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How I've missed Watchmen! Moore's police procedural, set in a city populated entirely by superheroes, hits all the same notes. Fantastic!

Superb narration, elevated language that belies its cartoonish cover and, a three-layered frame story, and a barbarian who struggles to maintain agency. It's good! Following along with the serialization on Reactor's "Stories from Among the Stars" podcast.

Just had to look up "eye-haws" and now I know all birds have nictitating membranes and I'm loving inhabiting the cognition of a crow.

On a dying Earth, a widower takes in a sick crow. Been wanting to read this for a long time. The exquisitely delayed 1st person POV reveal, the jarring setting resolving ineluctably to the familiar, the absolutely gorgeous prose... I'm not disappointed.

Oof, this needs a content warning.

Helen gets a mic drop and a stunningly dramatic page!

Oof, Helen has had a rather rough childhood, but Barnabas is not doing her any favors encouraging her alcoholism...

Exquisite art, an intriguing frame story, a governess, an absent grandfather, an orphaned alcoholic. Plus danger! A vast mansion. With an armory! And hints of another world. Hyeah, I'm in.

I low key dunno if I'm gonna last thru this: "The Full Metal Bitch and the squire at her side were steel death incarnate."

Lol: "People of Earth, rejoice! Keiji Kiriya just found another can opener!"

Erhm. Yeah, the writing is male-gaze. And puerile. Very Hegseth: "The squad was full of badasses who had been through Hell and back so many times they were on a first-name basis with the Devil."

Oof, gut punch.

"Keep on like that, and next thing you’ll be telling me you’ve found signs of intelligence in our government..." - FMB

“How many loops is this for you?” HECK YEAH!!

LOL: "If checkflag RitajoinsPT =true, then end. Else continue routine: FuckingIsoPush-Ups"

"That’s the thing with books. Half the time the author doesn’t know what the hell he’s writing about—especially not those war novelists." - FMB

These power suits are made of a Japanese composite armor plating that’s the envy of the world. They cover you like white on rice.

Oh this is going to be good.

"The drop of corruption that lies within every society shall always persist." -Ana Dolabra.