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 {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Hainsworth -->{Frontpage|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Edel Rodriguez[[image:Hainsworth_Gina.jpg|left|linktitle=httpsWorm://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1908434988?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1908434988]] A Cuban American Odyssey| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Talking to Gina by Ottilie Hainsworth]]===4[[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]], [[:Category:Pets|Pets]] summary=We''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of the countryre in childhood, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one working eyewe're in Cuba. Why not? The first night at homerevolution has happened, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a messCastro, so it's not first thought of as a great start, but then begin the tribulations saviour 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 youcountry, because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by youhas proven himself a Communist, and I felt sick, as if I was in lovenot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all.'' SlowlyWell, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the family they and Gina all would have wanted. [[Talking to Gina by Ottilie Hainsworth|Full Review]] <!those hours-- Colfer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Colfer_Illegal.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1444934007?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1444934007]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Ebo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn't know where long speeches of his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thing. So Ebo has to attempt the same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the Sahara Desert, get himself to Tripoli, one were kind of the most dangerous cities in the world, and then try to cross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And, even if he makes it, how will he find taking his sister? [[Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin|Full Review]] <!-- Miller -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Miller_Batmantime away.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1401265138?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1401265138]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Batman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race by Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Batman is not playing ball. He Our narrator's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the baddies he usually biffs. But then hefamily weren's not Batman – he's a she, and she finally comes up with the news that Batman died t in her hands. Elsewhere, Lara, the daughter happiest of Superman and Wonder Womanplaces here, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to the miniaturised city of Kandor, the last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a sulk, and Batman dead, there would appear uncle refusing to be little in the way of help for good soldier the world should anything nasty happen – but then, of course, something nasty does happen… [[Batman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race by Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello|Full Review]] <!-- Weeks -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Weeks_Gritterman.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/184614955X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=184614955X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Gritterman by Orlando Weeks]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] There's a man who has an ice cream van. In summer, what there is of summer, country demanded (especially as he uses it would probably be shipped off to sell ice creamssome minor pro-Communism skirmish, That's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter, when the van becomes a Gritting Van such as Angola) and our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up father being watched and rotatewatched, playing a tuneand not liked for his successful photography business, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the van's last tripsuccess being frowned upon. The council has sent mother gets the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, they say. There's even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but couple jobs with the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants party to live in a world where ease some of the B2116 doesn't need gritting. [[The Gritterman by Orlando Weeks|Full Review]] <!-- Moore -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moore Buddha.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/9381182299?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=9381182299]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels) by Kieron Moore and Rajesh Nagulakonda]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] I don't do religionheat, but still there was something that drew me to in this comic book. For one, the whole Buddhist faith is still a little unknown to mesultry island country, 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 remains 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 heat forcing you out of the ones that joined him along the way? [[Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels) by Kieron Moore and Rajesh Nagulakonda|Full Review]] <!-- Reynes -->kitchen…|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Reynes_Water.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1941302432/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]1474616720}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Kia Ahankoob===[[Water Memory by Mathieu Reynes, Valerie Vernay and Jeremy Melloul (translator)]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Despite the title, it seems at first the memories here are much more earthy, for Caroline has brought her young daughter to the place she herself left as a toddler. The move has been caused by a break-up, Gold Lion and it's just the two of them in the family unit, making a fresh start (with the help Tournament of a kindly old neighbour) in an old house on a promontory of the Brittany coast. Young Marion soon discovers the clifftops are peppered with strange standing stones, with even stranger figures, initials and dates carved on to them. She also soon works out there is 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 Caroline's beginning anew starts with a nice local job, things are slowly getting more creepy. Large sea creatures are beaching themselves, the stones' imagery is found in even stranger places - and the lighthousekeeper seems to hold darker secrets. What memory could possibly be in this storm-drenched land? [[Water Memory by Mathieu Reynes, Valerie Vernay and Jeremy Melloul (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- DILLIES -->Sentinels|-| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|4[[image:Dillies_Lyrical.