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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=Mouse Guard - the Black Axe|author=David Petersen|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Long before there can be peace, there is war. Long before there is something to believe in, there is empty hope. Long before the legend, there is the truth. And so, long before the events of the first two collected Mouse Guard volumes came the story in this third, that of how the heroic, mythical character Celanawe became so notorious. Our tale starts with him just a guard mouse and tutor to those who would follow him, but an unlikely connection to an already fabled weapon is about to be shown to him, in the equally unlikely form of a scholarly old female mouse, Em. When she says the ancient legacy is situated far across unmapped seas, an unusual trio of explorers is pushed to the limit and beyond, in search of the unseekable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681435</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Bugsy Malone - Graphic Novel|author=Alan Parker|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=One bunch of wise guys might think they have it all, but they don't. Another bunch of wise guys want it all and have the splurge guns to help them get it. Into the middle come a beautiful starlet-in-waiting, and our crafty innocent abroad, Bugsy Malone. Cue, at some incredibly random time honouring no discernible anniversary whatsoever, this reprint of the long-lost graphic novel version of the story, told for 'all those kids who find it tough reading books with just words'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007514840</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Asterix and the Picts|author=Jean-Yves Ferri, Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo and Didier Conrad|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I've never been entirely certain if Asterix was written for children or adults. I am quite certain children were the original target audience, but it is equally apparent that many of the jokes are thrown in for adults as well. It does seem as if more adults are buying Asterix than children now, and comics in general have been taken over by the adult consumer, but Asterix still has plenty to offer the younger reader as well. If it is perhaps a bit more sophisticated than the average children's book today, all the better. I'm all for children's books that are light and easy to read, but I think we are doing our children a disservice by filtering out any book with a more complex vocabulary or a fair number of unfamiliar words. My children did find a few words like ''solidarity'', ''fraternise'' and ''diaphanous'' challenging, but if we don't challenge them at all - how will they learn?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011677</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Hilda and the Bird Parade|author=Luke Pearson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Hilda is a young girl who has just moved from the mountainous countryside to the town of Trolberg; a major upheaval in the life of a girl who likes nothing better than to go exploring the woods and mountains and discovering magical creatures. Since moving into town Hilda’s mother is not so keen to allow Hilda out exploring believing a town to be a potentially dangerous place for a child. Soon though Hilda and her new friends manage to convince her mother to allow her out and the new friends give her a guided tour of the area and all the best places in town. Hilda seems to prefer animals to other children though and early on becomes separated from her friends and instead goes exploring with an injured bird she has befriended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263060</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A1 AnnualFrontpage|author=Dave Elliott (editor) |rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's perhaps a little surprising how few comics anthologies there are on the shelves of regular bookstores. The whole world of sequential art is so fragmented the choices to be made are infinite, everyone who comes into some renown soon wishes for a self-published collection of his favourites or her friends' work, and there definitely is too much out there for anyone in the audience of comix to fully grasp without some kind of editorial spoon-feeding. One such editor is Dave Elliott, whose A1 Comics has been collating what it deems the world's greatest since 1989, but even with that pedigree it's only now that full hardbacks of their greatest hits are being launched – hardbacks such as this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760164</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewEdel Rodriguez|title=Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore|author=Lance Parkin|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=I don't think that I ever saw [[:CategoryWorm:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]] when I lived in Northampton, and I don't think I coincided with the publication of ''Maxwell the Magic Cat'' in the local newspaper. So I missed out on the memorable frame of someone else who is six foot two, albeit a generation older and looking so hirsute he would seem to be afraid of scissors. But I certainly would not have been alone in not recognising him for what he is. How many Northampton housewives flicked past the daily panels of ''Maxwell'' in complete ignorance of who Alan Moore actually is? – With no idea that the years he spent drawing that cartoon for £10 a week – later to be £12.50 – were just him gearing up to be the biggest man of letters in the comic book world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781310777</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Briony Hatch|author=Ginny Skinner and Penelope Skinner |rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Briony Hatch. She's a fourteen year old schoolgirl, with a few too many curves for the trendy set, and want-away hair, who is fixated on the ghost who acts as romantic male lead in her favourite series of fantasy books, about a beautiful, feisty female, swashbuckling exorcist. But when the books finish, just at the same time as her parents divorce, it looks like the beginning of the end. Mum and Briony settle into the abandoned bungalow belonging to the latter's great-uncle and aunt, only for the girl to find a horrid malaise come over her. Has the books' conclusion done so much damage as to leave her wishing to retire from life, or can she find the ghost of a hope somewhere?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907536140</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Fashion Beast|author=Alan Moore and Malcolm McLarenA Cuban American Odyssey

