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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]]==Graphic novels==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Phoebe Reeves Murray|title=Ghost: Blood and Fire|rating=1.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Young Jennifer Rhys has been orphaned by the evilDark Angels. They can possess people and bite off their hands, andthere's something about living tattoos which you can take out of boxesand paste into your skin. After growing up in an adolescentpsychiatric ward, she will grow up to go on and confront them andfulfil her destiny. Or something like that. Between the huge amount ofpoorly drawn characters, the leaden prose, and the disappointingpictures of computerized 3<!-- Remove --D models, I got lost a few times andcouldn't summon the interest to work out what was going on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808863</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will EisnerEdel Rodriguez|title=Life on Another PlanetWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=2.54
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|summary=There are some people who donWe't even need their name on their booksre in childhood, for the contents are so obviously and uniquely theirswe're in Cuba. Will Eisner is one such personThe revolution has happened, and Castro, for first thought of as a saviour of the esteem country, has proven himself a Communist, and renown not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his artwork and pioneering work in the graphic novel form is held under is rightfully his and were kind of taking his alonetime away. IOur narrator's family weren'm quite sure I could recognise a page t in the happiest of his black places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and white inkworkwatched, and not liked for his easily drawn but realistic characterssuccessful photography business, more easily than any other sequential artistsuccess being frowned upon. That trademark signature on The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the coverheat, surely the most well-known but in 'comic strips' outside Mr Disney's empirethis sultry island country, is hardly necessary.it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0393328120</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera Kia Ahankoob|title=Dark EntriesThe Gold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels
|rating=4
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|summary=The producers of Dark EntriesWhen Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, the latest hit reality TV showeach with its own strength and weakeness, are worried. Yes in the six housemates are there, present hope they would complement each other and correctcollaborate, creating a dynamic and are ready prosperous society. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to be scared witless en route to the one way of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out, like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the brilliant prize that might await them somewhere in eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the merry-go-round cost of horror that war too high, a solution is proposed. Each of the eight countries will send their new home. They are already being scared witlessgreatest warriors, known as sentinels, by phantoms - but that's nothing to do with a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the TV producerssupreme ruler of Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dean Hale, Shannon Hale and Nathan Hale Pat Grant|title=Calamity Jack|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''I was born to scheme'', declares our hero Jack. With flashbacks we see the young lad and a pixie friend, larking about for revenge or small profit. But when his mother's bakery gets more and more into the red, the size of the profit has to increase. And when you add in revenge against the local crime lord - a giant of a man - so does the size of the target The Grot: The Story of the jape.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587426</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Crumb|title=Robert Crumb's Book of Genesis: All 50 ChaptersSwamp City Grifters|rating=4.5
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|summary=In the beginning was Everything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the picturepunk bands. Just think There are three pedallers at the front of all the countless religious imagesHeath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, both inside where a mother and outside religious establishments, designed her two sons aim to convey the message to those who could not readset up a yoghurt factory. Art You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for this is a really rough-and religion have always been linked-ready dump of a place, which but everyone is probably one of interested in small things that grow. For the only money to be had – the main reasons I stayed an atheist - I hated art at schoolonly fortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and drawing other crud that – well, the use of it is never really made clear. Once there, the two brothers set themselves each up with a man on a donkeyguide – Lippy, the more forward-thinking, something way beyond my skillsindustrious of the two, was not with a task I appreciatedbesuited gent, hence my dislike Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of both subjects.the two will come off the worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224078097</amazonuk>1603094660
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy DelisleLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=PyongyangTiananmen 1989: A Journey in North KoreaOur Shattered Hopes
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|summary=Meet GuyI never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. HeI certainly didn's a French-Canadian animator, leaving home for a short stay in t know of the capital weeks of one protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the worldTank Man image, I didn's most intriguingt know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, unknown and alien cultures - Pyongyang, North Korea - so he can work I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on a TV cartoon co-productioneither side. Forced to stay This book is practically flawless in one of the three official hotels designed giving a general browser's context for foreigners, so that the locals and people such as he do not have to mix, he see glimpses whole season of the unique socialist dictatorship, stunning views of the buildings forced through the poverty, and thousands of unreadable facesprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224079905</amazonuk>1684056993
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth HindsLeigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=King LearWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel
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|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=Hound me out Diana, being unique on her island, is the victim of town in a most appropriate mannerlot of taunts, but I do not like King Learand claims of nepotism. For meIt's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even as though she has clearly fought to be a trained actorstrong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the language World of Men, and this Diana is too dense and rich, the set-up too archly unfeasible to create the great tragedy it's thought to beheroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. To my mind A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the survivor she drags from the acclaim and esteem in which it's held waters is only mirrored by its own over-long, over-blown blusteringgoing to disturb a lot more...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763643440</amazonuk>1401282555
