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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe SuggEdel Rodriguez|title=UsernameWorm: EvieA Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet EvieWe're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. She's surprisingly unwelcome The revolution has happened, and alienated at school – for Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a trendy Communist, and attractive girl, nobody at all seems not done nearly enough to have any time create a level playing field for herall. Well, apart from the geeky cardthose hours-collecting boy with the milk-bottle glasses on the buslong speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Perhaps it has something to do with her fatherOur narrator's thatched house – after allfamily weren't in the happiest of places here, she must an uncle refusing to be a witch to live there. It's not that she the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would wish probably be shipped off to live theresome minor pro-Communism skirmish, with nobody else aroundsuch as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and the memory of her deceased mother. But luckily someone is choosing a place not liked for her –her father is able to put all his work into a cyber-world for her, the E-Scapesuccessful photography business, which is close to the perfect worldsuccess being frowned upon. All that remains is to programme The mother gets the humans to be her friends, and make couple jobs with the connection Evie has with them and them with her in return party to be ease some of mutualthe heat, confirmingbut in this sultry island country, happy benefit. But someone else has entered it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the E-Scape, and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Evie's tentative happiness…kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael B Jackson, Martin Brennan and Simon BisleyKia Ahankoob|title=13 CoinsThe Gold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels|rating=3.54

|summary=''For When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the love of money hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is the root contained within a magical ring belonging to one of all kinds of evileight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants.'' There, I've done But it – quoted the Bible in a review. Itdidn's certainly pertinent in the world of this graphic novel, where the fallen angels have one get-t quite work out clause they have been seeking since those very lapsarian eventslike that. Rivalries developed. They turned a little section Enmities grew out of chain holding their leader eternally captive into them and the titular coins, which can influence the human holders eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into sheer evil, but might just cause an open endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war on Heaventoo high, whether they or the best of the holy on earth use them alla solution is proposed. The best Each of the holy theneight countries will send their greatest warriors, offspring of the good angelsknown as sentinels, are culled as to a routine, but not one – John Pozner, who single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of course has no idea of his place in all the rings and become the celestial circle supreme ruler of life…Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178276061X</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= StrefPat Grant|title=J.M. Barrie's Peter PanThe Grot: The Graphic NovelStory of the Swamp City Grifters

|summary=Here's Everything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the punk bands. There are three pedallers at the front of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, where a quiz question mother and her two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for you this is a really rough-and-ready dump of a place, but everyone is interested in small things that grow. For the only money to be had – despite the uniform seventy year copyright ruleonly fortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that – well, which work has been the sole recipient of an endless extension use of itis never really made clear. Once there, the two brothers set themselves each up with a guide – Lippy, the more forward-thinking, courtesy industrious of an ex-Prime Minister? The answer is obvious now at leastthe two, with a besuited gent, as this is one such volumePenn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. It's a very readable and pleasant variant on J M Barrie's original stage version and novel regarding Peter Pan, But which of course helps and always the two will now help come off the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. And for a boy who never grows upworse as they make their own way in this dystopian, at 111 years old he's in spritely good health.semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780272901</amazonuk>1603094660

