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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ottilie HainsworthEdel Rodriguez|title=Talking to GinaWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of the country, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one working eye. Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a mess, so it's not a great start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. And then, the life with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''I felt weird about you, because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as if I was in love.'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the family they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434988</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Illegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin|rating=5

|summary=Ebo is twelve years old We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done in the same thing. So Ebo has happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to attempt be the same dangerous journey himself. He must cross good soldier the Sahara Desert, get himself country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to Tripolisome minor pro-Communism skirmish, one of such as Angola) and the most dangerous cities in the worldfather being watched and watched, and then try not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to cross ease some of the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. Andheat, but in this sultry island country, even if he makes it, how will he find his sister?remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444934007</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frank Miller and Brian AzzarelloKia Ahankoob|title=Batman: Dark Knight III: The Master RaceGold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels|rating=3.54

|summary=Batman When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is not playing ball. Hecontained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, children and not the baddies he usually biffstheir descendants. But then heit didn's not Batman – he's a she, and she finally comes up with the news t quite work out like that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, Lara, the daughter Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of Superman them and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom the eight countries went to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and expanding life to finding the miniaturised city cost of Kandorwar too high, the last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pantsa solution is proposed. What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress Each of Solitude having gone into a sulkthe eight countries will send their greatest warriors, and Batman deadknown as sentinels, there would appear to be little in a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the way of help for rings and become the world should anything nasty happen – but then, supreme ruler of course, something nasty does happen…Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1401265138</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Orlando WeeksPat Grant|title=The GrittermanGrot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters|rating=54

|summary=There's a man who has an ice cream vanEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the punk bands. In summer, what there is There are three pedallers at the front of summer, he uses it the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to sell ice creamsFalter City, That's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter, when the van becomes where a Gritting Van mother and our narrator becomes her two sons aim to set up a Grittermanyoghurt factory. The fibreglass 99s on You could say that yoghurt would be the roof light up only culture around, for this is a really rough-and rotate, playing -ready dump of a tuneplace, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creamsbut everyone is interested in small things that grow. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will For the only money to be had – the van's last trip. The council has sent only fortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that – well, the letter about his services no longer being requireduse of it is never really made clear. Global warming. Dying professionOnce there, they say. There's even the two brothers set themselves each up with a tarmac now that can deguide – Lippy, the more forward-ice itselfthinking, but industrious of the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in two, with a besuited gent, Penn with a world where ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of the two will come off the B2116 doesn't need gritting.worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184614955X</amazonuk>1603094660

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mathieu ReynesLun Zhang, Valerie Vernay Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Jeremy Melloul Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=Water MemoryTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=Despite I never really followed the title, events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it seems at first was playing out – someone in the memories here are much more earthysecond half of their teens has other priorities, for Caroline has brought her young daughter to the place she herself left as a toddleryou know. The move has been caused by a break-up, and itI certainly didn's just t know of the two weeks of them in protests and hunger strikes from the students before the family unit, making a fresh start (with massacre and the help of a kindly old neighbour) in an old house on a promontory birth of the Brittany coast. Young Marion soon discovers Tank Man image, I didn't know how the clifftops are peppered with strange standing stones, with even stranger figuresarea had long been a venue for political protest, initials and dates carved I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on to themeither side. She also soon works out there This book is practically flawless in giving a way to get across a causeway at low tide to the local lighthouse, manned as it is by a gruff, surly old man. But while Carolinegeneral browser's beginning anew starts with a nice local job, things are slowly getting more creepy. Large sea creatures are beaching themselves, context for the stones' imagery is found whole season of protests back in even stranger places - and the lighthousekeeper seems to hold darker secrets1989. What memory could possibly be in this storm-drenched land?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1941302432</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Renaud DilliesLeigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Lyrical Comics of Dillies Set: Including Abelard, Bubbles & Gondola, Betty BluesGraphic Novel|rating=4.53|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=A young duck who plays horn in Diana, being unique on her island, is the victim of a jazz band is so rapt in his music he doesnlot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. It't see his girlfriend leaving the bar s only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her with another manany standing at all, which compels him her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to throw his instrument away and seek be a change of scene – without realising what that might entailstrong young woman. A young mouse writer finds himself in Perhaps too strong for the company of solitudeisland, whether he likes it or not. And a young bird with a happy life still itches to learn what is over however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the horizonWorld of Men, and partly inspired by a crush on a girl he knows, seeks an entirely new life in America to attain this Diana is the sparkly things that might be what turns her headheroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. Yes, these graphic novels are entirely peopled by animals – sometimes unspecified speciesA shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, too – but they have a very mature look at the world, and it's not survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a world where everything comes up roses…lot more...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1681121069</amazonuk>1401282555

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kieron Moore and Rajesh Nagulakonda1401286208|title=BuddhaBlack Canary: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels)|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I don't do religion, but still there was something that drew me to this comic book. For one, the whole Buddhist faith is still a little unknown to me, and this was certainly going to be educational. Yes, I knew some of the terms it ends up using, but not others, such as bhikshu, and had never really come across the man's life story. Yes, I knew he found enlightenment and taught a very pacifist kind of faith, but where did he come from? What failings did he have on his path, and who were the ones that joined him along the way?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9381182299</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Maggie Thrash|title=Honor Girl|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=''It's camp. It's supposed to be fun.''<br>''Well excuse me for not having the time of my life.'' That simple piece of dialogue is the key to this autobiographical graphic novel. Why is Maggie not happy at camp? Forget the way she's isolated by being a sleep-walker, and ignore the fact she's from a different state to every other girl around, and practically only there to obey her mother's family tradition – she's all of a sudden become an ace shot on the rifle range, and can boss the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performance. But those aren't enough for Maggie to feel settled and like she's enjoying her summer, and anyway they do come with their own problems. No, the bigger problem is something else – the fact that she seems to be falling in love with one of the counsellor campers, there to look after the welfare of the younger inmates – being potentially a lesbian is a shock to our narrator. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763687553</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewIgnite|author=Duncan Watson Meg Cabot and Brian Bicknell|title=Ratchwood DilemmaCara McGee

|summary=WellMeet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, this is a singular book and make no mistake. The first part of the trilogy led us in quite bewildered steps from seemingly lumbered with being a hive mind crash-landing cheerleader at Roswell and infecting a scientistschool, through she is desperate to find her voice. But it's actually more a religious espouser being shot live on TV and the death case of Judasher voice finding her, right up to some kind of godhead having to as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better the existence of what, you know, the more commonly perceived God, had left us withthan any opera singer. I think. Here we start with an A&E case where one of You could almost call it a pair of twins is left in near-vegetative stateweapon, but one advisor suggests that before the crash or whatever that caused the problem a power. But in the first place order for her to call herself a superhero, there might have only been one person. We see has to be a man with the ability whole path of steps for her to snatch people out take – one of space/time – in a world where that can happen who knows how stable anyone or anything or anywhen might which will be? And what might any slight imbalance in the universes mean?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666513</amazonuk>into her past…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Burne Hogarth and Rob Thompson1401280048|title=Tarzan - And the Lost Tribes (Vol. 4) (Batman: Nightwalker: The Complete Burne Hogarth Comic Strip Library)Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose|rating=4.5

|summary=Normally I turn against the most popular. If there's The young man called Bruce Wayne is a book series that I know is, say, seven volumes long, I shrug and let very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people enjoy it. I've been bitten too often by series you think are complete being extended– bystanders, for onepaparazzi, and the originatorsuchlike – reminding him he's death too often never puts a billionaire at the full stop you'd expect on thingsage of eighteen. But some franchises are much longerFeeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, but too important he wants to ignoredo charitable deeds. TakeBut one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, for examplehe goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and gets given the series (most unlikely stretch of series) surrounding Tarzancommunity service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. Unless fully in There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the knowNightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, you will be surprised at just how many films there were back in and murder the dayowner. I'm not going Can he get close to count up one of them and get the number truth of official books he was in. He was also in comic stripstheir schemes, as you might expect, but or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for my sins they've never crossed my path until here. But boy isn't this just a wonderful way to see what I was missing…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781163200</amazonuk>the young do-gooder?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Zuehlke and Claude St Aubin1401283292|title=The Loxleys Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and ConfederationSteve Pugh

|summary=There Harleen Quinzel is a huge hole new in my history knowledge where North America is concernedtown. SlowlyShe always, from an opening of sheer ignoranceto me, having never studied it whatsoever at schoolseems new in town, Ieven if she've got s been around a small grip on things like the Civil Warlong time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, the foundations and seems to look out of the USA and a few other thingsthose large eyes at everything anew each time. But that means nothing as far as this book here she is concernednew in town, for that huge hole and the town is CanadaGotham City. NoExpecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, I didn't have an inkling about how it was trying she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to unify, just as the American Civil War was in full pelt just across the borderstay with a bunch of drag queens. I didn't know what was there before Canada, if you see what I mean. The story does have some things in common with that of their southern neighbours – European occupancy being slowly turned into She also finds school is a list of states as we know them nowdrag, slowly spreading into she also finds the heart of the continent with the help of the railways etc; native 'Indians' whole neighbourhood is being 'in the way'; past trading agreements to either maintain or try to improve on; redeveloped by a large and so on uncaring corporation – but of course it she also had the British vs French issuefinds two characters that will have a big impact on her life. But did you know how an American President getting shot One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at the theatre had night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a bearing on the story? Or the Irish? Like I saidmind for violence and chaos, a huge hole…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992150892</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

