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I've just DNFed several graphic novels, but I'm delighted to report I finished two novellas by Margaret Killjoy, set in a near future where Shit Has Fallen Apart, and romantic anarchist punks squat in libraries and provide public services for free. Also, magic is real, and scary. I enjoyed THE LAMB WILL SLAUGHTER THE LION and THE BARROW WILL SEND WHAT IT MAY even though I'm usually a hard SF lover. The magic has no charm whatsoever, and the way the community is attracted to it and then fights it is realistic. The viewpoint character is massively anxious and deals with it as well as one does, and that's also intriguing.

GLADSTONE! You got a picture of Watson's bull pup.