-ha (February 28st was the 59th day of 2026.)

COMIC BOOKS

I’ve begun tracking the individual monthly comic book issues I read and thought it would be fun to include that list in this monthly round-up as well. I’m striving for a comic book per day. I’ve also started doing a “Random Back Issue Comic Books Read/Reread” daily post on my Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky accounts. We’ll see how long that lasts. Here’s the comics I read in January:

1.       Edgar Rice Burroughs' Korak Son of Tarzan #3 (Gold Key 1964)

2.       The Micronauts #1 (Marvel, 1979)

3.       Exquisite Corpses #09 (Image Comics, 2026)

4.       Gatchaman: Jinpei: Henshin #1 (Mad Cave, 2026)

5.       Captain America #6 (Marvel, 2026)

6.       Everything Dead & Dying #5 (Image, 2026)

7.       Batman/Superman: World's Finest #47 (DC, 2026)

8.       Adventures of Superman: Book of El #5 (DC, 2026)

9.       Adventures of Superman: Book of El #6 (DC, 2026)

10.   Wiccan: Witch's Road #2 (Marvel, 2026)

11.   Action Comics #488 (DC, 1978)

12.   T.H.E. Cat #2 (Dell, 1967)

13.   Justice League of America #113 (DC, 1974)

14.   Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes #1 (Gold Key, 1964)

15.   The Undead Iron Fist #3 (Marvel, 2026)

16.   The Undead Iron Fist #4 (Marvel, 2026)

17.   Superman Unlimited #7 (DC, 2026)

18.   Superman Unlimited #8 (DC, 2026)

19.   Superman Unlimited #9 (DC, 2026)

20.   Showcase #101 (featuring Hawkman) (DC, 1978)

21.   Showcase #102 (featuring Hawkman) (DC, 1978)

22.   Showcase #103 (featuring Hawkman) (DC, 1978)

23.   Green Lantern: Galactic Slam #1 (DC, 2026)

24.   Wonder Woman Black and Gold 2026 Special #11 (DC, 2026)

25.   Captain Planet and the Planeteers #2 (Dynamite, 2026)

26.   Captain Planet and the Planeteers #3 (Dynamite, 2026)

27.   Captain Planet and the Planeteers #4 (Dynamite, 2026)

28.   Captain Planet and the Planeteers #5 (Dynamite, 2026)

29.   Captain Planet and the Planeteers #6 (Dynamite, 2026)

30.   Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (featuring The Guardians of the Galaxy) (Marvel, 1968)

31.   Lost Fantasy #1 (Image, 2026)

32.   Lost Fantasy #2 (Image, 2026)

33.   Lost Fantasy #3 (Image, 2026)

34.   Lost Fantasy #4 (Image, 2026)

35.   Lost Fantasy 5 (Image, 2026)

36.   Lost Fantasy #6 (Image, 2026)

37.   All-Out War #6 (DC, 1980)

38.   DC Special #10 (Strange Sports Stories) (DC, 1976)

39.   Charlton Classics #8 (featuring Hercules) (Charlton, 1981)

40.   ROM #1 (Marvel, 1979)

41.   JSA #16 (DC, 2026)

42.   Captain Action #1 (DC, 1968)

43.   Marvel Team-Up #23 (Human Torch & Iceman) (Marvel, 1974)

44.   Tales of Sword & Sorcery: Dagar the Invincible #12 (Gold Key, 1975)

45.   Sea Devils #18) (DC, 1966)

46.   C.O.R.T. Children of the Round Table #5 (DC, 2026)

47.   Supergirl #10 (DC, 2026)

48.   Aquaman #14 (DC, 2026)

49.   Action Comics #1095 (DC, 2026)

50.   Nova: Centurion #4 (Marvel, 2026)

51.   Man From Atlantis #1 (Marvel, 1979)

52.   DC KO: The Kids Are All Fight (DC, 2026)

53.   Superman #34 (DC, 2026)

54.   Justice League Unlimited #15 (DC, 2026)

55.   Dark Shadows #08 (Gold Key, 1970s)

56.   Time Warp #1 (DC, 1979)

57.   Showcase #95 (New Doom Patrol) (DC, 1970s)

58.   Fright Featuring Son of Dracula #1 (Atlas, 1975)

59.   Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (Captain Marvel) (Marvel, 1967)

