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Tuesday, January 6th, 2026 02:27 pm
Tuesday, January 6th, 2026 07:41 am
Tuesday, January 6th, 2026 09:12 am
In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
Though... I mean... c'mon 2026, could you have not given us just a couple of weeks of relative calm? Was that SO much to ask? But... well... here we are.
The "Stranger Things" finale aired, with mixed, though generally positive reviews, though it did confirm the complete lack of the most hotly fanticipated slash pairings in recent media. Honestly, I never saw it myself, and I prefer the ending both characters got, but I appreciate that many were hoping for it.
Yoroi Shin Den Samurai Troopers released it's OP, and the first episode aired in Japan today. Heavy on the neon, but a couple of nice nods to the original series openings.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
Though... I mean... c'mon 2026, could you have not given us just a couple of weeks of relative calm? Was that SO much to ask? But... well... here we are.
The "Stranger Things" finale aired, with mixed, though generally positive reviews, though it did confirm the complete lack of the most hotly fanticipated slash pairings in recent media. Honestly, I never saw it myself, and I prefer the ending both characters got, but I appreciate that many were hoping for it.
Yoroi Shin Den Samurai Troopers released it's OP, and the first episode aired in Japan today. Heavy on the neon, but a couple of nice nods to the original series openings.
Monday, January 5th, 2026 04:12 pm
It's the eleventh day of Christmas and high time to post this roundup.
2025 Reading Stats
I feel like I'm not entirely sure how I managed to read this many books (well, I read six Lumberjanes collections on the trains to and from New York on New Year's Eve, and I ruthlessly read a lot of novellas that had piled up in December), but I'm pleased about it. I'm especially pleased about reading so much manga, and also that I've gotten faster at reading Japanese again. Which is good because I still have so. much. manga to read. And I buy more every time I go to Japan. I'm also pleased about the physical TBR progress, which includes sorting a bunch of books lurking on the bookshelf for years into piles of "read this and then sell it back," which I will continue doing. Sadly Half Price in town closed because of landlord greed, so now I have to go to either Fremont or Pleasant Hill. Other than that, I did de-prioritize new books to focus on older ones, so there's a lot of good 2025 books that have piled up. Too many books, too little time!
Best of 2025
2025 Reading Resolutions
2025 Reading Stats
- 144 books read, of which 12 were a reread
- By gender: 45.5 (32%) by men, the rest by women and other genders
- By race: 62 (45%) by people of color
- By language: 28 (19%) in Japanese, 8 (0.5%) in translation
- New books: 37 (26%) published in 2025
- New-to-me authors: 27
- Read 125 books ==> Success! 144, an all-time high!
- Read 25 physical books owned since 2023 or earlier ==> Success! 29
- Read 35 books by authors of color ==> Success! 62
- Read 10 books in translation ==> Fail
- Read a volume of manga a week in Japanese ==> Well, I got closer than I have before?
- Read all the comics bought before 2025, both physical and digital ==> Fail. But I did buy a refurbished 2021 iPad mini and reading comics on it in Kindle is a pretty good experience, unlike my old iPad which had been blinking off randomly for years. And I think I have done the physical part of it? Except for a few random bandes-dessinées I have lying around.
I feel like I'm not entirely sure how I managed to read this many books (well, I read six Lumberjanes collections on the trains to and from New York on New Year's Eve, and I ruthlessly read a lot of novellas that had piled up in December), but I'm pleased about it. I'm especially pleased about reading so much manga, and also that I've gotten faster at reading Japanese again. Which is good because I still have so. much. manga to read. And I buy more every time I go to Japan. I'm also pleased about the physical TBR progress, which includes sorting a bunch of books lurking on the bookshelf for years into piles of "read this and then sell it back," which I will continue doing. Sadly Half Price in town closed because of landlord greed, so now I have to go to either Fremont or Pleasant Hill. Other than that, I did de-prioritize new books to focus on older ones, so there's a lot of good 2025 books that have piled up. Too many books, too little time!
Best of 2025
- The Witch Roads and The Nameless Land (duology) by Kate Elliott
- Holy Terrors by Margaret Owen
- The Wall Around Eden by Joan Slonczewski
- Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
- The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
- Metal from Heaven by august clarke
- Fuichin zaijian! (10 vols) by Murakami Motoka
- Absolute Wonder Woman vol. 1 by Kelly Thompson et al.
