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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]]==Graphic novels==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot|title=Dotter of Her Father's Eyes|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=If there's one person able to produce a worthwhile potted history of James Joyce's daughter, it should be Mary M Talbot. She's an eminent academic, and her father was a major Joycean scholar. Both females had parents with the same names too <!-- Remove - James and Nora, both took to the stage when younger after going to dance school, but it's the contrasts between them this volume subtly picks out rather than any similarities, in a dual biography painted by one person we know by now as more than able to produce a delightful graphic novel - [[:Category:Bryan Talbot|Bryan Talbot]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096087</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter O'DonnellEdel Rodriguez|title=Modesty BlaiseWorm: Live BaitA Cuban American Odyssey

|summary=We're back in the gritty yet glamorous world of Modesty Blaise - at leastchildhood, as gritty and glamorous as you could get we're in the Evening Standard daily comic strip in the late 1980sCuba. Titan have had The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a mammoth undertaking to reproduce all saviour of the original strips in handy large-format graphic novel compendiacountry, has proven himself a Communist, and this latest covers three storiesnot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, all of which I consider greater in depth than those in the other volume I've reviewed hours- [[Modesty Blaise: Sweet Caroline by Neville Colvin and Peter O'Donnell|Sweet Caroline]]long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686682</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patricia McKissack, Frederick L McKissack Jr and Randy DuBurke|title=Best Shot in the West|rating=4|genre=Children Our narrator's Non-Fiction|summary=family weren'We're going t in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to do be the real Westgood soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, Nat. You're as real such as Angola) and the rest of 'em - Bat Mastersonfather being watched and watched, Calamity Jane, Wild Billand not liked for his successful photography business, the Earpssuccess being frowned upon.' So says a publisher The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to a lowly railroad porterease some of the heat, Nat. But if but in this guy's as real as sultry island country, it remains the rest kind of heat forcing you out of those famous names, why does his not trip off the tongue? Is it purely because as the most famous African-American cowboy, he still was not allowed to be as famous as he should?kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0811857492</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garen EwingKia Ahankoob|title=The Rainbow Orchid: Adventures Gold Lion and the Tournament of Julius Chancer v. 3Sentinels

|summary=Here we areWhen Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, theneach with its own strength and weakeness, ten years after in the debut hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of this graphic novel on eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the Internet, eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finally finding the print trilogy cost of war too high, a solution is completeproposed. At last we can see if our hero Julius, his chums, Each of the shady Government peopleeight countries will send their greatest warriors, and his enemy’s beautiful assassin aide who remains impossible to shrug offknown as sentinels, manage to get anywhere near a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the fabled titular plant in its secret Himalayan location, rings and just how important it has been for all those many people left back in England. It’s been a rollercoaster ride, and it’s been worth itbecome the supreme ruler of Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405255994</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary Crew and Shaun TanPat Grant|title=The ViewerGrot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters

|summary=Before the Holocaust was turned into [[The Boy Everything in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne|a childthis world runs on pedal-like near-fable for all]]power, and before it was that includes the punk bands. There are three pedallers at the focus front of superb history books such as [[Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, where a mother and Stalin by Timothy Snyder|her two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for this]], it became is a family saga really rough-and-ready dump of a father relating his experiences place, but everyone is interested in small things that grow. For the only money to a sonbe had – the only fortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that – well, who then drew the use of it all - featuring animals not humans - [[Maus by Art Spiegelman|Maus]]is never really made clear. To celebrate Once there, the two brothers set themselves each up with a guide – Lippy, the twentymore forward-five years since thenthinking, we have this brilliant look back at industrious of the creation two, with a besuited gent, Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of an equally brilliant volume.the two will come off the worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670916838</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Harry Thompson|title=Tintin: Herge and His Creation|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=I love Tintin. I love his quiff and his innocenceLun Zhang, his plus-fours and his foreign adventuresAdrien Gombeaud, I love Snowy the dog Ameziane and most of all I love Captain Haddock and the flamboyance of his blistering barnacles language. So I was thrilled to see a biography of the character and Hergé, his creator, and I picked it up with enthusiasm. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546726</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Khaled HosseiniEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=The Kite Runner (Graphic Novel)Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating=4.5

|summary=A confessionI 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. If there's one book Icertainly didn'm not likely to readt know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, itI didn's that which everyone else is reading. If it turns into t know how the area had long been a hugely popular film venue for all the left-wing chattering classes to rave overpolitical protest, then thatand I didn's just t know more grist to my mill – I'll always have than a chance to catch up spit about the people involved on it later on, even if I never take that opportunityeither side. I'm not alone This book is practically flawless in acting like this – see giving a friend and colleaguegeneral browser's similar admission when reviewing [[White Teeth by Zadie Smith]]. But at least, through context for the medium whole season of the graphic novel, the book reviewing gods have conspired to let me see just what I'm missing, with this adaptation, by Italian artists, of a hugely successful – and therefore delayable – novelprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815257</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally Kindberg Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Tracey TurnerKit Seaton|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Comic Strip Big Fat Book of Knowledge|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Who doesn't like a nice comic, eh? There's something so accessible about the lovely picture and text combos, and facts are far from dull when they come via speech bubbles, don't you think? Taking full advantage of this fact, Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner have, for some time, been creating factual books for children which pass on their insight and Important Information through the medium of comics. Now for the first time, you can collect 3 of their titles in one simple volume. Combining the previous reviewed [[The Comic Strip History of the World by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|History of the World]] and [[The Comic Strip History of Space by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|History of Space]] with the ''Greatest Greek Myths''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808242</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kevin O'Neill and Alan Moore|title=The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969Novel

|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=So much for Diana, being unique on her island, is the League victim of a lot of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Of the three main protagonists available for this adventuretaunts, one and a half are female! claims of nepotism. Anyway, Bram StokerIt's Minaonly her unique status, Woolf's Orlando and Allan Quartermain are in London at the height of the swinging 60sher mother being Queen, amidst rumours that a new attempt has her with any standing at birthing an Antichrist is about all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to occurbe a strong young woman. Certainly, Perhaps too strong for the evil they've faced the last several decades will soon get a new face...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661621</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Winshluss|title=Pinocchio|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Imagineisland, if you will, Disney's film of Pinocchio had been animated by a crew of artists hell-bent on sabotaging however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the prospect. Painterly frames World of beauty would be rare in amongst grittyMen, grimy, shadowy images and this Diana is the heroine of nightmarish content, which took it upon themselves to break into black and white, or sepiayet another Wonder Woman origin story. The prologue might have A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a character forcing his cat to join in at Russian Roulette. Geppetto would be accompanied in the leviathan, in one of the rare tuneful segmentsrunning race, by a penguin playing but the piano. And this after survivor she drags from the proud inventor was trying waters is only going to sell Pinocchio as disturb a prototype robotic super-weapon, just as his wife was putting Pinocchio's most distinctive feature to a most unexpected uselot more... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861661729</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aviv Ratzin1401286208|title=Dreams Black Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Everyday LifeCara McGee

|summary=Well, thank you, Aviv Ratzin - you've provided me with the one book I'm least capable of summarising for a reviewMeet Dinah Lance. I can't begin Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to pithily precis the plot, or describe the happenings try and follow in any quickhis footsteps, snappy way. To give the gist of the surrealand seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, scattershot whimsicality cannot do the contents justice in any wayshe is desperate to find her voice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808871</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Allen Ginsberg|title=Howl: A Graphic Novel|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I first came across Howl as a short film animating one of GinsbergBut it's own recordings actually more a case of ither voice finding her, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. If memory serves, You could almost call it was a scratchyweapon, jazzy piece, full of spiky, spunky shapes and movements, and low on colouror a power. Now But in order for 2011 and for Penguin Modern Classics' first ever 'graphic novel' comes her to call herself a very different animation. OKsuperhero, the real moving animation is only there has to be seen in the movie Howl, but to call this merely an illustrated companion to the film is a whole path of steps for her to take – one of which will be very unflattering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141195703</amazonuk>into her past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Fairfield1401280048|title=TyrannyBatman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|ratingauthor=5|genre=Teens|summary=As Tyranny shakes her - ''I '''TOLD''' you not to eat! You are '''TOO''' fat!'' - Anna thinks back. She used to take joy in life. She used to dream of a bright future - a careerMarie Lu, boyfriends, children - but it all went wrong when she hit puberty. She wasn't keen on on the curves of her new, more womanly body. When she looked in the mirror, she didn't see an hourglass figure developing; she saw fat Stuart Moore and flab. Deaf to the warnings of her parents and her boyfriend, she listened to Tyranny and entered into the desperate, downward cycle of anorexia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331139</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Petersen|title=Mouse Guard: Legends of The GuardChris Wildgoose

