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Ice Cream Man: Sundae Edition, Vol. 1

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W. Maxwell Prince
⭐⭐
Adult,Horror,Splatterpunk

“I’ve literally never read anything like this ‘genre-defying’ sorta-anthology thing, but it’s f*cking awesome. The writing is strange and deeply unsettling, and the artwork is gorgeous. The new comic I most look forward to reading each month.” –Brian K. Vaughan, Saga Collecting the first twelve issues of the critically acclaimed, best-selling anthology comic ICE CREAM…
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Would You Like to Be a Family

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Koyama
⭐⭐⭐
Adult,BL,Gay,Queer,Romance,Smut

This is actually a collection of a couple stories, all of which are pretty cute one shots. I picked this one up because I’m a sucker for dark hair/dark eye mean lookin’ types. And family stuff. It’s cute. Look how petty he is. It’s so funny. That said, there are some, uh. Style drawbacks… In…
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A Beast’s Descent into Love

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Rui Asajima
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Adult,Ecchi,Fantasy,Gay,Intersex,Queer,Romance,Smut,Yaoi

When thief Karim sneaks into a clandestine auction, he finds Asena, a beautiful young man with animal ears and a tail. On impulse, Karim steals him from the bidder who bought him for a hefty sum and decides to take responsibility, making arrangements to live with him for a month while he waits for the…
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Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith

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⭐⭐⭐⭐
Adult,Biography,Drama,History,Queer,Sapphic,Toxic Yuri

A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Salt Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators…
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To Your Eternity 1-21

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Yoshitoki Oima
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Ace,Action,Adventure,Drama,Fantasy,Nonbinary,Shounen

I’ve always been somewhat in love with this series. And recently I’ve had the joy to get my digital collection up to date— for a long time I only had the ten volumes from a Humble Bundle—and since I was sick, I figured I would slam it back. And my god, did I weep exactly…
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Why Don’t You Eat Me, My Dear Wolf?

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Ao Koishikawa
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Adult,BL,Cozy,Drama,Furry,Gay,Queer,Romance,Smut,Yaoi

I threw the smut tag on here but it’s not until the final chapter (thankfully). This is a really soft, gentle manga.
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Outbride: Beauty and the Beasts 1

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Tohko Tuskinaga
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Adult,Josei,Smut

ISEKAI’D BY: Truck-Kun! Noel is endgame for me. That said, I totally think Mashiro reacts appropriately to being resurrected to be a breeder with four dudes, one of which tries to fuck her like, right away, until another one barges in and basically says, “that’s not fair, bro, we gotta talk about who gets her…
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Eldritch Lust #2

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Thomas J Campbell, Lilith Anderson, Joachim Heijndermans, CJ Hudson, and Wells Thompson
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Adult,Queer,Sapphic,Smut,Trans

This one was a lot better! We have a bigger variety of stories and art styles, and they seem to have learned from what didn’t go so well last time. The low contrast red is gone, and as if to prove that they could do it better, it featured another story with that red on…
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Mimosa: A Graphic Novel

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Archie Bongiovanni
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Adult,Drama,Gay,Nonbinary,Queer,Sapphic,Trans

Archie Bongiovanni, the comics artist behind the award-winning hit A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns , explores queerness in the shockingly frank and funny graphic novel Mimosa . Best friends and chosen family Chris, Elise, Jo, and Alex work hard to keep themselves afloat. Their regular brunches hold them together even as the…
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100 Ghost Stories That will Lead to My Own Death

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Anji Matono
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Horror,Shounen

I am a sucker for ghost story anthologies like this. Some stories linger, some flop, and then you have the framework to wonder about as well. Also, sometimes fun art. The conceit is that a grade schooler, depressed and suicidal, was told about these 100 ghost stories. He’ll summon a real ghost if he manages…
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Welcome to the Menagerie.

Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.

What is M?

I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.

Truck-Kun Kill Count:

6

Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 19/100

19%

Comics Read in 2025: 25/100

25%

Physical Owned Books Read: 400/662

60%

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