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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bessora, Barroux and Sarah Ardizzone (translator)Edel Rodriguez|title=AlphaWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=We're in childhood, and we'It felt like there was boiling water inside my headre in Cuba. To cool it downThe revolution has happened, I had to leave…'' Those words aren't spoken by Alphaand Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the narrator of this graphic novelcountry, has proven himself a Communist, but they might have beenand not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Living in AbidjanWell, on the south coast those hours-long speeches of his were kind of Cote d'Ivoire in Africa, he is determined to get out to go to Paris, and a relative's hair salon and a much better lifetaking his time away. ItOur narrator's not just family weren't in the boiling water that is causing him happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to jump out be the frying pan into good soldier the unknown firecountry demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, but such as Angola) and the fact that his wife father being watched and son went alreadywatched, and he's trying to follow in their footstepsnot liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. ''Your feet become your head. Your body obeys them'' he observes at one point during The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the ordeal – heat, but there are people smugglers galorein this sultry island country, and blind chance to also obey along it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the way…kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911370014</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= HurkKia Ahankoob|title= Ready for Pop|rating= 4.5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=London, The mid-sixties. In what appears to have been a murder attempt, Britain's greatest pop sensation 'Vic Vox' has been left a foot tall – Gold Lion and the effects Tournament of a 'shrink drug' administered by assailants unknown. As Detective Chief Inspector Ladyshoe and his team at Scotland Yard try to find who did it and why, comedian Tubs Cochran prepares himself for his big come-back show. Can he keep his old fashioned comedy instincts relevant enough to entertain a new generation? Will Vic Vox's big rivals, 'The Small Pocks' be given a boost in Vic Vox's absence? And will June Scurvy get her hit (or maybe not) new single featured on the show they're all waiting for…''Ready for Pop''!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662504</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Bantock|title=Griffin and Sabine 25th Anniversary Edition: An Extraordinary CorrespondenceSentinels
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Oh Griffin and Sabine, where have you been all my life? I've loved epistolary novels and ones that take the narrative two-and-fro of letters and bring us closer to the sender than any omniscient narrator can hope to do. I've still got the childlike love of picking at an envelope stuck in a book to pull out a sheet of something else – not only is there the wonder at the handmade construction of something so bluntly and undeservedly called 'a book', but there is the frisson of being the first person to see this artefact ever. So how have I never seen this book before, and its cycle of sequels, concerning the correspondence between two completely different people?
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{{newreview
|author=Jeremy Haun and Jason A Hurley
|title=The Beauty
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Don't we all just want that one little fillup to our looks – that tuck thereWhen Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, those pounds or wrinkles vanished, that little tweak to make us more sexually attractive each with its own strength and virile? Well, if you catch The Beauty, you will indubitably end upweakeness, in what colloquial language has itthe hope they would complement each other and collaborate, ''fit''creating a dynamic and prosperous society. But The Beauty Each power is not contained within a magical ring belonging to be caught as in a passing fad or itinerant beautician, but as a sexual disease. And itone of eight countries led by Myriad's hit half the population – most of those willinglychildren and their descendants. You feel feverish with it, but But itdidn's taken off big time, t quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and Big Pharma is happy with the situationeight countries went to war. Some violent anti-Beauty activists aren'tHaving fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, so special police units exist regarding ita solution is proposed. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, but theyknown as sentinels, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the Powers That Be, rings and become the underground scientists working against the disease are only going to be swamped when The Beauty shows its true face…supreme ruler of Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1632155508</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia RomeroPat Grant|title=Modesty Blaise - Ripper JaxThe Grot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Is there any stopping Modesty Blaise? Everything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the punk bands. Well, inasmuch as there There are only ten stories left that have not been anthologised in these lovely reprints, yes – just three books pedallers at the front of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to gothe ferry across the swamp to Falter City, by my reckoningwhere a mother and her two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. That reckoning should You could say that yoghurt would be quite accurate, if I can be immodestthe only culture around, for there this is a lot really rough-and-ready dump of a place, but everyone is interested in small things that is routine about these storiesgrow. They all For the only money to be had three panels a day– the only fortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, six days a week (with one day's output being less relevant to the story for those papers gunk and other crud that didn't carry – well, the comic on weekends), for twenty-one weeksuse of it is never really made clear. But rest assured Once there is also , the two brothers set themselves each up with a lot that is unusual about Modesty and her outputguide – Lippy, including a neverthe more forward-ending variety to the locationsthinking, to the manner industrious of the baddy's crimetwo, with a besuited gent, and to Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of the action Modesty and her Willie are forced to undertake to win two will come off the day. And nobodyworse as they make their own way in this dystopian, but nobody, has undertaken so much action and come out looking so attractive…semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298588</amazonuk>1603094660
