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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Strain Book OneEdel Rodriguez|authortitle=Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan, David Lapham and Dan JacksonWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey

|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 home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and murder the Apes'owner. But when that site gets attacked Can he get close to one of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the weirdness certainly starts to show itself…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1607069822</amazonuk>young do-gooder?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401283292|title=Hilda and the Black HoundHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Luke PearsonMariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|rating=43.5

|summary=Hilda Harleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and the Black Hound seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is the fourth book new in town, and the “Hildafolk” seriestown is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, each she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to stay with a bunch of which drag queens. She also finds school is a self-contained tale about drag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a highly inquisitive little girl large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her adventureslife. This time Hilda joins One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the Sparrow Scouts other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and befriends a house spirit whilst in the meantime a mysterious beast stalks the town of Trolberg.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263184</amazonuk>mind for violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Bojeffries Saga140128339X|author=Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse|ratingtitle=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 [[:CategoryMera: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>}} {{newreview|title=Jane, The Fox and MeTidebreaker|author=Fanny Britt Danielle Paige and Isabelle ArsenaultStephen Byrne

|summary=Bullied at school Meet Mera. She's the latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and lonely because a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her former friends donfuture – after all, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, is long dead. Mera doesn't talk to herfancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all and is, Helene loses herself in fact, trying to get Xebel out from under the pages cosh of Atlantean power, for Xebel''Jane Eyre''s royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. To a girl who thinks So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to the world of herself as fat us air-breathing humans, and plainkill the Atlantis heir, Jane's story gives her hope - but can she find happiness? rushes off to get the quest (and the promised throne) all for herself. And But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it will a trip be to a nature camp affect her? Can it give her get the confidence and courage to change the way she sees herself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353043</amazonuk>job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401286399|title=NemoSuper Sons: Roses of BerlinThe PolarShield Project|author=Alan Moore Ridley Pearson and Kevin O'NeillIle Gonzalez|rating=3.54

|summary=It's all very well having the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a heroic band of brigands and workers plucked from literature and being able to do huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the jobs that can't ever rising sea levels have put even feature those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in top secret filesAmerica's biggest exodus for decades. SubmarinersSuperman is helping out, invisible menof course – first, and other individuals of mysterious originhe was patching up the dams, powers and sometimes intent arenbut now he's mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that't unique to English, or Englands perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Hence this loose approximation of World War IIInland, when Berlin is turned into a Germania-meets-''Judge-Dredd''-Megacityin Wyndermere, and the Indian daughter of Captain Nemo refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and her very own special Captain Jack have a intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much more personal missionworse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. The Fuhrer – and But it can't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the real people flood barriers and things behind the throne of the Nazi-type superpower – have something they'll fight efforts to correct the end climate, can it? Four young children begin to get back – their own offspring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>086166230X</amazonuk>piece together clues that it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=168369015X|title=Snowpiercer Vol.2 - The ExplorersManfried the Man: A Graphic Novel|author=Benjamin Legrand Caitlin Major and Jean-Marc RochetteKelly Bastow

|summary=All of humankind is living In a world where cats stand on a single train. Oh sorry, as this is the sequel, make that two trains. Launched on the same tracks as the original Snowpiercerfeet, but clearly go to work at a slight removecall centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, was is Manfried. He's a second mile-long behemoth of a traintypical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, designed with the latest high tech to be completely self-sustaining as it travelled ceaselessly on the tracks encircling a frozen Earthdemanding more food than he can suitably eat, waiting for but at the same time being 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 customerperfect companion for his owner, has not put paid to one aspect of society – and in fact the sole aspect of society not featured in [[Snowpiercer VolSteve Catson.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 ideaTo such an extent that Steve, 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 beyondis getting known for his man-oriented thinking, and see glimpses of what came before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>}} {{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 is actually having nightmares about an animal's nature just by observing becoming the beginnings of its life (neighbourhood 'it's in water, ergo itcrazy man cat's probably a fish'). They don't need to study every ant in the colony to see how ants collaborate But when a window gets left open by mistake, and work togetherManfried goes missing, the only thing 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, massive and stops obliquely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912398</amazonuk>energised man-hunt…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The EscapeHainsworth_Gina|author=Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summarytitle=All of humankind is living on a single train. I know British commuters feel that way at times, but this is a much different circumstance – it is a train miles long, running non-stop as a self-contained unit across tracks circling a desolately frozen Earth, moving on endlessly until, perhaps some time in the distant future, the planet can recover from the cataclysm that froze it. It's certainly been going on long enough for it to have a culture – a hierarchical society from the rich and leisured classes near the front, through the orgiasts, past the useful carriages set aside for producing food, Talking to the underclass at the end. It's all set in its routine, set in motion. But there are two fishes out of water – a man from the rear who escaped, and a middle-class woman working with civil rights campaigners.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Mouse Guard - the Black AxeGina|author=David PetersenOttilie Hainsworth

