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|summary=An early [[:Category:Neil Gaiman|Neil Gaiman]] book was all about Douglas AdamsWe're in childhood, and came out at the time he had a success with a book of his own regarding definitions of concepts that had previously not had a specific word attachedwe're in Cuba. Gaiman himself is one The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of those concepts. I know what as a polyglot issaviour of the country, and a polymath – but there should be has proven himself a word for someone like GaimanCommunist, who can write anything and everything he seems not done nearly enough to want – create a whimsical family-friendly picture booklevel playing field for all. Well, a behemoth of modern fantasy, an allthose hours-ages horror story, something with a soupcon long speeches of sci-fi or with a factor his were kind of the fabletaking his time away. He can cross genres – and Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some extent just leave them behind as unnecessaryminor pro-Communism skirmish, such as well as cross format – he was mastering Angola) and the lengthyfather being watched and watched, literary graphic novel just as 'real' books were festering in and not liked for his creativitysuccessful photography business, and songs and poems were just appearing here and theresuccess being frowned upon. So he is pretty much who you think The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of as regards someone who can turn his hands to anything he wishes. He is a poly-somethingthe heat, thenbut in this sultry island country, or just omni-something else.it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781571392</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Was the CatKia Ahankoob|authortitle=Paul Tobin The Gold Lion and Benjamin Deweythe Tournament of Sentinels

|summary=Meet Burma. Allison BreakingWhen Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, blogger each with its own strength and journalist behind weakeness, in the Breaking News website hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is about contained within a magical ring belonging to, for sheone of eight countries led by Myriad's accepted his giant wage packet to ghost write his memoirschildren and their descendants. SheBut it didn's been told t quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went to expect war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the unexpected as regards his lookscost of war too high, but she a solution is shocked to find that Burma is in fact proposed. Each of the world's only talking cateight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, and that he has not one but nine lives to talk abouta single combat tournament. The past eight were full winner will take possession of a lot all the rings and become the supreme ruler of evil, sin and death – but at least he's coming clean now, right?Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1620101394</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Letter 44 Volume 1: Escape VelocityPat Grant|authortitle=Charles Soule and Alberto Jimenez AlburquerqueThe Grot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters|rating=4.5

|summary=I guess we don't always think Everything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the punk bands. There are three pedallers at the front of the President of Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the USA as someone who is thrown into ferry across the deep end on day oneswamp to Falter City, given his retinue of advisors where a mother and aidesher two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. But You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for this one is – when being inaugurated as the 44th POTUSa really rough-and-ready dump of a place, Stephen Blades gets a letter from the outgoing premierbut everyone is interested in small things that grow. He For the only money to be had – and we – learn that the prior two terms, when America was busy fighting only fortunes to be found in the eastern hemisphere and not getting her economy into gearFalter City – come from algae, were pretty much just a cover-up. The military presence gunk and lack of economic benefit at home was purely due to something a long way away other crud that – well, the discovery use of ''something'' being manufactured by aliens within our own asteroid beltit is never really made clear. Due to some cloaking technology little is known about what is Once there, the two brothers set themselves each up there with a guide – and that applies to our own responseLippy, the more forward-thinking, too – industrious of the ultra top secret mission we've sent uptwo, both scientific and militarywith a besuited gent, to have Penn with a closer lookballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. Welcome to But which of the two will come off the jobworse as they make their own way in this dystopian, Mr President.semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1620101335</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Death SentenceLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|authortitle=Montynero and Mike DowlingTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=It's AIDSI 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, Jim, but not as we you know it. G+ is I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the new sexually transmitted disease sweeping students before the nation's reckless youth, massacre and it has even further-reaching consequences. It boosts your brain activitythe birth of the Tank Man image, and makes you I didn't know how the area had long been a stronger venue for political protest, and I didn't know more promiscuous carrier of the virus – so you can be beating a supercomputer at chess one moment and rolling around a bed with than a host of ladies spit about the next. But people involved on either way, it kills you within six monthsside. Here it affects three people with more cerebral, supernatural powers – a young female artist This book is practically flawless in need of confirmation, an egotistical junkie rock star, and giving a certain highly-rated comic with Russell Brandgeneral browser's hair and Kasabian's wardrobe designer. It's a combination of the three people and their own G+ that will make sure context for the world is most certainly aware whole season of their activities – death sentence or no death sentence…protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782760083</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill ForLeigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|authortitle=Frank MillerWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=4.53|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=''Ava. Damn.'' With that repeated refrain we're forcibly given Dwight's viewpoint and made to agree with it. Ava is quite a woman. She was Dwight'sDiana, but now she's notbeing unique on her island, and he's forced to ignore his photojournalism career in favour is the victim of his night-time job a lot of photographing evidence for adultery casestaunts, and to struggle to stay away from the fags and off the boozeclaims of nepotism. But now itIt's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all going , her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be much hardera strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for Ava every Wonder Woman origin story has come backher quickly leaving home for the World of Men, and this Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. She's stifled A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a lovelessrunning race, violent marriage, trapped in a gated villa with her husband and his man mountain of a bodyguard, and only Dwight has but the flutter in her heart and survivor she drags from the iron in his fist and gut waters is only going to make things right for herdisturb a lot more... Damn Ava? You bet he's going to…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616552395</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401286208|title=Modesty Blaise - The Young MistressBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Peter O'Donnell Meg Cabot and Enric Badia RomeroCara McGee

