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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]]==Graphic novels==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert R Crumb and Aline CrumbEdel Rodriguez|title=Drawn TogetherWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey

|summary=This book isWe're in childhood, as it says several times, the collected works of the worldand we's only comic-strip creating husband-and-wife partnershipre in Cuba. While this is to ignore The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the work Joyce does to co-write some of Harvey Pekar's titlescountry, has proven himself a Communist, there certainly is and not done nearly enough to create a couple such as thislevel playing field for all. Over several decades of workWell, we see just how joined at the hip they are. Most those hours-long speeches of the panels are drawn by him - R - with Aline drawing herself on top his were kind of taking his inked backgroundstime away. Later onOur narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, their selfan uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-created titles are splitCommunism skirmish, with him doing half such as Angola) and the pagesfather being watched and watched, and her own opus on the other half - by this time she had had works out under her own namenot liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. But so close are The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in each other's intimate worksthis sultry island country, they are never very far from it remains the edge kind of heat forcing you out of the frame.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861661788</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hunt Emerson and Kevin JacksonKia Ahankoob|title=Dante's InfernoThe Gold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels

|summary=It seems incredibly rightWhen Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, on only the third page of this texteach with its own strength and weakeness, that the Divine Comedy should be transferred to in the black hope they would complement each other and whitecollaborate, cartoonish side creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of the graphic novel formateight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. Our venturing hero encounters the But it didn'leopard t quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of malice them and fraud', the 'lion of violence eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ambition' ruinous stalemate and finding the 'she-wolf cost of avarice and incontinence'war too high, and leaves bemoaning ''living in a world solution is proposed. Each of symbolism''. You could see the beasts illustrated and captioned by name curving alongside eight countries will send their bodygreatest warriors, just known as Hogarth may have displayed themsentinels, but no, Emerson goes down the path that is less cartoonish and less newspaper comic strip, and lets the picture and script stay to a bit more separatesingle combat tournament. But later on he is delving into the more blatant, and immediate, by dressing The Furies up as multiple Maggie Thatchers. The good thing about this book is there is reason for everything in it - from the examples winner will take possession of artwork I have described, to all the fact both creators claim it to have been 'influenced by childhood reading of MAD magazine', rings and a reason become the publisher supreme ruler of this untouchable classic is known as Knockabout BooksDuniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861661699</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pat Grant Morrison|title=SupergodsThe Grot: Our World in the Age The Story of the SuperheroSwamp City Grifters

|summary=Consider Everything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the super-hero comicpunk bands. Borne out 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 need mother and her two sons aim to create cheap set up a yoghurt factory. You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for this is a really rough-and franchise-friendly content for newspapers ready dump of a place, but everyone is interested in small things that grow. For the only money to be had – the only fortunes to be found in AmericaFalter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that – well, the use of it's grown into a billion-dollar industryis never really made clear. Once there, with Hollywood jumping on the bandwagon of several major characters now their FX have finally caught two brothers set themselves each up with the printed page. Disposable? - once upon a timeguide – Lippy, yet now collectable to the tune of a million dollars or more. Frivolous? forward- probablythinking, industrious of the two, yet not exclusively nowwith a besuited gent, if ever soPenn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. At one point here, they are just one product But which of the infinitely powerful imaginary system each of us carries two will come off the worse as they make their own way in our brainthis dystopian, and at the other 'ethereal, papersemi-thin constructs of unfettered imagination'.Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099546671</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eddie CampbellLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=The Lovely Horrible StuffTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating=4.5

