Creating My Comic Series Tracker

Image is a screenshot of an Excel Sheet. On the left column, it says "Name of Comic Series" and then on the right it says "Read (Y/N)" It lists several series including Ghosted in LA, Sex Criminals, and Paper Girls.

I hinted at this, but I finally created my Comic Series Tracker! I created my Book Series Tracker last year, and it helped organize my reading, so I knew I wanted to create one for comics specifically. It took me two hours to put it together, which sounds like a long time. It takes a bit to catalog everything and track how many volumes I have left of that series. I wanted to share how I put this together because my Comic Series Tracker is set up differently from the one I have for books.

I have five different sheets, which are as follows:

  • Comic Series I’m Working Through – Indie
  • Comic Series I’m Working Through – Marvel & DC
  • Comics Reading List
  • Completed Comic Series
  • All-Time Favorite Graphic Novels and Comics

I decided to separate my comic series based on whether they were indie, so anything that’s not Marvel or DC, and then keep everything superhero-related on a separate sheet. I found keeping everything on one list made it long, so I think keeping it separate kept things more concise. This way, I can pick and choose the series I’m in the mood to read. The Comics Reading List is a list of comics that I want to read; it’s basically my TBR. The only graphic novel on that list so far is Supergirl: The Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King. This is the Supergirl graphic novel that inspired the Supergirl film coming out in June, so I’d like to read this before then. Completed Comic Series are series I’m all caught up on. I was surprised because there were more comics on here than I thought. Finally, I made a list of All-Time Favorite Graphic Novels and Comics, so comics I loved, but they were standalone and not part of a series. Unlike my Book Series Tracker, I don’t have a sheet created for series I am no longer continuing because I want to focus on what I love, not what I didn’t like.

If that wasn’t enough, I decided to redownload WEBTOON as it’s been a while since I started reading web comics. I may track Web Comics in this series tracker because why not?

I am excited to keep updating this as I go. I have since finished The Manhattan Projects, and I read the Yasha Origin graphic novel, Critical Role made with Dark Horse Comics. I’m happy to have gotten back into reading comics, and I want to continue that momentum throughout the rest of the year.

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