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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]]==Graphic novels==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=Lesley Fairfield|title=Tyranny|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=As Tyranny shakes her <!- ''I '''TOLD''' you not to eat! You are '''TOO''' fat!'' - Anna thinks back. She used to take joy in life. She used to dream of a bright future Remove - a career, boyfriends, children - but it all went wrong when she hit puberty. She wasn't keen on on the curves of her new, more womanly body. When she looked in the mirror, she didn't see an hourglass figure developing; she saw fat and flab. Deaf to the warnings of her parents and her boyfriend, she listened to Tyranny and entered into the desperate, downward cycle of anorexia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331139</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David PetersenEdel Rodriguez|title=Mouse GuardWorm: Legends of The GuardA Cuban American Odyssey

|summary=To start withWe're in childhood, I have never heard of Mr Petersen and his Mouse Guard franchisewe're in Cuba. But I'm often up for an introduction to a fantasy cycleThe revolution has happened, and I always relish being welcomed to an author by Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the most esotericcountry, unusualhas proven himself a Communist, quirky and short routenot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. My first entry Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the His Dark Materials world was [[Once Upon a Time in good soldier the North by Philip Pullman|a collector's spincountry demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-off]]Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and I'm just as likely to start the Twilight seriesfather being watched and watched, if everand not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the latest brief whimsy. And for those party to ease some of a similar mind-setthe heat, but in this collection sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of tales from the pens of guest writers and illustrators, serves as an odd-shaped doorway on to this particular universe.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857681427</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan StroudKia Ahankoob|title=The Amulet of Samarkand|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When you summon a demon the last thing you want is for you to lose power over it - for the shoe to end up on the other foot. Especially when the demon shifts shape Gold Lion and is currently an eight-legged spider. That's what's happened to young Nathaniel, having summoned Bartimaeus for a task of vengeance. But perhaps it's worst of all when you have to rely on the same demon's help to protect you from an even greater evil - the wicked intent Tournament of a fellow man.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563706</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Denise Mina and Antonio Fuso|title=A Sickness in the FamilySentinels

|summary=In Eton Terrance there lives When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the Usher familyhope they would complement each other and collaborate, in creating a house above dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a basement flat where a gangster holds sway over a Polish "girlfriend"magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went to war. After a bloodbath in there, Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the Ushers expand downwardscost of war too high, clearing a cavernous hole in their home where a staircase solution is due to goproposed. This is not Each of the only crack in proceedingseight countries will send their greatest warriors, howeverknown as sentinels, as we soon discover while witnessing to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the fall of this House supreme ruler of UsherDuniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848564163</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bryan TalbotPat Grant|title=Grandville Mon Amour|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The [[Grandville by Bryan Talbot|first book]] in this series didn't end particularly well for DI LeBrock, the badger who works for Scotland Yard. At least the main problem, 'Mad Dog' Mastock, was sentenced to the guillotine. But in the prologue here he bursts out Grot: The Story of his quandary, and once more causes problems for LeBrock - this time by slaughtering some Parisian prostitutes. Are they linked? What might their story be? And is there a darker part of the past yet to come out of some secretive hiding place, and cause even more danger and peril?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090003</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neville Colvin and Peter O'Donnell|title=Modesty Blaise: Sweet Caroline|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Modesty Blaise. You've had countless opportunities to meet her before, mind - she was daily in the London Evening Standard from 1963 to 2001, and this is the eighteenth collection of her comic strip. She's a feisty, unfettered femme fatale with a bottomless fortune and a great supply of both friends and enemies. We see these combine here in four stories, when an enterprising gang of murderous blackmailers force Modesty to become their enemy, an old friend's name is used to dupe her into letting go her criminal secrets from her past, and when a new-found friend, fresh from saving her life in a gliding accident, comes up against some hoodlums.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566735</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joshua Dysart, Cliff Chiang and Dave Stewart|title=Neil Young's GreendaleSwamp City Grifters

