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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Manifest Destiny Volume 1Edel Rodriguez|authortitle=Chris Dingess, Matthew Roberts and Owen GieniWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey

|summary=ItWe's 1804 re in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and some newly-American soldiers are expanding Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the territory country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to the westcreate a level playing field for all. Well, at those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the orders happiest of President Jefferson – orders which allude places here, an uncle refusing to be the pioneering party encountering good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some very unusual thingsminor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. And they do – first a huge arc of greenery, putting The mother gets the modern reader in mind of couple jobs with the Missouri landmark arch as bastardised by something along the lines party to ease some of the Statue of Liberty heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the original 'Planet kind of heat forcing you out of the Apes'. But when that site gets attacked the weirdness certainly starts to show itself…kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1607069822</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kia Ahankoob|title=Hilda The Gold Lion and the Black Hound|author=Luke PearsonTournament of Sentinels|rating=4.5

|summary=Hilda When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and the Black Hound is the fourth book weakeness, in the “Hildafolk” serieshope they would complement each other and collaborate, each of which creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is a self-contained tale about within a highly inquisitive little girl magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and her adventurestheir descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. This time Hilda joins Enmities grew out of them and the Sparrow Scouts eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and befriends ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, a house spirit whilst in solution is proposed. Each of the meantime eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to a mysterious beast stalks single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the town supreme ruler of TrolbergDuniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263184</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Bojeffries SagaPat Grant|authortitle=Alan Moore and Steve ParkhouseThe Grot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters|rating=54

|summary=A very truncated history Everything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the punk bands. There are three pedallers at the front of comics will start with the idea Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, where a mother and her two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. You could say that they should yoghurt would be funny strips – one jape then you're out; then that they should have more – perhaps the only culture around, for this is a really rough-and-ready dump of a superhero; then place, but everyone is interested in small things that you can have so much more than just a superhero – witness the works of [[:Category:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]]grow. But you mustn't For the only money to be too surprised had – the only fortunes to see be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that – well, the whole thing come around in a full cycleuse of it is never really made clear. Because Alan Moore hasOnce there, the two brothers set themselves each up with this volumea guide – Lippy, concluded his own funny strip japerythe more forward-thinking, and whatever history or greater opinions about industrious of the canon two, with a besuited gent, Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of comix might saythe two will come off the worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, it's just about his best ever book.semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861662318</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreview|title=The Secret Service - KingsmanFrontpage|author=Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=He is Mister London. Jack London. He is the longest-serving, most experienced and downright most suave secret agent the country has. But he now has a problem possibly bigger than even those he's had to face up to before – his nephew. Gary UnwinLun Zhang, Eggsy to his friendsAdrien Gombeaud, is stuck in a rut called Peckham, living with his kid brother Ameziane and his single mum, and her latest bullying, abusive partner. His life is the X-Box, cheap four-packs and TWOCing the neighbourhood cars. Reluctantly casting his mind from the problem of someone kidnapping the greats of TV sci-fi history, Jack undergoes his most awkward mission yet – raising his nephew to be a world-saver.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781167036</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=Jane, The Fox and Me|author=Fanny Britt and Isabelle ArsenaultTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=Bullied at school and lonely because her former friends don't talk to her, Helene loses herself I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the pages second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn''Jane Eyre''. To a girl who thinks t know of the weeks of herself as fat protests and plainhunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, JaneI didn's story gives her hope - but can she find happiness? And t know how will the area had long been a trip to venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a nature camp affect her? Can it give her spit about the confidence and courage to change people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the way she sees herself?whole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406353043</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Nemo: Roses of BerlinLeigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|authortitle=Alan Moore and Kevin O'NeillWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=It's all very well having a heroic band of brigands and workers plucked from literature and Diana, being able to do the jobs that can't ever even feature in top secret files. Submariners, invisible men, and other individuals of mysterious origin, powers and sometimes intent aren't unique to Englishon her island, or England. Hence this loose approximation of World War II, when Berlin is turned into a Germania-meets-''Judge-Dredd''-Megacity, and the Indian daughter victim of Captain Nemo and her very own special Captain Jack have a much more personal mission. The Fuhrer – and the real people and things behind the throne lot of the Nazi-type superpower – have something they'll fight to the end to get back – their own offspring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>086166230X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Snowpiercer Vol.2 - The Explorers|author=Benjamin Legrand taunts, and Jean-Marc Rochette|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=All claims of humankind is living on a single trainnepotism. Oh sorryIt's only her unique status, as this is the sequeland her mother being Queen, make that two trains. Launched on the same tracks as the original Snowpiercerhas her with any standing at all, but her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly at a slight remove, was a second mile-long behemoth of a train, designed with the latest high tech fought to be completely self-sustaining as it travelled ceaselessly on the tracks encircling a frozen Earth, waiting for the time the world was inhabitable once morestrong young woman. But Perhaps too strong for the high tech on boardisland, complete with lemon farms, and differing qualities of virtual holidays depending on cost and class however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of customerMen, has not put paid to one aspect of society – and in fact this Diana is the sole aspect heroine of society not featured in [[Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette|the first book]] – religionyet another Wonder Woman origin story. Some people are fearing the end timeA shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, when but the Icebreaker crashes into survivor she drags from the original Snowpiercerwaters is only going to disturb a lot more.. Some believe they're duped into the whole train idea, and are in fact on a spacecraft. Some people know something else – the rare few explorers who get to go outside the train into the world beyond, and see glimpses of what came before…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401286208|title=Line of Fire Black Canary: Diary of an Unknown Soldier (August, September 1914)Ignite|author=BarrouxMeg Cabot and Cara McGee

