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|summary=Never let them tell you life begins at 40We're in childhood, or ends when you enter a retirement homeand we're in Cuba. Ernest The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has just entered an old folk's establishmentproven himself a Communist, and life is evernot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-changinglong speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. ThereOur narrator's family weren't in the time he meets a person hounded by the idea at least happiest of alien abductionplaces here, an uncle refusing to be the moment good soldier the country demanded (especially as he forgets would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the word father being watched and watched, and not liked for 'ball' when holding one while doing armchair exerciseshis successful photography business, and success being frowned upon. The mother gets the galling day he finds out he shares a medication routine couple jobs with the most helpless and locked-in party to ease some of inmates. Nothe heat, for Ernestbut in this sultry island country, especially in it remains the hands kind of his new room-mate Emile who will do anything to earn a fast buck, life is full heat forcing you out of some kind of variety.the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861662377</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tohby RiddleKia Ahankoob|title=Unforgotten|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Think of fallen angels, The Gold Lion and Lucifer and the like come to mind. But they don't have to have fallen with such speed, for such a distance or with such effect. This book concerns one such creature, and while it's not named as an angel as such, and it's identified only by nobody knowing from where it comes yet everyone silently gets to appreciate its presence, it certainly looks like a Western, Christian, angel form. And so the plot of this gentle, poetic picture book looks at the chance of such a bad thing as the fall Tournament of an angel being followed by anything more positive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1742379729</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Thunderbirds Comic: Volume 1|author=Gerry Anderson and Frank BellamySentinels

|summary=Meet Alden. He's only at high schoolWhen Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, but as his parents have died in the farm is his – his hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and the couple of professors the smart kid hangs out withprosperous society. One night Each power is contained within a large gathering forms on an ad hoc basis magical ring belonging to watch the Perseid meteor shower – and one of them unexpectedly lands. The rock is Aldeneight countries led by Myriad's as children and their descendants. But it landed on private property, but didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the planetarium's main scientist is keen for science eight countries went to learn from it – or that it should pay for Alden getting through universitywar. But Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the rock has cost of war too high, a lesson much bigger than even that premise could provide for – it wasn't solution is proposed. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to a hundred per cent rocksingle combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva. And Alden also owns a much greater connection to what was inside it when it landed…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1620101513</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pat Grant|title=Charley's WarThe Grot: A Boy Soldier in The Story of the Great War|author=Pat Mills and Joe ColquhounSwamp City Grifters

|summary=The answerEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, it seems to me, when writing war stories, is to take something we can all imagine – the young lad signing up and finding out that includes the real truth behind punk bands. There are three pedallers at the glorified propaganda front of his masters – the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, where a mother and still making something unexpected out of ither two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. People have to die in unexpected waysYou could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, because that's what war for this is. Soldiers have to face miserya really rough-and-ready dump of a place, because but everyone is interested in small things that's what war brings themgrow. The writer has For the only money to be a godlike entity able to give had – the power of victory or defeat only fortunes to either sidebe found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that – well, because the common or garden soldier character certainly can'tuse of it is never really made clear. In putting all this and more into Once there, the two brothers set themselves each up with a comic for boysguide – Lippy, where it had previously been thought a WWI story with the rigid and static nature more forward-thinking, industrious of trench warfare would be neither visually nor dramatically appealingthe two, with a besuited gent, Pat Mills both challenged himself and won many over Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with his brilliancebright red hair. Young Charley certainly gets to know But which of the two will come off the misery, unexpected death and people worse as they make their own way in command of his fate. And with the dramatic narrative artwork herethis dystopian, so do we.semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781169144</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=TrilliumLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|authortitle=Jeff LemireTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=It's I never really followed the future events of at least a thousand years hence, and humanity is in trouble. The species has spread itself thinly Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the galaxy, but is under threat from a sentient virus, which is beating all efforts – militarysecond half of their teens has other priorities, scientific – to best ityou know. The nearest thing to hope is in I certainly didn't know of the unlikely form weeks of a jungle flower, found only in realms sacred to protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the natives birth of one of humankindthe Tank Man image, I didn's planets. Elsewhere and elsewhen t know how the area had long been a shell-shocked WWI veteran is taken with his brother to South Americavenue for political protest, to gain the secrets and glories of I didn't know more than a spit about the remotest Incan templespeople involved on either side. It therefore sounds entirely unlikely that This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the main alien life scientist whole season of protests back in the future and the earlier explorer will meet, but meet they do – and then things start to get weirder and weirder…1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1401249000</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Alex Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Ada Volume 1Kit Seaton|authortitle=Jonathan Luna and Sarah VaughnWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=4.53|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=Meet Alex. You'd probably be in Diana, being unique on her island, is the victim of a minority if you didlot of taunts, for he's a bit and claims of a loner since he broke up with his last girlfriendnepotism. He meets few people in the workplaceIt's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has a quite antiseptic flat her with his virtual cinema and his flying robotic kitchen aideany standing at all, and that's about ither naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. But others aren't Perhaps too keen strong for Alex to carry on like that the island, however – people such as his gran, who for every Wonder Woman origin story has given herself her quickly leaving home for the gift World of an android in Men, and this Diana is the form heroine of a handsome young man to, er, keep her companyyet another Wonder Woman origin story. And yes, that too. Unfortunately, as Alex sees it, she buys him one for his birthday as well – A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a Tanaka X5running race, which you wake up by tugging on an earlobe. This being a world where but the first real Artificial Intelligence went nasty and killed people a year ago, Alex is certainly torn about having survivor she drags from the thing in his flat – especially as it just kowtows to his wishes and opinions without having anything like its own, as it waters is not allowed only going to get that close to sentiencedisturb a lot more.. But Alex changes his mind right upon the point of returning the thing, and begins to explore just what kind of life the gift could end up presenting to him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1632150069</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401286208|title=The People InsideBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Ray FawkesMeg Cabot and Cara McGee|rating=3.5

