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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]]==Graphic novels==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith and Tony LeeEdel Rodriguez|title=Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesWorm: The Graphic NovelA Cuban American Odyssey|rating=34

|summary=It is We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a truth universally acknowledged that saviour of the country, has proven himself a zombie story of any renown will Communist, and not remain simply done nearly enough to create a zombie storylevel playing field for all. Before you can say Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the risen undead'' it will become a series happiest of booksplaces here, inspiring othersan 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/or lead to the same story father being published in many different guiseswatched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. Here, then, on its way The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to Hollywood, is Jane Austen’s story ease some of Lizzie Bennetthe heat, the feisty young woman trying to ignore Mr Darcy while fighting off the ''manky unmentionables'' – at least she is until the hidden truths open up to herbut in this sultry island country, just as it remains the soft soils kind of heat forcing you out of Hertfordshire do to yield their once-human remains. And this time it’s in graphic novel form.the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark Millar and John Romita JrKia Ahankoob|title=Kick-AssThe Gold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Dave. The average Joe personified, When Myriad created Duniva he sits at home endowed his children with his internet connectiondifferent powers, his comics collectioneach with its own strength and weakeness, his dadin the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and very little contact with anyone elseprosperous society. He Each power is contained within a typical loner teenager, nearly friendless, wears glasses at school - especially around the hot, mature biology teacher who for some reason seems magical ring belonging to have maths sums on her blackboard... Until one day he decides to emulate the comics in his collection. The only superheroes in his world are those whose colourful adventures he follows on the page - why not get his own costume mucked up, and go and fight crime?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565356</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Phoebe Reeves Murray|title=Ghost: Blood and Fire|rating=1.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Young Jennifer Rhys has been orphaned of eight countries led by the evilDark Angels. They can possess people Myriad's children and bite off their hands, andtheredescendants. But it didn's something about living tattoos which you can take t quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of boxesthem and paste the eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into your skin. After growing up in an adolescentpsychiatric ward, she will grow up to go on endless and confront them ruinous stalemate andfulfil her destiny. Or something like that. Between finding the huge amount cost ofpoorly drawn characterswar too high, a solution is proposed. Each of the leaden proseeight countries will send their greatest warriors, and the disappointingpictures of computerized 3-D modelsknown as sentinels, I got lost to a few times single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings andcouldn't summon become the interest to work out what was going onsupreme ruler of Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955808863</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will EisnerPat Grant|title=Life on Another Planet|rating=2.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=There are some people who don't even need their name on their books, for the contents are so obviously and uniquely theirs. Will Eisner is one such person, for the esteem and renown his artwork and pioneering work in the graphic novel form is held under is rightfully his and his alone. I'm quite sure I could recognise a page The Grot: The Story of his black and white inkwork, and his easily drawn but realistic characters, more easily than any other sequential artist. That trademark signature on the cover, surely the most well-known in 'comic strips' outside Mr Disney's empire, is hardly necessary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera |title=Dark EntriesSwamp City Grifters

|summary=The producers of Dark EntriesEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the latest hit reality TV show, are worriedpunk bands. Yes There are three pedallers at the six housemates are therefront of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, present where a mother and correcther two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for this is a really rough-and are -ready dump of a place, but everyone is interested in small things that grow. For the only money to be scared witless en route had – the only fortunes to the one way outbe found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and the brilliant prize other crud that might await them somewhere in – well, the merry-go-round use of horror that it is their new homenever really made clear. They are already being scared witlessOnce there, the two brothers set themselves each up with a guide – Lippy, by phantoms the more forward- but that's nothing to do thinking, industrious of the two, with a besuited gent, Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of the TV producers.two will come off the worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dean Hale, Shannon Hale and Nathan Hale |title=Calamity Jack|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''I was born to scheme''Lun Zhang, declares our hero Jack. With flashbacks we see the young lad and a pixie friendAdrien Gombeaud, larking about for revenge or small profit. But when his mother's bakery gets more Ameziane and more into the red, the size of the profit has to increase. And when you add in revenge against the local crime lord - a giant of a man - so does the size of the target of the jape.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587426</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert CrumbEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=Robert Crumb's Book of GenesisTiananmen 1989: All 50 ChaptersOur Shattered Hopes

