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 {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Hainsworth -->{Frontpage|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Edel Rodriguez[[image:Hainsworth_Gina.jpg|left|linktitle=httpsWorm://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1908434988?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1908434988]] A Cuban American Odyssey| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Talking to Gina by Ottilie Hainsworth]]==rating=4 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]]summary=We're in childhood, [[:Category:Pets|Pets]] and we''This is what happenedre in Cuba.'' An artist decided she needed The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a dog – so drove the length saviour of the country, Brighton to Grimsbyhas proven himself a Communist, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one working eye. Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes done nearly enough to create a mess, so it's not a great start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and behaviour level playing field for all humans must go through with their dogs. And thenWell, the life with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''I felt weird about you, because you those hours-long speeches of his were always therekind of taking his time away. My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as if I was in love.Our narrator's family weren' Slowlyt in the happiest of places here, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets an uncle refusing to form be the family they and Gina all good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would have wanted. [[Talking probably be shipped off to Gina by Ottilie Hainsworth|Full Review]] <!some minor pro-- Colfer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Colfer_Illegal.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1444934007?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1444934007]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Illegal by Eoin Colfer Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and Andrew Donkin]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]]watched, [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Ebo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left not liked for Europe months ago and now he doesn't know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thingsuccessful photography business, success being frowned upon. So Ebo has to attempt The mother gets the same dangerous journey himself. He must cross couple jobs with the Sahara Desert, get himself party to Tripoli, one ease some of the most dangerous cities heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the world, and then try to cross kind of heat forcing you out of the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And, even if he makes it, how will he find his sister? [[Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin|Full Review]] <!-- Miller -->|-kitchen…| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Miller_Batman.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1401265138?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1401265138]]1474616720}}{{Frontpage| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|==author=[[Batman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race by Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello]]===Kia Ahankoob[[image:3.5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Batman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the baddies he usually biffs. But then he's not Batman – he's a she, and she finally comes up with the news that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, Lara, the daughter of 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 vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a sulk, Gold Lion and Batman dead, there would appear to be little in the way of help for the world should anything nasty happen – but then, Tournament of course, something nasty does happen… [[Batman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race by Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello|Full Review]] <!-- Weeks -->Sentinels|-| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Weeks_Gritterman.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/184614955X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=184614955X]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Graphic Novels===[[The Gritterman by Orlando Weeks]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] 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 winter, when the van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up each with its own strength and rotateweakeness, playing a tune, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be in the van's last trip. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, hope they say. There's even a tarmac now that can de-ice itselfwould complement each other and collaborate, but the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in creating a world where the B2116 doesn't need gritting. [[The Gritterman by Orlando Weeks|Full Review]] <!-- Moore -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moore Buddha.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/9381182299?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=9381182299]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels) by Kieron Moore dynamic and Rajesh Nagulakonda]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] I don't do religion, but still there was something that drew me to this comic bookprosperous society. For one, the whole Buddhist faith Each power is still contained within a little unknown magical ring belonging to me, one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and this was certainly going to be educationaltheir descendants. Yes, I knew some of the terms But it ends up using, but not others, such as bhikshu, and had never really come across the mandidn's life story. Yes, I knew he found enlightenment and taught a very pacifist kind of faith, but where did he come from? What failings did he have on his path, and who were the ones t quite work out like that joined him along the way? [[Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels) by Kieron Moore and Rajesh Nagulakonda|Full Review]] <!-- Reynes -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Reynes_Water.jpg|link=http://wwwRivalries developed.amazon.co.uk/dp/1941302432/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Water Memory by Mathieu Reynes, Valerie Vernay Enmities grew out of them and Jeremy Melloul (translator)]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Despite the title, it seems at first the memories here are much more earthy, for Caroline has brought her young daughter eight countries went to the place she herself left as a toddlerwar. The move has been caused by a break-up, Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and it's just finding the two cost of them in the family unitwar too high, making a fresh start (with the help of a kindly old neighbour) in an old house on a promontory solution is proposed. Each of the Brittany coast. Young Marion soon discovers the clifftops are peppered with strange standing stoneseight countries will send their greatest warriors, with even stranger figuresknown as sentinels, 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 the local lighthouse, manned as it is by a gruff, surly old mansingle combat tournament. But while Caroline's beginning anew starts with a nice local job, things are slowly getting more creepy. Large sea creatures are beaching themselves, The winner will take possession of all the stones' imagery is found in even stranger places - rings and become the lighthousekeeper seems to hold darker secretssupreme ruler of Duniva. What memory could possibly be in this storm-drenched land? [[Water Memory by Mathieu Reynes, Valerie Vernay and Jeremy Melloul (translator)|Full Review]]isbn=B09MMQJFPV}}<!