|summary=Love happensMeet Dinah Lance. There, Frustrated that must be the shortest plot summary on this siteher policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, but the fact remains that you can say and seemingly lumbered with being a lot more about what cheerleader at school, she is on these pages, and you still have all you need desperate to know in those two wordsfind her voice. This book takes the profound – which, But it's actually more a case of courseher voice finding her, love as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can be, and the mundane – ditto, and presents them to us happening in quiet, pacific black and white, and shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it does so in quiet usuala weapon, and or a power. But in incredibly unusualorder for her to call herself a superhero, ways.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1620101688</amazonuk>there has to be a whole path of steps for her to take – one of which will be into her past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401280048|title=Batman: Nightwalker: The Strain Book OneGraphic Novel|author=Guillermo del Toro, Chuck HoganMarie Lu, David Lapham Stuart Moore and Dan JacksonChris Wildgoose

|summary=A liner ends its journey from Europe in The young man called Bruce Wayne is a port cityvery noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and waits, silently, holding whatever secrets it had with little signs suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at the age of lifeeighteen. It is found Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to contain do charitable deeds. But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a heavy boxcriminal, almost coffin-likehe goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, containing mud – and something else. But this is not gets given the coasts most unlikely stretch of England, and this community service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is not Bram StokerArkham Asylum. This is There he learns of some other people who also not a sailing boatallege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, but an airliner – a Boeing 777gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, stuck at JFK airport with no signs of life. The CDC and one man – Dr Ephraim Goodweather – are tasked with looking into itmurder the owner. But Can he won't like what he finds – get close to one of them and nor should anyone. The problem isget the truth of their schemes, some ''do…''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616555483</amazonuk>or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401283292|title=The Art of Neil GaimanHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Hayley CampbellMariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|rating=43.5

|summary=An early [[:Category:Neil Gaiman|Neil Gaiman]] book was all about Douglas AdamsHarleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and came seems to look out of those large eyes at the everything anew each time he had a success with a book of his own regarding definitions of concepts that had previously not had a specific word attached. Gaiman himself But here she is new in town, and the town is one of those conceptsGotham City. I know what Expecting a polyglot isyear-long furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and a polymath – herself with no option but there should be a word for someone like Gaiman, who can write anything and everything he seems to want – a whimsical family-friendly picture book, a behemoth of modern fantasy, an all-ages horror story, something with a soupcon of sci-fi or stay with a factor bunch of the fabledrag queens. He can cross genres – and to some extent just leave them behind as unnecessaryShe also finds school is a drag, as well as cross format – he was mastering she also finds the lengthy, literary graphic novel just as 'real' books were festering in his creativity, whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and songs and poems were just appearing here and there. So he is pretty much who you think of as regards someone who can turn his hands to anything he wishesuncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her life. He One is a polycivil-somethingminded lass called Ivy, thenthe other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, or just omni-something else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781571392</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreview|title=I Was the Cat|author=Paul Tobin and Benjamin DeweyFrontpage|ratingisbn=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Burma. Allison Breaking, blogger and journalist behind the Breaking News website is about to, for she's accepted his giant wage packet to ghost write his memoirs. She's been told to expect the unexpected as regards his looks, but she is shocked to find that Burma is in fact the world's only talking cat, and that he has not one but nine lives to talk about. The past eight were full of a lot of evil, sin and death – but at least he's coming clean now, right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1620101394</amazonuk>}} {{newreview140128339X|title=Letter 44 Volume 1Mera: Escape VelocityTidebreaker|author=Charles Soule Danielle Paige and Alberto Jimenez AlburquerqueStephen Byrne