|summary=To start withThe young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, I have never heard and suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at the age of Mr Petersen and his Mouse Guard franchiseeighteen. But IFeeling rather stuck with the legacy he'm often up for an introduction to a fantasy cycles inherited from his murdered parents, and I always relish being welcomed he wants to an author by the most esoteric, unusual, quirky and short routedo charitable deeds. My first entry to the His Dark Materials world was [[Once Upon a Time But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in the North by Philip Pullman|pursuit of a collector's spin-off]]criminal, and I'm just he goes too far as far as likely to start the Twilight seriesauthorities are concerned, if ever, with and gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the latest brief whimsyhome for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. And for those There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a similar mindgang who steal any ten-setfigure bank account contents they can, this collection and murder the owner. Can he get close to one of tales from them and get the pens truth of guest writers and illustratorstheir schemes, serves as an oddor will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-shaped doorway on to this particular universe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681427</amazonuk>gooder?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Stroud1401283292|title=The Amulet of Samarkand|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When you summon a demon the last thing you want is for you to lose power over it - for the shoe to end up on the other foot. Especially when the demon shifts shape and is currently an eight-legged spider. That's what's happened to young Nathaniel, having summoned Bartimaeus for a task of vengeance. But perhaps it's worst of all when you have to rely on the same demon's help to protect you from an even greater evil - the wicked intent of a fellow man.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563706</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Denise Mina Mariko Tamaki and Antonio Fuso|title=A Sickness in the Family|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In Eton Terrance there lives the Usher family, in a house above a basement flat where a gangster holds sway over a Polish "girlfriend". After a bloodbath in there, the Ushers expand downwards, clearing a cavernous hole in their home where a staircase is due to go. This is not the only crack in proceedings, however, as we soon discover while witnessing the fall of this House of Usher.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848564163</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bryan Talbot|title=Grandville Mon Amour|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The [[Grandville by Bryan Talbot|first book]] in this series didn't end particularly well for DI LeBrock, the badger who works for Scotland Yard. At least the main problem, 'Mad Dog' Mastock, was sentenced to the guillotine. But in the prologue here he bursts out of his quandary, and once more causes problems for LeBrock - this time by slaughtering some Parisian prostitutes. Are they linked? What might their story be? And is there a darker part of the past yet to come out of some secretive hiding place, and cause even more danger and peril?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090003</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neville Colvin and Peter O'Donnell|title=Modesty Blaise: Sweet CarolineSteve Pugh

|summary=Meet Modesty BlaiseHarleen Quinzel is new in town. You've had countless opportunities She always, to meet her beforeme, mind - she was daily seems new in the London Evening Standard from 1963 to 2001town, and this is the eighteenth collection of her comic strip. Sheeven if she's been around a feistylong time, unfettered femme fatale with for she always has a bottomless fortune very fresh attitude, and a great supply seems to look out of both friends and enemiesthose large eyes at everything anew each time. We see these combine But here she is new in four storiestown, when an enterprising gang of murderous blackmailers force Modesty to become their enemy, an old friend's name and the town is used to dupe her into letting go her criminal secrets Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her pastmother, she finds her gran dead and when herself with no option but to stay with a bunch of drag queens. She also finds school is a new-found frienddrag, fresh from saving she 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 in . One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a gliding accidentmind for violence and chaos, comes up against some hoodlums.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566735</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreview|author=Joshua Dysart, Cliff Chiang and Dave Stewart|title=Neil Young's Greendale|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's 2003. Alaska is about to get raped, and Iraqis killed, for the sake of providing power for the USA. Which is ironic, as only before this is Sun Green a powerless young woman, and after it - well, she might have a very different kind of power. A mystical sort of girl, with a great affinity to nature, the teenaged Sun has to first solve many blank spaces in her family tree, and work out her nightmares - which might include the strange man new to town.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848567863</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Garen Ewing|title=The Rainbow Orchid: Adventures of Julius Chancer 2|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Oh to be popular - and the rainbow orchid certainly is. If, in fact, it exists at all. A collecting challenge for rare plants might hinge on its recovery, imperial British explorers would like to know the truth about it - and its presence on some mysterious ancient carved tablets hints at some mystical part it may once have played in a superweapon. Hence, where this book starts, everyone - from a film starlet, to a dashing explorer's assistant, to a plucky aviator, to an evil henchwoman of an overweight industrialist - is after it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140525047X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith and Tony Lee140128339X|title=Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesMera: The Graphic Novel|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie story of any renown will not remain simply a zombie story. Before you can say ''the risen undead'' it will become a series of books, inspiring others, and/or lead to the same story being published in many different guises. Here, then, on its way to Hollywood, is Jane Austen’s story of Lizzie Bennet, the feisty young woman trying to ignore Mr Darcy while fighting off the ''manky unmentionables'' – at least she is until the hidden truths open up to her, just as the soft soils of Hertfordshire do to yield their once-human remains. And this time it’s in graphic novel form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTidebreaker|author=Mark Millar Danielle Paige and John Romita Jr|title=Kick-AssStephen Byrne

