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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]]==Graphic novels==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=David Hughes|title=Thomas Wogan is Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Well, with a title like that, need I bother with a plot summary? A man has a day out in Morecambe, then the next thing he knows he's in the ultimate waiting room, with a strange array of animals (a bat, a toad, a sea urchin...), all waiting for... well, something. Yup, as you didn't need telling, he's dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095580888X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris Grimly|title=Tales of Death and Dementia|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan Poe, master of the gothic horror short story, and Gris Grimly, outstanding illustrator, known for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]. Poe's ''Tales of Death and Dementia'' are shown off at their very best in this edition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bryan Talbot |title=Grandville|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A dead body found in rural England leads D I LeBrock to urban France, where he is destined to unravel a conspiracy of revolution, treason, and propaganda of potentially global reach. What is the truth behind the fall of a famous tower under air attack a few years ago? Why are so many suspicious suicides coming to attention? And will LeBrock be helped or hindered by his being, as his name suggests, a badger?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224084887</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Eisner |title=Minor Miracles|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=This short story collection starts with two appetisers before getting on with two main courses, but as with the best meals even the smallest dishes can have the most depth. We start with the entire life cycle - rise, fall, rise, fall - of a hobo feeding pigeons in the park. Obviously he hasn't been doing that all his years Remove - he's been keeping his dignity intact, with a huge amount of chutzpah and more. Next, a smart Alec defeats the older kids on the stoop with a bit of canny street wisdom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328147</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Eisner |title=A Family Matter|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Some sons, some daughters, even a shy, semi-abandoned great nephew, are all gathering in the home of a ninety year old stroke victim for what may be his last birthday celebration. It seems like they are all licking their lips at the thought of a future inheritance. We've heard before of a nuclear family, is this one about to get too radioactive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328139</amazonuk>}} [[Category:Science Fiction]]{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan Luna and Joshua Luna Edel Rodriguez|title=Girls Volume 1Worm: Conception|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Ethan, we see with a great, broad comic stroke or six, is not the best when it comes to girls. Letting his mouth run away with him too often, he is not very successful at relationships. But let us look at what happens when he drives away from an altercation at the local bar, and sees a gorgeous - and very naked - young woman standing in the middle of the road.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1582405298</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tony Lee and Sam Hart |title=Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood (Heroes & Heroines Graphic)|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Here, Robin Hood is the Earl of Huntington, a man tempered by bitterness encountered as a youth, trained by skills honed with an apparent need for vengeance. He's out crusading, when he learns just the beginning of the story of what is wrong in Nottinghamshire. Returning, he meets John Little, and soon falls into the robbing/giving cycle we know and love him for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406308870</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle |title=Graphic Classics, Volume 17: Science Fiction ClassicsA Cuban American Odyssey

|summary=SoWe're in childhood, an introductionand we're in Cuba. The Graphic Classics collection is revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a series whereby saviour of the best in genre fictioncountry, from sources both highly likely and remarkably unexpectedhas proven himself a Communist, is collected and dressed up not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for us in graphic novel formall. This seventeenth editionWell, a belated bestthose hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of sciplaces here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-fi volumeCommunism skirmish, is their first foray into full coloursuch as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and is headlined by a version of The War of the Worldsnot liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The supporting material ranges from a one-page strip mother gets the couple jobs with the party to thirty-page stories.ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0978791975</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shaun Tan Kia Ahankoob|title=The Arrival|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A man gathers a last memento or two before taking his suitcase in hand, saying farewell to his wife Gold Lion and daughter at the train station, and leaving for the docks to get the boat to the promised land. Once arrived, he finds strangeness everywhere - the food, the language, the immigration procedures, and the lodgings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0439895294</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Edgar Allen Poe, Various, Dan Whitehead (Editor) |title=Eye Classics: Nevermore - A Graphic Novel Anthology Tournament of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=So, if I were to mention someone who was born 200 years ago this season, and who changed the world with their writing, who would you think of first? Charles Darwin, probably. But those of a slightly different bent might just have mentioned someone else - someone at the forefront of all things arcane, horrific and thrilling when it comes to fiction. Someone who lost his birth and foster mother both to tuberculosis before he was ever twenty. Someone who had most unusual circumstances surrounding his death, to best Agatha Christie vanishing for a while, and most of the detectives in the fiction he helped inspire. Someone called Edgar Allan Poe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955285682</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki|title=SkimSentinels

|summary=If you've ever been faced by too many Post-Its at When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the same timehope they would complement each other and collaborate, or creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a performance review, or copious yards magical ring belonging to one of errant electrical cabling all round your workspace - eight countries led by Myriad's children and especially if youtheir descendants. But it didn've been left with t quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an apologetic pineapple on your desk - this endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, a solution is a book for youproposed. Here Each of the office life is all delegating thiseight countries will send their greatest warriors, blah blah talk about thatknown as sentinels, and hanging far too much on the one guy who seems to be most with-it when it comes to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the computers. It's a black rings and white world, on become the whole, where you always get what you generally expectedsupreme ruler of Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>022408576X</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil Gaiman and Gris GrimlyPat Grant|title=The Dangerous Alphabet|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A is for Always, that's where we embark. B is for boat, pushing off in the dark... And so begins Neil Gaiman's adventure through the (unreliable) alphabet, in the company of two children and their gazelle. They do battle with monsters, hunt for treasure, and get into all manner of scrapes. What awaits them when they get to Z? Dare you read on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597154</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amit Dasgupta|title=Indian by Choice|rating=2|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Mandy is forced by circumstance to fly from his lifelong home in Chicago to India to represent his family at a wedding. He hates it. The Indians on the flight are brash, noisy, unmannered. Grot: The city he arrives in is a sprawling, noisy, polluted, impoverished mess. Everywhere people think Mandy is a daft name and he should have stuck to his name Story of birth, Mandeep. But he is American by choice, and finds nothing appealing about the prospect of four weeks in New Delhi.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>8183281362</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Guy Delisle|title=Burma ChroniclesSwamp City Grifters

|summary=What we have here are a male househusband and artistEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, and his MSF doctor wife, and their life in Burma or Myanmar for roughly a yearthat includes the punk bands. We get There are three pedallers at the front of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to see the life in ferry across the country, from the racks of bootleg softwareswamp to Falter City, where a mother and her two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. You could say that yoghurt would be the animation class he leadsonly culture around, to their efforts to get into the lush country clubsfor this is a really rough-and-ready dump of a place, to their baby being adored by every passing girlbut everyone is interested in small things that grow. We see For the state of only money to be had – the country, with its horrid drugsonly fortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, HIV/AIDS gunk and malaria problemsother crud that – well, hidden beyond the gentle Buddhist retreatsuse of it is never really made clear. We see Once there, the Delisles' interaction two brothers set themselves each up with this singular country - the censored pressa guide – Lippy, and the fact that their road is only made more busy because forward-thinking, industrious of the roadblock diverting everyone away from Aung San Suu Kyi's house two, with a besuited gent, Penn with a block awayballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of the two will come off the worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224087711</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom SiddellLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=Gunnerkrigg CourtTiananmen 1989: OrientationOur Shattered Hopes

|summary=While having used the internet for several years now I have never needed to use really followed the favourites option events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – there is someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. 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 routine venue for my comings and goings online that I can handlepolitical protest, and I dondidn't think I regret losing out know more than a spit about the people involved on a regular visit to any particular site mucheither side. The downside of this This book is that practically flawless in giving a lot of online graphic novels have probably passed me by, as I habitually dongeneral browser't form s context for the habit whole season of clicking to them. It's a relief then that one very well-acclaimed example, Gunnerkrigg Court, has come to my attention protests back in book form1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184856175X</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rod SerlingLeigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=The Twilight ZoneWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Monsters are Due Graphic Novel|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Diana, being unique on Maple Street her island, is the victim of a lot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. It's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of Men, and this Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...|isbn=1401282555}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1401286208|title=Black Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee|rating=43.5

|summary=One of the benefits of growing up when I did, as opposed Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her totry and follow in his footsteps, sayand seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, just she is desperate to find her voice. But it's actually more a year case of her voice finding her, as when she gets frustrated or two earlierplain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a weapon, was that home VHS coincided with the first attempts to have round-the-clock TV or a power. But in Britain. The channels struggled order for her to provide enough programming at call herself a budgetsuperhero, just as they do there has to be a whole path of steps for her to this day, but take – one thing they did give us, delightfully, was ''The Twilight Zone''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587914</amazonuk>of which will be into her past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley Hughes1401280048|title=Bye Bye BirdieBatman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose

|summary=AhThe young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, who doesnpaparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he't love Shirley Hughes? We've all read and cherished [[Alfie]] and [[Dogger]] over s a billionaire at the yearsage of eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he'Bye Bye Birdie' is her first graphic novel for adultss 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, and it's he goes too far as great far as you'd expect it to bethe 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. A man goes on There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a date with a womangang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, but things don't turn out how and murder the owner. Can he expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408075X</amazonuk>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?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barasui1401283292|title=Strawberry MarshmallowHarley Quinn: v.1Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|rating=43.5

|summary=Strawberry Marshmallow Harleen Quinzel is a slice-of-life manga by Barasui that follows the day new in town. She always, to day lives of sixteen year old Nobueme, her twelve year old sister Chikaseems new in town, and Chikaeven if she's friends Miu been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and Matsuri. The little girls try seems to solve problems and help look out of those large eyes at everything anew each other out, but things don't always go welltime. Leading to a slow paced But here she is new in town, heart warming manga that's basic premise and the town is 'cute girls do cute things in cute ways'Gotham City. Sounds exciting doesn't it? Don't be fooled! ''Strawberry Marshmallow'', like most slice-of Expecting a year-long furlough from life manga with her mother, she finds her gran dead and anime herself with no option but to stay with a bunch of drag queens. She also finds school is full of gentlea drag, subtle she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and slightly obscure humouruncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1598164945</amazonuk> One 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 violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oivind Hovland 140128339X|title=Trial Mera: Tidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Error: The Aviated Efforts of Jean Babtiste de BomberaqueStephen Byrne

|summary=We open with Meet Mera. She's the latest in a longline of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, slow aerial shot, up the driveway king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a chateau buried hunky man in the French countryside, focussing in on the family (fatheran arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, daughterthe territory's warrior queen, son) that live thereis long dead. All except this cannot happenMera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all and is, in fact, as yettrying to get Xebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, for this is long before the age Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of powered flight and such a shot is impossibleAtlantean masters. It is up So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to the son in that familyworld of us air-breathing humans, one Jean Babtiste de Bomberaqueand kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to pursue that dream get the quest (and the promised throne) all for herself. But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and make how hard it true.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808847</amazonuk>will be to get the job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oivind Hovland 1401286399|title=A Day in the Life of AlfredSuper Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=Witness AlfredIt's the near future, getting upand every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a huge flood barrier, getting ready for work, finding himself low built on toothpaste againits coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, going forcing many people to workrelocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, workingof course – first, he was patching up the dams, coming back from work and falling asleep at home. Is it Alfredbut now he's fault, or mining the worldasteroid belt for a rare dust that'sperfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, that in all that routineWyndermere, it appears nobody ever talks to him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808855</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rosalind Penfold|title=Dragonslippers: This is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=So, a five star book where we can predict the entire plotrefugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, and at times foretell just what people in it saybut something else is much worse. It's a damning indictment A major bout of things that that food poisoning is even possiblehitting the city.  This book lives by its subtitle – But it can''this is t possibly have anything to do with what an abusive relationship looks like''. Rosalind meets a man who seems nigh-on perfect – they seem sabotage of the flood barriers and the efforts to fall in love with easecorrect the climate, and she gets on very well with his four can it? Four young children from an earlier marriage. Then odd occurrences start begin to happen – he declares her work getting in his way, he possibly drinks a bit too much, he sees flirting in her shop-talk with other men. And things escalate and escalate, and – you know every stage. She suffers a guilt trip, before suffering physical violence, discovering affairs, getting back with him, then finding the right kind of help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007216882</amazonuk>piece together clues that it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan 168369015X|title=DemoManfried the Man: v. 1|rating=5|genre=A Graphic Novels|summary=It's not every young disaffected teenager that will respond to the withdrawal of her medication so explosively. It's not every young disaffected teenager that runs through empty landscapes because she is too scared to speak to anyone – for quite the reasons we see here. Not every family patches itself back together over a funeral in the fashion the third story gives us. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184576921X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNovel|author=Will Eisner|title=The DreamerCaitlin Major and Kelly Bastow

