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Apothecia

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Fandom: Apothecia
Medium: webcomic, under 100 pages and free to read online here.
Summary: A horrible alien criminal has crash-landed on earth, and the only person who knows he's there is Jessie. She's about in middle school, precocious, a little difficult, and mostly ignored; the alien in the woods seems to be the single person who takes her at all seriously. The alien seems to be a collection of ??symbiotic fungi?? more than anything else and, while it would usually sweep over the earth and consume all life forms, it's not able to consume earth life just yet. It talks to Jessie a lot instead. Near the end, the comic goes through a timeskip, and adult Jessie swings back for one more confrontation with the alien.
Content warnings: allusions to a sexual predator abducting and probably killing young women in the area; nothing explicit happens, but Jessie does have a brief encounter with him. Gore, body horror, and references to genocide.
Why I like it: The dynamic between Jessie and the alien is central to the story, and there's something uniquely fun about a fungoid alien with a jillion eyes and very little understanding of humanity seeming to take this mostly ignored little human girl under its terrible, evil wing. The relationship between the alien and Jessie comes across to me more than anything as a bit parental ("YOU DO NOT CHITTER. ALL YOUNG THINGS SHOULD CHITTER.") and I just like how fucked up that is. This isn't, like, a happy comic, but it's full of greasy, slimy, yucky body horror, and the alien eating a dude and wanting to eat more, and Jessie coming of age in a strange way that is not too good for her or happy. The ending scenario leaves lots of possibilities for fic, and the comic doesn't outstay its welcome. It's a fun time.