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jens HarderLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=AlphaTiananmen 1989: DirectionsOur Shattered Hopes|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=So, people might still ask me, why do I turn to graphic novels – aren't visual books never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with limited writing more suited to young people? Yeah, right much attention when it was playing out try pawning this off on juvenile audiences and someone in the semi-literatesecond half of their teens has other priorities, you know. If you canI certainly didn't kill that cliché off with pages such as these know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, I dondidn't know what will work. how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and I know the book isndidn't designed to be know more than a message to people in the debate spit about the literary worth of graphic novels, but one people involved on either side-effect of it is surely an engagement with that argument. What it is designed to be This book is practically flawless in giving a complete history general browser's context for the whole season of everything else – and protests back in covering every prehistoric moment, it does just that, and absolutely brilliantly1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861662458</amazonuk>1684056993
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marcel Ruijters Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Laura Watkinson (translator)Kit Seaton|title=HieronymusWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=43|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=This Diana, being unique on her island, is the victim of a book for those who find it amusing lot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. It's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a biography of someone who has been dead 500 years is called 'unauthorised'strong young woman. This is a book where Perhaps too strong for the detail is in the devil island, however people pissing in for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the street; World of Men, and this Diana is the locals baiting blind people armed with cudgels heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a pit with a pigrunning race, often failing to whack but the beast and hitting their colleagues by mistake; farting demons visiting survivor she drags from the sleeper. This waters is only going to disturb a book for those who don't mind a spot of ribaldry, an affront to religious piety or suchlike in their graphic novelslot more.. Whether or not this is a book for those seeking a biography of Hieronymus Bosch remains to be seen.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861662466</amazonuk>1401282555
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean-Patrick Manchette, Max Cabanes and Doug Headline1401286208|title=FataleBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee
|rating=3.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=PlayMeet Dinah Lance. It's Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, and seemingly lumbered with being a weird verb – cheerleader at school, she is desperate to find her voice. But it can mean many different things. Aimee intends to play – she's already put paid to several men playing at being huntersactually more a case of her voice finding her, but as when she has a different game in mindgets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. Arriving at You could almost call it a very insular little town she scopes the big-wigs outweapon, watching them over the bridge table and across the golf tees, and, seeing them bicker about each other at both play and work, she knows she can play with themor a power. But what might happenin order for her to call herself a superhero, given these undefined rules, if they chose there has to play as be a team against whole path of steps for her to take – one of which will be into her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782766820</amazonuk>past…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Des Taylor1401280048|title=Scarlett Couture|rating=3|genre=Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novels|summary=What, in the real world, would be the least likely cover for a secret agent but that of super-model? Apart from the advantage of everyone thinking you were gormless, there is the implausible clothing and having to run around after baddies in high heels to consider. But the world of comics isn't the real world, and so you have to ask the opposite – what would be the most visually appealing band of secret agents, if not for a whole cabal of them working undercover as bimbo-looking models? The Showroom is one such, and its main agent is Scarlett Couture, daughter of a male cop and a female fashionista-cum-agency boss. Looking wonderful is incredibly easy for her – but sometimes saving the world is quite a bit tougher…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760628</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNovel|author=Jason Quinn and Naresh Kumar|title=World War Two: Against the Rising Sun (Campfire Graphic Novels)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=World War Two – so often a lesson subject for our primary school children, even after all this time. Nazis, Soviets, Pearl Harbor – but wait. That last wasn't just the clarion call to the Americans to join in with the rest of our Allies – it was a mere episode in a fuller story – the half of the war that was never seen by those in EuropeMarie Lu, beyond the fact the British Empire was certainly changed forever. The War in the Pacific is something I was certainly never taught much about in school, at any age. And here's a graphic novel version of the tale from a publisher in India that can serve at last as a salutary lesson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9381182051</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lewis Helfand Stuart Moore and Lalit Kumar Sharma|title=World War Two: Under the Shadow of the Swastika (Campfire Graphic Novels)Chris Wildgoose
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=One of the most common subjects at primary school, getting on for three generations since it happened, is of course World War Two. It has the impact that sixty million dead people deserve – but only if it's taught correctly. One of the ways to present it is this book, which comes from a slightly surprising place – an Indian publisher completely new to me – but succeeds in being remarkably competent, complete and really quite readable.
