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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edel Rodriguez|title=Line Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=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. Well, those hours-long speeches of Fire : Diary his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an Unknown Soldier uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (Augustespecially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, September 1914such as Angola)and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720}}{{Frontpage|author=BarrouxKia Ahankoob|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels|rating=3.54

|summary=A scientist can tell a bit about an animal's nature just by observing the beginnings of When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its life ('it's in waterown strength and weakeness, ergo it's probably a fish'). They don't need to study every ant in the colony to see how ants hope they would complement each other and collaborate , creating a dynamic and work together, for the detail prosperous society. Each power is pretty much shared from contained within a magical ring belonging to one ant to the nextof eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. So But it is with soldiers, at least as far as this book is concerneddidn't quite work out like that. You can pick one soldier from all the battalions and learn something of soldierly lifeRivalries developed. You can see the nature Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went to war from what happens at the outset. And here all we get is Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the outsetcost of war too high, for this graphic novel a solution is based on a manuscript proposed. Each of the artist found purely by chanceeight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, of to a solitary soldier's diary that covers only a couple single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of weeks in 1914, all the rings and stops obliquelybecome the supreme ruler of Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907912398</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The EscapePat Grant|authortitle=Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc RochetteThe Grot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters

|summary=All Everything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the punk bands. There are three pedallers at the front of humankind is living on the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, where a mother and her two sons aim to set up a single trainyoghurt factory. I know British commuters feel You could say that way at timesyoghurt would be the only culture around, but for this is a much different circumstance – it is a train miles long, running nonreally rough-stop as a selfand-contained unit across tracks circling ready dump of a desolately frozen Earthplace, moving on endlessly until, perhaps some time but everyone is interested in the distant future, the planet can recover from the cataclysm small things that froze itgrow. It's certainly been going on long enough for it For the only money to be had – the only fortunes to have a culture be found in Falter City – a hierarchical society come from the rich algae, gunk and leisured classes near the frontother crud that – well, through the orgiastsuse of it is never really made clear. Once there, past the useful carriages two brothers set aside for producing foodthemselves each up with a guide – Lippy, to the underclass at more forward-thinking, industrious of the end. It's all set in its routinetwo, with a besuited gent, set in motionPenn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But there are which of the two fishes out of water – a man from will come off the rear who escapedworse as they make their own way in this dystopian, and a middlesemi-class woman working with civil rights campaigners.Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mouse Guard - the Black AxeLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|authortitle=David PetersenTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=Long before there can be peace, there is war. Long before there is something to believe I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone inthe second half of their teens has other priorities, there is empty hopeyou know. Long before I certainly didn't know of the legend, there is weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the truth. And so, long students before the events massacre and the birth of the first two collected Mouse Guard volumes came the story in this thirdTank Man image, that of I didn't know how the heroicarea had long been a venue for political protest, mythical character Celanawe became so notoriousand I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. Our tale starts with him just a guard mouse and tutor to those who would follow him, but an unlikely connection to an already fabled weapon This book is about to be shown to him, practically flawless in the equally unlikely form of giving a scholarly old female mouse, Em. When she says general browser's context for the ancient legacy is situated far across unmapped seas, an unusual trio whole season of explorers is pushed to the limit and beyond, protests back in search of the unseekable1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857681435</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=Bugsy Malone - Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|author=Alan Parker

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=One bunch Diana, being unique on her island, is the victim of a lot of wise guys might think they have it alltaunts, but they don't. Another bunch and claims of wise guys want it all and have the splurge guns to help them get itnepotism. Into the middle come a beautiful starlet-in-waitingIt's only her unique status, and our crafty innocent abroadher mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all, Bugsy Maloneher naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. Cue, at some incredibly random time honouring no discernible anniversary whatsoever, this reprint of the long-lost graphic novel version of Perhaps too strong for the storyisland, told however – for 'all those kids who find it tough reading books with just words'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007514840</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Asterix and the Picts|author=Jean-Yves Ferri, Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo and Didier Conrad|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I've never been entirely certain if Asterix was written every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for children or adults. I am quite certain children were the original target audience, but it is equally apparent that many World of the jokes are thrown in for adults as well. It does seem as if more adults are buying Asterix than children nowMen, and comics in general have been taken over by the adult consumer, but Asterix still has plenty to offer the younger reader as well. If it this Diana is perhaps a bit more sophisticated than the average children's book today, all the better. I'm all for children's books that are light and easy to read, but I think we are doing our children a disservice by filtering out any book with a more complex vocabulary or a fair number heroine of unfamiliar wordsyet another Wonder Woman origin story. My children did find A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a few words like ''solidarity'', ''fraternise'' and ''diaphanous'' challengingrunning race, but if we don't challenge them at all - how will they learn?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011677</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Hilda and the Bird Parade|author=Luke Pearson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Hilda is a young girl who has just moved survivor she drags from the mountainous countryside to the town of Trolberg; a major upheaval in the life of a girl who likes nothing better than to go exploring the woods and mountains and discovering magical creatures. Since moving into town Hilda’s mother waters is not so keen only going to allow Hilda out exploring believing disturb a town to be a potentially dangerous place for a childlot more. Soon though Hilda and her new friends manage to convince her mother to allow her out and the new friends give her a guided tour of the area and all the best places in town. Hilda seems to prefer animals to other children though and early on becomes separated from her friends and instead goes exploring with an injured bird she has befriended.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263060</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401286208|title=A1 AnnualBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Dave Elliott (editor) Meg Cabot and Cara McGee