|summary=A scientist can tell a bit about an animal's nature just by observing the beginnings of its life ('it's in water, ergo it's probably a fish')Meet Dinah Lance. They don't need Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to study every ant try and follow in the colony to see how ants collaborate his footsteps, and work togetherseemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, for the detail she is pretty much shared from one ant desperate to the nextfind her voice. So But it is with soldiers's actually more a case of her voice finding her, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at least as far as this book is concerned. You school her vocal outcry can pick one soldier from all the battalions and learn something of soldierly lifeshatter glass better than any opera singer. You can see the nature of the war from what happens at the outsetcould almost call it a weapon, or a power. And here all we get is the outset, But in order for this graphic novel is based on her to call herself a manuscript the artist found purely by chancesuperhero, there has to be a whole path of a solitary soldier's diary that covers only a couple steps for her to take – one of weeks in 1914, and stops obliquely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912398</amazonuk>which will be into her past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401280048|title=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - Batman: Nightwalker: The EscapeGraphic Novel|author=Jacques Lob Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Jean-Marc RochetteChris Wildgoose

|summary=All of humankind The young man called Bruce Wayne is living on a single train. I know British commuters feel that way at timesvery noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, but this is a much different circumstance and suchlike – it is reminding him he's a train miles long, running non-stop as a self-contained unit across tracks circling a desolately frozen Earth, moving on endlessly until, perhaps some time in billionaire at the distant future, the planet can recover from the cataclysm that froze itage of eighteen. ItFeeling rather stuck with the legacy he's certainly been going on long enough for it to have a culture – a hierarchical society inherited from the rich and leisured classes near the front, through the orgiasts, past the useful carriages set aside for producing foodhis murdered parents, he wants to the underclass at the enddo charitable deeds. It's all set But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in its routinepursuit of a criminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, set and gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in motionthe home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. But there are two fishes out There he learns of water some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a man from the rear gang who escapedsteal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and murder the owner. Can he get close to one of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a middlestep too far for the young do-class woman working with civil rights campaigners.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>gooder?

 {{newreview|title=Mouse Guard - the Black Axe|author=David Petersen|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Long before there can be peace, there is war. Long before there is something to believe in, there is empty hope. Long before the legend, there is the truth. And so, long before the events of the first two collected Mouse Guard volumes came the story in this third, that of how the heroic, mythical character Celanawe became so notorious. Our tale starts with him just a guard mouse and tutor to those who would follow him, but an unlikely connection to an already fabled weapon is about to be shown to him, in the equally unlikely form of a scholarly old female mouse, Em. When she says the ancient legacy is situated far across unmapped seas, an unusual trio of explorers is pushed to the limit and beyond, in search of the unseekable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681435</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Bugsy Malone - Graphic Novel|author=Alan Parker|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=One bunch of wise guys might think they have it all, but they don't. Another bunch of wise guys want it all and have the splurge guns to help them get it. Into the middle come a beautiful starlet-in-waiting, and our crafty innocent abroad, Bugsy Malone. Cue, at some incredibly random time honouring no discernible anniversary whatsoever, this reprint of the long-lost graphic novel version of the story, told for 'all those kids who find it tough reading books with just words'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007514840</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Asterix and the Picts|author=Jean-Yves Ferri, Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo and Didier ConradFrontpage|ratingisbn=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I've never been entirely certain if Asterix was written for children or adults. I am quite certain children were the original target audience, but it is equally apparent that many of the jokes are thrown in for adults as well. It does seem as if more adults are buying Asterix than children now, and comics in general have been taken over by the adult consumer, but Asterix still has plenty to offer the younger reader as well. If it is perhaps a bit more sophisticated than the average children's book today, all the better. I'm all for children's books that are light and easy to read, but I think we are doing our children a disservice by filtering out any book with a more complex vocabulary or a fair number of unfamiliar words. My children did find a few words like ''solidarity'', ''fraternise'' and ''diaphanous'' challenging, but if we don't challenge them at all - how will they learn?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011677</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1401283292|title=Hilda and the Bird ParadeHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Luke Pearson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Hilda is a young girl who has just moved from the mountainous countryside to the town of Trolberg; a major upheaval in the life of a girl who likes nothing better than to go exploring the woods and mountains and discovering magical creatures. Since moving into town Hilda’s mother is not so keen to allow Hilda out exploring believing a town to be a potentially dangerous place for a child. Soon though Hilda and her new friends manage to convince her mother to allow her out and the new friends give her a guided tour of the area Mariko Tamaki and all the best places in town. Hilda seems to prefer animals to other children though and early on becomes separated from her friends and instead goes exploring with an injured bird she has befriended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263060</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A1 Annual|author=Dave Elliott (editor) Steve Pugh

