A (Mostly) Comprehensive List of Media Consumed in (Mostly) 2009

by MSM

Books

Here, I’m not so proud. I didn’t hit my usual goal of 50 or more books in a year, and looking back over what I did read, I read a lot of crap. Resolution #1 for 2010 is to read better books. Also, read more short stories. Favorite books of the year are probably Spaceman Blues and Olive Kitteridge. Anything with a (K) signifies that I read the book on the Kindle, which I plan to do a lot more in 2010.

Comics

Resolution #2 for 2010 might need to be “read fewer comics” if only to save shelf space. Best new comic read in the year has to be The Walking Dead. Biggest waste of time, Air. Best discovery: Comics on BitTorrent. Yes, I am a few years behind there.

  • Jack of Fables Book 4: Americana
  • The Walking Dead Book 1: Days Gone Bye
  • The Walking Dead Book 2: Miles Behind Us
  • Fables Books 1-10 (re-read)
  • Fables Book 11: War and Pieces
  • Exterminators Book 4: Bug Brothers Forever
  • Hellblazer: The Family Man
  • Godland Book 3: Amplified Now
  • Northlanders Book 1: Sven the Returned
  • The Vinyl Underground Book Two: Pretty Dead Things
  • Time2 Book 2: The Satisfaction of Black Mariah
  • The Programme Book 1
  • The Programme Book 2
  • House of Mystery Book 1: Room and Boredom
  • Locke & Key Book 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
  • The Walking Dead Book 3: Safety Behind Bars
  • The Walking Dead Book 4: The Hearts Desire
  • The Walking Dead Book 5: The Best Defense
  • The Walking Dead Book 6: This Sorrowful Life
  • The Walking Dead Book 7: The Calm Before
  • The Walking Dead Book 8: Made to Suffer
  • The Walking Dead Book 9: Here We Remain
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus 6
  • Local
  • Watchmen (re-read)
  • Powers Book 12: The 25 Coolest Dead Superheroes of All Time
  • DMZ Book 6: Blood in the Game
  • Abe Sapien Book 1: The Drowning
  • Wanted
  • Criminal Book 4: Bad Night
  • Hellboy Book 8: Darkness Calls
  • BPRD Book 9: 1946
  • Hellblazer Special: Chas The Knowledge
  • The Witching Hour
  • Serenity Book 1: Those Left Behind
  • Serenity Book 2: Better Days
  • Why Hate Saturn (re-read)
  • Sandman Mystery Theatre Book 7: The Mist and The Phantom of the Fair
  • Omega the Unknown
  • Weclome to Hoxford
  • The Nightmare Factory
  • Wasteland Book 1: Cities in Dust (re-read)
  • Wasteland Book 2: Shades of God (re-read)
  • Wasteland Book 3: Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
  • Strangehaven Book 1: Arcadia (re-read)
  • Strangehaven Book 2: Brotherhood (re-read)
  • Strangehaven Book 3: Conspiracies
  • A History of Violence
  • American Flagg! Definitive Collection Book 1
  • American Flagg! Definitive Collection Book 2
  • Storm Front Book 1: The Gathering Storm
  • BPRD Book 12: The Warning
  • Hellblazer: The Roots of Coincidence
  • Essential Man-Thing, Volume 1
  • Essential Man-Thing, Volume 2
  • Beowulf adaptation
  • Echo Book 1: Moon Lake (re-read)
  • Echo Book 2: Atomic Dreams
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus 7
  • Cowboy Bebop Volume 1
  • The Question Book 1: Zen and Violence
  • Scalped Book 4: The Gravel In Your Guts
  • House of Mystery Book 2: Love Stories for Dead People
  • 100 Bullets Books 1 – 13
  • Young Liars Book 1: Daydream Believer
  • Young Liars Book 2: Maestro
  • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 1910
  • Rex Mundi Book 1: The Guardians of the Temple
  • Ted McKeever Library Book 1: Transit
  • Ted McKeever Library Book 3: Metropol
  • Dylan Dog Case Files
  • Desperadoes Omnibus
  • Fables Book 12: The Dark Ages
  • Northlanders Book 2: The Cross and the Hammer
  • Madame Xanadu Book 1: Disenchanted
  • The Walking Dead Book 10: What We Become
  • Solomon Kane Book 1: The Castle of the Devil
  • Emberley Galaxy
  • Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter
  • Kabuki Books 1-4 (re-read)
  • The Gunslinger Born
  • Kabuki Book 5: Metamorphosis
  • Wasteland Book 4: Dog Tribe
  • The Umbrella Academy Book2: Dallas
  • DMZ Book 7: War Powers
  • Locke & Key Book 2: Head Games
  • Air Book 1: Letters from Lost Countries
  • Nocturnals Book 2: The Dark Forever and Other Tales
  • Dark Entries
  • Astro City: The Dark Age Book 1: Brothers & Other Strangers
  • The Extremist #1-#4
  • BPRD Book 11: The Black Goddess
  • Scalped Book 4: High Lonesome
  • Alan Moore’s Wild Worlds
  • Echo Book 3: Desert Run
  • Hellblazer: Scab
  • Jack of Fables Book 6: The Big Book of War
  • Checkmate: Fall of the Wall
  • The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home
  • Hellboy Books 1-8 (re-read)
  • Tumor #1-8 (K)
  • The Dark Tower: Treachery
  • Hellboy Jr (re-read)
  • Abe Sapien: The Drowning (re-read)
  • Lobster Johnson: The Iron Prometheus (re-read)
  • BPRD Books 1-11 (re-read)
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Book 1: The Long Way Home
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Book 2: No Future for You
  • All Micronauts Comics (CBZ)
  • Miracleman #1-#24 (CBZ)

Movies

This was my first year with a NetFlix subscription, which I clearly did not use to its potential. I’m coming up on 200 movies in my queue, which should take about 6 or 7 years to get through at this rate. Favorite movie of the year was Beowulf and Grendel, which I much preferred to the CGI cartoon that Zemeckis directed. Del Toro’s Spanish movies were a close second. I only saw two movies in the theater, Watchmen and District 9, and neither was really worth the trip. Resolution #3 is to not let NetFlix discs sit around the house so long this year.

  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • Instinct
  • Serenity
  • Children of Men
  • No Country for Old Men
  • Batman: The Dark Knight
  • A History of Violence
  • Unforgiven
  • Watchmen
  • Stardust
  • Mirrormask
  • Sunshine
  • Cowboy Bebop (entire series)
  • Beowulf (Gaiman/Zemeckis)
  • District 9
  • Beowulf & Grendel
  • Grey Gardens (1975)
  • Pan’s Labyrinth
  • The Devil’s Backbone
  • Hellboy
  • Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
  • Hellboy: Sword of Storms
  • Hellboy: Blood & Iron
  • Pretty Baby
  • Hercules (1983)
  • Fargo
  • Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince