Panels (100+ Graphic Novels Challenge) discussion

 

Canavan’s 2025 Panels Challenges



Challenge Links

100+ Graphic Novels, Cover Color Wheel, & Genre Wheel Challenges
Current tallies: 11 graphic novels, 11 matches to cover color wheel, 3 matches to genre wheel

Scrabble Scramble
Current score: 0

 

Canavan’s 2025 Panels 100+ Graphic Novels, Cover Color Wheel, & Genre Wheel Challenges



The goal is to (a) read at least 100 graphic novels during 2025, (b) enumerate those graphic novels read that match the monthly cover color (see here for details), and (c) enumerate those graphic novels read that match the monthly theme (see here for details).

Legend
💝 = entries rated 4 stars or above
🆕 = entries recently added to the list
⚔️ = action entry (January Genre Wheel Challenge, total = 3)
🥰 = romance entry (February Genre Wheel Challenge, total = 0)
🔴 = red entry (January Cover Color Wheel Challenge, total = 11)
🟣 = purple entry (February Cover Color Wheel Challenge, total = 0)

Links to graphic novel entries
Entries 1-33

 

Canavan’s 2025 Panels 100+ Graphic Novels, Cover Color Wheel, & Genre Wheel Challenges
Entries 1-33

1. Weathercraft , Jim Woodring (2010) ✭✭✭½ 🔴
2. The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons , Bob Mankoff (Ed.) (2018) ✭✭✭✭½ 🔴 💝 🆕
3. Gun Honey , Charles Ardai (Writer), Ang Hor Kheng (Artist), & Asifur Rahman (Colorist) (2021-2022/2022) ✭½ ⚔️ 🔴
4. Gun Honey: Blood for Blood , Charles Ardai (Writer), Ang Hor Kheng (Artist), & Asifur Rahman (Colorist) (2022-2023/2023) ✭½ ⚔️ 🔴
5. Creepshow, Issue 1 , Chris Burnham (Writer & Artist), Paul Dini (Writer), Steve Langford (Writer), Joel McCrea (Artist), Adriano Lucas (Colorist), & Mike Spicer (Colorist) (September 2022) ✭✭ 🔴
6. Creepshow, Issue 2 , David Lapham (Writer & Artist), Maria Lapham (Writer), Steve Foxe (Writer), Erica Henderson (Artist), & Trish Mulvihill (Colorist) (October 2022) ✭½ 🔴
7. Creepshow, Issue 3 , L. Marlow Francavilla (Writer), Francesco Francavilla (Writer & Artist), Ariela Kristantina (Writer), Jorge Corona (Artist), & Jean-François Beaulieu (Colorist) (November 2022) ✭✭ 🔴
8. Creepshow, Issue 4 , Kyle Starks (Writer), Fran Galán (Artist), Henry Barajas (Writer), Dani (Artist), & Brad Simpson (Colorist) (December 2022) ✭ 🔴
9. Creepshow, Issue 5 , Steve Orlando (Writer), Marianna Ignazzi (Artist), Clay McLeod Chapman (Writer), Anwita Citriya (Artist), Fabiana Mascolo (Colorist), & Jordie Bellaire (Colorist) (January 2023) ✭✭ 🔴
10. The Dirty Parts of the Bible , Sam Torode (Author) & Tina Ritchie (Illustrator) (2023) ✭✭✭✭ 🔴 💝
11. Heretic , Robbie Morrison (Writer) & Charlie Adlard (Artist) (2024) ✭✭✭½ ⚔️ 🔴

 

Canavan’s 2025 Scrabble Scramble



I’m participating in the 2025 Scrabble Scramble challenge, but, as last year, I’m playing against myself, so I have opted to depart in a number of key aspects from Doc’s suggested procedures (see here for Doc’s guidelines). In a nutshell, I’m using a virtual Scrabble board and abiding (well, sorta) by all of Scrabble’s official rules.

My rules are:

1. Every graphic novel read generates a tile as specified by Doc’s rules.
2. Even though I may at any point have an arbitrarily large “pool” of tiles available (e.g., 15 tiles corresponding to the first 15 graphic novels that I read), in attempting to play a word I need to restrict myself to a rack containing 7 tiles. (Thus, in the forgoing example, in order to play a word, I would have to first transfer 7 of the 15 tiles in my pool to my rack for immediate use, leaving 8 in the pool for future use/transfer.) Once a tile has been transferred to the rack, it cannot be re-transferred back to the pool.
3. Words played need to build off of already-existing words on the board according to the rules of Scrabble.
4. Points are awarded for word play (tile placement) as per the rules of Scrabble.
5. I can substitute a blank tile for any letter tile that’s in my pool. But once a letter has been transferred from the pool to the rack, it cannot then be changed into a blank. I can only produce 2 blanks over the course of this game/challenge (because, of the 100 Scrabble tiles, only 2 are blanks).
6. Graphic novels continue to generate tiles until 100 tiles are produced.
7. Game play continues until all 100 tiles are played or until play is no longer posible with the remaining tiles.

Board at game outset: