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Writer: Dennis O’Neil

Pencils and inks: Ric Estrada

Richard Dragon and his supporting cast are asked to investigate reports of a mantis-man threatening the tourist trade in the Caribbean.

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Oof. Today I threw in the towel on Margaret Killjoy's The Sapling Cage because I'd rather be alone with my thoughts than sit through another three hours of this book. This is a fantasy book about a "boy," Lorel, who disguises herself as her female friend to join a witches' coven (She's a transgirl, but her journey on that understanding is part of the book, and she refers to herself as a boy for much of the story.)

First, I will say that I think Lorel is a protagonist written with love; clearly Killjoy wanted her to be relatable and sympathetic, and someone eager for a trans fantasy protag may be willing to forgive the book's many weaknesses for that. That said...

I was shocked to realize this book is not categorized as Young Adult/Youth literature. Lorel is 16 at the start of the book and she's very sixteen. She makes all the sorts of stupid, immature mistakes you would expect from a teenager, which makes her a realistic character, but also deeply frustrating to read as an adult, particularly since the first-person narration puts us right in her head. The book feels young even for a sixteen-year-old; it reads more like a preteen novel about teenagers.

The book itself feels incredibly juvenile, both in prose and in narrative. The writing is simplistic, the narrative barely there, and the worldbuilding painfully thin. The book infodumps on the reader constantly, going into detail about things that are then never relevant again and don't connect into any kind of overarching picture of what this world is like. Reads very much like the author just throwing a bunch of things she thought were cool at the reader without actually thinking about how they would impact her world or the characters in them.

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Title: Inferior Motives
Author: misura
Fandom: The Rundown
Pairing/Characters: Beck/Travis
Rating/Category: PG/slash
Prompt: clean up
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Summary: Sometimes dinner is just dinner.
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Fandom: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Characters: Dracula, Mina Murray.

Pairing: Dracula / Mina

Title: The Ride Home
Era: 19th Century

Rating: Mature - As there's romance and a brief scene of intimate lovemaking.

Word Count: 510

Summary: An imagined "in between" AU scene for the film: After Mina and Vlad Dracula leave the cinematograph, I've always wondered what happened between them on the Hansom cab ride to Carfax Abby.

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Shilo Norman takes on the insect hoards of Professor Egg. (Unfortunately, not another form of Egg-Fu.)

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Writer: Mark Waid

Pencils: Andy Kubert

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The Plunderer's goons are on the hunt for Shanna.

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Writer: Gerry Conway

Pencils: Luke McDonnell

Inks: Bill Wray

Despero has defeated the veteran heroes, so it comes down to the rookies to save the day.

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