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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia RomeroEdel Rodriguez|title=Modesty Blaise - The Killing DistanceWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4.5

|summary=We're in childhood, and we'Oh, such things just HAPPEN to that pair, Sirre in Cuba.'' The pair referred torevolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of coursethe country, are Modesty Blaisehas proven himself a Communist, sexy femme fatale with and not done nearly enough to create a head full level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of morals and a pair his were kind of legs full taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of kicking powerplaces here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and Willy Garvin, the only man to call her ''Princess'' father being watched and get away with it – intelligentwatched, practical and yet equally resilient in a fight with a baddynot liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The things that happen to them are legion, over many novels and 95 daily newspaper comic strips, and this is one of mother gets the better examples of couple jobs with the current collections party to ease some of the latter. Where else can you get movie stunts going wrongheat, pregnant women but in danger on the high seas, and people escaping from bomb-laden planes, all in a Jolly Hockey Sticks mood that smacks of pastiche and vintage ribaldrythis sultry island country, were it not from remains the heady days kind of heat forcing you out of the mid-'90s?kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781167125</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ian Edginton and Alex SanchezKia Ahankoob|title=The Evil Within|rating= 3.5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=What do you fear most? And when you've answered that, think on why – is it something that happened to you, something you saw or read, or something you yourself did? The nature of horror is looked at in this graphic novel, which spins Gold Lion and the usual web Tournament of nightmares around some fit young adults, and tests them with graphic death on the cards at the same time as keeping them in the dark about what has brought the doom and gloom to them. Starting with Dana, a college girl seeking her kidnapped best friend, things get darker, weirder, and forever more violent…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761659</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eric Colossal|title=Rutabaga the Adventure Chef: Book 1Sentinels

|summary=At When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the start of this bookhope they would complement each other and collaborate, Hit-Girl creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is stuck in contained within a super-max prison (donmagical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad't ask why)s children and their descendants. The entire east coast Mafia command is up for grabs (you donBut it didn't need to ask why – Hit-Girl killed most of them herself)quite work out like that. As for Dave, or Kick-Ass, he's failingRivalries developed. He has a whole cohort Enmities grew out of other super-heroes, which in this world means dweebish fans of comics with a stupid costume yet no power other than them and the determination eight countries went to do well for society, but they're not going anywherewar. They're not spotting crime or solving conspiracies, Having fought themselves into an endless and they're certainly not getting their colleague ruinous stalemate and mentor Hit-Girl out finding the cost of jailwar too high, a solution is proposed. Dave could in actual fact be in danger Each of the most heinous crime eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all – growing upthe rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783290870</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter A DavidPat Grant|title=The Avengers VaultGrot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters|rating=34

|summary=It's not just because Everything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the third richest take of any movie is about to get a sequel that we have this pictorial background guidepunk bands. There have been decades are three pedallers at the front of action featuring the main Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters of The Avengersto the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, where a mother and they themselves are fifty years old as her two sons aim to set up a collective entityyoghurt factory. You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, so for this book has is a lot really rough-and-ready dump of ground to covera place, but everyone is interested in small things that grow. To its benefit there are hardly any mentions of For the only money to be had – the global behemoth only fortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that are Marvel films these days– well, beyond a couple the use of references where relevantit is never really made clear. Instead we're looking backOnce there, the two brothers set themselves each up with bright and eager eyesa guide – Lippy, to see what we can findthe more forward-thinking, what industrious of the beginner may need to knowtwo, with a besuited gent, and what Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of the fan two will have fond memories of.come off the worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781313989</amazonuk>1603094660

