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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]]==Graphic novels==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter O'DonnellEdel Rodriguez|title=Modesty BlaiseWorm: Live BaitA Cuban American Odyssey

|summary=We're back in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the gritty yet glamorous world country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of Modesty Blaise taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro- at leastCommunism skirmish, such as gritty Angola) and glamorous as you could get in the Evening Standard daily comic strip in the late 1980sfather being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. Titan have had a mammoth undertaking The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to reproduce all ease some of the original strips heat, but in handy large-format graphic novel compendia, and this latest covers three storiessultry island country, all it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of which I consider greater in depth than those in the other volume I've reviewed - [[Modesty Blaise: Sweet Caroline by Neville Colvin and Peter O'Donnell|Sweet Caroline]].kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857686682</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia McKissack, Frederick L McKissack Jr and Randy DuBurkeKia Ahankoob|title=Best Shot in the West|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary='We're going to do the real West, Nat. You're as real as the rest of 'em - Bat Masterson, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill, the Earps.' So says a publisher to a lowly railroad porter, Nat. But if this guy's as real as the rest of those famous names, why does his not trip off The Gold Lion and the tongue? Is it purely because as the most famous African-American cowboy, he still was not allowed to be as famous as he should?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0811857492</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Garen Ewing|title=The Rainbow Orchid: Adventures Tournament of Julius Chancer v. 3Sentinels

|summary=Here we areWhen Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, theneach with its own strength and weakeness, ten years after in the debut hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of this graphic novel on 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 them and the Internet, eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finally finding the print trilogy cost of war too high, a solution is completeproposed. At last we can see if our hero Julius, his chums, Each of the shady Government peopleeight countries will send their greatest warriors, and his enemy’s beautiful assassin aide who remains impossible to shrug offknown as sentinels, manage to get anywhere near a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the fabled titular plant in its secret Himalayan location, rings and just how important it has been for all those many people left back in England. It’s been a rollercoaster ride, and it’s been worth itbecome the supreme ruler of Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405255994</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary Crew and Shaun TanPat Grant|title=The ViewerGrot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters

|summary=Before the Holocaust was turned into [[The Boy Everything in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne|a childthis world runs on pedal-like near-fable for all]]power, and before it was that includes the punk bands. There are three pedallers at the focus front of superb history books such as [[Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, where a mother and Stalin by Timothy Snyder|her two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for this]], it became is a family saga really rough-and-ready dump of a father relating his experiences place, but everyone is interested in small things that grow. For the only money to a sonbe had – the only fortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that – well, who then drew the use of it all - featuring animals not humans - [[Maus by Art Spiegelman|Maus]]is never really made clear. To celebrate Once there, the two brothers set themselves each up with a guide – Lippy, the twentymore forward-five years since thenthinking, we have this brilliant look back at industrious of the creation two, with a besuited gent, Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of an equally brilliant volume.the two will come off the worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670916838</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Harry Thompson|title=Tintin: Herge and His Creation|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=I love Tintin. I love his quiff and his innocenceLun Zhang, his plus-fours and his foreign adventuresAdrien Gombeaud, I love Snowy the dog Ameziane and most of all I love Captain Haddock and the flamboyance of his blistering barnacles language. So I was thrilled to see a biography of the character and Hergé, his creator, and I picked it up with enthusiasm. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546726</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Khaled HosseiniEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=The Kite Runner (Graphic Novel)Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating=4.5

|summary=A confessionI never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. If there's one book Icertainly didn'm not likely to readt 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 that which everyone else is reading. If it turns into t know how the area had long been a hugely popular film venue for all the left-wing chattering classes to rave overpolitical protest, then thatand I didn's just t know more grist to my mill – I'll always have than a chance to catch up spit about the people involved on it later on, even if I never take that opportunityeither side. I'm not alone This book is practically flawless in acting like this – see giving a friend and colleaguegeneral browser's similar admission when reviewing [[White Teeth by Zadie Smith]]. But at least, through context for the medium whole season of the graphic novel, the book reviewing gods have conspired to let me see just what I'm missing, with this adaptation, by Italian artists, of a hugely successful – and therefore delayable – novelprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815257</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally Kindberg Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Tracey TurnerKit Seaton|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Comic Strip Big Fat Book of Knowledge|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Who doesn't like a nice comic, eh? There's something so accessible about the lovely picture and text combos, and facts are far from dull when they come via speech bubbles, don't you think? Taking full advantage of this fact, Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner have, for some time, been creating factual books for children which pass on their insight and Important Information through the medium of comics. Now for the first time, you can collect 3 of their titles in one simple volume. Combining the previous reviewed [[The Comic Strip History of the World by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|History of the World]] and [[The Comic Strip History of Space by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|History of Space]] with the ''Greatest Greek Myths''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808242</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kevin O'Neill and Alan Moore|title=The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969Novel