|summary=In I never really followed the beginning events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the picturesecond half of their teens has other priorities, you know. Just think I certainly didn't know of all the countless religious images, both inside weeks of protests and outside religious establishments, designed to convey hunger strikes from the students before the message to those who could not read. Art massacre and religion have always been linked, which is probably one the birth of the main reasons Tank Man image, I stayed an atheist - I hated art at schooldidn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and drawing I didn't know more than a man spit about the people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a donkey, something way beyond my skills, was not a task I appreciated, hence my dislike general browser's context for the whole season of both subjectsprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224078097</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy DelisleLeigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=PyongyangWonder Woman: A Journey in North Korea|rating=4.5|genre=Warbringer: The Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Guy. He's a French-Canadian animator, leaving home for a short stay in the capital of one of the world's most intriguing, unknown and alien cultures - Pyongyang, North Korea - so he can work on a TV cartoon co-production. Forced to stay in one of the three official hotels designed for foreigners, so that the locals and people such as he do not have to mix, he see glimpses of the unique socialist dictatorship, stunning views of the buildings forced through the poverty, and thousands of unreadable faces.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224079905</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gareth Hinds|title=King LearNovel

|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=Hound me out of town in a most appropriate mannerDiana, but I do not like King Lear. For mebeing unique on her island, even as is the victim of a trained actorlot of taunts, the language is too dense and rich, the set-up too archly unfeasible to create the great tragedy it's thought to beclaims of nepotism. To my mind the acclaim and esteem in which itIt's held is only mirrored by its own over-longher unique status, over-blown blustering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763643440</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Hughes|title=Thomas Wogan is Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Welland her mother being Queen, with a title like that, need I bother with a plot summary? A man has a day out in Morecambe, then the next thing he knows he's in the ultimate waiting room, her with a strange array of animals (a bat, a toadany standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a sea urchinstrong young woman...) Perhaps too strong for the island, all waiting however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for... wellthe World of Men, somethingand this Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. Yup, as you didn't need telling, he's dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095580888X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris Grimly|title=Tales of Death and Dementia|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Wow! What A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan Poerunning race, master of but the survivor she drags from the gothic horror short story, and Gris Grimly, outstanding illustrator, known for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]waters is only going to disturb a lot more.. Poe's ''Tales of Death and Dementia'' are shown off at their very best in this edition.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bryan Talbot 1401286208|title=Grandville|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A dead body found in rural England leads D I LeBrock to urban France, where he is destined to unravel a conspiracy of revolution, treason, and propaganda of potentially global reach. What is the truth behind the fall of a famous tower under air attack a few years ago? Why are so many suspicious suicides coming to attention? And will LeBrock be helped or hindered by his being, as his name suggests, a badger?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224084887</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Will Eisner |title=Minor Miracles|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=This short story collection starts with two appetisers before getting on with two main courses, but as with the best meals even the smallest dishes can have the most depth. We start with the entire life cycle - rise, fall, rise, fall - of a hobo feeding pigeons in the park. Obviously he hasn't been doing that all his years - he's been keeping his dignity intact, with a huge amount of chutzpah Meg Cabot and more. Next, a smart Alec defeats the older kids on the stoop with a bit of canny street wisdom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328147</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Eisner |title=A Family MatterCara McGee

|summary=Some sons, some daughters, even a shy, semi-abandoned great nephew, are all gathering Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in the home of a ninety year old stroke victim for what may be his last birthday celebration. It seems like they are all licking their lips at the thought of a future inheritance. We've heard before of a nuclear familyfootsteps, is this one about to get too radioactive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328139</amazonuk>}} [[Category:Science Fiction]]{{newreview|author=Jonathan Luna and Joshua Luna |title=Girls Volume 1: Conception|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Ethan, we see seemingly lumbered with being a great, broad comic stroke or sixcheerleader at school, she is not the best when it comes desperate to girls. Letting his mouth run away with him too often, he is not very successful at relationshipsfind her voice. But let us look at what happens when he drives away from an altercation at the local bar, and sees it's actually more a gorgeous - and very naked - young woman standing in the middle of the road.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1582405298</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tony Lee and Sam Hart |title=Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood (Heroes & Heroines Graphic)|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Here, Robin Hood is the Earl case of Huntingtonher voice finding her, a man tempered by bitterness encountered 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 youthweapon, trained by skills honed with an apparent need or a power. But in order for vengeance. He's out crusadingher to call herself a superhero, when he learns just the beginning there has to be a whole path of the story steps for her to take – one of what is wrong in Nottinghamshire. Returning, he meets John Little, and soon falls which will be into the robbing/giving cycle we know and love him for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406308870</amazonuk>her past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle 1401280048|title=Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic ClassicsNovel|author=Marie Lu, Volume 17: Science Fiction ClassicsStuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose

|summary=SoThe young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, an introductionand suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at the age of eighteen. The Graphic Classics collection is a series whereby Feeling rather stuck with the best legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to do charitable deeds. But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in genre fictionpursuit of a criminal, from sources both highly likely and remarkably unexpectedhe goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, is collected and dressed up gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the home for us in graphic novel formviolent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. This seventeenth editionThere he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a belated best-of scigang who steal any ten-fi volume, is their first foray into full colourfigure bank account contents they can, and is headlined by a version murder the owner. Can he get close to one of The War them and get the truth of their schemes, or will the Worlds. The supporting material ranges from manipulative Madeleine be a onestep too far for the young do-page strip to thirty-page stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0978791975</amazonuk>gooder?

 {{newreview|author=Shaun Tan |title=The Arrival|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A man gathers a last memento or two before taking his suitcase in hand, saying farewell to his wife and daughter at the train station, and leaving for the docks to get the boat to the promised land. Once arrived, he finds strangeness everywhere - the food, the language, the immigration procedures, and the lodgings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0439895294</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edgar Allen Poe, Various, Dan Whitehead (Editor) 1401283292|title=Eye ClassicsHarley Quinn: Nevermore - A Graphic Novel Anthology of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=So, if I were to mention someone who was born 200 years ago this season, and who changed the world with their writing, who would you think of first? Charles Darwin, probably. But those of a slightly different bent might just have mentioned someone else - someone at the forefront of all things arcane, horrific and thrilling when it comes to fiction. Someone who lost his birth and foster mother both to tuberculosis before he was ever twenty. Someone who had most unusual circumstances surrounding his death, to best Agatha Christie vanishing for a while, and most of the detectives in the fiction he helped inspire. Someone called Edgar Allan Poe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955285682</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBreaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki|title=Skim|rating=4|genre=Teens |summary=Skim is a slightly overweight, goth, witch-wannabe teenage girl going to an all girls High School in Toronto in the 1990's. The book takes the form of her diary entries, painfully honest, and very realistic with words crossed out and re-written at times. We see her tortured teen life and how she faces issues of suicide, depression, first love and being something of a mis-fit amongst the usual school cliques. We meet her initially trying out being a witch, and beginning a strange, secretive relationship with her hippy art teacher, Miss Archer. Then, after the suicide of the ex-boyfriend of one of the girls at Skim's school, those in charge at the school go on an overdrive of moral-boosting, supportive exercises to help all the girls cope. This coincides with Miss Archer leaving the school, which drops Skim into a morbid depression, isolating her even further from those in her class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406321362</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Herman|title=I Like My Job|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=If you've ever been faced by too many Post-Its at the same time, or a performance review, or copious yards of errant electrical cabling all round your workspace - and especially if you've been left with an apologetic pineapple on your desk - this is a book for you. Here the office life is all delegating this, blah blah talk about that, and hanging far too much on the one guy who seems to be most with-it when it comes to the computers. It's a black and white world, on the whole, where you always get what you generally expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408576X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|title=The Dangerous Alphabet|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A is for Always, that's where we embark. B is for boat, pushing off in the dark... And so begins Neil Gaiman's adventure through the (unreliable) alphabet, in the company of two children and their gazelle. They do battle with monsters, hunt for treasure, and get into all manner of scrapes. What awaits them when they get to Z? Dare you read on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597154</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amit Dasgupta|title=Indian by Choice|rating=2|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Mandy is forced by circumstance to fly from his lifelong home in Chicago to India to represent his family at a wedding. He hates it. The Indians on the flight are brash, noisy, unmannered. The city he arrives in is a sprawling, noisy, polluted, impoverished mess. Everywhere people think Mandy is a daft name and he should have stuck to his name of birth, Mandeep. But he is American by choice, and finds nothing appealing about the prospect of four weeks in New Delhi.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>8183281362</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Guy Delisle|title=Burma Chronicles|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=What we have here are a male househusband and artist, and his MSF doctor wife, and their life in Burma or Myanmar for roughly a year. We get to see the life in the country, from the racks of bootleg software, to the animation class he leads, to their efforts to get into the lush country clubs, to their baby being adored by every passing girl. We see the state of the country, with its horrid drugs, HIV/AIDS and malaria problems, hidden beyond the gentle Buddhist retreats. We see the Delisles' interaction with this singular country - the censored press, and the fact that their road is only made more busy because of the roadblock diverting everyone away from Aung San Suu Kyi's house a block away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087711</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Siddell|title=Gunnerkrigg Court: OrientationSteve Pugh|rating=43.5

