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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=TrilliumFrontpage|author=Jeff Lemire|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's the future of at least a thousand years hence, and humanity is in trouble. The species has spread itself thinly out in the galaxy, but is under threat from a sentient virus, which is beating all efforts – military, scientific – to best it. The nearest thing to hope is in the unlikely form of a jungle flower, found only in realms sacred to the natives of one of humankind's planets. Elsewhere and elsewhen a shell-shocked WWI veteran is taken with his brother to South America, to gain the secrets and glories of the remotest Incan temples. It therefore sounds entirely unlikely that the main alien life scientist in the future and the earlier explorer will meet, but meet they do – and then things start to get weirder and weirder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401249000</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewEdel Rodriguez|title=Alex and Ada Volume 1|author=Jonathan Luna and Sarah VaughnWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Alex. You'd probably be in a minority if you did, for he's a bit of a loner since he broke up with his last girlfriend. He meets few people in the workplace, has a quite antiseptic flat with his virtual cinema and his flying robotic kitchen aide, and that's about it. But others aren't too keen for Alex to carry on like that – people such as his gran, who has given herself the gift of an android in the form of a handsome young man to, er, keep her company. And yes, that too. Unfortunately, as Alex sees it, she buys him one for his birthday as well – a Tanaka X5, which you wake up by tugging on an earlobe. This being a world where the first real Artificial Intelligence went nasty and killed people a year ago, Alex is certainly torn about having the thing in his flat – especially as it just kowtows to his wishes and opinions without having anything like its own, as it is not allowed to get that close to sentience. But Alex changes his mind right upon the point of returning the thing, and begins to explore just what kind of life the gift could end up presenting to him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1632150069</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The People Inside|author=Ray Fawkes|rating=5

|summary=Love happensWe're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. ThereThe revolution has happened, and Castro, that must be first thought of as a saviour of the shortest plot summary on this sitecountry, but the fact remains that you can say has proven himself a lot more about what is on these pagesCommunist, and you still have not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all you need to know in . Well, those two wordshours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. This book takes Our narrator's family weren't in the profound – which, happiest of courseplaces here, love can an uncle refusing to bethe good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the mundane – ditto, father being watched and presents them to us happening in quietwatched, pacific black and whitenot liked for his successful photography business, and it does so in quiet usualsuccess being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, and but in incredibly unusualthis sultry island country, ways.it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1620101688</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Strain Book OneKia Ahankoob|authortitle=Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan, David Lapham The Gold Lion and Dan Jacksonthe Tournament of Sentinels

|summary=A liner ends When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its journey from Europe own strength and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a port city, dynamic and waits, silently, holding whatever secrets it had with little signs of lifeprosperous society. It Each power is found contained within a magical ring belonging to contain a heavy box, almost coffin-one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like, containing mud – that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and something elsethe eight countries went to war. But this is not Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the coasts cost of Englandwar too high, and this a solution is not Bram Stokerproposed. This is also not a sailing boatEach of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, but an airliner – to a Boeing 777, stuck at JFK airport with no signs of lifesingle combat tournament. The CDC winner will take possession of all the rings and one man – Dr Ephraim Goodweather – are tasked with looking into it. But he won't like what he finds – and nor should anyonebecome the supreme ruler of Duniva. The problem is, some ''do…''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616555483</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreview|title=The Art of Neil GaimanFrontpage|author=Hayley CampbellPat Grant|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=An early [[The Grot:Category:Neil Gaiman|Neil Gaiman]] book was all about Douglas Adams, and came out at the time he had a success with a book The Story of his own regarding definitions of concepts that had previously not had a specific word attached. Gaiman himself is one of those concepts. I know what a polyglot is, and a polymath – but there should be a word for someone like Gaiman, who can write anything and everything he seems to want – a whimsical family-friendly picture book, a behemoth of modern fantasy, an all-ages horror story, something with a soupcon of sci-fi or with a factor of the fable. He can cross genres – and to some extent just leave them behind as unnecessary, as well as cross format – he was mastering the lengthy, literary graphic novel just as 'real' books were festering in his creativity, and songs and poems were just appearing here and there. So he is pretty much who you think of as regards someone who can turn his hands to anything he wishes. He is a poly-something, then, or just omni-something else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781571392</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=I Was the Cat|author=Paul Tobin and Benjamin DeweySwamp City Grifters

