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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Jane, The Fox and MeEdel Rodriguez|authortitle=Fanny Britt and Isabelle ArsenaultWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4.5

|summary=Bullied at school We're in childhood, and lonely because her former friends donwe't talk 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 hercreate a level playing field for all. Well, Helene loses herself in the pages those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren'Jane Eyre''. To a girl who thinks t in the happiest of herself places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as fat he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and plainnot liked for his successful photography business, Jane's story gives her hope - but can she find happiness? success being frowned upon. And how will a trip The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to a nature camp affect her? Can ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it give her remains the confidence and courage to change kind of heat forcing you out of the way she sees herself?kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406353043</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Nemo: Roses of BerlinKia Ahankoob|authortitle=Alan Moore The Gold Lion and Kevin O'Neillthe Tournament of Sentinels|rating=3.54

|summary=ItWhen Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's all very well having a heroic band of brigands children and workers plucked from literature and being able to do the jobs that cantheir descendants. But it didn't ever even feature in top secret filesquite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Submariners, invisible men, and other individuals Enmities grew out of mysterious origin, powers them and sometimes intent aren't unique the eight countries went to Englishwar. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, or Englanda solution is proposed. Hence this loose approximation Each of World War IIthe eight countries will send their greatest warriors, when Berlin is turned into a Germania-meets-''Judge-Dredd''-Megacityknown as sentinels, and the Indian daughter of Captain Nemo and her very own special Captain Jack have to a much more personal missionsingle combat tournament. The Fuhrer – and winner will take possession of all the real people rings and things behind become the throne supreme ruler of the Nazi-type superpower – have something they'll fight to the end to get back – their own offspringDuniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>086166230X</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreview|title=Snowpiercer Vol.2 - The ExplorersFrontpage|author=Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc RochettePat Grant|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summarytitle=All of humankind is living on a single train. Oh sorry, as this is the sequel, make that two trains. Launched on the same tracks as the original Snowpiercer, but clearly at a slight remove, was a second mile-long behemoth of a train, designed with the latest high tech to be completely self-sustaining as it travelled ceaselessly on the tracks encircling a frozen Earth, waiting for the time the world was inhabitable once more. But the high tech on board, complete with lemon farms, and differing qualities of virtual holidays depending on cost and class of customer, has not put paid to one aspect of society – and in fact the sole aspect of society not featured in [[Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette|the first book]] – religion. Some people are fearing the end time, when the Icebreaker crashes into the original Snowpiercer. Some believe they're duped into the whole train idea, and are in fact on a spacecraft. Some people know something else – the rare few explorers who get to go outside the train into the world beyond, and see glimpses of what came before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Line of Fire Grot: Diary of an Unknown Soldier (August, September 1914)|author=Barroux|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A scientist can tell a bit about an animal's nature just by observing the beginnings of its life ('it's in water, ergo it's probably a fish'). They don't need to study every ant in the colony to see how ants collaborate and work together, for the detail is pretty much shared from one ant to the next. So it is with soldiers, at least as far as this book is concerned. You can pick one soldier from all the battalions and learn something of soldierly life. You can see the nature The Story of the war from what happens at the outset. And here all we get is the outset, for this graphic novel is based on a manuscript the artist found purely by chance, of a solitary soldier's diary that covers only a couple of weeks in 1914, and stops obliquely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912398</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape|author=Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc RochetteSwamp 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 wise guys might think they have it alla lot of taunts, 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, Bugsy Malonethat has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. CuePerhaps too strong for the island, at some incredibly random time honouring no discernible anniversary whatsoeverhowever – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of Men, and this reprint of Diana is the long-lost graphic novel version heroine of the yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, told for 'all those kids who find it tough reading books with just words'but the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007514840</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreview|title=Asterix and the Picts|author=Jean-Yves Ferri, Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo and Didier Conrad|rating=5|genre=Graphic NovelsFrontpage|summaryisbn=I've never been entirely certain if Asterix was written for children or adults. I am quite certain children were the original target audience, but it is equally apparent that many of the jokes are thrown in for adults as well. It does seem as if more adults are buying Asterix than children now, 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 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 of unfamiliar words. My children did find a few words like ''solidarity'', ''fraternise'' and ''diaphanous'' challenging, but if we don't challenge them at all - how will they learn?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011677</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1401286208|title=Hilda and the Bird ParadeBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Luke Pearson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Hilda is a young girl who has just moved 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 Meg Cabot and mountains and discovering magical creatures. Since moving into town Hilda’s mother is not so keen to allow Hilda out exploring believing a town to be a potentially dangerous place for a child. 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263060</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A1 Annual|author=Dave Elliott (editor) 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 infinite, everyone who comes into some renown soon wishes for a self-published collection of try and follow in his favourites or her friends' workfootsteps, and there definitely is too much out there for anyone in the audience of comix to fully grasp without some kind of editorial spoon-feeding. One such editor is Dave Elliott, whose A1 Comics has been collating what it deems the world's greatest since 1989, but even seemingly lumbered with that pedigree it's only now that full hardbacks of their greatest hits are being launched – hardbacks such as this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760164</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore|author=Lance Parkin|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=I don't think that I ever saw [[:Category:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]] when I lived in Northamptona cheerleader at school, 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 she is six foot two, albeit a generation older and looking so hirsute he would seem desperate to be afraid of scissorsfind her voice. 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 it''Maxwell'' in complete ignorance of who Alan Moore s actually is? – With no idea that the years he spent drawing that cartoon for £10 more a week – later to be £12.50 – were just him gearing up to be the biggest man case of letters in the comic book world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781310777</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Briony Hatch|author=Ginny Skinner and Penelope Skinner |rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Briony Hatch. She's a fourteen year old schoolgirlher voice finding her, 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 when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her favourite series of fantasy booksvocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a weapon, about or a beautiful, feisty female, swashbuckling exorcistpower. But when the books finish, just at the same time as in order for 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 auntcall herself a superhero, only for the girl there has to find be a horrid malaise come over whole path of steps for her. Has the books' conclusion done so much damage as to leave take – one of which will be into her wishing to retire from life, or can she find the ghost of a hope somewhere?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907536140</amazonuk>past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401280048|title=Fashion BeastBatman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Alan Marie Lu, 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 of Cooley near future, and the lands every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of Ulstera huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. With an army of 10,000 menBut the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, she marches forcing many people to try to take them by forcerelocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. The only man who stands between her and her goal Superman is Cú Chulainnhelping out, of course – first, he was patching up the legendary hero. Can dams, but now he save his country from 's mining the evil enchantress?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847173381</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Big Nate Compilation 3 : Genius Mode|author=Lincoln Peirce|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=They say you should live your life like an adventure, and Big Nate certainly does asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, even if it is only four panels at a timein Wyndermere, meaning the full plot of refugees from the story can take a week or more to come outcoast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. For Big Nate is a star A major bout of an American newspaper comic strip, and this, believe it or not, food poisoning is his tenth collectionhitting the city. We learn from this all about his friendships at school, his relations But it can't possibly have anything to do with his teachers what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and fatherthe efforts to correct the climate, 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>it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell168369015X|title=The From Hell CompanionManfried the Man: A Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly 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 cureEurope months ago and now he doesn't know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thing. Then a talking monkey named Orman appears So Ebo has to him and offers him attempt the same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the chance Sahara Desert, get himself to become a real life version Tripoli, one of movie superhero Superior - for a weekthe most dangerous cities in the world, and then try to cross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. But what And, even if he makes it, how will happen when the week endshe find his sister?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857685945</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Geoff Johns and Doug MahnkeMiller_Batman|title=Green Lantern Volume 1Batman: SinestroDark Knight III: The Master Race|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summaryauthor=I've never been a Green Lantern fan - I've tried the series a couple of times in the past but seem to have picked bad times to give it a go. However, I've heard some good things about DC Comics recently so wanted to try a few of the New 52 books, which relaunched all of the publisher's ongoing monthlies, Frank Miller and this caught my eye.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401234550</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hannah Eaton|title=Naming MonstersBrian 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>}}  {{newreviewThe Gritterman|author=Peter O'Donnell|title=Modesty Blaise - The Girl In The Iron MaskOrlando Weeks|rating=45

