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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]]==Graphic novels=={{adsense2}}__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark Millar and Leinil YuEdel Rodriguez|title=SuperiorWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=54

|summary=Former basketball star Simon Pooni is now We're in a wheelchair childhood, and blind we're in one eye - at the age of 12Cuba. Mutliple sclerosis The revolution has left him in this statehappened, and Castro, praying for first thought of as a cure. Then saviour of the country, has proven himself a talking monkey named Orman appears to him Communist, and offers him the chance not done nearly enough to become create a real life version level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of movie superhero Superior taking his time away. Our narrator's family 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, and not liked for a weekhis successful photography business, success being frowned upon. But what will happen when The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the week ends?kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857685945</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geoff Johns and Doug MahnkeKia Ahankoob|title=Green Lantern Volume 1: SinestroThe Gold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels|rating=4.5

|summary=IWhen Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad've never been a Green Lantern fan - Is children and their descendants. But it didn've tried the series a couple t quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of times in them and the past but seem eight countries went to have picked bad times to give it war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, a gosolution is proposed. HoweverEach of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, I've heard some good things about DC Comics recently so wanted to try a few single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of the New 52 books, which relaunched all of the publisher's ongoing monthlies, rings and this caught my eyebecome the supreme ruler of Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1401234550</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hannah EatonPat Grant|title=Naming Monsters|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=''Monsters are all around us'', we are told, and Fran should know. She opens each chapter The Grot: The Story of her episodic story here with a new monster – a golem, an incubus, or perhaps something less well known. But there are subtly monstrous events in her life as well – an alleged boyfriend with a measly attitude, a fake medium, a summer of retaking GCSEs, and more – as well as the biggest, blackest, visitation – something that should bring succour, family and friendship but cannot be handled.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190843421X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon|title=Preacher Volume 1: Gone To TexasSwamp City Grifters

|summary=Reverend Jesse Custer is losing his faith Everything in God this world runs on pedal- but he's about 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 find out that He existsFalter City, where a mother and He isn't all her two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. You could say that He's cracked up to yoghurt would be. After one incredible eventthe only culture around, Jesse's life for this is turned upside down, a really rough-and he sets out on -ready dump of a road trip place, but everyone is interested in small things that will lead him grow. For the only money to be had – the only fortunes to try and get answers be found in Falter City – come from God himself - if Heaven's angelsalgae, gunk and other crud that – well, the Saint use of Killersit is never really made clear. Once there, don't cut him down firstthe two brothers set themselves each up with a guide – Lippy, the more forward-thinking, industrious of the two, with a besuited gent, Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of the two will come off the worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1563892618</amazonuk>1603094660

  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter O'DonnellLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=Modesty Blaise - The Girl In The Iron MaskTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating=4.5

|summary=n this volume our globe-trotting heroine Modesty and her faithful Willie land up at a jungle hospital, only to find I never really followed the people providing events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it with useful drugs are also creating was playing out – someone in the second half of their own much worse drugs nearby; find teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the Mafia just one man away weeks of protests and hunger strikes from taking over Australia – and therefore give him a male and female tag team back-up; the students before the massacre and stumble into the wicked games birth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a pair of corruptvenue for political protest, evil billionaires in and I didn't know more than a spit about the Alpspeople involved on either side. There This book is no let-up practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the global shenanigans, the daring-do, or the whipcrack action – and we wouldn’t want it any other way…whole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857686941</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan Moore Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kevin O'NeillKit Seaton|title=NemoWonder Woman: Warbringer: Heart of IceThe Graphic Novel

|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=The Nemo here Diana, being unique on her island, is merely the daughter victim of a lot of the great Captain Nemotaunts, as defined by Jules Verne, although given that heritage there is more than enough talent in her bloodline for piracy and adventureclaims of nepotism. HereIt's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, fleeing a royal family that has just been lootedher with any standing at all, Nemo turns her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her father's logbooks and journalsquickly leaving home for the World of Men, and decides there this Diana is unfinished business in the southern polar wastesheroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. But while A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the survivor she's off looking for drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more edifying action, others are off looking for revenge on her…...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861661834</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cassandra Clare and HyeKyung Baek1401286208|title=The Infernal DevicesBlack Canary: Clockwork Angel, Volume 1: The Manga (Manga Edition)Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee

|summary=Meet Tessa GrayDinah Lance. Summonsed Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to London to be with her brother after living try and follow in Americahis footsteps, she has no idea what she is going to be in for. A kidnap and training seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at the hands of two witches is only the start of it as school, she is forced desperate to find the truth about the world about her – about the two different kinds voice. But it's actually more a case of supernatural beings, and of how they constantly fight against each other, and about her own unique originvoice finding her, character and destiny that makes as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her more vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a weapon, or a pawn power. But in this battle. You might have met Tessa beforeorder for her to call herself a superhero, but not like this there has to be a whole path of steps for her to take – for this is the manga adaptation one of the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502252</amazonuk>which will be into her past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joff Winterhart1401280048|title=Days of the Bagnold SummerBatman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose

|summary=Meet Daniel Bagnold. He The young man called Bruce Wayne is a surly, sullen, modern teenager, permanently in a black hoodievery noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, with longpaparazzi, lanky hair and almost suchlike – reminding him he's a monobrow, who one would call very quiet were it not for billionaire at the metal music that forms almost his only interestage of eighteen. He has been forced to spend Feeling rather stuck with the summer, not in Florida with his absent fatherlegacy he's new family, but with inherited from his librarian mother Suemurdered parents, his best friend and his shynesshe wants to do charitable deeds. He doesn't want muchBut one night, and neither it would appear does when he speeds off in his mother – although she knows she has to get him some posh shoes for her cousin's wedding. This book is about their relationship – new car in pursuit of a criminal, he goes too far as far as the two of them authorities are concerned, and gets given the dog that completes the household most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in telling, devastating and humorous mannerthe home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090844</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Nytra|title=The Secret There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Stone Frog|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=You know the drill – you are Nightwalkers, a young boy gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and find yourself waking up alongside your older sister, but with your beds beside murder the bole of a huge tree in an enchanted forestowner. The advice you Can he get is straightforward, but impossible close to followone of them and get the truth of their schemes, as you don't stick to or will the straight and simple path home that you should. As manipulative Madeleine be a result you find a tempting house guarded by bees who steal step too far for the words out of your mouth, hoityyoung do-toity upper class lions, angler fish on the daily commute and more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1935179187</amazonuk>gooder?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Krent Able1401283292|title=Krent Able's Big Book of MischiefHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh

|summary=ItHarleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's come been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to my attention recently that Knockabout books, with their growing library look out of graphic titlesthose large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is new in town, have no intention in being at all literary – not for them and the gently observant characterisation of some original graphic novelstown is Gotham City. Instead they seem to have Expecting a wilful regard for going even further than their house name suggests – wildyear-long furlough from life with her mother, wacky she finds her gran dead and not afraid herself with no option but to present an upsetting imagestay with a bunch of drag queens. With Krent Able they have She also finds school is a drag, she also finds the collaborator who whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will surely help them live up to that ethos like no otherhave a big impact on her life. Taken from One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the ''Stool Pigeon'' musical magazine, other someone she only meets at night – a lad with some extra cartoons, are these strips of depravity, death in unlikely ways a singular graffiti tag and revolting selections of body parts a mind for violence and fluids.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661796</amazonuk>chaos, who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert R Crumb and Aline Crumb140128339X|title=Drawn Together|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=This book is, as it says several times, the collected works of the world's only comic-strip creating husband-and-wife partnership. While this is to ignore the work Joyce does to co-write some of Harvey Pekar's titles, there certainly is not a couple such as this. Over several decades of work, we see just how joined at the hip they are. Most of the panels are drawn by him - R - with Aline drawing herself on top of his inked backgrounds. Later on, their self-created titles are split, with him doing half the pages, and her own opus on the other half - by this time she had had works out under her own name. But so close are the couple in each other's intimate works, they are never very far from the edge of the frame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661788</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMera: Tidebreaker|author=Hunt Emerson Danielle Paige and Kevin Jackson|title=Dante's InfernoStephen Byrne|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It seems incredibly right, on only the third page of this text, that the Divine Comedy should be transferred to the black and white, cartoonish side of the graphic novel format. Our venturing hero encounters the 'leopard of malice and fraud', the 'lion of violence and ambition' and the 'she-wolf of avarice and incontinence', and leaves bemoaning ''living in a world of symbolism''. You could see the beasts illustrated and captioned by name curving alongside their body, just as Hogarth may have displayed them, but no, Emerson goes down the path that is less cartoonish and less newspaper comic strip, and lets the picture and script stay a bit more separate. 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 of artwork I have described, to the fact both creators claim it to have been 'influenced by childhood reading of MAD magazine', and a reason the publisher of this untouchable classic is known as Knockabout Books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661699</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Grant Morrison|title=Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero|rating=45

