DC versus Marvel Reading Challenge 2015 Showing 1,351-1,400 of 1,404

[Lel]

The Lions of Al-Rassan/team marvel/energy cell

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

DC

Jackie Estacado

1. The Darkness
Read a book with a nightside panorama on the cover or where one of the characters is possessed by a demon/entity. The School of Night 1/3 for Jackie

[Christina]

Bigby Wolf recruited

Marvel/ Six-Gun Snow White/Bigby Wolf/Fabletown/3 of 3

This is a fairy tale retelling.

[Melanie]

Team DC
cyborg 2/ Member of Team Titan/ The Thirteenth Unicorn/ 1 of 3

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

MPauli - Just wondering if the new challenge will be up before Jan in order to pick teams and choose books to fit etc?

No probs if not, just curious more than anything!

[Shawnie]

Kirsty wrote: "MPauli - Just wondering if the new challenge will be up before Jan in order to pick teams and choose books to fit etc?

No probs if not, just curious more than anything!"

I can't wait to plan out my 2016 books!!

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

He's always been really good about giving us lead time to work on the annual challenges and the monthly additions. I'm sure he'll do that again.

[Soila]

Battlefield Earth/Rocket Raccoon /Blam! Murdered you!/3 of 3

Rocket Raccoon recruited.

[Mpauli, Bitten by a radioactive book]

Happy Christmas week everyone. I hope you all had great holidays, enjoyed some family time and of course got a lot new reading material. :)

This week was, as expected, a bit more slow and a win for Team Marvel, due to Christina's recruitment of Bigby Wolf and Soila's recruitment of Rocket Raccoon.
Both teams acquired an Energy Cell.

Due to my new job and therefore less time, I couldn't go with the advent calendar model of revealing the heroes for the 2016 challenge as I would have liked to do.
But today I finally had enough time to put most of the challenge together. You can head over to this thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

There you can view the 12 DC and 12 Marvel heroes, pick your teams and already prepare for our first villain of the month, Penguin!
I haven't decided on the line-up of the portal heroes yet, but I will add them during January. Experience shows that they won't be a factor right away, so I concentrated on adding the challenges that we do need from the get go.
I hope everyone will have a lot of fun with the new challenge and reading with us next year.
I also want to thank everyone who participated this year for creating such a fun environment and experience and making this challenge something I really look forward to each week.
Enjoy the last days of 2015!

[Shawnie]

Thank you so much, Pauli!! I really enjoy the challenge.

[Brendan]

Awesome, thanks Mpauli.

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

As always, thanks, MPauli, these challenges are great.

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Thank you so much for organising this again - I love this challenge, even if I've not quite managed to get all heroes either years. Maybe 2016 will be different? ;)

[Christina]

Yes, thank you so much, MPauli! It was so much fun to participate this year. I'm aiming to recruit all heroes and defeat as many villains as I can this coming year :)

[Christina]

Yes, MPauli! Thanks for all that you do. It is great that so many people want to do it again. This year has been so much fun. I can't wait to start 2016!

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

Jackie Estacado
2. Powers with 21–
Read a book with a birthday celebration or party on the cover or where one of the main characters is exactly 21 years old at some point during the book. Descent A girl is kidnapped and turns 21 during her captivity. 2/3 for Jackie Estacado

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

Jackie Estacado / Powers with 21 / Once We Were Like Wolves / 3 of 3

Jackie recruited

[Soila]

Dragons of Autumn Twilight/Invisible woman /Force field /3 of 3

Invisible woman recruited
All heroes recruited

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Congrats, Soila! :)

[Shawnie]

Yay, Soila! I want to read that series next year.

[Christina]

The Dragonlance Chronicles is such a great series!!! Doing a reread for that one this year since it has been so long since I visited that world.

[Melanie]

Dragon Lance was the first fantasy series I ever read. It launched me into every other book of that genre.

[Christina]

Melanie wrote: "Dragon Lance was the first fantasy series I ever read. It launched me into every other book of that genre."

Me too!!!! :)

[Nara]

A little bit late, but I'd like to thank you too, Mpauli! Thanks for making this challenge so awesome :D

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

Mister Sinister / Mister Sinister / Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell / 3 of 3

Mister Sinister defeated

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

Jackie Estacado 3. Avatar of Kilya
Read a book with incan/mayan/atztecan buildings on cover or where the aforementioned cultures play a role as setting or research object Valverde's Gold: In Search of the Last Great Inca Treasure

3/3 for Jackie

All Heroes Recruited, All Portal Heroes Recruited, All villains defeated. Challenge completed.

