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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fashion BeastEdel Rodriguez|authortitle=Alan Moore and Malcolm McLarenWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey

|summary=Meet DollWe're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. She seems to fit in with The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the world she aspires to – she country, has an androgynous look and proven himself a sharp tongueCommunist, and doesn't seem not done nearly enough to hold many create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of the people around her in much deferencetaking his time away. HoweverOur narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as someone else is very quick he would probably be shipped off to point outsome minor pro-Communism skirmish, she is only a cloakroom attendantsuch as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, however swanky and in vogue the nightclub she works at might benot liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. That same someone else The mother gets her firedthe couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, howeverbut in this sultry island country, yet for every door that shuts… As she becomes an overnight modelling sensation, and finds her new boss a very singular individual.it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1592912117</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Weirdo Years 1981-'91Kia Ahankoob|authortitle=R CrumbThe Gold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels

|summary=Books are better than magazines – discuss. Certainly for When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the connoisseur of the contents of culturally important titles from the 1960shope they would complement each other and collaborate, 1970s creating a dynamic and 1980s it must be prosperous society. Each power is contained within a lively debate. I remember my collection magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didn'New Worlds'' editions t quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and how often the editors would take us through a long novel over seven or eight parts, then dump a 'sorry, due countries went to space requirements this last part of what you've cherished for months is abridged – but wait for the novel version soon' on uswar. Is it better to be a completist, Having fought themselves into an endless and witness everything the original editors deemed worthy (or just had lying around) or should we cherry-pick ruinous stalemate and note finding the best? This hefty hunk cost of book goes for the latterwar too high, anyway, taking [[:Category:Robert Crumb|R Crumb]]'s output for a solution is proposed. Each of the ''Weirdo'' comiceight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as edited by R Crumb, then someone else, then Mrs R Crumbsentinels, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and giving us everything, warts and allbecome the supreme ruler of Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861662253</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Hartlepool MonkeyPat Grant|authortitle=Wilfrid Lupano and Jeremie MoreauThe Grot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters

|summary=OKEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, I'll get and that includes the obvious pun over and done with – this graphic novel features a lot of monkeying aroundpunk bands. It focuses on There are three pedallers at the village front of Hartlepool, and the people who populated Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the small settlement on low cliffs overlooking ferry across the North Seaswamp to Falter City, with its couple of pubs where a mother and not much else. It looks at what might have happened when, as folklore has it, a storm put paid her two sons aim to a French ship and when a monkey washed set up ashore afterwards the natives took it for a Napoleonic spy, tried to find invasion plans from it, and hanged it as the enemyyoghurt factory. Here You could say that yoghurt would be 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 Englishonly culture around, and here too for this is a guest appearance by someone with a much more modern outlook than the ridiculous Hartlepool residents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662261</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Hartlepool Monkey|author=Wilfrid Lupano really rough-and Jeremie Moreau|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=OK, I'll get the obvious pun over and done with – this graphic novel features -ready dump of a lot of monkeying around. It focuses on the village of Hartlepoolplace, and the people who populated the but everyone is interested in small settlement on low cliffs overlooking the North Sea, with its couple of pubs and not much elsethings that grow. It looks at what might have happened when, as folklore has it, a storm put paid For the only money to a French ship and when a monkey washed up ashore afterwards be had – the natives took it for a Napoleonic spy, tried only fortunes to find invasion plans be found in Falter City – come from italgae, gunk and hanged other crud that – well, the use of it as the enemy. Here the poor creature is even shaved so it shows respect to the court-martialnever really made clear. Here too are some lovely choice lines of vernacular delivered in spite about Once there, the French and the English, and here too is a guest appearance by someone two brothers set themselves each up 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=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Queen Maeve wants the Brown Bull of Cooley and the lands of Ulster. With an army of 10,000 men, she marches to try to take them by force. The only man who stands between her and her goal is Cú Chulainnguide – Lippy, the legendary hero. Can he save his country from the evil enchantress?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847173381</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Big Nate Compilation 3 : Genius Mode|author=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 timemore forward-thinking, meaning the full plot industrious of the story can take two, with a week or more to come out. For Big Nate is a star of an American newspaper comic strip, and this, believe it or notbesuited gent, is his tenth collection. We learn from this all about his friendships at school, his relations Penn with his teachers and father, and just what a soppy thing his most unmasculine dog can beballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. Here are comics, baseball and laziness, But which of the two will come off the worse as every American kid knows them. Luckily for usthey make their own way in this dystopian, though, Big Nate travels well.semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007515642</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan Moore Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Eddie CampbellEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=The From Hell CompanionTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=[[:Category:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]] will always be synonymous I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with two major books much attention when it was playing out – [[Watchmen by Alan Moore someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and Dave Gibbons|Watchmen]] hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and From Hell, his look at the Whitechapel Murders. While birth of the latter may appear to many to be a greatTank Man image, galumphing graphic novel loosely about Jack I didn't know how the Ripperarea had long been a venue for political protest, you ainand I didn't seen nothing yetknow more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This volume book is his illustrator [[:Category:Eddie Campbell|Eddie Campbellpractically flawless in giving a general browser's]] look at proceedings, and context for a book that would appear to have no actual Moore input the whole season of protests back in it, he provides a welter of words for it1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861661842</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennie Wood Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Jeff McComseyKit Seaton|title=FlutterWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=53|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=When fifteen-year-old Lily moves to yet another new townDiana, being unique on her island, she falls for is the victim of a girl who isnlot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. It't interested in s only her. Lilyunique status, thoughand her mother being Queen, that 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 Jesseany standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she starts has clearly fought to build be a new life strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for herself at school -can this 'boy' get the girl? Additionallyisland, why is Lily so resistant to any sort however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of harmMen, and who are the strange people who are trying to find her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484085957</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Millar and Leinil Yu|title=Superior|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Former basketball star Simon Pooni this Diana is now in a wheelchair and blind in one eye - at the age heroine of 12yet another Wonder Woman origin story. Mutliple sclerosis has left him A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in this statea running race, praying for a cure. Then a talking monkey named Orman appears to him and offers him but the survivor she drags from the chance waters is only going to become disturb a real life version of movie superhero Superior - for a week. But what will happen when the week ends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857685945</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Geoff Johns and Doug Mahnke|title=Green Lantern Volume 1: Sinestro|rating=4lot more.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=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, and this caught my eye.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1401234550</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hannah Eaton1401286208|title=Naming MonstersBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee

|summary=''Monsters are all around us''Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, we are toldand seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, and Fran should knowshe is desperate to find her voice. She opens each chapter But it's actually more a case of her episodic story here with voice finding her, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a new monster – a golem, an incubusweapon, or perhaps something less well knowna power. But there are subtly monstrous events in order for her life as well – an alleged boyfriend with to call herself a measly attitude, a fake mediumsuperhero, there has to be a summer whole path of retaking GCSEs, and more steps for her to take – as well as the biggest, blackest, visitation – something that should bring succour, family and friendship but cannot one of which will be handled.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190843421X</amazonuk>into her past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon1401280048|title=Preacher Volume 1Batman: Gone To TexasNightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose

|summary=Reverend Jesse Custer The young man called Bruce Wayne is losing his faith in God - but a very noticeable one – he's about to find out that He existscan hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and He isnsuchlike – reminding him he't all that Hes a billionaire at the age of eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he's cracked up inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to bedo charitable deeds. After But one incredible eventnight, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, Jesse's life he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is turned upside downArkham Asylum. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and murder the owner. Can he sets out on a road trip that will lead him get close to try one of them and get answers from God himself - if Heaven's angels, and the Saint truth of Killerstheir schemes, don't cut him down first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1563892618</amazonuk>or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder?