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1681121069/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Graphic Novels| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Lyrical Comics of Dillies Set: Including Abelard, Bubbles & Gondola, Betty Blues by Renaud Dillies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] A young duck who plays horn in a jazz band is so rapt in his music When Myriad created Duniva he doesn't see endowed his girlfriend leaving the bar children with another mandifferent powers, which compels him to throw his instrument away and seek a change of scene – without realising what that might entail. A young mouse writer finds himself in the company of solitude, whether he likes it or not. And a young bird each with a happy life still itches to learn what is over the horizon, its own strength and partly inspired by a crush on a girl he knowsweakeness, seeks an entirely new life in America to attain the sparkly things that might be what turns her head. Yeshope they would complement each other and collaborate, these graphic novels are entirely peopled by animals – sometimes unspecified species, too – but they have creating a very mature look at the world, dynamic and it's not prosperous society. Each power is contained within a world where everything comes up roses… [[The Lyrical Comics magical ring belonging to one of Dillies Set: Including Abelard, Bubbles & Gondola, Betty Blues by Renaud Dillies|Full Review]] <!-- Thrash -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Thrash_Honor.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0763687553/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Honor Girl eight countries led by Maggie Thrash]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] ''ItMyriad's campchildren and their descendants. ItBut it didn's supposed to be funt quite work out like that.''<br>''Well excuse me for not having the time of my lifeRivalries developed.'' That simple piece Enmities grew out of dialogue is them and the key eight countries went to this autobiographical graphic novelwar. 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 Having fought themselves into an ace shot on the rifle range, endless and can boss the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performance. But those aren't enough for Maggie to feel settled ruinous stalemate and like she's enjoying her summer, and anyway they do come with their own problems. No, finding the bigger problem is something else – the fact that she seems to be falling in love with one cost of the counsellor camperswar too high, there to look after the welfare of the younger inmates – being potentially a lesbian solution is a shock to our narratorproposed. [[Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash|Full Review]] <!-- Watson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Watson_Ratchwood.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524666513/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ratchwood Dilemma by Duncan Watson and Brian Bicknell]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] WellEach of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, this is to a singular book and make no mistakesingle combat tournament. The first part winner will take possession of all the trilogy led us in quite bewildered steps from a hive mind crash-landing at Roswell rings and infecting a scientist, through a religious espouser being shot live on TV and the death of Judas, right up to some kind of godhead having to better become the existence supreme ruler of what, you know, the more commonly perceived God, had left us withDuniva. I think. Here we start with an A&E case where one of a pair of twins is left in near-vegetative state, but one advisor suggests that before the crash or whatever that caused the problem in the first place there might have only been one person. We see a man with the ability to snatch people out of space/time – in a world where that can happen who knows how stable anyone or anything or anywhen might be? And what might any slight imbalance in the universes mean? [[Ratchwood Dilemma by Duncan Watson and Brian Bicknell|Full Review]]isbn=B09MMQJFPV}}<!-- Hogarth -->{{Frontpage|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Pat Grant[[image:Hogarth_Tarzan.jpg|linktitle=httpThe Grot://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781163200/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] The Story of the Swamp City Grifters| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tarzan - And the Lost Tribes (Vol. 4) (The Complete Burne Hogarth Comic Strip Library) by Burne Hogarth and Rob Thompson]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Normally I turn against the most popular. If there's a book series that I know issummary=Everything in this world runs on pedal-power, say, seven volumes long, I shrug and let people enjoy itthat includes the punk bands. I've been bitten too often by series you think There are complete being extended, for one, and three pedallers at the originator's death too often never puts front of the full stop you'd expect on things. But some franchises are much longer, but too important Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to ignore. Take, for example, the series (of series) surrounding Tarzan. Unless fully in ferry across the knowswamp to Falter City, you will be surprised at just how many films there were back in the day. I'm not going where a mother and her two sons aim to count set up a yoghurt factory. You could say that yoghurt would be the number of official books he was in. He was also in comic stripsonly culture around, as you might expect, but for my sins they've never crossed my path until here. But boy isn't this just is a wonderful way to see what I was missing… [[Tarzan really rough- And the Lost Tribes (Vol. 4) (The Complete Burne Hogarth Comic Strip Library) by Burne Hogarth and Rob Thompson|Full Review]] <!-- Zuehlke -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Zuehlke_Loxleys.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0992150892/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Loxleys and Confederation by Mark Zuehlke and Claude St Aubin]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] There ready dump of a place, but everyone is a huge hole interested in my history knowledge where North America is concerned. Slowly, from an opening of sheer ignorance, having never studied it whatsoever at school, I've got a small grip on things like the Civil War, the foundations of the USA and a few other things. But that means nothing as far as this book is concerned, for that huge hole is Canadagrow. No, I didn't have an inkling about how it was trying For the only money to unify, just as be had – the American Civil War was only fortunes to be found in full pelt just across the border. I didn't know what was there before CanadaFalter City – come from algae, if you see what I mean. The story does have some things in common with gunk and other crud that of their southern neighbours – European occupancy being slowly turned into a list of states as we know them nowwell, slowly spreading into the heart of the continent with the help use 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 of course it also had the British vs French issueis never really made clear. 