|summary=So, who else In a world where cats stand on the burgeoning Bookbag database has created a whole literary artformtwo feet, almost single-handed? Not just added something go to work at call centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, is Manfried. He's a genretypical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, or tweaked a style to her owndemanding more food than he can suitably eat, but done so much towards inventing a format of literature? The name of Will Eisner at the same time being the perfect companion for his owner, Steve Catson. To such an extent that Steve, who is getting known for his man-oriented thinking, is legend in actually having nightmares about becoming the world of graphic fictionneighbourhood ''crazy man cat''. But when a window gets left open by mistake, and this bookManfried goes missing, starting as the only thing for it is a thinlymassive and energised man-veiled autobiography, is almost as iconic as its creator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328082</amazonuk>hunt…

 {{newreview|author=Emma Rendel|title=Pentti and Deathgirl |rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I don't think there will be a more divisive book on our Bookbag database for many a moon to come than this volume. The publishers have it that this is ''a strange and wonderful delight for every reader'', and while that phrase starts with full honesty I have to say it becomes less truthful with every word.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224085069</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shannon Hale, Dean Hale and Nathan HaleHainsworth_Gina|title=Rapunzel's Revenge|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=''Rapunzel's Revenge'' is a re-telling of the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale. It is set in the Wild West and is in the form of a graphic novel. Rapunzel is a feisty 12-year-old living in a grand villa with Mother Gothel. She wants for nothing in the material sense, but is bored and rather lonely. A large wall surrounds the villa, and Rapunzel is determined to climb it, despite being forbidden to do so. She scales the wall and is amazed at what lies on the other side. On her return, she has a chance encounter with her real mother who is enslaved in the mine camps beyond the villa. To punish her rebellion, Rapunzel is banished and imprisoned in a lofty magical tree, but the magic also helps her hair to grow and eventually gives provides her with the means Talking to escape.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1599902885</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGina|author=Danny Fingeroth|title=The Rough Guide to Graphic NovelsOttilie Hainsworth

|summary=I have an admission to make''This is what happened. '' There are elements An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of my life I hold dear thatthe country, whatever I doBrighton to Grimsby, I cannot make other people converts topick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one working eye. They remain resilient to Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a mess, so it's not a great start, but then begin the charms tribulations of OMDtraining, status and for behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. And then, the life of me with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as if I seem unable was in love.'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets to make people see form the merit of graphic novelsfamily they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843539934</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey TurnerColfer_Illegal|title=The Comic Strip History of the WorldIllegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin

|summary=Derek spends Ebo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn't know where his days eating grassbrother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thing. So Ebo has to attempt the same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the Sahara Desert, talking get himself to other sheepTripoli, trying one of the most dangerous cities in the world, and then try to avoid angry bulls and entering cross the Farmyard Best Haircut competition - y'know, typical sheep stuffMediterranean Sea. By himself. ''Derek the Sheep'' packages together thirteen of the comic strips from ''The Beano'' into an enjoyable collectionAt twelve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594244</amazonuk>And, even if he makes it, how will he find his sister?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kurt Busiek Miller_Batman|title=SupermanBatman: Dark Knight III: RedemptionThe Master Race|rating=4.5 |genre=Graphic Novels|summaryauthor=Right from the get-go there was some criticism that the creators of Superman had simply invented a messiah figure for their own amusement. Whether that kind of talk was anti-Semitic comment against Siegel Frank Miller and Shuster, it has to be said that there are similarities – an only son, landing on earth to help the human race he is not exactly a part of, all the while being highly unlikely to truly die. Perhaps people were reading too much into a character that only wanted to outrun a speeding bullet, and to leap tall buildings in a single bound.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845767446</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shiro Ihara |title=Alice on Deadlines v.2 Brian Azzarello

