Bookshelf #5

Continuing with our tour of my bookshelves, we now move into the master bedroom, where I have three big shelving units from Ikea (two of which I inherited when a friend moved, one of which I bought—and assembled all by myself!—to match the other two). All of the books on these shelves would have been acquired when I lived in Mentor, so between 2011 and 2024 or so.

Atop the top shelf of the first of these units, you'll see a handful of prose books which, like the few prose books I actually own, are just kinda stuck wherever I can find room for 'em. This being a comics blog, I won't linger on those, but they give you a decent idea of some of my interests aside from comics: Giant monster movies, the Marx Brothers and certain elements of Christianity (The one fiction book up there is Pete Beatty's Cuyahoga, which I would highly recommend...especially to any of you who may be in or around Cleveland). 

As for this week's featured shelf, it is, due to its size, devoted to books of smaller dimensions. 

On the left are DC comics for kids (Shadow of the Batgirl, Superman Smashes the Klan, etc.) and DC manga (Batmanga Vol. 1, Batman and the Justice League Vols. 1-3, Superman vs. Meshi Vol. 1). Randomly stuck in there are a pair of Disney comics from Dark Horse, simply because of their size (Disney Dracula Starring Mickey Mouse and Disney Frankenstein Starring Donald Duck). 

On the right are manga related to two of the earliest anime I series I watched, Dragon Ball Z and Neon Genesis Evangelion. Representing the former, there's the first volume of Dragon Ball Super (a series I immediately lost track of and am now so behind on I will probably never actually read it), Akira Toriyama's Jaco the Galactic Patrolman and the ratherr weird Dragon Ball: That Time I Got Reincarnated as Yamcha. Representing the latter, there's all six volumes of the lighter, brighter Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days series, the Neon Genesis Evangelion: Comic Tribute anthology and Insufficient Direction, a manga about Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno by his wife, Moyoco Anno.

I think just about everything on this shelf is pretty good, and I would likely recommend it to anyone, depending on their tastes (Kami Garcia and Gabriel Picolo's Teen Titans: Raven probably necessitates one being okay with YA fiction, for example, and those Disney books I thought were more interesting than great. Oh, and obviously the entire right half of the shelf will likely do nothing for you if you're not already a Dragon Ball or Evangelion fan).