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… [[The Loxleys and Confederation by Mark Zuehlke and Claude St Aubin|Full Review]] <!-- O'Donnell -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Odonnell_Children.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178329860X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Children of Lucifer: Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Out of ninety-five diverse comic strip stories Once there, 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 two brothers set themselves each up with the sassy brunette with her curves and her great crime-solving minda guide – Lippy, and of course with her Willie, this is the lastmore forward-but-one chance for you to do so. And if you have any interest in quick little action talesthinking, or even dated kitsch, for both apply here, then you should eagerly be on board… [[Children industrious of Lucifer: Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero|Full Review]] <!-- Morris -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Morris_Legion.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1594749329/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History by Jon Morris]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] 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 Mafiosotwo, 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 colourbesuited gent, and got mardier as Penn with a result (although recently he's become a nanotech genius – but let's not go there)? And what is it ballsy young teenaged girl 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 goodiesbright red hair. You can imagine how awful the baddies related to the bad goodies can be. And if you can't, this is the perfect primer. [[The Legion But which of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History by Jon Morris|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{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 two will come off the distrust and suspicion is mutual. Prejudice against the Traveller community is strong and when Jim and his cousins turn up on worse as they make their first dayown way in this dystopian, 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 semi- he did no such thing - and have begun a campaign of threats, bullying and worse.Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911370049</amazonuk>1603094660

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nathan HaleLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=One Trick PonyTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=Forget I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the moon being made weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of cheesethe Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, here and I didn't know more than a spit about the Earth looks like itpeople involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests back in 1989.|isbn=1684056993}}{{Frontpage|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Diana, being unique on her island, is the victim of a huge dollop lot of the finest Swiss stufftaunts, and claims of nepotism. HorridIt's only her unique status, giant insectoid alien things have taken overand her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all, and they have zapped anything technological they can find her naysayers declare – pumping even though she has clearly fought to be a blob strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of something over itMen, and turning whatever turns up this Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the resulting spheres into sandsurvivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...|isbn=1401282555}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1401286208|title=Black Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, and seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, she is desperate to find her voice. But it's actually more a case of her voice finding her, as when she gets frustrated or carting plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it off a weapon, or a power. But in order for her to call herself a superhero, there has to be a whole path of steps for her to larger shipstake – one of which will be into her past…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1401280048|title=Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at the age of eighteen. Our heroes belong Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to a travelling caravan do charitable deeds. But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a villagecriminal, keeping intact he goes too far as much human knowledge far as the authorities are concerned, and gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can (think , and murder the owner. Can he get close to one of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a digital version step too far for the young do-gooder?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1401283292|title=Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Harleen 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 seems to look out of those readers large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is new in ''Fahrenheit 451'')town, and the town is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but they've left their compatriots behind to go exploringstay with a bunch of drag queens. They'll never expect to find She also finds school is a magicaldrag, wondrousshe also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her life. One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, robotic horsethe other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, though – which is where their problems begin…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419721283</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bobby Joseph and Joseph Samuels140128339X|title=Scotland YardieMera: Tidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Stephen 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=SinsSuper Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|genre=Short StoriesGraphic Novels|summary=Is there enough new It's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to say about relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, of course – first, he was patching up the dams, but now he's mining the seven deadly sins? Weasteroid belt for