|summary=Money, I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in amongst all the cliched things it doessecond half of their teens has other priorities, makes for peciluar detail for a graphic novelist like Eddie Campbell to include in a book about ityou know. He has to make himself a company to qualify for creating a Batman strip to earn it, I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and has to pay $4 to buy $1 to draw (- then claim hunger strikes from the students before the tax back on massacre and the purchase to save himself some birth of it). It causes friction when his daughter earns too muchthe Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and when his wifeI didn's dad spends too much in t know more than a legal pursuit to have morespit about the people involved on either side. In the second half of this This book it causes is practically flawless in giving a journalistic piece general browser's context for the whole season of non-fiction as he takes a look at Pacific islanders who used man-sized stone discs as currencyprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1603091521</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maarten vande WieleLeigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=ParisWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=4.53|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=In Diana, being unique on her island, is the category victim of graphic novels not to be seen reading in publica lot of taunts, Paris is way up thereand claims of nepotism. With a gaudy pink and silver glitz coverIt's only her unique status, and a lot of blowjobs and sex insideher mother being Queen, it's not one for the daily commute. Butthat has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though it's subject matter is merely the unlikely choice of the rags-she has clearly fought to-riches-to-rags tale of three Parisian starlets, it is certainly worth be a decent perusalstrong young woman. Hope was a juvenile beauty queenPerhaps too strong for the island, and could now work in fashion were it not however – for scars due to a car crash, and Faith wishes every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the vicarious life World of pop stardomMen, and it's no spoiler to report who and what they find will disappoint themthis Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. ChastityA shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the most sarcastically-named character in comix, survivor she drags from the waters is happy enough destroying herselfonly going to disturb a lot more...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861661737</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicolas de Crecy1401286208|title=The Celestial BibendumBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee

|summary=Diego Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, and seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, she is new desperate to townfind her voice. HeBut it's actually more a sealcase of her voice finding her, on crutches, but don't raise an eyebrow as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at that - you won't have enough left to raise at what followsschool her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a weapon, when he is hounded by or a singing professorial claque who go about grooming him power. But in order for being her to call herself a very publicsuperhero, hopeful figure. Observing all of this is the devil (there has to be a dwarf in check dungarees, whole path of course), who wants Diego steps for his own purposes...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661753</amazonuk>her to take – one of which will be into her past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Kindt1401280048|title=RevolverBatman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose|rating=54

|summary=Meet Sam. He has The young man called Bruce Wayne is a rather dull lifevery noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, with a materialistic girlfriendpaparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he's a job in billionaire at the arse-end age of celebrity journalism and a boss eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he can't stand. All of which is preferential to waking up and finding s inherited from his home city under attack - munitions going offmurdered parents, skyscrapers burning and people falling from themhe wants to do charitable deeds. He ends up fleeing with said editorBut one night, only to wake the next day back when he speeds off in this world. He will indeed fall to being snatched from each reality his posh new car in turn, at set times pursuit of daya criminal, forced to suffer consumerism in onehe goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, looting and gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in anotherthe home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, basic pay raises herea gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, producing Samizdat bare-bones journalism for survivors thereand murder the owner. But always with enough time Can he get close to ask one of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the important questions young do- how, and whygooder?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401222412</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bill Willingham1401283292|title=FablesHarley Quinn: Legends in Exile - Vol 01|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Forced out of the Homelands by the evil Adversary, the characters in Fables have made their way to New York City. Those of them who look relatively human, at least. With Old King Cole as Mayor (in name, at least, despite his deputy Snow White running the show), Bigby Wolf as the Sheriff, and Prince Charming being, well, charming, towards every woman he can, these are characters you'll already know and love – but portrayed in a way that completely reinvigorates them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1563899426</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBreaking Glass|author=Alan Moore Mariko Tamaki and Dave Gibbons|title=Watchmen|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The Comedian is dead. In a world where costumed vigilantes have been outlawed and former superheroes are either retired or working for the government, the murder of his former teammate leads the outlaw Rorschach to investigate. What he finds could change the world...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1852860243</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ray Fawkes|title=One SoulSteve Pugh|rating=43.5

|summary=When reading this it soon becomes very clear we're reading not one, but nineteen, storiesHarleen Quinzel is new in town. With each page divided into a regular 3x3 grid there are eighteen images on each double page spreadShe always, and every one shows an episodeto me, or a beatseems new in town, of a different charactereven if she's life in turnbeen around a long time, from being for she always has a babe-in-arms very fresh attitude, and seems to deathlook out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. HoweverBut here she is new in town, and the way they join up town is Gotham City. Expecting a year- everyone's figurative moment comes at oncelong furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to stay with a bunch of drag queens. She also finds school is a drag, at times she also finds the artist's heavy black ink makes all eighteen images coincide into one image - proves there whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a separate, individual tale around large and behind the others, one which uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will end with the most delightful moral have a big impact on her life. One is a civil- that minded lass called Ivy, the ability to be anything one imagines is in our DNA.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1934964662</amazonuk>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|authorisbn=David Lucas140128339X|title=The Lying Carpet|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=There is a room in a big old house where nothing moves but the insects. An empty chair sits to one side, a stone statue of a girl called, and representing, Faith, the other. In between is a tiger rug. What potential is in that for the setting of a charming book? What potential indeed...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390177</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMera: Tidebreaker|author=Mary M Talbot Danielle Paige and Bryan Talbot|title=Dotter of Her Father's EyesStephen Byrne

