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|summary=ItWe's AIDSre in childhood, Jim, but not as and we know it're in Cuba. G+ is the new sexually transmitted disease sweeping the nation's reckless youthThe revolution has happened, and it has even further-reaching consequences. It boosts your brain activityCastro, and makes you first thought of as a stronger and more promiscuous carrier saviour of the virus – so you can be beating country, has proven himself a supercomputer at chess one moment Communist, and rolling around a bed with not done nearly enough to create a host of ladies the nextlevel playing field for all. But either wayWell, it kills you within six monthsthose hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Here it affects three people with more cerebral, supernatural powers – a young female artist Our narrator's family weren't in need the happiest of confirmationplaces here, an egotistical junkie rock staruncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and a certain highly-rated comic with Russell Brand's hair watched, and Kasabian's wardrobe designernot liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. It's a combination The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the three people and their own G+ that will make sure heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the world is most certainly aware kind of their activities – death sentence or no death sentence…heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782760083</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill ForKia Ahankoob|authortitle=Frank MillerThe Gold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels|rating=4.5

|summary=''Ava. Damn.'' With that repeated refrain we're forcibly given Dwight's viewpoint When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and made to agree with itprosperous society. Ava Each power is quite contained within a woman. She was Dwightmagical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's, but now she's not, children and hetheir descendants. But it didn's forced to ignore his photojournalism career in favour of his night-time job t quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of photographing evidence for adultery cases, them and the eight countries went to struggle to stay away from the fags war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and off finding the booze. But now it's all going to be much hardercost of war too high, for Ava has come backa solution is proposed. She's stifled in a lovelessEach of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, violent marriageknown as sentinels, trapped in to a gated villa with her husband and his man mountain single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of a bodyguard, and only Dwight has all the flutter in her heart rings and become the iron in his fist and gut to make things right for hersupreme ruler of Duniva. Damn Ava? You bet he's going to…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616552395</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreview|title=Modesty Blaise - The Young MistressFrontpage|author=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia RomeroPat Grant|ratingtitle=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=[[The Grot:Category:Peter O'Donnell|Modesty Blaise]] is slowly becoming like an old flame of mine – just popping back into my life every few months to regale an adventure, have a catch-up and be on her way. This latest fleeting visit shows Modesty, the most ironically-named brunette in the world of solving crime, having old flames of her own – although she calls them 'escorts'. They're prevalent in the first and title story, where her doctor lover has a patient with whip marks, which leads into a full-blown action adventure regarding art forgeries. Her American 'escort' wants to replace the doctor, but has to wait for a story all The Story of his own, when his own prize racehorse is a target for criminals. And in the third story there are a lot of returning characters – but not all are as they might at first appear…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781167095</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Manifest Destiny Volume 1|author=Chris Dingess, Matthew Roberts and Owen GieniSwamp City Grifters

|summary=It's 1804 Everything in this world runs on pedal-power, and some newly-American soldiers that includes the punk bands. There are expanding three pedallers at the territory front of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the westferry across the swamp to Falter City, at where a mother and her two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. You could say that yoghurt would be the orders only culture around, for this is a really rough-and-ready dump of President Jefferson – orders which allude to the pioneering party encountering some very unusual a place, but everyone is interested in small thingsthat grow. And they do For the only money to be had – first a huge arc of greenery, putting the modern reader only fortunes to be found in mind of Falter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that – well, the Missouri landmark arch as bastardised by something along the lines use of it is never really made clear. Once there, the Statue of Liberty in two brothers set themselves each up with a guide – Lippy, the original 'Planet more forward-thinking, industrious of the Apes'two, with a besuited gent, Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But when that site gets attacked which of the two will come off the weirdness certainly starts to show itself…worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1607069822</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Hilda Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and the Black HoundEdward Gauvin (translator)|authortitle=Luke PearsonTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=Hilda I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the Black Hound is birth of the fourth book in Tank Man image, I didn't know how the “Hildafolk” seriesarea had long been a venue for political protest, each of which is and I didn't know more than a self-contained tale spit about a highly inquisitive little girl and her adventuresthe people involved on either side. This time Hilda joins the Sparrow Scouts and befriends a house spirit whilst book is practically flawless in the meantime giving a mysterious beast stalks general browser's context for the town whole season of Trolbergprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263184</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Bojeffries SagaLeigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|authortitle=Alan Moore and Steve ParkhouseWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=53|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=A very truncated history Diana, being unique on her island, is the victim of comics will start with the idea that they should be funny strips – one jape then you're out; then that they should have more – perhaps a superhero; then that you can have so much more than just a superhero – witness the works lot of taunts, and claims of [[:Category:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]]nepotism. But you mustnIt't s only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be too surprised to see the whole thing come around in a full cyclestrong young woman. Because Alan Moore Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story hasher quickly leaving home for the World of Men, with and this volume, concluded his own funny strip japery, and whatever history or greater opinions about Diana is the canon heroine of comix might sayyet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, it's just about his best ever bookbut the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861662318</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401286208|title=The Secret Service - KingsmanBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Mark Millar Meg Cabot and Dave GibbonsCara McGee|rating=3.5