|summary=I guess we donMeet Mera. She't always think of s the President latest in a line of the USA as someone who is thrown into the deep end young women intent on day fighting against their intended destiny for oneonly they can see for themselves. Her father, given his retinue the king of advisors Xebel, sees some cotton wool and aides. But this one is a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – when being inaugurated as after all, Mera's mother, the 44th POTUSterritory's warrior queen, Stephen Blades gets a letter from the outgoing premieris long dead. He – Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all and we – learn that the prior two termsis, when America was busy fighting in the eastern hemisphere and not getting her economy into gearfact, were pretty much just a cover-up. The military presence and lack of economic benefit at home was purely due trying to something a long way away – get Xebel out from under the discovery cosh of Atlantean power, for Xebel''something'' being manufactured by aliens within our own asteroid belts royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. Due to some cloaking technology little is known about what is up there – and So when she overhears her father request that applies her intended go to our own response, too – the ultra top secret mission we've sent upworld of us air-breathing humans, both scientific and militarykill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to have a closer lookget the quest (and the promised throne) all for herself. Welcome But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it will be to get the job, Mr President.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1620101335</amazonuk>done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401286399|title=Death SentenceSuper Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Montynero Ridley Pearson and Mike DowlingIle Gonzalez|rating=4.5

|summary=It's AIDSthe near future, Jimand every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a huge flood barrier, but not as we know itbuilt on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. G+ Superman is helping out, of course – first, he was patching up the new sexually transmitted disease sweeping dams, but now he's mining the nationasteroid belt for a rare dust that's reckless youth, and it has even perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further-reaching consequencespolar ice melt. It boosts your brain activityInland, and makes you a stronger and more promiscuous carrier of in Wyndermere, the refugees from the virus – so you can be beating a supercomputer at chess one moment coast are suffering bigotry and rolling around a bed with a host intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of ladies food poisoning is hitting the nextcity. But either way, it kills you within six months. Here it affects three people can't possibly have anything to do with more cerebral, supernatural powers – a young female artist in need what looks like sabotage of confirmation, an egotistical junkie rock star, the flood barriers and a certain highly-rated comic with Russell Brand's hair and Kasabian's wardrobe designer. It's a combination of the three people and their own G+ efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that will make sure the world is most certainly aware of their activities – death sentence or no death sentence…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760083</amazonuk>it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=168369015X|title=Sin City 2Manfried the Man: A Dame to Kill ForGraphic Novel|author=Frank MillerCaitlin Major and Kelly Bastow

|summary=''Ava. Damn.'' With that repeated refrain we're forcibly given Dwight's viewpoint In a world where cats stand on two feet, go to work at call centres and made to agree with it. Ava have diminutive human beings for pets, is quite a womanManfried. She was DwightHe's, a typical frisky but now she's notshy pet – forever getting into scrapes, and demanding more food than he's forced to ignore can suitably eat, but at the same time being the perfect companion for his photojournalism career in favour of owner, Steve Catson. To such an extent that Steve, who is getting known for his nightman-time job of photographing evidence for adultery casesoriented thinking, and to struggle to stay away from is actually having nightmares about becoming the fags and off the boozeneighbourhood ''crazy man cat''. But now it's all going to be much harder, for Ava has come back. She's stifled in when a lovelesswindow gets left open by mistake, violent marriageand Manfried goes missing, trapped in the only thing for it is a gated villa with her husband massive and his energised man mountain of a bodyguard, and only Dwight has the flutter in her heart and the iron in his fist and gut to make things right for her. Damn Ava? You bet he's going to…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616552395</amazonuk>-hunt…