  {{newreview|author=Peter O'Donnell|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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill1401283292|title=NemoHarley Quinn: Heart of Ice|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The Nemo here is merely the daughter of the great Captain Nemo, as defined by Jules Verne, although given that heritage there is more than enough talent in her bloodline for piracy and adventure. Here, fleeing a royal family that has just been looted, Nemo turns to her father's logbooks and journals, and decides there is unfinished business in the southern polar wastes. But while she's off looking for more edifying action, others are off looking for revenge on her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661834</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBreaking Glass|author=Cassandra Clare Mariko Tamaki and HyeKyung Baek|title=The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel, Volume 1: The Manga (Manga Edition)Steve Pugh

|summary=Meet Tessa GrayHarleen Quinzel is new in town. Summonsed She always, to London to be with her brother after living me, seems new in Americatown, even if she has no idea what she is going to be in 's been around a long time, 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 beingsalways has a very fresh attitude, and seems to look out of how they constantly fight against those large eyes at everything anew each other, and about her own unique origin, character and destiny that makes her more than a pawn in this battletime. You might have met Tessa beforeBut here she is new in town, but not like this – for this and the town is the manga adaptation of the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502252</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joff Winterhart|title=Days of the Bagnold Summer|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Daniel BagnoldGotham City. He is Expecting a surly, sullen, modern teenager, permanently in a black hoodie, year-long furlough from life with longher mother, lanky hair she finds her gran dead and almost a monobrow, who one would call very quiet were it not for the metal music that forms almost his only interest. He has been forced to spend the summer, not in Florida herself with his absent father's new family, no option but to stay with his librarian mother Sue, his best friend and his shynessa bunch of drag queens. He doesn't want muchShe also finds school is a drag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and neither it would appear does his mother uncaring corporation – although but she knows she has to get him some posh shoes for also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her cousin's weddinglife. This book One is about their relationship a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at night – the two of them a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and the dog that completes the household – in tellingchaos, devastating and humorous manner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090844</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Nytra140128339X|title=The Secret of the Stone FrogMera: Tidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne

|summary=ItMeet Mera. She's come to my attention recently that Knockabout booksthe latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, with their growing library the king of graphic titlesXebel, have no intention sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in being an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, is long dead. Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all literary – not and is, in fact, trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, for them the gently observant characterisation Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of some original graphic novelsAtlantean masters. Instead they seem So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to have a wilful regard for going even further than their house name suggests – wildthe world of us air-breathing humans, wacky and not afraid kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to present an upsetting image. With Krent Able they have get the quest (and the collaborator who will surely help them live up to that ethos like no otherpromised throne) all for herself. Taken from the ''Stool Pigeon'' musical magazineBut of course, with some extra cartoons, are these strips she has no idea what kind of depravityperson she will meet, death in unlikely ways and revolting selections of body parts and fluids.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661796</amazonuk>how hard it will be to get the job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert R Crumb and Aline Crumb1401286399|title=Drawn TogetherSuper Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=This book It's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – isin need of a huge flood barrier, as it says several timesbuilt on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, the collected works of the worldforcing many people to relocate in America's only comic-strip creating husband-and-wife partnershipbiggest exodus for decades. While this Superman is to ignore helping out, of course – first, he was patching up the work Joyce does to co-write some of Harvey Pekardams, but now he's titles, there certainly is not mining the asteroid belt for a couple such as thisrare dust that's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Over several decades of workInland, in Wyndermere, we see just how joined at the hip they refugees from the coast aresuffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. Most A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the panels are drawn by him - R - city. But it can't possibly have anything to do with Aline drawing herself on top what looks like sabotage of his inked backgrounds. Later on, their self-created titles are split, with him doing half the pages, flood barriers and her own opus on the other half - by this time she had had works out under her own name. But so close are efforts to correct the couple in each other's intimate worksclimate, they are never very far from the edge of the frame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661788</amazonuk>can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hunt Emerson and Kevin Jackson168369015X|title=Dante's InfernoManfried the Man: A Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow|rating=4.5