|summary=He is Mister LondonMeet Dinah Lance. Jack London. He is the longest-servingFrustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, most experienced and downright most suave secret agent the country hasseemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, she is desperate to find her voice. But he now has a problem possibly bigger than even those heit's had to face up to before – his nephew. Gary Unwin, Eggsy to his friends, is stuck in actually more a rut called Peckhamcase of her voice finding her, living with his kid brother and his single mum, and as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her latest bullying, abusive partnervocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. His life is the X-BoxYou could almost call it a weapon, cheap four-packs and TWOCing the neighbourhood carsor a power. Reluctantly casting his mind from the problem of someone kidnapping the greats of TV sci-fi historyBut in order for her to call herself a superhero, Jack undergoes his most awkward mission yet – raising his nephew there has to be a world-saver.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781167036</amazonuk>whole path of steps for her to take – one of which will be into her past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401280048|title=Jane, Batman: Nightwalker: The Fox and MeGraphic Novel|author=Fanny Britt Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Isabelle ArsenaultChris Wildgoose|rating=4.5

|summary=Bullied The young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at school and lonely because her former friends donthe age of eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he't talk s inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to herdo charitable deeds. But one night, Helene loses herself when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and gets given the pages most unlikely stretch of ''Jane Eyre''community service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. To There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a girl gang who thinks steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and murder the owner. Can he get close to one of herself as fat them and plainget the truth of their schemes, Jane's story gives her hope - but can she find happiness? And how or will the manipulative Madeleine be a trip to a nature camp affect her? Can it give her step too far for the confidence and courage to change the way she sees herselfyoung do-gooder?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353043</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401283292|title=NemoHarley Quinn: Roses of BerlinBreaking Glass|author=Alan Moore Mariko Tamaki and Kevin O'NeillSteve Pugh

|summary=ItHarleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's all been around a long time, for she always has a very well having a heroic band of brigands fresh attitude, and workers plucked from literature and being able seems to do the jobs that can't ever even feature in top secret fileslook out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. Submariners, invisible menBut here she is new in town, and other individuals of mysterious originthe town is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, powers she finds her gran dead and sometimes intent aren't unique herself with no option but to English, or Englandstay with a bunch of drag queens. Hence this loose approximation of World War II, when Berlin She also finds school is turned into a Germania-meets-''Judge-Dredd''-Megacitydrag, and she also finds the Indian daughter of Captain Nemo whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and her very own special Captain Jack uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a much more personal missionbig impact on her life. The Fuhrer One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and the real people a mind for violence and things behind the throne of the Nazi-type superpower – have something they'll fight to the end to get back – their own offspring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>086166230X</amazonuk>chaos, who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140128339X|title=Snowpiercer Vol.2 - The ExplorersMera: Tidebreaker|author=Benjamin Legrand Danielle Paige and Jean-Marc RochetteStephen Byrne