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{{newreview
|author=Al Ewing and Rob Williams et al
|title=Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor, Volume 3: Conversion
|rating=2
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you want to judge the worth of a ''Star Trek'' TV series, you judge the theme tune. It's incontrovertible that they went downhill in unison, after all. It is also a truth universally acknowledged that the same applies to ''Doctor Who'', for the opening credits have definitely had their ups and downs over recent years. But you can also define the entertainment value of a series through the companions. Or at least you can with the 11th Doctor comic versions, which decided to pick up a Token Smart, Ballsy, Ethnic one, a bizarre, mercurially disembodied robot-type-with-limited-vocab one, and, er, a cod David Bowie one who relives the entire Ziggy Stardust lyric sheet through his witterings. I know, right? No hope. But can you give up hope with the genius, energetic, effervescent and witty Doctor around?
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{{newreview
|author=Serge le Tendre, Regis Loisel and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)
|title=The Quest for the Time Bird
|rating=2.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=In order to defeat The young man called Bruce Wayne is a vengeful godvery noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, who is within days of getting out of his prison paparazzi, and suchlike reminding him he's a sacred conch shell – several things must happenbillionaire at the age of eighteen. First, the conch must be united Feeling rather stuck with the witch powerful enough legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to sustain the incantation keeping him locked updo charitable deeds. Then she must use her helpers to endure great danger But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and find the information she seeks in gets given the most perilous unlikely stretch of places for knowledge of the ultimate part of the puzzle community service instead cleaning in the Time Birdhome for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. All this calls for heroes, but in the world There he learns of fantasy anyone can call themselves a hero some other people who also allege charitable intent from the witch's own buxom daughterNightwalkers, Pelissea gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, to an old warrior called Bragon that and murder the girl is forced owner. Can he get close to unite with one of them and fight alongside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782763627</amazonuk>get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alejandro Jodorowsky, Nicolas Fructus and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)1401283292|title=Showman KillerHarley Quinn: Heartless Hero|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A long way away, in terms of both time and space, the most perfect assassin is formed – genetically bred, adept at magical transformations, with the most athletic and deadly abilities, and with the complete lack of emotion needed. All he will ever seek is the highest price for the best job – a job that will, now and again, force him to meet with the most unusual people…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178276139X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBreaking Glass|author=Jamie Hewlett, Alan Martin Mariko Tamaki and others|title=21st Century Tank GirlSteve Pugh
|rating=3.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=I sometimes wonderHarleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, when keying seems new in book reviewstown, even if ISBNs are not constructed by design instead she's been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to look out of the formal accident that is supposed to create themthose large eyes at everything anew each time. Surely it's intentional that this book has 666 But here she is new in its code – it's the most devilishly brashtown, ugly and foulthe town is Gotham City. Expecting a year-mouthed comic aroundlong furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and people who like that kind herself with no option but to stay with a bunch of thing will like thisdrag queens. Especially as this book She also finds school is a return to waaay distant formdrag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and waaay distant creative partnerships, with the original artist Jamie Hewlett back uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on boardher life. It's time to cuss One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and roll once more…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782766618</amazonuk>chaos, who calls himself The Joker…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Derf Backderf140128339X|title=TrashedMera: Tidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=For those people who think graphic novels are rubbish, this is Meet Mera. She's the epitome latest in a line of that baseless argumentyoung women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Its subject is junkHer father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, itMera's trashmother, itthe territory's landfillwarrior queen, and garbageis long dead. ThatMera doesn's not a verdict on its qualitiest fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all and is, which are great and fine onesin fact, but its very topic. Straight trying to get Xebel out from schoolunder the cosh of Atlantean power, our author was actually a bin man for a few seasons – riding on Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to the back world of something like Bettyus air-breathing humans, and kill the garbage van featured here. It's a job nobody wants in all honestyAtlantis heir, of course – but the book is fine enough she rushes off to actually make get the subject something most people should read about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419714546</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Luke Pearson|title=Hilda quest (and the Troll|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Hilda, a rather delightful small, blue-haired girl, is never far from an adventurepromised throne) all for herself. She is confident and excitableBut of course, brave and creativeshe has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and her stories are slightly mad, and very, very readable!