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|summary=It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you want to judge the worth of a We''Star Trek'' TV seriesre in childhood, you judge the theme tune. Itand we's incontrovertible that they went downhill re in unison, after allCuba. It is also The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a truth universally acknowledged that saviour of the same applies country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to ''Doctor Who'', create a level playing field for the opening credits have definitely had their ups and downs over recent yearsall. But you can also define the entertainment value Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of a series through the companionstaking his time away. Or at least you can with Our narrator's family weren't in the 11th Doctor comic versionshappiest of places here, which decided an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to pick up a Token Smart, Ballsy, Ethnic one, a bizarre, mercurially disembodied robotsome minor pro-type-with-limited-vocab oneCommunism skirmish, such as Angola) andthe father being watched and watched, er, a cod David Bowie one who relives the entire Ziggy Stardust lyric sheet through and not liked for his witterings. I knowsuccessful photography business, right? No hopesuccess being frowned upon. But can you give up hope The mother gets the couple jobs with the geniusparty to ease some of the heat, energeticbut in this sultry island country, effervescent and witty Doctor around?it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782763031</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Serge le Tendre, Regis Loisel and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)Kia Ahankoob|title=The Quest for Gold Lion and the Time BirdTournament of Sentinels|rating=2.54

|summary=In order to defeat When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a vengeful god, who dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within days a magical ring belonging to one of getting eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of his prison – a sacred conch shell – several things must happen. First, the conch must be united with them and the witch powerful enough eight countries went to sustain the incantation keeping him locked upwar. Then she must use her helpers to endure great danger Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and find finding the information she seeks in the most perilous cost of places for knowledge of the ultimate part of the puzzle – the Time Birdwar too high, a solution is proposed. All this calls for heroes, but in the world Each of fantasy anyone can call themselves a hero – from the witch's own buxom daughtereight countries will send their greatest warriors, Pelisseknown as sentinels, to an old warrior called Bragon that a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the girl is forced to unite with rings and fight alongsidebecome the supreme ruler of Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782763627</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alejandro Jodorowsky, Nicolas Fructus and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)Pat Grant|title=Showman KillerThe Grot: Heartless HeroThe Story of the Swamp City Grifters

|summary=A long way awayEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, in terms of both time and space, that includes the most perfect assassin is formed – genetically bred, adept punk bands. There are three pedallers at magical transformations, with the most athletic and deadly abilitiesfront of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, where a mother and with the complete lack of emotion neededher two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. All he will ever seek is You could say that yoghurt would be the highest price only culture around, for the best job – this is a job that will, now really rough-and again-ready dump of a place, force him but everyone is interested in small things that grow. For the only money to meet with be had – the most unusual people…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178276139X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jamie Hewlettonly fortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, Alan Martin gunk and others|title=21st Century Tank Girl|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I sometimes wonderother crud that – well, when keying in book reviews, if ISBNs are not constructed by design instead the use of the formal accident that it is supposed to create themnever really made clear. Surely it's intentional that this book has 666 in its code Once there, the two brothers set themselves each up with a guide – it's Lippy, the most devilishly brash, ugly and foulmore forward-mouthed comic aroundthinking, and people who like that kind industrious of thing will like thisthe two, with a besuited gent, Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. Especially But which of the two will come off the worse as they make their own way in this book is a return to waaay distant formdystopian, and waaay distant creative partnerships, with the original artist Jamie Hewlett back on board. It's time to cuss and roll once more…semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782766618</amazonuk>1603094660

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derf BackderfLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=TrashedTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=For those people who think graphic novels are rubbish, this is I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the epitome second half of that baseless argumenttheir teens has other priorities, you know. Its subject is junk, itI certainly didn's trasht know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, itI didn's landfillt know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and garbage. ThatI didn's not t know more than a verdict spit about the people involved on its qualities, which are great and fine ones, but its very topiceither side. Straight from school, our author was actually This book is practically flawless in giving a bin man general browser's context for a few seasons – riding on the whole season of protests back of something like Betty, the garbage van featured here. It's a job nobody wants in all honesty, of course – but the book is fine enough to actually make the subject something most people should read about1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419714546</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke PearsonLeigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=Hilda and the TrollWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=4.53|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=HildaDiana, being unique on her island, is the victim of a rather delightful smalllot of taunts, blue-haired girl, is never far from an adventureand claims of nepotism. She is confident It's only her unique status, and excitableher mother being Queen, brave and creativethat has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, and however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her stories are slightly madquickly leaving home for the World of Men, and verythis Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, very readable!but the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263788</amazonuk>1401282555