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter O'Donnell Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Enric Badia RomeroEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=Modesty Blaise - The Killing DistanceTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=''Oh, such things just HAPPEN to that pair, Sir.'' The pair referred to, I never really followed the events of course, are Modesty Blaise, sexy femme fatale with a head full of morals and a pair of legs full of kicking power, and Willy Garvin, the only man to call her ''Princess'' and get away Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – intelligentsomeone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, practical and yet equally resilient in a fight with a baddyyou know. The things that happen to them are legion, over many novels and 95 daily newspaper comic strips, and this is one I certainly didn't know of the better examples weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the current collections students before the massacre and the birth of the latter. Where else can you get movie stunts going wrongTank Man image, pregnant women in danger on I didn't know how the high seasarea had long been a venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a spit about the people escaping from bomb-laden planes, all involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a Jolly Hockey Sticks mood that smacks of pastiche and vintage ribaldry, were it not from general browser's context for the heady days whole season of the mid-'90s?protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781167125</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ian Edginton Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Alex SanchezKit Seaton|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Evil WithinGraphic Novel|rating= 3.5|genre= Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=What do you fear most? And when you've answered thatDiana, think being unique on why – is it something that happened to you, something you saw or readher island, or something you yourself did? The nature of horror is looked at in this graphic novel, which spins the usual web victim of a lot of nightmares around some fit young adultstaunts, and tests them with graphic death on the cards at the same time as keeping them in the dark about what has brought the doom and gloom to themclaims of nepotism. Starting with DanaIt's only her unique status, a college girl seeking and her kidnapped best friendmother being Queen, things get darkerthat has her with any standing at all, weirder, and forever more violent…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761659</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eric Colossal|title=Rutabaga the Adventure Chef: Book 1|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet the latest adventurer her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to scour the landbe a strong young woman. He Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has a talent her quickly leaving home for finding the obscure and seeking out the rareWorld of Men, and surviving all this Diana is the undignified fates the world has in storeheroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. He even has A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a magical companion. He will be open to any challenge set upon himrunning race, but the survivor she drags from locating dragon-smiting swords to besting the largest, most locally loved, rival. He waters is Rutabaga, and he is, of course, only going to disturb a cheflot more...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419715976</amazonuk>1401282555

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Millar and John Romita Jr1401286208|title=Kick-Ass 3Black Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee

|summary=At the start of this bookMeet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, Hit-Girl is stuck in and seemingly lumbered with being a super-max prison (don't ask why). The entire east coast Mafia command cheerleader at school, she is up for grabs (you don't need desperate to ask why – Hit-Girl killed most of them herself)find her voice. As for Dave, or Kick-Ass, heBut it's failing. He has actually more a whole cohort case of other super-heroesher voice finding her, which in this world means dweebish fans of comics with as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a stupid costume yet no power other than the determination to do well for societyweapon, but they're not going anywhere. They're not spotting crime or solving conspiracies, and they're certainly not getting their colleague and mentor Hit-Girl out of jaila power. Dave could But in actual fact be in danger of the most heinous crime of all – growing up.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783290870</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peter A David|title=The Avengers Vault|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's not just because the third richest take of any movie is about order for her to get call herself a sequel that we have this pictorial background guide. There have been decades of action featuring the main characters of The Avengerssuperhero, and they themselves are fifty years old as a collective entity, so this book there has to be a lot whole path of ground steps for her to cover. To its benefit there are hardly any mentions take – one of the global behemoth that are Marvel films these days, beyond a couple of references where relevant. Instead we're looking back, with bright and eager eyes, to see what we can find, what the beginner may need to know, and what the fan which will have fond memories of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781313989</amazonuk>be into her past…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Winshluss1401280048|title=In God We Trust|rating=4.5|genre=Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novels|summary=To start with, a rhetorical test. How about God and Adam playing badminton day in and day out, until one gets bored and decides to create Eve? Or the defeater of Goliath and the saviour of the Israelites being one Conan the Barbarian? Or this as a test – Jesus Himself failing to have a successful session of tequila slammers with Gabriel due to the holes through His hands? I barely need mention that in these pages God does battle with Superman, for you to have answered the test and put yourself firmly in one of two camps for this book – one very much opposed to buying it, and one very much in favour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662350</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNovel|author=Patrick ModianoMarie Lu, Sempe (illustrator) Stuart Moore and William Rodarmor (translator)|title=Catherine CertitudeChris Wildgoose

|summary=It's World War Two, but not as we know it. The circumstance young man called Bruce Wayne is building up to be pretty much what we know a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – the Allies have ideas to land at Normandybystanders, paparazzi, the Germans have rockets ready to pummel and suchlike – reminding him he's a Blighty only just getting over billionaire at the Battle age of Britain, and eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the Americans are being pressured by Churchill to enter the warlegacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, little knowing what Japan would have in mind he wants to force the issuedo charitable deeds. But many things are different. For this is one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a world where criminal, he goes too far as far as the Royal blood disease of Europe is not something ailingauthorities are concerned, debilitating and embarrassing, but gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the giver of super powershome for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. The names in Buckingham Palace are differentThere he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, but the opulence remainsa gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and with murder the history owner. Can he get close to one of them and get the current incumbents one where truth of their powers are not exercisedschemes, people are being tasked with making sure that remains so. But how can you stop an immovable force when it has enough might and strength to turn or will the tide of manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the war singleyoung do-handedgooder?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401250548</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paco Roca1401283292|title=WrinklesHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summaryauthor=Never let them tell you life begins at 40, or ends when you enter a retirement home. Ernest has just entered an old folk's establishment, and life is ever-changing. There's the time he meets a person hounded by the idea at least of alien abduction, the moment he forgets the word for 'ball' when holding one while doing armchair exercises, and the galling day he finds out he shares a medication routine with the most helpless Mariko Tamaki and locked-in of inmates. No, for Ernest, especially in the hands of his new room-mate Emile who will do anything to earn a fast buck, life is full of some kind of variety.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662377</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tohby Riddle|title=UnforgottenSteve Pugh