|summary=It seems incredibly right, In a world where cats stand on only the third page of this texttwo feet, that the Divine Comedy should be transferred go to the black work at call centres and whitehave diminutive human beings for pets, cartoonish side of the graphic novel formatis Manfried. Our venturing hero encounters the 'leopard of malice and fraudHe's a typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at the 'lion of violence and ambition' and same time being the 'sheperfect companion for his owner, Steve Catson. To such an extent that Steve, who is getting known for his man-wolf of avarice and incontinence'oriented thinking, and leaves bemoaning is actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''living in a world of symbolismcrazy man cat''. You could see the beasts illustrated and captioned But when a window gets left open by name curving alongside their bodymistake, just as Hogarth may have displayed them, but no, Emerson and Manfried goes down the path that is less cartoonish and less newspaper comic stripmissing, 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 only thing about this book is there is reason for everything in it is a massive and energised man- 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>hunt…

 {{newreview|author=Grant MorrisonFrontpage|title=Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Consider the super-hero comic. Borne out of a need to create cheap and franchise-friendly content for newspapers in America, it's grown into a billion-dollar industry, with Hollywood jumping on the bandwagon of several major characters now their FX have finally caught up with the printed page. Disposable? - once upon a time, yet now collectable to the tune of a million dollars or more. Frivolous? - probably, yet not exclusively now, if ever so. At one point here, they are just one product of the infinitely powerful imaginary system each of us carries in our brain, and at the other 'ethereal, paper-thin constructs of unfettered imagination'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546671</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|authorisbn=Eddie CampbellHainsworth_Gina|title=The Lovely Horrible Stuff|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Money, in amongst all the cliched things it does, makes for peciluar detail for a graphic novelist like Eddie Campbell to include in a book about it. He has to make himself a company Talking to qualify for creating a Batman strip to earn it, and has to pay $4 to buy $1 to draw (- then claim the tax back on the purchase to save himself some of it). It causes friction when his daughter earns too much, and when his wife'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>}} {{newreviewGina|author=Maarten vande Wiele|title=ParisOttilie Hainsworth

|summary=In ''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the category length of graphic novels not the country, Brighton to be seen reading in publicGrimsby, Paris is way to pick up therean Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one working eye. With a gaudy pink and silver glitz coverWhy not? The first night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a lot of blowjobs and sex insidemess, so it's not one for a great start, but then begin the daily commutetribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. ButAnd then, even though it's subject matter is merely the unlikely choice of the rags-life with Gina begins to-riches-to-rags tale of three Parisian starlets, it is certainly worth a decent perusalfeel like too much – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. Hope was a juvenile beauty queenMy thoughts were taken over by you, and could now work I felt sick, as if I was in fashion were it not for scars due to a car crashlove.'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, and Faith wishes for the vicarious life of pop stardomher husband, two children and it's no spoiler two cats – gets to report who form the family they and what they find will disappoint them. Chastity, the most sarcastically-named character in comix, is happy enough destroying herselfGina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661737</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicolas de CrecyColfer_Illegal|title=The Celestial Bibendum|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Diego is new to town. He's a seal, on crutches, but don't raise an eyebrow at that - you won't have enough left to raise at what follows, when he is hounded by a singing professorial claque who go about grooming him for being a very public, hopeful figure. Observing all of this is the devil (a dwarf in check dungarees, of course), who wants Diego for his own purposes...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661753</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewIllegal|author=Matt Kindt|title=RevolverEoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin

|summary=Meet SamEbo is twelve years old and all alone. He has a rather dull life, with a materialistic girlfriend, and a job in the arse-end of celebrity journalism His sister left for Europe months ago and a boss now he candoesn't standknow where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thing. All of which is preferential So Ebo has to waking up and finding his home city under attack - munitions going off, skyscrapers burning and people falling from themattempt the same dangerous journey himself. He ends up fleeing with said editormust cross the Sahara Desert, only get himself to wake Tripoli, one of the next day back most dangerous cities in this the world. He will indeed fall to being snatched from each reality in turn, at set times of day, forced and then try to suffer consumerism in onecross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And, looting in anothereven if he makes it, basic pay raises here, producing Samizdat bare-bones journalism for survivors there. But always with enough time to ask the important questions - how, and whywill he find his sister?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401222412</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bill WillinghamMiller_Batman|title=FablesBatman: Dark Knight III: Legends in Exile - Vol 01The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello|rating=3.5

