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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Big Nate Compilation 3 : Genius ModeEdel Rodriguez|authortitle=Lincoln PeirceWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey

|summary=[[:Category:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]] will always be synonymous with two major books – [[Watchmen by Alan Moore We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Dave Gibbons|Watchmen]] Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and From Hellnot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his look at the Whitechapel Murderswere kind of taking his time away. While Our narrator's family weren't in the latter may appear happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to many be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to be a greatsome minor pro-Communism skirmish, galumphing graphic novel loosely about Jack such as Angola) and the Ripperfather being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, you ain't seen nothing yetsuccess being frowned upon. This volume is his illustrator [[:Category:Eddie Campbell|Eddie Campbell's]] look at proceedingsThe mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, and for a book that would appear to have no actual Moore input but in this sultry island country, it, he provides a welter remains the kind of heat forcing you out of words for it.the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861661842</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennie Wood and Jeff McComseyKia Ahankoob|title=FlutterThe Gold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels|rating=54

|summary=When fifteen-year-old Lily moves to yet another new townMyriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, she falls for creating a girl who isn't interested in herdynamic and prosperous society. Lily, though, has Each power is contained within a trick up her sleeve - shemagical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's a shapeshifterchildren and their descendants. She turns herself into a boy so But it didn't quite work out like that she can have a chance with Saffron. As JesseRivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, she starts to build a new life for herself at school -can this 'boy' get solution is proposed. Each of the girl? Additionallyeight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, why is Lily so resistant to any sort a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of harm, all the rings and who are become the strange people who are trying to find her?supreme ruler of Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1484085957</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark Millar and Leinil YuPat Grant|title=SuperiorThe Grot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters|rating=54

|summary=Former basketball star Simon Pooni is now Everything in a wheelchair this world runs on pedal-power, and blind in one eye - that includes the punk bands. There are three pedallers at the age front of 12the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, where a mother and her two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. Mutliple sclerosis has left him in this state You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, praying for this is a curereally rough-and-ready dump of a place, but everyone is interested in small things that grow. Then a talking monkey named Orman appears For the only money to be had – the only fortunes to him be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and offers him other crud that – well, the chance to become use of it is never really made clear. Once there, the two brothers set themselves each up with a real life version guide – Lippy, the more forward-thinking, industrious of movie superhero Superior - for the two, with a besuited gent, Penn with a weekballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But what which of the two will happen when come off the week endsworse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857685945</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geoff Johns Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Doug MahnkeEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=Green Lantern Volume 1Tiananmen 1989: SinestroOur Shattered Hopes

|summary=I've never been a Green Lantern fan - I've tried really followed the series a couple events of times Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the past but seem to have picked bad times to give it a gosecond half of their teens has other priorities, you know. However, Icertainly didn've heard some good things about DC Comics recently so wanted to try a few t know of the New 52 books, which relaunched all weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the publisher's ongoing monthliesTank Man image, and this caught my eye.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401234550</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hannah Eaton|title=Naming Monsters|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I didn''Monsters are all around us'', we are told, and Fran should t know. She opens each chapter of her episodic story here with a new monster – a golem, an incubus, or perhaps something less well known. But there are subtly monstrous events in her life as well – an alleged boyfriend with how the area had long been a measly attitude, a fake medium, a summer of retaking GCSEsvenue for political protest, and I didn't know more – as well as than a spit about the biggest, blackest, visitation – something that should bring succour, family and friendship but cannot be handledpeople involved on either side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190843421X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon|title=Preacher Volume 1: Gone To Texas|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Reverend Jesse Custer This book is losing his faith practically flawless in God - but he's about to find out that He exists, and He isn't all that He's cracked up to be. After one incredible event, Jesse's life is turned upside down, and he sets out on giving a road trip that will lead him to try and get answers from God himself - if Heavengeneral browser's angels, and context for the Saint whole season of Killers, don't cut him down first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1563892618</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Peter O'Donnell|title=Modesty Blaise - The Girl In The Iron Mask|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=n this volume our globe-trotting heroine Modesty and her faithful Willie land up at a jungle hospital, only to find the people providing it with useful drugs are also creating their own much worse drugs nearby; find the Mafia just one man away from taking over Australia – and therefore give him a male and female tag team protests back-up; and stumble into the wicked games of a pair of corrupt, evil billionaires in the Alps1989. There is no let-up in the global shenanigans, the daring-do, or the whipcrack action – and we wouldn’t want it any other way…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857686941</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan Moore Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kevin O'NeillKit Seaton|title=NemoWonder Woman: Warbringer: Heart of IceThe Graphic Novel

