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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]]==Graphic novels==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garen EwingEdel Rodriguez|title=The Rainbow OrchidWorm: Adventures of Julius Chancer 2A Cuban American Odyssey

|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 blackboardone of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants.But it didn't quite work out like that.Rivalries developed. Until one day he decides Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went to emulate war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, a solution is proposed. Each of the comics in his collectioneight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to a single combat tournament. The only superheroes in his world are those whose colourful adventures he follows on winner will take possession of all the page - why not get his own costume mucked up, rings and go and fight crime?become the supreme ruler of Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848565356</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phoebe Reeves MurrayPat Grant|title=GhostThe Grot: Blood and Fire|rating=1.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Young Jennifer Rhys has been orphaned by the evilDark Angels. They can possess people and bite off their hands, andthere's something about living tattoos which you can take out of boxesand paste into your skin. After growing up in an adolescentpsychiatric ward, she will grow up to go on and confront them andfulfil her destiny. Or something like that. Between the huge amount The Story ofpoorly drawn characters, the leaden prose, and the disappointingpictures of computerized 3-D models, I got lost a few times andcouldn't summon the interest to work out what was going on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808863</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Eisner|title=Life on Another Planet|rating=2.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=There are some people who don't even need their name on their books, for the contents are so obviously and uniquely theirs. Will Eisner is one such person, for the esteem and renown his artwork and pioneering work in the graphic novel form is held under is rightfully his and his alone. I'm quite sure I could recognise a page of his black and white inkwork, and his easily drawn but realistic characters, more easily than any other sequential artist. That trademark signature on the cover, surely the most well-known in 'comic strips' outside Mr Disney's empire, is hardly necessary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera |title=Dark 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... well, something. 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 wonderful combination: Edgar Allan Poe, master of the gothic horror short every Wonder Woman origin story, and Gris Grimly, outstanding illustrator, known has her quickly leaving home for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]. Poe's ''Tales the World of Death Men, and Dementia'' are shown off at their very best in this edition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bryan Talbot |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 Diana is destined to unravel a conspiracy the heroine of revolution, treason, and propaganda of potentially global reachyet another Wonder Woman origin story. 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 shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a badger?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224084887</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|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 coursesrunning race, but as with the best meals even survivor she drags from the smallest dishes can have the most depth. We start with the entire life cycle - rise, fall, rise, fall - of waters is only going to disturb a hobo feeding pigeons in the parklot more. Obviously he hasn't been doing that all his years - he's been keeping his dignity intact, with a huge amount of chutzpah and more. Next, a smart Alec defeats the older kids on the stoop with a bit of canny street wisdom.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0393328147</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Eisner 1401286208|title=A Family MatterBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee

|summary=Some sonsMeet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, some daughters, even and seemingly lumbered with being a shy, semi-abandoned great nephew, are all gathering 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 cheerleader at the thought of a future inheritance. We've heard before of a nuclear familyschool, she is this one about desperate to get too radioactive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328139</amazonuk>}} [[Category:Science Fiction]]{{newreview|author=Jonathan Luna and Joshua Luna |title=Girls Volume 1: Conception|rating=4find her voice.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Ethan, we see with But it's actually more a greatcase of her voice finding her, broad comic stroke as when she gets frustrated or six, is not the best when plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it comes to girls. Letting his mouth run away with him too oftena weapon, he is not very successful at relationshipsor a power. But let us look at what happens when he drives away from an altercation at the local barin order for her to call herself a superhero, and sees there has to be a gorgeous - and very naked - young woman standing in the middle whole path of steps for her to take – one of the road.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1582405298</amazonuk>which will be into her past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Lee and Sam Hart 1401280048|title=OutlawBatman: Nightwalker: The Legend of Robin Hood (Heroes & Heroines Graphic)Novel|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summaryauthor=Here, Robin Hood is the Earl of Huntington, a man tempered by bitterness encountered as a youth, trained by skills honed with an apparent need for vengeance. He's out crusading, when he learns just the beginning of the story of what is wrong in Nottinghamshire. Returning, he meets John LittleMarie Lu, Stuart Moore and soon falls into the robbing/giving cycle we know and love him for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406308870</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle |title=Graphic Classics, Volume 17: Science Fiction ClassicsChris 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?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shaun Tan 1401283292|title=The ArrivalHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|rating=3.5