|summary=ItHarleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's perhaps been around a little surprising how few comics anthologies there are on the shelves long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to look out of regular bookstoresthose large eyes at everything anew each time. The whole world of sequential art But here she is so fragmented new in town, and the choices to be made are infinite, everyone who comes into some renown soon wishes for town is Gotham City. Expecting a selfyear-published collection of his favourites or long furlough from life with her friends' workmother, she finds her gran dead and there definitely is too much out there for anyone in the audience of comix herself with no option but to fully grasp without some kind stay with a bunch of editorial spoon-feedingdrag queens. One such editor She also finds school is Dave Elliotta drag, whose A1 Comics has been collating what it deems she also finds the world's greatest since 1989, whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but even with she also finds two characters that pedigree it's will have a big impact on her life. One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only now that full hardbacks of their greatest hits are being launched meets at night – hardbacks such as this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760164</amazonuk>a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore140128339X|author=Lance Parkin|ratingtitle=5|genre=Biography|summary=I don't think that I ever saw [[:CategoryMera:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]] when I lived in Northampton, and I don't think I coincided with the publication of ''Maxwell the Magic Cat'' in the local newspaper. So I missed out on the memorable frame of someone else who is six foot two, albeit a generation older and looking so hirsute he would seem to be afraid of scissors. But I certainly would not have been alone in not recognising him for what he is. How many Northampton housewives flicked past the daily panels of ''Maxwell'' in complete ignorance of who Alan Moore actually is? – With no idea that the years he spent drawing that cartoon for £10 a week – later to be £12.50 – were just him gearing up to be the biggest man of letters in the comic book world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781310777</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Briony HatchTidebreaker|author=Ginny Skinner Danielle Paige and Penelope Skinner Stephen Byrne

|summary=Meet Briony HatchMera. She's the latest in a fourteen year old schoolgirlline of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, with a few too many curves for the trendy setking of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and want-away hair, who is fixated on the ghost who acts a hunky man in an arranged marriage as romantic male lead in her favourite series of fantasy booksfuture – after all, about a beautifulMera's mother, feisty femalethe territory's warrior queen, swashbuckling exorcistis long dead. But when Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the books finishfella involved at all and is, in fact, just at trying to get Xebel out from under the same time as her parents divorcecosh of Atlantean power, it looks like the beginning for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of the endAtlantean masters. Mum So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to the world of us air-breathing humans, and Briony settle into kill the abandoned bungalow belonging Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the latter's great-uncle quest (and aunt, only the promised throne) all for the girl to find a horrid malaise come over herherself. Has the books' conclusion done so much damage as to leave her wishing to retire from lifeBut of course, or can she find has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it will be to get the ghost of a hope somewhere?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907536140</amazonuk>job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401286399|title=Fashion BeastSuper Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Alan Moore Ridley Pearson and Malcolm McLarenIle Gonzalez

