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Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
Siege
Brian Michael Bendis, Olivier Coipel
Scrivener's Moon - Audio
Philip Reeve
Swamp Thing, Vol. 5: Earth to Earth - Alan Moore, John Totleben, Rick Veitch, Alfredo Alcala This is a particularly strong part of Moore's run on Swamp Thing, as long as you can forget that it is taking place in the DCU at large.

An enterprising (and frankly sleazy) photographer has published photos of Alec and Abby together. This leads to a long string of persecution and even criminal charges against Abby. Eventually, Abby finds herself in Gotham, being held to wait for extradition back to Louisiana to stand trial for sex offenses. She's being charged under the same law that would be used in a bestiality case, since Alex is, after all, non-human. This is some incredible, powerful writing. I absolutely buy every word of it, Abby's reactions and the reactions of the people around her. And everything that follows does so quite naturally.

But you have to temporarily forget that this is set in the same universe as the rest of the DCU. Otherwise, you'll start to ask silly questions like, "Where are Clark Kent and Lois Lane, reporters both, in all this? Doesn't the JLA have anything to say, considering how many of them are non-humans?" These questions will absolutely spoil your experience, so save them for the end, when you can remind yourself that it's probably DC editorial to blame. Because Moore's work here is just too good to let things he probably couldn't control spoil the book.