|summary=Meet DaveMera. The average Joe personifiedShe's the latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, the king of Xebel, he sits at home with his internet connectionsees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, his comics collectionMera's mother, his dadthe territory's warrior queen, and very little contact with anyone elseis long dead. He Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all and is a typical loner teenager, nearly friendlessin fact, wears glasses at school - especially around trying to get Xebel out from under the hotcosh of Atlantean power, mature biology teacher who for some reason seems to have maths sums on her blackboard..Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. Until one day he decides So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to emulate the comics in his collection. The only superheroes in his world are those whose colourful adventures he follows on of us air-breathing humans, and kill the page - why not Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get his own costume mucked upthe quest (and the promised throne) all for herself. But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and go and fight crime?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565356</amazonuk>how hard it will be to get the job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phoebe Reeves Murray1401286399|title=GhostSuper Sons: Blood and Fire|rating=1.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Young Jennifer Rhys has been orphaned by the evilDark Angels. They can possess people and bite off their hands, andthere's something about living tattoos which you can take out of boxesand paste into your skin. After growing up in an adolescentpsychiatric ward, she will grow up to go on and confront them andfulfil her destiny. Or something like that. Between the huge amount ofpoorly drawn characters, the leaden prose, and the disappointingpictures of computerized 3-D models, I got lost a few times andcouldn't summon the interest to work out what was going on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808863</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe PolarShield Project|author=Will Eisner|title=Life on Another Planet|rating=2.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=There are some people who don't even need their name on their books, for the contents are so obviously Ridley Pearson and uniquely theirs. Will Eisner is one such person, for the esteem and renown his artwork and pioneering work in the graphic novel form is held under is rightfully his and his alone. I'm quite sure I could recognise a page of his black and white inkwork, and his easily drawn but realistic characters, more easily than any other sequential artist. That trademark signature on the cover, surely the most well-known in 'comic strips' outside Mr Disney's empire, is hardly necessary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera |title=Dark EntriesIle Gonzalez

|summary=The producers It's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of Dark Entriesa huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the latest hit reality TV showrising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, are worriedforcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Yes the six housemates are thereSuperman is helping out, present and correctof course – first, and are ready to be scared witless en route to he was patching up the one way outdams, and but now he's mining the brilliant prize asteroid belt for a rare dust that might await them somewhere 's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from the merry-go-round of horror that is their new home. They coast are already suffering bigotry and intolerance for being scared witlessnewcomers, by phantoms - but thatsomething else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. But it can's nothing t possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and the TV producers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dean Hale, Shannon Hale and Nathan Hale 168369015X|title=Calamity Jack|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''I was born to scheme'', declares our hero Jack. With flashbacks we see Manfried the young lad and a pixie friend, larking about for revenge or small profit. But when his mother's bakery gets more and more into the red, the size of the profit has to increase. And when you add in revenge against the local crime lord - a giant of a man - so does the size of the target of the jape.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587426</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMan: A Graphic Novel|author=Robert Crumb|title=Robert Crumb's Book of Genesis: All 50 ChaptersCaitlin Major and Kelly Bastow