|summary=Meet BurmaEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the punk bands. Allison Breaking, blogger and journalist behind There are three pedallers at the front of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the Breaking News website is about swamp toFalter City, for she's accepted his giant wage packet where a mother and her two sons aim to ghost write his memoirsset up a yoghurt factory. She's been told to expect You could say that yoghurt would be the unexpected as regards his looksonly culture around, for this is a really rough-and-ready dump of a place, but she everyone is shocked interested in small things that grow. For the only money to find that Burma is in fact be had – the world's only talking catfortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that he has not one but nine lives to talk about– well, the use of it is never really made clear. The past eight were full Once there, the two brothers set themselves each up with a guide – Lippy, the more forward-thinking, industrious of the two, with a lot besuited gent, Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of evil, sin and death – but at least he's coming clean nowthe two will come off the worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, rightsemi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1620101394</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Letter 44 Volume 1: Escape VelocityLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|authortitle=Charles Soule and Alberto Jimenez AlburquerqueTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=I guess we don't always think of never really followed the President events of the USA as Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone who is thrown into in the deep end on day onesecond half of their teens has other priorities, given his retinue of advisors and aidesyou know. But this one is – when being inaugurated as I certainly didn't know of the 44th POTUS, Stephen Blades gets a letter weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the outgoing premier. He – students before the massacre and we – learn that the prior two termsbirth of the Tank Man image, when America was busy fighting in I didn't know how the eastern hemisphere and not getting her economy into geararea had long been a venue for political protest, were pretty much just a cover-up. The military presence and lack of economic benefit at home was purely due to something I didn't know more than a long way away – spit about the discovery of ''something'' being manufactured by aliens within our own asteroid beltpeople involved on either side. Due to some cloaking technology little This book is known about what is up there – and that applies to our own response, too – the ultra top secret mission wepractically flawless in giving a general browser've sent up, both scientific and military, to have a closer look. Welcome to s context for the job, Mr Presidentwhole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1620101335</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Death SentenceLeigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|authortitle=Montynero and Mike DowlingWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=4.53|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=It's AIDSDiana, Jimbeing unique on her island, but not as we know it. G+ is the new sexually transmitted disease sweeping the nation's reckless youthvictim of a lot of taunts, and it has even further-reaching consequencesclaims of nepotism. It boosts your brain activity's only her unique status, and makes you a stronger and more promiscuous carrier of the virus her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – so you can even though she has clearly fought to be beating a supercomputer at chess one moment and rolling around a bed with a host of ladies the nextstrong young woman. But either way, it kills you within six months. Here it affects three people with more cerebralPerhaps too strong for the island, supernatural powers however – a young female artist in need for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of confirmation, an egotistical junkie rock starMen, and a certain highly-rated comic with Russell Brand's hair and Kasabian's wardrobe designerthis Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. It's A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a combination of running race, but the three people and their own G+ that will make sure survivor she drags from the world waters is most certainly aware of their activities – death sentence or no death sentence…only going to disturb a lot more...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782760083</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For|author=Frank Miller|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|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's, but now she's not, and he's forced to ignore his photojournalism career in favour of his night-time job of photographing evidence for adultery cases, and to struggle to stay away from the fags and off the booze. But now it's all going to be much harder, for Ava has come back. She's stifled in a loveless, violent marriage, trapped in a gated villa with her husband and his man mountain of a bodyguard, and only Dwight has the flutter in her heart and the iron in his fist and gut to make things right for her. Damn Ava? You bet he's going to…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616552395</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1401286208|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 DollThere's a man who has an ice cream van. She seems In summer, what there is of summer, he uses it to fit in with sell ice creams, That's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the world she aspires to – she has an androgynous look van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a sharp tongue, Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up and doesn't seem to hold many of the people around her in much deference. However, as someone else is very quick to point outrotate, she is only playing a cloakroom attendanttune, however swanky and in vogue whether the nightclub she works at might van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will bethe van's last trip. That same someone else gets her firedThe council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, howeverthey say. There's even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, yet for every door but the Gritterman isn't sure that shuts… As she becomes an overnight modelling sensation, and finds her new boss he wants to live in a very singular individualworld where the B2116 doesn't need gritting.|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>}}