|summary=All of humankind is living on a single trainMeet Mera. Oh sorry, as this is She's the sequel, make that two trains. Launched on the same tracks as the original Snowpiercer, but clearly at a slight remove, was latest in a second mile-long behemoth line of a train, designed with the latest high tech to be completely self-sustaining as it travelled ceaselessly young women intent on the tracks encircling a frozen Earth, waiting fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for the time the world was inhabitable once morethemselves. But Her father, the high tech on board, complete with lemon farms, and differing qualities king of virtual holidays depending on cost and class of customerXebel, has not put paid to one aspect of society – sees some cotton wool and a hunky man 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]] an arranged marriage as her future – religion. Some people are fearing after all, Mera's mother, the end timeterritory's warrior queen, when the Icebreaker crashes into the original Snowpierceris long dead. Some believe theyMera doesn're duped into t fancy the whole train ideacosseting or the fella involved at all and is, and are in fact on a spacecraft. Some people know something else – the rare few explorers who , trying to get to go outside the train into Xebel out from under the world beyond, and see glimpses of what came before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Line cosh of Fire : Diary of an Unknown Soldier (AugustAtlantean power, September 1914)|author=Barroux|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A scientist can tell a bit about an animalfor Xebel's nature just by observing the beginnings royalty are merely puppets of its life ('it's in water, ergo it's probably a fish')Atlantean masters. They don't need So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to study every ant in the colony to see how ants collaborate world of us air-breathing humans, and work togetherkill the Atlantis heir, for she rushes off to get the detail is pretty much shared from one ant to quest (and the next. So it is with soldiers, at least as far as this book is concerned. You can pick one soldier from promised throne) all the battalions and learn something of soldierly lifefor herself. You can see the nature But of the war from course, she has no idea 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, kind of a solitary soldier's diary that covers only a couple of weeks in 1914person she will meet, and stops obliquely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912398</amazonuk>how hard it will be to get the job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401286399|title=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - Super Sons: The EscapePolarShield Project|author=Jacques Lob Ridley Pearson and Jean-Marc RochetteIle Gonzalez

|summary=All of humankind is living on a single train. I know British commuters feel that way at timesIt's the near future, but this is a much different circumstance and every coastal city – including Metropolis – it is in need of a train miles long, running non-stop as a self-contained unit across tracks circling a desolately frozen Earthhuge flood barrier, moving built on endlessly untilits coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, perhaps some time forcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, of course – first, he was patching up the distant futuredams, but now he's mining the planet can recover from the cataclysm asteroid belt for a rare dust that froze it. It's certainly been going on long enough perfect for it to have a culture – a hierarchical society blocking the solar energy from the rich and leisured classes near the frontmaking further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, through the orgiasts, past refugees from the useful carriages set aside coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for producing being newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of food, to the underclass at poisoning is hitting the endcity. ItBut it can's all set in its routine, set in motion. But there are two fishes out t possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of water – a man from the rear who escapedflood barriers and the efforts to correct the climate, and a middle-class woman working with civil rights campaigners.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=168369015X|title=Mouse Guard - Manfried the Black AxeMan: A Graphic Novel|author=David PetersenCaitlin Major and Kelly Bastow