|summary=AhBatman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, this book brought back memoriesand not the baddies he usually biffs. The way But then he's not Batman – he's a she, and she finally comes up with the reaver from news that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, Lara, the spirit world had crash-landed on Earth into the form daughter of a teenage schoolgirlSuperman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and began instantly lusting after more expanding life to the miniaturised city of the sameKandor, alongside the sheerestlast 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, frilliestand Batman dead, sexiest undies, and there would appear to be little in the way of help for the girl'world should anything nasty happen – but then, of course, something nasty does happen… s soul ended up in a skeleton, walking around and sometimes helping out destroy other nasties…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0759528454</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Brooks Weeks_Gritterman|title=Dark Wraith of Shannara |rating=2.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I should probably start this review by confessing that I've never read any of Terry Brooks' work before. As a completely new reader, I was both excited and intimidated to read and review ''Dark Wraith of Shannara''. The blurb declares it as an ideal opportunity to venture into the world of Shannara for the first time, however, I think whoever wrote it was being a bit optimistic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496383</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGritterman|author=Judith Park |title=Y SquareOrlando Weeks|rating=35

|summary=At There's a man who has an ice cream van. In summer, what there is of summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, That's not his local high schoolvocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and our hero Yoshi just cannot work out why narrator becomes a Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the girls are not attracted to him. It might have something to do with his brashroof light up and rotate, foot-in-mouth approachplaying a tune, whether the van's gritting or just bad luck, but whatever, he turns to the stereotypical local babeselling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve -magnet. Except will be the hunk is not exactly what he seemsvan's last trip. The main girl, council has sent the prettiestletter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, bitchiest object of desire, is not what she seems eitherthey say. And further girls on the horizon There's even a tarmac now that can only bring out jealousiesde-ice itself, problems, and everything else you might expectbut the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a world where the B2116 doesn't need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075952405X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Dall-Young Lim |title=Black God: v. 2 (Black God) |rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A lot has happened in the world of comics and manga since I reviewed the first volume of Black God. Heck, even Captain America managed Move on to die ('not too great a loss', I hear you knowledgably mutter). So coming to this second book after turning many a page of many other conflicting and diverse comic worlds since reading the first is a little like coming to the series anew.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0759528411</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peach-Pit |title=Zombie-Loan: v. 2 (Zombie-Loan) |rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I deliberately did not re-read the first volume in this series, or even [[Zombie-Loan by Peach-Pit|my review of itNewest Historical Fiction Reviews]], before planning this review – wishing instead to see how obvious, how immediate, and how penetrable the second part could be as a stand-alone read. You can thank me for being so brave later.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0759528365</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chuck Kim and others |title=Heroes Volume One |rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=''Heroes Volume One'' contains the first 34 instalments of the continuing online graphic novel that features on the official NBC Heroes website. Despite the apparent mismatch of numbers (34 instalments to 23 episodes) this Volume is intended as a companion to the first series of Heroes, recently aired on BBC2. Anyone who was not a fan of the series, or did not watch it, should turn away now, as this book is completely meaningless without some background knowledge of the show and its characters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845767063</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bryan Lee O'Malley |title=Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The ''Scott Pilgrim'' graphic novel series has slowly but surely been building up their own little cult over the last few years and it's not hard to see why. Drawn in a crude but effective black and white anime style, these pop culture and video game literate books have a geeky appeal, being a delirious mix of a sci-fi love story and coming of age tale, featuring a great ensemble of characters and having a tendency for breaking into anime style OTT battles. ANd with an adaptation to film soon by the very cool ''Hot Fuzz'' and '' Shawn of the Dead'' director Edgar Wright, this series seems set to burst out of its niche bubble.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1932664491</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Blythe and Steven Parkhouse |title=Angel Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=John Dury and his partner Zee are businessmen you would find it hard to like. Hard-hitting, go-getting types, they spend their leisure hours taking drugs, and their company time making smash-and-grab raids on family firms, carving them up and selling the relics off piecemeal. Their boss, Mr Belial, rewards their more amoral business successes with escorts in their scanties, and yet more narcotics – the trendiest street drug of which is Angel Fire, a new chemical that can easily take you to heaven.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844429180</amazonuk>}} {{newreview |title=Tamara Drewe|author=Posy Simmonds|genre=Graphic Novels|rating=4.5|summary=Tamara Drewe is not the woman she used to be. Plastic surgery has altered the shape of her nose and with a trendy wardrobe she has all the confidence she needs. She quickly captivates the local men when she returns to Ewedown to clear her mother's house after her recent death. Everyone, male and female, seems to be drawn to Tamara. Well, everyone except Beth Hardiman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022407816X</amazonuk>}}