My October comics reading list

A little over a year ago I started participating in monthly comic book reading challenges on a website I visit regularly. Each month has a different theme, like sci-fi, fantasy, award-winning comics and nine other categories,

In the first year of the challenges I read 1,017 comics, though that’s not counting any comics that didn’t fit that month’s theme. I wasn’t going to wait several months to read my Walking Dead issues so they would count.
I’ve decided that at the end of each month I will also post my monthly lists here. There’s some junk on this list; I’ve bought several Humble Bundles, and for the every good comic there’s usually some “Eva vs. Limbo” or whatever the horrible Chaos Comics are called. But a big part of why I’m doing this is to cut down on my backlog, including some of the shitty comics in my digital collection.
So here’s October, which was horror-themed. November is humor books, which I’ll be filling with a lot of Carl Barks/Don Rosa Ducks books.
Oct 1
Nailbiter 1-5Oct 2
Vampirella Ascending Evil 1
Goon Noir 1

Oct 3
Vampirella Ascending Evil 2-3
Vampirella Holy War 1-3
Vampirella Anniversary Special
Vampirella Strikes 6
Vampirella Lives 1-3
Warren Ellis Epilogue issue
Goon Noir 2

Oct 4
Vampirella Vol. 4. This is a collection of short odds and ends. I read the equivalent of 6 issues.
Archie vs. Predator 1
Goon Noir 3

Oct 5
Vampirella vs Fluffy
Billy The Kid’s Old Timey Oddities 1

Oct 6
Billy The Kid’s Old Timey Oddities 2-4
Silverfish 1

Oct 7
Silverfish 2-6

Oct 8
Silverfish 7-8

Oct 11
Complete Dracula 1
Hellboy in Hell
Lobster Johnson: Iron Prometheus 1-5

Oct 13
Complete Dracula 2
Curse of the Wendigo 1

Oct 14
Curse of the Wendigo 2-3

Oct 17
Walking Dead 147
Swamp Thing 140.

Oct 18
Swamp Thing 141-144.

Oct 19
Swamp Thing 145-148

Oct 20
Swamp Thing 149-150

Oct 21
Swamp Thing 151

Oct 22
Swamp Thing 152-154

Oct 25
Swamp Thing 155-156

Oct 26
Swamp Thing 157-159

Oct. 27-29
Swamp Thing 160-163
Oct. 30-31
Swamp Thing 164-166
Sadly, I didn’t get the Swamp Thing run finished. I’ve had it in my collection for more than a decade, with most of the issues signed by artist Phil Hester. I realized this week that the second to last issue, 169, is missing. I guess I’ll have to replace it to find out how it all ends.

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