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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]]==Graphic novels==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hunt Emerson and Kevin JacksonEdel Rodriguez|title=Dante's InfernoWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey

|summary=It seems incredibly rightWe're in childhood, on only the third page of this textand we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, that the Divine Comedy should be transferred to the black and whiteCastro, cartoonish side first thought of as a saviour of the graphic novel formatcountry, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Our venturing hero encounters the 'leopard of malice and fraud'Well, the 'lion those hours-long speeches of violence and ambition' and the 'she-wolf his were kind of avarice and incontinencetaking his time away. Our narrator', and leaves bemoaning s family weren''living t in a world the happiest of symbolism''. You could see places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the beasts illustrated and captioned by name curving alongside their bodycountry demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, just such as Hogarth may have displayed them, but no, Emerson goes down the path that is less cartoonish Angola) and less newspaper comic strip, and lets the picture father being watched and script stay a bit more separate. But later on he is delving into the more blatantwatched, and immediatenot liked for his successful photography business, by dressing The Furies up as multiple Maggie Thatcherssuccess being frowned upon. The good thing about this book is there is reason for everything in it - from mother gets the examples of artwork I have described, to couple jobs with the fact both creators claim it party to have been 'influenced by childhood reading ease some of MAD magazine'the heat, but in this sultry island country, and a reason it remains the publisher kind of this untouchable classic is known as Knockabout Books.heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861661699</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Grant MorrisonKia Ahankoob|title=Supergods: Our World in The Gold Lion and the Age Tournament of the SuperheroSentinels

|summary=Consider When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the super-hero comichope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Borne out of Each power is contained within a need magical ring belonging to create cheap one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and franchise-friendly content for newspapers in America, their descendants. But itdidn's grown into a billion-dollar industry, with Hollywood jumping on the bandwagon t quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of several major characters now their FX have finally caught up with them and the printed pageeight countries went to war. Disposable? - once upon a time, yet now collectable to Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the tune cost of war too high, a million dollars or moresolution is proposed. Frivolous? - probablyEach of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, yet not exclusively nowknown as sentinels, if ever soto a single combat tournament. At one point here, they are just one product The winner will take possession of all the infinitely powerful imaginary system each of us carries in our brain, rings and at become the other 'ethereal, paper-thin constructs supreme ruler of unfettered imagination'Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099546671</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eddie CampbellPat Grant|title=The Lovely Horrible StuffGrot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters

|summary=MoneyEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, in amongst all and that includes the punk bands. There are three pedallers at the front of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the cliched things it doesswamp to Falter City, makes for peciluar detail for where a graphic novelist like Eddie Campbell mother and her two sons aim to include in set up a book about ityoghurt factory. He has to make himself a company to qualify You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for creating this is a Batman strip to earn it, really rough-and has to pay $4 to buy $1 to draw (- then claim ready dump of a place, but everyone is interested in small things that grow. For the tax back on only money to be had – the purchase only fortunes to save himself some be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that – well, the use of it)is never really made clear. It causes friction when his daughter earns too muchOnce there, and when his wife's dad spends too much in the two brothers set themselves each up with a legal pursuit to have guide – Lippy, the moreforward-thinking, industrious of the two, with a besuited gent, Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. In But which of the two will come off the second half of worse as they make their own way in this book it causes a journalistic piece of non-fiction as he takes a look at Pacific islanders who used mandystopian, semi-sized stone discs as currency.Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1603091521</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maarten vande WieleLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=ParisTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=In I never really followed the category events of graphic novels not to be seen reading Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in publicthe second half of their teens has other priorities, Paris is way up thereyou know. With a gaudy pink I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and silver glitz cover, hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and a lot the birth of blowjobs and sex insidethe Tank Man image, itI didn's not one t know how the area had long been a venue for the daily commute. Butpolitical protest, even though itand I didn's subject matter is merely t know more than a spit about the unlikely choice of the rags-to-riches-to-rags tale of three Parisian starlets, it is certainly worth a decent perusalpeople involved on either side. Hope was a juvenile beauty queen, and could now work This book is practically flawless in fashion were it not for scars due to giving a car crash, and Faith wishes general browser's context for the vicarious life whole season of pop stardom, and it's no spoiler to report who and what they find will disappoint them. Chastity, the most sarcastically-named character protests back in comix, is happy enough destroying herself1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861661737</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicolas de CrecyLeigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Celestial BibendumGraphic Novel|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Diana, being unique on her island, is the victim of a 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 strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of Men, and this Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...|isbn=1401282555}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1401286208|title=Black Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee

|summary=Diego Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, and seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, she is new desperate to townfind her voice. HeBut it's actually more a sealcase of her voice finding her, on crutches, but don't raise an eyebrow as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at that - you won't have enough left to raise at what followsschool her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a weapon, when he is hounded by or a singing professorial claque who go about grooming him power. But in order for being her to call herself a very publicsuperhero, hopeful figure. Observing all of this is the devil (there has to be a dwarf in check dungarees, whole path of course), who wants Diego steps for his own purposes...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661753</amazonuk>her to take – one of which will be into her past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Kindt1401280048|title=RevolverBatman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose|rating=54

|summary=Meet Sam. He has The young man called Bruce Wayne is a rather dull lifevery noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, with a materialistic girlfriendpaparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he's a job in billionaire at the arse-end age of celebrity journalism and a boss eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he can't stand. All of which is preferential to waking up and finding s inherited from his home city under attack - munitions going offmurdered parents, skyscrapers burning and people falling from themhe wants to do charitable deeds. He ends up fleeing with said editorBut one night, only to wake the next day back when he speeds off in this world. He will indeed fall to being snatched from each reality his posh new car in turn, at set times pursuit of daya criminal, forced to suffer consumerism in onehe goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, looting and gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in anotherthe home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, basic pay raises herea gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, producing Samizdat bare-bones journalism for survivors thereand murder the owner. But always with enough time Can he get close to ask one of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the important questions young do- how, and whygooder?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401222412</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bill Willingham1401283292|title=FablesHarley Quinn: Legends in Exile - Vol 01|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Forced out of the Homelands by the evil Adversary, the characters in Fables have made their way to New York City. Those of them who look relatively human, at least. With Old King Cole as Mayor (in name, at least, despite his deputy Snow White running the show), Bigby Wolf as the Sheriff, and Prince Charming being, well, charming, towards every woman he can, these are characters you'll already know and love – but portrayed in a way that completely reinvigorates them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1563899426</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBreaking Glass|author=Alan Moore Mariko Tamaki and Dave Gibbons|title=Watchmen|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The Comedian is dead. In a world where costumed vigilantes have been outlawed and former superheroes are either retired or working for the government, the murder of his former teammate leads the outlaw Rorschach to investigate. What he finds could change the world...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1852860243</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ray Fawkes|title=One SoulSteve Pugh|rating=43.5

|summary=When reading this it soon becomes very clear we're reading not one, but nineteen, storiesHarleen Quinzel is new in town. With each page divided into a regular 3x3 grid there are eighteen images on each double page spreadShe always, and every one shows an episodeto me, or a beatseems new in town, of a different charactereven if she's life in turnbeen around a long time, from being for she always has a babe-in-arms very fresh attitude, and seems to deathlook out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. HoweverBut here she is new in town, and the way they join up - everyone's figurative moment comes at once, at times the artist's heavy black ink makes all eighteen images coincide into one image - proves there town is Gotham City. Expecting a separateyear-long furlough from life with her mother, individual tale around she finds her gran dead and behind the others, one which will end herself with the most delightful moral - that the ability no option but to be anything one imagines is in our DNAstay with a bunch of drag queens.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1934964662</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Lucas|title=The Lying Carpet|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=There She also finds school is a room in drag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big old house where nothing moves but the insectsimpact on her life. An empty chair sits to one side, One is a stone statue of a girl civil-minded lass called, and representing, FaithIvy, the other. In between is someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a tiger rug. What potential is in that mind for the setting of a charming book? What potential indeed...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390177</amazonuk>violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot140128339X|title=Dotter of Her Father's EyesMera: Tidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne

|summary=If there's one person able to produce a worthwhile potted history of James Joyce's daughter, it should be Mary M TalbotMeet Mera. She's an eminent academic, and her father was a major Joycean scholar. Both females had parents with the same names too - James and Nora, both took to the stage when younger after going to dance school, but it's the contrasts between them this volume subtly picks out rather than any similarities, latest in a dual biography painted by line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one person we know by now as more than able to produce a delightful graphic novel - [[:Category:Bryan Talbot|Bryan Talbot]]only they can see for themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096087</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peter O'Donnell|title=Modesty Blaise: Live Bait|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're back in Her father, the gritty yet glamorous world king of Modesty Blaise - at leastXebel, as gritty sees some cotton wool and glamorous as you could get in the Evening Standard daily comic strip in the late 1980s. Titan have had a mammoth undertaking to reproduce all the original strips hunky man in handy large-format graphic novel compendia, and this latest covers three stories, an arranged marriage as her future – after all 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]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686682</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patricia McKissack, Frederick L McKissack Jr and Randy DuBurke|title=Best Shot in the West|rating=4|genre=ChildrenMera's Non-Fiction|summary='We're going to do the real Westmother, Nat. You're as real as the rest of territory'em - Bat Mastersons warrior queen, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill, the Earps.' So says a publisher to a lowly railroad porter, Natis long dead. But if this guyMera doesn's as real as t fancy the rest of those famous names, why does his not trip off cosseting or 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 of Julius Chancer v. 3|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Here we are, then, ten years after the debut of this graphic novel on the Internet, fella involved at all and finally the print trilogy is complete. At last we can see if our hero Julius, his chumsin fact, the shady Government people, and his enemy’s beautiful assassin aide who remains impossible to shrug off, manage trying to get anywhere near Xebel out from under the fabled titular plant in its secret Himalayan locationcosh of Atlantean power, and just how important it has been for all those many people left back in EnglandXebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. It’s been a rollercoaster ride, and it’s been worth it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405255994</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gary Crew and Shaun Tan|title=The Viewer|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The story concerns a young lad who loves scavenging and exploring. Finding a Hellraiser-styled box of tricks contains a Viewmaster-type machine, he puts it So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to his eyes and sees something a lot more serious than, say, a Thunderbirds episode in thirty 3D images, which was all I ever saw in mine. Instead, Tristan sees nothing but death and destruction, and a compelling sense the world of us air- well, something.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0734411898</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Art Spiegelman|title=MetaMAUS|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Before the Holocaust was turned into [[The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne|a child-like near-fable for all]]breathing humans, and before it was kill the focus of superb history books such as [[Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder|this]]Atlantis heir, it became a family saga of a father relating his experiences she rushes off to a son, who then drew it all - featuring animals not humans - [[Maus by Art Spiegelman|Maus]]. To celebrate the twenty-five years since then, we have this brilliant look back at get the creation of an equally brilliant volume.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670916838</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Harry Thompson|title=Tintin: Herge and His Creation|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=I love Tintin. I love his quiff quest (and his innocence, his plus-fours and his foreign adventures, I love Snowy the dog and most of promised throne) all I love Captain Haddock and the flamboyance of his blistering barnacles languagefor herself. So I was thrilled to see a biography But of the character and Hergécourse, his creatorshe has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and I picked how hard it up with enthusiasm. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546726</amazonuk>will be to get the job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Khaled Hosseini1401286399|title=Super Sons: The Kite Runner (Graphic Novel)PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=A confession. If thereIt's one book I'm not likely to readthe near future, it's that which everyone else and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is readingin need of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. If it turns into a hugely popular film for all But the left-wing chattering classes to rave overrising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, then that's just more grist forcing many people to my mill – I'll always have a chance to catch up on it later on, even if I never take that opportunity. I'm not alone relocate in acting like this – see a friend and colleagueAmerica's similar admission when reviewing [[White Teeth by Zadie Smith]]biggest exodus for decades. But at leastSuperman is helping out, through the medium of the graphic novelcourse – first, he was patching up the book reviewing gods have conspired to let me see just what I'm missingdams, with this adaptation, by Italian artists, of a hugely successful – and therefore delayable – novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815257</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|title=The Comic Strip Big Fat Book of Knowledge|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Who doesnbut now he't like s mining the asteroid belt for a nice comic, eh? Thererare dust that's something so accessible about perfect for blocking the lovely picture and text combos, and facts are far solar energy from dull when they come via speech bubblesmaking further polar ice melt. Inland, don't you think? Taking full advantage of this factin Wyndermere, Sally Kindberg the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and Tracey Turner have, intolerance for some timebeing newcomers, been creating factual books for children which pass on their insight and Important Information through but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the medium of comicscity. Now for the first time, you But it can collect 3 't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of their titles in one simple volume. Combining the previous reviewed [[The Comic Strip History of the World by Sally Kindberg flood barriers and Tracey Turner|History of the World]] and [[The Comic Strip History of Space by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|History of Space]] with efforts to correct the ''Greatest Greek Myths''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808242</amazonuk>climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin O'Neill and Alan Moore168369015X|title=The League of Extraordinary GentlemenManfried the Man: Century 1969|rating=3|genre=A Graphic NovelsNovel|summaryauthor=So much for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Of the three main protagonists available for this adventure, one and a half are female! Anyway, Bram Stoker's Mina, Woolf's Orlando Caitlin Major and Allan Quartermain are in London at the height of the swinging 60s, amidst rumours that a new attempt at birthing an Antichrist is about to occur. Certainly, the evil they've faced the last several decades will soon get a new face...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661621</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Winshluss|title=PinocchioKelly Bastow

