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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alejandro Jodorowsky, Nicolas Fructus and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)Edel Rodriguez|title=Showman KillerWorm: Heartless HeroA Cuban American Odyssey

|summary=A long way awayWe're in childhood, and we're in terms Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of both time the country, has proven himself a Communist, and spacenot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the most perfect assassin is formed – genetically bredhappiest of places here, adept at magical transformationsan uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, with such as Angola) and the most athletic father being watched and deadly abilitieswatched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the complete lack party to ease some of emotion needed. All he will ever seek is the highest price for the best job – a job that willheat, now and againbut in this sultry island country, force him to meet with it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the most unusual people…kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178276139X</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jamie Hewlett, Alan Martin and othersKia Ahankoob|title=21st Century Tank GirlThe Gold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels|rating=3.54

|summary=I sometimes wonderWhen Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, when keying in book reviewsthe hope they would complement each other and collaborate, if ISBNs are not constructed by design instead of the formal accident that creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is supposed contained within a magical ring belonging to create themone of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. Surely But itdidn's intentional t quite work out like that this book has 666 in its code – it's . Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the most devilishly brash, ugly eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and foul-mouthed comic aroundfinding the cost of war too high, and people who like that kind a solution is proposed. Each of thing the eight countries will like this. Especially send their greatest warriors, known as this book is sentinels, to a return to waaay distant form, single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and waaay distant creative partnerships, with become the original artist Jamie Hewlett back on boardsupreme ruler of Duniva. It's time to cuss and roll once more…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782766618</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derf BackderfPat Grant|title=TrashedThe Grot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters|rating=4.5

|summary=For those people who think graphic novels are rubbishEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, this is and that includes the epitome of that baseless argumentpunk bands. Its subject is junk, it's trash, it's landfillThere are three pedallers at the front of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, where a mother and garbageher two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. That's not You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for this is a verdict on its qualities, which are great really rough-and fine ones-ready dump of a place, but its very topiceveryone is interested in small things that grow. Straight For the only money to be had – the only fortunes to be found in Falter City – come from schoolalgae, gunk and other crud that – well, our author was actually a bin man for the use of it is never really made clear. Once there, the two brothers set themselves each up with a few seasons guide – riding on Lippy, the back more forward-thinking, industrious of something like Bettythe two, the garbage van featured herewith a besuited gent, Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. It's a job nobody wants in all honesty, But which of course – but the book is fine enough to actually two will come off the worse as they make the subject something most people should read about.their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419714546</amazonuk>1603094660

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke PearsonLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=Hilda and the TrollTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=War books and anti-war books, I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in my mind, have a lot in common and only a couple the second half of easy things need be changed to turn one to the their teens has otherpriorities, you know. This is dressed as an anti-war book, but here is I certainly didn't know of the lead character surviving against all odds – the platoon whittled down several times while he and his few friends go strong; here he is overcoming all kinds weeks of difficulty and adversity protests and still coming out the other end; here he is doing proper heroic deeds – or his colleagues saving hunger strikes from the day at students before the last minute – massacre and the war carries onwards towards its inevitable end. The difference perhaps is in birth of the minutiae of what those difficulties and deeds need beTank Man image, with I didn't know how the anti-war book having area had long been a simple honesty about them and their overall worth that the gung-hovenue for political protest, militaristic piece would patently lack. And when you face the guts and gore of I didn't know more than a spit about the kind of warfare people involved on these pages, you don't really expect jingoism and 'hoo-rah!' attitudeseither side. No, even if the DNA This book is pretty much practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the same, the result here is definitely, grimly and firmly anti-warwhole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297609769</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe SuggLeigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=UsernameWonder Woman: Warbringer: EvieThe Graphic Novel|rating=4.53|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=Meet EvieDiana, being unique on her island, is the victim of a lot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. SheIt's surprisingly unwelcome only her unique status, and alienated at school – for a trendy and attractive girlher mother being Queen, nobody that has her with any standing at all seems to have any time for her, apart from the geeky card-collecting boy with the milk-bottle glasses on the bus. Perhaps it has something to do with her father's thatched house naysayers declare – after all, even though she must has clearly fought to be a witch to live therestrong young woman. It's not that she would wish to live therePerhaps too strong for the island, with nobody else aroundhowever – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of Men, and this Diana is the memory heroine of her deceased motheryet another Wonder Woman origin story. But luckily someone is choosing a place for A shipwreck disturbs her –her father is able to put all his work into leading performance in a cyber-world for herrunning race, but the E-Scape, which survivor she drags from the waters is close only going to the perfect worlddisturb a lot more.. All that remains is to programme the humans to be her friends, and make the connection Evie has with them and them with her in return to be of mutual, confirming, happy benefit. But someone else has entered the E-Scape, and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Evie's tentative happiness…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>1401282555