|summary=Long before there can be peaceIn a world where cats stand on two feet, there is war. Long before there is something go to believe inwork at call centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, there is empty hopeManfried. Long before the legendHe's a typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, there is the truth. And sodemanding more food than he can suitably eat, long before but at the events of same time being the first two collected Mouse Guard volumes came the story in this thirdperfect companion for his owner, Steve Catson. To such an extent that of how the heroicSteve, mythical character Celanawe became so notorious. Our tale starts with him just a guard mouse and tutor to those who would follow himis getting known for his man-oriented thinking, but an unlikely connection to an already fabled weapon is actually having nightmares about to be shown to him, in becoming the equally unlikely form of a scholarly old female mouse, Em. When she says the ancient legacy is situated far across unmapped seas, an unusual trio of explorers is pushed to the limit and beyond, in search of the unseekable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681435</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Bugsy Malone - Graphic Novel|author=Alan Parker|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=One bunch of wise guys might think they have it all, but they donneighbourhood ''t. Another bunch of wise guys want it all and have the splurge guns to help them get it. Into the middle come a beautiful starlet-in-waiting, and our crafty innocent abroad, Bugsy Malone. Cue, at some incredibly random time honouring no discernible anniversary whatsoever, this reprint of the long-lost graphic novel version of the story, told for crazy man cat'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 FerriBut when a window gets left open by mistake, Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo and Didier Conrad|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I've never been entirely certain if Asterix was written for children or adults. I am quite certain children were the original target audienceManfried goes missing, but it is equally apparent that many of the jokes are thrown in only thing 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 massive 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 energised man- how will they learn?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011677</amazonuk>hunt…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Hainsworth_Gina|title=Hilda and the Bird ParadeTalking to Gina|author=Luke PearsonOttilie Hainsworth

|summary=It's perhaps 'This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a little surprising how few comics anthologies there are on dog – so drove the shelves length of regular bookstores. The whole world of sequential art is so fragmented the choices country, Brighton to be made are infiniteGrimsby, everyone who comes into to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some renown soon wishes for a self-published collection of his favourites or her friends' work, mange and there definitely is too much out there for anyone in the audience of comix to fully grasp without some kind of editorial spoon-feedingone working eye. One such editor is Dave ElliottWhy not? The first night at home, whose A1 Comics has been collating what it deems Gina – the worlddog – eats something she shouldn's greatest since 1989t and causes a mess, but even with that pedigree so it's only now that full hardbacks not a great start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their greatest hits are being launched dogs. And then, the life with Gina begins to feel like too much – hardbacks such ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as this bookif I was in love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760164<'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/amazonuk>author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the family they and Gina all would have wanted.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Colfer_Illegal|title=Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan MooreIllegal|author=Lance ParkinEoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin

|summary=Meet Briony HatchEbo is twelve years old and all alone. She's a fourteen year old schoolgirl, with a few too many curves His sister left for the trendy set, Europe months ago and want-away hair, who now he doesn't know where his brother is fixated on either but knows that he has probably done the ghost who acts as romantic male lead in her favourite series of fantasy books, about a beautiful, feisty female, swashbuckling exorcistsame thing. So Ebo has to attempt the same dangerous journey himself. But when He must cross the books finishSahara Desert, just at the same time as her parents divorceget himself to Tripoli, it looks like one of the beginning of most dangerous cities in the end. Mum world, and Briony settle into the abandoned bungalow belonging then try to cross the latter's great-uncle and auntMediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And, 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 lifeeven if he makes it, or can she how will he find the ghost of a hope somewherehis sister?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907536140</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Miller_Batman|title=Fashion BeastBatman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Alan Moore Frank Miller and Malcolm McLarenBrian Azzarello|rating=43.5

|summary=Meet DollBatman is not playing ball. She seems to fit in with He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the world she aspires to baddies he usually biffs. But then he's not Batman – he's a she has an androgynous look and a sharp tongue, and doesn't seem to hold many of she finally comes up with the people around news that Batman died in her in much deferencehands. HoweverElsewhere, Lara, the daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, as someone else is very quick encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to point outthe miniaturised city of Kandor, she is only the last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a cloakroom attendantsulk, however swanky and Batman dead, there would appear to be little in vogue the nightclub she works at might be. That same someone else gets her firedway of help for the world should anything nasty happen – but then, howeverof course, yet for every door that shuts… As she becomes an overnight modelling sensation, and finds her new boss a very singular individual.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1592912117</amazonuk>something nasty does happen… s

