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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frank Miller and Brian AzzarelloEdel Rodriguez|title=BatmanWorm: Dark Knight III: The Master RaceA Cuban American Odyssey|rating=3.54

|summary=Batman is We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing ballfield for all. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemenWell, and not the baddies he usually biffsthose hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. But then heOur narrator's not Batman – hefamily weren's a she, and she finally comes up with the news that Batman died t in her hands. Elsewhere, Lara, the daughter happiest of Superman and Wonder Womanplaces here, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and expanding life to the miniaturised city of Kandorfather being watched and watched, the last vestige of Kryptonian existence and not to fly about in visible blue pantsliked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. What The mother gets the couple jobs with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress the party to ease some of Solitude having gone into a sulkthe heat, and Batman deadbut in this sultry island country, there would appear to be little in it remains the way kind of heat forcing you out of help for the world should anything nasty happen – but then, of course, something nasty does happen…kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1401265138</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Orlando WeeksKia Ahankoob|title=The GrittermanGold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels|rating=54

|summary=There's a man who has an ice cream van. In summer, what there is of summer, When Myriad created Duniva he uses it to sell ice creams, That's not endowed his vocation thoughchildren with different powers, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for wintereach with its own strength and weakeness, when in the van becomes hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a Gritting Van dynamic and our narrator becomes a Grittermanprosperous society. The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up and rotate, playing Each power is contained within a tune, whether the vanmagical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's gritting or selling ice creamschildren and their descendants. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the vanBut it didn's last tript quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. The council has sent Enmities grew out of them and the letter about his services no longer being requiredeight countries went to war. Global warmingHaving fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, a solution is proposed. Dying professionEach of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, they say. There's even a tarmac now that can de-ice itselfknown as sentinels, but the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a world where single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the B2116 doesn't need grittingrings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184614955X</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mathieu Reynes, Valerie Vernay and Jeremy Melloul (translator)Pat Grant|title=Water MemoryThe Grot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters|rating=4.5

|summary=Despite Everything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the title, it seems punk bands. There are three pedallers at first the memories here are much more earthyfront of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, for Caroline has brought where a mother and her young daughter two sons aim to the place she herself left as set up a toddleryoghurt factory. The move has been caused by You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for this is a breakreally rough-up, and it's just the two -ready dump of them a place, but everyone is interested in small things that grow. For the only money to be had – the family unitonly fortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that – well, making a fresh start (with the help use of a kindly old neighbour) in an old house on a promontory of the Brittany coastit is never really made clear. Young Marion soon discovers Once there, the clifftops are peppered two brothers set themselves each up with strange standing stonesa guide – Lippy, with even stranger figuresthe more forward-thinking, initials and dates carved on to them. She also soon works out there is a way to get across a causeway at low tide to industrious of the local lighthousetwo, manned as it is by with a gruffbesuited gent, surly old man. But while Caroline's beginning anew starts Penn with a nice local job, things are slowly getting more creepyballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. Large sea creatures are beaching themselves, But which of the stones' imagery is found in even stranger places - and two will come off the lighthousekeeper seems to hold darker secrets. What memory could possibly be worse as they make their own way in this stormdystopian, semi-drenched landApocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1941302432</amazonuk>1603094660

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Renaud DilliesLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=The Lyrical Comics of Dillies SetTiananmen 1989: Including Abelard, Bubbles & Gondola, Betty BluesOur Shattered Hopes