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=WinshlussLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=In God We TrustTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=To start I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with, a rhetorical test. How about God and Adam much attention when it was playing badminton day out – someone in and day outthe second half of their teens has other priorities, until one gets bored and decides to create Eve? you know. Or I certainly didn't know of the defeater weeks of Goliath protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the saviour birth of the Israelites being one Conan Tank Man image, I didn't know how the Barbarian? Or this as area had long been a test – Jesus Himself failing to have venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a successful session of tequila slammers with Gabriel due to spit about the holes through His hands? people involved on either side. I barely need mention that This book is practically flawless in these pages God does battle with Superman, giving a general browser's context for you to have answered the test and put yourself firmly in one whole season of two camps for this book – one very much opposed to buying it, and one very much protests back in favour1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861662350</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick ModianoLeigh Bardugo, Sempe (illustrator) Louise Simonson and William Rodarmor (translator)Kit Seaton|title=Catherine CertitudeWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=43|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=What little I know of Patrick Modiano was gained from the number of 'noDiana, we've never heard of himbeing unique on her island, either' articles and summaries that came our way when he won is the Nobel Prize for Literature at the end victim of a lot of 2014. They suggested his oeuvre was mature, slightly thriller-based but not exclusively sotaunts, and asked lots claims of accumulative questions regarding identity with regard to the Vichy government during WWIInepotism. Identity is a lot more fixed in this musing little piece, for the adult voice-over looks back over a wide removeIt's only her unique status, and says there will always be a little bit of her living the events and situations of the book. Those situations are of a young dance-school attendeemother being Queen, and that has her loving and much-loved fatherwith any standing at all, living a cosy life in Paris her naysayers declare – even if the girl never once really works out what it is her father does for though she has clearly fought to be a living…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443022</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rob Williams and Simon Coleby|title=The Royals: Masters of War|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's World War Two, but not as we know itstrong young woman. The circumstance is building up to be pretty much what we know – Perhaps too strong for the Allies have ideas to land at Normandyisland, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the Germans have rockets ready to pummel a Blighty only just getting over the Battle World of BritainMen, and the Americans are being pressured by Churchill to enter the war, little knowing what Japan would have in mind to force the issue. But many things are different. For this Diana is a world where the Royal blood disease heroine of Europe is not something ailing, debilitating and embarrassing, but instead the giver of super powersyet another Wonder Woman origin story. The names A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in Buckingham Palace are differenta running race, but the opulence remains, and with survivor she drags from the history of the current incumbents one where their powers are not exercised, people are being tasked with making sure that remains so. But how can you stop an immovable force when it has enough might and strength waters is only going to turn the tide of the war single-handed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401250548</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paco Roca|title=Wrinkles|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Never let them tell you life begins at 40, or ends when you enter disturb a retirement homelot more. Ernest has just entered an old folk's establishment, and life is ever-changing. There's the time he meets a person hounded by the idea at least of alien abduction, the moment he forgets the word for 'ball' when holding one while doing armchair exercises, and the galling day he finds out he shares a medication routine with the most helpless and locked-in of inmates. No, for Ernest, especially in the hands of his new room-mate Emile who will do anything to earn a fast buck, life is full of some kind of variety.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861662377</amazonuk>1401282555

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tohby Riddle1401286208|title=UnforgottenBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee

|summary=Think of fallen angelsMeet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, and Lucifer and the like come seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, she is desperate to mindfind her voice. But they donit't have to have fallen with such speed, for such s actually more a distance or with such effect. This book concerns one such creaturecase of her voice finding her, and while it's not named as an angel as such, and it's identified only by nobody knowing from where it comes yet everyone silently when she gets to appreciate its presence, frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it certainly looks like a Westernweapon, Christian, angel formor a power. And so the plot of this gentleBut in order for her to call herself a superhero, poetic picture book looks at the chance there has to be a whole path of such a bad thing as the fall steps for her to take – one of an angel being followed by anything more positive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1742379729</amazonuk>which will be into her past…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401280048|title=Thunderbirds ComicBatman: Nightwalker: Volume 1The Graphic Novel|author=Gerry Anderson Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Frank BellamyChris Wildgoose

|genre=Confident ReadersGraphic Novels|summary=Meet The young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at the Thunderbirdsage of eighteen. If you donFeeling rather stuck with the legacy he't know anything about the Tracy family and their International Rescue organisations inherited from his murdered parents, then I'm not sure where you've beenhe wants to do charitable deeds. For people But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a certain age (OKcriminal, minehe goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, at least) they were and gets given the staple most unlikely stretch of Saturday morning cinema clubs, a highlight of BBC2 when repeated teatime, and even managed to make those 3D rotating card-a-vision things worthwhilecommunity service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. They've been in cinemas since then, There he learns of coursesome other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, but now with the world needing everything everywhen we've got a welcome chance to look back at some of the original comic book spingang who steal any ten-offsfigure bank account contents they can, that probably haven't been much seen since thenand murder the owner. With five volumes Can he get close to one of these books on them and get the cardstruth of their schemes, it's worthwhile sticking to or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the first and seeing just what these retro delights – or otherwise – could bring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405272600</amazonuk>young do-gooder?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401283292|title=The Lost SockHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Gillian JohnsonMariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh

|summary=A lost sockHarleen Quinzel is new in town. We’ve all had them. In fact She always, to me, I know people who only buy socks of one colour seems new in order town, even if she's been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to always have matching sockslook out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. IBut here she is new in town, who prefer to buy brightly coloured socks (much like and the man in this book)town is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, seem she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to spend my life stay with my feet constantly mismatcheda bunch of drag queens. It doesn’t bother me all She also finds school is a drag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that muchwill have a big impact on her life. One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, but it certainly affects the hero of this taleother someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, who goes on an adventure in order to find the missing sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472112431</amazonuk>calls himself The Joker…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140128339X|title=Meteor MenMera: Tidebreaker|author=Jeff Parker Danielle Paige and Sandy JarrellStephen Byrne

|summary=Meet AldenMera. HeShe's the latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only at high schoolthey can see for themselves. Her father, but as his parents have died the farm is his – his king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and the couple of professors the smart kid hangs out with. One night a large gathering forms on hunky man in an ad hoc basis to watch the Perseid meteor shower arranged marriage as her future – and one of them unexpectedly lands. The rock is Aldenafter all, Mera's as it landed on private propertymother, but the planetariumterritory's main scientist warrior queen, is long dead. Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all and is keen for science , in fact, trying to learn get Xebel out from it – or that it should pay under the cosh of Atlantean power, for Alden getting through universityXebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. But So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to the world of us air-breathing humans, and kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the quest (and the rock has a lesson much bigger than even that premise could provide promised throne) all for – it wasn't a hundred per cent rockherself. And Alden also owns a much greater connection to But of course, she has no idea what was inside kind of person she will meet, and how hard it when it landed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1620101513</amazonuk>will be to get the job done…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401286399|title=Charley's WarSuper Sons: A Boy Soldier in the Great WarThe PolarShield Project|author=Pat Mills Ridley Pearson and Joe ColquhounIle Gonzalez

|summary=The answerIt's the near future, it seems to me, when writing war stories, is to take something we can all imagine and every coastal city – the young lad signing up and finding out the real truth behind the glorified propaganda of his masters including Metropolis – and still making something unexpected out is in need of ita huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. People But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to die relocate in unexpected ways, because thatAmerica's what war biggest exodus for decades. Superman is. Soldiers have to face miseryhelping out, of course – first, he was patching up the dams, because but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that's what war brings themperfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. The writer has to be a godlike entity able to give Inland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from the power coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of victory or defeat to either side, because food poisoning is hitting the common or garden soldier character certainly city. But it can't. In putting all this and more into a comic for boys, where it had previously been thought a WWI story possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the rigid flood barriers and static nature of trench warfare would be neither visually nor dramatically appealing, Pat Mills both challenged himself and won many over with his brilliance. Young Charley certainly gets the efforts to know correct the miseryclimate, unexpected death and people in command of his fate. And with the dramatic narrative artwork here, so do we.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169144</amazonuk>can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=168369015X|title=TrilliumManfried the Man: A Graphic Novel|author=Jeff LemireCaitlin Major and Kelly Bastow

|summary=It's the future of at least In a thousand years henceworld where cats stand on two feet, go to work at call centres and humanity have diminutive human beings for pets, is in troubleManfried. The species has spread itself thinly out in He's a typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at the galaxysame time being the perfect companion for his owner, but is under threat from a sentient virusSteve Catson. To such an extent that Steve, which who is beating all efforts – militarygetting known for his man-oriented thinking, scientific – to best it. The nearest thing to hope is in actually having nightmares about becoming the unlikely form of a jungle flower, found only in realms sacred to the natives of one of humankindneighbourhood ''crazy man cat''s planets. Elsewhere and elsewhen But when a shell-shocked WWI veteran is taken with his brother to South Americawindow gets left open by mistake, to gain the secrets and glories of Manfried goes missing, the remotest Incan temples. It therefore sounds entirely unlikely that the main alien life scientist in the future only thing for it is a massive and the earlier explorer will meet, but meet they do – and then things start to get weirder and weirder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401249000</amazonuk>energised man-hunt…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Hainsworth_Gina|title=Alex and Ada Volume 1Talking to Gina|author=Jonathan Luna and Sarah VaughnOttilie Hainsworth