60.   DC Special #12 (Historical Adventures) (DC, 1970s)

61.   Zatanna Special #1 (DC, 1987)

62.   Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #46 (1973)

63.   Marvel Premiere #56 (Dominic Fortune) (Marvel 1980)

64.   World’s Finest #210 (DC, 1970s)

65.   Captain America #7 (Marvel, 2026)

66.   Shogun Warriors #15 (Marvel, 1979)

67.   The Warlord #1 (DC, 1976)

So that’s 67 comics, way ahead of the “one per day” goal.

MOVIES

1.       And Then There Were None (1945), directed by Rene Clair (DVD)

2.       Ten Little Indians (1965), directed by George Pollack (DVD)

Still not even close to the “one per week” I’m aiming for.

TELEVISION

·       Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Eps 4 – 10 (6 episodes)

·       The Muppet Show (2026) Sason 1, Ep 1 (1 episode)

That’s 7 episodes of television, still not even close to the “1 per day” I was shooting for.

LIVE THEATER

No live theater in February, sadly. It was a busy work month.

PODCASTS

I’m a fairly recent convert to listening to podcasts, so I thought it would also be fun to list those here in the monthly roundups:

1         Justice Society Presents Episode 23 (JSA in the 90s: Spotlight on Jay Garrick The Flash)

2         Justice Society Presents Episode 24 (Mr. and Mrs. Superman 01)

3         Justice Society Presents Episode 25 (JSA in the 90s: Justice Society of America #6 (Chris Franklin))

4         Justice Society Presents Episode 26 (The Sandman Slept Here 00 (World's Fair Comics #1, Sandman debut))

5         Justice Society Presents Episode 27 (JSA in the 90s: Spotlight on how the Post-Crisis JSA inspired the JLA)

6         Justice Society Presents Episode 28 (JSApril: Dr. Mid-Nite Thinks Fast dramatic reading)

7         Justice Society Presents Episode 29 (The Sandman Slept Here 01 (Sandman Mystery Theatre Issues 1-4))

8         Borgo Pass Horror Podcast Episode 5 (House of Horrors (1946))

9         Borgo Pass Horror Podcast Episode 6 (Night Monster (1942))

10     Warlord Worlds Episode 1 (First Warlord and Sable storyline synopses)

11     World On Fire: An All-Star Squadron Podcast Episode 4 (Squadron issues 4 & 5)

12     World On Fire: An All-Star Squadron Podcast Episode 5 (Listener Feedback)

Summary of Challenges:

366 Short Stories Challenge: This month: 61 read; YTD: 87 of 366 read.

Books Challenge: This month: 10 read; YTD: 21 of 120 read.

Graphic Novels Challenge: This month: 1 read; YTD: 4 of 52 read.

Read the Book / Watch the Movie Challenge: This month: 0 read/watched; YTD: 0 read/watched.

Movie Challenge: This month: 2 watched; YTD: 4 of 52 watched.

TV Shows Challenge: This month: 7 episodes watched; YTD: 19 of 365 watched.

Live Theater Challenge: This month: 0 show attended; YTD: 1 of 12 attended.

Comic Books Challenge: This month: 67; YTD: 107 of 365 read.

Reading RoundUp: January 2026

The first monthly summary of what I’ve been reading, listening to, and watching in 2026!