|summary=It's perhaps a little surprising how few comics anthologies there are on the shelves of regular bookstoresMeet Dinah Lance. The whole world of sequential art is so fragmented the choices Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to be made are infinitetry and follow in his footsteps, everyone who comes into some renown soon wishes for and seemingly lumbered with being a self-published collection of his favourites or her friends' workcheerleader at school, and there definitely she is too much out there for anyone in the audience of comix desperate to fully grasp without some kind of editorial spoon-feedingfind her voice. One such editor is Dave Elliott, whose A1 Comics has been collating what But it deems the world's greatest since 1989actually more a case of her voice finding her, but even with that pedigree as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it's only now that full hardbacks a weapon, or a power. But in order for her to call herself a superhero, there has to be a whole path of their greatest hits are being launched steps for her to take – hardbacks such as this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760164</amazonuk>one of which will be into her past…

 {{newreview|title=Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan MooreFrontpage|authorisbn=Lance Parkin1401280048|rating=5|genre=Biography|summarytitle=I don't think that I ever saw [[Batman:CategoryNightwalker:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]] when I lived in Northampton, and I don't think I coincided with the publication of ''Maxwell the Magic Cat'' in the local newspaper. So I missed out on the memorable frame of someone else who is six foot two, albeit a generation older and looking so hirsute he would seem to be afraid of scissors. But I certainly would not have been alone in not recognising him for what he is. How many Northampton housewives flicked past the daily panels of ''Maxwell'' in complete ignorance of who Alan Moore actually is? – With no idea that the years he spent drawing that cartoon for £10 a week – later to be £12.50 – were just him gearing up to be the biggest man of letters in the comic book world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781310777</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Briony HatchThe Graphic Novel|author=Ginny Skinner and Penelope Skinner |rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Briony Hatch. She's a fourteen year old schoolgirl, with a few too many curves for the trendy set, and want-away hair, who is fixated on the ghost who acts as romantic male lead in her favourite series of fantasy books, about a beautiful, feisty female, swashbuckling exorcist. But when the books finish, just at the same time as her parents divorce, it looks like the beginning of the end. Mum and Briony settle into the abandoned bungalow belonging to the latter's great-uncle and auntMarie Lu, only for the girl to find a horrid malaise come over her. Has the books' conclusion done so much damage as to leave her wishing to retire from life, or can she find the ghost of a hope somewhere?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907536140</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Fashion Beast|author=Alan Stuart Moore and Malcolm McLarenChris Wildgoose

|summary=Meet Doll. She seems to fit in with the world she aspires to The young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – she has an androgynous look and a sharp tonguebystanders, paparazzi, and doesnsuchlike – reminding him he't seem to hold many s a billionaire at the age of the people around her in much deferenceeighteen. HoweverFeeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, as someone else is very quick he wants to point outdo charitable deeds. But one night, she is only when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a cloakroom attendantcriminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, however swanky and gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in vogue the nightclub she works at might behome for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. That same someone else gets her firedThere he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, howevera gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, yet for every door that shuts… and murder the owner. As she becomes an overnight modelling sensationCan he get close to one of them and get the truth of their schemes, and finds her new boss or will the manipulative Madeleine be a very singular individual.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1592912117</amazonuk>step too far for the young do-gooder?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401283292|title=The Weirdo Years 1981-'91Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=R CrumbMariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|rating=43.5