|summary=Meet Alex''This is what happened. You'd probably be in a minority if you did, for he's An artist decided she needed a bit dog – so drove the length of a loner since he broke the country, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with his last girlfriendsome mange and one working eye. He meets few people in Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the workplace, has dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a quite antiseptic flat with his virtual cinema and his flying robotic kitchen aidemess, and thatso it's about it. But others aren't too keen for Alex to carry on like that – people such as his grannot a great start, who has given herself the gift of an android in but then begin the form tribulations of a handsome young man totraining, er, keep her companystatus and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. And yesthen, that the life with Gina begins to feel like toomuch – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. UnfortunatelyMy thoughts were taken over by you, as Alex sees itand I felt sick, she buys him one for his birthday as well – a Tanaka X5, which you wake up by tugging on an earlobeif I was in love. '' This being a world where the first real Artificial Intelligence went nasty and killed people a year agoSlowly, however, Alex is certainly torn about having the thing in his flat everyone – especially as it just kowtows to his wishes and opinions without having anything like its ownour artist/author, as it is not allowed to get that close to sentience. But Alex changes his mind right upon the point of returning the thingher husband, two children and begins two cats – gets to explore just what kind of life form the gift could end up presenting to himfamily they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1632150069</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Colfer_Illegal|title=The People InsideIllegal|author=Ray FawkesEoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin

|summary=Love happensEbo is twelve years old and all alone. There, 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 same thing. So Ebo has to attempt the same dangerous journey himself. He must be the shortest plot summary on this site, but cross the fact remains that you can say a lot more about what is on these pagesSahara Desert, and you still have all you need get himself to know in those two words. This book takes the profound – whichTripoli, one of course, love can be, and the mundane – dittomost dangerous cities in the world, and presents them then try to us happening in quietcross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And, pacific black and white, and even if he makes it does so in quiet usual, and in incredibly unusual, ways.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1620101688</amazonuk>how will he find his sister?

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=The Strain Book One|author=Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan, David Lapham and Dan Jackson|ratingisbn=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A liner ends its journey from Europe in a port city, and waits, silently, holding whatever secrets it had with little signs of life. It is found to contain a heavy box, almost coffin-like, containing mud – and something else. But this is not the coasts of England, and this is not Bram Stoker. This is also not a sailing boat, but an airliner – a Boeing 777, stuck at JFK airport with no signs of life. The CDC and one man – Dr Ephraim Goodweather – are tasked with looking into it. But he won't like what he finds – and nor should anyone. The problem is, some ''do…''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616555483</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMiller_Batman|title=The Art of Neil Gaiman|author=Hayley Campbell|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=An early [[Batman:CategoryDark Knight III:Neil Gaiman|Neil Gaiman]] book was all about Douglas Adams, and came out at the time he had a success with a book of his own regarding definitions of concepts that had previously not had a specific word attached. Gaiman himself is one of those concepts. I know what a polyglot is, and a polymath – but there should be a word for someone like Gaiman, who can write anything and everything he seems to want – a whimsical family-friendly picture book, a behemoth of modern fantasy, an all-ages horror story, something with a soupcon of sci-fi or with a factor of the fable. He can cross genres – and to some extent just leave them behind as unnecessary, as well as cross format – he was mastering the lengthy, literary graphic novel just as 'real' books were festering in his creativity, and songs and poems were just appearing here and there. So he is pretty much who you think of as regards someone who can turn his hands to anything he wishes. He is a poly-something, then, or just omni-something else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781571392</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=I Was the Cat|author=Paul Tobin and Benjamin Dewey|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Burma. Allison Breaking, blogger and journalist behind the Breaking News website is about to, for she's accepted his giant wage packet to ghost write his memoirs. She's been told to expect the unexpected as regards his looks, but she is shocked to find that Burma is in fact the world's only talking cat, and that he has not one but nine lives to talk about. The past eight were full of a lot of evil, sin and death – but at least he's coming clean now, right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1620101394</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Letter 44 Volume 1: Escape Velocity|author=Charles Soule and Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I guess we don't always think of the President of the USA as someone who is thrown into the deep end on day one, given his retinue of advisors and aides. But this one is – when being inaugurated as the 44th POTUS, Stephen Blades gets a letter from the outgoing premier. He – and we – learn that the prior two terms, when America was busy fighting in the eastern hemisphere and not getting her economy into gear, were pretty much just a cover-up. The military presence and lack of economic benefit at home was purely due to something a long way away – the discovery of ''something'' being manufactured by aliens within our own asteroid belt. Due to some cloaking technology little is known about what is up there – and that applies to our own response, too – the ultra top secret mission we've sent up, both scientific and military, to have a closer look. Welcome to the job, Mr President.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1620101335</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Death Sentence|author=Montynero and Mike Dowling|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's AIDS, Jim, but not as we know it. G+ is the new sexually transmitted disease sweeping the nation's reckless youth, and it has even further-reaching consequences. It boosts your brain activity, and makes you a stronger and more promiscuous carrier of the virus – so you can be beating a supercomputer at chess one moment and rolling around a bed with a host of ladies the next. But either way, it kills you within six months. Here it affects three people with more cerebral, supernatural powers – a young female artist in need of confirmation, an egotistical junkie rock star, and a certain highly-rated comic with Russell Brand's hair and Kasabian's wardrobe designer. It's a combination of the three people and their own G+ that will make sure the world is most certainly aware of their activities – death sentence or no death sentence…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760083</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill ForMaster Race|author=Frank Miller|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=''Ava. Damn.'' With that repeated refrain we're forcibly given Dwight's viewpoint and made to agree with it. Ava is quite a woman. She was Dwight's, but now she's not, and he's forced to ignore his photojournalism career in favour of his night-time job of photographing evidence for adultery cases, and to struggle to stay away from the fags and off the booze. But now it's all going to be much harder, for Ava has come back. She's stifled in a loveless, violent marriage, trapped in a gated villa with her husband and his man mountain of a bodyguard, and only Dwight has the flutter in her heart and the iron in his fist and gut to make things right for her. Damn Ava? You bet he's going to…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616552395</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Modesty Blaise - The Young Mistress|author=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia RomeroBrian Azzarello