|summary=Consider Meet Mera. She's the super-hero comiclatest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Borne out Her father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a need to create cheap and franchise-friendly content for newspapers hunky man in Americaan arranged marriage as her future – after all, itMera's grown into a billion-dollar industrymother, with Hollywood jumping on the bandwagon of several major characters now their FX have finally caught up with the printed pageterritory's warrior queen, is long dead. Disposable? - once upon a timeMera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all and is, in fact, yet now collectable trying to get Xebel out from under the tune cosh of Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of a million dollars or moreAtlantean masters. Frivolous? So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to the world of us air- probablybreathing humans, yet not exclusively nowand kill the Atlantis heir, if ever soshe rushes off to get the quest (and the promised throne) all for herself. At one point hereBut of course, they are just one product she has no idea what kind of the infinitely powerful imaginary system each of us carries in our brainperson she will meet, and at how hard it will be to get the other 'ethereal, paper-thin constructs of unfettered imagination'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546671</amazonuk>job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eddie Campbell1401286399|title=Super Sons: The Lovely Horrible StuffPolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=Money, in amongst all It's the cliched things it doesnear future, makes for peciluar detail for a graphic novelist like Eddie Campbell to include and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a book about it. He has to make himself a company to qualify for creating a Batman strip to earn ithuge flood barrier, and has to pay $4 to buy $1 to draw (- then claim the tax back built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the purchase rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to save himself some of it). It causes friction when his daughter earns too much, and when his wiferelocate in America's dad spends too much in a legal pursuit to have more. In the second half of this book it causes a journalistic piece of non-fiction as he takes a look at Pacific islanders who used man-sized stone discs as currency.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1603091521</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maarten vande Wiele|title=Paris|rating=4biggest exodus for decades.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In the category of graphic novels not to be seen reading in public, Paris Superman is way up there. With a gaudy pink and silver glitz coverhelping out, and a lot of blowjobs and sex insidecourse – first, it's not one for he was patching up the daily commute. Butdams, even though itbut now he's subject matter is merely the unlikely choice of mining the rags-to-riches-to-rags tale of three Parisian starlets, it is certainly worth a decent perusal. Hope was a juvenile beauty queen, and could now work in fashion were it not asteroid belt for scars due to a car crash, and Faith wishes rare dust that's perfect for blocking the vicarious life of pop stardom, and it's no spoiler to report who and what they find will disappoint themsolar energy from making further polar ice melt. ChastityInland, the most sarcastically-named character in comixWyndermere, is happy enough destroying herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661737</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicolas de Crecy|title=The Celestial Bibendum|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Diego is new to town. He's a seal, on crutchesthe refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but don't raise an eyebrow at that - you won't have enough left to raise at what follows, when he something else is hounded by a singing professorial claque who go about grooming him for being a very public, hopeful figuremuch worse. Observing all A major bout of this food poisoning is hitting the devil (a dwarf in check dungarees, of course), who wants Diego for his own purposescity...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661753</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Matt Kindt|title=Revolver|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Sam. He has a rather dull life, with a materialistic girlfriend, and a job in the arse-end of celebrity journalism and a boss he But it can't stand. All of which is preferential possibly have anything to waking up and finding his home city under attack - munitions going off, skyscrapers burning and people falling from them. He ends up fleeing do with said editor, only to wake the next day back in this world. He will indeed fall to being snatched from each reality in turn, at set times what looks like sabotage of day, forced to suffer consumerism in one, looting in another, basic pay raises here, producing Samizdat bare-bones journalism for survivors there. But always with enough time to ask the important questions - how, flood barriers and why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401222412</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bill Willingham|title=Fables: 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 efforts 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 correct the Sheriff, and Prince Charming being, wellclimate, charming, towards every woman he can, these are characters you'll already know and love – but portrayed in a way it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that completely reinvigorates them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1563899426</amazonuk>it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons168369015X|title=Watchmen|rating=5|genre=Manfried the Man: A Graphic NovelsNovel|summaryauthor=The Comedian is dead. In a world where costumed vigilantes have been outlawed Caitlin Major 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 SoulKelly Bastow