-- DILLIES -->{{Frontpage|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Pat Grant[[image:Dillies_Lyrical.jpg|linktitle=httpThe Grot://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1681121069/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] The Story of the Swamp City Grifters| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Lyrical Comics of Dillies Set: Including Abelard, Bubbles & Gondola, Betty Blues by Renaud Dillies]]==rating=4 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] A young duck who plays horn summary=Everything in a jazz band is so rapt in his music he doesn't see his girlfriend leaving the bar with another manthis world runs on pedal-power, which compels him to throw his instrument away and seek a change of scene – without realising what that might entailincludes the punk bands. A young mouse writer finds himself in There are three pedallers at the company front of solitude, whether he likes it or not. And a young bird with a happy life still itches the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to learn what is over the horizonferry across the swamp to Falter City, where a mother and partly inspired by her two sons aim to set up a crush on a girl he knows, seeks an entirely new life in America to attain the sparkly things yoghurt factory. You could say that might yoghurt would be what turns her head. Yes, these graphic novels are entirely peopled by animals – sometimes unspecified species, too – but they have a very mature look at the world, and it's not a world where everything comes up roses… [[The Lyrical Comics of Dillies Set: Including Abelard, Bubbles & Gondola, Betty Blues by Renaud Dillies|Full Review]] <!-- Thrash -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Thrash_Honor.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0763687553/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]only culture around, [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] ''It's camp. It's supposed to be fun.''<br>''Well excuse me 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 sleepreally rough-walker, and ignore the fact she's from a different state to every other girl around, and practically only there to obey her mother's family tradition – she's all -ready dump of a sudden become an ace shot on the rifle rangeplace, and can boss the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performancebut everyone is interested in small things that grow. But those aren't enough for Maggie For the only money to feel settled and like she's enjoying her summer, and anyway they do come with their own problems. No, the bigger problem is something else be had – the fact that she seems only fortunes to be falling found in love with one of the counsellor campersFalter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that – well, there to look after the welfare use of the younger inmates – being potentially a lesbian it is a shock to our narratornever really made clear. [[Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash|Full Review]] <!-- Watson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Watson_Ratchwood.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524666513/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ratchwood Dilemma by Duncan Watson and Brian Bicknell]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Well Once there, this is a singular book and make no mistake. The first part of the trilogy led us in quite bewildered steps from two brothers set themselves each up with a hive mind crash-landing at Roswell and infecting a scientistguide – Lippy, through a religious espouser being shot live on TV and the death of Judasmore forward-thinking, right up to some kind industrious of godhead having to better the existence of whattwo, you knowwith a besuited gent, the more commonly perceived God, had left us Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl withbright red hair. I think. Here we start with an A&E case where one of a pair But which of twins is left in near-vegetative state, but one advisor suggests that before the crash or whatever that caused two will come off the problem worse as they make their own way in the first place there might have only been one person. We see a man with the ability to snatch people out of space/time – in a world where that can happen who knows how stable anyone or anything or anywhen might bethis dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole? And what might any slight imbalance in the universes mean? [[Ratchwood Dilemma by Duncan Watson and Brian Bicknell|Full Review]]isbn=1603094660  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} }{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Burne Hogarth Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Rob ThompsonEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=Tarzan - And the Lost Tribes (Vol. 4) (The Complete Burne Hogarth Comic Strip Library)Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=Normally I turn against never really followed the most popularevents 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 thereI certainly didn's a book series that 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 is, say, seven volumes how the area had longbeen a venue for political protest, and I shrug and let didn't know more than a spit about the people enjoy itinvolved on either side. IThis book is practically flawless in giving a general browser've been bitten too often by series you think are complete s context for the whole season of protests back in 1989.|isbn=1684056993}}{{Frontpage|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Diana, being extendedunique on her island, for oneis the victim of a lot of taunts, and the originatorclaims of nepotism. It's death too often never puts the full stop you'd expect on things. But some franchises are much longeronly her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all, but too important her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to ignorebe a strong young woman. TakePerhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for examplethe World of Men, and this Diana is the series (heroine of series) surrounding Tarzanyet another Wonder Woman origin story. Unless fully A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the know, you will be surprised at just how many films there were back in survivor she drags from the day. I'm not waters is only going to count up the number of official books he was indisturb a lot more.. He was also in comic strips, as you might expect, but 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781163200</amazonuk>1401282555

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Zuehlke and Claude St Aubin1401286208|title=The Loxleys Black Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and ConfederationCara McGee

