Arrr! It be Talk Like A Pirate Day, ye scurvy dogs! Filthy landlubber that I be, tho’, I didn’t so much as keelhaul a Trump voter today. I barely weighed anchor to replenish th’ hardtack.

Read: Mao vol 1 (Rumiko Takahashi): Nothing to do with the Chinese dictator! A schoolgirl with a tragic past finds a shopping street where she can travel back in time to the Taishō era (1920s) and meet a cursed, (nigh?-)immortal exorcist and get tangled up in his hunt for the ayakashi who cursed him. I think I see where it’s going, but maybe I’m wrong. Takahashi’s style is still distinctive.

Read: Art of the Hunt (Lindsay Buroker): Sequel to Kingdoms at War, in which the doom that was foretold comes to pass in various ways and yet still nobody will listen to the faction that says the artifact was better off under the volcano. Also, cute animal mascot.

Words: Aye!