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sven Hassel and Jordy Diago1401286208|title=Wheels of TerrorBlack Canary: The Graphic NovelIgnite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee|rating=43.5

|summary=War books Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and anti-war books, follow in my mindhis footsteps, have a lot in common and only seemingly lumbered with being a couple of easy things need be changed cheerleader at school, she is desperate to turn one to the otherfind her voice. This is dressed But it's actually more a case of her voice finding her, as an anti-war bookwhen 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 weapon, but here is 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 of difficulty and adversity and still coming out the other end; here he is doing proper heroic deeds – or his colleagues saving the day at the last minute – and the war carries onwards towards its inevitable enda power. The difference perhaps is But in the minutiae of what those difficulties and deeds need order for her to call herself a superhero, there has to be, with the anti-war book having a simple honesty about them and their overall worth that the gung-ho, militaristic piece would patently lack. And when you face the guts and gore whole path of the kind steps for her to take – one of warfare on these pages, you don't really expect jingoism and 'hoo-rah!' attitudes. No, even if the DNA is pretty much the same, the result here is definitely, grimly and firmly anti-war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297609769</amazonuk>which will be into her past…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Sugg1401280048|title=UsernameBatman: EvieNightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Evie. SheThe 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 surprisingly unwelcome and alienated at school – for a trendy and attractive girl, nobody billionaire at all seems to have any time for her, apart from the geeky card-collecting boy with the milk-bottle glasses on the busage of eighteen. Perhaps it has something to do Feeling rather stuck with her fatherthe legacy he's thatched house – after allinherited from his murdered parents, she must be a witch he wants to live theredo charitable deeds. It's not that she would wish to live thereBut one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, with nobody else aroundhe goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and gets given the memory most unlikely stretch of her deceased mothercommunity service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. But luckily someone is choosing There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a place for her –her father is able to put all his work into a cybergang who steal any ten-world for herfigure bank account contents they can, and murder the E-Scape, which is close to the perfect worldowner. All that remains is Can he get close to programme one of them and get the humans to be her friendstruth of their schemes, and make or will the connection Evie has with them and them with her in return to manipulative Madeleine be of mutual, confirming, happy benefit. But someone else has entered a step too far for the Eyoung do-Scape, and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Evie's tentative happiness…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>gooder?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael B Jackson, Martin Brennan and Simon Bisley1401283292|title=13 CoinsHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh

|summary=''For the love of money Harleen Quinzel is the root of all kinds of evilnew in town.'' ThereShe always, Ito me, seems new in town, even if she've done it – quoted the Bible in s been around a long time, for she always has a reviewvery fresh attitude, and seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. It's certainly pertinent But here she is new in the world of this graphic noveltown, where and the fallen angels have one gettown is Gotham City. Expecting a year-out clause they have been seeking since those very lapsarian eventslong furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to stay with a bunch of drag queens. They turned She also finds school is a little section of chain holding their leader eternally captive into the titular coinsdrag, which can influence she also finds the human holders into sheer evil, whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but might just cause an open war on Heaven, whether they or the best of the holy she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on earth use them allher life. The best of the holy thenOne is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, offspring of the good angels, are culled as other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a routine, but not one – John Poznermind for violence and chaos, who of course has no idea of his place in the celestial circle of life…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178276061X</amazonuk>calls himself The Joker…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stref140128339X|title=J.M. Barrie's Peter PanMera: The Graphic Novel|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Here's a quiz question for you – despite the uniform seventy year copyright rule, which work has been the sole recipient of an endless extension of it, courtesy of an ex-Prime Minister? The answer is obvious now at least, as this is one such volume. It's a very readable and pleasant variant on J M Barrie's original stage version and novel regarding Peter Pan, which of course helps and always will now help the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. And for a boy who never grows up, at 111 years old he's in spritely good health.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780272901</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTidebreaker|author=Peter O'Donnell Danielle Paige and Enric Badia Romero|title=Modesty Blaise - The Killing DistanceStephen Byrne

