Currently Reading Wednesdays

(Welcome to what I hope will be a regular feature of this blog, Currently Reading Wednesdays. I'll talk a bit about what I'm reading, and also a little bit about what I'm planning to read next.)

Currently I'm (re)reading A Haunt of Fears, by Martin Barker. It's about the anti-comics campaign in Great Britain, although it dips into Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent as well. (How could it not?) It gets into the politics of the movement in a way that few other comic book histories do. (For instance, did you know that the British anti-comics movement was spearheaded by Communists in the early going?) Though in my opinion, it's worth the price of admission simply for the reprint of the infamous EC Comics story "The Orphan" and Barker's analysis of it. (If you haven't read "The Orphan" yet, do so, by the way. I was spoiled on the twist beforehand and the ending still managed to take me by surprise.) All in all a great book, especially if you're a comics fan.

What I'm going to read next? ...I dunno. I've got a bunch of text adventures on my backlog that I really want to get around to. I haven't played Ryan Veeder's latest yet, Someone Keeps Moving My Chair, and I still haven't got around to the Taco Fiction sequel he put out around Halloween. Or I guess I could do, y'know, an actual book. We'll see.