|summary=It's 2003Everything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the punk bands. Alaska is about There are three pedallers at the front of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to get rapedFalter City, where a mother and Iraqis killedher two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for the sake this is a really rough-and-ready dump of providing power for the USAa place, but everyone is interested in small things that grow. Which is ironic, as For the only money to be had – the only before this is Sun Green a powerless young womanfortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and after it - other crud that – well, she might have a very different kind the use of powerit is never really made clear. A mystical sort Once there, the two brothers set themselves each up with a guide – Lippy, the more forward-thinking, industrious of girlthe two, with a great affinity to naturebesuited gent, Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of the two will come off the teenaged Sun has to first solve many blank spaces worse as they make their own way in her family treethis dystopian, and work out her nightmares semi- which might include the strange man new to town.Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848567863</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garen Ewing|title=The Rainbow Orchid: Adventures of Julius Chancer 2|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Oh to be popular - and the rainbow orchid certainly is. If, in fact, it exists at all. A collecting challenge for rare plants might hinge on its recovery, imperial British explorers would like to know the truth about it - and its presence on some mysterious ancient carved tablets hints at some mystical part it may once have played in a superweapon. HenceLun Zhang, where this book starts, everyone - from a film starlet, to a dashing explorer's assistant, to a plucky aviator, to an evil henchwoman of an overweight industrialist - is after it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140525047X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane AustenAdrien Gombeaud, Seth Grahame-Smith Ameziane and Tony LeeEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesTiananmen 1989: The Graphic Novel|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie story of any renown will not remain simply a zombie story. Before you can say ''the risen undead'' it will become a series of books, inspiring others, and/or lead to the same story being published in many different guises. Here, then, on its way to Hollywood, is Jane Austen’s story of Lizzie Bennet, 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 her, just as the soft soils of Hertfordshire do to yield their once-human remains. And this time it’s in graphic novel form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Millar and John Romita Jr|title=Kick-AssOur Shattered Hopes

|summary=Meet DaveI never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. The average Joe personifiedI certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, he sits at home with his internet connection, his comics collection, his dadI didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and very little contact with anyone elseI didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. He This book is practically flawless in giving a typical loner teenager, nearly friendless, wears glasses at school - especially around the hot, mature biology teacher who general browser's context for some reason seems to have maths sums on her blackboard... Until one day he decides to emulate the comics whole season of protests back in his collection1989. 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848565356</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phoebe Reeves Murray|title=Ghost: 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 wardLeigh Bardugo, she will grow up to go on and confront them Louise Simonson andfulfil her destiny. Or something like that. Between the huge amount 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 EisnerKit Seaton|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 Entries|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The producers of Dark Entries, the latest hit reality TV show, are worried. Yes the six housemates are there, present and correct, and are ready to be scared witless en route to the one way out, and the brilliant prize that might await them somewhere in the merry-go-round of horror that is their new home. They are already being scared witless, by phantoms - but that's nothing to do with the TV producers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dean Hale, Shannon Hale and Nathan Hale |title=Calamity Jack|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''I was born to scheme'', declares our hero Jack. With flashbacks we see the young lad and a pixie friend, larking about for revenge or small profit. But when his mother's bakery gets more 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 Crumb|title=Robert Crumb's Book of GenesisWonder Woman: All 50 Chapters|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In the beginning was the picture. Just think of all the countless religious images, both inside and outside religious establishments, designed to convey the message to those who could not read. Art and religion have always been linked, which is probably one of the main reasons I stayed an atheist - I hated art at school, and drawing a man on a donkey, something way beyond my skills, was not a task I appreciated, hence my dislike of both subjects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224078097</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Guy Delisle|title=PyongyangWarbringer: A Journey in North Korea|rating=4.5|genre=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 Diana, being unique on her island, is the victim of town in a most appropriate mannerlot of taunts, but I do not like King Learand claims of nepotism. For meIt's only her unique status, even as a trained actorand her mother being Queen, the language is too dense and richthat has her with any standing at all, the set-up too archly unfeasible to create the great tragedy it's thought her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to bea strong young woman. To my mind Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the acclaim World of Men, and esteem in which it's held this Diana is only mirrored by its own over-long, over-blown blusteringthe heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763643440</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Hughes|title=Thomas Wogan is Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Well, with a title like that, need I bother with a plot summary? A man has shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a day out in Morecamberunning race, then but the next thing he knows he's in survivor she drags from the ultimate waiting room, with a strange array of animals (a bat, waters is only going to disturb a toad, a sea urchin...), all waiting for..lot more. well, something. Yup, as you didn't need telling, he's dead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>095580888X</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris Grimly1401286208|title=Tales of Death and Dementia|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combinationBlack Canary: Edgar Allan Poe, master of 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]]. Poe's ''Tales of Death 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 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>}} {{newreviewIgnite|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 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 reviewline of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, or copious yards the king of errant electrical cabling Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all round your workspace - and especially if you, Mera's mother, the territory've been left with an apologetic pineapple on your desk - this s warrior queen, is a book for youlong dead. Here Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the office life fella involved at all and is all delegating this, blah blah talk about in fact, trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So when she overhears her father request thather intended go to the world of us air-breathing humans, and hanging far too much on kill the one guy who seems to be most with-it when it comes Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the quest (and the computerspromised throne) all for herself. It's a black and white worldBut of course, on the wholeshe has no idea what kind of person she will meet, where you always and how hard it will be to get what you generally expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408576X</amazonuk>the job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly1401286399|title=Super Sons: 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>}} {{newreviewPolarShield Project|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 Ridley Pearson 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 ChroniclesIle 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 BirdieIllegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin|rating=45