|summary=A young duck who plays horn in a jazz band is so rapt in his music he doesn't see his girlfriend leaving I never really followed the bar events of Tiananmen Square with another man, which compels him to throw his instrument away and seek a change of scene much attention when it was playing out – without realising what that might entail. A young mouse writer finds himself someone in the company second half of solitudetheir teens has other priorities, whether he likes it or notyou know. And a young bird with I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a happy life still itches to learn what is over the horizonvenue for political protest, and partly inspired by I didn't know more than a crush spit about the people involved on a girl he knows, seeks an entirely new life in America to attain the sparkly things that might be what turns her headeither side. Yes, these graphic novels are entirely peopled by animals – sometimes unspecified species, too – but they have This book is practically flawless in giving a very mature look at the world, and itgeneral browser's not a world where everything comes up roses…context for the whole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1681121069</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kieron Moore Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Rajesh NagulakondaKit Seaton|title=BuddhaWonder Woman: Warbringer: An Enlightened Life (Campfire The Graphic Novels)Novel|rating=43|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=I don't do religionDiana, but still there was something that drew me to this comic book. For onebeing unique on her island, is the whole Buddhist faith is still victim of a little unknown to melot of taunts, and this was certainly going to be educationalclaims of nepotism. Yes, I knew some of the terms it ends up using, but not others, such as bhikshu, and had never really come across the man It's life story. Yesonly her unique status, I knew he found enlightenment and taught a very pacifist kind of faithher mother being Queen, but where did he come from? What failings did he have on his paththat has her with any standing at all, and who were the ones that joined him along the way?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9381182299</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Maggie Thrash|title=Honor Girl|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=''It's camp. It's supposed her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be funa strong young woman.''<br>''Well excuse me Perhaps too strong for not having the time of my life.'' That simple piece of dialogue is the key to this autobiographical graphic novel. Why is Maggie not happy at camp? Forget the way she's isolated by being a sleep-walkerisland, and ignore the fact she's from a different state to however – for every other girl around, and practically only there to obey Wonder Woman origin story has her mother's family tradition – she's all quickly leaving home for the World of a sudden become an ace shot on the rifle rangeMen, and can boss this Diana is the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performanceheroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. But those aren't enough for Maggie to feel settled and like she's enjoying A shipwreck disturbs her summer, and anyway they do come with their own problems. Noleading performance in a running race, but the bigger problem is something else – the fact that survivor she seems to be falling in love with one of drags from the counsellor campers, there waters is only going to look after the welfare of the younger inmates – being potentially disturb a lesbian is a shock to our narratorlot more... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763687553</amazonuk>1401282555

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Duncan Watson and Brian Bicknell1401286208|title=Ratchwood DilemmaBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee

|summary=WellMeet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, this is a singular book and make no mistake. The first part of the trilogy led us in quite bewildered steps from seemingly lumbered with being a hive mind crash-landing cheerleader at Roswell and infecting a scientistschool, through she is desperate to find her voice. But it's actually more a religious espouser being shot live on TV and the death case of Judasher voice finding her, right up to some kind of godhead having to as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better the existence of what, you know, the more commonly perceived God, had left us withthan any opera singer. I think. Here we start with an A&E case where one of You could almost call it a pair of twins is left in near-vegetative stateweapon, but one advisor suggests that before the crash or whatever that caused the problem a power. But in the first place order for her to call herself a superhero, there might have only been one person. We see has to be a man with the ability whole path of steps for her to snatch people out take – one of space/time – in a world where that can happen who knows how stable anyone or anything or anywhen might which will be? And what might any slight imbalance in the universes mean?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666513</amazonuk>into her past…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Burne Hogarth and Rob Thompson1401280048|title=Tarzan - And the Lost Tribes (Vol. 4) (Batman: Nightwalker: The Complete Burne Hogarth Comic Strip Library)Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose|rating=4.5

|summary=Normally I turn against the most popular. If there's The young man called Bruce Wayne is a book series that I know is, say, seven volumes long, I shrug and let very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people enjoy it. I've been bitten too often by series you think are complete being extended– bystanders, for onepaparazzi, and the originatorsuchlike – reminding him he's death too often never puts a billionaire at the full stop you'd expect on thingsage of eighteen. But some franchises are much longerFeeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, but too important he wants to ignoredo charitable deeds. TakeBut one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, for examplehe goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and gets given the series (most unlikely stretch of series) surrounding Tarzancommunity service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. Unless fully in There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the knowNightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, you will be surprised at just how many films there were back in and murder the dayowner. I'm not going Can he get close to count up one of them and get the number truth of official books he was in. He was also in comic stripstheir schemes, as you might expect, but or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for my sins they've never crossed my path until here. But boy isn't this just a wonderful way to see what I was missing…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781163200</amazonuk>the young do-gooder?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Zuehlke and Claude St Aubin1401283292|title=The Loxleys Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and ConfederationSteve Pugh

|summary=There Harleen Quinzel is a huge hole new in my history knowledge where North America is concernedtown. SlowlyShe always, from an opening of sheer ignoranceto me, having never studied it whatsoever at schoolseems new in town, Ieven if she've got s been around a small grip on things like the Civil Warlong time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, the foundations and seems to look out of the USA and a few other thingsthose large eyes at everything anew each time. But that means nothing as far as this book here she is concerned, for that huge hole is Canada. No, I didn't have an inkling about how it was trying to unify, just as the American Civil War was new in full pelt just across the border. I didn't know what was there before Canadatown, if you see what I mean. The story does have some things in common with that of their southern neighbours – European occupancy being slowly turned into a list of states as we know them now, slowly spreading into the heart of the continent with the help of the railways etc; native 'Indians' being 'in the way'; past trading agreements to either maintain or try to improve on; and so on – but of course it also had the British vs French issuetown is Gotham City. But did you know how an American President getting shot at the theatre had a bearing on the story? Or the Irish? Like I said, Expecting a huge hole…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992150892</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero|title=Children of Lucifer: Modesty Blaise|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=Out of ninetyyear-five diverse comic strip stories, the publication of this book leaves just the last three yet to be presented in these fabulous large format paperbacks. So if you haven’t yet met with the sassy brunette long furlough from life with her curves and mother, she finds her great crime-solving mind, gran dead and of course herself with her Willie, this is the last-no option but-one chance for you to do sostay with a bunch of drag queens. And if you have any interest in quick little action talesShe also finds school is a drag, or even dated kitsch, for both apply here, then you should eagerly be on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jon Morris|title=The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=As much as I like comics – she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and I do, whether superhero ones or not uncaring corporation – I but she also finds two characters that will have to admit one thing, namely that the villains in them are a bit pantsbig impact on her life. What One is The Penguin but a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the world's worst Mafioso, other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a hobby of waddling along like his pet birds? Where else do you win an Oscar of all things by playing singular graffiti tag and a two-bit killer who just fell in a vat of random chemicals mind for violence and changed colourchaos, and got mardier as a result (although recently he's become a nanotech genius – but let's not go there)? And what is it with the gimp in the see-through plant pot because he is the embodiment of cold? And that's just some of the better-known enemies of ''Batman'', one of the better goodies. You can imagine how awful the baddies related to the bad goodies can be. And if you can't, this is the perfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749329</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Siobhan Dowd and Emma Shoard140128339X|title= The Pavee and the Buffer Girl|rating= 5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=When Jim's family halt at Dundray, his heart grows heavy. A new Buffer school for this Pavee boy to attend. Jim doesn't like school. He doesn't like Buffers. And you know, you couldn't really blame him because the distrust and suspicion is mutual. Prejudice against the Traveller community is strong and when Jim and his cousins turn up on their first day, it's to stares and muttered insults from the pupils and condescension from the teachers. Within days, Moss Cunningham and his gang have accused Jim of stealing a CD - he did no such thing - and have begun a campaign of threats, bullying and worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370049</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMera: Tidebreaker|author=Nathan Hale|title=One Trick Pony|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=Forget the moon being made of cheese, here the Earth looks like it's a huge dollop of the finest Swiss stuff. Horrid, giant insectoid alien things have taken over, and they have zapped anything technological they can find – pumping a blob of something over it, and turning whatever turns up in the resulting spheres into sand, or carting it off to larger ships. Our heroes belong to a travelling caravan of a village, keeping intact as much human knowledge as they can (think a digital version of those readers in ''Fahrenheit 451''), but they've left their compatriots behind to go exploring. They'll never expect to find a magical, wondrous, robotic horse, though – which is where their problems begin…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419721283</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Bobby Joseph Danielle Paige and Joseph Samuels|title=Scotland YardieStephen Byrne