|summary=While having used the internet Harleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's been around a long time, for several years now I have never needed she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to use look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is new in town, and the favourites option much – there town is Gotham City. Expecting a routine for my comings and goings online that I can handleyear-long furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and I don't think I regret losing out on herself with no option but to stay with a regular visit to any particular site muchbunch of drag queens. The downside of this She also finds school is that a lot of online graphic novels have probably passed me bydrag, as I habitually don't form she also finds the habit of clicking to themwhole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her life. It's One is a relief then that one very wellcivil-acclaimed exampleminded lass called Ivy, Gunnerkrigg Courtthe other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, has come to my attention in book form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184856175X</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rod Serling140128339X|title=The Twilight ZoneMera: The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Tidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne

|summary=One Meet Mera. She's the latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, the benefits king of growing up when I didXebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as opposed toher future – after all, sayMera's mother, just a year or two earlierthe territory's warrior queen, was that home VHS coincided with is long dead. Mera doesn't fancy the first attempts to have round-cosseting or the-clock TV fella involved at all and is, in Britain. The channels struggled to provide enough programming at a budgetfact, just as they do trying to this dayget Xebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, but one thing they did give us, delightfully, was ''The Twilight Zone'for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587914</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shirley Hughes|title=Bye Bye Birdie|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Ah So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to the world of us air-breathing humans, who doesn't love Shirley Hughes? We've all read and cherished [[Alfie]] kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the quest (and [[Dogger]] over the yearspromised throne) all for herself. 'Bye Bye Birdie' is her first graphic novel for adults But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it's as great as you'd expect it will be to be. A man goes on a date with a woman, but things don't turn out how he expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408075X</amazonuk>get the job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barasui1401286399|title=Strawberry MarshmallowSuper Sons: v.1The PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=Strawberry Marshmallow It's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a slice-of-life manga huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Barasui that follows Wayne Enterprises. But the day rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to day lives of sixteen year old Nobue, her twelve year old sister Chika, and Chikarelocate in America's friends Miu and Matsuribiggest exodus for decades. The little girls try to solve problems and help each other Superman is helping out, of course – first, he was patching up the dams, but things donnow he't always go well. Leading to s mining the asteroid belt for a slow paced, heart warming manga rare dust that's basic premise perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is 'cute girls do cute things in cute ways'much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. Sounds exciting doesn't But it? Doncan't be fooled! ''Strawberry Marshmallow'', possibly have anything to do with what looks like most slice-sabotage of-life manga the flood barriers and anime is full of gentlethe efforts to correct the climate, subtle and slightly obscure humour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1598164945</amazonuk>can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oivind Hovland 168369015X|title=Trial Manfried the Man: A Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Error: The Aviated Efforts of Jean Babtiste de BomberaqueKelly Bastow

|summary=We open with In a longworld where cats stand on two feet, slow aerial shotgo to work at call centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, up the driveway of is Manfried. He's a chateau buried in typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at the French countryside, focussing in on same time being the family (fatherperfect companion for his owner, motherSteve Catson. To such an extent that Steve, daughterwho is getting known for his man-oriented thinking, son) that live thereis actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''crazy man cat''. All except this cannot happenBut when a window gets left open by mistake, as yetand Manfried goes missing, the only thing for this it is long before the age of powered flight and such a shot is impossible. It is up to the son in that family, one Jean Babtiste de Bomberaque, to pursue that dream massive and make it true.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808847</amazonuk>energised man-hunt…