 {{newreview|title=Modesty Blaise - The Young Mistress|author=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=[[:Category:Peter O'Donnell|Modesty Blaise]] is slowly becoming like an old flame of mine – just popping back into my life every few months to regale an adventure, have a catch-up and be on her way. This latest fleeting visit shows Modesty, the most ironically-named brunette in the world of solving crime, having old flames of her own – although she calls them 'escorts'. They're prevalent in the first and title story, where her doctor lover has a patient with whip marks, which leads into a full-blown action adventure regarding art forgeries. Her American 'escort' wants to replace the doctor, but has to wait for a story all of his own, when his own prize racehorse is a target for criminals. And in the third story there are a lot of returning characters – but not all are as they might at first appear…Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781167095</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHainsworth_Gina|title=Manifest Destiny Volume 1|author=Chris Dingess, Matthew Roberts and Owen Gieni|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's 1804 and some newly-American soldiers are expanding the territory Talking to the west, at the orders of President Jefferson – orders which allude to the pioneering party encountering some very unusual things. And they do – first a huge arc of greenery, putting the modern reader in mind of the Missouri landmark arch as bastardised by something along the lines of the Statue of Liberty in the original 'Planet of the Apes'. But when that site gets attacked the weirdness certainly starts to show itself…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1607069822</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Hilda and the Black HoundGina|author=Luke PearsonOttilie Hainsworth

|summary=Hilda and the Black Hound ''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the fourth book in length of the “Hildafolk” seriescountry, Brighton to Grimsby, each of which is a self-contained tale about a highly inquisitive little girl to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and her adventuresone working eye. This time Hilda joins Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the Sparrow Scouts dog – eats something she shouldn't and befriends causes a house spirit whilst in the meantime mess, so it's not a mysterious beast stalks great start, but then begin the town tribulations of Trolberg.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263184</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Bojeffries Saga|author=Alan Moore training, status and Steve Parkhouse|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A very truncated history of comics will start behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. And then, the idea that they should be funny strips life with Gina begins to feel like too much – one jape then ''I felt weird about you're out; then that they should have more – perhaps a superhero; then that because you can have so much more than just a superhero – witness the works of [[:Category:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]]were always there. But My thoughts were taken over by you mustn't be too surprised to see the whole thing come around , and I felt sick, as if I was in a full cyclelove. '' Because Alan Moore hasSlowly, however, with this volumeeveryone – our artist/author, concluded his own funny strip japeryher husband, two children and whatever history or greater opinions about two cats – gets to form the canon of comix might say, it's just about his best ever bookfamily they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662318</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Colfer_Illegal|title=The Secret Service - KingsmanIllegal|author=Mark Millar Eoin Colfer and Dave GibbonsAndrew Donkin

|summary=He Ebo is Mister Londontwelve years old and all alone. Jack London. He is the longest-serving, most experienced His sister left for Europe months ago and downright most suave secret agent the country has. But he now has a problem possibly bigger than even those hedoesn's had to face up to before – his nephew. Gary Unwin, Eggsy to his friends, is stuck in a rut called Peckham, living with t know where his kid brother and his single mum, and her latest bullying, abusive partner. His life is either but knows that he has probably done the X-Box, cheap four-packs and TWOCing same thing. So Ebo has to attempt the neighbourhood carssame dangerous journey himself. Reluctantly casting his mind from He must cross the problem Sahara Desert, get himself to Tripoli, one of someone kidnapping the greats of TV sci-fi history, Jack undergoes his most awkward mission yet – raising his nephew to be a dangerous cities in the world-saver.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781167036</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Jane, The Fox and Me|author=Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Bullied at school and lonely because her former friends don't talk then try to her, Helene loses herself in cross the pages of ''Jane Eyre''Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. To a girl who thinks of herself as fat and plainAnd, even if he makes it, Jane's story gives her hope - but can she find happiness? And how will a trip to a nature camp affect her? Can it give her the confidence and courage to change the way she sees herselfhe find his sister?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353043</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Miller_Batman|title=NemoBatman: Dark Knight III: Roses of BerlinThe Master Race|author=Alan Moore Frank Miller and Kevin O'NeillBrian Azzarello