|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=So much for Diana, being unique on her island, is the League victim of a lot of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Of the three main protagonists available for this adventuretaunts, one and a half are female! claims of nepotism. Anyway, Bram StokerIt's Minaonly her unique status, Woolf's Orlando and Allan Quartermain are in London at the height of the swinging 60sher mother being Queen, amidst rumours that a new attempt has her with any standing at birthing an Antichrist is about all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to occurbe a strong young woman. Certainly, Perhaps too strong for the evil they've faced the last several decades will soon get a new face...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661621</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Winshluss|title=Pinocchio|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Imagineisland, if you will, Disney's film of Pinocchio had been animated by a crew of artists hell-bent on sabotaging however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the prospect. Painterly frames World of beauty would be rare in amongst grittyMen, grimy, shadowy images and this Diana is the heroine of nightmarish content, which took it upon themselves to break into black and white, or sepiayet another Wonder Woman origin story. The prologue might have A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a character forcing his cat to join in at Russian Roulette. Geppetto would be accompanied in the leviathan, in one of the rare tuneful segmentsrunning race, by a penguin playing but the piano. And this after survivor she drags from the proud inventor was trying waters is only going to sell Pinocchio as disturb a prototype robotic super-weapon, just as his wife was putting Pinocchio's most distinctive feature to a most unexpected uselot more... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861661729</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aviv Ratzin1401286208|title=Dreams Black Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Everyday LifeCara McGee

|summary=Well, thank you, Aviv Ratzin - you've provided me with the one book I'm least capable of summarising for a reviewMeet Dinah Lance. I can't begin Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to pithily precis the plot, or describe the happenings try and follow in any quick, snappy way. To give the gist of the surreal, scattershot whimsicality cannot do the contents justice in any way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808871</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Allen Ginsberg|title=Howl: A Graphic Novel|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I first came across Howl as a short film animating one of Ginsberg's own recordings of it. If memory serveshis footsteps, it was a scratchy, jazzy piece, full of spiky, spunky shapes and movements, and low on colour. Now for 2011 and for Penguin Modern Classics' first ever 'graphic novel' comes seemingly lumbered with being a very different animation. OKcheerleader at school, the real moving animation is only to be seen in the movie Howl, but to call this merely an illustrated companion to the film she is desperate to be very unflattering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141195703</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lesley Fairfield|title=Tyranny|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=As Tyranny shakes find her - ''I '''TOLD''' you not to eat! You are '''TOO''' fat!'' - Anna thinks backvoice. She used to take joy in life. She used to dream of a bright future - a career, boyfriends, children - but But it all went wrong when she hit puberty. She wasn't keen on on the curves of her new, s actually more womanly body. When she looked in the mirror, she didn't see an hourglass figure developing; she saw fat and flab. Deaf to the warnings a case of her parents and voice finding her boyfriend, as when she listened to Tyranny and entered into the desperate, downward cycle of anorexiagets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331139</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Petersen|title=Mouse Guard: Legends of The Guard|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=To start withYou could almost call it a weapon, I have never heard of Mr Petersen and his Mouse Guard franchiseor a power. But I'm often up in order for an introduction her to call herself a fantasy cyclesuperhero, and I always relish being welcomed there has to an author by the most esoteric, unusual, quirky and short route. My first entry to the His Dark Materials world was [[Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman|be a collector's spin-off]], and I'm just as likely to start the Twilight series, if ever, with the latest brief whimsy. And for those of a similar mind-set, this collection of tales from the pens whole path of guest writers and illustrators, serves as an odd-shaped doorway on to this particular universe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681427</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jonathan Stroud|title=The Amulet of Samarkand|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When you summon a demon the last thing you want is steps for you her to lose power over it - for the shoe to end up on the other foot. Especially when the demon shifts shape and is currently an eight-legged spider. That's what's happened to young Nathaniel, having summoned Bartimaeus for a task take – one of vengeance. But perhaps it's worst of all when you have to rely on the same demon's help to protect you from an even greater evil - the wicked intent of a fellow man.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563706</amazonuk>which will be into her past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denise Mina and Antonio Fuso1401280048|title=A Sickness in the FamilyBatman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose

|summary=In Eton Terrance there lives The young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at the age of eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the Usher familylegacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, in a house above a basement flat where a gangster holds sway over a Polish "girlfriend"he wants to do charitable deeds. After But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a bloodbath in therecriminal, he goes too far as far as the Ushers expand downwardsauthorities are concerned, clearing a cavernous hole and gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in their the home where a staircase for violent criminals that is due to goArkham Asylum. This is not There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the only crack in proceedingsNightwalkers, howevera gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, as we soon discover while witnessing and murder the fall owner. Can he get close to one of this House them and get the truth of Usher.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848564163</amazonuk>their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bryan Talbot1401283292|title=Grandville Mon Amour|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The [[Grandville by Bryan Talbot|first book]] in this series didn't end particularly well for DI LeBrock, the badger who works for Scotland Yard. At least the main problem, 'Mad Dog' Mastock, was sentenced to the guillotine. But in the prologue here he bursts out of his quandary, and once more causes problems for LeBrock - this time by slaughtering some Parisian prostitutes. Are they linked? What might their story be? And is there a darker part of the past yet to come out of some secretive hiding place, and cause even more danger and peril?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090003</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Neville Colvin Mariko Tamaki and Peter O'Donnell|title=Modesty Blaise: Sweet CarolineSteve Pugh

|summary=Meet Modesty BlaiseHarleen Quinzel is new in town. You've had countless opportunities She always, to meet her beforeme, mind - she was daily seems new in the London Evening Standard from 1963 to 2001town, and this is the eighteenth collection of her comic strip. Sheeven if she's been around a feistylong time, unfettered femme fatale with for she always has a bottomless fortune very fresh attitude, and a great supply seems to look out of both friends and enemiesthose large eyes at everything anew each time. We see these combine But here she is new in four storiestown, when an enterprising gang of murderous blackmailers force Modesty to become their enemy, an old friend's name and the town is used to dupe her into letting go her criminal secrets from her past, and when Gotham City. Expecting a newyear-found friend, fresh long furlough from saving life with her life in a gliding accidentmother, comes up against some hoodlums.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566735</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joshua Dysart, Cliff Chiang she finds her gran dead and Dave Stewart|title=Neil Young's Greendale|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's 2003. Alaska is about herself with no option but to get raped, and Iraqis killed, for the sake stay with a bunch of providing power for the USAdrag queens. Which She also finds school is ironica drag, as only before this she also finds the whole neighbourhood is Sun Green being redeveloped by a powerless young woman, large and after it - well, uncaring corporation – but she might also finds two characters that will have a very different kind of powerbig impact on her life. A mystical sort of girlOne is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a great affinity to naturesingular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, the teenaged Sun has to first solve many blank spaces in her family tree, and work out her nightmares - which might include the strange man new to town.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848567863</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Garen Ewing140128339X|title=The Rainbow OrchidMera: Adventures of Julius Chancer 2|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Oh to be popular - and the rainbow orchid certainly is. If, in fact, it exists at all. A collecting challenge for rare plants might hinge on its recovery, imperial British explorers would like to know the truth about it - and its presence on some mysterious ancient carved tablets hints at some mystical part it may once have played in a superweapon. Hence, where this book starts, everyone - from a film starlet, to a dashing explorer's assistant, to a plucky aviator, to an evil henchwoman of an overweight industrialist - is after it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140525047X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTidebreaker|author=Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith Danielle Paige and Tony Lee|title=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie story of any renown will not remain simply a zombie story. Before you can say ''the risen undead'' it will become a series of books, inspiring others, and/or lead to the same story being published in many different guises. Here, then, on its way to Hollywood, is Jane Austen’s story of Lizzie Bennet, the feisty young woman trying to ignore Mr Darcy while fighting off the ''manky unmentionables'' – at least she is until the hidden truths open up to her, just as the soft soils of Hertfordshire do to yield their once-human remains. And this time it’s in graphic novel form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Millar and John Romita Jr|title=Kick-AssStephen Byrne

