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|summary=Meet Guy. He's a French-Canadian animator, leaving home for a short stay in the capital of one of the world's most intriguing, unknown and alien cultures - Pyongyang, North Korea - so he can work on a TV cartoon co-production. Forced to stay in one of the three official hotels designed for foreigners, so that the locals and people such as he do not have to mix, he see glimpses of the unique socialist dictatorship, stunning views of the buildings forced through the poverty, and thousands of unreadable faces.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224079905</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gareth Hinds
|title=King Lear
|rating=3
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Hound me out of town in a most appropriate manner, but I do not like King Lear. For me, even as a trained actor, the language is too dense and rich, the set-up too archly unfeasible to create the great tragedy it's thought to be. To my mind the acclaim and esteem in which it's held is only mirrored by its own over-long, over-blown blustering.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763643440</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Hughes
|title=Thomas Wogan is Dead
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Well, with a title like that, need I bother with a plot summary? A man has a day out in Morecambe, then the next thing he knows he's in the ultimate waiting room, with a strange array of animals (a bat, a toad, a sea urchin...), all waiting for... well, something. Yup, as you didn't need telling, he's dead.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095580888X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris Grimly
|title=Tales of Death and Dementia
|rating=5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan Poe, master of the gothic horror short story, and Gris Grimly, outstanding illustrator, known for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]. Poe's ''Tales of Death and Dementia'' are shown off at their very best in this edition.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bryan Talbot
|title=Grandville
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=A dead body found in rural England leads D I LeBrock to urban France, where he is destined to unravel a conspiracy of revolution, treason, and propaganda of potentially global reach. What is the truth behind the fall of a famous tower under air attack a few years ago? Why are so many suspicious suicides coming to attention? And will LeBrock be helped or hindered by his being, as his name suggests, a badger?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224084887</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Will Eisner
|title=Minor Miracles
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=This short story collection starts with two appetisers before getting on with two main courses, but as with the best meals even the smallest dishes can have the most depth. We start with the entire life cycle - rise, fall, rise, fall - of a hobo feeding pigeons in the park. Obviously he hasn't been doing that all his years - he's been keeping his dignity intact, with a huge amount of chutzpah and more. Next, a smart Alec defeats the older kids on the stoop with a bit of canny street wisdom.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328147</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Will Eisner
|title=A Family Matter
|rating=3.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Some sons, some daughters, even a shy, semi-abandoned great nephew, are all gathering in the home of a ninety year old stroke victim for what may be his last birthday celebration. It seems like they are all licking their lips at the thought of a future inheritance. We've heard before of a nuclear family, is this one about to get too radioactive?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328139</amazonuk>
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[[Category:Science Fiction]]
{{newreview
|author=Jonathan Luna and Joshua Luna
|title=Girls Volume 1: Conception
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Ethan, we see with a great, broad comic stroke or six, is not the best when it comes to girls. Letting his mouth run away with him too often, he is not very successful at relationships. But let us look at what happens when he drives away from an altercation at the local bar, and sees a gorgeous - and very naked - young woman standing in the middle of the road.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1582405298</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tony Lee and Sam Hart
|title=Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood (Heroes & Heroines Graphic)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Here, Robin Hood is the Earl of Huntington, a man tempered by bitterness encountered as a youth, trained by skills honed with an apparent need for vengeance. He's out crusading, when he learns just the beginning of the story of what is wrong in Nottinghamshire. Returning, he meets John Little, and soon falls into the robbing/giving cycle we know and love him for.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406308870</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle
|title=Graphic Classics, Volume 17: Science Fiction Classics
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=So, an introduction. The Graphic Classics collection is a series whereby the best in genre fiction, from sources both highly likely and remarkably unexpected, is collected and dressed up for us in graphic novel form. This seventeenth edition, a belated best-of sci-fi volume, is their first foray into full colour, and is headlined by a version of The War of the Worlds. The supporting material ranges from a one-page strip to thirty-page stories.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0978791975</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Shaun Tan
|title=The Arrival
|rating=5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=A man gathers a last memento or two before taking his suitcase in hand, saying farewell to his wife and daughter at the train station, and leaving for the docks to get the boat to the promised land. Once arrived, he finds strangeness everywhere - the food, the language, the immigration procedures, and the lodgings.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0439895294</amazonuk>
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