|summary=Meet Mera. She''Oh, such things just HAPPEN to that pair, Sirs the latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves.'' The pair referred toHer father, the king of course, are Modesty BlaiseXebel, sexy femme fatale with a head full of morals sees some cotton wool and a pair of legs full of kicking powerhunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, and Willy GarvinMera's mother, the only man to call her ''Princessterritory's warrior queen, is long dead. Mera doesn' t fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all and is, in fact, trying to get away with it – intelligentXebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, practical and yet equally resilient in a fight with a baddyfor Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. The things So when she overhears her father request that happen her intended go to them are legionthe world of us air-breathing humans, over many novels and 95 daily newspaper comic stripskill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the quest (and this is one of the better examples of the current collections of the latterpromised throne) all for herself. Where else can you get movie stunts going wrongBut of course, pregnant women in danger on the high seasshe has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and people escaping from bomb-laden planes, all in a Jolly Hockey Sticks mood that smacks of pastiche and vintage ribaldry, were how hard it not from the heady days of will be to get the mid-'90s?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781167125</amazonuk>job done…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ian Edginton and Alex Sanchez1401286399|title=Super Sons: The Evil WithinPolarShield Project|rating= 3.5|genre= Graphic Novels|summaryauthor=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, Ridley Pearson 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 1Ile Gonzalez

|summary=At It's the start of this booknear future, Hit-Girl and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is stuck in need of a super-max prison (donhuge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America't ask why)s biggest exodus for decades. The entire east coast Mafia command Superman is up for grabs (you don't need to ask why helping out, of course – Hit-Girl killed most of them herself). As for Davefirst, or Kick-Asshe was patching up the dams, but now he's failingmining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. He has a whole cohort of other super-heroesInland, which in this world means dweebish fans of comics with a stupid costume yet no power other than Wyndermere, the refugees from the determination to do well coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for societybeing newcomers, but they're not going anywheresomething else is much worse. They're not spotting crime or solving conspiracies, and they're certainly not getting their colleague and mentor Hit-Girl out A major bout of jailfood poisoning is hitting the city. Dave could in actual fact be in danger But it can't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the most heinous crime of all – growing up.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783290870</amazonuk>flood barriers and the efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=168369015X|title=Peter Manfried the Man: A DavidGraphic Novel|titleauthor=The Avengers VaultCaitlin Major and Kelly Bastow|rating=34.5

|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 not just because a typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at 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 same time being the main characters of The Avengers, and they themselves are fifty years old as a collective entityperfect companion for his owner, so this book has a lot of ground to coverSteve Catson. To its benefit there are hardly any mentions of the global behemoth such an extent that are Marvel films these daysSteve, who is getting known for his man-oriented thinking, beyond is actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''crazy man cat''. But when a couple of references where relevant. Instead we're looking backwindow gets left open by mistake, with bright and eager eyes, to see what we can findManfried goes missing, what the beginner may need to know, only thing for it is a massive and what the fan will have fond memories of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781313989</amazonuk>energised man-hunt…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=WinshlussHainsworth_Gina|title=In God We TrustTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|summary=To start with, a rhetorical test''This is what happened. '' How about God and Adam playing badminton day in An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of the country, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and day out, until one gets bored and decides to create Eveworking eye. Why not? Or The first night at home, Gina – the defeater of Goliath dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a mess, so it's not a great start, but then begin the saviour tribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. And then, the Israelites being one Conan the Barbarian? Or this as a test – Jesus Himself failing to have a successful session of tequila slammers life with Gabriel due Gina begins to the holes through His hands? feel like too much – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as if I barely need mention that was in these pages God does battle with Supermanlove.'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, for you to have answered the test two children and put yourself firmly in one of two camps for this book cats – one very much opposed gets to buying it, form the family they and one very much in favourGina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662350</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Modiano, Sempe (illustrator) and William Rodarmor (translator)Colfer_Illegal|title=Catherine Certitude|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=What little I know of Patrick Modiano was gained from the number of 'no, we've never heard of him, either' articles and summaries that came our way when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the end of 2014. They suggested his oeuvre was mature, slightly thriller-based but not exclusively so, and asked lots of accumulative questions regarding identity with regard to the Vichy government during WWII. Identity is a lot more fixed in this musing little piece, for the adult voice-over looks back over a wide remove, 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 attendee, and her loving and much-loved father, living a cosy life in Paris – even if the girl never once really works out what it is her father does for a living…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443022</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewIllegal|author=Rob Williams Eoin Colfer and Simon Coleby|title=The Royals: Masters of WarAndrew Donkin

