Maple Terrace by Noah Van Sciver Review

It’s the early ‘90s and Noah Van Sciver is a kid living in New Jersey with his Mormon family. The kids in the town he lives in are all obsessed with superhero comics, including Noah and his siblings, and this is the time of the great comics boom when everyone thought comics were great investments and creators like Todd McFarlane were becoming millionaires. Spawn #5 is the hot new comic - it’s sold out everywhere but luckily Noah’s brother Ethan has a copy. But oh no - in his perpetual nervousness, Noah’s accidentally torn and ruined it! How will he replace it without getting caught?!

In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan Review

The nameless narrator is a writer in a world where only a few dozen books have ever been written. He’s hounded by his ex Margaret, and, because talking tigers killed his folks, he lives in a compound called iDEATH where everything’s made of watermelon. A nearby villain called inBOIL lives in The Forgotten Works and grumbles about the integrity of iDEATH.

… riiiiight.