|summary=A man gathers a last memento or two before taking his suitcase Harleen Quinzel is new in handtown. She always, saying farewell to his wife me, seems new in town, even if she's been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and daughter seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is new in town, and the train stationtown is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and leaving for the docks herself with no option but to get the boat to the promised landstay with a bunch of drag queens. Once arrivedShe also finds school is a drag, he she also finds strangeness everywhere the whole 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. One is a civil- the foodminded lass called Ivy, the language, the immigration proceduresother someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, and the lodgings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0439895294</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edgar Allen Poe, Various, Dan Whitehead (Editor) 140128339X|title=Eye ClassicsMera: 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>}} {{newreviewTidebreaker|author=Mariko Tamaki Danielle Paige 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 JobStephen Byrne

|summary=If youMeet Mera. She've ever been faced by too many Post-Its at s the same time, or latest in a performance review, or copious yards line of errant electrical cabling all round your workspace - and especially if you've been left with an apologetic pineapple young women intent on your desk - this is a book fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for youthemselves. Here Her father, the office life is king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after 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. ItMera's a black and white worldmother, 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, thatterritory's where we embark. B warrior queen, is for boat, pushing off in the darklong dead... And so begins Neil Gaiman Mera doesn's adventure through t fancy the cosseting or the (unreliable) alphabetfella involved at all and is, in fact, trying to get Xebel out from under the company cosh of two children and their gazelle. They do battle with monstersAtlantean power, hunt for treasure, and get into all manner Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of scrapesAtlantean masters. What awaits them So 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 she overhears her father request that her intended go to India to represent his family at a wedding. He hates it. The Indians on the flight are brashworld of us air-breathing humans, noisyand kill the Atlantis heir, unmanneredshe rushes off to get the quest (and the promised throne) all for herself. The city he arrives in is a sprawlingBut of course, noisy, pollutedshe has no idea what kind of person she will meet, impoverished mess. Everywhere people think Mandy is a daft name and he should have stuck how hard it will be to his name of birth, Mandeep. But he is American by choice, and finds nothing appealing about get the prospect of four weeks in New Delhi.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>8183281362</amazonuk>job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Delisle1401286399|title=Burma ChroniclesSuper Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=What we have here are a male househusband and artistIt's the near future, and his MSF doctor wife, and their life every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in Burma or Myanmar for roughly need of a yearhuge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. We get But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to see the life relocate in the countryAmerica's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, from the racks of bootleg softwarecourse – first, to the animation class he leads, to their efforts to get into was patching up the lush country clubsdams, to their baby being adored by every passing girl. We see but now he's mining the state of asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the countrysolar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, with its horrid drugsin Wyndermere, HIV/AIDS the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and malaria problemsintolerance for being newcomers, hidden beyond but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the gentle Buddhist retreatscity. We see the DelislesBut it can' interaction t possibly have anything to do with this singular country - what looks like sabotage of the censored press, flood barriers and the fact efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues 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>it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Siddell168369015X|title=Gunnerkrigg CourtManfried the Man: OrientationA Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow

|summary=While having used the internet In a world where cats stand on two feet, go to work at call centres and have diminutive human beings for several years now I have never needed to use the favourites option much – there pets, is Manfried. He's a routine typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at the same time being the perfect companion for my comings and goings online his owner, Steve Catson. To such an extent that I can handleSteve, who is getting known for his man-oriented thinking, and I donis actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''crazy man cat''t think I regret losing out on a regular visit to any particular site much. The downside of this is that But when a lot of online graphic novels have probably passed me window gets left open bymistake, and Manfried goes missing, as I habitually don't form the habit of clicking to them. It's only thing for it is a relief then that one very wellmassive and energised man-acclaimed example, Gunnerkrigg Court, has come to my attention in book form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184856175X</amazonuk>hunt…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rod SerlingHainsworth_Gina|title=The Twilight Zone: The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Talking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|summary=One ''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of the benefits of growing up when I didcountry, as opposed Brighton toGrimsby, say, just a year or two earlier, was that home VHS coincided to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with the first attempts to have round-the-clock TV in Britainsome mange and one working eye. Why not? The channels struggled to provide enough programming first night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a budgetmess, just as they do to this dayso it's not a great start, but one thing they did give usthen begin the tribulations of training, delightfullystatus and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. And then, was the life with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''The Twilight ZoneI felt weird about you because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as if I was in love.'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the family they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587914</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley HughesColfer_Illegal|title=Bye Bye Birdie|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Ah, who doesn't love Shirley Hughes? We've all read and cherished [[Alfie]] and [[Dogger]] over the years. 'Bye Bye Birdie' is her first graphic novel for adults, and it's as great as you'd expect it to be. A man goes on a date with a woman, but things don't turn out how he expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408075X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewIllegal|author=Barasui|title=Strawberry Marshmallow: v.1|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Strawberry Marshmallow is a slice-of-life manga by Barasui that follows the day to day lives of sixteen year old Nobue, her twelve year old sister Chika, and Chika's friends Miu and Matsuri. The little girls try to solve problems and help each other out, but things don't always go well. Leading to a slow paced, heart warming manga that's basic premise is 'cute girls do cute things in cute ways'. Sounds exciting doesn't it? Don't be fooled! ''Strawberry Marshmallow'', like most slice-of-life manga Eoin Colfer and anime is full of gentle, subtle and slightly obscure humour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1598164945</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Oivind Hovland |title=Trial and Error: The Aviated Efforts of Jean Babtiste de Bomberaque|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We open with a long, slow aerial shot, up the driveway of a chateau buried in the French countryside, focussing in on the family (father, mother, daughter, son) that live there. All except this cannot happen, as yet, for this 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 and make it true.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808847</amazonuk>}} {{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 LikeAndrew Donkin

