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|summary=Normally I turn against the most popular. If thereWe's a book series that I know isre in childhood, say, seven volumes long, I shrug and let people enjoy itwe're in Cuba. I've been bitten too often by series you think are complete being extendedThe revolution has happened, for oneand Castro, and first thought of as a saviour of the originator's death too often never puts the full stop you'd expect on things. But some franchises are much longercountry, has proven himself a Communist, but too important and not done nearly enough to ignorecreate a level playing field for all. TakeWell, for example, the series (those hours-long speeches of his were kind of series) surrounding Tarzantaking his time away. Unless fully Our narrator's family weren't in the knowhappiest of places here, you will an uncle refusing to be surprised at just how many films there were back in the day. I'm not going to count up good soldier the number of official books country demanded (especially as he was in. He was also in comic stripswould probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as you might expectAngola) and the father being watched and watched, but and not liked for my sins they've never crossed my path until herehis successful photography business, success being frowned upon. But boy isn't The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this just a wonderful way to see what I was missing…sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781163200</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark Zuehlke and Claude St AubinKia Ahankoob|title=The Loxleys Gold Lion and Confederationthe Tournament of Sentinels|rating=3.54

|summary=There is a huge hole in my history knowledge where North America is concerned. SlowlyWhen Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, from an opening of sheer ignoranceeach with its own strength and weakeness, having never studied it whatsoever at schoolin the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, I've got creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a small grip on things like the Civil War, the foundations magical ring belonging to one of the USA eight countries led by Myriad's children and a few other thingstheir descendants. But that means nothing as far as this book is concerned, for that huge hole is Canada. No, I it didn't have quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an inkling about how it was trying to unify, just as endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the American Civil War was in full pelt just across the border. I didn't know what was there before Canadacost of war too high, if you see what I meana solution is proposed. The story does have some things in common with that Each of the eight countries will send their southern neighbours – European occupancy being slowly turned into a list of states greatest warriors, known as we know them nowsentinels, slowly spreading into the heart to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the continent with rings and become the help of the railways etc; native 'Indians' being 'in the way'; past trading agreements to either maintain or try to improve on; and so on – but supreme ruler of course it also had the British vs French issueDuniva. But did you know how an American President getting shot at the theatre had a bearing on the story? Or the Irish? Like I said, a huge hole…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992150892</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero|title=Children of Lucifer: Modesty Blaise|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=Out of ninety-five diverse comic strip stories, the publication of this book leaves just the last three yet to be presented in these fabulous large format paperbacks. So if you haven’t yet met with the sassy brunette with her curves and her great crime-solving mind, and of course with her Willie, this is the last-but-one chance for you to do so. And if you have any interest in quick little action tales, or even dated kitsch, for both apply here, then you should eagerly be on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jon MorrisPat Grant|title=The Legion of Regrettable SupervillainsGrot: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=As much as I like comics – and I do, whether superhero ones or not – I have to admit one thing, namely that the villains in them are a bit pants. What is The Penguin but the world's worst Mafioso, with a hobby of waddling along like his pet birds? Where else do you win an Oscar Story of all things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell in a vat of random chemicals and changed colour, and got mardier as a result (although recently he's become a nanotech genius – but let's not go there)? And what is it with the gimp in the see-through plant pot because he is the embodiment of cold? And that's just some of the better-known enemies of ''Batman'', one of the better goodies. You can imagine how awful the baddies related to the bad goodies can be. And if you can't, this is the perfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749329</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Siobhan Dowd and Emma Shoard|title= The Pavee and the Buffer Girl|rating= 5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=When Jim's family halt at Dundray, his heart grows heavy. A new Buffer school for this Pavee boy to attend. Jim doesn't like school. He doesn't like Buffers. And you know, you couldn't really blame him because the distrust and suspicion is mutual. Prejudice against the Traveller community is strong and when Jim and his cousins turn up on their first day, it's to stares and muttered insults from the pupils and condescension from the teachers. Within days, Moss Cunningham and his gang have accused Jim of stealing a CD - he did no such thing - and have begun a campaign of threats, bullying and worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370049</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nathan Hale|title=One Trick Pony|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=Forget the moon being made of cheese, here the Earth looks like it's a huge dollop of the finest Swiss stuff. Horrid, giant insectoid alien things have taken over, and they have zapped anything technological they can find – pumping a blob of something over it, and turning whatever turns up in the resulting spheres into sand, or carting it off to larger ships. Our heroes belong to a travelling caravan of a village, keeping intact as much human knowledge as they can (think a digital version of those readers in ''Fahrenheit 451''), but they've left their compatriots behind to go exploring. They'll never expect to find a magical, wondrous, robotic horse, though – which is where their problems begin…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419721283</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Bobby Joseph and Joseph Samuels|title=Scotland Yardie|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Things are grim in London. 'People of colour' can no longer stand at a bus stop or cross the road without white cops shooting them down, and planting drugs and guns on them. Heaven help them if their satnav leads them past certain corrupt coppers. But obviously one of the problems there is that there are no black police, so to encourage their growth Boris has built Jamaica a prison, and borrowed their finest – Scotland Yardie, a dreadlocked and heavily-armed skunkhead rasta. It's purely thought of as a PR exercise, but Yardie knows different. When you add on a mystery regarding a new chain of chicken shops, and the nasty cops, he has his work cut out. Seen?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662512</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mary Telford and Louise Verity|title=Sins|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=Is there enough new to say about the seven deadly sins? We've seen them all shown to us, from school age and up to the movie ''Se7en'', which we sincerely hope was NOT shown to anyone at school age. We can each recount them all, having been long familiar with them, even if we probably can't pin down when they were actually set in stone without help. Similarly, is there anything new in the world of fairy tale? We know the tropes - characters identified by their status or gender (the woman, the husband), a clear set of rules to obey, and a moral as strong as, if not stronger than, the formulae involved. Well, this volume demands we decide the answer to those questions as being positive ones, and if it's not always definitive in the writing here that there is something new, rest assured there will be something in the imagery that will definitely strike one as fresh...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843516624</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Bessora, Barroux and Sarah Ardizzone (translator)|title=AlphaSwamp City Grifters