|summary=Meet Doll. She seems to fit in with It's the world she aspires to near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – she has an androgynous look and is in need of a sharp tonguehuge flood barrier, and doesn't seem to hold built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many of the people around her to relocate in much deferenceAmerica's biggest exodus for decades. However, as someone else Superman is very quick to point helping out, she is only of course – first, he was patching up the dams, but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a cloakroom attendant, however swanky and in vogue rare dust that's perfect for blocking the nightclub she works at might besolar energy from making further polar ice melt. That same someone else gets her firedInland, howeverin Wyndermere, yet the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for every door that shuts… As she becomes an overnight modelling sensationbeing newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. But it can't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and finds her new boss a very singular individual.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1592912117</amazonuk>the efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Weirdo Years 1981-'91168369015X|author=R Crumb|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summarytitle=Books are better than magazines – discuss. Certainly for Manfried the connoisseur of the contents of culturally important titles from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s it must be a lively debate. I remember my collection of ''New Worlds'' editions and how often the editors would take us through a long novel over seven or eight parts, then dump a 'sorry, due to space requirements this last part of what you've cherished for months is abridged – but wait for the novel version soon' on us. Is it better to be a completist, and witness everything the original editors deemed worthy (or just had lying around) or should we cherry-pick and note the best? This hefty hunk of book goes for the latter, anyway, taking [[Man:Category:Robert Crumb|R Crumb]]'s output for the ''Weirdo'' comic, as edited by R Crumb, then someone else, then Mrs R Crumb, and giving us everything, warts and all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662253</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Hartlepool MonkeyA Graphic Novel|author=Wilfrid Lupano Caitlin Major and Jeremie MoreauKelly Bastow|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=OK, I'll get the obvious pun over and done with – this graphic novel features a lot of monkeying around. It focuses on the village of Hartlepool, and the people who populated the small settlement on low cliffs overlooking the North Sea, with its couple of pubs and not much else. It looks at what might have happened when, as folklore has it, a storm put paid to a French ship and when a monkey washed up ashore afterwards the natives took it for a Napoleonic spy, tried to find invasion plans from it, and hanged it as the enemy. Here the poor creature is even shaved so it shows respect to the court-martial. Here too are some lovely choice lines of vernacular delivered in spite about the French and the English, and here too is a guest appearance by someone with a much more modern outlook than the ridiculous Hartlepool residents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662261</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Celtic Warrior: The Legend of Cu Chulainn|author=Will Sliney|rating=45

|summary=Queen Maeve wants In a world where cats stand on two feet, go to work at call centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, is Manfried. He's a typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at the Brown Bull of Cooley and same time being the lands of Ulsterperfect companion for his owner, Steve Catson. With To such an army of 10,000 menextent that Steve, she marches to try to take them by force. The only man who stands between her and her goal is Cú Chulainngetting known for his man-oriented thinking, is actually having nightmares about becoming the legendary heroneighbourhood ''crazy man cat''. Can he save his country from But when a window gets left open by mistake, and Manfried goes missing, the evil enchantress?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847173381</amazonuk>only thing for it is a massive and energised man-hunt…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Big Nate Compilation 3 : Genius ModeHainsworth_Gina|authortitle=Lincoln Peirce|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=They say you should live your life like an adventure, and Big Nate certainly does that, even if it is only four panels at a time, meaning the full plot of the story can take a week or more Talking to come out. For Big Nate is a star of an American newspaper comic strip, and this, believe it or not, is his tenth collection. We learn from this all about his friendships at school, his relations with his teachers and father, and just what a soppy thing his most unmasculine dog can be. Here are comics, baseball and laziness, as every American kid knows them. Luckily for us, though, Big Nate travels well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007515642</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGina|author=Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell|title=The From Hell CompanionOttilie Hainsworth

|summary=[[:Category:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]] will always be synonymous ''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of the country, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with two major books some mange and one working eye. Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the dog – [[Watchmen by Alan Moore eats something she shouldn't and Dave Gibbons|Watchmen]] and From Hellcauses a mess, so it's not a great start, his look at but then begin the Whitechapel Murderstribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. While And then, the latter may appear life with Gina begins to many to be a great, galumphing graphic novel loosely feel like too much – ''I felt weird about Jack the Ripper, you ain't seen nothing yetbecause you were always there. This volume is his illustrator [[:Category:Eddie Campbell|Eddie CampbellMy thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as if I was in love.''s]] look at proceedings Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the family they and for a book that Gina all would appear to have no actual Moore input in it, he provides a welter of words for itwanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661842</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennie Wood and Jeff McComseyColfer_Illegal|title=Flutter|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=When fifteen-year-old Lily moves to yet another new town, she falls for a girl who isn't interested in her. Lily, though, has a trick up her sleeve - she's a shapeshifter. She turns herself into a boy so that she can have a chance with Saffron. As Jesse, she starts to build a new life for herself at school -can this 'boy' get the girl? Additionally, why is Lily so resistant to any sort of harm, and who are the strange people who are trying to find her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484085957</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewIllegal|author=Mark Millar Eoin Colfer and Leinil Yu|title=SuperiorAndrew Donkin