|summary=ImagineIn a world where cats stand on two feet, if you willgo to work at call centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, Disneyis Manfried. He's film of Pinocchio had been animated by a crew of artists hell-bent on sabotaging the prospect. Painterly frames of beauty would be rare in amongst grittytypical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, grimydemanding more food than he can suitably eat, shadowy images of nightmarish contentbut at the same time being the perfect companion for his owner, which took it upon themselves to break into black and whiteSteve Catson. To such an extent that Steve, or sepia. The prologue might have a character forcing who is getting known for his man-oriented thinking, is actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''crazy man cat to join in at Russian Roulette''. Geppetto would be accompanied in the leviathanBut when a window gets left open by mistake, in one of the rare tuneful segmentsand Manfried goes missing, by a penguin playing the piano. And this after the proud inventor was trying to sell Pinocchio as only thing for it is a prototype robotic supermassive and energised man-weapon, just as his wife was putting Pinocchio's most distinctive feature to a most unexpected use... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661729</amazonuk>hunt…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aviv RatzinHainsworth_Gina|title=Dreams and Everyday Life|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Well, thank you, Aviv Ratzin - you've provided me with the one book I'm least capable of summarising for a review. I can't begin Talking to pithily precis the plot, or describe the happenings 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>}} {{newreviewGina|author=Allen Ginsberg|title=Howl: A Graphic NovelOttilie Hainsworth

|summary=I first came across Howl as a short film animating one of Ginsberg's own recordings of it'This is what happened. '' If memory serves, it was An artist decided she needed a scratchy, jazzy piece, full dog – so drove the length of spikythe country, spunky shapes and movementsBrighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and low on colourone working eye. Now for 2011 and for Penguin Modern Classics' Why not? The first ever night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn'graphic novelt and causes a mess, so it' comes s not a very different animationgreat start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. OKAnd then, the real moving animation is only life with Gina begins to be seen 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 was in the movie Howllove.'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, but to call this merely an illustrated companion two children and two cats – gets to form the film is to be very unflatteringfamily they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141195703</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley FairfieldColfer_Illegal|title=TyrannyIllegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin

|summary=The [[Grandville by Bryan Talbot|first book]] in this series didnEbo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn't end particularly well for DI LeBrock, know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thing. So Ebo has to attempt the badger who works for Scotland Yardsame dangerous journey himself. At least He must cross the main problemSahara Desert, 'Mad Dog' Mastockget himself to Tripoli, was sentenced to one of the guillotine. But most dangerous cities in the prologue here he bursts out of his quandaryworld, and once more causes problems for LeBrock - this time by slaughtering some Parisian prostitutesthen try to cross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. 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 perilif he makes it, how will he find his sister?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090003</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neville Colvin and Peter O'DonnellMiller_Batman|title=Modesty BlaiseBatman: Sweet CarolineDark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello

|summary=Meet Modesty BlaiseBatman is not playing ball. YouHe've had countless opportunities to meet her befores been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, mind - and not the baddies he usually biffs. But then he's not Batman – he's a she was daily in the London Evening Standard from 1963 to 2001, and this is she finally comes up with the eighteenth collection of news that Batman died in her comic striphands. She's a feistyElsewhere, Lara, the daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, unfettered femme fatale is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with a bottomless fortune shrinking and a great supply expanding life to the miniaturised city of Kandor, the last vestige of both friends and enemiesKryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. We see these combine here What with Superman sitting idle in four stories, when an enterprising gang exposed Fortress of murderous blackmailers force Modesty to become their enemy, an old friend's name is used to dupe her Solitude having gone into letting go her criminal secrets from her pasta sulk, and when a new-found friendBatman dead, fresh from saving her life there would appear to be little in a gliding accidentthe way of help for the world should anything nasty happen – but then, of course, comes up against some hoodlums.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566735</amazonuk>something nasty does happen… s