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263788</amazonuk>how hard it will be to get the job done…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sven Hassel and Jordy Diago1401286399|title=Wheels of TerrorSuper Sons: The Graphic NovelPolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=War books It's the near future, and anti-war books, every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in my mindneed of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have a lot put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in common and only a couple of easy things need be changed to turn one to the otherAmerica's biggest exodus for decades. This Superman is dressed as an anti-war bookhelping out, but here is the lead character surviving against all odds of course the platoon whittled down several times while he and his few friends go strong; here first, he is overcoming all kinds of difficulty and adversity and still coming out was patching up the other end; here dams, but now he is doing proper heroic deeds – or his colleagues saving 's mining the day at asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the last minute – and the war carries onwards towards its inevitable endsolar energy from making further polar ice melt. The difference perhaps is Inland, in Wyndermere, the minutiae of what those difficulties and deeds need be, with refugees from the anti-war book having a simple honesty about them coast are suffering bigotry and their overall worth that the gung-hointolerance for being newcomers, militaristic piece would patently lackbut something else is much worse. And when you face the guts and gore A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the kind of warfare on these pages, you doncity. But it can't really expect jingoism possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and 'hoo-rah!' attitudes. No, even if the DNA is pretty much efforts to correct the sameclimate, the result here is definitely, grimly and firmly anti-war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297609769</amazonuk>can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Sugg168369015X|title=UsernameManfried the Man: EvieA Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Meet Evie. She's surprisingly unwelcome and alienated at school – for In a trendy and attractive girlworld where cats stand on two feet, nobody go to work at all seems to call centres and have any time diminutive human beings for herpets, apart from the geeky card-collecting boy with the milk-bottle glasses on the busis Manfried. Perhaps it has something to do with her fatherHe's thatched house a typical frisky but shy pet after allforever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at the same time being the perfect companion for his owner, she must be a witch to live thereSteve Catson. It's not To such an extent that she would wish to live thereSteve, with nobody else around, and the memory of her deceased mother. But luckily someone who is choosing a place getting known for her –her father is able to put all his work into a cyberman-world for heroriented thinking, the E-Scape, which is close to actually having nightmares about becoming the perfect worldneighbourhood ''crazy man cat''. All that remains is to programme the humans to be her friendsBut when a window gets left open by mistake, and make Manfried goes missing, the connection Evie has with them only thing for it is a massive and them with her in return to be of mutual, confirming, happy benefit. But someone else has entered the Eenergised man-Scape, and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Evie's tentative happiness…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>hunt…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael B Jackson, Martin Brennan and Simon BisleyHainsworth_Gina|title=13 CoinsTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth|rating=34.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=''For the love of money This is the root of all kinds of evilwhat happened.'' There, I've done it An artist decided she needed a dog quoted so drove the Bible in a review. It's certainly pertinent in length of the world of this graphic novelcountry, Brighton to Grimsby, where the fallen angels have to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one get-out clause they have been seeking since those very lapsarian eventsworking eye. They turned Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a little section of chain holding their leader eternally captive into the titular coinsmess, which can influence the human holders into sheer evilso it's not a great start, but might just cause an open war on Heaven, whether they or then begin the best tribulations of the holy on earth use them training, status and behaviour allhumans must go through with their dogs. The best of the holy And then, offspring of the good angelslife with Gina begins to 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, are culled as a routineif I was in love.'' Slowly, however, but not one everyone John Poznerour artist/author, who of course has no idea of his place in her husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the celestial circle of life…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178276061X</amazonuk>family they and Gina all would have wanted.