|summary=When reading this it soon becomes very clear we're reading not one, but nineteen, stories. With each page divided into In a regular 3x3 grid there are eighteen images world where cats stand on each double page spreadtwo feet, go to work at call centres and every one shows an episodehave diminutive human beings for pets, or is Manfried. He's a beattypical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, of a different character's life in turndemanding more food than he can suitably eat, from but at the same time being a babe-in-arms to deaththe perfect companion for his owner, Steve Catson. HoweverTo such an extent that Steve, the way they join up who is getting known for his man- everyone's figurative moment comes at onceoriented thinking, at times is actually having nightmares about becoming the artistneighbourhood ''s heavy black ink makes all eighteen images coincide into one image - proves there is crazy man cat''. But when a separatewindow gets left open by mistake, individual tale around and behind the othersManfried goes missing, one which will end with the most delightful moral only thing for it is a massive and energised man- that the ability to be anything one imagines is in our DNA.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1934964662</amazonuk>hunt…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LucasHainsworth_Gina|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 Talking 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>}} {{newreviewGina|author=Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot|title=Dotter of Her Father's EyesOttilie Hainsworth

|summary=If there's one person able to produce 'This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a worthwhile potted history dog – so drove the length of James Joyce's daughterthe country, Brighton to Grimsby, it should be Mary M Talbot. She's to pick up an eminent academic, Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and her father was a major Joycean scholarone working eye. Both females had parents with Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the same names too - James dog – eats something she shouldn't and Nora, both took to the stage when younger after going to dance schoolcauses a mess, but so it's the contrasts between them this volume subtly picks out rather than any similaritiesnot a great start, 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]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096087</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peter O'Donnell|title=Modesty Blaise: Live Bait|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're back in but then begin the gritty yet glamorous world tribulations of Modesty Blaise - at leasttraining, as gritty status and glamorous as you could get in the Evening Standard daily comic strip in the late 1980sbehaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. Titan have had a mammoth undertaking to reproduce all the original strips in handy large-format graphic novel compendia, and this latest covers three storiesAnd then, all of which I consider greater in depth than those in the other volume Ilife with Gina begins to feel like too much – 've reviewed - [[Modesty Blaise: Sweet Caroline by Neville Colvin and Peter O'Donnell|Sweet Caroline]]I felt weird about you because you were always there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686682</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patricia McKissack My thoughts were taken over by you, Frederick L McKissack Jr and Randy DuBurke|title=Best Shot I felt sick, as if I was in the West|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary='We're going to do the real West, Natlove. You're as real as the rest of 'em - Bat Masterson, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill, the Earps.' So says a publisher to a lowly railroad porterSlowly, Nat. But if this guy's as real as the rest of those famous nameshowever, why does his not trip off the tongue? Is it purely because as the most famous African-American cowboy, he still was not allowed to be as famous as he should?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0811857492<everyone – our artist/amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Garen Ewing|title=The Rainbow Orchid: Adventures of Julius Chancer v. 3|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Here we are, then, ten years after the debut of this graphic novel on the Internether husband, two children and finally the print trilogy is complete. At last we can see if our hero Julius, his chums, the shady Government people, and his enemy’s beautiful assassin aide who remains impossible to shrug off, manage two cats – gets to get anywhere near form the fabled titular plant in its secret Himalayan location, family they and just how important it has been for Gina all those many people left back in Englandwould have wanted. It’s been a rollercoaster ride, and it’s been worth it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405255994</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary Crew and Shaun TanColfer_Illegal|title=The ViewerIllegal|rating=4|genreauthor=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 machine, he puts it to his eyes Eoin Colfer and sees something a lot more serious than, say, a Thunderbirds episode in thirty 3D images, which was all I ever saw in mine. Instead, Tristan sees nothing but death and destruction, and a compelling sense of - well, something.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0734411898</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Art Spiegelman|title=MetaMAUSAndrew Donkin

