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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| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4===[[Talking to Gina by Ottilie Hainsworth]]=== [[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 good soldier the family they and Gina all 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| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Kia Ahankoob|title===[[Batman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race by Frank Miller Gold Lion and Brian Azzarello]]the Tournament of Sentinels|rating===4[[image:3.5star.jpg|linkgenre=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 summary= When Myriad created Duniva 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 endowed his technologies concerned children with shrinking and expanding life to the miniaturised city of Kandordifferent powers, the last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. What each with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a sulk, its own strength and Batman deadweakeness, there would appear to be little in the way of help for the world should anything nasty happen – but thenhope they would complement each other and collaborate, of course, something nasty does happen… [[Batman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race by Frank Miller creating a dynamic and Brian Azzarello|Full Review]] <!-- Weeks -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Weeks_Grittermanprosperous society.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/184614955X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=184614955X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Gritterman by Orlando Weeks]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] There's Each power is contained within a man who has an ice cream van. In summer, what there is magical ring belonging to one of summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, Thateight countries led by Myriad's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter, when the van becomes a Gritting Van children and our narrator becomes a Grittermantheir descendants. The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up and rotate, playing a tune, whether 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, they say. There's even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but the Gritterman isnBut it didn't sure quite work out like that he wants to live in 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 BuddhaRivalries developed.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 Enmities grew out of them 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 the eight countries went to this comic bookwar. For oneHaving fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, the whole Buddhist faith a solution is still a little unknown to me, and this was certainly going to be educationalproposed. Yes, I knew some Each of the terms it ends up usingeight countries will send their greatest warriors, but not others, such known as bhikshusentinels, and had never really come across the man's life storyto a single combat tournament. Yes, I knew he found enlightenment and taught a very pacifist kind The winner will take possession of faith, but where did he come from? What failings did he have on his path, all the rings and who were become the ones that joined him along the way? [[Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels) by Kieron Moore and Rajesh Nagulakondasupreme ruler of Duniva.|Full Review]]isbn=B09MMQJFPV}}<!-- Reynes -->{{Frontpage|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Pat Grant[[image:Reynes_Water.jpg|linktitle=httpThe Grot://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1941302432/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] The Story of the Swamp City Grifters| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4===[[Water Memory by Mathieu Reynes, Valerie Vernay and Jeremy Melloul (translator)]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=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 to the place she herself left as a toddler. The move has been caused by a breaksummary=Everything in this world runs on pedal-uppower, and it's just that includes the two of them in punk bands. There are three pedallers at the family unit, making a fresh start (with the help of a kindly old neighbour) in an old house on a promontory front of the Brittany coast. Young Marion soon discovers Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the clifftops are peppered with strange standing stones, with even stranger figures, initials and dates carved on to them. She also soon works out there is a way to get ferry across a causeway at low tide the swamp to the local lighthouseFalter City, manned as it is by where a gruff, surly old man. 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 stones' imagery is found in even stranger places - mother and the lighthousekeeper seems her two sons aim to hold darker secretsset up a yoghurt factory. What memory You could possibly say that yoghurt would be in the only culture around, for this stormis a really rough-drenched land? [[Water Memory by Mathieu Reynes, Valerie Vernay and Jeremy Melloul (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- DILLIES -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dillies_Lyrical.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1681121069/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Lyrical Comics ready dump of Dillies Set: Including Abelarda place, Bubbles & Gondola, Betty Blues by Renaud Dillies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] A young duck who plays horn in a jazz band but everyone is so rapt interested in his music he doesn't see his girlfriend leaving the bar with another man, which compels him to throw his instrument away and seek a change of scene – without realising what small things that might entailgrow. A young mouse writer finds himself in For the company of solitude, whether he likes it or not. And a young bird with a happy life still itches only money to learn what is over be had – the horizon, and partly inspired by a crush on a girl he knows, seeks an entirely new life in America only fortunes to attain the sparkly things that might be what turns her head. Yes, these graphic novels are entirely peopled by animals found in Falter City – sometimes unspecified speciescome from algae, too gunk and other crud that – but they have a very mature look at the worldwell, 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]], [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] ''It's camp. It's supposed to be fun.''