Dragons & Jetpacks discussion

DC

Dormammu/ Fire/ The Fire Seekers/ 1 of 3
*"fire" in the title

Marvel

Squirrel Girl/Squirrels/Of Mice and Magic/3 of 3
(small rodent characters)
*** Squirrel Girl recruited ***

Agent Coulson/Flying Car/Rundown: A Pratt & Ellis Mystery/3 of 3
(car on cover)
*** Agent Coulson recruited ***

She-Hulk/Hulk It Out!/The Girl in the Gatehouse/3 of 3
(green cover)

*** She-Hulk recruited ***

DC

Dormammu/ Loord of the Mindless Ones/ The Darkest Minds/ 2 of 3
*"mind" in the title

Hi everyone,

I'm going to skip on the point calculation today and hope to get to it on the weekend.
But I have an announcement to make.
There was already some speculation about a challenge next year and I wanted to give you the roadmap for that.
Unfortunately my personal time got less and less this year and there were weeks where I barely got to the calculation or had to pass on it.
So I had to face the hard truth that I won't be able to host the challenge next year myself. But luckily we have a very inspired and loayal member of the community that has kindly offered to host the challenge next year.
So, without further ado, I'll pass the torch to Wayland and look forward to his challenge (I already know the theme^^) and know that the challenge will be in good hands.
And of course I like to take the opportunity to say thank you to all of you who have participated in the challenge over the last couple of years and made it so much fun. :)
And of course I'm joining the challenge as a participant next year.

And on that note, two things:

1) Thanks, MPauli, for trusting me with this. I hope I don't screw it up.

2) Just to give people time to mull their choices over, I will say the teams are Justice League of America vs. Teen Titans, and I'm going for the more obscure members of both. So... start pondering.

Presuming I get anywhere near the turnout MPauli has, this should be fun.

Thank you so much Mpauli for running this! It has been so much fun.

And thank you Wayland for picking up the torch! Can't wait for next year's challenge list.

Seconded Kate! It has been a great challenge to be part of and really helped me to pick out books from my to read list that otherwise I would have spent days deciding between. Not to mention all the books I've loved that I would never have looked at without this challenge!

Can't wait for next years Wayland! Def. will be signing up!

MPauli - life happens. Thanks for still doing this for us and carving out what time you could :)

Wayland - look forward to see what you dish out. Bring it on!!! :D

Seconded again!
Thanks Mpauli, I really enjoyed the challenge so thank you for organising and running it. Looking forward to the next challenge Wayland!

Thank you MPauli for being such a fantastic challenge host!!! We look forward to having you as a participant for the coming year.

And thanks Wayland, for stepping up so that we can continue on.

First of all, thank you SO MUCH to Mpauli for hosting this challenge for the past few years! It has been an excellent addition to the group and has certainly inspired me to really look around for my reading in some cases, or pushed me to finally get to books that had been on my shelves for ages. :)

And Wayland, thank you as well for stepping in Mpauli's shoes so that we can continue to take part in this fun challenge! I'm looking forward to this new theme (that I know nothing about, I must confess!). Time to do my research...

MPauli thank you so much for putting so much time and effort in over the years, and creating such an awesome amount of fun for so many of the members! It's a great way to inspire ones reading, and I'm sure it'll be fun to be on the other side of the fence :)

Yay Wayland! Thanks for taking over, I am looking forward to actually having some time and motivation to get back to reading, can't wait to see what you've got in store for us :D

Thank you Pauli so much for being our challenge master. There are so many books that I read only because they fit in the challenge. It really broadened my reading. Wayland, I think you'll be an awesome challenge master. I'm really looking forward to next year. :)

Marvel/Fighting for Keeps/Star-Lord/Elemental Guns/2 of 3

Main characters use guns

Adding my thanks, MPauli, for hosting the challenge. I'm glad you'll be sticking around as a participant. This was my first year to participate and it was a lot of fun.

Wayland, thanks for picking up the standard. I look forward to seeing what you have in store for 2017.

