podcast "Run, Hide, Repeat" podcast tells disturbing story of a childhood full of secrets, spent on the run Jennifer Sandlin

Technology Dystopia for kids: this $249 stuffed dinosaur reports everything your child says back to you Ellsworth Toohey

tabloids Bimbo Duchess and a giant UFO in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

science fiction Flux is a dizzying, dazzling debut novel about trauma, time travel, and 80s cop shows Thom Dunn

tabloids China attacks America, and Democrats gun for Biden, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

tabloids Ghislaine snitches on Trump in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Boing Boing Gadgets Draw Superman or Spider-Man like the pros with this comic book drawing bundle Boing Boing's Shop

tabloids Queen ends sham marriage, JonBenet's devil cult, and killer vending machines in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Comics Friday: the new digital-first, pay-what-you-want Lovecraftian YA detective comic from Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente Thom Dunn

happy mutants J Michael Straczynski's "Becoming Superman": a memoir of horrific abuse, war crimes, perseverance, trauma, triumph and doing what's right Cory Doctorow

tabloids Exposed! Tucker Carlson's secret addiction, Meghan Markle's secret "sister," and Royal Family secrets, in this week's fact-challenged tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants Syndicated strip or graphic novel? Lynn Johnston on doing For Better or For Worse in the internet age Lynn Johnston

1990s The glorious inelegance of the 1990s family computer Jess Kimble Leslie

obits Mandy Johnson, 1953-2015 Rob Beschizza

tabloids Forget "alternative facts." This week's tabloids shoot for an entire alternate universe Peter Sheridan

Kids Watch these candymakers create adorable candies with a pig design Andrea James

media 100 yard-long kraken surfaces near Antarctica, and other tabloid stunners Peter Sheridan

media Demonic possession on the rise in America, and other tabloid stunners Peter Sheridan

happy mutants Benjamin Frisch's "Fun Family": good old American narcissism Cory Doctorow

Reviews Krampus trashes the horror potential of traditional mythology in a film that's neither funny nor scary Al Ridenour