|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=The Nemo here Diana, being unique on her island, is merely the daughter victim of a lot of the great Captain Nemotaunts, as defined by Jules Verne, although given that heritage there is more than enough talent in her bloodline for piracy and adventureclaims of nepotism. HereIt's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, fleeing a royal family that has just been lootedher with any standing at all, Nemo turns her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her father's logbooks and journalsquickly leaving home for the World of Men, and decides there this Diana is unfinished business in the southern polar wastesheroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. But while A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the survivor she's off looking for drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more edifying action, others are off looking for revenge on her…...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861661834</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cassandra Clare and HyeKyung Baek1401286208|title=The Infernal DevicesBlack Canary: Clockwork Angel, Volume 1: The Manga (Manga Edition)Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee

|summary=Meet Tessa GrayDinah Lance. Summonsed Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to London to be with her brother after living try and follow in Americahis footsteps, she has no idea what she is going to be in for. A kidnap and training seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at the hands of two witches is only the start of it as school, she is forced desperate to find the truth about the world about her – about the two different kinds voice. But it's actually more a case of supernatural beings, and of how they constantly fight against each other, and about her own unique originvoice finding her, character and destiny that makes as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her more vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a weapon, or a pawn power. But in this battle. You might have met Tessa beforeorder for her to call herself a superhero, but not like this there has to be a whole path of steps for her to take – for this is the manga adaptation one of the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502252</amazonuk>which will be into her past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joff Winterhart1401280048|title=Days of the Bagnold SummerBatman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose

|summary=Meet Daniel Bagnold. He The young man called Bruce Wayne is a surly, sullen, modern teenager, permanently in a black hoodievery noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, with longpaparazzi, lanky hair and almost suchlike – reminding him he's a monobrow, who one would call very quiet were it not for billionaire at the metal music that forms almost his only interestage of eighteen. He has been forced to spend Feeling rather stuck with the summer, not in Florida with his absent fatherlegacy he's new family, but with inherited from his librarian mother Suemurdered parents, his best friend and his shynesshe wants to do charitable deeds. He doesn't want muchBut one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and neither it would appear does his mother gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – although she knows she has to get him some posh shoes cleaning in the home for her cousin's weddingviolent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. This book is about their relationship There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the two Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and murder the owner. Can he get close to one of them and get the dog that completes truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the household – in telling, devastating and humorous manner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090844</amazonuk>young do-gooder?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Nytra1401283292|title=The Secret of the Stone FrogHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summaryauthor=You know the drill – you are a young boy and find yourself waking up alongside your older sister, but with your beds beside the bole of a huge tree in an enchanted forest. The advice you get is straightforward, but impossible to follow, as you don't stick to the straight Mariko Tamaki and simple path home that you should. As a result you find a tempting house guarded by bees who steal the words out of your mouth, hoity-toity upper class lions, angler fish on the daily commute and more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1935179187</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Krent Able|title=Krent Able's Big Book of MischiefSteve Pugh

|summary=ItHarleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's come been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to my attention recently that Knockabout books, with their growing library look out of graphic titlesthose large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is new in town, have no intention in being at all literary – not for them and the gently observant characterisation of some original graphic novelstown is Gotham City. Instead they seem to have Expecting a wilful regard for going even further than their house name suggests – wildyear-long furlough from life with her mother, wacky she finds her gran dead and not afraid herself with no option but to present an upsetting imagestay with a bunch of drag queens. With Krent Able they have She also finds school is a drag, she also finds the collaborator who whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will surely help them live up to that ethos like no otherhave a big impact on her life. Taken from One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the ''Stool Pigeon'' musical magazine, other someone she only meets at night – a lad with some extra cartoons, are these strips of depravity, death in unlikely ways a singular graffiti tag and revolting selections of body parts a mind for violence and fluids.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661796</amazonuk>chaos, who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert R Crumb and Aline Crumb140128339X|title=Drawn TogetherMera: Tidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|rating=4.5