|summary=Meet DaveMera. The average Joe personifiedShe'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, he sits at home with his internet connection, his comics collection, his dadthe king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and very little contact with anyone else. He is a typical loner teenagerhunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, nearly friendlessMera's mother, wears glasses at school - especially around the hotterritory's warrior queen, mature biology teacher who for some reason seems to have maths sums on her blackboard..is long dead. Until one day he decides to emulate Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the comics fella involved at all and is, in his collection. The only superheroes in his world are those whose colourful adventures he follows on the page - why not fact, trying to get his own costume mucked up, and go and fight crime?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565356</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Phoebe Reeves Murray|title=Ghost: Blood and Fire|rating=1.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Young Jennifer Rhys has been orphaned by Xebel out from under the evilDark Angels. They can possess people and bite off their handscosh of Atlantean power, andtherefor Xebel's something about living tattoos which you can take out royalty are merely puppets of boxesand paste into your skinAtlantean masters. After growing up in an adolescentpsychiatric ward, So when she will grow up to go on and confront them andfulfil overhears her destiny. Or something like father request that. Between her intended go to the huge amount world ofpoorly drawn charactersus air-breathing humans, and kill the leaden proseAtlantis heir, and she rushes off to get the disappointingpictures of computerized 3-D models, I got lost a few times quest (andcouldn't summon the interest to work out what was going on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808863</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Eisner|title=Life on Another Planet|rating=2.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=There are some people who don't even need their name on their books, promised throne) all for the contents are so obviously and uniquely theirsherself. Will Eisner is one such personBut of course, for the esteem and renown his artwork and pioneering work in the graphic novel form is held under is rightfully his and his alone. I'm quite sure I could recognise a page she has no idea what kind of his black and white inkworkperson she will meet, and his easily drawn but realistic characters, more easily than any other sequential artist. That trademark signature on how hard it will be to get the cover, surely the most well-known in 'comic strips' outside Mr Disney's empire, is hardly necessary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328120</amazonuk>job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera 1401286399|title=Dark EntriesSuper Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=The producers It's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of Dark Entriesa huge flood barrier, the latest hit reality TV show, are worriedbuilt on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. Yes But the six housemates are there, present and correctrising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, and are ready forcing many people to be scared witless en route to the one way relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, and the brilliant prize that might await them somewhere in of course – first, he was patching up the merry-go-round of horror that is their new home. They are already being scared witlessdams, by phantoms - but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that's nothing to do with perfect for blocking the TV producerssolar energy from making further polar ice melt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dean HaleInland, in Wyndermere, Shannon Hale the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and Nathan Hale |title=Calamity Jack|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''I was born to scheme''intolerance for being newcomers, declares our hero Jackbut something else is much worse. With flashbacks we see A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the young lad and a pixie friend, larking about for revenge or small profitcity. But when his motherit can's bakery gets more and more into the red, the size of the profit has t possibly have anything to increase. And when you add in revenge against the local crime lord - a giant do with what looks like sabotage of a man - so does the size of flood barriers and the target of efforts to correct the jape.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587426</amazonuk>climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Crumb168369015X|title=Robert Crumb's Book of GenesisManfried the Man: All 50 ChaptersA Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow

|summary=In the beginning was the picture. Just think of all the countless religious imagesa world where cats stand on two feet, both inside and outside religious establishments, designed go to convey the message to those who could not read. Art work at call centres and religion have always been linkeddiminutive human beings for pets, which is probably one of Manfried. He's a typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at the main reasons I stayed same time being the perfect companion for his owner, Steve Catson. To such an atheist extent that Steve, who is getting known for his man- I hated art at schooloriented thinking, and drawing a is actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''crazy man on cat''. But when a donkeywindow gets left open by mistake, something way beyond my skillsand Manfried goes missing, was not the only thing for it is a task I appreciated, hence my dislike of both subjects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224078097</amazonuk>massive and energised man-hunt…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy DelisleHainsworth_Gina|title=Pyongyang: A Journey in North KoreaTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|summary=Meet Guy''This is what happened. '' He's An artist decided she needed a French-Canadian animator, leaving home for a short stay in dog – so drove the capital length of the country, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one of working eye. Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the worlddog – eats something she shouldn's most intriguing, unknown t and alien cultures - Pyongyangcauses a mess, North Korea - so he can work on it's not a TV cartoon co-productiongreat start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. Forced And then, the life with Gina begins to stay in one of the three official hotels designed for foreignersfeel like too much – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, so that the locals and people such I felt sick, as he do not have to mixif I was in love.'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, he see glimpses of the unique socialist dictatorshipher husband, stunning views of the buildings forced through two children and two cats – gets to form the poverty, family they and thousands of unreadable facesGina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224079905</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Gareth Hinds|title=King Lear|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Hound me out of town in a most appropriate manner, but I do not like King Lear. For me, even as a trained actor, the language is too dense and rich, the set-up too archly unfeasible to create the great tragedy it's thought to be. To my mind the acclaim and esteem in which it's held is only mirrored by its own over-long, over-blown blustering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763643440</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Hughes|title=Thomas Wogan is Dead|rating=4.5Frontpage|genreisbn=Graphic NovelsColfer_Illegal|summary=Well, with a title like that, need I bother with a plot summary? A man has a day out in Morecambe, then the next thing he knows he's in the ultimate waiting room, with a strange array of animals (a bat, a toad, a sea urchin...), all waiting for... well, something. Yup, as you didn't need telling, he's dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095580888X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewIllegal|author=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris Grimly|title=Tales of Death Eoin Colfer and DementiaAndrew Donkin