BOOKS

I read 11 books in January: 7 in print, 2 in e-book format, and 2 in audio format. They were:

1.       More Than Love: An Intimate Portrait of My Mother, Natalie Wood by Natasha Gregson Wagner. (AUDIOBOOK)

2.       The Day The Earth Froze by Gerald Hatch (PRINT - SOFTCOVER)

3.       Klaus: Complete Deluxe Hardcover by Grant Morrison and Dan Mora (PRINT - HARDCOVER, GRAPHIC NOVEL)

4.       Being Jazz by Jazz Jennings. (AUDIOBOOK)

5.       Rise of the Crones (The Crone Wars Book 5) by Lydia M. Hawke. (E-BOOK)

6.       Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. (PRINT - SOFTCOVER) (SPARTA BOOKS BOOK CLUB JANUARY PICK)

7.       The Searcher (Cal Hooper #1) by Tana French. (PRINT - SOFTCOVER) (STANZA BOOKS MYSTERY BOOK CLUB JANUARY PICK)

8.       Golden Age Christmas Mysteries, edited by Otto Penzler (PRINT – SOFTCOVER)

9.       Absolute Martian Manhunter, Volume 1: Martian Vision by Deniz Camp, Javier Rodriguez, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (PRINT – SOFTCOVER)

10.   Frankenstein Alive, Alive! By Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson (PRINT – SOFTCOVER)

11.   A Confluence of Obsidian (The Obsidian Sisterhood #3) by Lydia M. Hawke (E-BOOK)

STORIES

I have a goal of reading 365 short stories (1 per day, essentially, although it doesn’t always work out that way) once again this year. Here’s what I read this month and where you can find them if you’re interested in reading them too. If no source is noted, the story is from the same magazine or book as the story(ies) that precede(s) it.

1.       “Mother’s Hip” by Corey Jai White & Maddison Stoff, in Lightspeed Magazine #188, edited by John Joseph Adams

2.       “Bots All The Way Down” by Effie Seiberg.

3.       “Hunter, Hunter” by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe

4.       “A Brief Public Announcement” by Eli Brown

5.       “Choose Your Own Damnation” by Kehkashan Khalid

6.       “Where The Chicken-Footed Dwell” by Marisca Pichette

7.       “Academic Neutrality” by M.R. Robinson

8.       “The Moving Finger” by Adam-Troy Castro

9.       “Dregs” by R. Diego Martinez, from Nightmare #160, edited by Wendy N. Wagner

10.   “The Tailors” by Kurt Fawver

11.   “Jennifer's Daughter” by Sara S. Messenger

12.   “A Skull in Reverse” by Stephanie Feldman from Sunday Morning Transport Dec 2025, edited by Fran Wilde and Julian Yap

13.   “'Brokeheart' GPT, or "A Superintelligent Being Reads Pat Rosal”” by Micaiah Johnson, from Sunday Morning Transport Jan 2025

14.   “Donuts From the Daydream Network” by Julia Vee

15.   “Slake” by Victor Manibo

16.   “The Final Voyage of the Ouranos” by Marie Brennan

17.   “The Stolen Christmas Box” by Lillian de la Torre from Golden Age Christmas Mysteries, edited by Otto Penzler

18.   “Persons or Things Unknown” by Carter Dickson

19.   “Death on Christmas Eve” by Stanley Ellin

20.   “If Christmas Comes” by Steve Fisher

21.   “The Christmas Bogey” by Pat Frank

22.   “Silent Night” by Baynard Kendrick

23.   “Dead on Christmas Street” by John D. MacDonald

24.   “A Reversible Santa Claus” by Meredith Nicholson

25.   “Crime's Christmas Carol” by Norvell Page

26.   “The Adventure of the Dauphin's Doll” by Ellery Queen

27.   “The Butler's Christmas Eve” by Mary Roberts Rinehart

28.   “Dancing Dan's Christmas” by Damon Runyon

29.   “The Wrong Santa Claus” by Vincent Starrett

30.   “So Many Miles to the Heart of a Child” by Richard Bowes, from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 561 (April 1998), edited by Gordon Van Gelder

31.   “The Red One” by Jack London, from Voices From The Radium Age, edited by Joshua Glenn

32.   “First Bar at the End of the Day” by Ken Scholes, from Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds and Other Handfuls of Hope, edited by Patrick Swenson