|summary=There is 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 huge hole in my history knowledge where North America cheerleader at school, she is concerneddesperate to find her voice. Slowly, from an opening But it's actually more a case of sheer ignoranceher voice finding her, having never studied it whatsoever as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school, I've got her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a small grip on things like the Civil Warweapon, the foundations of the USA and or a few other thingspower. But that means nothing as far as this book is concerned, in order for that huge hole is Canada. No, I didn't have an inkling about how it was trying her to unifycall herself a superhero, just as the American Civil War was in full pelt just across the border. I didn't know what was there before Canada, 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 has to be a list whole path 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 steps for her to improve on; and so on take – but one of course it also had the British vs French issue. 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, a huge hole…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992150892</amazonuk>which will be into her past…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401280048|title=Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Peter OMarie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=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 legacy he'Donnell s inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to do charitable deeds. But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and Enric Badia Romeromurder the owner. Can he get close to one of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1401283292|title=Children of LuciferHarley Quinn: Modesty BlaiseBreaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh

|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=Out of ninety-five diverse comic strip storiesHarleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, the publication of this book leaves just the last three yet to be presented me, seems new in these fabulous town, even if she's been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to look out of those large format paperbackseyes at everything anew each time. So if you haven’t yet met with But here she is new in town, and the sassy brunette town is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her curves and mother, she finds her great crime-solving mind, gran dead and herself with no option but to stay with a bunch of course with her Williedrag queens. She also finds school is a drag, this she also finds the whole neighbourhood is the last-being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but-one chance for you to do soshe also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her life. And if you have any interest in quick little action tales, or even dated kitschOne is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for both apply hereviolence and chaos, then you should eagerly be on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Morris140128339X|title=The Legion of Regrettable SupervillainsMera: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book HistoryTidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=As much as I like comics – and I do, whether superhero ones or not – I have to admit one thing, namely that Meet Mera. She's the villains latest in them are a bit pantsline of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. What is The Penguin but Her father, the world's worst Mafiosoking of Xebel, with sees some cotton wool and a hobby of waddling along like his pet birds? Where else do you win hunky man in an Oscar of arranged marriage as her future – after all things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell in a vat of random chemicals and changed colour, and got mardier as a result (although recently heMera's become a nanotech genius – but letmother, the territory's not go there)? warrior queen, is long dead. And what is it with Mera doesn't fancy the gimp in cosseting or the see-through plant pot because he fella involved at all and is , in fact, trying to get Xebel out from under the embodiment cosh of cold? And thatAtlantean power, for Xebel's just some royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to the betterworld of us air-known enemies of ''Batman''breathing humans, one of and kill the better goodies. You can imagine how awful Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the baddies related to quest (and the bad goodies can bepromised throne) all for herself. And if you can'tBut of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, this is and how hard it will be to get the perfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749329</amazonuk>job done…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Siobhan Dowd and Emma Shoard1401286399|title= Super Sons: The Pavee PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and the Buffer GirlIle Gonzalez|rating= 54|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=When JimIt's family halt at Dundraythe near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a huge flood barrier, his heart grows heavybuilt on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. A new Buffer school But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for this Pavee boy to attenddecades. Jim doesnSuperman is helping out, of course – first, he was patching up the dams, but now he't like school. He doesns mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that't like Bufferss perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. And you knowInland, you couldn't really blame him because in Wyndermere, the refugees from the distrust coast are suffering bigotry and suspicion intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is mutualmuch worse. Prejudice against A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the Traveller community is strong and when Jim and his cousins turn up on their first day, city. But itcan's t possibly have anything to stares do with what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and muttered insults from the pupils and condescension from efforts to correct the teachers. Within daysclimate, 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>can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nathan Hale168369015X|title=One Trick PonyManfried the Man: A Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow

|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=Forget the moon being made of cheeseIn a world where cats stand on two feet, go to work at call centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, here the Earth looks like itis Manfried. He's a huge dollop of the finest Swiss stuff. Horrid, giant insectoid alien things have taken overtypical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, and they have zapped anything technological they demanding more food than he can find – pumping a blob of something over itsuitably eat, and turning whatever turns up in but at the same time being the resulting spheres into sandperfect companion for his owner, or carting it off to larger shipsSteve Catson. Our heroes belong to a travelling caravan of a villageTo such an extent that Steve, who is getting known for his man-oriented thinking, keeping intact as much human knowledge as they can (think a digital version of those readers in is actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''Fahrenheit 451crazy man cat''), but they've left their compatriots behind to go exploring. They'll never expect to find But when a magicalwindow gets left open by mistake, wondrousand Manfried goes missing, robotic horse, though – which the only thing for it is where their problems begin…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419721283</amazonuk>a massive and energised man-hunt…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bobby Joseph and Joseph SamuelsHainsworth_Gina|title=Scotland YardieTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|summary=Things are grim in London''This is what happened. 'People of colour' can no longer stand at An artist decided she needed a bus stop or cross dog – so drove the length of the road without white cops shooting them downcountry, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and planting drugs and guns on themone working eye. Heaven help them if their satnav leads them past certain corrupt coppers. Why not? But obviously one of The first night at home, Gina – the problems there is that there are no black policedog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a mess, so to encourage their growth Boris has built Jamaica it's not a prisongreat start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and borrowed behaviour all humans must go through with their finest – Scotland Yardie, a dreadlocked and heavily-armed skunkhead rastadogs. ItAnd then, the life with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''s purely thought of as a PR exercise, but Yardie knows differentI felt weird about you because you were always there. When My thoughts were taken over by you add on a mystery regarding a new chain of chicken shops, and the nasty copsI felt sick, he has his work cut outas if I was in love. '' Seen?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662512<Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/amazonuk>author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the family they and Gina all would have wanted.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Telford and Louise VerityColfer_Illegal|title=SinsIllegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesGraphic Novels|summary=Is there enough new to say about the seven deadly sins? We've seen them Ebo is twelve years old and all shown to us, from school age alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and up to the movie ''Se7en'', which we sincerely hope was NOT shown to anyone at school age. We can each recount them all, having been long familiar with them, even if we probably cannow he doesn't pin down when they were actually set in stone without help. Similarly, know where his brother is there anything new in either but knows that he has probably done the world of fairy tale? We know same thing. So Ebo has to attempt the tropes - characters identified by their status or gender (same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the womanSahara Desert, the husband)get himself to Tripoli, a clear set one of rules to obeythe most dangerous cities in the world, and a moral as strong as, if not stronger than, then try to cross the formulae involvedMediterranean Sea. WellBy himself. At twelve. And, this volume demands we decide the answer to those questions as being positive ones, and even if he makes it's not always definitive in the writing here that there is something new, rest assured there how will be something in the imagery that will definitely strike one as fresh...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843516624</amazonuk>he find his sister?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bessora, Barroux and Sarah Ardizzone (translator)Miller_Batman|title=AlphaBatman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello|rating=43.5

|summary=Batman is not playing ball. He''It felt like there was boiling water inside my heads been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the baddies he usually biffs. To cool it down, I had to leave…But then he's not Batman – he' Those words aren't spoken by Alphas a she, and she finally comes up with the narrator of this graphic novelnews that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, but they might have been. Living in AbidjanLara, on the south coast daughter of Cote d'Ivoire in AfricaSuperman and Wonder Woman, he is determined encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to get out turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to go to Paristhe miniaturised city of Kandor, and a relative's hair salon and a much better life. It's the last vestige of Kryptonian existence not just the boiling water that is causing him to jump out the frying pan fly about in visible blue pants. What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into the unknown firea sulk, but the fact that his wife and son went alreadyBatman dead, and he's trying there would appear to follow be little in their footsteps. ''Your feet become your head. Your body obeys them'' he observes at one point during the ordeal way of help for the world should anything nasty happen – but there are people smugglers galorethen, of course, and blind chance to also obey along the way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370014</amazonuk>something nasty does happen… s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= HurkWeeks_Gritterman|title= Ready for PopThe Gritterman|author=Orlando Weeks|rating= 4.5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=London, The mid-sixtiesThere's a man who has an ice cream van. In summer, what appears there is of summer, he uses it to have been a murder attemptsell ice creams, BritainThat's greatest pop sensation 'Vic Vox' has been left not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a foot tall – the effects of Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a 'shrink drug' administered by assailants unknownGritterman. As Detective Chief Inspector Ladyshoe The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up and his team at Scotland Yard try to find who did it and whyrotate, comedian Tubs Cochran prepares himself for his big come-back show. Can he keep his old fashioned comedy instincts relevant enough to entertain playing a new generation? Will Vic Voxtune, whether the van's big rivals, 'The Small Pocks' gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be given a boost in Vic Voxthe van's absence? And will June Scurvy get her hit (or maybe not) new single featured on last trip. The council has sent the show letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, theysay. There're all waiting for…''Ready for Pop''!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662504</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Bantock|title=Griffin and Sabine 25th Anniversary Edition: An Extraordinary Correspondence|rating=4|genre=General Fiction |summary=Oh Griffin and Sabines even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, where have you been all my life? Ibut the Gritterman isn've loved epistolary novels and ones t sure that take the narrative two-and-fro of letters and bring us closer he wants to the sender than any omniscient narrator can hope to do. I've still got the childlike love of picking at an envelope stuck live in a book to pull out a sheet of something else – not only is there world where the wonder at the handmade construction of something so bluntly and undeservedly called 'a bookB2116 doesn', but there is the frisson of being the first person to see this artefact evert need gritting. 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>