|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan PoeEbo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn't know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thing. So Ebo has to attempt the same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the Sahara Desert, master get himself to Tripoli, one of the gothic horror short storymost dangerous cities in the world, and Gris Grimlythen try to cross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And, outstanding illustratoreven if he makes it, known for how will he find his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]. Poe's ''Tales of Death and Dementia'' are shown off at their very best in this edition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>sister?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bryan Talbot Miller_Batman|title=Grandville|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A dead body found in rural England leads D I LeBrock to urban France, where he is destined to unravel a conspiracy of revolution, treason, and propaganda of potentially global reach. What is the truth behind the fall of a famous tower under air attack a few years ago? Why are so many suspicious suicides coming to attention? And will LeBrock be helped or hindered by his being, as his name suggests, a badger?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224084887</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBatman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Will Eisner |title=Minor Miracles|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=This short story collection starts with two appetisers before getting on with two main courses, but as with the best meals even the smallest dishes can have the most depth. We start with the entire life cycle - rise, fall, rise, fall - of a hobo feeding pigeons in the park. Obviously he hasn't been doing that all his years - he's been keeping his dignity intact, with a huge amount of chutzpah Frank Miller and more. Next, a smart Alec defeats the older kids on the stoop with a bit of canny street wisdom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328147</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Eisner |title=A Family MatterBrian Azzarello

|summary=Some sonsBatman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, some daughtersand not the baddies he usually biffs. But then he's not Batman – he's a she, even a shyand she finally comes up with the news that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, semi-abandoned great nephewLara, are all gathering in the home daughter of a ninety year old stroke victim for what may be Superman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to the miniaturised city of Kandor, the last birthday celebration. It seems like they are all licking their lips at the thought vestige of a future inheritanceKryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. We've heard before What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a nuclear familysulk, is this one about and Batman dead, there would appear to get too radioactive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328139</amazonuk>be little in the way of help for the world should anything nasty happen – but then, of course, something nasty does happen… s

 [[Category:Science Fiction]]{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Luna and Joshua Luna Weeks_Gritterman|title=Girls Volume 1: Conception|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Ethan, we see with a great, broad comic stroke or six, is not the best when it comes to girls. Letting his mouth run away with him too often, he is not very successful at relationships. But let us look at what happens when he drives away from an altercation at the local bar, and sees a gorgeous - and very naked - young woman standing in the middle of the road.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1582405298</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Gritterman|author=Tony Lee and Sam Hart |title=Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood (Heroes & Heroines Graphic)Orlando Weeks|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Here, Robin Hood is the Earl of Huntington, a man tempered by bitterness encountered as a youth, trained by skills honed with an apparent need for vengeance. He's out crusading, when he learns just the beginning of the story of what is wrong in Nottinghamshire. Returning, he meets John Little, and soon falls into the robbing/giving cycle we know and love him for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406308870</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle |title=Graphic Classics, Volume 17: Science Fiction Classics|rating=4

|summary=So, There's a man who has an introductionice cream van. The Graphic Classics collection In summer, what there is a series whereby the best in genre fictionof summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, from sources both highly likely and remarkably unexpectedThat's not his vocation though, is collected but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and dressed our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up for us in graphic novel form. This seventeenth editionand rotate, playing a belated besttune, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight -of sciChristmas Eve -fi volume, is their first foray into full colour, and is headlined by a version of will be the van's last trip. The War of council has sent the Worldsletter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, they say. The supporting material ranges from There's even a onetarmac now that can de-page strip ice itself, but the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to thirty-page storieslive in a world where the B2116 doesn't need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0978791975</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Shaun Tan |title=The Arrival|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A man gathers a last memento or two before taking his suitcase in hand, saying farewell Move on to his wife and daughter at the train station, and leaving for the docks to get the boat to the promised land. Once arrived, he finds strangeness everywhere - the food, the language, the immigration procedures, and the lodgings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0439895294</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Historical Fiction Reviews]]