Thought it might be fun to catalogue my reading in a thread. Will keep adding to this.

BLOODCHILD – Gorgeously written novelette with a novel angle on symbiosis, pregnancy and colonisation. Works as much through what it doesn't reveal as through what it does.

100 BULLETS Book 1 (collecting #1-19) – this and the next book are a reread.

Dense, energising crime fiction, powered by Risso's brilliant ink-drenched storytelling. The people in this feel richly drawn from life in a way comics characters seldom do.

100 BULLETS Book 2 (collecting #20-36). The writing's had a drastic drop in quality, and the overarching plot is uninteresting.

Artwork remains tremendous – Risso's gotten better, if anything, and him and Mulvihill on colours have got a groove going. Worth it for the art.

BLACK HAMMER/JUSTICE LEAGUE: HAMMER OF JUSTICE. Enjoyable romp mixing the Black Hammer tone and traditional superheroics. The writing is fun, but the art's the real star here – Walsh has excellent chops for clean but expressive storytelling, with some moments of real beauty.

THE DEVOURERS. A story of shapeshifters that itself slips and shifts as you try and hold on to it — moving through ideas of race, colonialism, gender, sexuality. Occasionally a bit slack, but you never know quite where it's going to go next, which is a huge strength.

BOG BODIES. Lovely working class crime story set in Ireland. Big on mood and colour. Takes its time unspooling itself. Fullerton's visual storytelling is aces. More of this sort of thing, please.

NOVEMBER Volume 2. This series continues to be absolutely staggering on every level – the writing, the art, the colours, the letters. So much care taken with every aspect. I have no idea where we're going with the story, but I'm all in.

PETALS. A silent novella about anthropomorphic animals. The story is slight, but the visual style and storytelling are strong, and Cris Peter's colours are marvellous. She's one of the very best colourists working right now.

NOIR. Very uneven collection of black-and-white crime comics. Some of the art is excellent (Barreto, Grist, Moon/Ba), but the stories range from good to mediocre, with no real stand-outs.

ROOM TO DREAM: A LIFE – audiobook. A biography of David Lynch, with each section followed by Lynch's own commentary, reminiscences, and ramblings. The biography is precise and efficient, and the Lynch sections are just magnificent. Highly recommended.

SNUFF. I generally find Palahnuik's ideas interesting and his style annoying, and that's true here. There are no real characters, this is an essay on sex in America rather than a story, but an enjoyable essay. Don't read for subtlety.

TWIN PEAKS: THE FINAL DOSSIER. Mark Frost's book filling in some of the gaps between Twin Peaks S2 and S3 (and probably some bits that were scripted/shot but left out). It's a tiny book – a footnote, but undoubtedly an interesting one. Not *essential*, but quite enjoyable.

DONGRI TO DUBAI. Astoundingly well-researched history of gangs in Mumbai, with D Company as the main focus. The writing is often too breathless, and could've used a good copy editor. But the knowledge on display is indispensable.

THE GREEN LANTERN Vol. 1: INTERGALACTIC LAWMAN. Interesting time for a space cop book, I guess. Explores some of the unease with the idea of Hal Jordan as a hero cop. Worldbuilding is very 2000AD-esque, throw-everything-at-the-wall sf, as is the art.

THE OLD GUARD. Enjoyable pulpy crime fiction. Fernández and Miwa's art is quite excellent. Great acting, and interesting uses of negative space. The action scenes could've been choreographed a bit better.

A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING. Easily one of this year's favourites. I didn't want it to end. A gorgeous, sad, heartwarming story of life, death, time and love – disconcerting and comforting in equal measure. Ozeki's narration brings it to life. Thanks to @DanPGWatters for the rec.

THE INVISIBLES Book 1. Decided to finally make my way through this whole series. First half of Book 1 is desperately unfocused - a concept looking for a story. Things get better in the second half, particularly with the short stories, and Best Man Fall remains fantastic.

THE KING IN YELLOW. The first story loses a lot in the adaptation, but there are some genuinely excellent moments in the rest of the stories, with some marvellous visual flourishes.

HEDRA. Hooooooly shit this is good. A short sf graphic novella about … space exploration (?) … that is replete with fantastic page design and bravura artwork. Audacious and delightful. I read this digitally, but will be acquiring the print version asap.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF TWIN PEAKS. This is an absolute delight. It's like a Faction Paradox novel met a 90s soap opera. It doesn't add THAT much to the tv series, but makes for a great standalone book. The audiobook is excellent, and includes much of the original cast.

THE BEAUTIFUL THING THAT AWAITS US ALL. A short, magnificent Lovecraftian horror collection. A palpable sense of dissipation and of humanity gone wrong, where the monsters are a symptom of existing in this universe. Plus, ends with an affectionate pisstake of Ligotti. Loved this.

MALEVOLENT REPUBLIC. Short political history of India that details how Hindu nationalists came to power, and the extent of their corruption once there. Doesn't spare the Congress either, and illustrates how the seeds of our ruin were built into the founding of the Republic.

THE SANDMAN (audio). Adapts issues 1-20 of the comic. Strong voice cast, Gaiman's panel descriptions work surprisingly well as narration (with some exceptions, but that's the adapter's fault). Mostly reminded me of how good the comic is. Good call to end with Mid-Summer.

BLACK STARS ABOVE. Lovecraftian horror story set in the Canadian wilderness. Focus on interiority and the relationship of humanity and nature. Interesting translation of cosmic horror into a visual medium. Also, the audacity to plonk eight pages of text in the middle of a comic.

THE ANATOMY OF HATE. Intimate profiles of three perpetrators involved in the post-Godhra violence of 2002 at various levels. Scary, troubling, and human, though its final glimmer of hope is rendered naïve looking back from just three years later.

WHEN I HID MY CASTE. Translation of Marathi short stories from a Dalit perspective. The writing is alive and intense, bursting with emotion, but some of the stories felt like they needed more cultural context to land properly. The title story and "Revolt" are astounding, though.

ALIENS: DEAD ORBIT. The story isn't as strong as Stokoe's previous (fantastic) Godzilla book, but the art is marvellous as always, and there's some great visual storytelling here. Stokoe's always worth a read.

X'S FOR EYES. Venture Bros. meets Cosmic Horror. A well-done pastiche of kids' adventure fiction, lighter and less serious than Barron's other work, but short enough that its tone doesn't outstay its welcome.

THE DOORS OF EDEN. I absolutely devoured this in four days. It's tremendous page-turning fun, with a side of solid sf ideas and some lyrical imagery. Sophie Aldred does a fantastic job on the audiobook, and there's an added twist because of the narration that I quite liked.

THE ORCHID THIEF. Thoroughly enjoyed the breezy, chummy style of writing, and the cast of characters is quite interesting, but … it reads like an extended magazine profile, which it is. Could've been half the length, and I would've enjoyed it a lot more.

GHOST TREE. I enjoyed this more for the art and colours than for the story, which I felt needed a bit more space to really flourish. But still a really good comic, with a lovely atmosphere to it.

HABITAT. This is fucking brilliant. So much to unpick here, in the art and the worldbuilding of its far future sf. One of those comics I'll be reading over and over and noticing new stuff. Gets so much done in less than 100 pages.

AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS. This one works better than the other Culbard adaptation I read, which is up-thread. There is a rhythm to the cleanly composed panels that aids in slowly building dread. One of those times that "functional" is a genuine compliment.