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= StrefColfer_Illegal|title=J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan: 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>}}{{newreviewIllegal|author=Peter O'Donnell Eoin Colfer and Enric Badia Romero|title=Modesty Blaise - The Killing DistanceAndrew Donkin|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 Ebo 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, twelve years old and people escaping from bomb-laden planes, all in a Jolly Hockey Sticks mood that smacks of pastiche alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and vintage ribaldry, were it not from the heady days of the mid-now he doesn'90s?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781167125</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ian Edginton and Alex Sanchez|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 – t know where his brother is it something either but knows 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 he has probably done the same time as keeping them in the dark about what thing. So Ebo has brought to attempt the doom and gloom to themsame dangerous journey himself. Starting with Dana, a college girl seeking her kidnapped best friendHe must cross the Sahara Desert, things get darkerhimself to Tripoli, weirder, and forever more violent…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761659</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eric Colossal|title=Rutabaga one of the Adventure Chef: Book 1|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet most dangerous cities in the latest adventurer to scour the land. He has a talent for finding the obscure and seeking out the rareworld, and surviving all then try to cross the undignified fates the world has in storeMediterranean Sea. He even has a magical companionBy himself. He will be open to any challenge set upon him, from locating dragon-smiting swords to besting the largest, most locally loved, rivalAt twelve. He is RutabagaAnd, and even if he ismakes it, of course, a chef.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419715976</amazonuk>how will he find his sister?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Millar and John Romita JrMiller_Batman|title=Kick-Ass 3Batman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello
|rating=3.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=At the start of this book, Hit-Girl Batman is stuck in a super-max prison (donnot playing ball. He't ask why)s been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the baddies he usually biffs. The entire east coast Mafia command is up for grabs (you donBut then he't need to ask why s not Batman Hit-Girl killed most of them herself). As for Dave, or Kick-Ass, he's failing. He has a whole cohort of other super-heroesshe, which and she finally comes up with the news that Batman died in this world means dweebish fans her hands. Elsewhere, Lara, the daughter of comics Superman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with a stupid costume yet no power other than shrinking and expanding life to the determination to do well for societyminiaturised city of Kandor, but they're the last vestige of Kryptonian existence not going anywhereto fly about in visible blue pants. They're not spotting crime or solving conspiraciesWhat with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a sulk, and they're certainly not getting their colleague and mentor Hit-Girl out of jail. Dave could in actual fact Batman dead, there would appear to be little in danger the way of help for the most heinous crime world should anything nasty happen – but then, of all – growing up.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783290870</amazonuk>course, something nasty does happen… s
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter A DavidWeeks_Gritterman|title=The Avengers VaultGritterman|author=Orlando Weeks|rating=35
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=ItThere'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 just because his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the third richest take of any movie is about to get van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a sequel that we have this pictorial background guideGritterman. There have been decades of action featuring The fibreglass 99s on the main characters of The Avengersroof light up and rotate, and they themselves are fifty years old as playing a collective entitytune, so this book whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the van's last trip. The council has a lot of ground to coversent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. To its benefit there are hardly any mentions of the global behemoth that are Marvel films these daysDying profession, beyond a couple of references where relevantthey say. Instead weThere're looking back, with bright and eager eyes, to see what we s even a tarmac now that can findde-ice itself, what but the beginner may need Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to know, and what live in a world where the fan will have fond memories ofB2116 doesn't need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781313989</amazonuk>
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