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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Siobhan Dowd and Emma ShoardEdel Rodriguez|title= The Pavee and the Buffer Girl|rating= 5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=When Jim's family halt at Dundray, his heart grows heavy. Worm: A new Buffer school for this Pavee boy to attend. Jim doesn't like school. He doesn't like Buffers. And you know, you couldn't really blame him because the distrust and suspicion is mutual. Prejudice against the Traveller community is strong and when Jim and his cousins turn up on their first day, it's to stares and muttered insults from the pupils and condescension from the teachers. Within days, Moss Cunningham and his gang have accused Jim of stealing a CD - he did no such thing - and have begun a campaign of threats, bullying and worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370049</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nathan Hale|title=One Trick Pony|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=Forget the moon being made of cheese, here the Earth looks like it's a huge dollop of the finest Swiss stuff. Horrid, giant insectoid alien things have taken over, and they have zapped anything technological they can find – pumping a blob of something over it, and turning whatever turns up in the resulting spheres into sand, or carting it off to larger ships. Our heroes belong to a travelling caravan of a village, keeping intact as much human knowledge as they can (think a digital version of those readers in ''Fahrenheit 451''), but they've left their compatriots behind to go exploring. They'll never expect to find a magical, wondrous, robotic horse, though – which is where their problems begin…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419721283</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Bobby Joseph and Joseph Samuels|title=Scotland YardieCuban American Odyssey|rating=4.5

|summary=Things are grim We're in childhood, and we're in LondonCuba. 'People The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of colour' can no longer stand at as a bus stop or cross saviour of the road without white cops shooting them downcountry, has proven himself a Communist, and planting drugs and guns on themnot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Heaven help them if their satnav leads them past certain corrupt coppersWell, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. But obviously one Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the problems there is that there are no black police, so good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to encourage their growth Boris has built Jamaica a prisonsome minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and borrowed their finest – Scotland Yardiewatched, a dreadlocked and heavily-armed skunkhead rastanot liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. It's purely thought The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of as a PR exercisethe heat, but Yardie knows different. When in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you add on a mystery regarding a new chain out of chicken shops, and the nasty cops, he has his work cut out. Seen?kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861662512</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary Telford and Louise VerityKia Ahankoob|title=SinsThe Gold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels

|genre=Short StoriesGraphic Novels|summary=Is there enough new to say about the seven deadly sins? We've seen them all shown to usWhen Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, from school age each with its own strength and up to weakeness, in the movie ''Se7en'', which we sincerely hope was NOT shown to anyone at school age. We can they would complement each recount them allother and collaborate, having been long familiar with them, even if we probably can't pin down when they were actually set in stone without helpcreating a dynamic and prosperous society. Similarly, Each power is there anything new in the world contained within a magical ring belonging to one of fairy tale? We know the tropes - characters identified eight countries led by Myriad's children and their status or gender (descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the woman, eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the husband)cost of war too high, a clear set solution is proposed. Each of rules to obeythe eight countries will send their greatest warriors, and a moral as strong known assentinels, if not stronger than, the formulae involvedto a single combat tournament. Well, this volume demands we decide The winner will take possession of all the answer to those questions as being positive ones, rings and if it's not always definitive in become the writing here that there is something new, rest assured there will be something in the imagery that will definitely strike one as fresh..supreme ruler of Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843516624</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bessora, Barroux and Sarah Ardizzone (translator)Pat Grant|title=AlphaThe Grot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters

|summary=''It felt like there was boiling water inside my head. To cool it down, I had to leave…'' Those words aren't spoken by AlphaEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the narrator of this graphic novel, but they might have beenpunk bands. Living in Abidjan, on There are three pedallers at the south coast front of Cote d'Ivoire in Africa, he is determined the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to get out the ferry across the swamp to go to ParisFalter City, and where a relative's hair salon mother and her two sons aim to set up a much better lifeyoghurt factory. It's not just the boiling water You could say that is causing him to jump out yoghurt would be the frying pan into the unknown fireonly culture around, but the fact that his wife for this is a really rough-and son went already-ready dump of a place, and he's trying to follow but everyone is interested in their footsteps. ''Your feet become your headsmall things that grow. Your body obeys them'' he observes at one point during For the ordeal – but there are people smugglers galore, and blind chance only money to also obey along the way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370014</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Hurk|title= Ready for Pop|rating= 4.5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=London, The mid-sixties. In what appears to have been a murder attempt, Britain's greatest pop sensation 'Vic Vox' has been left a foot tall be had – the effects of a 'shrink drug' administered by assailants unknown. As Detective Chief Inspector Ladyshoe and his team at Scotland Yard try to find who did it and why, comedian Tubs Cochran prepares himself for his big come-back show. Can he keep his old fashioned comedy instincts relevant enough only fortunes to entertain a new generation? Will Vic Vox's big rivals, 'The Small Pocks' be given a boost found in Vic Vox's absence? And will June Scurvy get her hit (or maybe not) new single featured on the show they're all waiting for…''Ready for Pop''!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662504</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Bantock|title=Griffin and Sabine 25th Anniversary Edition: An Extraordinary Correspondence|rating=4|genre=General Fiction |summary=Oh Griffin and SabineFalter City – come from algae, where have you been all my life? I've loved epistolary novels gunk and ones other crud that take – well, the narrative two-and-fro use of letters and bring us closer to the sender than any omniscient narrator can hope to doit is never really made clear. I've still got Once there, the childlike love of picking at an envelope stuck in two brothers set themselves each up with a book to pull out a sheet of something else guide – not only is there Lippy, the wonder at more forward-thinking, industrious of the handmade construction of something so bluntly and undeservedly called 'two, with a book'besuited gent, but there is the frisson of being the first person to see this artefact everPenn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. So how have I never seen this book before, and its cycle But which of sequels, concerning the correspondence between two completely different peoplewill come off the worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>145215595X</amazonuk>1603094660

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeremy Haun Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Jason A HurleyEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=The BeautyTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=Don't we all just want that one little fillup to our looks I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – that tuck there, those pounds or wrinkles vanished, that little tweak to make us more sexually attractive and virile? Well, if you catch The Beauty, you will indubitably end up, someone in what colloquial language the second half of their teens has itother priorities, ''fit''you know. But The Beauty is not to be caught as in a passing fad or itinerant beautician, but as a sexual disease. And itI certainly didn's hit half t know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the population – most birth of those willingly. You feel feverish with itthe Tank Man image, but itI didn's taken off big timet know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and Big Pharma is happy with I didn't know more than a spit about the situationpeople involved on either side. Some violent anti-Beauty activists arenThis book is practically flawless in giving a general browser't, so special police units exist regarding it, but they, s context for the Powers That Be, and the underground scientists working against the disease are only going to be swamped when The Beauty shows its true face…whole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1632155508</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter O'Donnell Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Enric Badia RomeroKit Seaton|title=Modesty Blaise - Ripper JaxWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=43|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=Is there any stopping Modesty Blaise? WellDiana, inasmuch as there are only ten stories left that have not been anthologised in these lovely reprints, yes – just three books to gobeing unique on her island, by my reckoning. That reckoning should be quite accurate, if I can be immodest, for there is the victim of a lot that is routine about these storiesof taunts, and claims of nepotism. They all had three panels a day, six days a week (with one dayIt's output only her unique status, and her mother being less relevant to the story for those papers that didn't carry the comic on weekends)Queen, for twenty-one weeks. But rest assured there is also a lot that is unusual about Modesty and has her outputwith any standing at all, including her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a never-ending variety to strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the locationsisland, to however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the manner World of the baddy's crimeMen, and to this Diana is the action Modesty and her Willie are forced to undertake to win the dayheroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. And nobodyA shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but nobody, has undertaken so much action and come out looking so attractive…the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298588</amazonuk>1401282555

