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The 'Harry Potter' of Necromancer Lesbians, 'The Locked Tomb' series is getting a added novel.

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Announcing Nona the Ninth, a New Addition to The Locked Tomb Series From Tamsyn Muir! - Reactor

Tordotcom Publishing is delighted to announce a new addition to Tamsyn Muir’s New York Times bestselling The Locked Tomb series with Nona the Ninth. Nona the Ninth will publish in fall 2022, with Alecto the Ninth to follow in fall 2023. Eagle-eyed fans may have already noticed the shift from The...
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Recently read Save Yourself from Boom Box.

It's a western comic all about deconstructing magical girls. And while superhero subversions is not remotely new territory, it stands out from, say, The Boys or Invincible by being aggressively cute and extremely, extremely gay.

 
SolipsistSerpent said:
I was going to say gay magical girl deconstructions aren't new either but I suppose that's even more obviously gay than Madoka.
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The point I was trying to make is that most genre deconstructions, especially in western comics, try to be as grimdark as possible, while this one goes in the opposite direction by being aggressively cute and wholesome.
 
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The point I was trying to make is that most genre deconstructions, especially in western comics, try to be as grimdark as possible, while this one goes in the opposite direction by being aggressively cute and wholesome.
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In general, though I don't know if that's as big a thing with Western deconstructions of magical girls, while that's definitely true of Sailor Nothing, I wouldn't say it's true of, say Misfits of Avalon. Or Sleepless Domain (while I'm not sure you can call that last one a deconstruction, it really does play with a lot of the setting tropes, for example by having every magical girl's identity known and giving them a degree of celebrity for their service to the community, complete with merchandising deals).
 
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for example by having every magical girl's identity known and giving them a degree of celebrity for their service to the community, complete with merchandising deals).
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And attending a high-class private school that starts later in the day than the public one, so they can actually get some decent sleep after late-night monster-fighting.
Oh yeah, and that part; all of them are expected to go out and fight monsters that have a very real chance of killing them every single night.
 
Sydonai said:
And attending a high-class private school that starts later in the day than the public one, so they can actually get some decent sleep after late-night monster-fighting.
Oh yeah, and that part; all of them are expected to go out and fight monsters that have a very real chance of killing them every single night.
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The latter part is a baseline assumption of most of the magical girl genre but Sleepless Domain does engage with it differently than many, which is another reason one might consider it a deconstruction.
 
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How many have girls actually die often enough to have a dedicated cemetery?
The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Madoka.
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Like I said, it deals with it differently-- but the idea that the enemies they fight could potentially kill the main characters is pretty common. Heck, the Sailor Senshi die a couple times. But it isn't engaged with the same way as Sleepless Domain, we usually don't see them actually die and even if we do it's often undone before we see the long term effects (a difference between Madoka and Sailor Moon- the Senshi are resurrected pretty quickly, Mami is dead long enough to be grieved in more than the moment). It's another reason it could be read as a Deconstruction, because it's taking the base assumptions of the genre and applying them differently (and, arguably, more realistically but that's not a debate I want to get into).

But even the monsters of the week in, say, Pretear are supposedly able to kill people they just somehow don't.
 
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Save Yourself is also different from a lot of other deconstructions because while it does play with tropes, (spoilers for just the first issue)
The Magical Girls are energy vampires from space who eat people and are explicitly the villains. Edit: Except for the nice gay buff one in the picture who's a good person.
 
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Yeah, I was looking at scans, that's a weird place to end it. Unless there's a final chapter twist.
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Probably a hopeful open ending, but that definitely feels axed. Having Aoba finally do her key art and things going well with a passing of the torch might have made for a more tidy ending. Unless it an "ending" that just means the author is moving to another branch and continuing the story in another magazine.
 
Vinegrape said:
Recently read Save Yourself from Boom Box.

It's a western comic all about deconstructing magical girls. And while superhero subversions is not remotely new territory, it stands out from, say, The Boys or Invincible by being aggressively cute and extremely, extremely gay.

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This looks interesting, what's the best way I can get a hold of this comic?
 


Read 'I am not Starfire' this weekend.

Mandy is canon .... women attracted, at least? She's still figuring things out.

I wasn't hugely impressed, honestly.

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Shannon Luchies's review of I Am Not Starfire

2/5: Got it from my library. Up front: I am a older DC fan, and am probably NOT the audience this book is aimed at. It's sort of... not bad? The story is OK, I actually kind of liked Mandy, and Lincoln. Everyone else, not so much. Starfire is, bluntly, a AWFUL parent. Like, WOW bad...
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I have a recommendation (which I may or may not have recommended prior, but If I did it was years ago)

Heretical Edge, by Cerulean.

Heretical Edge is a Mystery/Action Web Seriel about a teenage girl named Felicity "Flick Chambers", an aspiring Reporter who is recruited into a secret school that trains monster hunters. As she acclimates to it, she slowly uncovers a mystery involving the mother that walked out on her when she was a kid, and realizes that her schools claim that "Everything that isn't human is 100 percent pure evil" is bullcrap.

In terms of Lesbian content, the main character starts off identifying as straight but quickly realizes that she is bi. There's no angst about it, just a brief period of confusion. The serial also gives a bit of exploration to poly-ish relationships, as the MC is attracted to two different girls, and the Monster hunting society here treats having multiple partners as a relatively normal thing.

Content warnings:
- Fight scenes often end in a way that would be R-Rated in a visual media, but the descriptions aren't really lurid
- There are implications and discussions of sexual assault, but nothing is depicted on screen.
 
Project A-ko finally getting a Blu-ray.

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