 {{newreview|author=Oivind Hovland |title=A Day in the Life of Alfred|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Witness Alfred, getting up, getting ready for work, finding himself low on toothpaste again, going to work, working, coming back from work and falling asleep at home. Is it Alfred's fault, or the world's, that in all that routine, it appears nobody ever talks to him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808855</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rosalind Penfold|title=Dragonslippers: This is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=So, a five star book where we can predict the entire plot, and at times foretell just what people in it say. It's a damning indictment of things that that is even possible.  This book lives by its subtitle – ''this is what an abusive relationship looks like''. Rosalind meets a man who seems nigh-on perfect – they seem to fall in love with ease, and she gets on very well with his four children from an earlier marriage. Then odd occurrences start to happen – he declares her work getting in his way, he possibly drinks a bit too much, he sees flirting in her shop-talk with other men. And things escalate and escalate, and – you know every stage. She suffers a guilt trip, before suffering physical violence, discovering affairs, getting back with him, then finding the right kind of help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007216882</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan Hainsworth_Gina|title=Demo: v. 1|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's not every young disaffected teenager that will respond Talking to the withdrawal of her medication so explosively. It's not every young disaffected teenager that runs through empty landscapes because she is too scared to speak to anyone – for quite the reasons we see here. Not every family patches itself back together over a funeral in the fashion the third story gives us. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184576921X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGina|author=Will Eisner|title=The Dreamer|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=So, who else on the burgeoning Bookbag database has created a whole literary artform, almost single-handed? Not just added something to a genre, or tweaked a style to her own, but done so much towards inventing a format of literature? The name of Will Eisner is legend in the world of graphic fiction, and this book, starting as a thinly-veiled autobiography, is almost as iconic as its creator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328082</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Emma Rendel|title=Pentti and Deathgirl |rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I don't think there will be a more divisive book on our Bookbag database for many a moon to come than this volume. The publishers have it that this is ''a strange and wonderful delight for every reader'', and while that phrase starts with full honesty I have to say it becomes less truthful with every word.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224085069</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shannon Hale, Dean Hale and Nathan Hale|title=Rapunzel's Revenge|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=''Rapunzel's Revenge'' is a re-telling of the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale. It is set in the Wild West and is in the form of a graphic novel. Rapunzel is a feisty 12-year-old living in a grand villa with Mother Gothel. She wants for nothing in the material sense, but is bored and rather lonely. A large wall surrounds the villa, and Rapunzel is determined to climb it, despite being forbidden to do so. She scales the wall and is amazed at what lies on the other side. On her return, she has a chance encounter with her real mother who is enslaved in the mine camps beyond the villa. To punish her rebellion, Rapunzel is banished and imprisoned in a lofty magical tree, but the magic also helps her hair to grow and eventually gives provides her with the means to escape.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1599902885</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Danny Fingeroth|title=The Rough Guide to Graphic NovelsOttilie Hainsworth

|summary=I have an admission to make''This is what happened. '' There are elements An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of my life I hold dear thatthe country, whatever I doBrighton to Grimsby, I cannot make other people converts topick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one working eye. They remain resilient to Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a mess, so it's not a great start, but then begin the charms tribulations of OMDtraining, status and for behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. And then, the life of me with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as if I seem unable was in love.'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets to make people see form the merit of graphic novelsfamily they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843539934</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey TurnerColfer_Illegal|title=The Comic Strip History of the WorldIllegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin

|summary=Derek spends Ebo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn't know where his days eating grassbrother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thing. So Ebo has to attempt the same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the Sahara Desert, talking get himself to other sheepTripoli, trying one of the most dangerous cities in the world, and then try to avoid angry bulls and entering cross the Farmyard Best Haircut competition - y'know, typical sheep stuffMediterranean Sea. By himself. ''Derek the Sheep'' packages together thirteen of the comic strips from ''The Beano'' into an enjoyable collectionAt twelve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594244</amazonuk>And, even if he makes it, how will he find his sister?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kurt Busiek Miller_Batman|title=SupermanBatman: Dark Knight III: RedemptionThe Master Race|rating=4.5 |genre=Graphic Novels|summaryauthor=Right from the get-go there was some criticism that the creators of Superman had simply invented a messiah figure for their own amusement. Whether that kind of talk was anti-Semitic comment against Siegel Frank Miller and Shuster, it has to be said that there are similarities – an only son, landing on earth to help the human race he is not exactly a part of, all the while being highly unlikely to truly die. Perhaps people were reading too much into a character that only wanted to outrun a speeding bullet, and to leap tall buildings in a single bound.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845767446</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shiro Ihara |title=Alice on Deadlines v.2 Brian Azzarello