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jens Harder1401286208|title=AlphaBlack Canary: DirectionsIgnite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee|rating=3.5

|summary=SoMeet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, people might still ask meand seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, why do I turn she is desperate to graphic novels – arenfind her voice. But it't visual books with limited writing s actually more suited to young people? Yeaha case of her voice finding her, right – try pawning this off on juvenile audiences and the semi-literateas when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. If you can't kill that cliché off with pages such as these I don't know what will workYou could almost call it a weapon, or a power. I know the book isn't designed But in order for her to be call herself a message to people in the debate about the literary worth of graphic novelssuperhero, but one side-effect of it is surely an engagement with that argument. What it is designed there has to be is a complete history whole path of everything else steps for her to take – and in covering every prehistoric moment, it does just that, and absolutely brilliantly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662458</amazonuk>one of which will be into her past…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcel Ruijters and Laura Watkinson (translator)1401280048|title=HieronymusBatman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose

|summary=This The young man called Bruce Wayne is a book for those who find it amusing that very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he's a biography billionaire at the age of someone who has been dead 500 years is called 'unauthorisedeighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to do charitable deeds. This is But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a book where criminal, he goes too far as far as the detail is in authorities are concerned, and gets given the devil most unlikely stretch of community service instead – people pissing cleaning in the street; home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the locals baiting blind people armed with cudgels in Nightwalkers, a pit with a piggang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, often failing to whack the beast and hitting their colleagues by mistake; farting demons visiting murder the sleeperowner. This is a book for those who don't mind a spot Can he get close to one of them and get the truth of ribaldrytheir schemes, an affront to religious piety or suchlike in their graphic novels. Whether or not this is will the manipulative Madeleine be a book step too far for those seeking a biography of Hieronymus Bosch remains to be seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662466</amazonuk>the young do-gooder?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean-Patrick Manchette, Max Cabanes and Doug Headline1401283292|title=FataleHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh

|summary=PlayHarleen Quinzel is new in town. It's a weird verb – it can mean many different things. Aimee intends She always, to play – me, seems new in town, even if she's already put paid to several men playing at being huntersbeen around a long time, but for she always has a different game in mindvery fresh attitude, and seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. Arriving at a very insular little But here she is new in town she scopes the big-wigs out, watching them over the bridge table and across the golf teestown is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead andherself with no option but to stay with a bunch of drag queens. She also finds school is a drag, seeing them bicker about each other at both play she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and work, uncaring corporation – but she knows she can play with themalso finds two characters that will have a big impact on her life. But what might happenOne is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, given these undefined rulesthe other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, if they chose to play as a team against her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782766820</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Des Taylor140128339X|title=Scarlett Couture|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=What, in the real world, would be the least likely cover for a secret agent but that of super-model? Apart from the advantage of everyone thinking you were gormless, there is the implausible clothing and having to run around after baddies in high heels to consider. But the world of comics isn't the real world, and so you have to ask the opposite – what would be the most visually appealing band of secret agents, if not for a whole cabal of them working undercover as bimbo-looking models? The Showroom is one such, and its main agent is Scarlett Couture, daughter of a male cop and a female fashionista-cum-agency boss. Looking wonderful is incredibly easy for her – but sometimes saving the world is quite a bit tougher…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760628</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMera: Tidebreaker|author=Jason Quinn Danielle Paige and Naresh Kumar|title=World War Two: Against the Rising Sun (Campfire Graphic Novels)Stephen Byrne