 {{newreview|title=The Weirdo Years 1981-'91|author=R Crumb|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Books are better than magazines – discuss. Certainly for the connoisseur of the contents of culturally important titles from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s it must be a lively debate. I remember my collection of ''New Worlds'' editions and how often the editors would take us through a long novel over seven or eight parts, then dump a 'sorry, due to space requirements this last part of what you've cherished for months is abridged – but wait for the novel version soon' on us. Is it better to be a completist, and witness everything the original editors deemed worthy (or just had lying around) or should we cherry-pick and note the best? This hefty hunk of book goes 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, and giving us everything, warts and all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662253</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Hartlepool MonkeyFrontpage|authorisbn=Wilfrid Lupano and Jeremie Moreau|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=OK, I'll get the obvious pun over and done with – this graphic novel features a lot of monkeying around. It focuses on the village of Hartlepool, and the people who populated the small settlement on low cliffs overlooking the North Sea, with its couple of pubs and not much else. It looks at what might have happened when, as folklore has it, a storm put paid to a French ship and when a monkey washed up ashore afterwards the natives took it for a Napoleonic spy, tried to find invasion plans from it, and hanged it as the enemy. Here the poor creature is even shaved so it shows respect to the court-martial. Here too are some lovely choice lines of vernacular delivered in spite about the French and the English, and here too is a guest appearance by someone with a much more modern outlook than the ridiculous Hartlepool residents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662261</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWeeks_Gritterman|title=Celtic Warrior: The Legend of Cu ChulainnGritterman|author=Will Sliney|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Queen Maeve wants the Brown Bull of Cooley and the lands of Ulster. With an army of 10,000 men, she marches to try to take them by force. The only man who stands between her and her goal is Cú Chulainn, the legendary hero. Can he save his country from 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 that, even if it is only four panels at a time, meaning 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>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell|title=The From Hell Companion|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=[[:Category:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]] will always be synonymous with two major books – [[Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons|Watchmen]] and From Hell, his look at the Whitechapel Murders. While the latter may appear to many to be a great, galumphing graphic novel loosely about Jack the Ripper, you ain't seen nothing yet. This volume is his illustrator [[:Category:Eddie Campbell|Eddie Campbell's]] look at proceedings, and for a book that would appear to have no actual Moore input in it, he provides a welter of words for it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661842</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jennie Wood and Jeff McComsey|title=FlutterOrlando Weeks

|summary=When fifteen-year-old Lily moves to yet another new town, she falls for There's a girl man who isn't interested in her. Lily, though, has a trick up her sleeve - she's a shapeshifteran ice cream van. She turns herself into a boy so that she can have a chance with Saffron. As JesseIn summer, she starts to build a new life for herself at school -can this 'boy' get the girl? Additionally, why what there is Lily so resistant to any sort of harmsummer, and who are the strange people who are trying he uses it to find her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484085957</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Millar and Leinil Yu|title=Superior|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Former basketball star Simon Pooni is now in a wheelchair and blind in one eye - at the age of 12. Mutliple sclerosis has left sell ice creams, That's not his vocation though, but it does keep him in this state, praying going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a cure. Then a talking monkey named Orman appears to him Gritting Van and offers him the chance to become a real life version of movie superhero Superior - for our narrator becomes a weekGritterman. But what will happen when The fibreglass 99s on the week ends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857685945</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Geoff Johns roof light up and Doug Mahnke|title=Green Lantern Volume 1: Sinestro|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I've never been rotate, playing a Green Lantern fan - Itune, whether the van've tried the series a couple of times in the past but seem to have picked bad times to give it a gos gritting or selling ice creams. 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 Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the publishervan's ongoing monthlies, and this caught my eyelast trip. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401234550</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hannah Eaton|title=Naming Monsters|rating=3Global warming.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=''Monsters are all around us''Dying profession, we are told, and Fran should knowthey say. She opens each chapter of her episodic story here with There's even a new monster – a golemtarmac now that can de-ice itself, an incubus, or perhaps something less well known. But there are subtly monstrous events but the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in her life as well – an alleged boyfriend with a measly attitude, a fake medium, a summer of retaking GCSEs, and more – as well as world where the biggest, blackest, visitation – something that should bring succour, family and friendship but cannot be handledB2116 doesn't need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190843421X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon|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 Move 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>}}[[Newest Historical Fiction Reviews]]