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Well done Wayland!! Amazing :)

[Christina]

That is amazing, Wayland! You are my inspiration for next year :)

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

Wayland wrote: "Jackie Estacado 3. Avatar of Kilya
Read a book with incan/mayan/atztecan buildings on cover or where the aforementioned cultures play a role as setting or research object [book:Valverde's Gold: In..."

Nicely Done Wayland, I'm just one BOTM away from being done!

[Shawnie]

Wayland and Roger, did you also read all of the BOTMs? That's awesome!! I'm short 3 BOTMs, but completed everything else. :D

Did anyone compete ALL of it? Lel? :)

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

Shawnie wrote: "Wayland and Roger, did you also read all of the BOTMs? That's awesome!! I'm short 3 BOTMs, but completed everything else. :D

Did anyone compete ALL of it? Lel? :)"


I missed 1 BOTM because my library didn't get it to me that month. There was a long wait list for that one.

[Lel]

I missed 1 book of the month cause I had already read it recently.

[Lel]

I'm determined to do it all this year. I finished off my Hero's around June/July ish so I'm tempted to see if I can do both sides next year, one unofficially.

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

Lel wrote: "I'm determined to do it all this year. I finished off my Hero's around June/July ish so I'm tempted to see if I can do both sides next year, one unofficially."

New Year's or so, I'll be posting what I did of the Marvel challenge along the way. I didn't finish it, too, but I got a decent amount done on it.

[Christina]

Team DC

Martian Manhunter/Shapeshifter/ Frozen Tides/ 3 of 3

Martian Manhunter recruited!

Jackie Estacado/The Darkness/ Lair of Dreams/ 1 of 3

Rick Grimes/ The Walking Dead/ Lirael/ 2 of 3

[Shawnie]

Wayland wrote: "Lel wrote: "I'm determined to do it all this year. I finished off my Hero's around June/July ish so I'm tempted to see if I can do both sides next year, one unofficially."

New Year's or so, I'll b..."

That's a great idea! I read a lot of books that didn't fit into Marvel. I should see where they fit on the DC side.

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Aaah congrats Wayland! :D

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

Shawnie wrote: "Wayland and Roger, did you also read all of the BOTMs? That's awesome!! I'm short 3 BOTMs, but completed everything else. :D

Did anyone compete ALL of it? Lel? :)"

just need to finish up Foundation and I'll have all the BOTMs along with everything else....

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

Lel wrote: "I'm determined to do it all this year. I finished off my Hero's around June/July ish so I'm tempted to see if I can do both sides next year, one unofficially."

I did this the first year but their was not portal heroes or BOTMs that year so it was easier, essentially just an extra 36 books

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

Energy Cell / Foundation

That's all of them for me! All heroes, villains and BOTMs!

[Shawnie]

Nice work, Roger! :)

I gave up December BOTMs in favor of Seveneves' 862 pages.

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

Shawnie wrote: "Nice work, Roger! :)

I gave up December BOTMs in favor of Seveneves' 862 pages."

I thoroughly enjoyed Foundation but not Lions of Al-Rassan...

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Well done Roger! Great job :)

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Congrats Roger! :D

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

Thanks!

[Brendan]

Team Marvel.
Groot /I am Groot!/Myth Directions/2of3.
Gleep can only say gleep.

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

Ok, I'm not going to finish another book before midnight at this point. So, post-DC, here's what I did this year that fit for the Marvel side of the challenge:

Spider-Man 0

Daredevil 1/3


2. Matt Murdock-- Truth or Dare James Patterson and Howard Roughan
Read a book with scales on the cover or an attorney as main protagonist.


Dr. Strange 1
*
1. Sorcerer Supreme– The Tempest William Shakespeare
Read a book with a mage/wizard on the cover or where a mage/wizard is one of the main protagonists.


Mr. Fantastic 2/3
*
1. First Family- Hope to Die James Patterson
Read a book with the number 4 (must be the number, not the written word) on the cover or where a father is one of the main protagonists.

2. Stretch– Piranha Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison
Read a book with a character with elongated limbs on the cover or where an inventor is one of the main/side characters.


