{"id":16877,"date":"2017-09-14T08:56:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16877"},"modified":"2017-09-12T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T20:13:09","slug":"they-werent-comic-books-when-i-read-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/14\/they-werent-comic-books-when-i-read-them\/","title":{"rendered":"They Weren’t Comic Books When I Read Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re asking what the last comic book I read was (and you might just be<\/a>, or might would have been being if you read the linked post yesterday instead of reading me weekly, in which case we’ll get to the last comic book I read and the significance of my reading comic books, close parentheses–oops, did I say that out loud? I meant), it was a Classics Illustrated version of David Copperfield<\/em>. Now, you’re saying, “Man, that must have been hard, collapsing a Dickens novel into 40 pages of panels and sentences!”<\/p>\n

You have no idea. I am certain the comic did not ruin the book for me when I get around to reading it in prose. As a matter of fact, I think I’ll actually know what is going on and discover the book is not actually a music video cut-scene style collage of characters when I read the book. But as for a last comic book that I might ever read, David Copperfield<\/em> is pretty hoity-toity.<\/p>\n

On the back, there’s a list of other titles available in Classics Illustrated editions. <\/p>\n

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It’s not a comprehensive list, as the numbers skip wildly. But I took it to be a challenge to my well-readhood, so I’ve identified the books I’ve read in actual book form below the fold.
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\nThe books I’ve read are in strong<\/strong> font; if I’ve read them in the last fourteen years or so, I’ve also linked to my thoughts on the book on this blog.<\/p>\n