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael B Jackson, Martin Brennan and Simon Bisley1401286208|title=13 CoinsBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee

|summary=''For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evilMeet Dinah Lance.'' ThereFrustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, I've done it – quoted the Bible in and seemingly lumbered with being a reviewcheerleader at school, she is desperate to find her voice. ItBut it's certainly pertinent in the world actually more a case of this graphic novelher voice finding her, where the fallen angels have one get-out clause they have been seeking since those very lapsarian eventsas when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. They turned You could almost call it a little section of chain holding their leader eternally captive into the titular coinsweapon, which can influence the human holders into sheer evil, but might just cause an open war on Heaven, whether they or the best of the holy on earth use them alla power. The best of the holy then, offspring of the good angels, are culled as But in order for her to call herself a routinesuperhero, but not one – John Pozner, who of course there has no idea to be a whole path of his place in the celestial circle steps for her to take – one of life…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178276061X</amazonuk>which will be into her past…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stref1401280048|title=J.M. Barrie's Peter PanBatman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose

|summary=HereThe 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 quiz question for you – despite billionaire at the age of eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the uniform seventy year copyright rulelegacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, which work has been the sole recipient of an endless extension of ithe wants to do charitable deeds. But one night, courtesy when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of an ex-Prime Minister? The answer is obvious now at leasta criminal, he goes too far as this 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 one such volumeArkham Asylum. It's There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a very readable gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and pleasant variant on J M Barrie's original stage version murder the owner. Can he get close to one of them and novel regarding Peter Panget the truth of their schemes, which of course helps and always or will now help the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. And manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for a boy who never grows up, at 111 years old he's in spritely good health.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780272901</amazonuk>the young do-gooder?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero|title=Modesty Blaise - The Killing Distance|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=''Oh, such things just HAPPEN to that pair, Sir.'' The pair referred to, of course, are Modesty Blaise, sexy femme fatale with a head full of morals and a pair of legs full of kicking power, and Willy Garvin, the only man to call her ''Princess'' and get away with it – intelligent, practical and yet equally resilient in a fight with a baddy. The things that happen to them are legion, over many novels and 95 daily newspaper comic strips, and this is one of the better examples of the current collections of the latter. Where else can you get movie stunts going wrong, pregnant women 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 ribaldry, were it not from the heady days of the mid-'90s?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781167125</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Ian Edginton and Alex Sanchez1401283292|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 the usual web 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 ChefHarley Quinn: Book 1|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet the latest adventurer to scour the land. He has a talent for finding the obscure and seeking out the rare, and surviving all the undignified fates the world has in store. He even has a magical companion. He will be open to any challenge set upon him, from locating dragon-smiting swords to besting the largest, most locally loved, rival. He is Rutabaga, and he is, of course, a chef.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419715976</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBreaking Glass|author=Mark Millar Mariko Tamaki and John Romita Jr|title=Kick-Ass 3Steve Pugh