33.   “Making My Entrance Again With My Usual Flair” by Ken Scholes

34.   “John Stevenson's Good Fortune” by Horatio Alger, from Horatio Alger Society Website, editor unknown

35.   “The End of the Story” by Clark Ashton Smith, from Vampire Tales: The Big Collection, editor unknown

36.   “The Hills of the Dead” by Robert E. Howard

37.   “Carnival of Crime” by Fred Whitby, from Star Spangled Comics 45 (June 1945), edited by Jack Schiff

38.   “Worth His Salt!” by Herbert E. Smith, from Captain Marvel Adventures 33 (March 1944), edited by Will Lieberson

39.   “A Tip on a Turtle” by Robert Silverberg, from Playing Games, edited by Lawrence Block

40.   “The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria” by Carlos Hernandez, from The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria, edited by Bill Campbell

41.   “The Adventure of the Clockwork Men” by Ron Goulart, from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction #721, edited by C.C. Finlay

42.   “The Invisible Event” by Seanan McGuire, from The Author’s Patreon

43.   “Minor Hockey Gods of Barstow Station” by Beth Cato, from Red Dust and Dancing Horses and Other Stories, editor unknown (originally published in Galactic Games, edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt)

44.   “The Collector” by Daniel Jose Older, from Salsa Nocturna: Stories, edited by Kay T. Holt

45.   “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge” by Tananarive Due, from The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason

46.   “The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal” by Chaz Brenchley, from Everything in All The Wrong Order, edited by Seanan McGuire

47.   “The Stars You Can't See By Looking Directly” by Samantha Murray, from Clarkesworld 232, edited by Neil Clarke

48.   “The Purloined Letter” by Edgar Allan Poe, from Poetry and Tales, edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott

49.   “Hell on the Homefront Too” by Stephen Graham Jones, from Giving The Devil His Due: Special Edition, edited by Rebecca Brewer

50.   “Alchemy” by Carrie Vaughn, from Nevertheless She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project, editor unknown

51.   “Persephone” by Seanan McGuire

52.   “The Great King's Lost Bride” by R.K. Duncan, From Beneath Ceaseless Skies 449, edited by Scott H. Andrews

53.   “J.C. on the Dude Ranch” by Philip Jose Farmer, from Riverworld And Other Stories, editor unknown

54.   “The Fortingall Yew” by William Meikle, from A Winter's Tale: Horror Stories for the Yuletide, edited by Cliff Biggers, Charles R. Rutledge, James R. Tuck

So that’s 54 short stories in January. A bit more than “1 per day,” ha-ha (January 31st was, of course, the 31st day of 2026.)

COMIC BOOKS

I’ve begun tracking the individual monthly comic book issues I read and thought it would be fun to include that list in this monthly round-up as well. I’m striving for a comic book per day. I’ve also started doing a “Random Back Issue Comic Books Read/Reread” daily post on my Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky accounts. We’ll see how long that lasts. Here’s the comics I read in January:

1.       Knights of the Round Table #1 (Dell, 1954)

2.       ROM #1 (Marvel, 1979)

3.       Tomahawk #106 (DC, 1966)

4.       Marvel Super-Heroes #17 (Marvel, 1968)

5.       New Adventures of Superboy 29 (DC, 1983)

6.       Demon Hunter #1 (Atlas, 1975)

7.       Dark Shadows #6 (Gold Key, 1970)

8.       Marvel Two-in-One #33 (Marvel, 1977)

9.       Fence: Breakthrough: Quarter Clash #1 (Boom Studios, 2026)

10.   Nova Centurion #1 (Marvel, 2026)

11.   JSA #15 (DC, 2026)

12.   The Tin Can Society #9 (Image, 2026)

13.   Hero Zero #1 (Dark Horse, 1994)

14.   The MAZE Agency #2 (Comico, 1989)

15.   Hercules Unbound #12 (DC, 1977)

16.   Batman Family #12 (DC, 1977)

17.   Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #36 (Gold Key, 1971)

18.   Teen Titans #44 (DC, 1976)

19.   Sorcerer Supreme #1 (Marvel, 2026)

20.   Shogun Warriors #1 (Marvel, 1979)

21.   C.O.R.T. (Children of the Round Table) #5 (DC, 2026)

22.   Aquaman #13 (DC, 2026)

23.   Green Lantern Corps #12 (DC, 2026)

24.   Supergirl #9 (DC, 2026)

25.   Action Comics #1094 (DC, 2026)

26.   Star Spangled Comics #45 (DC, 1945)

27.   Captain Marvel Adventures #33 (Fawcett, 1944)

28.   Nutsy Squirrel #71 (DC, 1956)

29.   DC Special #29 (DC, 1977)

30.   Tales of Evil #1 (Atlas, 1975)

31.   The New Warriors #1 (Marvel, 1990)

32.   Famous First Editions F-8 (reprinting Flash Comics #1) (DC, 1975)

33.   Showcase #83 (DC, 1969)

34.   Steel The Indestructible Man #1 (DC, 1978)

35.   Marvel Classics Comics (Dracula) #9 (Marvel, 1976)

36.   Kurt Busiek’s Astro City #1 (Image, 1995)

37.   Silver Age: Showcase #1 (The 7 Soldiers of Victory) (DC, 2000)

38.   The X-Men #44 (Marvel, 1968)

39.   Sea Devils #31 (DC, 1966)

40.   The Grim Ghost #2 (Atlas, 1975)

So that’s 40 comics, a bit ahead of the “one per day” goal.

MOVIES

1.       Zootopia 2 (2025), directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard (THEATER)

2.       Thunderbolts* (2025), directed by Jake Schreier (STREAMING, Disney+)

Not even close to the “one per week” I’m aiming for.

TELEVISION

·       Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2, episodes 1 – 8 (8 episodes)

·       Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow documentary (1 episode)

·       Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Eps 1 – 3 (3episodes)

That’s 12 episodes of television, not even close to the “1 per day” I was shooting for.

LIVE THEATER

1.       Oedipus (Studio 54, NYC)

PODCASTS

I’m a fairly recent convert to listening to podcasts, so I thought it would also be fun to list those here in the monthly roundups:

1         Justice Society Presents Episode 18 (JSA in the 90s: Justice Society #3)

2         Justice Society Presents Episode 19 (JSA in the 90s: Spotlight on the Holidays)

3         Justice Society Presents Episode 20 (JSA in the 90s: Justice Society #4)

4         Justice Society Presents Episode 21 (JSA in the 90s: Justice Society #5)

5         Justice Society Presents Episode 22 (JSA in the 90s: Spotlight on Jay Garrick, The Flash)

6         The History of Comics Books in 500 Issues Ep. 27 (African Comic Books Before World War Two)

7         The History of Comics Books in 500 Issues Episode 28 (Tijuana Bibles)

8         Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum Episode 400 (Tom Wilson interview)

9         Borgo Pass Horror Podcast Episode 3 (Man Mad Monster, 1941)

10     Borgo Pass Horror Podcast Episode 4 (The Invisible Man, 1933)

11     The Boxing Glove Arrow Podcast Episode 11 (Interview with Win Scott Eckert)

Summary of Challenges:

366 Short Stories Challenge: This month: 26 read; YTD: 26 of 366 read.

Goodreads Challenge: This month: 11 read; YTD: 11 of 120 read.

Graphic Novels Challenge: This month: 3 read; YTD: 3 of 52 read.

Read the Book / Watch the Movie Challenge: This month: 0 read/watched; YTD: 0 read/watched.

Movie Challenge: This month: 2 watched; YTD: 2 of 52 watched.

TV Shows Challenge: This month: 12 episodes watched; YTD: 12 of 365 watched.

Live Theater Challenge: This month: 1 show attended; YTD: 1 of 12 attended.

Comic Books Challenge: This month: 40; YTD: 40 of 365 read.