|summary=Forced out of Batman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the Homelands by the evil Adversarybaddies he usually biffs. But then he's not Batman – he's a she, and she finally comes up with the characters news that Batman died in Fables have made their way to New York Cityher hands. Those of them who look relatively humanElsewhere, at least. With Old King Cole as Mayor (in nameLara, at leastthe daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, despite is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his deputy Snow White running technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to the show)miniaturised city of Kandor, Bigby Wolf as the Sherifflast vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a sulk, and Prince Charming beingBatman dead, wellthere would appear to be little in the way of help for the world should anything nasty happen – but then, charming, towards every woman he canof course, these are characters you'll already know and love – but portrayed in a way that completely reinvigorates them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1563899426</amazonuk>something nasty does happen… s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Moore and Dave GibbonsWeeks_Gritterman|title=WatchmenThe Gritterman|author=Orlando Weeks

|summary=The Comedian is deadThere's a man who has an ice cream van. In summer, what there is of summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, That's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a world where costumed vigilantes have been outlawed Gritting Van and former superheroes are either retired or working for our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the governmentroof light up and rotate, playing a tune, whether the murder of his former teammate leads van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the outlaw Rorschach to investigatevan's last trip. What he finds could change The council has sent the worldletter 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 Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a world where the B2116 doesn't need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1852860243</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Ray Fawkes|title=One Soul|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=When reading this it soon becomes very clear we're reading not one, but nineteen, stories. With each page divided into a regular 3x3 grid there are eighteen images Move on each double page spread, and every one shows an episode, or a beat, of a different character's life in turn, from being a babe-in-arms to death. However, the way they join up - everyone's figurative moment comes at once, at times the artist's heavy black ink makes all eighteen images coincide into one image - proves there is a separate, individual tale around and behind the others, one which will end with the most delightful moral - that the ability to be anything one imagines is in our DNA.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1934964662</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Lucas|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>}} {{newreview|author=Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot|title=Dotter of Her Father's Eyes|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=If there's one person able to produce a worthwhile potted history of James Joyce's daughter, it should be Mary M Talbot. She's an eminent academic, and her father was a major Joycean scholar. Both females had parents with the same names too - James and Nora, both took to the stage when younger after going to dance school, but it's the contrasts between them this volume subtly picks out rather than any similarities, 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 the gritty yet glamorous world of Modesty Blaise - at least, 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 to reproduce all the original strips in handy large-format graphic novel compendia, and this latest covers three stories, all 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 McKissack, Frederick L McKissack Jr and Randy DuBurke|title=Best Shot in the West|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Newest Historical Fiction|summary='We're going to do the real West, Nat. 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 porter, Nat. But if this guy's as real as the rest of those famous names, 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</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 Internet, 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 to get anywhere near the fabled titular plant in its secret Himalayan location, and just how important it has been for all those many people left back in England. It’s been a rollercoaster ride, 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 machine, 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. Instead, 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 the Holocaust was turned into [[The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne|a child-like near-fable for allReviews]], and before it was 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]]. To celebrate the twenty-five years since then, 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 adventures, I love Snowy the dog and most of all I love Captain Haddock and the flamboyance of his blistering barnacles language. So I was thrilled to see a biography of the character and Hergé, his creator, and I picked it up with enthusiasm. |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 is reading. If it turns into a hugely popular film for all the left-wing chattering classes to rave over, then that's just more grist to my mill – I'll always have a chance to catch up on it later on, even if I never take that opportunity. I'm not alone in acting like this – see a friend and colleague's similar admission when reviewing [[White Teeth by Zadie Smith]]. But at least, through the medium of the graphic novel, the book reviewing gods have conspired 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>}}