<br>''Well excuse me for not having the time use of my life.'' That simple piece of dialogue it is the key to this autobiographical graphic novelnever really made clear. Why is Maggie not happy at camp? Forget Once there, the way she's isolated by being two brothers set themselves each up with a sleepguide – Lippy, the more forward-walkerthinking, and ignore industrious of the fact she's from two, with a different state to every other girl aroundbesuited gent, and practically only there to obey her mother's family tradition – she's all of Penn with a sudden become an ace shot on the rifle range, and can boss the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performanceballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But those aren't enough for Maggie to feel settled and like she's enjoying her summer, and anyway which of the two will come off the worse as they do come with make their own problems. No, the bigger problem is something else – the fact that she seems to be falling way in love with one of the counsellor campersthis dystopian, there to look after the welfare of the younger inmates – being potentially a lesbian is a shock to our narrator. [[Honor Girl by Maggie Thrashsemi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|Full Review]]isbn=1603094660}}<!-- Watson -->{{Frontpage|-author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)| styletitle="widthTiananmen 1989: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Our Shattered Hopes[[image:Watson_Ratchwood.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524666513/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Graphic Novels===[[Ratchwood Dilemma by Duncan Watson and Brian Bicknell]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Well, this is a singular book and make no mistake. The first part I never really followed the events of the trilogy led us Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in quite bewildered steps from a hive mind crash-landing at Roswell and infecting a scientist, through a religious espouser being shot live on TV and the death second half of Judas, right up to some kind of godhead having to better the existence of whattheir teens has other priorities, you know, the more commonly perceived God, had left us with. I think. Here we start with an A&E case where one certainly didn't know of a pair the weeks of twins is left in near-vegetative state, but one advisor suggests that protests and hunger strikes from the students before the crash or whatever that caused the problem in the first place there might have only been one person. We see a man with massacre and the ability to snatch people out birth of space/time – in a world where that can happen who knows how stable anyone or anything or anywhen might be? And what might any slight imbalance in the universes mean? [[Ratchwood Dilemma by Duncan Watson and Brian Bicknell|Full Review]] <!-- Hogarth -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[Tank Man image:Hogarth_Tarzan.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781163200/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tarzan - And the Lost Tribes (Vol. 4) (The Complete Burne Hogarth Comic Strip Library) by Burne Hogarth and Rob Thompson]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Normally , I turn against the most popular. If theredidn's a book series that I t know is, say, seven volumes how the area had long, I shrug and let people enjoy it. I've been bitten too often by series you think are complete being extended, a venue for onepolitical protest, and the originatorI didn's death too often never puts t know more than a spit about the full stop you'd expect people involved on thingseither side. But some franchises are much longer, but too important to ignore. Take, This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for example, the series (whole season of series) surrounding Tarzan. Unless fully in the know, you will be surprised at just how many films there were protests back in the day1989. I'm not going to count up the number of official books he was in. 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… [[Tarzan - And the Lost Tribes (Vol. 4) (The Complete Burne Hogarth Comic Strip Library) by Burne Hogarth and Rob Thompson|Full Review]]isbn=1684056993}}<!-- Zuehlke -->{{Frontpage|-author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton| styletitle="widthWonder Woman: 10%; vertical-alignWarbringer: top; text-align: center;"|The Graphic Novel[[image:Zuehlke_Loxleys.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0992150892/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 3| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Teens===[[The Loxleys and Confederation by Mark Zuehlke and Claude St Aubin]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] There Diana, being unique on her island, is the victim of a huge hole in my history knowledge where North America is concernedlot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. Slowly It's only her unique status, from an opening of sheer ignoranceand her mother being Queen, having never studied it whatsoever that has her with any standing at schoolall, I've got her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a small grip on things like strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the Civil Warisland, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the foundations World of the USA Men, and a few other things. But that means nothing as far as this book Diana 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 in full pelt just across the borderheroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. I didn't know what was there before Canada, if you see what I mean. The story does have some things A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in common with that of their southern neighbours – European occupancy being slowly turned into a list of states as we know them nowrunning race, slowly spreading into but the heart of survivor she drags from the continent with the help of the railways etc; native 'Indians' being 'in the way'; past trading agreements waters is only going to either maintain or try to improve on; and so on – but of course it also had the British vs French issuedisturb a lot more... 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… [[The Loxleys and Confederation by Mark Zuehlke and Claude St Aubin|Full Review]]isbn=1401282555  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero1401286208|title=Children of LuciferBlack Canary: Modesty BlaiseIgnite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee

|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=Out of ninety-five diverse comic strip stories, the publication of this book leaves just the last three yet to be presented in these fabulous large format paperbacksMeet Dinah Lance. So if you haven’t yet met with the sassy brunette with Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her curves to try and her great crime-solving mindfollow in his footsteps, and of course seemingly lumbered with her Williebeing a cheerleader at school, this she is the last-but-one chance for you desperate to do sofind her voice. And if you have But it's actually more a case of her voice finding her, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any interest in quick little action talesopera singer. You could almost call it a weapon, or even dated kitscha power. But in order for her to call herself a superhero, there has to be a whole path of steps for both apply here, then you should eagerly her to take – one of which will be on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>into her past…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Morris1401280048|title=Batman: Nightwalker: The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book HistoryGraphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose|rating=54|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=As much as I like comics The young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and I do, whether superhero ones or not suchlike – I have to admit one thing, namely that reminding him he's a billionaire at the villains in them are a bit pantsage of eighteen. What is The Penguin but Feeling rather stuck with the worldlegacy he's worst Mafiosoinherited from his murdered parents, with a hobby of waddling along like he wants to do charitable deeds. But one night, when he speeds off in his pet birds? Where else do you win an Oscar posh new car in pursuit of all things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell in a vat of random chemicals and changed colourcriminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and got mardier as a result (although recently he's become a nanotech genius gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – but let's not go there)? And what is it with the gimp cleaning in the see-through plant pot because home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There he is the embodiment learns of cold? And that's just some of other people who also allege charitable intent – the betterNightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-known enemies of ''Batman''figure bank account contents they can, one of and murder the better goodiesowner. You can imagine how awful Can he get close to one of them and get the baddies related to truth of their schemes, or will the bad goodies can manipulative Madeleine be. And if you can't, this is a step too far for the perfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749329</amazonuk>young do-gooder?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Siobhan Dowd and Emma Shoard1401283292|title= The Pavee Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and the Buffer GirlSteve Pugh|rating= 3.5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=When JimHarleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's family halt at Dundraybeen around a long time, his heart grows heavy. A new Buffer school for this Pavee boy she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to attendlook out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. Jim doesn't like school. He doesn't like Buffers. And you know But here she is new in town, you couldn't really blame him because and the distrust and suspicion town is mutualGotham City. Prejudice against the Traveller community is strong Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and when Jim and his cousins turn up on their first day, it's herself with no option but to stares and muttered insults from the pupils and condescension from the teachersstay with a bunch of drag queens. Within days She also finds school is a drag, Moss Cunningham she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and his gang uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have accused Jim of stealing a CD - he did no such thing big impact on her life. One is a civil- minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and have begun a campaign of threatsmind for violence and chaos, bullying and worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370049</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nathan Hale140128339X|title=One Trick PonyMera: Tidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne

|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=Forget the moon being made of cheese, here the Earth looks like itMeet Mera. She's the latest in a huge dollop line of the finest Swiss stuffyoung women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. HorridHer father, giant insectoid alien things have taken overthe king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and they have zapped anything technological they can find a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – pumping a blob of something over itafter all, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, is long dead. Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all and turning whatever turns up is, in fact, trying to get Xebel out from under the resulting spheres into sandcosh of Atlantean power, or carting it off to larger shipsfor Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. Our heroes belong So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to a travelling caravan the world of a villageus air-breathing humans, and kill the Atlantis heir, keeping intact as much human knowledge as they can she rushes off to get the quest (think a digital version of those readers in ''Fahrenheit 451''and the promised throne), but they've left their compatriots behind to go exploringall for herself. They'll never expect to find a magicalBut of course, wondrousshe has no idea what kind of person she will meet, robotic horse, though – which is where their problems begin…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419721283</amazonuk>and how hard it will be to get the job done…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1401286399|title=Super Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Bobby Joseph Ridley Pearson and Joseph SamuelsIle Gonzalez|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, of course – first, he was patching up the dams, but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. But it can't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and the efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=168369015X|title=Scotland YardieManfried the Man: A Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow

|summary=Things are grim in London. 'People of colour' can no longer In a world where cats stand at a bus stop or cross the road without white cops shooting them down, and planting drugs and guns on them. Heaven help them if their satnav leads them past certain corrupt coppers. But obviously one of the problems there is that there are no black policetwo feet, so go to encourage their growth Boris has built Jamaica a prison, work at call centres and borrowed their finest – Scotland Yardiehave diminutive human beings for pets, a dreadlocked and heavily-armed skunkhead rastais Manfried. ItHe's purely thought of as a PR exercisetypical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but Yardie knows differentat the same time being the perfect companion for his owner, Steve Catson. When you add on a mystery regarding To such an extent that Steve, who is getting known for his man-oriented thinking, is actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''crazy man cat''. But when a new chain of chicken shopswindow gets left open by mistake, and Manfried goes missing, the nasty cops, he has his work cut out. Seen?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662512</amazonuk>only thing for it is a massive and energised man-hunt…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Telford and Louise VerityHainsworth_Gina|title=SinsTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesGraphic Novels|summary=Is there enough new to say about the seven deadly sins? We've seen them all shown to us, from school age and up to the movie ''Se7enThis is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of the country, which we sincerely hope was NOT shown Brighton to anyone at school age. We can each recount them allGrimsby, having been long familiar to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with them, even if we probably can't pin down when they were actually set in stone without helpsome mange and one working eye. Similarly, is there anything new in the world of fairy taleWhy not? We know the tropes - characters identified by their status or gender (the womanThe first night at home, Gina – the husband), a clear set of rules to obey, dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a moral as strong asmess, if so it's not stronger thana great start, but then begin the formulae involvedtribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. WellAnd then, this volume demands we decide the answer life with Gina begins to those questions as being positive onesfeel 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 itI was in love.''s not always definitive in the writing here that there is something new Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, rest assured there will be something in two children and two cats – gets to form the imagery that will definitely strike one as fresh..family they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843516624</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bessora, Barroux and Sarah Ardizzone (translator)Colfer_Illegal|title=AlphaIllegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin|rating=45

|summary=Ebo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn''It felt like there was boiling water inside my headt know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thing. To cool it down, I had So Ebo has to leave…'' Those words aren't spoken by Alpha, attempt the narrator of this graphic novel, but they might have beensame dangerous journey himself. Living in Abidjan, on He must cross the south coast of Cote d'Ivoire in AfricaSahara Desert, he is determined to get out to go himself to ParisTripoli, and a relative's hair salon and a much better life. It's not just one of the boiling water that is causing him to jump out most dangerous cities in the frying pan into the unknown fire, but the fact that his wife and son went alreadyworld, and he's trying then try to follow in their footstepscross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. ''Your feet become your headAt twelve. Your body obeys them'' And, even if he observes at one point during the ordeal – but there are people smugglers galoremakes it, and blind chance to also obey along the way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370014</amazonuk>how will he find his sister?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= HurkMiller_Batman|title= Ready for PopBatman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello|rating= 43.5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=London, The mid-sixtiesBatman is not playing ball. In what appears to have He's been a murder attemptvideoed duffing up Gotham policemen, Britainand not the baddies he usually biffs. But then he's greatest pop sensation not Batman – he'Vic Vox' has been left s a foot tall – she, and she finally comes up with the news that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, Lara, the effects daughter of a 'shrink drug' administered by assailants unknown. As Detective Chief Inspector Ladyshoe Superman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his team at Scotland Yard try technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to find who did it and whythe miniaturised city of Kandor, comedian Tubs Cochran prepares himself for his big come-back showthe last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. Can he keep his old fashioned comedy instincts relevant enough to entertain What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a new generation? Will Vic Vox's big rivalssulk, and Batman dead, 'The Small Pocks' there would appear to be given a boost little in Vic Vox's absence? And will June Scurvy get her hit (or maybe not) new single featured on the show they're all waiting for…''Ready way of help for Pop''!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662504</amazonuk>the world should anything nasty happen – but then, of course, something nasty does happen… s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick BantockWeeks_Gritterman|title=Griffin and Sabine 25th Anniversary Edition: An Extraordinary CorrespondenceThe Gritterman|author=Orlando Weeks|rating=45|genre=General Fiction Graphic Novels|summary=Oh Griffin and SabineThere's a man who has an ice cream van. In summer, what there is of summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, where have you been all my life? IThat've loved epistolary novels and ones that take s not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the narrative two-van becomes a Gritting Van and-fro of letters and bring us closer to the sender than any omniscient our narrator can hope to dobecomes a Gritterman. I've still got The fibreglass 99s on the childlike love of picking at an envelope stuck in roof light up and rotate, playing a book to pull out a sheet of something else – not only is there tune, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the wonder at van's last trip. The council has sent the handmade construction of something so bluntly and undeservedly called letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, they say. There's even a book'tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but there is the frisson of being Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a world where the first person to see this artefact everB2116 doesn't 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>