|summary=Meet DollWe're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. She seems to fit in with The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the world she aspires to – she country, has an androgynous look and proven himself a sharp tongueCommunist, and doesn't seem not done nearly enough to hold many create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of the people around her in much deferencetaking his time away. HoweverOur narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as someone else is very quick he would probably be shipped off to point outsome minor pro-Communism skirmish, she is only a cloakroom attendantsuch as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, however swanky and in vogue the nightclub she works at might benot liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. That same someone else The mother gets her firedthe couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, howeverbut in this sultry island country, yet for every door that shuts… As she becomes an overnight modelling sensation, and finds her new boss a very singular individual.it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1592912117</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Weirdo Years 1981-'91Kia Ahankoob|authortitle=R CrumbThe Gold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels

|summary=Books are better than magazines – discuss. Certainly for When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the connoisseur of the contents of culturally important titles from the 1960shope they would complement each other and collaborate, 1970s creating a dynamic and 1980s it must be prosperous society. Each power is contained within a lively debate. I remember my collection magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didn'New Worlds'' editions t quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and how often the editors would take us through a long novel over seven or eight parts, then dump a 'sorry, due countries went to space requirements this last part of what you've cherished for months is abridged – but wait for the novel version soon' on uswar. Is it better to be a completist, Having fought themselves into an endless and witness everything the original editors deemed worthy (or just had lying around) or should we cherry-pick ruinous stalemate and note finding the best? This hefty hunk cost of book goes for the latterwar too high, anyway, taking [[:Category:Robert Crumb|R Crumb]]'s output for a solution is proposed. Each of the ''Weirdo'' comiceight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as edited by R Crumb, then someone else, then Mrs R Crumbsentinels, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and giving us everything, warts and allbecome the supreme ruler of Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861662253</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Hartlepool MonkeyPat Grant|authortitle=Wilfrid Lupano and Jeremie MoreauThe Grot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters

|summary=OKEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, I'll get and that includes the obvious pun over and done with – this graphic novel features a lot of monkeying aroundpunk bands. It focuses on There are three pedallers at the village front of Hartlepool, and the people who populated Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the small settlement on low cliffs overlooking ferry across the North Seaswamp to Falter City, with its couple of pubs where a mother and not much elseher two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. It looks at what might have happened when, as folklore has itYou could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for this is a storm put paid to a French ship really rough-and when -ready dump of a monkey washed up ashore afterwards place, but everyone is interested in small things that grow. For the only money to be had – the natives took it for a Napoleonic spy, tried only fortunes to find invasion plans be found in Falter City – come from italgae, gunk and hanged other crud that – well, the use of it as the enemyis never really made clear. Here Once there, the poor creature is even shaved so it shows respect to two brothers set themselves each up with a guide – Lippy, the courtmore forward-martial. Here too are some lovely choice lines thinking, industrious of vernacular delivered in spite about the French and the Englishtwo, and here too is with a guest appearance by someone besuited gent, Penn with a much more modern outlook than ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of the two will come off the ridiculous Hartlepool residents.worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861662261</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreview|title=Celtic Warrior: The Legend of Cu ChulainnFrontpage|author=Will Sliney|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Queen Maeve wants the Brown Bull of Cooley and the lands of Ulster. With an army of 10Lun Zhang,000 menAdrien Gombeaud, she marches to try to take them by force. The only man who stands between her Ameziane and her goal is Cú Chulainn, the legendary hero. Can he save his country from the evil enchantress?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847173381</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=Big Nate Compilation 3 Tiananmen 1989: Genius Mode|author=Lincoln Peirce|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=They say you should live your life like an adventure, and Big Nate certainly does that, even if it is only four panels at a time, meaning the full plot of the story can take a week or more to come out. For Big Nate is a star of an American newspaper comic strip, and this, believe it or not, is his tenth collection. We learn from this all about his friendships at school, his relations with his teachers and father, and just what a soppy thing his most unmasculine dog can be. Here are comics, baseball and laziness, as every American kid knows them. Luckily for us, though, Big Nate travels well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007515642</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell|title=The From Hell CompanionOur Shattered Hopes