|summary=Think of fallen angelsHarleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, and Lucifer and the like come to mind. But they donme, seems new in town, even if she't have to have fallen with such speeds been around a long time, for such she always has a distance or with such effectvery fresh attitude, and seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. This book concerns one such creatureBut here she is new in town, and while it's not named as an angel as suchthe town is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and it's identified only by nobody knowing from where it comes yet everyone silently gets herself with no option but to appreciate its presence, it certainly looks like stay with a Western, Christian, angel formbunch of drag queens. And so the plot of this gentleShe also finds school is a drag, poetic picture book looks at she also finds the chance of such a bad thing as the fall of an angel whole neighbourhood is being followed redeveloped by anything more positivea large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1742379729</amazonuk> One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker…

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Thunderbirds Comic: Volume 1|author=Gerry Anderson and Frank Bellamy|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet the Thunderbirds. If you don't know anything about the Tracy family and their International Rescue organisation, then I'm not sure where you've been. For people of a certain age (OK, mine, at least) they were the staple of Saturday morning cinema clubs, a highlight of BBC2 when repeated teatime, and even managed to make those 3D rotating card-a-vision things worthwhile. They've been in cinemas since then, of course, but now with the world needing everything everywhen we've got a welcome chance to look back at some of the original comic book spin-offs, that probably haven't been much seen since then. With five volumes of these books on the cards, it's worthwhile sticking to the first and seeing just what these retro delights – or otherwise – could bring.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405272600</amazonuk>}}{{newreview140128339X|title=The Lost Sock|author=Gillian Johnson|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A lost sock. We’ve all had them. In fact, I know people who only buy socks of one colour in order to always have matching socks. I, who prefer to buy brightly coloured socks (much like the man in this book), seem to spend my life with my feet constantly mismatched. It doesn’t bother me all that much, but it certainly affects the hero of this tale, who goes on an adventure in order to find the missing sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472112431</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Meteor MenMera: Tidebreaker|author=Jeff Parker Danielle Paige and Sandy JarrellStephen Byrne

|summary=Meet AldenMera. HeShe's the latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only at high schoolthey can see for themselves. Her father, but as his parents have died the farm is his – his king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and the couple of professors the smart kid hangs out with. One night a large gathering forms on hunky man in an ad hoc basis to watch the Perseid meteor shower arranged marriage as her future – and one of them unexpectedly lands. The rock is Aldenafter all, Mera's as it landed on private propertymother, but the planetariumterritory's main scientist warrior queen, is long dead. Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all and is keen for science , in fact, trying to learn get Xebel out from it – or that it should pay under the cosh of Atlantean power, for Alden getting through universityXebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. But So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to the world of us air-breathing humans, and kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the quest (and the rock has a lesson much bigger than even that premise could provide promised throne) all for – it wasn't a hundred per cent rockherself. And Alden also owns a much greater connection to But of course, she has no idea what was inside kind of person she will meet, and how hard it when it landed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1620101513</amazonuk>will be to get the job done…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401286399|title=Charley's WarSuper Sons: A Boy Soldier in the Great WarThe PolarShield Project|author=Pat Mills Ridley Pearson and Joe ColquhounIle Gonzalez

