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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 v. 3A Cuban American Odyssey

|summary=Here We're in childhood, and we are're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, thenand Castro, ten years after the debut first thought of as a saviour of this graphic novel on the Internetcountry, has proven himself a Communist, and finally the print trilogy is completenot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. At last we can see if our hero JuliusWell, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his chums, time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the shady Government peoplehappiest of places here, and his enemy’s beautiful assassin aide who remains impossible an uncle refusing to shrug be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped offto some minor pro-Communism skirmish, manage to get anywhere near such as Angola) and the fabled titular plant in its secret Himalayan locationfather being watched and watched, and just how important it has been not liked for all those many people left back in Englandhis successful photography business, success being frowned upon. It’s been a rollercoaster rideThe mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, and it’s been worth it.remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405255994</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary Crew and Shaun TanKia Ahankoob|title=The ViewerGold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels

|summary=Before the Holocaust was turned into [[The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne|a child-like near-fable for all]]When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and before it was weakeness, in the focus of superb history books such as [[Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler hope they would complement each other and Stalin by Timothy Snyder|this]]collaborate, it became creating a family saga of dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a father relating his experiences magical ring belonging to a son, who then drew it all - featuring animals not humans - [[Maus one of eight countries led by Art Spiegelman|Maus]]Myriad's children and their descendants. To celebrate the twenty-five years since then, we have this brilliant look back at the creation of an equally brilliant volumeBut it didn't quite work out like that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670916838</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Harry Thompson|title=Tintin: Herge and His Creation|rating=3Rivalries developed.5|genre=Biography|summary=I love Tintin. I love his quiff and his innocence, his plus-fours Enmities grew out of them and his foreign adventures, I love Snowy the dog eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and most of all I love Captain Haddock ruinous stalemate and finding the flamboyance cost of his blistering barnacles languagewar too high, a solution is proposed. So I was thrilled Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to see a biography single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the character rings and Hergé, his creator, and I picked it up with enthusiasmbecome the supreme ruler of Duniva. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848546726</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Khaled HosseiniPat Grant|title=The Kite Runner (Graphic Novel)Grot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters

|summary=A confession. If there's one book I'm not likely to readEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, it's and that which everyone else is readingincludes the punk bands. If it turns into a hugely popular film for all There are three pedallers at the front of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the left-wing chattering classes swamp to rave overFalter City, then that's just more grist to my mill – I'll always have where a chance mother and her two sons aim to catch set up on it later ona yoghurt factory. You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for this is a really rough-and-ready dump of a place, even if I never take but everyone is interested in small things that opportunitygrow. I'm not alone For the only money to be had – the only fortunes to be found in acting like this Falter City – see a friend come from algae, gunk and colleague's similar admission when reviewing [[White Teeth by Zadie Smith]]other crud that – well, the use of it is never really made clear. But at leastOnce there, through the medium of two brothers set themselves each up with a guide – Lippy, the graphic novelmore forward-thinking, industrious of the book reviewing gods have conspired to let me see just what I'm missingtwo, with this adaptationa besuited gent, by Italian artists, of Penn with a hugely successful – and therefore delayable – novelballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of the two will come off the worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815257</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally Kindberg Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Tracey TurnerEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=The Comic Strip Big Fat Book of KnowledgeTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating=4.5

|summary=Who doesnI 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. I certainly didn't like a nice comic, eh? There's something so accessible about know of the lovely picture weeks of protests and text combos, hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and facts are far from dull when they come via speech bubblesthe birth of the Tank Man image, donI didn't you think? Taking full advantage of this fact, Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner have, know how the area had long been a venue for some timepolitical protest, been creating factual books for children which pass on their insight and Important Information through I didn't know more than a spit about the medium of comicspeople involved on either side. Now This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the first time, you can collect 3 whole season of their titles protests back in one simple volume1989. Combining the previous reviewed [[The Comic Strip History of the World by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|History of the World]] and [[The Comic Strip History of Space by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|History of Space]] with the ''Greatest Greek Myths''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408808242</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin O'Neill Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Alan MooreKit Seaton|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969Graphic Novel