|summary=[[:Category:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]] will always be synonymous I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with two major books much attention when it was playing out – [[Watchmen by Alan Moore someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and Dave Gibbons|Watchmen]] hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and From Hell, his look at the Whitechapel Murders. While birth of the latter may appear to many to be a greatTank Man image, galumphing graphic novel loosely about Jack I didn't know how the Ripperarea had long been a venue for political protest, you ainand I didn't seen nothing yetknow more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This volume book is his illustrator [[:Category:Eddie Campbell|Eddie Campbellpractically flawless in giving a general browser's]] look at proceedings, and context for a book that would appear to have no actual Moore input the whole season of protests back in it, he provides a welter of words for it1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861661842</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennie Wood Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Jeff McComseyKit Seaton|title=FlutterWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=53|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=When fifteen-year-old Lily moves to yet another new townDiana, being unique on her island, she falls for is the victim of a girl who isnlot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. It't interested in s only her. Lilyunique status, thoughand her mother being Queen, that has a trick up her sleeve - she's a shapeshifter. She turns herself into a boy so that she can have a chance with Saffron. As Jesseany standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she starts has clearly fought to build be a new life strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for herself at school -can this 'boy' get the girl? Additionallyisland, why is Lily so resistant to any sort however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of harmMen, and who are the strange people who are trying to find her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484085957</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Millar and Leinil Yu|title=Superior|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Former basketball star Simon Pooni this Diana is now in a wheelchair and blind in one eye - at the age heroine of 12yet another Wonder Woman origin story. Mutliple sclerosis has left him A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in this statea running race, praying for a cure. Then a talking monkey named Orman appears to him and offers him but the survivor she drags from the chance waters is only going to become disturb a real life version of movie superhero Superior - for a week. But what will happen when the week ends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857685945</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Geoff Johns and Doug Mahnke|title=Green Lantern Volume 1: Sinestro|rating=4lot more.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I've never been a Green Lantern fan - I've tried the series a couple of times in the past but seem to have picked bad times to give it a go. However, I've heard some good things about DC Comics recently so wanted to try a few of the New 52 books, which relaunched all of the publisher's ongoing monthlies, and this caught my eye.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1401234550</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hannah Eaton1401286208|title=Naming MonstersBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee

|summary=''Monsters are all around us''Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, we are toldand seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, and Fran should knowshe is desperate to find her voice. She opens each chapter But it's actually more a case of her episodic story here with voice finding her, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a new monster – a golem, an incubusweapon, or perhaps something less well knowna power. But there are subtly monstrous events in order for her life as well – an alleged boyfriend with to call herself a measly attitude, a fake mediumsuperhero, there has to be a summer whole path of retaking GCSEs, and more steps for her to take – as well as the biggest, blackest, visitation – something that should bring succour, family and friendship but cannot one of which will be handled.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190843421X</amazonuk>into her past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon1401280048|title=Preacher Volume 1Batman: Gone To TexasNightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose

|summary=Reverend Jesse Custer The young man called Bruce Wayne is losing his faith in God - but a very noticeable one – he's about to find out that He existscan hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and He isnsuchlike – reminding him he't all that Hes a billionaire at the age of eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he's cracked up inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to bedo charitable deeds. After But one incredible eventnight, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, Jesse's life he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is turned upside downArkham Asylum. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and murder the owner. Can he sets out on a road trip that will lead him get close to try one of them and get answers from God himself - if Heaven's angels, and the Saint truth of Killerstheir schemes, don't cut him down first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1563892618</amazonuk>or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder?