|summary=This book is, as it says several times, Meet Mera. She's the collected works latest in a line of the world's young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only comic-strip creating husband-and-wife partnershipthey can see for themselves. While this is to ignore Her father, the work Joyce does to co-write king of Xebel, sees some of Harvey Pekarcotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the territory's titleswarrior queen, there certainly is not a couple such as thislong dead. Over several decades Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all and is, in fact, trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh of workAtlantean power, we see just how joined at the hip they for Xebel's royalty aremerely puppets of Atlantean masters. Most of So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to the panels are drawn by him - R - with Aline drawing herself on top world of his inked backgrounds. Later on, their selfus air-created titles are splitbreathing humans, with him doing half and kill the pagesAtlantis heir, she rushes off to get the quest (and her own opus on the other half - by this time she had had works out under her own namepromised throne) all for herself. But so close are the couple in each other's intimate worksof course, they are never very far from the edge she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it will be to get the frame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661788</amazonuk>job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hunt Emerson and Kevin Jackson1401286399|title=Dante's InfernoSuper Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=It seems incredibly right, on only 's the third page of this textnear future, that the Divine Comedy should be transferred to the black and whiteevery coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a huge flood barrier, cartoonish side of the graphic novel formatbuilt on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. Our venturing hero encounters But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America'leopard s biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, of malice and fraud'course – first, he was patching up the dams, but now he'lion of violence and ambitions mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that' and s perfect for blocking the 'she-wolf of avarice and incontinence'solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, and leaves bemoaning ''living in a world of symbolism''. You could see Wyndermere, the refugees from the beasts illustrated coast are suffering bigotry and captioned by name curving alongside their body, just as Hogarth may have displayed themintolerance for being newcomers, but no, Emerson goes down the path that something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is less cartoonish and less newspaper comic strip, and lets hitting the picture and script stay a bit more separatecity. But later on he is delving into it can't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the more blatant, flood barriers and immediate, by dressing The Furies up as multiple Maggie Thatchers. The good thing about this book is there is reason for everything in it - from the examples of artwork I have described, efforts to correct the fact both creators claim climate, can it ? Four young children begin to have been 'influenced by childhood reading of MAD magazine', and a reason the publisher of this untouchable classic is known as Knockabout Books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661699</amazonuk>piece together clues that it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Grant Morrison168369015X|title=SupergodsManfried the Man: Our World in the Age of the SuperheroA Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow|rating=4.5

|summary=Consider the super-hero comic. Borne out of In a need world where cats stand on two feet, go to create cheap work at call centres and franchise-friendly content have diminutive human beings for newspapers in Americapets, itis Manfried. He's grown a typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into a billion-dollar industryscrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, with Hollywood jumping on but at the bandwagon of several major characters now their FX have finally caught up with same time being the printed pageperfect companion for his owner, Steve Catson. Disposable? To such an extent that Steve, who is getting known for his man- once upon a timeoriented thinking, yet now collectable to is actually having nightmares about becoming the tune of neighbourhood ''crazy man cat''. But when a million dollars or more. Frivolous? - probablywindow gets left open by mistake, yet not exclusively nowand Manfried goes missing, if ever so. At one point here, they are just one product of the infinitely powerful imaginary system each of us carries in our brain, only thing for it is a massive and at the other 'ethereal, paperenergised man-thin constructs of unfettered imagination'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546671</amazonuk>hunt…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eddie CampbellHainsworth_Gina|title=The Lovely Horrible Stuff|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Money, in amongst all the cliched things it does, makes for peciluar detail for a graphic novelist like Eddie Campbell to include in a book about it. He has to make himself a company to qualify for creating a Batman strip to earn it, and has Talking to pay $4 to buy $1 to draw (- then claim the tax back on the purchase to save himself some of it). It causes friction when his daughter earns too much, and when his wife's dad spends too much in a legal pursuit to have more. In the second half of this book it causes a journalistic piece of non-fiction as he takes a look at Pacific islanders who used man-sized stone discs as currency.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1603091521</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGina|author=Maarten vande Wiele|title=ParisOttilie Hainsworth