|summary=[[:Category:Peter OBatman is not playing ball. He'Donnell|Modesty Blaise]] is slowly becoming like an old flame of mine – just popping back into my life every few months to regale an adventures been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, have a catch-up and be on her waynot the baddies he usually biffs. This latest fleeting visit shows ModestyBut then he's not Batman – he's a she, and she finally comes up with the most ironically-named brunette news that Batman died in the world of solving crime, having old flames of her own – although she calls them 'escorts'hands. They're prevalent in Elsewhere, Lara, the first daughter of Superman and title storyWonder Woman, where her doctor lover has a patient is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with whip marks, which leads into a full-blown action adventure regarding art forgeries. Her American 'escort' wants shrinking and expanding life to replace the doctorminiaturised city of Kandor, but has the last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to wait for fly about in visible blue pants. What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a story all of his ownsulk, and Batman dead, when his own prize racehorse is a target for criminals. And there would appear to be little in the third story there are a lot way of returning characters help for the world should anything nasty happen – but not all are as they might at first appear…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781167095</amazonuk>then, of course, something nasty does happen… s

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Manifest Destiny Volume 1|author=Chris Dingess, Matthew Roberts and Owen Gieni|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summaryisbn=It's 1804 and some newly-American soldiers are expanding the territory to the west, at the orders of President Jefferson – orders which allude to the pioneering party encountering some very unusual things. And they do – first a huge arc of greenery, putting the modern reader in mind of the Missouri landmark arch as bastardised by something along the lines of the Statue of Liberty in the original 'Planet of the Apes'. But when that site gets attacked the weirdness certainly starts to show itself…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1607069822</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWeeks_Gritterman|title=Hilda and the Black HoundThe Gritterman|author=Luke PearsonOrlando Weeks|rating=4.5

|summary=Hilda and the Black Hound There's a man who has an ice cream van. In summer, what there is of summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, That's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the fourth book in van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the “Hildafolk” seriesroof light up and rotate, each of which is playing a selftune, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight -contained tale Christmas Eve - will be the van's last trip. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, they say. There's even a highly inquisitive little girl and her adventures. This time Hilda joins tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but the Sparrow Scouts and befriends a house spirit whilst Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in the meantime a mysterious beast stalks world where the town of TrolbergB2116 doesn't need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263184</amazonuk>