|summary=In the beginning was the picture. Just think of all the countless religious imagesa world where cats stand on two feet, both inside and outside religious establishments, designed go to convey the message to those who could not read. Art work at call centres and religion have always been linkeddiminutive human beings for pets, which is probably one of Manfried. He's a typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at the main reasons I stayed same time being the perfect companion for his owner, Steve Catson. To such an atheist extent that Steve, who is getting known for his man- I hated art at schooloriented thinking, and drawing a is actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''crazy man on cat''. But when a donkeywindow gets left open by mistake, something way beyond my skillsand Manfried goes missing, was not the only thing for it is a task I appreciated, hence my dislike of both subjects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224078097</amazonuk>massive and energised man-hunt…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy DelisleHainsworth_Gina|title=Pyongyang: A Journey in North KoreaTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|summary=Meet Guy''This is what happened. '' He's An artist decided she needed a French-Canadian animator, leaving home for a short stay in dog – so drove the capital length of the country, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one of working eye. Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the worlddog – eats something she shouldn's most intriguing, unknown t and alien cultures - Pyongyangcauses a mess, North Korea - so he can work on it's not a TV cartoon co-productiongreat start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. Forced And then, the life with Gina begins to stay in one of the three official hotels designed for foreignersfeel like too much – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, so that the locals and people such I felt sick, as he do not have to mixif I was in love.'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, he see glimpses of the unique socialist dictatorshipher husband, stunning views of the buildings forced through two children and two cats – gets to form the poverty, family they and thousands of unreadable facesGina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224079905</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Gareth Hinds|title=King Lear|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Hound me out of town in a most appropriate manner, but I do not like King Lear. For me, even as a trained actor, the language is too dense and rich, the set-up too archly unfeasible to create the great tragedy it's thought to be. To my mind the acclaim and esteem in which it's held is only mirrored by its own over-long, over-blown blustering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763643440</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Hughes|title=Thomas Wogan is Dead|rating=4.5Frontpage|genreisbn=Graphic NovelsColfer_Illegal|summary=Well, with a title like that, need I bother with a plot summary? A man has a day out in Morecambe, then the next thing he knows he's in the ultimate waiting room, with a strange array of animals (a bat, a toad, a sea urchin...), all waiting for... well, something. Yup, as you didn't need telling, he's dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095580888X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewIllegal|author=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris Grimly|title=Tales of Death Eoin Colfer and DementiaAndrew Donkin

|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan PoeEbo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn't know where 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, master get himself to Tripoli, one of the gothic horror short storymost dangerous cities in the world, and Gris Grimlythen try to cross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And, outstanding illustratoreven if he makes it, known for how will he find his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]. Poe's ''Tales of Death and Dementia'' are shown off at their very best in this edition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>sister?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bryan Talbot Miller_Batman|title=Grandville|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A dead body found in rural England leads D I LeBrock to urban France, where he is destined to unravel a conspiracy of revolution, treason, and propaganda of potentially global reach. What is the truth behind the fall of a famous tower under air attack a few years ago? Why are so many suspicious suicides coming to attention? And will LeBrock be helped or hindered by his being, as his name suggests, a badger?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224084887</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBatman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Will Eisner |title=Minor Miracles|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=This short story collection starts with two appetisers before getting on with two main courses, but as with the best meals even the smallest dishes can have the most depth. We start with the entire life cycle - rise, fall, rise, fall - of a hobo feeding pigeons in the park. Obviously he hasn't been doing that all his years - he's been keeping his dignity intact, with a huge amount of chutzpah Frank Miller and more. Next, a smart Alec defeats the older kids on the stoop with a bit of canny street wisdom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328147</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Eisner |title=A Family MatterBrian Azzarello

|summary=Some sonsBatman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, some daughtersand not the baddies he usually biffs. But then he's not Batman – he's a she, even a shyand she finally comes up with the news that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, semi-abandoned great nephewLara, are all gathering in the home daughter of a ninety year old stroke victim for what may be Superman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to the miniaturised city of Kandor, the last birthday celebration. It seems like they are all licking their lips at the thought vestige of a future inheritanceKryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. We've heard before What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a nuclear familysulk, is this one about and Batman dead, there would appear to get too radioactive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328139</amazonuk>be little in the way of help for the world should anything nasty happen – but then, of course, something nasty does happen… s

 [[Category:Science Fiction]]{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Luna and Joshua Luna Weeks_Gritterman|title=Girls Volume 1: ConceptionThe Gritterman|author=Orlando Weeks|rating=4.5

|summary=Ethan, we see with There's a greatman who has an ice cream van. In summer, broad comic stroke or sixwhat there is of summer, is not the best when he uses it comes to girls. Letting sell ice creams, That's not his mouth run away with vocation though, but it does keep him too often, going whilst he is not very successful at relationshipswaits for winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a Gritterman. But let us look at what happens when he drives away from an altercation at The fibreglass 99s on the local barroof light up and rotate, and sees playing a gorgeous tune, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - and very naked Christmas Eve - will be the van's last trip. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, they say. There's even a tarmac now that can de- young woman standing ice itself, but the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a world where the middle of the roadB2116 doesn't need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1582405298</amazonuk>

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