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

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

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

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

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

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

|summary=The Comedian is deadThere's a man who has an ice cream van. In a world where costumed vigilantes have been outlawed and former superheroes are either retired or working for the governmentsummer, the murder what there is of his former teammate leads the outlaw Rorschach to investigate. What summer, he finds could change the world...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1852860243</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ray Fawkes|title=One Soul|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=When reading this uses it soon becomes very clear weto sell ice creams, That're reading s not onehis vocation though, but nineteen, storiesit does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a Gritterman. With each page divided into a regular 3x3 grid there are eighteen images The fibreglass 99s on each double page spread, the roof light up and every one shows an episoderotate, or playing a beattune, of a different characterwhether the van's life in turn, from being a babegritting or selling ice creams. Tonight -inChristmas Eve -arms to death. However, will be the way they join up - everyonevan's figurative moment comes at oncelast trip. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, at times the artistthey say. There's heavy black ink makes all eighteen images coincide into one image even a tarmac now that can de- proves there is a separateice itself, individual tale around and behind but the others, one which will end with the most delightful moral - Gritterman isn't sure that the ability he wants to be anything one imagines is in our DNA.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1934964662</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Lucas|title=The Lying Carpet|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=There is a room live in a big old house world where nothing moves but the insects. An empty chair sits to one side, a stone statue of a girl called, and representing, Faith, the other. In between is a tiger rug. What potential is in that for the setting of a charming book? What potential indeed..B2116 doesn't need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390177</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot|title=Dotter of Her Father's Eyes|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=If there's one person able to produce a worthwhile potted history of James Joyce's daughter, it should be Mary M Talbot. She's an eminent academic, and her father was a major Joycean scholar. Both females had parents with the same names too - James and Nora, both took to the stage when younger after going to dance school, but it's the contrasts between them this volume subtly picks out rather than any similarities, in a dual biography painted by one person we know by now as more than able Move on to produce a delightful graphic novel - [[:Category:Bryan Talbot|Bryan Talbot]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096087</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peter O'Donnell|title=Modesty Blaise: Live Bait|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're back in the gritty yet glamorous world of Modesty Blaise - at least, as gritty and glamorous as you could get in the Evening Standard daily comic strip in the late 1980s. Titan have had a mammoth undertaking to reproduce all the original strips in handy large-format graphic novel compendia, and this latest covers three stories, all of which I consider greater in depth than those in the other volume I've reviewed - [[Modesty Blaise: Sweet Caroline by Neville Colvin and Peter O'Donnell|Sweet Caroline]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686682</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patricia McKissack, Frederick L McKissack Jr and Randy DuBurke|title=Best Shot in the West|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Newest Historical Fiction|summary='We're going to do the real West, Nat. You're as real as the rest of 'em - Bat Masterson, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill, the Earps.' So says a publisher to a lowly railroad porter, Nat. But if this guy's as real as the rest of those famous names, why does his not trip off the tongue? Is it purely because as the most famous African-American cowboy, he still was not allowed to be as famous as he should?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0811857492</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Garen Ewing|title=The Rainbow Orchid: Adventures of Julius Chancer v. 3|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Here we are, then, ten years after the debut of this graphic novel on the Internet, and finally the print trilogy is complete. At last we can see if our hero Julius, his chums, the shady Government people, and his enemy’s beautiful assassin aide who remains impossible to shrug off, manage to get anywhere near the fabled titular plant in its secret Himalayan location, and just how important it has been for all those many people left back in England. It’s been a rollercoaster ride, and it’s been worth it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405255994</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gary Crew and Shaun Tan|title=The Viewer|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The story concerns a young lad who loves scavenging and exploring. Finding a Hellraiser-styled box of tricks contains a Viewmaster-type machine, he puts it to his eyes and sees something a lot more serious than, say, a Thunderbirds episode in thirty 3D images, which was all I ever saw in mine. Instead, Tristan sees nothing but death and destruction, and a compelling sense of - well, something.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0734411898</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Art Spiegelman|title=MetaMAUS|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Before the Holocaust was turned into [[The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne|a child-like near-fable for allReviews]], and before it was the focus of superb history books such as [[Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder|this]], it became a family saga of a father relating his experiences to a son, who then drew it all - featuring animals not humans - [[Maus by Art Spiegelman|Maus]]. To celebrate the twenty-five years since then, we have this brilliant look back at the creation of an equally brilliant volume.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670916838</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Harry Thompson|title=Tintin: Herge and His Creation|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=I love Tintin. I love his quiff and his innocence, his plus-fours and his foreign adventures, I love Snowy the dog and most of all I love Captain Haddock and the flamboyance of his blistering barnacles language. So I was thrilled to see a biography of the character and Hergé, his creator, and I picked it up with enthusiasm. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546726</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Khaled Hosseini|title=The Kite Runner (Graphic Novel)|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A confession. If there's one book I'm not likely to read, it's that which everyone else is reading. If it turns into a hugely popular film for all the left-wing chattering classes to rave over, then that's just more grist to my mill – I'll always have a chance to catch up on it later on, even if I never take that opportunity. I'm not alone in acting like this – see a friend and colleague's similar admission when reviewing [[White Teeth by Zadie Smith]]. But at least, through the medium of the graphic novel, the book reviewing gods have conspired to let me see just what I'm missing, with this adaptation, by Italian artists, of a hugely successful – and therefore delayable – novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815257</amazonuk>}}