|summary=If there's one person able to produce a worthwhile potted history of James Joyce's daughter, it should be Mary M TalbotMeet Mera. She's an eminent academic, and her father was the latest in a major Joycean scholarline of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Both females had parents with Her father, the same names too - James king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and Nora, both took to the stage when younger a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after going to dance schoolall, but itMera's mother, the contrasts between them this volume subtly picks out rather than any similaritiesterritory's warrior queen, in a dual biography painted by one person we know by now as more than able to produce a delightful graphic novel - [[:Category:Bryan Talbot|Bryan Talbot]]is long dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096087</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peter O Mera doesn'Donnell|title=Modesty Blaise: Live Bait|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're back in t fancy the cosseting or the gritty yet glamorous world of Modesty Blaise - fella involved at leastall and is, as gritty and glamorous as you could get in the Evening Standard daily comic strip in the late 1980s. Titan have had a mammoth undertaking fact, trying to reproduce all get Xebel out from under the original strips in handy large-format graphic novel compendia, and this latest covers three stories, all cosh of which I consider greater in depth than those in the other volume I've reviewed - [[Modesty Blaise: Sweet Caroline by Neville Colvin and Peter O'Donnell|Sweet Caroline]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686682</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patricia McKissackAtlantean power, Frederick L McKissack Jr and Randy DuBurke|title=Best Shot in the West|rating=4|genre=Childrenfor Xebel's Non-Fiction|summary='We're going to do the real West, Natroyalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. You're as real as So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to the rest world of 'em us air- Bat Mastersonbreathing humans, Calamity Jane, Wild Billand kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the quest (and the Earpspromised throne) all for herself.' So says a publisher to a lowly railroad porterBut of course, Nat. But if this guy's as real as the rest she has no idea what kind of those famous namesperson she will meet, why does his not trip off the tongue? Is and how hard it purely because as will be to get the most famous African-American cowboy, he still was not allowed to be as famous as he should?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0811857492</amazonuk>job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Garen Ewing1401286399|title=Super Sons: The Rainbow Orchid: Adventures of Julius Chancer v. 3PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=Here we are, then, ten years after It's the debut of this graphic novel on the Internetnear future, and finally the print trilogy every coastal city – including Metropolis – is completein need of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. At last we can see if our hero JuliusBut the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, his chums, the shady Government forcing many people, and his enemy’s beautiful assassin aide who remains impossible to shrug off, manage to get anywhere near the fabled titular plant relocate in its secret Himalayan location, and just how important it has been America's biggest exodus for all those many people left back in Englanddecades. It’s been a rollercoaster rideSuperman is helping out, and it’s been worth it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405255994</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gary Crew and Shaun Tan|title=The Viewer|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The story concerns a young lad who loves scavenging and exploring. Finding a Hellraiser-styled box of tricks contains a Viewmaster-type machinecourse – first, he puts it to his eyes and sees something a lot more serious than, say, a Thunderbirds episode in thirty 3D images, which was all I ever saw in mine. Insteadpatching up the dams, Tristan sees nothing but death and destruction, and a compelling sense of - well, something.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0734411898</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Art Spiegelman|title=MetaMAUS|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Before now he's mining the Holocaust was turned into [[The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne|asteroid belt for a child-like near-fable rare dust that's perfect for all]], and before it was blocking the focus of superb history books such as [[Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder|this]], it became a family saga of a father relating his experiences to a son, who then drew it all - featuring animals not humans - [[Maus by Art Spiegelman|Maus]]solar energy from making further polar ice melt. To celebrate the twenty-five years since thenInland, we have this brilliant look back at the creation of an equally brilliant volume.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670916838</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Harry Thompson|title=Tintin: Herge and His Creation|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=I love Tintin. I love his quiff and his innocence, his plus-fours and his foreign adventuresin Wyndermere, I love Snowy the dog and most of all I love Captain Haddock and refugees from the flamboyance of his blistering barnacles language. So I was thrilled to see a biography of the character coast are suffering bigotry and Hergéintolerance for being newcomers, his creator, and I picked it up with enthusiasmbut something else is much worse. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546726</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Khaled Hosseini|title=The Kite Runner (Graphic Novel)|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A confession. If there's one book I'm not likely to read, it's that which everyone else major bout of food poisoning is readinghitting the city. If But it turns into a hugely popular film for all the left-wing chattering classes to rave over, then thatcan's just more grist to my mill – I'll always t possibly have a chance anything to catch up on it later on, even if I never take that opportunity. I'm not alone in acting do with what looks like this – see a friend and colleague's similar admission when reviewing [[White Teeth by Zadie Smith]]. But at least, through the medium sabotage of the graphic novel, flood barriers and the book reviewing gods have conspired efforts to let me see just what I'm missing, with this adaptation, by Italian artists, of a hugely successful – and therefore delayable – novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815257</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|title=The Comic Strip Big Fat Book of Knowledge|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Who doesn't like a nice comic, eh? There's something so accessible about correct the lovely picture and text combosclimate, and facts are far from dull when they come via speech bubbles, don't you thinkcan it? Taking full advantage of this fact, Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner have, for some time, been creating factual books for Four young children which pass on their insight and Important Information through the medium of comics. Now for the first time, you can collect 3 of their titles in one simple volume. Combining the previous reviewed [[The Comic Strip History of the World by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|History of the World]] and [[The Comic Strip History of Space by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|History of Space]] with the ''Greatest Greek Myths''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808242</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kevin O'Neill and Alan Moore|title=The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=So much for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Of the three main protagonists available for this adventure, one and a half are female! Anyway, Bram Stoker's Mina, Woolf's Orlando and Allan Quartermain are in London at the height of the swinging 60s, amidst rumours begin to piece together clues that a new attempt at birthing an Antichrist is about to occur. Certainly, the evil they've faced the last several decades will soon get a new face...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661621</amazonuk>it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Winshluss168369015X|title=PinocchioManfried the Man: A Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow

|summary=Imagine, if you will, Disney's film of Pinocchio had been animated by In a crew of artists hell-bent world where cats stand on sabotaging the prospect. Painterly frames of beauty would be rare in amongst grittytwo feet, grimy, shadowy images of nightmarish content, which took it upon themselves go to break into black work at call centres and whitehave diminutive human beings for pets, or sepiais Manfried. The prologue might have He's a character forcing his cat to join in typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at Russian Roulette. Geppetto would be accompanied in the leviathan, in one of same time being the rare tuneful segmentsperfect companion for his owner, by a penguin playing the pianoSteve Catson. And this after the proud inventor was trying to sell Pinocchio as a prototype robotic superTo such an extent that Steve, who is getting known for his man-weaponoriented thinking, just as his wife was putting Pinocchiois actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''crazy man cat''s most distinctive feature to . But when a most unexpected use... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661729</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aviv Ratzin|title=Dreams window gets left open by mistake, and Everyday Life|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Well, thank youManfried goes missing, Aviv Ratzin - you've provided me with the one book I'm least capable of summarising only thing for it is a review. I can't begin to pithily precis the plot, or describe the happenings in any quick, snappy way. To give the gist of the surreal, scattershot whimsicality cannot do the contents justice in any way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808871</amazonuk>massive and energised man-hunt…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allen GinsbergHainsworth_Gina|title=Howl: A Graphic NovelTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|summary=I first came across Howl as a short film animating one of Ginsberg's own recordings of it'This is what happened. '' If memory serves, it was An artist decided she needed a scratchy, jazzy piece, full dog – so drove the length of spikythe country, spunky shapes and movementsBrighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and low on colourone working eye. Now for 2011 and for Penguin Modern Classics' Why not? The first ever night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn'graphic novelt and causes a mess, so it' comes s not a very different animationgreat start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. OKAnd then, the real moving animation is only life with Gina begins to be seen feel like too much – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as if I was in the movie Howllove.'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, but to call this merely an illustrated companion two children and two cats – gets to form the film is to be very unflatteringfamily they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141195703</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley FairfieldColfer_Illegal|title=TyrannyIllegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin

|summary=To start with, I have never heard of Mr Petersen Ebo is twelve years old and his Mouse Guard franchiseall alone. But I'm often up His sister left for an introduction to a fantasy cycle, Europe months ago and I always relish being welcomed now he doesn't know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thing. So Ebo has to an author by attempt the most esotericsame dangerous journey himself. He must cross the Sahara Desert, unusualget himself to Tripoli, quirky and short route. My first entry to one of the His Dark Materials world was [[Once Upon a Time most dangerous cities in the North by Philip Pullman|a collector's spin-off]]world, and I'm just as likely then try to start cross the Twilight series, if ever, with the latest brief whimsyMediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And for those of a similar mind-set, this collection of tales from the pens of guest writers and illustratorseven if he makes it, serves as an odd-shaped doorway on to this particular universe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681427</amazonuk>how will he find his sister?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan StroudMiller_Batman|title=Batman: Dark Knight III: The Amulet of Samarkand|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When you summon a demon the last thing you want is for you to lose power over it - for the shoe to end up on the other foot. Especially when the demon shifts shape and is currently an eight-legged spider. That's what's happened to young Nathaniel, having summoned Bartimaeus for a task of vengeance. But perhaps it's worst of all when you have to rely on the same demon's help to protect you from an even greater evil - the wicked intent of a fellow man.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563706</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaster Race|author=Denise Mina Frank Miller and Antonio Fuso|title=A Sickness in the Family|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In Eton Terrance there lives the Usher family, in a house above a basement flat where a gangster holds sway over a Polish "girlfriend". After a bloodbath in there, the Ushers expand downwards, clearing a cavernous hole in their home where a staircase is due to go. This is not the only crack in proceedings, however, as we soon discover while witnessing the fall of this House of Usher.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848564163</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bryan Talbot|title=Grandville Mon Amour|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The [[Grandville by Bryan Talbot|first book]] in this series didn't end particularly well for DI LeBrock, the badger who works for Scotland Yard. At least the main problem, 'Mad Dog' Mastock, was sentenced to the guillotine. But in the prologue here he bursts out of his quandary, and once more causes problems for LeBrock - this time by slaughtering some Parisian prostitutes. Are they linked? What might their story be? And is there a darker part of the past yet to come out of some secretive hiding place, and cause even more danger and peril?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090003</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neville Colvin and Peter O'Donnell|title=Modesty Blaise: Sweet CarolineBrian Azzarello

|summary=Meet Modesty BlaiseBatman is not playing ball. YouHe've had countless opportunities to meet her befores been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, mind - and not the baddies he usually biffs. But then he's not Batman – he's a she was daily in the London Evening Standard from 1963 to 2001, and this is she finally comes up with the eighteenth collection of news that Batman died in her comic striphands. She's a feistyElsewhere, Lara, the daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, unfettered femme fatale is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with a bottomless fortune shrinking and a great supply expanding life to the miniaturised city of Kandor, the last vestige of both friends and enemiesKryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. We see these combine here What with Superman sitting idle in four stories, when an enterprising gang exposed Fortress of murderous blackmailers force Modesty to become their enemy, an old friend's name is used to dupe her Solitude having gone into letting go her criminal secrets from her pasta sulk, and when a new-found friendBatman dead, fresh from saving her life there would appear to be little in a gliding accidentthe way of help for the world should anything nasty happen – but then, of course, comes up against some hoodlums.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566735</amazonuk>something nasty does happen… s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joshua Dysart, Cliff Chiang and Dave Stewart|title=Neil Young's Greendale|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's 2003. Alaska is about to get raped, and Iraqis killed, for the sake of providing power for the USA. Which is ironic, as only before this is Sun Green a powerless young woman, and after it - well, she might have a very different kind of power. A mystical sort of girl, with a great affinity to nature, the teenaged Sun has to first solve many blank spaces in her family tree, and work out her nightmares - which might include the strange man new to town.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848567863</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Garen EwingWeeks_Gritterman|title=The Rainbow Orchid: Adventures of Julius Chancer 2|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Oh to be popular - and the rainbow orchid certainly is. If, in fact, it exists at all. A collecting challenge for rare plants might hinge on its recovery, imperial British explorers would like to know the truth about it - and its presence on some mysterious ancient carved tablets hints at some mystical part it may once have played in a superweapon. Hence, where this book starts, everyone - from a film starlet, to a dashing explorer's assistant, to a plucky aviator, to an evil henchwoman of an overweight industrialist - is after it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140525047X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGritterman|author=Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith and Tony Lee|title=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic NovelOrlando Weeks|rating=35