|summary=Before Ebo is twelve years old and all alone. 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 Holocaust was turned into [[The Boy in same thing. So Ebo has to attempt the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne|a child-like near-fable for all]], and before it was same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the focus of superb history books such as [[Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder|this]]Sahara Desert, it became a family saga of a father relating his experiences get himself to a sonTripoli, who then drew it all - featuring animals not humans - [[Maus by Art Spiegelman|Maus]]. To celebrate one of the most dangerous cities in the twenty-five years since world, and then, we have this brilliant look back at try to cross the creation of an equally brilliant volumeMediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670916838</amazonuk>And, even if he makes it, how will he find his sister?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry ThompsonMiller_Batman|title=TintinBatman: Dark Knight III: Herge The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and His CreationBrian Azzarello

|summary=A confessionBatman is not playing ball. If thereHe's one book I'm been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not likely to read, it's that which everyone else is readingthe baddies he usually biffs. If it turns into a hugely popular film for all the left-wing chattering classes to rave over, But then thathe's just more grist to my mill not Batman – Ihe'll always have s a chance to catch she, and she finally comes up on it later on, even if I never take with the news that opportunity. I'm not alone Batman died in acting like this – see a friend and colleague's similar admission when reviewing [[White Teeth by Zadie Smith]]her hands. But at leastElsewhere, Lara, through the medium daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to the graphic novelminiaturised city of Kandor, the book reviewing gods have conspired last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to let me see just what I'm missing, fly about in visible blue pants. What with this adaptationSuperman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a sulk, by Italian artistsand Batman dead, there would appear to be little in the way of a hugely successful help for the world should anything nasty happen – and therefore delayable – novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815257</amazonuk>but then, of course, something nasty does happen… s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey TurnerWeeks_Gritterman|title=The Comic Strip Big Fat Book of KnowledgeGritterman|author=Orlando Weeks

|summary=Who doesn't like a nice comic, eh? There's something so accessible about the lovely picture and text combosa man who has an ice cream van. In summer, and facts are far from dull when they come via speech bubbles, don't you think? Taking full advantage what there is of this factsummer, Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner havehe uses it to sell ice creams, for some timeThat's not his vocation though, been creating factual books but it does keep him going whilst he waits for children which pass winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on their insight the roof light up and Important Information through rotate, playing a tune, whether the medium of comicsvan's gritting or selling ice creams. Now for Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the first time, you can collect 3 of their titles in one simple volumevan's last trip. Combining the previous reviewed [[The Comic Strip History of council has sent the World by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|History of letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, they say. There's even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but the World]] and [[The Comic Strip History of Space by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|History of Space]] with Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a world where the B2116 doesn''Greatest Greek Myths''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808242</amazonuk>t need gritting.