Here listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new. I'm your

host Danica Ellis. This is episode number 448.5 and today I'm going to tell you about a couple of my favorite

Safik backlist comics.

One is horror, one is sci-fi.

They're both pretty weird and wonderful,

and I love them. I always find it a little bit difficult to talk about comics because obviously it's a very different

medium than a prose book. And I am someone who is very much text-based. I have trouble

with visuals not just in books, but in general I don't have a very visual mind. I can't really keep

pictures in my head very well and I have trouble talking about the artwork of comics and that is so much of what they are obviously.

There is the story element, there's the writing element, but I won't pick up a comic unless

I like the art, but could I tell you what I like about the art?

Very rarely. I always feel like in my normal reading life I can talk about books depending on the book and depending on the day

at a sort of university type level I went to university and talked about books. I feel comfortable with that. But when I'm talking about

comics, I feel like I'm about six years old, just talking about how I like that the colors are bright, so I feel a little bit limited by that.

But I also want to talk about comics because they are one of my favorite things to read.

And recently I have really started to incorporate them more

into my reading life, especially between books. They're almost a palette cleanser for for me and they're also kind of my cheat with the library is I check out way too many books from the library and I'm trying to stop putting so many books on hold

when I know I'm not going to read them all and I get really overwhelmed but if it's a comic

if it's a graphic novel or manga I think well I can squeeze that in. That's going to be so quick to read. I can just read that in between all my other books. So I end up with just stacks and stacks of comics and I do really get to them most of the time so they are taking

over my reading and I am really enjoying that.

Before I talk about two of my favorite Saffic Backlist comics,

I want to mention that 2024 is the 10th year of the Read Harder Challenge.

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