|summary=Books are better than magazines – discussHarleen Quinzel is new in town. Certainly She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's been around a long time, for the connoisseur of the contents of culturally important titles from the 1960sshe always has a very fresh attitude, 1970s and 1980s it must be a lively debateseems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. I remember my collection of ''New Worlds'' editions But here she is new in town, and how often the editors would take us through town is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long novel over seven or eight partsfurlough from life with her mother, then dump she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to stay with a 'sorrybunch of drag queens. She also finds school is a drag, due to space requirements this last part of what you've cherished for months she also finds the whole neighbourhood is abridged being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but wait for the novel version soon' she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on usher life. Is it better to be One is a completistcivil-minded lass called Ivy, and witness everything the original editors deemed worthy (or just had lying around) or should we cherry-pick other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and note the best? This hefty hunk of book goes a mind for the latter, anyway, taking [[:Category:Robert Crumb|R Crumb]]'s output for the ''Weirdo'' comic, as edited by R Crumb, then someone else, then Mrs R Crumb, violence and giving us everythingchaos, warts and all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662253</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140128339X|title=The Hartlepool MonkeyMera: Tidebreaker|author=Wilfrid Lupano Danielle Paige and Jeremie MoreauStephen Byrne|rating=4.5

|summary=OK, IMeet Mera. She'll get s the obvious pun over and done with – this graphic novel features latest in a lot line of monkeying aroundyoung women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. It focuses on Her father, the village king of HartlepoolXebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the people who populated the small settlement on low cliffs overlooking the North Seaterritory's warrior queen, with its couple of pubs and not much elseis long dead. It looks Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at what might have happened whenall and is, as folklore has itin fact, a storm put paid trying to a French ship and when a monkey washed up ashore afterwards get Xebel out from under the natives took it cosh of Atlantean power, for a Napoleonic spy, tried Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to find invasion plans from itthe world of us air-breathing humans, and hanged it as kill the enemy. Here Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the poor creature is even shaved so it shows respect to quest (and the court-martialpromised throne) all for herself. Here too are some lovely choice lines But of course, she has no idea what kind of vernacular delivered in spite about the French and the Englishperson she will meet, and here too is a guest appearance by someone with a much more modern outlook than how hard it will be to get the ridiculous Hartlepool residents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662261</amazonuk>job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401286399|title=Celtic WarriorSuper Sons: The Legend of Cu ChulainnPolarShield Project|author=Will SlineyRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=Queen Maeve wants It's the Brown Bull near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of Cooley and a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the lands of Ulsterrising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. With an army Superman is helping out, of 10course – first,000 menhe was patching up the dams, she marches to try to take them by forcebut now he's mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. The only man who stands between her Inland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and her goal intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is Cú Chulainn, much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the legendary herocity. Can he save his country from But it can't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and the efforts to correct the evil enchantressclimate, can it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847173381</amazonuk>Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Big Nate Compilation 3 : Genius Mode168369015X|authortitle=Lincoln Peirce|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=They say you should live your life like an adventure, and Big Nate certainly does that, even if it is only four panels at a time, meaning Manfried the full plot of the story can take a week or more to come out. For Big Nate is a star of an American newspaper comic strip, and this, believe it or not, is his tenth collection. We learn from this all about his friendships at school, his relations with his teachers and father, and just what a soppy thing his most unmasculine dog can be. Here are comics, baseball and laziness, as every American kid knows them. Luckily for us, though, Big Nate travels well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007515642</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMan: A Graphic Novel|author=Alan Moore Caitlin Major and Eddie Campbell|title=The From Hell CompanionKelly Bastow

|summary=[[:Category:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]] will always be synonymous with In a world where cats stand on two major books – [[Watchmen by Alan Moore feet, go to work at call centres and Dave Gibbons|Watchmen]] and From Hellhave diminutive human beings for pets, his look at the Whitechapel Murdersis Manfried. While the latter may appear to many to be He's a greattypical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, galumphing graphic novel loosely about Jack but at the same time being the Ripperperfect companion for his owner, you ain't seen nothing yetSteve Catson. This volume To such an extent that Steve, who is getting known for his illustrator [[:Category:Eddie Campbell|Eddie Campbellman-oriented thinking, is actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''crazy man cat''s]] look at proceedings. But when a window gets left open by mistake, and Manfried goes missing, the only thing for a book that would appear to have no actual Moore input in it, he provides is a welter of words for it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661842</amazonuk>massive and energised man-hunt…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennie Wood and Jeff McComseyHainsworth_Gina|title=FlutterTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth|rating=4.5