|summary=AhBatman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, this book brought back memoriesand not the baddies he usually biffs. The way But then he's not Batman – he's a she, and she finally comes up with the reaver from news that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, Lara, the spirit world had crash-landed on Earth into the form daughter of a teenage schoolgirlSuperman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and began instantly lusting after more expanding life to the miniaturised city of the sameKandor, alongside the sheerestlast 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, frilliestand Batman dead, sexiest undies, and there would appear to be little in the way of help for the girl'world should anything nasty happen – but then, of course, something nasty does happen… s soul ended up in a skeleton, walking around and sometimes helping out destroy other nasties…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0759528454</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Brooks Weeks_Gritterman|title=Dark Wraith of Shannara |rating=2.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I should probably start this review by confessing that I've never read any of Terry Brooks' work before. As a completely new reader, I was both excited and intimidated to read and review ''Dark Wraith of Shannara''. The blurb declares it as an ideal opportunity to venture into the world of Shannara for the first time, however, I think whoever wrote it was being a bit optimistic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496383</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Judith Park |title=Y Square|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=At his local high school, our hero Yoshi just cannot work out why the girls are not attracted to him. It might have something to do with his brash, foot-in-mouth approach, or just bad luck, but whatever, he turns to the stereotypical local babe-magnet. Except the hunk is not exactly what he seems. The main girl, the prettiest, bitchiest object of desire, is not what she seems either. And further girls on the horizon can only bring out jealousies, problems, and everything else you might expect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075952405X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dall-Young Lim |title=Black God: v. 2 (Black God) |rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A lot has happened in the world of comics and manga since I reviewed the first volume of Black God. Heck, even Captain America managed to die ('not too great a loss', I hear you knowledgably mutter). So coming to this second book after turning many a page of many other conflicting and diverse comic worlds since reading the first is a little like coming to the series anew.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0759528411</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGritterman|author=Peach-Pit |title=Zombie-Loan: v. 2 (Zombie-Loan) |rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I deliberately did not re-read the first volume in this series, or even [[Zombie-Loan by Peach-Pit|my review of it]], before planning this review – wishing instead to see how obvious, how immediate, and how penetrable the second part could be as a stand-alone read. You can thank me for being so brave later.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0759528365</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chuck Kim and others |title=Heroes Volume One |rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=''Heroes Volume One'' contains the first 34 instalments of the continuing online graphic novel that features on the official NBC Heroes website. Despite the apparent mismatch of numbers (34 instalments to 23 episodes) this Volume is intended as a companion to the first series of Heroes, recently aired on BBC2. Anyone who was not a fan of the series, or did not watch it, should turn away now, as this book is completely meaningless without some background knowledge of the show and its characters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845767063</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bryan Lee O'Malley |title=Scott Pilgrim Gets It TogetherOrlando Weeks|rating=4.5

|summary=The There''Scott Pilgrim'' graphic novel series s a man who has slowly but surely been building up their own little cult over the last few years and an ice cream van. In summer, what there is of summer, he uses itto sell ice creams, That's not hard to see whyhis vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a Gritterman. Drawn in a crude but effective black The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up and white anime stylerotate, these pop culture and video game literate books have playing a geeky appealtune, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the van's last trip. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, they say. There's even a delirious mix of a scitarmac now that can de-fi love story and coming of age taleice itself, featuring a great ensemble of characters and having a tendency for breaking into anime style OTT battles. ANd with an adaptation to film soon by but the very cool Gritterman isn''Hot Fuzz'' and '' Shawn of t sure that he wants to live in a world where the DeadB2116 doesn'' director Edgar Wright, this series seems set to burst out of its niche bubblet need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1932664491</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Chris Blythe and Steven Parkhouse |title=Angel Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=John Dury and his partner Zee are businessmen you would find it hard to like. Hard-hitting, go-getting types, they spend their leisure hours taking drugs, and their company time making smash-and-grab raids Move on family firms, carving them up and selling the relics off piecemeal. Their boss, Mr Belial, rewards their more amoral business successes with escorts in their scanties, and yet more narcotics – the trendiest street drug of which is Angel Fire, a new chemical that can easily take you to heaven.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844429180</amazonuk>}} {{newreview |title=Tamara Drewe|author=Posy Simmonds|genre=Graphic Novels|rating=4.5|summary=Tamara Drewe is not the woman she used to be. Plastic surgery has altered the shape of her nose and with a trendy wardrobe she has all the confidence she needs. She quickly captivates the local men when she returns to Ewedown to clear her mother's house after her recent death. Everyone, male and female, seems to be drawn to Tamara. Well, everyone except Beth Hardiman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022407816X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Historical Fiction Reviews]]