|summary=It is Meet Mera. She's the latest in a truth universally acknowledged that if you want to judge line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, the worth king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera''Star Trek'' TV seriess mother, you judge the theme tune. Itterritory's incontrovertible that they went downhill in unisonwarrior queen, after allis long dead. It Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all and is also a truth universally acknowledged that , in fact, trying to get Xebel out from under the same applies to ''Doctor Who''cosh of Atlantean power, for the opening credits have definitely had their ups and downs over recent yearsXebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. But you can also define So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to the entertainment value world of a series through us air-breathing humans, and kill the companions. Or at least you can with the 11th Doctor comic versionsAtlantis heir, which decided she rushes off to pick up a Token Smart, Ballsy, Ethnic one, a bizarre, mercurially disembodied robot-type-with-limited-vocab one, get the quest (and, er, a cod David Bowie one who relives the entire Ziggy Stardust lyric sheet through his witterings. I know, right? No hopepromised throne) all for herself. But can you give up hope with the geniusof course, energeticshe has no idea what kind of person she will meet, effervescent and witty Doctor around?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782763031</amazonuk>how hard it will be to get the job done…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Serge le Tendre, Regis Loisel and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)1401286399|title=Super Sons: The Quest for the Time Bird|rating=2.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In order to defeat a vengeful god, who is within days of getting out of his prison – a sacred conch shell – several things must happen. First, the conch must be united with the witch powerful enough to sustain the incantation keeping him locked up. Then she must use her helpers to endure great danger and find the information she seeks in the most perilous of places for knowledge of the ultimate part of the puzzle – the Time Bird. All this calls for heroes, but in the world of fantasy anyone can call themselves a hero – from the witch's own buxom daughter, Pelisse, to an old warrior called Bragon that the girl is forced to unite with and fight alongside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782763627</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPolarShield Project|author=Alejandro Jodorowsky, Nicolas Fructus Ridley Pearson and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)|title=Showman Killer: Heartless HeroIle Gonzalez

|summary=A long way awayIt's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in terms need of both time and spacea huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the most perfect assassin rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is formed helping out, of course – genetically bredfirst, adept at magical transformations, with he was patching up the most athletic and deadly abilitiesdams, and with the complete lack of emotion needed. All but now he will ever seek is 's mining the highest price asteroid belt for the best job – a job rare dust that will's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, now the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and againintolerance for being newcomers, force him but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. But it can't possibly have anything to meet do with what looks like sabotage of the most unusual people…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178276139X</amazonuk>flood barriers and the efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jamie Hewlett, Alan Martin and others168369015X|title=21st Century Tank Girl|rating=3.5|genre=Manfried the Man: A Graphic NovelsNovel|summaryauthor=I sometimes wonder, when keying in book reviews, if ISBNs are not constructed by design instead of the formal accident that is supposed to create them. Surely it's intentional that this book has 666 in its code – it's the most devilishly brash, ugly Caitlin Major and foul-mouthed comic around, and people who like that kind of thing will like this. Especially as this book is a return to waaay distant form, and waaay distant creative partnerships, with the original artist Jamie Hewlett back on board. It's time to cuss and roll once more…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782766618</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Derf Backderf|title=TrashedKelly Bastow

|summary=For those people who think graphic novels are rubbishIn a world where cats stand on two feet, go to work at call centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, this is the epitome of that baseless argument. Its subject is junk, it's trash, it's landfill, and garbageManfried. ThatHe's not a verdict on its qualitiestypical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, which are great and fine onesdemanding more food than he can suitably eat, but its very topicat the same time being the perfect companion for his owner, Steve Catson. Straight from schoolTo such an extent that Steve, our author was actually a bin who is getting known for his man for a few seasons – riding on the back of something like Betty-oriented thinking, is actually having nightmares about becoming the garbage van featured hereneighbourhood ''crazy man cat''. It's But when a job nobody wants in all honestywindow gets left open by mistake, and Manfried goes missing, of course – but the book only thing for it is fine enough to actually make the subject something most people should read about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419714546</amazonuk>a massive and energised man-hunt…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke PearsonHainsworth_Gina|title=Hilda and the TrollTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|summary=War books and anti-war books''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of the country, in my mindBrighton to Grimsby, have a lot in common to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and only a couple of easy things need be changed to turn one to the otherworking eye. This is dressed as an anti-war bookWhy not? The first night at home, but here is Gina – the lead character surviving against all odds dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a mess, so it's not a great start, but then begin the platoon whittled down several times while he tribulations of training, status and his few friends behaviour all humans must 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 its inevitable endthrough with their dogs. The difference perhaps is in And then, the minutiae of what those difficulties and deeds need be, life with the anti-war book having a simple honesty Gina begins to feel like too much – ''I felt weird about them and their overall worth that the gung-ho, militaristic piece would patently lackyou because you were always there. And when My thoughts were taken over by you face the guts , and gore of the kind of warfare on these pagesI felt sick, you donas if I was in love.'t really expect jingoism and 'hoo-rah!' attitudes. NoSlowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, even if the DNA is pretty much the sameher husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the result here is definitely, grimly family they and firmly anti-warGina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297609769</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe SuggColfer_Illegal|title=Username: EvieIllegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet EvieEbo is twelve years old and all alone. She's surprisingly unwelcome and alienated at school – His sister left for a trendy Europe months ago 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 now he doesn't know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the bussame thing. Perhaps it So Ebo has something to do with her father's thatched house – after allattempt the same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the Sahara Desert, she must be a witch to live there. It's not that she would wish get himself to live thereTripoli, with nobody else around, and the memory one 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 most dangerous cities in the perfect world. All that remains is to programme the humans to be her friends, and make then try to cross the connection Evie has with them and them with her in return to be of mutualMediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And, confirmingeven if he makes it, happy benefit. But someone else has entered the E-Scape, and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Evie's tentative happiness…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>how will he find his sister?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael B Jackson, Martin Brennan and Simon BisleyMiller_Batman|title=13 CoinsBatman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello

|summary=Batman is not playing ball. He''For s been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the love of money is the root of all kinds of evilbaddies he usually biffs.But then he's not Batman – he' Theres a she, I've done it – quoted and she finally comes up with the Bible news that Batman died in a reviewher hands. It's certainly pertinent in Elsewhere, Lara, the world daughter of this graphic novelSuperman and Wonder Woman, where is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to the fallen angels have one get-out clause they have been seeking since those very lapsarian events. They turned a little section miniaturised city of chain holding their leader eternally captive into the titular coinsKandor, which can influence the human holders last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into sheer evila sulk, but might just cause an open war on Heavenand Batman dead, whether they or there would appear to be little in the best way of help for the holy on earth use them all. The best of the holy world should anything nasty happen – but then, offspring of the good angelscourse, are culled as a routine, but not one – John Pozner, who of course has no idea of his place in the celestial circle of life…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178276061X</amazonuk>something nasty does happen… s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= StrefWeeks_Gritterman|title=J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan: The Graphic Novel|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Here's a quiz question for you – despite the uniform seventy year copyright rule, which work has been the sole recipient of an endless extension of it, courtesy of an ex-Prime Minister? The answer is obvious now at least, as this is one such volume. It's a very readable and pleasant variant on J M Barrie's original stage version and novel regarding Peter Pan, which of course helps and always will now help the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. And for a boy who never grows up, at 111 years old he's in spritely good health.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780272901</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGritterman|author=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero|title=Modesty Blaise - The Killing DistanceOrlando Weeks|rating=4.5

|summary=There''Oh, such things just HAPPEN to that pair, Sirs a man who has an ice cream van.'' The pair referred toIn summer, what there is of coursesummer, are Modesty Blaisehe uses it to sell ice creams, sexy femme fatale with a head full of morals and a pair of legs full of kicking power, and Willy GarvinThat's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the only man to call her ''Princess'' and get away with it – intelligent, practical van becomes a Gritting Van and yet equally resilient in a fight with our narrator becomes a baddyGritterman. The things that happen to them are legion, over many novels and 95 daily newspaper comic strips, and this is one of the better examples of the current collections of the latter. Where else can you get movie stunts going wrong, pregnant women in danger fibreglass 99s on the high seas, roof light up and people escaping from bomb-laden planesrotate, all in playing a Jolly Hockey Sticks mood that smacks of pastiche and vintage ribaldrytune, were it not from whether the heady days of van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the mid-van'90s?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781167125</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ian Edginton and Alex Sanchez|title=s last trip. The Evil Within|rating= 3council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, they say.5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=What do you fear most? And when youThere've answered s even a tarmac now thatcan de-ice itself, think on why – is it something but the Gritterman isn't sure that happened he wants to you, something you saw or read, or something you yourself did? The nature of horror is looked at live in this graphic novel, which spins a world where the usual web of nightmares around some fit young adults, 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 themB2116 doesn't need gritting. Starting with Dana, a college girl seeking her kidnapped best friend, things get darker, weirder, and forever more violent…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761659</amazonuk>