|summary=So, a five star book where we can predict the entire plot, Ebo is twelve years old and at times foretell just what people in it sayall alone. ItHis sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn's a damning indictment of things t know where his brother is either but knows that that is even possiblehe has probably done the same thing.  This book lives by its subtitle – ''this is what an abusive relationship looks like''So Ebo has to attempt the same dangerous journey himself. Rosalind meets a man who seems nigh-on perfect – they seem He must cross the Sahara Desert, get himself to fall Tripoli, one of the most dangerous cities in love with easethe world, and she gets on very well with his four children from an earlier marriagethen try to cross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. Then odd occurrences start to happen – he declares her work getting in his wayAnd, even if he possibly drinks a bit too muchmakes it, how will 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>find his sister?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan Miller_Batman|title=DemoBatman: v. 1Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello|rating=3.5

|summary=ItBatman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not every young disaffected teenager that will respond to the withdrawal of her medication so explosivelybaddies he usually biffs. ItBut then he's not every young disaffected teenager Batman – he's a she, and she finally comes up with the news that runs through empty landscapes because she Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, Lara, the daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, is too scared encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to speak turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to anyone – for quite the reasons we see hereminiaturised city of Kandor, the last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. Not every family patches itself back together over What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a funeral sulk, and Batman dead, there would appear to be little in the fashion way of help for the third story gives us. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184576921X</amazonuk>world should anything nasty happen – but then, of course, something nasty does happen… s

 {{newreview|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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danny FingerothWeeks_Gritterman|title=The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I have an admission to make. There are elements of my life I hold dear that, whatever I do, I cannot make other people converts to. They remain resilient to the charms of OMD, and for the life of me I seem unable to make people see the merit of graphic novels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843539934</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGritterman|author=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|title=The Comic Strip History of the WorldOrlando Weeks

|summary=Derek spends his days eating grassThere's a man who has an ice cream van. In summer, what there is of summer, talking he uses it to other sheepsell ice creams, trying to avoid angry bulls That's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and entering our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the Farmyard Best Haircut competition roof light up and rotate, playing a tune, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - ywill be the van'knows last trip. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, typical sheep stuffthey say. There''Derek s even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but the SheepGritterman isn'' packages together thirteen of t sure that he wants to live in a world where the comic strips from B2116 doesn''The Beano'' into an enjoyable collectiont need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594244</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Kurt Busiek |title=Superman: Redemption|rating=4.5 |genre=Graphic Novels|summary=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 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 |rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Ah, this book brought back memories. The way the reaver from the spirit world had crash-landed on Earth into the form of a teenage schoolgirl, and began instantly lusting after more of the same, alongside the sheerest, frilliest, sexiest undies, and the way the girl's soul ended up in a skeleton, walking around and sometimes helping out destroy other nasties…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0759528454</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Terry Brooks |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 Move 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>}} {{newreview|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 itNewest Historical Fiction Reviews]], 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 Together|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The ''Scott Pilgrim'' graphic novel series has slowly but surely been building up their own little cult over the last few years and it's not hard to see why. Drawn in a crude but effective black and white anime style, these pop culture and video game literate books have a geeky appeal, being a delirious mix of a sci-fi love story and coming of age tale, 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 the very cool ''Hot Fuzz'' and '' Shawn of the Dead'' director Edgar Wright, this series seems set to burst out of its niche bubble.|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 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>}}