|summary=The answerIt's the near future, it seems to me, when writing war stories, is to take something we can all imagine and every coastal city – the young lad signing up and finding out the real truth behind the glorified propaganda of his masters including Metropolis – and still making something unexpected out is in need of ita huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. People But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to die relocate in unexpected ways, because thatAmerica's what war biggest exodus for decades. Superman is. Soldiers have to face miseryhelping out, of course – first, he was patching up the dams, because but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that's what war brings themperfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. The writer has to be a godlike entity able to give Inland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from the power coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of victory or defeat to either side, because food poisoning is hitting the common or garden soldier character certainly city. But it can't. In putting all this and more into a comic for boys, where it had previously been thought a WWI story possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the rigid flood barriers and static nature of trench warfare would be neither visually nor dramatically appealing, Pat Mills both challenged himself and won many over with his brilliance. Young Charley certainly gets the efforts to know correct the miseryclimate, unexpected death and people in command of his fate. And with the dramatic narrative artwork here, so do we.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169144</amazonuk>can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=168369015X|title=TrilliumManfried the Man: A Graphic Novel|author=Jeff LemireCaitlin Major and Kelly Bastow

|summary=It's the future of at least In a thousand years henceworld where cats stand on two feet, go to work at call centres and humanity have diminutive human beings for pets, is in troubleManfried. The species has spread itself thinly out in He's a typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at the galaxysame time being the perfect companion for his owner, but is under threat from a sentient virusSteve Catson. To such an extent that Steve, which who is beating all efforts – militarygetting known for his man-oriented thinking, scientific – to best it. The nearest thing to hope is in actually having nightmares about becoming the unlikely form of a jungle flower, found only in realms sacred to the natives of one of humankindneighbourhood ''crazy man cat''s planets. Elsewhere and elsewhen But when a shell-shocked WWI veteran is taken with his brother to South Americawindow gets left open by mistake, to gain the secrets and glories of Manfried goes missing, the remotest Incan temples. It therefore sounds entirely unlikely that the main alien life scientist in the future only thing for it is a massive and the earlier explorer will meet, but meet they do – and then things start to get weirder and weirder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401249000</amazonuk>energised man-hunt…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Hainsworth_Gina|title=Alex and Ada Volume 1Talking to Gina|author=Jonathan Luna and Sarah VaughnOttilie Hainsworth

|summary=Meet Alex''This is what happened. You'd probably be in a minority if you did, for he's An artist decided she needed a bit dog – so drove the length of a loner since he broke the country, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with his last girlfriendsome mange and one working eye. He meets few people in Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the workplace, has dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a quite antiseptic flat with his virtual cinema and his flying robotic kitchen aidemess, and thatso it's about it. But others aren't too keen for Alex to carry on like that – people such as his grannot a great start, who has given herself the gift of an android in but then begin the form tribulations of a handsome young man totraining, er, keep her companystatus and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. And yesthen, that the life with Gina begins to feel like toomuch – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. UnfortunatelyMy thoughts were taken over by you, as Alex sees itand I felt sick, she buys him one for his birthday as well – a Tanaka X5, which you wake up by tugging on an earlobeif I was in love. '' This being a world where the first real Artificial Intelligence went nasty and killed people a year agoSlowly, however, Alex is certainly torn about having the thing in his flat everyone – especially as it just kowtows to his wishes and opinions without having anything like its ownour artist/author, as it is not allowed to get that close to sentience. But Alex changes his mind right upon the point of returning the thingher husband, two children and begins two cats – gets to explore just what kind of life form the gift could end up presenting to himfamily they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1632150069</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Colfer_Illegal|title=The People InsideIllegal|author=Ray FawkesEoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin

|summary=Love happensEbo is twelve years old and all alone. There, His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn't know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thing. So Ebo has to attempt the same dangerous journey himself. He must be the shortest plot summary on this site, but cross the fact remains that you can say a lot more about what is on these pagesSahara Desert, and you still have all you need get himself to know in those two words. This book takes the profound – whichTripoli, one of course, love can be, and the mundane – dittomost dangerous cities in the world, and presents them then try to us happening in quietcross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And, pacific black and white, and even if he makes it does so in quiet usual, and in incredibly unusual, ways.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1620101688</amazonuk>how will he find his sister?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Miller_Batman|title=Batman: Dark Knight III: The Strain Book OneMaster Race|author=Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan, David Lapham Frank Miller and Dan JacksonBrian Azzarello|rating=43.5