- Audition for the Fox by Martin Cahill
2025 Reading Resolutions
- Read 125 books
- Read 25 physical books owned since 2024 or earlier
- Read 35 books by authors of color
- Read 10 books in translation
- Read a volume of manga a week in Japanese
- Read all the comics bought before 2025, both physical and digital
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Monday, January 5th, 2026 12:03 pm
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Monday, January 5th, 2026 11:18 am
Sunday, January 4th, 2026 10:23 pm
Metamorpho has been one of DC’s second-tier stars since 1965, and unlike a lot of characters without long-running series of their own, he’s retained his supporting cast.
( Captain Atom’s kids are reading this in a bar somewhere, glaring in resentment. )
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Sunday, January 4th, 2026 11:37 am
Saturday, January 3rd, 2026 12:35 pm
Saturday, January 3rd, 2026 10:55 am
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Friday, January 2nd, 2026 07:19 pm
This annual’s main story is about planting seeds. It introduces a whole new cast of characters to serve as story anchor points, associated with the JLI embassies outside of New York and Paris--including one new embassy founded in these pages. Some of these characters would be focal to multiple Giffen-DeMatteis plots; some would get cameos of varying interest; some would never be seen again. Most would be utterly forgotten after Giffen and DeMatteis left.
( It was still a bit too early in 1989 for a unified Berlin embassy. )
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Friday, January 2nd, 2026 01:30 pm
Thursday, January 1st, 2026 11:58 am
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Thursday, January 1st, 2026 02:19 pm
Well, we made it folks, we made it through the flaming shitshow which was much of 2025.
Let us hope that 2026 treats us a ilttle more gently, or at least we can try at a personal level to treat other people more gently, just.. y'know... in general.
So the questions today are:
What are you looking forward comics-wise in 2026?
Let us hope that 2026 treats us a ilttle more gently, or at least we can try at a personal level to treat other people more gently, just.. y'know... in general.
So the questions today are:
What are you looking forward comics-wise in 2026?
- A new series?
- A new character?
- A new title?
- A new creative team taking over an old title?
- An existing character getting more focus?
Speaking personally I'm interested in the upcoming Mirage mini-series
I want to see the fall out of the Age of Revelation and what it means for my old favourite Doug.
The news of more "Check! Please" was a delightful surprise.
And you?
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2025 08:24 pm
Привет and welcome to our new Russian friends from LiveJournal! We are happy to offer you a new home. We will not require identification for you to post or comment. We also do not cooperate with Russian government requests for any information about your account unless they go through a United States court first. (And it hasn't happened in 16 years!)
Importing your journal from ЖЖ may be slow. There are a lot of you, with many posts and comments, and we have to limit how fast we download your information from ЖЖ so they don't block us. Please be patient! We have been watching and fixing errors, and we will go back to doing that after the holiday is over.
I am very sorry that we can't translate the site into Russian or offer support in Russian. We are a much, much smaller company than LiveJournal is, and my high school Russian classes were a very long time ago :) But at least we aren't owned by Sberbank!
С Новым Годом, and welcome home!
EDIT: Большое спасибо всем за помощь друг другу в комментариях! Я ценю каждого, кто предоставляет нашим новым соседям информацию, понятную им без необходимости искать её в Google. :) И спасибо вам за терпение к моему русскому переводу с помощью Google Translate! Прошло уже много-много лет со школьных времен!
Thank you also to everyone who's been giving our new neighbors a warm welcome. I love you all ❤️
Wednesday, December 31st, 2025 03:55 pm
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2025 12:42 pm
As has become traditional, we'll have two posts for the New Year. The old today, and the new tomorrow.
As the fires of 2025 becomes embers, we are reminded that it has seen us lose visionary creators including: Robert Orci, Jackson Guice, Peter David, Jim Shooter, Nancy Burton, Marie-Mad, Drew Struzan, Dave Taylor and David Lynch.
We may not have always agreed with some of the choices made, but these were influential figures. We honour their passing and thank them for their contributions to the art form we love.
And, in the spirit of remembering;
1) What were your favourite new comics this year?
This could mean:
(We don't want to know your least favourites, lets keep this positive)
Also
As the fires of 2025 becomes embers, we are reminded that it has seen us lose visionary creators including: Robert Orci, Jackson Guice, Peter David, Jim Shooter, Nancy Burton, Marie-Mad, Drew Struzan, Dave Taylor and David Lynch.
We may not have always agreed with some of the choices made, but these were influential figures. We honour their passing and thank them for their contributions to the art form we love.
And, in the spirit of remembering;
1) What were your favourite new comics this year?
This could mean:
- Single issues?
- Storylines?
- Imprints?
- Favourite new character(s)?
(We don't want to know your least favourites, lets keep this positive)
Also
2) What were your favourite scans posted here on S_D, be they new or old?
Tomorrow we look to the future, but today, as we balance between the new and the old.... we look back... as long as we don't look down!
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