{{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|authorisbn=Jon Morris140128339X|title=The Legion of Regrettable SupervillainsMera: 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 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>}}{{newreviewTidebreaker|author=Bobby Joseph Danielle Paige and Joseph Samuels|title=Scotland YardieStephen Byrne

|summary=Things are grim in LondonMeet Mera. She'People s the latest in a line of colour' young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can no longer stand at see for themselves. Her father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a bus stop or cross hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the road without white cops shooting them downterritory's warrior queen, and planting drugs and guns on themis long dead. Heaven help them if their satnav leads them past certain corrupt coppers. But obviously one of Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the problems there fella involved at all and is that there are no black police, so in fact, trying to encourage their growth Boris has built Jamaica a prisonget Xebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, and borrowed their finest – Scotland Yardie, a dreadlocked and heavily-armed skunkhead rasta. Itfor Xebel's purely thought royalty are merely puppets of as a PR exercise, but Yardie knows differentAtlantean masters. When you add on a mystery regarding a new chain So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to the world of chicken shopsus air-breathing humans, and kill the nasty copsAtlantis heir, he has his work cut outshe rushes off to get the quest (and the promised throne) all for herself. Seen?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662512</amazonuk>But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it will be to get the job done…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Telford and Louise Verity1401286399|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>}}{{newreviewSuper Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Bessora, Barroux Ridley Pearson and Sarah Ardizzone (translator)|title=AlphaIle Gonzalez

|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 Alpha, s the narrator of this graphic novelnear future, but they might have been. Living and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in Abidjanneed of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the south coast of Cote d'Ivoire in Africarising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, he is determined forcing many people to get out to go to Paris, and a relativerelocate in America's hair salon and a much better lifebiggest exodus for decades. It's not just the boiling water that Superman is causing him to jump helping out , of course – first, he was patching up the frying pan into the unknown firedams, but the fact that his wife and son went already, and now he's trying to follow in their footsteps. ''Your feet become your head. Your body obeys them'' he observes at one point during mining the ordeal – but there are people smugglers galore, and blind chance to also obey along the way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370014</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Hurk|title= Ready asteroid belt for Pop|rating= 4.5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=London, The mid-sixties. In what appears to have been a murder attempt, Britainrare dust that's greatest pop sensation 'Vic Vox' has been left a foot tall – perfect for blocking the effects of a 'shrink drug' administered by assailants unknownsolar energy from making further polar ice melt. As Detective Chief Inspector Ladyshoe and his team at Scotland Yard try to find who did it and whyInland, comedian Tubs Cochran prepares himself for his big come-back show. Can he keep his old fashioned comedy instincts relevant enough to entertain a new generation? Will Vic Vox's big rivalsin Wyndermere, 'The Small Pocks' be given a boost in Vic Vox's absence? And will June Scurvy get her hit (or maybe not) new single featured on the show they're all waiting for…''Ready refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for Pop''!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662504</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Bantock|title=Griffin and Sabine 25th Anniversary Edition: An Extraordinary Correspondence|rating=4|genre=General Fiction |summary=Oh Griffin and Sabinebeing newcomers, where have you been all my life? I've loved epistolary novels and ones that take the narrative two-and-fro but something else is much worse. A major bout of letters and bring us closer to food poisoning is hitting the sender than any omniscient narrator city. But it can hope 't possibly have anything to do. I've still got the childlike love with what looks like sabotage 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 flood barriers and undeservedly called 'a book', but there is the frisson of being efforts to correct the first person to see this artefact ever. So how have I never seen this book beforeclimate, and its cycle of sequels, concerning the correspondence between two completely different peoplecan it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>145215595X</amazonuk>Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=168369015X|title=Jeremy Haun and Jason Manfried the Man: A HurleyGraphic Novel|titleauthor=The BeautyCaitlin Major and Kelly Bastow