a rare dust that've seen them all shown to uss perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from school age the coast are suffering bigotry and up intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. But it can't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and the efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=168369015X|title=Manfried the movie ''Se7en''Man: A Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In a world where cats stand on two feet, which we sincerely hope was NOT shown go to anyone work at school agecall centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, is Manfried. We He's a typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can each recount them allsuitably eat, but at the same time being the perfect companion for his owner, Steve Catson. To such an extent that Steve, who is getting known for his man-oriented thinking, is actually having been long familiar with themnightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''crazy man cat''. But when a window gets left open by mistake, and Manfried goes missing, even if we probably canthe only thing for it is a massive and energised man-hunt…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Hainsworth_Gina|title=Talking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=''t pin down when they were actually set in stone without helpThis is what happened. '' Similarly, is there anything new in An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the world length of fairy tale? We know the tropes - characters identified by their status or gender (the womancountry, the husband)Brighton to Grimsby, a clear set of rules to obeypick 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 moral as strong asmess, if so it's not stronger thana great start, but then begin the formulae involvedtribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. WellAnd then, this volume demands we decide the answer life with Gina begins to those questions as being positive onesfeel 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 itI was in love.''s not always definitive in the writing here that there is something new Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, rest assured there will be something in two children and two cats – gets to form the imagery that will definitely strike one as fresh..family they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843516624</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bessora, Barroux and Sarah Ardizzone (translator)Colfer_Illegal|title=AlphaIllegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin|rating=45

|summary=Ebo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn''It felt like there was boiling water inside my headt know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thing. To cool it down, I had So Ebo has to leave…'' Those words aren't spoken by Alpha, attempt the narrator of this graphic novel, but they might have beensame dangerous journey himself. Living in Abidjan, on He must cross the south coast of Cote d'Ivoire in AfricaSahara Desert, he is determined to get out to go himself to ParisTripoli, and a relative's hair salon and a much better life. It's not just one of the boiling water that is causing him to jump out most dangerous cities in the frying pan into the unknown fire, but the fact that his wife and son went alreadyworld, and he's trying then try to follow in their footstepscross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. ''Your feet become your headAt twelve. Your body obeys them'' And, even if he observes at one point during the ordeal – but there are people smugglers galoremakes it, and blind chance to also obey along the way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370014</amazonuk>how will he find his sister?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= HurkMiller_Batman|title= Ready for PopBatman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello|rating= 43.5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=London, The mid-sixtiesBatman is not playing ball. In what appears to have He's been a murder attemptvideoed duffing up Gotham policemen, Britainand not the baddies he usually biffs. But then he's greatest pop sensation not Batman – he'Vic Vox' has been left s a foot tall – she, and she finally comes up with the news that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, Lara, the effects daughter of a 'shrink drug' administered by assailants unknown. As Detective Chief Inspector Ladyshoe Superman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his team at Scotland Yard try technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to find who did it and whythe miniaturised city of Kandor, comedian Tubs Cochran prepares himself for his big come-back showthe last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. Can he keep his old fashioned comedy instincts relevant enough to entertain What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a new generation? Will Vic Vox's big rivalssulk, and Batman dead, 'The Small Pocks' there would appear to be given a boost little 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 way of help for Pop''!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662504</amazonuk>the world should anything nasty happen – but then, of course, something nasty does happen… s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick BantockWeeks_Gritterman|title=Griffin and Sabine 25th Anniversary Edition: An Extraordinary CorrespondenceThe Gritterman|author=Orlando Weeks|rating=45|genre=General Fiction Graphic Novels|summary=Oh Griffin and SabineThere's a man who has an ice cream van. In summer, what there is of summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, where have you been all my life? IThat've loved epistolary novels and ones that take s not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the narrative two-van becomes a Gritting Van and-fro of letters and bring us closer to the sender than any omniscient our narrator can hope to dobecomes a Gritterman. I've still got The fibreglass 99s on the childlike love of picking at an envelope stuck in roof light up and rotate, playing a book to pull out a sheet of something else – not only is there tune, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the wonder at van's last trip. The council has sent the handmade construction of something so bluntly and undeservedly called letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, they say. There's even a book'tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but there is the frisson of being Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a world where the first person to see this artefact everB2116 doesn't need gritting. So how have I never seen this book before, and its cycle of sequels, concerning the correspondence between two completely different people?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>145215595X</amazonuk>