|summary=Former basketball star Simon Pooni Ebo is now in a wheelchair twelve years old and blind in one eye - at the age of 12all alone. Mutliple sclerosis has His sister left him in this state, praying for a cureEurope months ago and now he doesn't know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thing. Then a talking monkey named Orman appears So Ebo has to him and offers him attempt the same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the chance Sahara Desert, get himself to become a real life version Tripoli, one of movie superhero Superior - for a weekthe most dangerous cities in the world, and then try to cross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. But what And, even if he makes it, how will happen when the week endshe find his sister?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857685945</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Geoff Johns and Doug MahnkeMiller_Batman|title=Green Lantern Volume 1Batman: SinestroDark Knight III: The Master Race|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summaryauthor=I've never been a Green Lantern fan - I've tried the series a couple of times in the past but seem to have picked bad times to give it a go. However, I've heard some good things about DC Comics recently so wanted to try a few of the New 52 books, which relaunched all of the publisher's ongoing monthlies, Frank Miller and this caught my eye.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401234550</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hannah Eaton|title=Naming MonstersBrian Azzarello

|summary=Batman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the baddies he usually biffs. But then he'Monsters are all around us's not Batman – he', we are tolds a she, and Fran should knowshe finally comes up with the news that Batman died in her hands. She opens each chapter Elsewhere, Lara, the daughter of her episodic story here Superman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with a new monster – a golemshrinking and expanding life to the miniaturised city of Kandor, an incubus, or perhaps something less well knownthe last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. But there are subtly monstrous events What with Superman sitting idle in her life as well – an alleged boyfriend with exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a measly attitudesulk, a fake mediumand Batman dead, a summer there would appear to be little in the way of retaking GCSEs, and more help for the world should anything nasty happen – as well as the biggestbut then, blackestof course, visitation – something that should bring succour, family and friendship but cannot be handled.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190843421X</amazonuk>nasty does happen… s

 {{newreview|author=Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon|title=Preacher Volume 1: Gone To Texas|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Reverend Jesse Custer is losing his faith in God - but he's about to find out that He exists, and He isn't all that He's cracked up to be. After one incredible event, Jesse's life is turned upside down, and he sets out on a road trip that will lead him to try and get answers from God himself - if Heaven's angels, and the Saint of Killers, don't cut him down first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1563892618</amazonuk>}}  {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'DonnellWeeks_Gritterman|title=Modesty Blaise - The Girl In The Iron Mask|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=n this volume our globe-trotting heroine Modesty and her faithful Willie land up at a jungle hospital, only to find the people providing it with useful drugs are also creating their own much worse drugs nearby; find the Mafia just one man away from taking over Australia – and therefore give him a male and female tag team back-up; and stumble into the wicked games of a pair of corrupt, evil billionaires in the Alps. There is no let-up in the global shenanigans, the daring-do, or the whipcrack action – and we wouldn’t want it any other way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686941</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGritterman|author=Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill|title=Nemo: Heart of IceOrlando Weeks|rating=35

|summary=The Nemo here There's a man who has an ice cream van. In summer, what there is merely the daughter of the great Captain Nemosummer, as defined by Jules Vernehe uses it to sell ice creams, although given that heritage there is more than enough talent in her bloodline That's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for piracy winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and adventureour narrator becomes a Gritterman. HereThe fibreglass 99s on the roof light up and rotate, fleeing playing a royal family that tune, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the van's last trip. The council has just been lootedsent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, Nemo turns to her fatherthey say. There's logbooks and journalseven a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, and decides there is unfinished business but the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a world where the southern polar wastesB2116 doesn't need gritting. But while she's off looking for more edifying action, others are off looking for revenge on her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661834</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Cassandra Clare and HyeKyung Baek|title=The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel, Volume 1: The Manga (Manga Edition)|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Tessa Gray. Summonsed Move on to London to be with her brother after living in America, she has no idea what she is going to be in for. A kidnap and training at the hands of two witches is only the start of it as she is forced to find the truth about the world about her – about the two different kinds of supernatural beings, and of how they constantly fight against each other, and about her own unique origin, character and destiny that makes her more than a pawn in this battle. You might have met Tessa before, but not like this – for this is the manga adaptation of the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502252</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Historical Fiction Reviews]]