|summary=''It felt like there was boiling water inside my head. To cool it down, I had to leave…'' Those words aren't spoken by AlphaEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the narrator of this graphic novel, but they might have beenpunk bands. Living in Abidjan, on There are three pedallers at the south coast front of Cote d'Ivoire in Africa, he is determined the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to get out the ferry across the swamp to go to ParisFalter City, and where a relative's hair salon mother and her two sons aim to set up a much better lifeyoghurt factory. It's not just the boiling water You could say that is causing him to jump out yoghurt would be the frying pan into the unknown fireonly culture around, but the fact that his wife for this is a really rough-and son went already-ready dump of a place, and he's trying to follow but everyone is interested in their footstepssmall things that grow. ''Your feet become your head. Your body obeys them'' he observes at one point during For the only money to be had – the ordeal only fortunes to be found in Falter City – but there are people smugglers galorecome from algae, gunk and blind chance to also obey along other crud that – well, the way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370014</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Hurk|title= Ready for Pop|rating= 4use of it is never really made clear.5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=London Once there, The mid-sixties. In what appears to have been the two brothers set themselves each up with a murder attemptguide – Lippy, Britain's greatest pop sensation 'Vic Vox' has been left a foot tall – the effects more forward-thinking, industrious of a 'shrink drug' administered by assailants unknown. As Detective Chief Inspector Ladyshoe and his team at Scotland Yard try to find who did it and whythe two, comedian Tubs Cochran prepares himself for his big come-back show. Can he keep his old fashioned comedy instincts relevant enough to entertain with a new generation? Will Vic Vox's big rivalsbesuited gent, 'The Small Pocks' be given Penn with a boost in Vic Vox's absence? And ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of the two will June Scurvy get her hit (or maybe not) new single featured on come off the show worse as they're all waiting for…''Ready for Pop''!make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861662504</amazonuk>1603094660