|summary=[[:Category:Peter O'Donnell|Modesty Blaise]] is slowly becoming like an old flame of mine – just popping back into my life every few months Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to regale an adventuretry and follow in his footsteps, have and seemingly lumbered with being a catch-up and be on cheerleader at school, she is desperate to find her wayvoice. This latest fleeting visit shows Modesty, the most ironically-named brunette in the world But it's actually more a case of solving crimeher voice finding her, having old flames of as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her own – although she calls them 'escorts'vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. They're prevalent in the first and title story, where her doctor lover has You could almost call it a patient with whip marksweapon, which leads into or a full-blown action adventure regarding art forgeriespower. Her American 'escort' wants But in order for her to replace the doctorcall herself a superhero, but there has to wait for be a story all whole path of his own, when his own prize racehorse is a target steps for criminals. And in the third story there are a lot her to take – one of returning characters – but not all are as they might at first appear…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781167095</amazonuk>which will be into her past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401280048|title=Manifest Destiny Volume 1Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Chris DingessMarie Lu, Matthew Roberts Stuart Moore and Owen GieniChris Wildgoose

|summary=ItThe 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 1804 and some newly-American soldiers are expanding a billionaire at the territory to age of eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the westlegacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, at the orders of President Jefferson – orders which allude he wants to the pioneering party encountering some very unusual thingsdo charitable deeds. And they do – first a huge arc of greeneryBut one night, putting the modern reader when he speeds off in his posh new car in mind pursuit of the Missouri landmark arch a criminal, he goes too far as far as bastardised by something along the lines of authorities are concerned, and gets given the Statue most unlikely stretch of Liberty community service instead – cleaning in the original 'Planet of the Apes'home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. But when that site gets attacked There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the weirdness certainly starts to show itself…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1607069822</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Hilda Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and murder the Black Hound|author=Luke Pearson|rating=4owner.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Hilda Can he get close to one of them and get the Black Hound is the fourth book in the “Hildafolk” seriestruth of their schemes, each of which is a self-contained tale about a highly inquisitive little girl and her adventures. This time Hilda joins or will the Sparrow Scouts and befriends manipulative Madeleine be a house spirit whilst in step too far for the meantime a mysterious beast stalks the town of Trolberg.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263184</amazonuk>young do-gooder?

 {{newreview|title=The Bojeffries Saga|author=Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A very truncated history 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 of [[:Category:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]]. But you mustn't be too surprised to see the whole thing come around in a full cycle. Because Alan Moore has, with this volume, concluded his own funny strip japery, and whatever history or greater opinions about the canon of comix might say, it's just about his best ever book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662318</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Secret Service - Kingsman|author=Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=He is Mister London. Jack London. He is the longest-serving, most experienced and downright most suave secret agent the country has. But he now has a problem possibly bigger than even those he's had to face up to before – his nephew. Gary Unwin, Eggsy to his friends, is stuck in a rut called Peckham, living with his kid brother and his single mum, and her latest bullying, abusive partner. His life is the X-Box, cheap four-packs and TWOCing the neighbourhood cars. Reluctantly casting his mind from the problem of someone kidnapping the greats of TV sci-fi history, Jack undergoes his most awkward mission yet – raising his nephew to be a world-saver.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781167036</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Jane, The Fox and Me|author=Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Bullied at school and lonely because her former friends don't talk to her, Helene loses herself in the pages of ''Jane Eyre''. To a girl who thinks of herself as fat and plain, Jane's story gives her hope - but can she find happiness? And how will a trip to a nature camp affect her? Can it give her the confidence and courage to change the way she sees herself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353043</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1401283292|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 Meet Mera. She's the latest in a line of humankind is living young women intent on a single trainfighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Oh sorryHer father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as this is her future – after all, Mera's mother, the sequelterritory's warrior queen, make that two trainsis long dead. Launched on Mera doesn't fancy the same tracks as cosseting or the original Snowpiercer, but clearly fella involved at a slight removeall and is, was a second mile-long behemoth of a trainin fact, designed with the latest high tech trying to be completely self-sustaining as it travelled ceaselessly on get Xebel out from under the tracks encircling a frozen Earthcosh of Atlantean power, waiting for the time the world was inhabitable once moreXebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. But So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to the high tech on board, complete with lemon farmsworld of us air-breathing humans, and differing qualities of virtual holidays depending on cost and class of customerkill the Atlantis heir, has not put paid she rushes off to one aspect of society – and in fact get the sole aspect of society not featured in [[Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape by Jacques Lob quest (and Jean-Marc Rochette|the first book]] – religionpromised throne) all for herself. Some people are fearing the end timeBut of course, when the Icebreaker crashes into the original Snowpiercer. Some believe they're duped into the whole train she has no ideawhat kind of person she will meet, and are in fact on a spacecraft. Some people know something else – the rare few explorers who how hard it will be to get to go outside the train into the world beyond, and see glimpses of what came before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>job done…

 {{newreview|title=Line of Fire : 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 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.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907912398</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1401286399|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 herhas an ice cream van. LilyIn summer, what there is of summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, That's not his vocation though, has but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a trick Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up her sleeve and rotate, playing a tune, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - shewill be the van's a shapeshifterlast trip. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, they say. She turns herself into There's even a boy so tarmac now that she can have a chance with Saffron. As Jessede-ice itself, she starts but the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to build live in a new life for herself at school -can this world where the B2116 doesn'boy' get the girl? Additionally, why is Lily so resistant to any sort of harm, and who are the strange people who are trying to find her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484085957</amazonuk>t need gritting.

{{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 him in this state, praying for a cure. Then a talking monkey named Orman appears Move on to him and offers him the chance to become a real life version of movie superhero Superior - for a week. But what will happen when the week ends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857685945</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Historical Fiction Reviews]]