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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derf BackderfEdel Rodriguez|title=TrashedWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4.5

|summary=For those people who think graphic novels are rubbishWe're in childhood, this is the epitome of that baseless argumentand we're in Cuba. Its subject is junkThe revolution has happened, and Castro, it's trashfirst thought of as a saviour of the country, it's landfillhas proven himself a Communist, and garbagenot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. ThatWell, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's not a verdict on its qualitiesfamily 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 minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, which are great and fine onesnot liked for his successful photography business, but its very topicsuccess being frowned upon. Straight from school, our author was actually a bin man for a few seasons – riding on The mother gets the couple jobs with the back party to ease some of something like Bettythe heat, the garbage van featured here. It's a job nobody wants but in all honestythis sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of course – but the book is fine enough to actually make the subject something most people should read about.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419714546</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke PearsonKia Ahankoob|title=Hilda The Gold Lion and the Troll|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Hilda, a rather delightful small, blue-haired girl, is never far from an adventure. She is confident and excitable, brave and creative, and her stories are slightly mad, and very, very readable!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263788</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sven Hassel and Jordy Diago|title=Wheels Tournament of Terror: The Graphic NovelSentinels

|summary=War books and anti-war books, in my mind, have a lot in common and only a couple of easy things need be changed to turn one to the other. This is dressed as an anti-war book, but here is the lead character surviving against all odds – the platoon whittled down several times while When Myriad created Duniva he and endowed his few friends go strong; here he is overcoming all kinds of difficulty and adversity and still coming out the other end; here he is doing proper heroic deeds – or his colleagues saving the day at the last minute – and the war carries onwards towards children with different powers, each with its inevitable end. The difference perhaps is in the minutiae of what those difficulties own strength and deeds need beweakeness, with in the anti-war book having a simple honesty about them and their overall worth that the gung-ho, militaristic piece hope they would patently lack. And when you face the guts complement each other and gore of the kind of warfare on these pagescollaborate, you don't really expect jingoism creating a dynamic and 'hoo-rah!' attitudesprosperous society. No, even if the DNA Each power is pretty much the same, the result here is definitely, grimly and firmly anti-war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297609769</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joe Sugg|title=Username: Evie|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Evie. Shecontained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's surprisingly unwelcome children and alienated at school – for a trendy and attractive girl, nobody at all seems to have any time for her, apart from the geeky card-collecting boy with the milk-bottle glasses on the bustheir descendants. Perhaps But it has something to do with her fatherdidn's thatched house – after all, she must be a witch to live there. It's not t quite work out like that she would wish to live there, with nobody else around, and the memory of her deceased mother. But luckily someone is choosing a place for her –her father is able to put all his work into a cyber-world for her, the E-Scape, which is close to the perfect worldRivalries developed. All that remains is to programme the humans to be her friends, Enmities grew out of them and make the connection Evie has with them and them with her in return eight countries went to be of mutual, confirming, happy benefitwar. But someone else has entered the E-Scape, Having fought themselves into an endless and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Evie's tentative happiness…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael B Jackson, Martin Brennan ruinous stalemate and Simon Bisley|title=13 Coins|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=''For finding the love cost of money is the root of all kinds of evil.'' Therewar too high, I've done it – quoted the Bible in a reviewsolution is proposed. It's certainly pertinent in the world Each of this graphic novel, where the fallen angels have one get-out clause they have been seeking since those very lapsarian events. They turned a little section of chain holding eight countries will send their leader eternally captive into the titular coinsgreatest warriors, which can influence the human holders into sheer evilknown as sentinels, but might just cause an open war on Heaven, whether they or the best of the holy on earth use them allto a single combat tournament. The best winner will take possession of all the holy then, offspring of the good angels, are culled as a routine, but not one – John Pozner, who of course has no idea of his place in 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? Diana, being unique on her island, is the victim of a lot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. And when youIt've answered s only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, thathas her with any standing at all, think on why her naysayers declare – is it something that happened even though she has clearly fought to you, something you saw or read, or something you yourself did? be a strong young woman. The nature of horror is looked at in this graphic novelPerhaps too strong for the island, which spins however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the usual web World of nightmares around some fit young adultsMen, and tests them with graphic death on this Diana is the cards at the same time as keeping them heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the dark about what has brought survivor she drags from the doom and gloom waters is only going to them. Starting with Dana, disturb a college girl seeking her kidnapped best friend, things get darker, weirder, and forever lot more violent…...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782761659</amazonuk>1401282555