|summary=Ah, who Ebo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn't love Shirley Hughes? We've all read and cherished [[Alfie]] and [[Dogger]] over know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thing. So Ebo has to attempt the yearssame dangerous journey himself. 'Bye Bye Birdie' is her first graphic novel for adultsHe must cross the Sahara Desert, get himself to Tripoli, one of the most dangerous cities in the world, and it's as great as you'd expect it then try to becross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. A man goes on a date with a womanAnd, even if he makes it, but things don't turn out how will he expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408075X</amazonuk>find his sister?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=BarasuiMiller_Batman|title=Strawberry MarshmallowBatman: v.1Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello|rating=43.5

|summary=Strawberry Marshmallow Batman 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 Chikanot playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and Chikanot the baddies he usually biffs. But then he's not Batman – he's friends Miu a she, and Matsurishe finally comes up with the news that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, Lara, the daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The little girls try Atom to solve problems turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and help each other outexpanding life to the miniaturised city of Kandor, but things don't always go wellthe last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. Leading to What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a slow pacedsulk, heart warming manga that's basic premise is 'cute girls do cute things and Batman dead, there would appear to be little in cute ways'. Sounds exciting doesn't it? Don't be fooled! ''Strawberry Marshmallow''the way of help for the world should anything nasty happen – but then, like most slice-of-life manga and anime is full of gentlecourse, subtle and slightly obscure humour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1598164945</amazonuk>something nasty does happen… s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oivind Hovland Weeks_Gritterman|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>}} {{newreviewGritterman|author=Rosalind Penfold|title=Dragonslippers: This is What an Abusive Relationship Looks LikeOrlando Weeks

|summary=So, a five star book where we can predict the entire plot, and at times foretell just what people in it say. ItThere'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 has an earlier marriageice cream van. Then odd occurrences start In summer, what there is of summer, he uses it to happen – he declares her work getting in sell ice creams, That's not his wayvocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he possibly drinks waits for winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a bit too much, he sees flirting in her shop-talk with other menGritterman. And things escalate The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up and escalaterotate, and – you know every stage. She suffers playing a guilt triptune, before suffering physical violence, discovering affairs, getting back with him, then finding whether the right kind of help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007216882</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan |title=Demo: v. 1|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Itvan's not every young disaffected teenager that gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will respond to be the withdrawal of her medication so explosively. Itvan'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 herelast trip. Not every family patches itself back together over a funeral in The council has sent the fashion the third story gives usletter about his services no longer being required. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184576921X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Eisner|title=The Dreamer|rating=4Global warming.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=SoDying profession, who else on the burgeoning Bookbag database has created they say. There's even a whole literary artform, almost singletarmac now that can de-handed? Not just added something to a genre, or tweaked a style to her ownice itself, 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 donGritterman isn't think there will be a more divisive book on our Bookbag database for many a moon sure that he wants to come than this volume. The publishers have it that this is ''live in a strange and wonderful delight for every readerworld where the B2116 doesn'', and while that phrase starts with full honesty I have to say it becomes less truthful with every wordt need gritting.|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 Move 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 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>}} {{newreview|author=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|title=The Comic Strip History of the World|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-[[Newest Historical Fiction|summary=''The Comic Strip History of the World'' is, as you might expect, a comic strip history of the world. It covers everything from the Big Bang to the present day, with each period of history summed up in a page or two. It's very much a potted history in the vein of the Horrible Histories series and 1066 and All That. It's a fantastic book, both as a light fun read, and as a brief education into everything that has been before. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594317</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gary Northfield|title=Derek the Sheep|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Derek spends his days eating grass, talking to other sheep, trying to avoid angry bulls and entering the Farmyard Best Haircut competition - y'know, typical sheep stuff. ''Derek the Sheep'' packages together thirteen of the comic strips from ''The Beano'' into an enjoyable collection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594244</amazonuk>}}Reviews]]