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Writer: Roger Stern

Pencils: Kerry Gammill

Inks: Dennis Janke

Superman: Exile.

Superman finds a seemingly idyllic prairie planet just like Kansas. Could he have found somewhere he can finally live in peace?

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Writer: Roger Stern

Pencils: Tom Lyle

Inks: Bob Smith

Starman has to deal with a refugee from the Crisis on Infinite Earths. (Thankfully, it’s not Superboy Prime.)

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Writer: Chuck Dixon

Pencils: Tom Lyle

Inks: Scott Hanna

Detective Comics #647.

Comments about crappy parents in one of my Robin posts inspired me to revisit these issues. They feature the debut of a character that will become relevant to Tim in the future.

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Writer: Bill Mantlo

Pencils and inks: Sal Buscema

The X-Men have been dispatched to investigate the appearance of a new mutant. What they find is a killer robot attacking an innocent child. Or so they think.

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Fandom : Ace of Diamond / Daiya no Ace / ダイヤのA
Author : Yui_Miyamoto
Story Title : still more art to create.
Rating : PG
Genre(s) : Romance, Angst
Main Character(s) : Sawamura Eijun, Miyuki Kazuya
Summary : Sawamura goes running to relieve his frustrations…
Warning(s) : M/M.
Disclaimer : Daiya no Ace belongs to Terajima Yuji, Madhouse, and Production I.G.

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Fandom : New Cutey Honey / 新キューティーハニー
Author : Yui_Miyamoto
Story Title : sutareta. (obsolete.)
Rating : PG
Genre(s) : Romance, Angst
Main Character(s) : Kisaragi Honey, Hayami Chokkei
Summary : (Taking place in the Shin/New Cutey Honey timeline) Chokkei’s crush on Honey continues until he starts to question if she’ll fall into a deep sleep once more…
Warning(s) : None.
Disclaimer : Cutey Honey is created by Go Nagai-sensei.

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I don't actually remember where I saw Catriona Ward's Sundial recommended, but it was somewhere and convincing enough to get it on my TBR. I finished the audiobook this week so it's time to reflect.

Sundial is a domestic psychological thriller which focuses on the relationship between the protagonist Rob and her eldest daughter Callie. Or at least, that's what the novel summary posits. A good 50% or more of the book is actually about Rob's youth and her relationship with her childhood family, primarily her twin sister, Jack. I didn't get that at first, which led to me being slightly frustrated by the length of the "flashback" sections until I realized that they were at least half the true focus of the story.

Ward excels in capturing the petty toxicity of a domestic environment gone sour. Especially deftly handled are the ways in which a partner can wound in such seemingly mundane ways. Many of the exchanges between Rob and her husband, Irving, come off as completely innocuous to an outsider, but to the two people in the relationship, who have the context for these seemingly nothing interactions, the full cruelty of them is on display. This adds completely believably to the tension between Rob and Callie, who has long favored her father, and who sees her mother's responses as hysterical overreactions, because she doesn't have the context that Rob does. Ward also very neatly portrays a truly vicious marriage, where both parties have given up pretending they want to be together, at least to each other, and where the entire relationship has become an unending game of oneupsmanship, trying to get one over on your spouse.

Adding to this suffocating atmosphere is Callie, a very strange 12-year-old who is starting to exhibit some very troubling behavior, particularly in her interactions with her 9-year-old sister, Annie. Rob has always struggled to connect with Callie—in contrast with Irving, who happily spoils her to force Rob to be the bad guy enforcing boundaries—but when Callie is thought to have attempted to poison Annie with Irving's diabetes medication, Rob decides it's time she and Callie have a real heart-to-heart.

So she takes Callie on a mother/daughter trip to Rob's childhood home, Sundial, an isolated family property out in the Mojave desert.

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"After being exposed as a super-powered person and hunting down the doctor who gave him—and his mother—their powers, it would seem like Huck could finally get back to the simple life he’d come to love, making folks in his small town feel safe and cared for by doing one good deed a day and being the real change anyone would want to see in the world. But then a mysterious man tells him he and his mother aren’t the ONLY super-people out in the world; many are hiding, just like them." -- Image

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