  {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell1401283292|title=Modesty Blaise - The Girl In The Iron MaskHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|rating=43.5

|summary=n this volume our globe-trotting heroine Modesty Harleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and her faithful Willie land up seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is new in town, and the town is Gotham City. Expecting a jungle hospitalyear-long furlough from life with her mother, only she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to find the people providing it stay with useful drugs are a bunch of drag queens. She also finds school is a drag, she also creating their own much worse drugs nearby; find finds the Mafia just one man away from taking over Australia – and therefore give him whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a male large and female tag team back-up; and stumble into the wicked games of uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a pair of corrupt, evil billionaires in the Alpsbig impact on her life. There One is no leta civil-up in the global shenanigansminded lass called Ivy, the daring-do, or the whipcrack action other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and we wouldn’t want it any other way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686941</amazonuk>a mind for violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill140128339X|title=NemoMera: Heart of Ice|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The Nemo here is merely the daughter of the great Captain Nemo, as defined by Jules Verne, although given that heritage there is more than enough talent in her bloodline for piracy and adventure. Here, fleeing a royal family that has just been looted, Nemo turns to her father's logbooks and journals, and decides there is unfinished business in the southern polar wastes. But while she's off looking for more edifying action, others are off looking for revenge on her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661834</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTidebreaker|author=Cassandra Clare Danielle Paige and HyeKyung Baek|title=The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel, Volume 1: The Manga (Manga Edition)Stephen Byrne|rating=34.5

|summary=Meet Tessa GrayMera. Summonsed to London to be with She's the latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her brother future – after living in Americaall, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, she has no idea what she is going to be in forlong dead. A kidnap Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all and training at is, in fact, trying to get Xebel out from under the hands cosh of two witches is only the start Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of it as Atlantean masters. So when she is forced overhears her father request that her intended go to find the truth about the world about her – about the two different kinds of supernatural beingsus air-breathing humans, and of how they constantly fight against each otherkill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the quest (and about her own unique origin, character and destiny that makes her more than a pawn in this battlethe promised throne) all for herself. You might have met Tessa beforeBut of course, but not like this – for this is the manga adaptation she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it will be to get the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502252</amazonuk>job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joff Winterhart1401286399|title=Days of the Bagnold SummerSuper Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=Meet Daniel Bagnold. He It's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a surlyhuge flood barrier, sullenbuilt on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, modern teenagerforcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, permanently in a black hoodieof course – first, with longhe was patching up the dams, lanky hair and almost but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a monobrow, who one would call very quiet were it not rare dust that's perfect for blocking the metal music that forms almost his only interestsolar energy from making further polar ice melt. He has been forced to spend the summerInland, not in Florida with his absent father's new familyWyndermere, the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but with his librarian mother Sue, his best friend and his shynesssomething else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. He doesnBut it can't want much, and neither it would appear does his mother – although she knows she has possibly have anything to get him some posh shoes for her cousin's wedding. This book is about their relationship – do with what looks like sabotage of the two of them flood barriers and the dog that completes efforts to correct the household – in tellingclimate, devastating and humorous manner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090844</amazonuk>can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Nytra168369015X|title=The Secret of Manfried the Stone FrogMan: A Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow

|summary=ItIn 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 come to my attention recently that Knockabout booksa typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, with their growing library of graphic titlesdemanding more food than he can suitably eat, have no intention in but at the same time being at all literary – not for them the gently observant characterisation of some original graphic novels. Instead they seem to have a wilful regard perfect companion for going even further than their house name suggests – wildhis owner, wacky and not afraid to present Steve Catson. To such an upsetting image. With Krent Able they have the collaborator extent that Steve, who will surely help them live up to that ethos like no other. Taken from is getting known for his man-oriented thinking, is actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''Stool Pigeoncrazy man cat'' musical magazine. But when a window gets left open by mistake, with some extra cartoonsand Manfried goes missing, are these strips of depravity, death in unlikely ways the only thing for it is a massive and revolting selections of body parts and fluids.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661796</amazonuk>energised man-hunt…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert R Crumb and Aline CrumbHainsworth_Gina|title=Drawn TogetherTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth|rating=4.5