|summary=A liner ends its journey from Europe in Batman 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 a port cityshe, and waitsshe finally comes up with the news that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, silentlyLara, holding whatever secrets it had with little signs the daughter of life. It Superman and Wonder Woman, is found encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to contain a heavy box, almost coffin-like, containing mud – turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and something else. But this is not expanding life to the coasts miniaturised city of EnglandKandor, and this is the last vestige of Kryptonian existence not Bram Stokerto fly about in visible blue pants. This is also not What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a sailing boatsulk, and Batman dead, there would appear to be little in the way of help for the world should anything nasty happen – but an airliner – a Boeing 777then, stuck at JFK airport with no signs of life. The CDC and one man – Dr Ephraim Goodweather – are tasked with looking into it. But he won't like what he finds – and nor should anyone. The problem iscourse, some ''do…''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616555483</amazonuk>something nasty does happen… s

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=The Art of Neil Gaiman|author=Hayley Campbell|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=An early [[:Category:Neil Gaiman|Neil Gaiman]] book was all about Douglas Adams, 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 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 Dewey|ratingisbn=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Burma. Allison Breaking, blogger and journalist behind the Breaking News website is about to, for she's accepted his giant wage packet to ghost write his memoirs. She's been told to expect the unexpected as regards his looks, but she is shocked to find that Burma is in fact the world's only talking cat, and that he has not one but nine lives to talk about. The past eight were full of a lot of evil, sin and death – but at least he's coming clean now, right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1620101394</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWeeks_Gritterman|title=Letter 44 Volume 1: Escape Velocity|author=Charles Soule and Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I guess we don't always think of the President of the USA as someone who is thrown into the deep end on day one, given his retinue of advisors and aides. But this one is – when being inaugurated as the 44th POTUS, Stephen Blades gets a letter from the outgoing premier. He – and we – learn that the prior two terms, when America was busy fighting in the eastern hemisphere and not getting her economy into gear, were pretty much just a cover-up. The military presence and lack of economic benefit at home was purely due to something a long way away – the discovery of ''something'' being manufactured by aliens within our own asteroid belt. Due to some cloaking technology little is known about what is up there – and that applies to our own response, too – the ultra top secret mission we've sent up, both scientific and military, to have a closer look. Welcome to the job, Mr President.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1620101335</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Death Sentence|author=Montynero and Mike Dowling|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's AIDS, Jim, but not as we know it. G+ is the new sexually transmitted disease sweeping the nation's reckless youth, and it has even further-reaching consequences. It boosts your brain activity, and makes you a stronger and more promiscuous carrier of the virus – so you can be beating a supercomputer at chess one moment and rolling around a bed with a host of ladies the next. But either way, it kills you within six months. Here it affects three people with more cerebral, supernatural powers – a young female artist in need of confirmation, an egotistical junkie rock star, and a certain highly-rated comic with Russell Brand's hair and Kasabian's wardrobe designer. It's a combination of the three people and their own G+ that will make sure the world is most certainly aware of their activities – death sentence or no death sentence…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760083</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill ForGritterman|author=Frank MillerOrlando Weeks|rating=4.5

|summary=''Ava. Damn.'' With that repeated refrain we're forcibly given DwightThere's viewpoint and made to agree with ita man who has an ice cream van. Ava In summer, what there is quite a woman. She was Dwight'sof summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, but now sheThat's nothis vocation though, and but it does keep him going whilst he's forced to ignore his photojournalism career in favour of his night-time job of photographing evidence waits for adultery cases, winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and to struggle to stay away from our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the fags roof light up and off rotate, playing a tune, whether the boozevan's gritting or selling ice creams. But now itTonight - Christmas Eve - will be the van's all going to be much harderlast trip. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, for Ava has come backthey say. SheThere's stifled in even a lovelesstarmac now that can de-ice itself, violent marriage, trapped but the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a gated villa with her husband and his man mountain of a bodyguard, and only Dwight has world where the flutter in her heart and the iron in his fist and gut to make things right for herB2116 doesn't need gritting. Damn Ava? You bet he's going to…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616552395</amazonuk>