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick Bantock|title=Griffin and Sabine 25th Anniversary Edition: An Extraordinary Correspondence|rating=4|genre=General Fiction |summary=Oh Griffin and SabineLun Zhang, where have you been all my life? I've loved epistolary novels and ones that take the narrative two-and-fro of letters and bring us closer to the sender than any omniscient narrator can hope to do. I've still got the childlike love of picking at an envelope stuck in a book to pull out a sheet of something else – not only is there the wonder at the handmade construction of something so bluntly and undeservedly called 'a book', but there is the frisson of being the first person to see this artefact ever. So how have I never seen this book before, and its cycle of sequelsAdrien Gombeaud, concerning the correspondence between two completely different people?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>145215595X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jeremy Haun Ameziane and Jason A HurleyEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=The BeautyTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=Don't we all just want that one little fillup to our looks I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – that tuck there, those pounds or wrinkles vanished, that little tweak to make us more sexually attractive and virile? Well, if you catch The Beauty, you will indubitably end up, someone in what colloquial language the second half of their teens has itother priorities, ''fit''you know. But The Beauty is not to be caught as in a passing fad or itinerant beautician, but as a sexual disease. And itI certainly didn's hit half t know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the population – most birth of those willingly. You feel feverish with itthe Tank Man image, but itI didn's taken off big timet know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and Big Pharma is happy with I didn't know more than a spit about the situationpeople involved on either side. Some violent anti-Beauty activists arenThis book is practically flawless in giving a general browser't, so special police units exist regarding it, but they, s context for the Powers That Be, and the underground scientists working against the disease are only going to be swamped when The Beauty shows its true face…whole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1632155508</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter O'Donnell Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Enric Badia RomeroKit Seaton|title=Modesty Blaise - Ripper JaxWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=43|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=Is there any stopping Modesty Blaise? WellDiana, inasmuch as there are only ten stories left that have not been anthologised in these lovely reprints, yes – just three books to gobeing unique on her island, by my reckoning. That reckoning should be quite accurate, if I can be immodest, for there is the victim of a lot that is routine about these storiesof taunts, and claims of nepotism. They all had three panels a day, six days a week (with one dayIt's output only her unique status, and her mother being less relevant to the story for those papers that didn't carry the comic on weekends)Queen, for twenty-one weeks. But rest assured there is also a lot that is unusual about Modesty and has her outputwith any standing at all, including her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a never-ending variety to strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the locationsisland, to however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the manner World of the baddy's crimeMen, and to this Diana is the action Modesty and her Willie are forced to undertake to win the dayheroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. And nobodyA shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but nobody, has undertaken so much action and come out looking so attractive…the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298588</amazonuk>1401282555

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jens Harder1401286208|title=AlphaBlack Canary: DirectionsIgnite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee|rating=3.5

|summary=SoMeet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, people might still ask meand seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, why do I turn she is desperate to graphic novels – arenfind her voice. But it't visual books with limited writing s actually more suited to young people? Yeaha case of her voice finding her, right – try pawning this off on juvenile audiences and the semi-literateas when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. If you can't kill that cliché off with pages such as these I don't know what will workYou could almost call it a weapon, or a power. I know the book isn't designed But in order for her to be call herself a message to people in the debate about the literary worth of graphic novelssuperhero, but one side-effect of it is surely an engagement with that argument. What it is designed there has to be is a complete history whole path of everything else steps for her to take – and in covering every prehistoric moment, it does just that, and absolutely brilliantly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662458</amazonuk>one of which will be into her past…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcel Ruijters and Laura Watkinson (translator)1401280048|title=HieronymusBatman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose

|summary=This The young man called Bruce Wayne is a book for those who find it amusing that very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he's a biography billionaire at the age of someone who has been dead 500 years is called 'unauthorisedeighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to do charitable deeds. This is But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a book where criminal, he goes too far as far as the detail is in authorities are concerned, and gets given the devil most unlikely stretch of community service instead – people pissing cleaning in the street; home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the locals baiting blind people armed with cudgels in Nightwalkers, a pit with a piggang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, often failing to whack the beast and hitting their colleagues by mistake; farting demons visiting murder the sleeperowner. This is a book for those who don't mind a spot Can he get close to one of them and get the truth of ribaldrytheir schemes, an affront to religious piety or suchlike in their graphic novels. Whether or not this is will the manipulative Madeleine be a book step too far for those seeking a biography of Hieronymus Bosch remains to be seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662466</amazonuk>the young do-gooder?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean-Patrick Manchette, Max Cabanes and Doug Headline1401283292|title=FataleHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh

|summary=PlayHarleen Quinzel is new in town. It's a weird verb – it can mean many different things. Aimee intends She always, to play – me, seems new in town, even if she's already put paid to several men playing at being huntersbeen around a long time, but for she always has a different game in mindvery fresh attitude, and seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. Arriving at a very insular little But here she is new in town she scopes the big-wigs out, watching them over the bridge table and across the golf teestown is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead andherself with no option but to stay with a bunch of drag queens. She also finds school is a drag, seeing them bicker about each other at both play she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and work, uncaring corporation – but she knows she can play with themalso finds two characters that will have a big impact on her life. But what might happenOne is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, given these undefined rulesthe other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, if they chose to play as a team against her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782766820</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Des Taylor140128339X|title=Scarlett Couture|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=What, in the real world, would be the least likely cover for a secret agent but that of super-model? Apart from the advantage of everyone thinking you were gormless, there is the implausible clothing and having to run around after baddies in high heels to consider. But the world of comics isn't the real world, and so you have to ask the opposite – what would be the most visually appealing band of secret agents, if not for a whole cabal of them working undercover as bimbo-looking models? The Showroom is one such, and its main agent is Scarlett Couture, daughter of a male cop and a female fashionista-cum-agency boss. Looking wonderful is incredibly easy for her – but sometimes saving the world is quite a bit tougher…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760628</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMera: Tidebreaker|author=Jason Quinn Danielle Paige and Naresh Kumar|title=World War Two: Against the Rising Sun (Campfire Graphic Novels)Stephen Byrne

|summary=It is Meet Mera. She's the latest in a truth universally acknowledged that if you want to judge line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, the worth king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera''Star Trek'' TV seriess mother, you judge the theme tune. Itterritory's incontrovertible that they went downhill in unisonwarrior queen, after allis long dead. It Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all and is also a truth universally acknowledged that , in fact, trying to get Xebel out from under the same applies to ''Doctor Who''cosh of Atlantean power, for the opening credits have definitely had their ups and downs over recent yearsXebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. But you can also define So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to the entertainment value world of a series through us air-breathing humans, and kill the companions. Or at least you can with the 11th Doctor comic versionsAtlantis heir, which decided she rushes off to pick up a Token Smart, Ballsy, Ethnic one, a bizarre, mercurially disembodied robot-type-with-limited-vocab one, get the quest (and, er, a cod David Bowie one who relives the entire Ziggy Stardust lyric sheet through his witterings. I know, right? No hopepromised throne) all for herself. But can you give up hope with the geniusof course, energeticshe has no idea what kind of person she will meet, effervescent and witty Doctor around?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782763031</amazonuk>how hard it will be to get the job done…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Serge le Tendre, Regis Loisel and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)1401286399|title=Super Sons: The Quest for the Time Bird|rating=2.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In order to defeat a vengeful god, who is within days of getting out of his prison – a sacred conch shell – several things must happen. First, the conch must be united with the witch powerful enough to sustain the incantation keeping him locked up. Then she must use her helpers to endure great danger and find the information she seeks in the most perilous of places for knowledge of the ultimate part of the puzzle – the Time Bird. All this calls for heroes, but in the world of fantasy anyone can call themselves a hero – from the witch's own buxom daughter, Pelisse, to an old warrior called Bragon that the girl is forced to unite with and fight alongside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782763627</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPolarShield Project|author=Alejandro Jodorowsky, Nicolas Fructus Ridley Pearson and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)|title=Showman Killer: Heartless HeroIle Gonzalez

|summary=A long way awayIt's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in terms need of both time and spacea huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the most perfect assassin rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is formed helping out, of course – genetically bredfirst, adept at magical transformations, with he was patching up the most athletic and deadly abilitiesdams, and with the complete lack of emotion needed. All but now he will ever seek is 's mining the highest price asteroid belt for the best job – a job rare dust that will's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, now the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and againintolerance for being newcomers, force him but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. But it can't possibly have anything to meet do with what looks like sabotage of the most unusual people…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178276139X</amazonuk>flood barriers and the efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jamie Hewlett, Alan Martin and others168369015X|title=21st Century Tank GirlManfried the Man: A Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow|rating=34.5