|summary=''This book is, as it says several times, what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the collected works length of the world's only comic-strip creating husband-country, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and-wife partnershipone working eye. While this is to ignore Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the work Joyce does to co-write some of Harvey Pekardog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a mess, so it's titles, there certainly is not a couple such as thisgreat start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. Over several decades of workAnd then, we see just how joined at the hip they arelife with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. Most of the panels are drawn My thoughts were taken over by him - R - with Aline drawing herself on top of his inked backgroundsyou, and I felt sick, as if I was in love. '' Later onSlowly, their self-created titles are splithowever, everyone – our artist/author, with him doing half the pagesher husband, two children and her own opus on two cats – gets to form the other half - by this time she had had works out under her own name. But so close are the couple in each other's intimate works, family they are never very far from the edge of the frameand Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661788</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hunt Emerson and Kevin JacksonColfer_Illegal|title=Dante's InfernoIllegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin|rating=45

|summary=It seems incredibly right, on only the third page of this text, Ebo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn't know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the Divine Comedy should be transferred same thing. So Ebo has to attempt the black and white, cartoonish side of the graphic novel formatsame dangerous journey himself. Our venturing hero encounters He must cross the 'leopard of malice and fraud'Sahara Desert, get himself to Tripoli, the 'lion one of violence and ambition' and the 'she-wolf of avarice and incontinence', and leaves bemoaning ''living most dangerous cities in a the world of symbolism''. You could see the beasts illustrated and captioned by name curving alongside their body, just as Hogarth may have displayed them, but no, Emerson goes down the path that is less cartoonish and less newspaper comic strip, and lets then try to cross the picture and script stay a bit more separateMediterranean Sea. By himself. But later on he is delving into the more blatant, and immediate, by dressing The Furies up as multiple Maggie ThatchersAt twelve. The good thing about this book is there is reason for everything in it - from the examples of artwork I have describedAnd, to the fact both creators claim even if he makes it 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>how will he find his sister?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Grant MorrisonMiller_Batman|title=SupergodsBatman: Dark Knight III: Our World in the Age of the SuperheroThe Master Race|author=Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello|rating=43.5

|summary=Consider Batman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the super-hero comicbaddies he usually biffs. Borne out of a need to create cheap and franchise-friendly content for newspapers in America, itBut then he's not Batman – he's grown into a billion-dollar industryshe, with Hollywood jumping on the bandwagon of several major characters now their FX have and she finally caught comes up with the printed pagenews that Batman died in her hands. Disposable? - once upon a timeElsewhere, Lara, the daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, yet now collectable is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to the tune miniaturised city of a million dollars or more. Frivolous? - probablyKandor, yet the last vestige of Kryptonian existence not exclusively nowto fly about in visible blue pants. What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a sulk, if ever so. At one point hereand Batman dead, they are just one product of there would appear to be little in the infinitely powerful imaginary system each way of us carries in our brain, and at help for the other 'etherealworld should anything nasty happen – but then, paper-thin constructs of unfettered imagination'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546671</amazonuk>course, something nasty does happen… s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eddie CampbellWeeks_Gritterman|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 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>}} {{newreviewGritterman|author=Maarten vande Wiele|title=ParisOrlando Weeks|rating=4.5

|summary=There's a man who has an ice cream van. In the category of graphic novels not to be seen reading in publicsummer, Paris what there is way up there. With a gaudy pink and silver glitz cover, and a lot of blowjobs and sex insidesummer, he uses itto sell ice creams, That's not one his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the daily commutevan becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a Gritterman. ButThe fibreglass 99s on the roof light up and rotate, playing a tune, even though itwhether the van's subject matter is merely gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the unlikely choice of van's last trip. The council has sent the rags-to-riches-to-rags tale of three Parisian starletsletter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, it is certainly worth a decent perusalthey say. Hope was There's even a juvenile beauty queen, and could tarmac now work in fashion were it not for scars due to a car crashthat can de-ice itself, and Faith wishes for but the vicarious life of pop stardom, and itGritterman isn's no spoiler t sure that he wants to report who and what they find will disappoint them. Chastity, live in a world where the most sarcastically-named character in comix, is happy enough destroying herselfB2116 doesn't need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661737</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Nicolas de Crecy|title=The Celestial Bibendum|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Diego is new to town. He's a seal, Move 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>}}[[Newest Historical Fiction Reviews]]