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So I was poking around Neil Gaiman's website and came across an entry in his FAQ about Coraline. *

He was asked whether or not Coraline was a kids' book. He answered that it goes in the same pile as Harry Potter and Lemony Snickets. Basically kids and adults take away different impressions or more precisely:

"As a general sort of rule, kids seem to read it as an adventure. Adults get nightmares."

This sounds interesting.

*What is Coraline? "Coraline is the scary book for strange little girls (of all ages and genders) which comes out late summer next year in the US and the UK (from HarperCollins in the US and Bloomsbury in the UK). "

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Yes, I have a new webcomic addiction, a couple actually, but this one is the one that I managed to read from start to current today. Schism could be called cyberpunk I guess, the 'net crashed, taking a lot of data and technical knowledge with it in an event called the Schism. Post-Schism society has strict control of net traffic and computers, to the point where there is no such thing as user performed hardware upgrades or wireless connections.

The other new addiction is Friendly Hostility, the sequel to Boy Meets Boy (which is completed).

All of the above contain male/male relationships (subtle at this point in Schism, not at all subtle in the other two).