|summary=I sometimes wonderIn a world where cats stand on two feet, when keying in book reviewsgo to work at call centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, if ISBNs are not constructed by design instead of the formal accident that is supposed to create themManfried. Surely itHe's intentional that this book has 666 in its code a typical frisky but shy pet – it's forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at the same time being the most devilishly brashperfect companion for his owner, Steve Catson. To such an extent that Steve, ugly and foulwho is getting known for his man-mouthed comic aroundoriented thinking, and people who like that kind of thing will like thisis actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''crazy man cat''. Especially as this book is But when a return to waaay distant formwindow gets left open by mistake, and waaay distant creative partnershipsManfried goes missing, with the original artist Jamie Hewlett back on board. It's time to cuss only thing for it is a massive and roll once more…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782766618</amazonuk>energised man-hunt…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Derf BackderfHainsworth_Gina|title=TrashedTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|summary=For those people who think graphic novels are rubbish, this ''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the epitome length of that baseless argumentthe country, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one working eye. Its subject is junkWhy not? The first night at home, itGina – the dog – eats something she shouldn's trasht and causes a mess, so it's landfillnot a great start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and garbagebehaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. ThatAnd then, the life with Gina begins to feel like too much – 's not a verdict on its qualities'I felt weird about you because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, which are great and fine onesI felt sick, but its very topicas if I was in love. '' Straight from schoolSlowly, however, everyone – our artist/author was actually a bin man for a few seasons – riding on the back of something like Betty, the garbage van featured here. It's a job nobody wants in all honestyher husband, of course two children and two cats – but the book is fine enough gets to actually make form the subject something most people should read aboutfamily they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419714546</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke PearsonColfer_Illegal|title=Hilda and the Troll|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Hilda, a rather delightful small, blue-haired girl, is never far from an adventure. She is confident and excitable, brave and creative, and her stories are slightly mad, and very, very readable!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263788</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewIllegal|author=Sven Hassel Eoin Colfer and Jordy Diago|title=Wheels of Terror: The Graphic NovelAndrew Donkin|rating=45

|summary=War books Ebo is twelve years old and anti-war books, in my mind, have a lot in common all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and only a couple of easy things need be changed to turn one to the other. This is dressed as an anti-war book, but here is the lead character surviving against all odds – the platoon whittled down several times while now he and doesn't know where his few friends go strong; here he brother is overcoming all kinds of difficulty and adversity and still coming out the other end; here either but knows that he is doing proper heroic deeds – or his colleagues saving has probably done the day at same thing. So Ebo has to attempt the last minute – and the war carries onwards towards its inevitable endsame dangerous journey himself. The difference perhaps is in He must cross the minutiae Sahara Desert, get himself to Tripoli, one of what those difficulties and deeds need be, with the anti-war book having a simple honesty about them and their overall worth that most dangerous cities in the gung-howorld, militaristic piece would patently lack. And when you face the guts and gore of then try to cross the kind of warfare on these pages, you don't really expect jingoism and 'hoo-rah!' attitudesMediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. NoAnd, even if the DNA is pretty much the samehe makes it, the result here is definitely, grimly and firmly anti-war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297609769</amazonuk>how will he find his sister?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe SuggMiller_Batman|title=UsernameBatman: EvieDark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello|rating=43.5

|summary=Meet EvieBatman is not playing ball. SheHe's surprisingly unwelcome been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and alienated at school – for a trendy and attractive girl, nobody at all seems to have any time for her, apart from the geeky card-collecting boy with the milk-bottle glasses on not the busbaddies he usually biffs. Perhaps it has something to do with her fatherBut then he's thatched house not Batman – after all, she must be a witch to live there. Ithe's not that a she would wish to live there, and she finally comes up with nobody else around, and the memory of news that Batman died in her deceased motherhands. But luckily someone is choosing a place for her –her father is able to put all his work into a cyber-world for herElsewhere, Lara, the E-Scapedaughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, which is close encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to the perfect world. All that remains is turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to programme the humans to be her friendsminiaturised city of Kandor, and make the connection Evie has last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. What with them Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a sulk, and them with her in return Batman dead, there would appear to be little in the way of mutualhelp for the world should anything nasty happen – but then, confirmingof course, happy benefit. But someone else has entered the E-Scape, and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Evie'something nasty does happen… s tentative happiness…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael B Jackson, Martin Brennan and Simon BisleyWeeks_Gritterman|title=13 CoinsThe Gritterman|author=Orlando Weeks|rating=3.5

|summary=There''For the love of money s a man who has an ice cream van. In summer, what there is the root of all kinds of evil.summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, That'' Theres not his vocation though, I've done but it – quoted does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the Bible in van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a reviewGritterman. It's certainly pertinent in The fibreglass 99s on the world of this graphic novelroof light up and rotate, where the fallen angels have one get-out clause they have been seeking since those very lapsarian events. They turned playing a little section of chain holding their leader eternally captive into the titular coinstune, which can influence whether the human holders into sheer evil, but might just cause an open war on Heaven, whether they van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the best of the holy on earth use them allvan's last trip. The best of council has sent the holy thenletter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, offspring of the good angels, are culled as they say. There's even a routinetarmac now that can de-ice itself, but not one – John Pozner, who of course has no idea of his place the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a world where the celestial circle of life…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178276061X</amazonuk>B2116 doesn't need gritting.