|summary=When fifteen-year-old Lily moves to yet another new town, ''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she falls for needed a girl who isn't interested in her. Lilydog – so drove the length of the country, thoughBrighton to Grimsby, has a trick to pick up her sleeve - 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 sheshouldn's t and causes a shapeshifter. She turns herself into a boy mess, so that she can have it's not a chance great start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with Saffrontheir dogs. As Jesse And then, she starts the life with Gina begins to build a new life for herself at school -can this 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.'boy' get the girl? Additionally Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, why is Lily so resistant to any sort of harmher husband, two children and who are two cats – gets to form the strange people who are trying to find her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484085957</amazonuk>family they and Gina all would have wanted.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Millar and Leinil YuColfer_Illegal|title=SuperiorIllegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin

|summary=Former basketball star Simon Pooni Ebo is now in a wheelchair twelve years old and blind in one eye - at the age of 12all alone. Mutliple sclerosis has His sister left him in this state, praying for a cure. Then a talking monkey named Orman appears to him Europe months ago and offers him now he doesn't know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the chance same thing. So Ebo has to become a real life version of movie superhero Superior - for a week. But what will happen when attempt the week ends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857685945</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Geoff Johns and Doug Mahnke|title=Green Lantern Volume 1: Sinestro|rating=4same dangerous journey himself.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I've never been a Green Lantern fan - I've tried He must cross the series a couple Sahara Desert, get himself to Tripoli, one of times the most dangerous cities in the past but seem to have picked bad times to give it a go. Howeverworld, I've heard some good things about DC Comics recently so wanted and then try to try a few of cross the New 52 booksMediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And, which relaunched all of the publisher's ongoing monthlieseven if he makes it, and this caught my eye.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401234550</amazonuk>how will he find his sister?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hannah EatonMiller_Batman|title=Naming MonstersBatman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello

|summary=Batman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the baddies he usually biffs. But then he'Monsters are all around us's not Batman – he', we are tolds a she, and Fran should knowshe finally comes up with the news that Batman died in her hands. She opens each chapter Elsewhere, Lara, the daughter of her episodic story here Superman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with a new monster – a golemshrinking and expanding life to the miniaturised city of Kandor, an incubus, or perhaps something less well knownthe last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. But there are subtly monstrous events What with Superman sitting idle in her life as well – an alleged boyfriend with exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a measly attitudesulk, a fake mediumand Batman dead, a summer there would appear to be little in the way of retaking GCSEs, and more help for the world should anything nasty happen – as well as the biggestbut then, blackestof course, visitation – something that should bring succour, family and friendship but cannot be handled.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190843421X</amazonuk>nasty does happen… s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Garth Ennis and Steve DillonWeeks_Gritterman|title=Preacher Volume 1: Gone To Texas|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Reverend Jesse Custer is losing his faith in God - but he's about to find out that He exists, and He isn't all that He's cracked up to be. After one incredible event, Jesse's life is turned upside down, and he sets out on a road trip that will lead him to try and get answers from God himself - if Heaven's angels, and the Saint of Killers, don't cut him down first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1563892618</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Peter O'Donnell|title=Modesty Blaise - The Girl In The Iron Mask|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=n this volume our globe-trotting heroine Modesty and her faithful Willie land up at a jungle hospital, only to find the people providing it with useful drugs are also creating their own much worse drugs nearby; find the Mafia just one man away from taking over Australia – and therefore give him a male and female tag team back-up; and stumble into the wicked games of a pair of corrupt, evil billionaires in the Alps. There is no let-up in the global shenanigans, the daring-do, or the whipcrack action – and we wouldn’t want it any other way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686941</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill|title=Nemo: Heart of Ice|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The Nemo here is merely the daughter of the great Captain Nemo, as defined by Jules Verne, although given that heritage there is more than enough talent in her bloodline for piracy and adventure. Here, fleeing a royal family that has just been looted, Nemo turns to her father's logbooks and journals, and decides there is unfinished business in the southern polar wastes. But while she's off looking for more edifying action, others are off looking for revenge on her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661834</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGritterman|author=Cassandra Clare and HyeKyung Baek|title=The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel, Volume 1: The Manga (Manga Edition)Orlando Weeks|rating=3.5