Thanks MPaulie! This is my first year also and I LOVED doing this challenge! Very much looking forward to working with a new challenge next year Wayland.

Marvel

Rat Queens

3. Quartet of Heroes– Siracusa
Read a book with exactly four characters on the cover or exactly four povs. (excluding prologues and epilogues. It's fine, if those are from different povs, but the main narrative should have exactly four.)

Four POV's

Rat Queens Recruited!

All Marvel Portal Heroes Recruited!

Grats, Wayland!

Congrats!

Congrats, Wayland!

DC/Nimona/Different shape of villain/The Osiris Ritual/3 of 3

Anubis on cover

Nimona recruited

Marvel

Black Panther/Black Panther/The Horse and His Boy/3 of 3
(lions on cover of my edition)

*** Black Panther recruited***

------ All Marvel Heroes Recruited ------

Rat Queens/Quartet of Heroes/The Silver Chair/3 of 3
(four characters on cover)

*** Rat Queens recruited ***

Congrats Audrey!

Well done Audrey

DC
The Black Prism / Energy Cell

Yay Audrey! Well done!

Congrats Audrey!

Team Marvel.
Nova/Space Cop/Catalyst - A Rogue One Novel/2of3.
Space travel option.

Marvel

Dormammu

3. Lord of the Mindless Ones A Slight Trick of the Mind
Read a book with "mind", "less" or "one(s)" in the title or where people's mind are controlled/enslaved/possessed by someone else.

"Mind" in title. 3/3 for Dormammu

Dormammu defeated!

All villains defeated!

How appropriate using a Sherlock Holmes book to finish defeating all my villains. Dormammu! I have NOT come to bargain!

Mpauli,
I have a question. Can The Bad Beginning count for the Alana/ Hazel's Mother challenge? The pov character is the sister (but care taker) of an infant because the mother died. It seems like it honors the spirtit of the challenge.

lol Well done, Wayland!

So impressed by all of you completing your rosters and villains. Way to go team!

Congrats Wayland!

DC

The Black Prism/ Energy cell

The Left Hand of Darkness/energy cell

Lion's Heat/Alana/Hazel's Mother/ 3 of 3

Alana recruited!

I made it! All villains, heros, portal heros and energy cells complete! Bring on next years! :)

Nice job, Lel!

DC/The One Man/Dormammu/Lord of the Mindless Ones/1 of 3

"One" in title.

DC/Full Dark House: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery/Dormammu/Dark Dimension/2 of 3

"Dark" in title.

Congrats Lel!

Wow way to go Lel!!!

Oh wow, Lel! Dedication to the max :P

Thanks guys! I love these challenges.

You're amazing, Lel! I love the challenges too.

Marvel

Agent Coulson/1. Agent of Shield/2 of 3/A Dance with Dragons: Dreams and Dust
Shield on the cover

Agent Coulson recruited!

Vision/2. Married to a witch/3 of 3/Das Schwesteruniversum
Character in wedding attire

DC/Fire Me Up/Dormammu/Fire/3 of 3

"Fire" in the title.

Dormammu defeated

All villains defeated.

MARVEL:

Vision / Laser Beams / Battlestations! / 3 of 3
Read a book where a character uses laser beams

***** VISION RECRUITED *****

Star Lord / Space Captain / The Vulcan Academy Murders 3 of 3
Read a book where one of the MC's is a captain.

***** STAR LORD RECRUITED *****

Team Marvel

The Dark Is Rising Sequence/Dormammu/Dark Dimensions/3 of 3
("dark" in the title)
Dormammu defeated!

Dinosaur Planet/Star-Lord/Elemental Guns/3 of 3
(gun on the cover)
Star-Lord recruited!

Through the Looking Glass/Rat Queens/Queens/3 of 3
(crowned woman on the cover)
Rat Queens recruited!

All heroes, portal heroes, and villains complete :)

Rock on Kate!

Go Kate! X

Congrats!

Congrats Kate!

Thanks guys!