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric Colossal1401286208|title=Rutabaga the Adventure ChefBlack Canary: Book 1|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet the latest adventurer to scour the land. He has a talent for finding the obscure and seeking out the rare, and surviving all the undignified fates the world has in store. He even has a magical companion. He will be open to any challenge set upon him, from locating dragon-smiting swords to besting the largest, most locally loved, rival. He is Rutabaga, and he is, of course, a chef.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419715976</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewIgnite|author=Mark Millar Meg Cabot and John Romita Jr|title=Kick-Ass 3Cara McGee

|summary=At the start of this book, Hit-Girl is stuck in a super-max prison (don't ask why)Meet Dinah Lance. The entire east coast Mafia command is up for grabs (you don't need Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to ask why – Hit-Girl killed most of them herself). As for Davetry and follow in his footsteps, or Kick-Ass, he's failing. He has and seemingly lumbered with being a whole cohort of other super-heroescheerleader at school, which in this world means dweebish fans of comics with a stupid costume yet no power other than the determination she is desperate to do well for society, but they're not going anywherefind her voice. They're not spotting crime or solving conspiracies, and they're certainly not getting their colleague and mentor Hit-Girl out of jail. Dave could 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=ItBut it's not just because the third richest take of any movie is about to get actually more a sequel that we have this pictorial background guide. There have been decades case of action featuring the main characters of The Avengersher voice finding her, and they themselves are fifty years old as a collective entity, so this book has a lot of ground to coverwhen she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. To its benefit there are hardly any mentions of the global behemoth that are Marvel films these days, beyond You could almost call it 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 will have fond memories of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781313989</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Winshluss|title=In God We Trust|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=To start withweapon, or a rhetorical testpower. How about God and Adam playing badminton day But in and day out, until one gets bored and decides order for her to create Eve? Or the defeater of Goliath and the saviour of the Israelites being one Conan the Barbarian? Or this as call herself a test – Jesus Himself failing superhero, there has to have be a successful session whole path 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, steps for you her to have answered the test and put yourself firmly in take – one of two camps for this book – one very much opposed to buying it, and one very much in favour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662350</amazonuk>which will be into her past…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Modiano, Sempe (illustrator) and William Rodarmor (translator)1401280048|title=Catherine CertitudeBatman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose

|summary=Think of fallen angelsThe young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and Lucifer and suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at the like come to mindage of eighteen. But they don't have to have fallen Feeling rather stuck with such speed, for such a distance or with such effect. This book concerns one such creature, and while itthe legacy he's not named as an angel as suchinherited from his murdered parents, and it's identified only by nobody knowing from where it comes yet everyone silently gets he wants to appreciate its presence, it certainly looks like a Western, Christian, angel formdo charitable deeds. And so the plot of this gentleBut one night, poetic picture book looks at the chance when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of such a bad thing criminal, he goes too far as far as the fall of an angel being followed by anything more positive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1742379729</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Thunderbirds Comic: Volume 1|author=Gerry Anderson authorities are concerned, and Frank Bellamy|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet gets given the Thunderbirds. If you don't know anything about most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the Tracy family and their International Rescue organisation, then I'm not sure where you've beenhome for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. For There he learns of some other people of a certain age (OK, mine, at least) they were who also allege charitable intent – the staple of Saturday morning cinema clubsNightwalkers, a highlight of BBC2 when repeated teatimegang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and even managed to make those 3D rotating card-a-vision things worthwhilemurder the owner. They've been in cinemas since then, Can he get close to one of them and get the truth of coursetheir schemes, but now with or will the world needing everything everywhen we've got manipulative Madeleine be a welcome chance to look back at some of step too far for the original comic book spinyoung do-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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405272600</amazonuk>gooder?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401283292|title=The Lost SockHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Gillian JohnsonMariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh

|summary=A lost sockHarleen Quinzel is new in town. We’ve all had them. In fact She always, to me, I know people who only buy socks of one colour seems new in order town, even if she's been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to always have matching sockslook out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. IBut here she is new in town, who prefer to buy brightly coloured socks (much like and the man in this book)town is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, seem she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to spend my life stay with my feet constantly mismatcheda bunch of drag queens. It doesn’t bother me all She also finds school is a drag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that muchwill have a big impact on her life. One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, but it certainly affects the hero of this taleother someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, who goes on an adventure in order to find the missing sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472112431</amazonuk>calls himself The Joker…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140128339X|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|titleisbn=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>}}{{newreviewWeeks_Gritterman|title=I Was the CatThe Gritterman|author=Paul Tobin and Benjamin DeweyOrlando Weeks|rating=45

|summary=Meet BurmaThere's a man who has an ice cream van. Allison BreakingIn summer, blogger and journalist behind the Breaking News website what there is about of summer, he uses it tosell ice creams, That's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for shewinter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up and rotate, playing a tune, whether the van's accepted his giant wage packet to ghost write his memoirsgritting or selling ice creams. SheTonight - Christmas Eve - will be the van's been told to expect last trip. The council has sent the unexpected as regards letter about his looksservices no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, they say. There's even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but she is shocked to find that Burma is in fact the worldGritterman isn's only talking cat, and t sure that he has not one but nine lives wants to talk about. The past eight were full of live in a lot of evil, sin and death – but at least heworld where the B2116 doesn's coming clean now, right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1620101394</amazonuk>t need gritting.