|summary=Meet Tessa GrayThere's a man who has an ice cream van. Summonsed to London to be with her brother after living in AmericaIn summer, she has no idea what she there is of summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, That's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going to be in whilst he waits forwinter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a Gritterman. A kidnap The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up and training at rotate, playing a tune, whether the hands of two witches is only van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the start of it as she is forced to find van's last trip. The council has sent the truth letter about the world about her – about the two different kinds of supernatural beingshis services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, and of how they constantly fight against each other, and about her own unique origin, character and destiny say. There's even a tarmac now that makes her more than a pawn in this battle. You might have met Tessa beforecan de-ice itself, but not like this – for this is the manga adaptation of Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a world where the seriesB2116 doesn't need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502252</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Joff Winterhart|title=Days of the Bagnold Summer|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Daniel Bagnold. He is a surly, sullen, modern teenager, permanently in a black hoodie, with long, lanky hair and almost a monobrow, who one would call very quiet were it not for the metal music that forms almost his only interest. He has been forced to spend the summer, not in Florida with his absent father's new family, but with his librarian mother Sue, his best friend and his shyness. He doesn't want much, and neither it would appear does his mother – although she knows she has to get him some posh shoes for her cousin's wedding. This book is about their relationship – the two of them and the dog that completes the household – in telling, devastating and humorous manner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090844</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Nytra|title=The Secret of the Stone Frog|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=You know the drill – you are a young boy and find yourself waking up alongside your older sister, but with your beds beside the bole of a huge tree in an enchanted forest. The advice you get is straightforward, but impossible to follow, as you don't stick to the straight and simple path home that you should. As a result you find a tempting house guarded by bees who steal the words out of your mouth, hoity-toity upper class lions, angler fish on the daily commute and more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1935179187</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Krent Able|title=Krent Able's Big Book of Mischief|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's come to my attention recently that Knockabout books, with their growing library of graphic titles, have no intention in being at all literary – not for them the gently observant characterisation of some original graphic novels. Instead they seem to have a wilful regard for going even further than their house name suggests – wild, wacky and not afraid to present an upsetting image. With Krent Able they have the collaborator who will surely help them live up to that ethos like no other. Taken from the ''Stool Pigeon'' musical magazine, with some extra cartoons, are these strips of depravity, death in unlikely ways and revolting selections of body parts and fluids.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661796</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert R Crumb and Aline Crumb|title=Drawn Together|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=This book is, as it says several times, the collected works of the world's only comic-strip creating husband-and-wife partnership. While this is to ignore the work Joyce does to co-write some of Harvey Pekar's titles, there certainly is not a couple such as this. Over several decades of work, we see just how joined at the hip they are. Most of the panels are drawn by him - R - with Aline drawing herself on top of his inked backgrounds. Later on, their self-created titles are split, with him doing half the pages, and her own opus on the other half - by this time she had had works out under her own name. But so close are the couple in each other's intimate works, they are never very far from the edge of the frame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661788</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hunt Emerson and Kevin Jackson|title=Dante's Inferno|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It seems incredibly right, on only the third page of this text, that the Divine Comedy should be transferred to the black and white, cartoonish side of the graphic novel format. Our venturing hero encounters the 'leopard of malice and fraud', the 'lion of violence and ambition' and the 'she-wolf of avarice and incontinence', and leaves bemoaning ''living in a world of symbolism''. You could see the beasts illustrated and captioned by name curving alongside their body, just as Hogarth may have displayed them, but no, Emerson goes down the path that is less cartoonish and less newspaper comic strip, and lets the picture and script stay a bit more separate. But later on he is delving into the more blatant, and immediate, by dressing The Furies up as multiple Maggie Thatchers. The good thing about this book is there is reason for everything in it - from the examples of artwork I have described, to the fact both creators claim it to have been 'influenced by childhood reading of MAD magazine', and a reason the publisher of this untouchable classic is known as Knockabout Books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661699</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Grant Morrison|title=Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Consider the super-hero comic. Borne out of a need to create cheap and franchise-friendly content for newspapers in America, it's grown into a billion-dollar industry, with Hollywood jumping Move on the bandwagon of several major characters now their FX have finally caught up with the printed page. Disposable? - once upon a time, yet now collectable to the tune of a million dollars or more. Frivolous? - probably, yet not exclusively now, if ever so. At one point here, they are just one product of the infinitely powerful imaginary system each of us carries in our brain, and at the other 'ethereal, paper-thin constructs of unfettered imagination'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546671</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eddie Campbell|title=The Lovely Horrible Stuff|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Money, in amongst all the cliched things it does, makes for peciluar detail for a graphic novelist like Eddie Campbell to include in a book about it. He has to make himself a company to qualify for creating a Batman strip to earn it, and has to pay $4 to buy $1 to draw (- then claim the tax back on the purchase to save himself some of it). It causes friction when his daughter earns too much, and when his wife's dad spends too much in a legal pursuit to have more. In the second half of this book it causes a journalistic piece of non-fiction as he takes a look at Pacific islanders who used man-sized stone discs as currency.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1603091521</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Historical Fiction Reviews]]