|summary=Don't we all just want that one little fillup to our looks – that tuck there, those pounds or wrinkles vanishedIn a world where cats stand on two feet, that little tweak go to make us more sexually attractive work at call centres and virile? Wellhave diminutive human beings for pets, if you catch The Beauty, you will indubitably end up, in what colloquial language has it, ''fit''. But The Beauty is not to be caught as in a passing fad or itinerant beautician, but as a sexual diseaseManfried. And itHe's hit half the population a typical frisky but shy pet – most of those willingly. You feel feverish with itforever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but it's taken off big at the same timebeing the perfect companion for his owner, and Big Pharma Steve Catson. To such an extent that Steve, who is happy with the situation. Some violent antigetting known for his man-Beauty activists aren't, so special police units exist regarding it, but theyoriented thinking, is actually having nightmares about becoming the Powers That Beneighbourhood ''crazy man cat''. But when a window gets left open by mistake, and Manfried goes missing, the underground scientists working against the disease are only going to be swamped when The Beauty shows its true face…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1632155508</amazonuk>thing for it is a massive and energised man-hunt…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia RomeroHainsworth_Gina|title=Modesty Blaise - Ripper JaxTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth|rating=4.5

|summary=Is there any stopping Modesty Blaise? ''This is what happened.'' WellAn artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of the country, inasmuch as there are only ten stories left that have not been anthologised in these lovely reprintsBrighton to Grimsby, yes – just three books to go, by my reckoningpick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one working eye. That reckoning should be quite accurateWhy not? The first night at home, if I can be immodestGina – the dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a mess, for there is so it's not a lot that is routine about these storiesgreat start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. They all had three panels a dayAnd then, six days a week (the life with one dayGina begins to feel like too much – 's output being less relevant to the story for those papers that didn't carry the comic on weekends)I felt weird about you because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, for twenty-one weeksas if I was in love. '' But rest assured there is also a lot that is unusual about Modesty and her outputSlowly, however, including a never-ending variety to the locationseveryone – our artist/author, to the manner of the baddy's crimeher husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the action Modesty family they and her Willie are forced to undertake to win the dayGina all would have wanted. And nobody, but nobody, has undertaken so much action and come out looking so attractive…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298588</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jens HarderColfer_Illegal|title=Alpha: DirectionsIllegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin

|summary=So, people might still ask me, why do I turn to graphic novels – aren't visual books with limited writing more suited to young people? Yeah, right – try pawning this off on juvenile audiences Ebo is twelve years old and the semi-literateall alone. If you canHis sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn't kill know where his brother is either but knows that cliché off with pages such as these I don't know what will workhe has probably done the same thing. I know the book isn't designed So Ebo has to be a message to people in attempt the debate about same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the literary worth of graphic novelsSahara Desert, get himself to Tripoli, but one side-effect of it is surely an engagement with that argumentthe most dangerous cities in the world, and then try to cross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. What it is designed to be is a complete history of everything else – and in covering every prehistoric momentAnd, even if he makes it does just that, and absolutely brilliantly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662458</amazonuk>how will he find his sister?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcel Ruijters and Laura Watkinson (translator)Miller_Batman|title=HieronymusBatman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello|rating=43.5

|summary=This Batman is a book for those who find it amusing that a biography of someone who has not playing ball. He's been dead 500 years is called videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the baddies he usually biffs. But then he'unauthoriseds not Batman – he'. This is s a book where she, and she finally comes up with the detail is news that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, Lara, the devil – people pissing in daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to the street; miniaturised city of Kandor, the locals baiting blind people armed last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. What with cudgels Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a pit with a pigsulk, often failing to whack the beast and hitting their colleagues by mistake; farting demons visiting the sleeper. This is a book for those who don't mind a spot of ribaldryBatman dead, an affront there would appear to religious piety or suchlike be little in their graphic novels. Whether or not this is a book the way of help for those seeking a biography the world should anything nasty happen – but then, of Hieronymus Bosch remains to be seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662466</amazonuk>course, something nasty does happen… s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean-Patrick Manchette, Max Cabanes and Doug HeadlineWeeks_Gritterman|title=FataleThe Gritterman|author=Orlando Weeks|rating=3.5

|summary=Play. ItThere's a weird verb – man who has an ice cream van. In summer, what there is of summer, he uses it can mean many different things. Aimee intends to play – shesell ice creams, That's already put paid to several men playing at being huntersnot his vocation though, but she has it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a different game in mindGritterman. Arriving at The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up and rotate, playing a very insular little town she scopes tune, whether the bigvan's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight -wigs out, watching them over Christmas Eve - will be the bridge table and across van's last trip. The council has sent the golf tees, and, seeing them bicker letter about each other at both play and workhis services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, she knows she they say. There's even a tarmac now that can play with them. But what might happende-ice itself, given these undefined rules, if they chose but the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to play as live in a team against her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782766820</amazonuk>world where the B2116 doesn't need gritting.