|summary=At the start of this book, Hit-Girl Harleen Quinzel is stuck new in a super-max prison (don't ask why)town. The entire east coast Mafia command is up She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's been around a long time, for grabs (you don't need she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to ask why – Hit-Girl killed most look out of them herself)those large eyes at everything anew each time. As for DaveBut here she is new in town, or Kick-Ass, he's failingand the town is Gotham City. He has Expecting a whole cohort of other superyear-heroeslong furlough from life with her mother, which in this world means dweebish fans of comics she finds her gran dead and herself with a stupid costume yet no power other than the determination option but to do well for society, but they're not going anywherestay with a bunch of drag queens. They're not spotting crime or solving conspiraciesShe also finds school is a drag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and they're certainly not getting their colleague and mentor Hit-Girl out of jailuncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her life. Dave could in actual fact be in danger of One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the most heinous crime of all other someone she only meets at night – growing up.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783290870</amazonuk>a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter A David140128339X|title=The Avengers VaultMera: Tidebreaker|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summaryauthor=It's not just because the third richest take of any movie is about to get a sequel that we have this pictorial background guide. There have been decades of action featuring the main characters of The Avengers, and they themselves are fifty years old as a collective entity, so this book has a lot of ground to cover. To its benefit there are hardly any mentions of the global behemoth that are Marvel films these days, beyond a couple of references where relevant. Instead we're looking back, with bright and eager eyes, to see what we can find, what the beginner may need to know, Danielle Paige and what the fan will have fond memories of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781313989</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Winshluss|title=In God We TrustStephen Byrne

|summary=To start withMeet Mera. 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 rhetorical testhunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, is long dead. How about God Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all and Adam playing badminton day is, in and day outfact, until one gets bored and decides trying to create Eve? Or get Xebel out from under the defeater cosh of Goliath and the saviour Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of the Israelites being one Conan the Barbarian? Atlantean masters. Or this as a test – Jesus Himself failing So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to have a successful session the world of tequila slammers with Gabriel due to us air-breathing humans, and kill the holes through His hands? I barely need mention that in these pages God does battle with SupermanAtlantis heir, for you she rushes off to have answered get the test quest (and put yourself firmly in one the promised throne) all for herself. But of course, she has no idea what kind of two camps for this book – one very much opposed to buying itperson she will meet, and one very much in favour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662350</amazonuk>how hard it will be to get the job done…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Modiano, Sempe (illustrator) and William Rodarmor (translator)1401286399|title=Catherine CertitudeSuper Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=It's World War Twothe near future, but not as we know it. The circumstance and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is building up to be pretty much what we know – the Allies have ideas to land at Normandyin need of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the Germans rising sea levels have rockets ready to pummel a Blighty only just getting over the Battle of Britainput even those constructions under threat, and the Americans are being pressured by Churchill forcing many people to enter the war, little knowing what Japan would have relocate in mind to force the issue. But many things are differentAmerica's biggest exodus for decades. For this Superman is a world where the Royal blood disease helping out, of Europe is not something ailingcourse – first, debilitating and embarrassinghe was patching up the dams, but instead now he's mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the giver of super powerssolar energy from making further polar ice melt. The names Inland, in Buckingham Palace Wyndermere, the refugees from the coast are differentsuffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but the opulence remains, and with the history something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the current incumbents one where their powers are not exercised, people are being tasked with making sure that remains socity. But how it can you stop an immovable force when it has enough might 't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and strength the efforts to turn correct the tide of the war single-handedclimate, can it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401250548</amazonuk>Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paco Roca168369015X|title=WrinklesManfried the Man: A Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow

|summary=Never let them tell you life begins at 40, or ends when you enter In a retirement home. Ernest has just entered an old folk's establishmentworld where cats stand on two feet, go to work at call centres and life have diminutive human beings for pets, is ever-changingManfried. ThereHe's the time a typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he meets a person hounded by the idea can suitably eat, but at least of alien abduction, the moment he forgets same time being the word perfect companion for 'ball' when holding one while doing armchair exerciseshis owner, and the galling day he finds out he shares a medication routine with the most helpless and locked-in of inmatesSteve Catson. NoTo such an extent that Steve, who is getting known for Ernest, especially in the hands of his new roomman-mate Emile who will do anything to earn a fast buckoriented thinking, life is full of some kind of variety.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662377</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tohby Riddle|title=Unforgotten|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Think of fallen angels, and Lucifer and actually having nightmares about becoming the like come to mind. But they donneighbourhood ''t have to have fallen with such speed, for such a distance or with such effect. This book concerns one such creature, and while itcrazy man cat's not named as an angel as such, and it's identified only by nobody knowing from where it comes yet everyone silently gets to appreciate its presence, it certainly looks like a Western, Christian, angel form. And so the plot of this gentle, poetic picture book looks at the chance of such But when a bad thing as the fall of an angel being followed window gets left open by anything more positive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1742379729</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Thunderbirds Comic: Volume 1|author=Gerry Anderson and Frank Bellamy|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet the Thunderbirds. If you don't know anything about the Tracy family and their International Rescue organisation, then I'm not sure where you've been. For people of a certain age (OK, mine, at least) they were the staple of Saturday morning cinema clubs, a highlight of BBC2 when repeated teatimemistake, and even managed to make those 3D rotating card-a-vision things worthwhile. They've been in cinemas since thenManfried goes missing, of course, but now with the world needing everything everywhen we've got only thing for it is a welcome chance to look back at some of the original comic book spin-offs, that probably haven't been much seen since then. With five volumes of these books on the cards, it's worthwhile sticking to the first massive and seeing just what these retro delights – or otherwise – could bring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405272600</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Lost Sock|author=Gillian Johnson|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A lost sock. We’ve all had them. In fact, I know people who only buy socks of one colour in order to always have matching socks. I, who prefer to buy brightly coloured socks (much like the energised man in this book), seem to spend my life with my feet constantly mismatched. It doesn’t bother me all that much, but it certainly affects the hero of this tale, who goes on an adventure in order to find the missing sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472112431</amazonuk>-hunt…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Hainsworth_Gina|title=Meteor MenTalking to Gina|author=Jeff Parker and Sandy JarrellOttilie Hainsworth

|summary=Meet Alden''This is what happened. '' He's only at high school, but as his parents have died the farm is his An artist decided she needed a dog – his and so drove the couple length of professors the smart kid hangs out country, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog withsome mange and one working eye. One Why not? The first night a large gathering forms on an ad hoc basis to watch at home, Gina – the Perseid meteor shower dog – eats something she shouldn't and one of them unexpectedly lands. The rock is Aldencauses a mess, so it's as it landed on private propertynot a great start, but then begin the planetarium's main scientist is keen for science to learn from it – or that it should pay for Alden getting tribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through universitywith their dogs. But And then, the rock has a lesson life with Gina begins to feel like too much bigger than even that premise could provide for – it wasn't a hundred per cent rock'I felt weird about you because you were always there. And Alden also owns a much greater connection to what My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as if I was inside it when it landed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1620101513<in love.'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/amazonuk>author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the family they and Gina all would have wanted.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Colfer_Illegal|title=Charley's War: A Boy Soldier in the Great WarIllegal|author=Pat Mills Eoin Colfer and Joe ColquhounAndrew Donkin|rating=45