|summary=Things are grim in LondonMeet Mera. She'People s the latest in a line of colour' can no longer stand at a bus stop or cross the road without white cops shooting them down, and planting drugs and guns young women intent on them. Heaven help them if fighting against their satnav leads them past certain corrupt coppersintended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. But obviously one Her father, the king of the problems there is that there are no black policeXebel, so to encourage their growth Boris has built Jamaica sees some cotton wool and a prison, and borrowed their finest hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – Scotland Yardieafter all, a dreadlocked and heavily-armed skunkhead rasta. ItMera's purely thought of as a PR exercise, but Yardie knows different. When you add on a mystery regarding a new chain of chicken shopsmother, and the nasty copsterritory's warrior queen, he has his work cut outis long dead. Seen?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662512</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mary Telford and Louise Verity|title=Sins|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=Is there enough new to say about Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the seven deadly sins? We've seen them fella involved at all shown and is, in fact, trying to us, get Xebel out from school age and up to under the movie cosh of Atlantean power, for Xebel''Se7en'', which we sincerely hope was NOT shown to anyone at school ages royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. We can each recount them all, having been long familiar with them, even if we probably can't pin down So when they were actually set in stone without help. Similarly, is there anything new in she overhears her father request that her intended go to the world of fairy tale? We know the tropes us air- characters identified by their status or gender (the womanbreathing humans, and kill the husband)Atlantis heir, a clear set of rules she rushes off to obey, get the quest (and a moral as strong as, if not stronger than, the formulae involvedpromised throne) all for herself. WellBut of course, this volume demands we decide the answer to those questions as being positive onesshe has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and if how hard it's not always definitive in the writing here that there is something new, rest assured there will be something in to get the imagery that will definitely strike one as fresh...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843516624</amazonuk>job done…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bessora, Barroux and Sarah Ardizzone (translator)1401286399|title=AlphaSuper Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=''It felt like there was boiling water inside my head. To cool it down, I had to leave…'' Those words aren't spoken by Alpha, s the narrator of this graphic novelnear future, but they might have been. Living and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in Abidjanneed of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the south coast of Cote d'Ivoire in Africarising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, he is determined forcing many people to get out to go to Paris, and a relativerelocate in America's hair salon and a much better lifebiggest exodus for decades. It's not just the boiling water that Superman is causing him to jump helping out , of course – first, he was patching up the frying pan into the unknown firedams, but now he's mining the fact asteroid belt for a rare dust that his wife and son went already, and he's trying to follow perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in their footstepsWyndermere, the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. ''Your feet become your headA major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. Your body obeys themBut it can'' he observes at one point during t possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the ordeal – but there are people smugglers galore, flood barriers and blind chance the efforts to also obey along correct the way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370014</amazonuk>climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Hurk168369015X|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 – the effects 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 Manfried the show they're all waiting for…''Ready for Pop''!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662504</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Bantock|title=Griffin and Sabine 25th Anniversary EditionMan: An Extraordinary Correspondence|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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>145215595X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewA Graphic Novel|author=Jeremy Haun Caitlin Major and Jason A Hurley|title=The BeautyKelly Bastow

|summary=Don't we all just want that one little fillup to our looks – that tuck there, those pounds or wrinkles vanishedIn a world where cats stand on two feet, that little tweak go to make us more sexually attractive work at call centres and virile? Wellhave diminutive human beings for pets, if you catch The Beauty, you will indubitably end up, in what colloquial language has it, ''fit''. But The Beauty is not to be caught as in a passing fad or itinerant beautician, but as a sexual diseaseManfried. And itHe's hit half the population a typical frisky but shy pet – most of those willingly. You feel feverish with itforever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but it's taken off big at the same timebeing the perfect companion for his owner, and Big Pharma Steve Catson. To such an extent that Steve, who is happy with the situation. Some violent antigetting known for his man-Beauty activists aren't, so special police units exist regarding it, but theyoriented thinking, is actually having nightmares about becoming the Powers That Beneighbourhood ''crazy man cat''. But when a window gets left open by mistake, and Manfried goes missing, the underground scientists working against the disease are only going to be swamped when The Beauty shows its true face…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1632155508</amazonuk>thing for it is a massive and energised man-hunt…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia RomeroHainsworth_Gina|title=Modesty Blaise - Ripper JaxTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth|rating=4.5