|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=So much for Diana, being unique on her island, is the League victim of a lot of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Of the three main protagonists available for this adventuretaunts, one and a half are female! claims of nepotism. Anyway, Bram StokerIt's Minaonly her unique status, Woolf's Orlando and Allan Quartermain are in London at the height of the swinging 60sher mother being Queen, amidst rumours that a new attempt has her with any standing at birthing an Antichrist is about all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to occurbe a strong young woman. Certainly, Perhaps too strong for the evil they've faced the last several decades will soon get a new face...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661621</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Winshluss|title=Pinocchio|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Imagineisland, if you will, Disney's film of Pinocchio had been animated by a crew of artists hell-bent on sabotaging however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the prospect. Painterly frames World of beauty would be rare in amongst grittyMen, grimy, shadowy images and this Diana is the heroine of nightmarish content, which took it upon themselves to break into black and white, or sepiayet another Wonder Woman origin story. The prologue might have A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a character forcing his cat to join in at Russian Roulette. Geppetto would be accompanied in the leviathan, in one of the rare tuneful segmentsrunning race, by a penguin playing but the piano. And this after survivor she drags from the proud inventor was trying waters is only going to sell Pinocchio as disturb a prototype robotic super-weapon, just as his wife was putting Pinocchio's most distinctive feature to a most unexpected uselot more... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861661729</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aviv Ratzin1401286208|title=Dreams Black Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Everyday LifeCara McGee

|summary=Well, thank you, Aviv Ratzin - you've provided me with the one book I'm least capable of summarising for a reviewMeet Dinah Lance. I can't begin Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to pithily precis the plot, or describe the happenings try and follow in any quick, snappy way. To give the gist of the surreal, scattershot whimsicality cannot do the contents justice in any way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808871</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Allen Ginsberg|title=Howl: A Graphic Novel|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I first came across Howl as a short film animating one of Ginsberg's own recordings of it. If memory serveshis footsteps, it was a scratchy, jazzy piece, full of spiky, spunky shapes and movements, and low on colour. Now for 2011 and for Penguin Modern Classics' first ever 'graphic novel' comes seemingly lumbered with being a very different animation. OKcheerleader at school, the real moving animation is only to be seen in the movie Howl, but to call this merely an illustrated companion to the film she is desperate to be very unflattering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141195703</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lesley Fairfield|title=Tyranny|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=As Tyranny shakes find her - ''I '''TOLD''' you not to eat! You are '''TOO''' fat!'' - Anna thinks backvoice. She used to take joy in life. She used to dream of a bright future - a career, boyfriends, children - but But it all went wrong when she hit puberty. She wasn't keen on on the curves of her new, s actually 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 a case of her parents and voice finding her boyfriend, as when she listened to Tyranny and entered into the desperate, downward cycle of anorexiagets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331139</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Petersen|title=Mouse Guard: Legends of The Guard|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=To start withYou could almost call it a weapon, I have never heard of Mr Petersen and his Mouse Guard franchiseor a power. But I'm often up in order for an introduction her to call herself a fantasy cyclesuperhero, and I always relish being welcomed there has to an author by the most esoteric, unusual, quirky and short route. My first entry to the His Dark Materials world was [[Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman|be a collector's spin-off]], and I'm just as likely to start the Twilight series, if ever, with the latest brief whimsy. And for those of a similar mind-set, this collection of tales from the pens whole path of guest writers and illustrators, serves as an odd-shaped doorway on to this particular universe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681427</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jonathan Stroud|title=The Amulet of Samarkand|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When you summon a demon the last thing you want is steps for you her to lose power over it - for the shoe to end up on the other foot. Especially when the demon shifts shape and is currently an eight-legged spider. That's what's happened to young Nathaniel, having summoned Bartimaeus for a task take – one 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 of a fellow man.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563706</amazonuk>which will be into her past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denise Mina and Antonio Fuso1401280048|title=A Sickness in the FamilyBatman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose

|summary=In Eton Terrance there lives the Usher familyThe young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, in and suchlike – reminding him he's a house above a basement flat where a gangster holds sway over a Polish "girlfriend"billionaire at the age of eighteen. After a bloodbath in there, Feeling rather stuck with the Ushers expand downwardslegacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, clearing a cavernous hole in their home where a staircase is due he wants to godo charitable deeds. This is not the only crack But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in proceedingspursuit of a criminal, howeverhe goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, as we soon discover while witnessing and gets given the fall of this House most unlikely stretch of Usher.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848564163</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bryan Talbot|title=Grandville Mon Amour|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The [[Grandville by Bryan Talbot|first book]] community service instead – cleaning in this series didn't end particularly well for DI LeBrock, the badger who works home for Scotland Yardviolent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. At least There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the main problemNightwalkers, 'Mad Dog' Mastocka gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, was sentenced to and murder the guillotineowner. But in the prologue here Can he bursts out get close to one of his quandary, them and once more causes problems for LeBrock - this time by slaughtering some Parisian prostitutes. Are they linked? What might get the truth of their story schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be? And is there a darker part of step too far for the past yet to come out of some secretive hiding place, and cause even more danger and perilyoung do-gooder?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090003</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neville Colvin and Peter O'Donnell1401283292|title=Modesty BlaiseHarley Quinn: Sweet CarolineBreaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh

|summary=Meet Modesty BlaiseHarleen Quinzel is new in town. You've had countless opportunities She always, to meet her beforeme, mind - she was daily seems new in the London Evening Standard from 1963 to 2001town, and this is the eighteenth collection of her comic strip. Sheeven if she's been around a feistylong time, unfettered femme fatale with for she always has a bottomless fortune very fresh attitude, and a great supply seems to look out of both friends and enemiesthose large eyes at everything anew each time. We see these combine But here she is new in four storiestown, when an enterprising gang of murderous blackmailers force Modesty to become their enemy, an old friend's name and the town is used to dupe her into letting go her criminal secrets from her past, and when Gotham City. Expecting a newyear-found friend, fresh long furlough from saving life with her life in a gliding accidentmother, comes up against some hoodlums.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566735</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joshua Dysart, Cliff Chiang she finds her gran dead and Dave Stewart|title=Neil Young's Greendale|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's 2003. Alaska is about herself with no option but to get raped, and Iraqis killed, for the sake stay with a bunch of providing power for the USAdrag queens. Which She also finds school is ironica drag, as only before this she also finds the whole neighbourhood is Sun Green being redeveloped by a powerless young woman, large and after it - well, uncaring corporation – but she might also finds two characters that will have a very different kind of powerbig impact on her life. A mystical sort of girl, with One is a great affinity to nature, the teenaged Sun has to first solve many blank spaces in her family tree, and work out her nightmares civil- which might include the strange man new to town.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848567863</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|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 factminded lass called Ivy, 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 other someone she only meets at some mystical part it may once have played in night – a superweapon. Hence, where this book starts, everyone - from lad with 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 Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith and Tony Lee|title=Pride and Prejudice singular graffiti tag and Zombies: 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, mind for violence and/or lead to the same story being published in many different guises. Herechaos, 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>who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Millar and John Romita Jr140128339X|title=Kick-AssMera: Tidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne

|summary=Meet DaveMera. The average Joe personifiedShe'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, he sits at home with his internet connection, his comics collection, his dadthe king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and very little contact with anyone else. He is a typical loner teenagerhunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, nearly friendlessMera's mother, wears glasses at school - especially around the hotterritory's warrior queen, mature biology teacher who for some reason seems to have maths sums on her blackboard..is long dead. Until one day he decides to emulate Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the comics fella involved at all and is, in his collection. The only superheroes in his world are those whose colourful adventures he follows on the page - why not fact, trying to 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 by Xebel out from under the evilDark Angels. They can possess people and bite off their handscosh of Atlantean power, andtherefor Xebel's something about living tattoos which you can take out royalty are merely puppets of boxesand paste into your skinAtlantean masters. After growing up in an adolescentpsychiatric ward, So when she will grow up to go on and confront them andfulfil overhears her destiny. Or something like father request that. Between her intended go to the huge amount world ofpoorly drawn charactersus air-breathing humans, and kill the leaden proseAtlantis heir, and she rushes off to get the disappointingpictures of computerized 3-D models, I got lost a few times quest (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, promised throne) all for the contents are so obviously and uniquely theirsherself. Will Eisner is one such personBut of course, 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 she has no idea what kind of his black and white inkworkperson she will meet, and his easily drawn but realistic characters, more easily than any other sequential artist. That trademark signature on how hard it will be to get the cover, surely the most well-known in 'comic strips' outside Mr Disney's empire, is hardly necessary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328120</amazonuk>job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera 1401286399|title=Dark EntriesSuper Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=The producers It's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of Dark Entriesa huge flood barrier, the latest hit reality TV show, are worriedbuilt on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. Yes But the six housemates are thererising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, present and correct, and are ready forcing many people to be scared witless en route to the one way relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, and the brilliant prize that might await them somewhere in of course – first, he was patching up the merry-go-round of horror that is their new home. They are already being scared witlessdams, by phantoms - but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that's nothing to do with perfect for blocking the TV producerssolar energy from making further polar ice melt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dean HaleInland, Shannon Hale and Nathan Hale |title=Calamity Jack|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''I was born to scheme''in Wyndermere, declares our hero Jack. With flashbacks we see the young lad refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and a pixie friend, larking about intolerance for revenge or small profit. But when his mother's bakery gets more and more into the redbeing newcomers, the size of the profit has to increasebut something else is much worse. And when you add in revenge against the local crime lord - a giant of a man - so does the size of the target A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the japecity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587426</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Crumb|title=Robert CrumbBut it can's Book of Genesis: All 50 Chapters|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In the beginning was the picture. Just think t possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of all the countless religious images, both inside flood barriers and outside religious establishments, designed to convey the message efforts to those who could not read. Art and religion have always been linked, which is probably one of correct the main reasons I stayed an atheist - I hated art at schoolclimate, 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>can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Delisle168369015X|title=PyongyangManfried the Man: A Journey in North KoreaGraphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow

|summary=Meet GuyIn a world where cats stand on two feet, go to work at call centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, is Manfried. He's a French-Canadian animatortypical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, 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 demanding more food than he can work on a TV cartoon co-production. Forced to stay in one of suitably eat, but at the same time being the three official hotels designed perfect companion for foreignershis owner, so Steve Catson. To such an extent that the locals and people such as he do not have to mixSteve, he see glimpses of the unique socialist dictatorshipwho is getting known for his man-oriented thinking, stunning views of is actually having nightmares about becoming the buildings forced through the poverty, and thousands of unreadable facesneighbourhood ''crazy man cat''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224079905</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gareth Hinds|title=King Lear|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Hound me out of town in But when a most appropriate mannerwindow gets left open by mistake, but I do not like King Lear. For me, even as a trained actor, the language is too dense and richManfried goes missing, the set-up too archly unfeasible to create the great tragedy only thing for it's thought to be. To my mind the acclaim is a massive and esteem in which it's held is only mirrored by its own overenergised man-long, over-blown blustering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763643440</amazonuk>hunt…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David HughesHainsworth_Gina|title=Thomas Wogan is DeadTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|summary=Well''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of the country, with a title like thatBrighton to Grimsby, need I bother to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with a plot summarysome mange and one working eye. Why not? A man has a day out in MorecambeThe first night at home, then Gina – the next thing he knows hedog – eats something she shouldn's in the ultimate waiting room, with a strange array of animals (t and causes a batmess, so it's not a toadgreat start, a sea urchin...)but then begin the tribulations of training, status and behaviour all waiting forhumans must go through with their dogs... well And then, somethingthe life with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. YupMy thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as you didnif I was in love.''t need telling Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, he's deadtwo children and two cats – gets to form the family they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095580888X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris GrimlyColfer_Illegal|title=Tales of Death Illegal|author=Eoin Colfer and DementiaAndrew Donkin

|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan Poe, master of the gothic horror short story, Ebo is twelve years old and Gris Grimly, outstanding illustrator, known all alone. His sister left for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman Europe months ago and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]. Poenow he doesn'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, t know where his brother is either but knows that he is destined has probably done the same thing. So Ebo has to unravel a conspiracy of revolution, treason, and propaganda of potentially global reachattempt the same dangerous journey himself. What is He must cross the truth behind the fall of a famous tower under air attack a few years ago? Why are so many suspicious suicides coming Sahara Desert, get himself to attention? And will LeBrock be helped or hindered by his beingTripoli, as his name suggests, 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 courses, but as with the best meals even the smallest dishes can have one of the most depth. We start with dangerous cities in the entire life cycle - riseworld, fall, rise, fall - of a hobo feeding pigeons in and then try to cross the parkMediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. Obviously And, even if he hasn't been doing that all his years - makes it, how will he's been keeping find 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328147</amazonuk>sister?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Eisner Miller_Batman|title=A Family MatterBatman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello

|summary=Some sonsBatman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, some daughtersand not the baddies he usually biffs. But then he's not Batman – he's a she, even a shyand she finally comes up with the news that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, semi-abandoned great nephewLara, are all gathering in the home daughter of a ninety year old stroke victim for what may be Superman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to the miniaturised city of Kandor, the last birthday celebration. It seems like they are all licking their lips at the thought vestige of a future inheritanceKryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. We've heard before What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a nuclear familysulk, is this one about and Batman dead, there would appear to get too radioactive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328139</amazonuk>be little in the way of help for the world should anything nasty happen – but then, of course, something nasty does happen… s

 [[Category:Science Fiction]]{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Luna and Joshua Luna Weeks_Gritterman|title=Girls Volume 1: Conception|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Ethan, we see with a great, broad comic stroke or six, is not the best when it comes to girls. Letting his mouth run away with him too often, he is not very successful at relationships. But let us look at what happens when he drives away from an altercation at the local bar, and sees a gorgeous - and very naked - young woman standing in the middle of the road.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1582405298</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Gritterman|author=Tony Lee and Sam Hart |title=Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood (Heroes & Heroines Graphic)Orlando Weeks|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=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 Little, 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 Classics|rating=4

|summary=So, There's a man who has an introductionice cream van. The Graphic Classics collection In summer, what there is a series whereby the best in genre fictionof summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, from sources both highly likely and remarkably unexpectedThat's not his vocation though, is collected but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and dressed our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up for us in graphic novel form. This seventeenth editionand rotate, playing a belated besttune, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight -of sciChristmas Eve -fi volume, is their first foray into full colour, and is headlined by a version of will be the van's last trip. The War of council has sent the Worldsletter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, they say. The supporting material ranges from There's even a onetarmac now that can de-page strip ice itself, but the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to thirty-page storieslive in a world where the B2116 doesn't need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0978791975</amazonuk>

{{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 Move on 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>}}[[Newest Historical Fiction Reviews]]