|summary=Long before there can be peace, there ''This is warwhat happened. '' Long before there is something An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of the country, Brighton to believe inGrimsby, there is empty hopeto pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one working eye. Long before Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the legenddog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a mess, there is the truth. And soit's not a great start, long before but then begin the events tribulations of the first two collected Mouse Guard volumes came the story in this thirdtraining, that of how the heroic, mythical character Celanawe became so notoriousstatus and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. Our tale starts And then, the life with him just a guard mouse and tutor Gina begins to those who would follow himfeel like too much – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, but an unlikely connection to an already fabled weapon is about to be shown to himand I felt sick, as if I was in the equally unlikely form of a scholarly old female mouse, Emlove. '' When she says the ancient legacy is situated far across unmapped seasSlowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, an unusual trio of explorers is pushed two children and two cats – gets to form the limit family they and beyond, in search of the unseekableGina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681435</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Bugsy Malone - Graphic Novel|author=Alan Parker|rating=3|genre=Confident ReadersFrontpage|summaryisbn=One bunch of wise guys might think they have it all, but they don'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 'all those kids who find it tough reading books with just words'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007514840</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewColfer_Illegal|title=Asterix and the PictsIllegal|author=Jean-Yves Ferri, Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo Eoin Colfer and Didier ConradAndrew Donkin

|summary=IEbo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn've never been entirely certain if Asterix was written for children or adults. I am quite certain children were the original target audience, t know where his brother is either but it is equally apparent knows that many of he has probably done the jokes are thrown in for adults as wellsame thing. 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 So Ebo has plenty to offer attempt the younger reader as wellsame dangerous journey himself. If it is perhaps a bit more sophisticated than He must cross the average children's book todaySahara Desert, all the better. I'm all for children's books that are light and easy get himself to readTripoli, but I think we are doing our children a disservice by filtering out any book with a more complex vocabulary or a fair number one of unfamiliar words. My children did find a few words like ''solidarity''the most dangerous cities in the world, ''fraternise'' and ''diaphanous'' challengingthen try to cross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And, but even if we don't challenge them at all - he makes it, how will they learnhe find his sister?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011677</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Hilda and the Bird Parade|author=Luke Pearson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Hilda is a young girl who has just moved from the mountainous countryside to the town of Trolberg; a major upheaval in the life of a girl who likes nothing better than to go exploring the woods and mountains and discovering magical creatures. Since moving into town Hilda’s mother 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.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263060</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMiller_Batman|title=A1 AnnualBatman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Dave Elliott (editor) Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello

|summary=ItBatman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the baddies he usually biffs. But then he's not Batman – he's perhaps a little surprising how few comics anthologies there are on she, and she finally comes up with the news that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, Lara, the shelves daughter of regular bookstores. Superman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The whole world Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to the miniaturised city of sequential art is so fragmented Kandor, the choices last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to be made are infinite, everyone who comes fly about in visible blue pants. What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into some renown soon wishes for a self-published collection of his favourites or her friends' worksulk, and Batman dead, there definitely is too much out there for anyone would appear to be little in the audience way 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 help for the world's greatest since 1989should anything nasty happen – but then, of course, but even with that pedigree it'something nasty does happen… s only now that full hardbacks of their greatest hits are being launched – hardbacks such as this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760164</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Weeks_Gritterman|title=Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan MooreGritterman|author=Lance ParkinOrlando Weeks

|summary=Meet Briony HatchThere's a man who has an ice cream van. SheIn summer, what there is of summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, That's a fourteen year old schoolgirlnot his vocation though, with a few too many curves but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the trendy set, van becomes a Gritting Van and want-away hair, who is fixated our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the ghost who acts as romantic male lead in her favourite series of fantasy booksroof light up and rotate, about playing a beautifultune, feisty female, swashbuckling exorcistwhether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. But when Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the books finish, just at van's last trip. The council has sent the same time as her parents divorceletter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, it looks like the beginning of the endthey say. Mum and Briony settle into the abandoned bungalow belonging to the latterThere's greateven a tarmac now that can de-uncle and auntice itself, only for but the girl Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to find live in a horrid malaise come over her. Has world where the booksB2116 doesn' conclusion done so much damage as to leave her wishing to retire from life, or can she find the ghost of a hope somewhere?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907536140</amazonuk>t need gritting.

{{newreview|title=Fashion Beast|author=Alan Moore and Malcolm McLaren|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Doll. She seems to fit in with the world she aspires to – she has an androgynous look and a sharp tongue, and doesn't seem to hold many of the people around her in much deference. However, as someone else is very quick to point out, she is only a cloakroom attendant, however swanky and in vogue the nightclub she works at might be. That same someone else gets her fired, however, 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>}} {{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' Move 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 CrumbNewest Historical Fiction Reviews]]'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 Monkey|author=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>}} {{newreview|title=Celtic Warrior: The Legend of Cu Chulainn|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>}}