|summary=Is there any stopping Modesty Blaise? ''This is what happened.'' WellAn artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of the country, inasmuch as there are only ten stories left that have not been anthologised in these lovely reprintsBrighton to Grimsby, yes – just three books to go, by my reckoningpick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one working eye. That reckoning should be quite accurateWhy not? The first night at home, if I can be immodestGina – the dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a mess, for there is so it's not a lot that is routine about these storiesgreat start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. They all had three panels a dayAnd then, six days a week (the life with one dayGina begins to feel like too much – 's output being less relevant to the story for those papers that didn't carry the comic on weekends)I felt weird about you because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, for twenty-one weeksas if I was in love. '' But rest assured there is also a lot that is unusual about Modesty and her outputSlowly, however, including a never-ending variety to the locationseveryone – our artist/author, to the manner of the baddy's crimeher husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the action Modesty family they and her Willie are forced to undertake to win the dayGina all would have wanted. And nobody, but nobody, has undertaken so much action and come out looking so attractive…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298588</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jens HarderColfer_Illegal|title=Alpha: DirectionsIllegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin

|summary=So, people might still ask me, why do I turn to graphic novels – aren't visual books with limited writing more suited to young people? Yeah, right – try pawning this off on juvenile audiences Ebo is twelve years old and the semi-literateall alone. If you canHis sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn't kill know where his brother is either but knows that cliché off with pages such as these I don't know what will workhe has probably done the same thing. I know the book isn't designed So Ebo has to be a message to people in attempt the debate about same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the literary worth of graphic novelsSahara Desert, get himself to Tripoli, but one side-effect of it is surely an engagement with that argumentthe most dangerous cities in the world, and then try to cross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. What it is designed to be is a complete history of everything else – and in covering every prehistoric momentAnd, even if he makes it does just that, and absolutely brilliantly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662458</amazonuk>how will he find his sister?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcel Ruijters and Laura Watkinson (translator)Miller_Batman|title=Hieronymus|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=This is a book for those who find it amusing that a biography of someone who has been dead 500 years is called 'unauthorised'. This is a book where the detail is in the devil – people pissing in the street; the locals baiting blind people armed with cudgels in a pit with a pig, often failing to whack the beast and hitting their colleagues by mistake; farting demons visiting the sleeper. This is a book for those who don't mind a spot of ribaldry, an affront to religious piety or suchlike in their graphic novels. Whether or not this is a book for those seeking a biography of Hieronymus Bosch remains to be seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662466</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBatman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Jean-Patrick Manchette, Max Cabanes Frank Miller and Doug Headline|title=FataleBrian Azzarello

|summary=PlayBatman is not playing ball. ItHe's a weird verb – it can mean many different thingsbeen videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the baddies he usually biffs. Aimee intends to play But then he's not Batman – shehe's already put paid to several men playing at being huntersa she, but and she has a different game finally comes up with the news that Batman died in mindher hands. Arriving at a very insular little town she scopes the big-wigs outElsewhere, Lara, watching them over the bridge table daughter of Superman and across the golf teesWonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking andexpanding life to the miniaturised city of Kandor, seeing them bicker the last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about each other at both play in visible blue pants. What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a sulk, and workBatman dead, she knows she can play with them. But what might there would appear to be little in the way of help for the world should anything nasty happen– but then, given these undefined rulesof course, if they chose to play as a team against her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782766820</amazonuk>something nasty does happen… s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Des TaylorWeeks_Gritterman|title=Scarlett CoutureThe Gritterman|author=Orlando Weeks|rating=35

|summary=What, in the real world, would be the least likely cover for There's a secret agent but that of super-model? Apart from the advantage of everyone thinking you were gormlessman who has an ice cream van. In summer, what 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 worldsummer, and so you have he uses it to ask the opposite – what would be the most visually appealing band of secret agentssell ice creams, if That's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a whole cabal of them working undercover as bimbo-looking models? Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The Showroom is one such, fibreglass 99s on the roof light up and its main agent is Scarlett Couturerotate, daughter of playing a male cop and a female fashionistatune, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight -cumChristmas Eve -agency bosswill be the van's last trip. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, they say. Looking wonderful is incredibly easy for her – There's even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but sometimes saving the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a world is quite a bit tougher…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760628</amazonuk>where the B2116 doesn't need gritting.