Invisible Woman

1. Force Field– I am Number Four Pittacus Lore
Read a book with a shield on the cover or where a character is able to shield others with force fields, telekinesis or by a similar power.

2. Susan Richards- 14th Deadly Sin James Patterson
Read a book with a mother (female character with a kid next to her) on the cover or where a mother is one of the main characters.

3. Flirt with Namor– Color Purple Alice Walker
Read a book with water on the cover or which has a love triangle in it.

Thing

1. Orange Skin– Heaven is For Real
Read a book with a predominantly orange cover or where a character gets turned into stone temporarily or permanently.

2. Benjamin Grimm- Star Wars: A New Dawn
Read a book with a space ship on the cover or where a pilot is one of the main characters.

3. It's clobberin time!- Acheron
Read a book with a brawl/fist fight on the cover or where characters get into a fist fight.

Human Torch 2/3
*
1. Flame On!- Wicked Charms Janet Evanovich
Read a book with fire on the cover or where a fire burns down a house/village/town.

2. Johnny Storm- Black Widow: Forever Red
Read a book with a blond male character on the cover or where the main character has siblings.

Punisher 2/3

1. Walking Armory– A Knight of Seven Kingdoms
Read a book with at least 3 different weapons on the cover or where a character carries around 3 or more weapons.

3. Battle Van- Day Shift Charlaine Harris
Read a book with a van/truck on the cover or where a character drives a van/truck.

Valkyrie 2/3

1. Armored Warrior– Civil War Stuart Moore
Read a book with an armored warrior on the cover or where a character wears armor plating/body.

3. Riding a winged horse- The Bridge Robert Knott
Read a book with a horse/pegasus on the cover or where the main character has a horse/pegasus.

Groot

1. Alien Tree– Green Man Ellen Datlow et al
Read a book with a tree on the cover or where a forest is one of the settings.

2. I am Groot!- Saint Odd Dean Koontz
Read a book with a plant in a pot on the cover or where one of the characters is mute or has trouble communicating (like Hodor trouble, not like teenagers being unable to talk about their feelings).

3. Guardian of the Galaxy– Dead Ice
Read a book with a galaxy panorama on the cover or where one of the main characters is a guard.


Deadpool

1. The Merc with a mouth– Kickback Ace Atkins
I want you to read a book with words on the cover (which are not part of the title/author/blurb publishing bits) or where the main character is annoyingly funny like me, Deadpool. I know that you're putting me into this challenge, dude!

2. Meta- I Am Number Four: Secret Files Lost Histories Pittacus Lore
Furthermore you should read a book with at least two blurbs on the cover, you know, to show everyone that the book is as awesome as I am or where the story is written in first person, so the hero is talking to you just like your favorite hero!

3. Hack, Slash– Support and Defend Tom Clancy
I like to kill stuff, so you should read a book with a lot blood on the cover, you know, the more the better or where one of the main characters kills at least over 9000 other people...what daya mean...too much...it's my fricking challenge...sigh, okay where the main character kills at least over 9 people, content now?

[Clarkiep]

Not too long to get another one in, but may as well slip this in.

Team DC
The Human Division/Martian Manhunter/J'onn J'onnz/3 of 3
Martian Manhunter recruited

Also, thanks for organising this year's challenge again, enjoyed taking part for a second time even if my tally of 24 books didn't quite match up to many others ha. Looking forward to next years :D

[Mpauli, Bitten by a radioactive book]

So, this is the official end of the 2015 DC versus Marvel challenge. In the final week Team DC finished with a bang.
Roger recruited Jackie Estacado and defeated Mr. Sinister, while Wayland added Jackie to his roster as well. Martian Manhunter was also recruited by Christina and Clarkiep.
For Team Marvel Soila added Invisible Woman to her roster.
Team DC also added a final Energy Cell to their portal count.

And this years challenge was an even bigger success than last year's Avengers vs. X-Men challenge.
In 2014 the participants scored for a total of 1273 points and this year's combined points 1756 blew that number out of the water. In addition to that we also had 170 Energy Cells.

So, congratulations to Team Marvel for taking the win this year and thank you all for your dediated participation! :)

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Thank YOU so much for organising and running this challenge for the entire year, Mpauli. It (and you!) is a really wonderful addition to the group and I find it so fun to work out what I want to read to fit in with the challenge, and it's also satisfying when you manage to recruit or defeat a character by accident ;) I'm sure many agree!

Best of luck to all for 2016's challenge!