|summary=ItEbo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn's World War Two, but not as we t know it. The circumstance where his brother is building up to be pretty much what we know – either but knows that he has probably done the Allies have ideas same thing. So Ebo has to land at Normandy, attempt the Germans have rockets ready to pummel a Blighty only just getting over same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the Battle of BritainSahara Desert, and the Americans are being pressured by Churchill get himself to enter Tripoli, one of the war, little knowing what Japan would have most dangerous cities in mind to force the issue. But many things are different. For this is a world where the Royal blood disease of Europe is not something ailing, debilitating and embarrassing, but instead then try to cross the giver of super powersMediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. The names in Buckingham Palace are differentAnd, but the opulence remainseven if he makes it, and with 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 to turn the tide of the war single-handedwill he find his sister?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401250548</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paco RocaMiller_Batman|title=WrinklesBatman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summaryauthor=Never let them tell you life begins at 40, or ends when you enter a retirement home. 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 Frank Miller 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662377</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tohby Riddle|title=UnforgottenBrian Azzarello

|summary=Think of fallen angelsBatman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and Lucifer and not the like come to mindbaddies he usually biffs. But they donthen he't have to have fallen with such speeds not Batman – he's a she, for such a distance or and she finally comes up with such effectthe news that Batman died in her hands. This book concerns one such creatureElsewhere, Lara, the daughter of Superman and while it's not named as an angel as suchWonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and it's identified only by nobody knowing from where it comes yet everyone silently gets expanding life to appreciate its presence, it certainly looks like a Western, Christian, angel form. And so the plot miniaturised city of this gentleKandor, poetic picture book looks at the chance last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of such Solitude having gone into a bad thing as sulk, and Batman dead, there would appear to be little in the fall way of an angel being followed by help for the world should anything more positive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1742379729</amazonuk>nasty happen – but then, of course, something nasty does happen… s

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 teatime, and even managed to make those 3D rotating card-a-vision things worthwhile. They've been in cinemas since then, of course, but now with the world needing everything everywhen we've got 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 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 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>}}{{newreview|title=Meteor Men|author=Jeff Parker and Sandy Jarrell|ratingisbn=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Alden. He's only at high school, but as his parents have died the farm is his – his and the couple of professors the smart kid hangs out with. One night a large gathering forms on an ad hoc basis to watch the Perseid meteor shower – and one of them unexpectedly lands. The rock is Alden's as it landed on private property, but the planetarium's main scientist is keen for science to learn from it – or that it should pay for Alden getting through university. But the rock has a lesson much bigger than even that premise could provide for – it wasn't a hundred per cent rock. And Alden also owns a much greater connection to what was inside it when it landed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1620101513</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWeeks_Gritterman|title=Charley's War: A Boy Soldier in the Great War|author=Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The answer, it seems to me, when writing war stories, is to take something we can all imagine – the young lad signing up and finding out the real truth behind the glorified propaganda of his masters – and still making something unexpected out of it. People have to die in unexpected ways, because that's what war is. Soldiers have to face misery, because that's what war brings them. The writer has to be a godlike entity able to give the power of victory or defeat to either side, because 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 the rigid 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 to know the misery, unexpected death and people in command of his fate. And with the dramatic narrative artwork here, so do we.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169144</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=TrilliumGritterman|author=Jeff LemireOrlando Weeks|rating=4.5

|summary=ItThere's the future of at least a thousand years henceman who has an ice cream van. In summer, and humanity what there is in trouble. The species has spread itself thinly out in the galaxyof summer, but is under threat from a sentient virushe uses it to sell ice creams, which is beating all efforts – militaryThat's not his vocation though, scientific – to best but itdoes keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The nearest thing to hope is in fibreglass 99s on the unlikely form of roof light up and rotate, playing a jungle flowertune, found only in realms sacred to whether the natives of one of humankindvan's planetsgritting or selling ice creams. Elsewhere and elsewhen a shellTonight - Christmas Eve -shocked WWI veteran is taken with will be the van's last trip. The council has sent the letter about his brother to South Americaservices no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, to gain the secrets and glories of the remotest Incan templesthey say. It therefore sounds entirely unlikely There's even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but the main alien life scientist Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a world where the future and the earlier explorer will meet, but meet they do – and then things start to get weirder and weirder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401249000</amazonuk>B2116 doesn't need gritting.