 {{newreview|author=Joshua Dysart, Cliff Chiang and Dave Stewart|title=Neil Young's Greendale|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's 2003. Alaska is about to get raped, and Iraqis killed, for the sake of providing power for the USA. Which is ironic, as only before this is Sun Green a powerless young woman, and after it - well, she might have a very different kind of power. A mystical sort of girl, with a great affinity to nature, 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>}} {{newreview|author=Garen Ewing|title=The Rainbow Orchid: 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>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith 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-Ass|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Dave. The average Joe personified, he sits at home with his internet connection, his comics collection, his dad, and very little contact with anyone else. He is a typical loner teenager, nearly friendless, wears glasses at school - especially around the hot, mature biology teacher who for some reason seems to have maths sums on her blackboard... Until one day he decides to emulate the comics in his collection. The only superheroes in his world are those whose colourful adventures he follows on the page - why not get his own costume mucked up, and go and fight crime?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565356</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phoebe Reeves MurrayWeeks_Gritterman|title=Ghost: Blood and Fire|rating=1.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Young Jennifer Rhys has been orphaned by the evilDark Angels. They can possess people and bite off their hands, andthere's something about living tattoos which you can take out of boxesand paste into your skin. After growing up in an adolescentpsychiatric ward, she will grow up to go on and confront them andfulfil her destiny. Or something like that. Between the huge amount ofpoorly drawn characters, the leaden prose, and the disappointingpictures of computerized 3-D models, I got lost a few times 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, for the contents are so obviously and uniquely theirs. Will Eisner is one such person, 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 of his black and white inkwork, and his easily drawn but realistic characters, more easily than any other sequential artist. That trademark signature on the cover, surely the most well-known in 'comic strips' outside Mr Disney's empire, is hardly necessary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera |title=Dark Entries|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The producers of Dark Entries, the latest hit reality TV show, are worried. Yes the six housemates are there, present and correct, and are ready to be scared witless en route to the one way out, and the brilliant prize that might await them somewhere in the merry-go-round of horror that is their new home. They are already being scared witless, by phantoms - but that's nothing to do with the TV producers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dean Hale, Shannon Hale and Nathan Hale |title=Calamity Jack|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''I was born to scheme'', declares our hero Jack. With flashbacks we see the young lad and a pixie friend, larking about for revenge or small profit. But when his mother's bakery gets more and more into the red, the size of the profit has to increase. And when you add in revenge against the local crime lord - a giant of a man - so does the size of the target of the jape.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587426</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGritterman|author=Robert Crumb|title=Robert Crumb's Book of Genesis: All 50 ChaptersOrlando Weeks|rating=4.5

|summary=There's a man who has an ice cream van. In the beginning was the picture. Just think summer, what there is of all the countless religious imagessummer, both inside and outside religious establishmentshe uses it to sell ice creams, designed to convey the message to those who could That's not read. Art and religion have always been linkedhis vocation though, which is probably one of but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the main reasons I stayed an atheist - I hated art at school, van becomes a Gritting Van and drawing our narrator becomes a man Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up and rotate, playing a donkeytune, something way beyond my skillswhether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the van's last trip. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, was not they say. There's even a task I appreciatedtarmac now that can de-ice itself, hence my dislike of both subjectsbut the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a world where the B2116 doesn't need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224078097</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Guy Delisle|title=Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Guy. He's a French-Canadian animator, leaving home for a short stay in the capital of one of the world's most intriguing, unknown and alien cultures - Pyongyang, North Korea - so he can work Move on a TV cartoon co-production. Forced to stay in one of the three official hotels designed for foreigners, so that the locals and people such as he do not have to mix, he see glimpses of the unique socialist dictatorship, stunning views of the buildings forced through the poverty, and thousands of unreadable faces.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224079905</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Historical Fiction Reviews]]