|summary=The answer, it seems to me, when writing war stories, Ebo is to take something we can twelve years old and all imagine – the young lad signing up alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and finding out the real truth behind the glorified propaganda of now he doesn't know where his masters – and still making something unexpected out of it. People have to die in unexpected ways, because that's what war brother is. Soldiers have to face misery, because either but knows that's what war brings themhe has probably done the same thing. The writer So Ebo has to be a godlike entity able to give attempt the same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the power of victory or defeat Sahara Desert, get himself to either sideTripoli, because one of the common or garden soldier character certainly can't. In putting all this and more into a comic for boys, where it had previously been thought a WWI story with most dangerous cities in the rigid and static nature of trench warfare would be neither visually nor dramatically appealingworld, Pat Mills both challenged himself and won many over with his brilliance. Young Charley certainly gets then try to know cross the misery, unexpected death and people in command of his fateMediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And with the dramatic narrative artwork here, so do we.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169144</amazonuk>even if he makes it, how will he find his sister?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Miller_Batman|title=TrilliumBatman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Jeff LemireFrank Miller and Brian Azzarello|rating=43.5

|summary=ItBatman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the future of at least baddies he usually biffs. But then he's not Batman – he's a thousand years henceshe, and humanity is she finally comes up with the news that Batman died in troubleher hands. The species has spread itself thinly out in Elsewhere, Lara, the galaxydaughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, but is under threat from a sentient virus, which is beating all efforts – military, scientific – encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to best it. The nearest thing turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to hope is in the unlikely form miniaturised city of a jungle flowerKandor, found only in realms sacred to the natives last vestige of one Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of humankind's planets. Elsewhere Solitude having gone into a sulk, and elsewhen a shell-shocked WWI veteran is taken with his brother to South AmericaBatman dead, there would appear to gain be little in the secrets and glories way of help for the remotest Incan temples. It therefore sounds entirely unlikely that the main alien life scientist in the future and the earlier explorer will meet, world should anything nasty happen – but meet they do – and then things start to get weirder and weirder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401249000</amazonuk>, of course, something nasty does happen… s

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Alex and Ada Volume 1|authorisbn=Jonathan Luna and Sarah Vaughn|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Alex. You'd probably be in a minority if you did, for he's a bit of a loner since he broke up with his last girlfriend. He meets few people in the workplace, has a quite antiseptic flat with his virtual cinema and his flying robotic kitchen aide, and that's about it. But others aren't too keen for Alex to carry on like that – people such as his gran, who has given herself the gift of an android in the form of a handsome young man to, er, keep her company. And yes, that too. Unfortunately, as Alex sees it, she buys him one for his birthday as well – a Tanaka X5, which you wake up by tugging on an earlobe. This being a world where the first real Artificial Intelligence went nasty and killed people a year ago, Alex is certainly torn about having the thing in his flat – especially as it just kowtows to his wishes and opinions without having anything like its own, as it is not allowed to get that close to sentience. But Alex changes his mind right upon the point of returning the thing, and begins to explore just what kind of life the gift could end up presenting to him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1632150069</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWeeks_Gritterman|title=The People InsideGritterman|author=Ray FawkesOrlando Weeks

|summary=Love happensThere's a man who has an ice cream van. There, that must be the shortest plot summary on this siteIn summer, but the fact remains that you can say a lot more about what there is on these pages, and you still have all you need to know in those two words. This book takes the profound – which, of coursesummer, love can be, and the mundane – ditto, and presents them he uses it to us happening in quietsell ice creams, pacific black and whiteThat's not his vocation though, and but it does so in quiet usual, keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and in incredibly unusual, waysour narrator becomes a Gritterman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1620101688</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Strain Book One|author=Guillermo del Torofibreglass 99s on the roof light up and rotate, Chuck Hogan, David Lapham and Dan Jackson|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A liner ends its journey from Europe in playing a port citytune, and waits, silently, holding whatever secrets it had with little signs of lifewhether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. It is found to contain a heavy box, almost coffinTonight - Christmas Eve -like, containing mud – and something elsewill be the van's last trip. But this is not The council has sent the coasts of Englandletter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, and this is not Bram Stokerthey say. This is also not There's even a sailing boattarmac now that can de-ice itself, but an airliner – the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in 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 wonworld where the B2116 doesn't like what he finds – and nor should anyoneneed gritting. The problem is, some ''do…''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616555483</amazonuk>