|summary=n this volume our globe-trotting heroine Modesty and her faithful Willie land up at There's a jungle hospitalman who has an ice cream van. In summer, only what there is of summer, he uses it to find the people providing sell ice creams, That's not his vocation though, but it with useful drugs are also creating their own much worse drugs nearby; find does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the Mafia just one man away from taking over Australia – van becomes a Gritting Van and therefore give him our narrator becomes a male and female tag team back-Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up; and stumble into the wicked games of rotate, playing a pair of corrupttune, evil billionaires in whether the Alpsvan's gritting or selling ice creams. There is no letTonight - Christmas Eve -up in will be the van's last trip. The council has sent the global shenanigansletter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, the daringthey say. There's even a tarmac now that can de-doice itself, or but the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a world where the whipcrack action – and we wouldn’t want it any other way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686941</amazonuk>B2116 doesn't need gritting.

{{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>}} {{newreview|author=Cassandra Clare and HyeKyung Baek|title=The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel, Volume 1: The Manga (Manga Edition)|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Tessa Gray. Summonsed to London to be with her brother after living in America, she has no idea what she is going to be in for. A kidnap and training at the hands of two witches is only the start of it as she is forced to find the truth about the world about her – about the two different kinds of supernatural beings, and of how they constantly fight against each other, and about her own unique origin, character and destiny that makes her more than a pawn in this battle. You might have met Tessa before, but not like this – for this is the manga adaptation of the series.|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 Move 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>}}[[Newest Historical Fiction Reviews]]