|summary=It There's a man who has an ice cream van. In summer, what there is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie story of any renown will summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, That's not remain simply his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a zombie storyGritterman. Before you can say ''The fibreglass 99s on the risen undead'' it will become roof light up and rotate, playing a series of bookstune, inspiring others, and/whether the van's gritting or lead to selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the van's last trip. The council has sent the same story letter about his services no longer being published in many different guisesrequired. Global warming. HereDying profession, then, on its way to Hollywood, is Jane Austen’s story of Lizzie Bennetthey say. There's even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but the feisty young woman trying Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to ignore Mr Darcy while fighting off live in a world where the B2116 doesn''manky unmentionables'' – at least she is until the hidden truths open up to her, just as the soft soils of Hertfordshire do to yield their once-human remains. And this time it’s in graphic novel formt need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Mark Millar and John Romita Jr|title=Kick-Ass|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Dave. The average Joe personified, he sits at home with his internet connection, his comics collection, his dad, and very little contact with anyone else. He is a typical loner teenager, nearly friendless, wears glasses at school - especially around the hot, mature biology teacher who for some reason seems to have maths sums on her blackboard... Until one day he decides to emulate the comics in his collection. The only superheroes in his world are those whose colourful adventures he follows on the page - why not get his own costume mucked up, and go and fight crime?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565356</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Phoebe Reeves Murray|title=Ghost: Blood and Fire|rating=1.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Young Jennifer Rhys has been orphaned by the evilDark Angels. They can possess people and bite off their hands, andthere's something about living tattoos which you can take out of boxesand paste into your skin. After growing up in an adolescentpsychiatric ward, she will grow up to go on and confront them andfulfil her destiny. Or something like that. Between the huge amount ofpoorly drawn characters, the leaden prose, and the disappointingpictures of computerized 3-D models, I got lost a few times andcouldn't summon the interest to work out what was going on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808863</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Eisner|title=Life on Another Planet|rating=2.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=There are some people who don't even need their name on their books, for the contents are so obviously and uniquely theirs. Will Eisner is one such person, for the esteem and renown his artwork and pioneering work in the graphic novel form is held under is rightfully his and his alone. I'm quite sure I could recognise a page of his black and white inkwork, and his easily drawn but realistic characters, more easily than any other sequential artist. That trademark signature on the cover, surely the most well-known in 'comic strips' outside Mr Disney's empire, is hardly necessary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera |title=Dark Entries|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The producers of Dark Entries, the latest hit reality TV show, are worried. Yes the six housemates are there, present and correct, and are ready to be scared witless en route to the one way out, and the brilliant prize that might await them somewhere in the merry-go-round of horror that is their new home. They are already being scared witless, by phantoms - but that's nothing to do with the TV producers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dean Hale, Shannon Hale and Nathan Hale |title=Calamity Jack|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''I was born to scheme'', declares our hero Jack. With flashbacks we see the young lad and a pixie friend, larking about for revenge or small profit. But when his mother's bakery gets more and more into the red, the size of the profit has to increase. And when you add in revenge against the local crime lord - a giant of a man - so does the size of the target of the jape.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587426</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Crumb|title=Robert Crumb's Book of Genesis: All 50 Chapters|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In the beginning was the picture. Just think of all the countless religious images, both inside and outside religious establishments, designed to convey the message to those who could not read. Art and religion have always been linked, which is probably one of the main reasons I stayed an atheist - I hated art at school, and drawing a man Move on a donkey, something way beyond my skills, was not a task I appreciated, hence my dislike of both subjects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224078097</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Guy Delisle|title=Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|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>}}[[Newest Historical Fiction Reviews]]