|summary=ItBatman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the baddies he usually biffs. But then he's not Batman – he's all very well having a heroic band of brigands and workers plucked from literature she, and being able to do she finally comes up with the jobs news that can't ever even feature Batman died in top secret filesher hands. SubmarinersElsewhere, invisible menLara, the daughter of Superman and other individuals of mysterious originWonder Woman, powers is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and sometimes intent aren't unique expanding life to Englishthe miniaturised city of Kandor, or Englandthe last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. Hence this loose approximation What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of World War II, when Berlin is turned Solitude having gone into a Germania-meets-''Judge-Dredd''-Megacitysulk, and Batman dead, there would appear to be little in the Indian daughter way of Captain Nemo and her very own special Captain Jack have a much more personal mission. The Fuhrer help for the world should anything nasty happen – and the real people and things behind the throne but then, of the Nazi-type superpower – have course, something they'll fight to the end to get back – their own offspring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>086166230X</amazonuk>nasty does happen… s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Weeks_Gritterman|title=Snowpiercer Vol.2 - The ExplorersGritterman|author=Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc RochetteOrlando Weeks|rating=4.5

|summary=All of humankind is living on There's a single trainman who has an ice cream van. Oh sorryIn summer, as this what there is the sequelof summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, make that two trains. Launched on the same tracks as the original SnowpiercerThat's not his vocation though, but clearly at a slight remove, was a second mile-long behemoth of a train, designed with the latest high tech to be completely self-sustaining as it travelled ceaselessly on does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the tracks encircling van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a frozen Earth, waiting for the time the world was inhabitable once moreGritterman. But The fibreglass 99s on the high tech on boardroof light up and rotate, complete with lemon farms, and differing qualities of virtual holidays depending on cost and class of customerplaying a tune, has not put paid to one aspect of society – and in fact whether the sole aspect of society not featured in [[Snowpiercer Volvan's gritting or selling ice creams.1 Tonight - The Escape by Jacques Lob and JeanChristmas Eve -Marc Rochette|will be the first book]] – religionvan's last trip. Some people are fearing The council has sent the end timeletter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, when the Icebreaker crashes into the original Snowpiercerthey say. Some believe theyThere're duped into s even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but the whole train idea, and are Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in fact on a spacecraftworld where the B2116 doesn't need gritting. Some people know something else – the rare few explorers who get to go outside the train into the world beyond, and see glimpses of what came before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Line of Fire : Diary of an Unknown Soldier (August, September 1914)|author=Barroux|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A scientist can tell a bit about an animal's nature just by observing the beginnings of its life ('it's in water, ergo it's probably a fish'). They don't need to study every ant in the colony to see how ants collaborate and work together, for the detail is pretty much shared from one ant to the next. So it is with soldiers, at least as far as this book is concerned. You can pick one soldier from all the battalions and learn something of soldierly life. You can see the nature of the war from what happens at the outset. And here all we get is the outset, for this graphic novel is based Move on a manuscript the artist found purely by chance, of a solitary soldier's diary that covers only a couple of weeks in 1914, and stops obliquely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912398</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape|author=Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=All of humankind is living on a single train. I know British commuters feel that way at times, but this is a much different circumstance – it is a train miles long, running non-stop as a self-contained unit across tracks circling a desolately frozen Earth, moving on endlessly until, perhaps some time in the distant future, the planet can recover from the cataclysm that froze it. It's certainly been going on long enough for it to have a culture – a hierarchical society from the rich and leisured classes near the front, through the orgiasts, past the useful carriages set aside for producing food, to the underclass at the end. It's all set in its routine, set in motion. But there are two fishes out of water – a man from the rear who escaped, and a middle-class woman working with civil rights campaigners.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Mouse Guard - the Black Axe|author=David Petersen|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Long before there can be peace, there is war. Long before there is something to believe in, there is empty hope. Long before the legend, there is the truth. And so, long before the events of the first two collected Mouse Guard volumes came the story in this third, that of how the heroic, mythical character Celanawe became so notorious. Our tale starts with him just a guard mouse and tutor to those who would follow him, but an unlikely connection to an already fabled weapon is about to be shown to him, in the equally unlikely form of a scholarly old female mouse, Em. When she says the ancient legacy is situated far across unmapped seas, an unusual trio of explorers is pushed to the limit and beyond, in search of the unseekable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681435</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Historical Fiction Reviews]]