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hughes1401286208|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 combinationBlack Canary: 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>}} {{newreviewIgnite|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 - he's been keeping his dignity intact, with a huge amount of chutzpah Meg Cabot 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 MatterCara McGee
|rating=3.5
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|summary=Some sonsMeet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, some daughters, even and seemingly lumbered with being 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 cheerleader at the thought of a future inheritance. We've heard before of a nuclear familyschool, she is this one about desperate to get too radioactive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328139</amazonuk>}} [[Category:Science Fiction]]{{newreview|author=Jonathan Luna and Joshua Luna |title=Girls Volume 1: Conception|rating=4find her voice.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Ethan, we see with But it's actually more a greatcase of her voice finding her, broad comic stroke as when she gets frustrated or six, is not the best when plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it comes to girls. Letting his mouth run away with him too oftena weapon, he is not very successful at relationshipsor a power. But let us look at what happens when he drives away from an altercation at the local barin order for her to call herself a superhero, and sees there has to be a gorgeous - and very naked - young woman standing in the middle whole path of steps for her to take – one of the road.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1582405298</amazonuk>which will be into her past…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Lee and Sam Hart 1401280048|title=OutlawBatman: Nightwalker: The Legend of Robin Hood (Heroes & Heroines Graphic)Novel|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summaryauthor=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 LittleMarie Lu, Stuart Moore 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 ClassicsChris Wildgoose
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=SoThe young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, an introductionand suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at the age of eighteen. The Graphic Classics collection is a series whereby Feeling rather stuck with the best legacy he'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 genre fictionpursuit of a criminal, from sources both highly likely and remarkably unexpectedhe goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, is collected and dressed up gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the home for us in graphic novel formviolent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. This seventeenth editionThere he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a belated best-of scigang who steal any ten-fi volume, is their first foray into full colourfigure bank account contents they can, and is headlined by a version murder the owner. Can he get close to one of The War them and get the truth of their schemes, or will the Worlds. The supporting material ranges from manipulative Madeleine be a onestep too far for the young do-page strip to thirty-page stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0978791975</amazonuk>gooder?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shaun Tan 1401283292|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 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 ClassicsHarley Quinn: Nevermore - A Graphic Novel Anthology 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>}} {{newreviewBreaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki|title=Skim|rating=4|genre=Teens |summary=Skim is a slightly overweight, goth, witch-wannabe teenage girl going to an all girls High School in Toronto in the 1990's. The book takes the form of her diary entries, painfully honest, and very realistic with words crossed out and re-written at times. We see her tortured teen life and how she faces issues of suicide, depression, first love and being something of a mis-fit amongst the usual school cliques. We meet her initially trying out being a witch, and beginning a strange, secretive relationship with her hippy art teacher, Miss Archer. Then, after the suicide of the ex-boyfriend of one of the girls at Skim's school, those in charge at the school go on an overdrive of moral-boosting, supportive exercises to help all the girls cope. This coincides with Miss Archer leaving the school, which drops Skim into a morbid depression, isolating her even further from those in her class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406321362</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Herman|title=I Like My JobSteve Pugh|rating=43.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=If you've ever been faced by too many Post-Its at the same time, or a performance review, or copious yards of errant electrical cabling all round your workspace - and especially if you've been left with an apologetic pineapple on your desk - this is a book for you. Here the office life is all delegating this, blah blah talk about that, and hanging far too much on the one guy who seems to be most with-it when it comes to the computers. It's a black and white world, on the whole, where you always get what you generally expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408576X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|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. 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 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 Chronicles|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=What we have here are a male househusband and artist, and his MSF doctor wife, and their life in Burma or Myanmar for roughly a year. We get to see the life in the country, from the racks of bootleg software, to the animation class he leads, to their efforts to get into the lush country clubs, to their baby being adored by every passing girl. We see the state of the country, with its horrid drugs, HIV/AIDS and malaria problems, hidden beyond the gentle Buddhist retreats. We see the Delisles' interaction with this singular country - the censored press, and the fact that their road is only made more busy because of the roadblock diverting everyone away from Aung San Suu Kyi's house a block away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087711</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Siddell|title=Gunnerkrigg Court: Orientation|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=While having used the internet for several years now I have never needed to use the favourites option much – there is a routine for my comings and goings online that I can handle, and I don't think I regret losing out on a regular visit to any particular site much. The downside of this is that a lot of online graphic novels have probably passed me by, as I habitually don't form the habit of clicking to them. It's a relief then that one very well-acclaimed example, Gunnerkrigg Court, has come to my attention in book form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184856175X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rod Serling|title=The Twilight Zone: The Monsters are Due on Maple Street |rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=One of the benefits of growing up when I did, as opposed to, say, just a year or two earlier, was that home VHS coincided with the first attempts to have round-the-clock TV in Britain. The channels struggled to provide enough programming at a budget, just as they do to this day, but one thing they did give us, delightfully, was ''The Twilight Zone''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587914</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shirley Hughes|title=Bye Bye Birdie|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Ah, who doesn't love Shirley Hughes? We've all read and cherished [[Alfie]] and [[Dogger]] over the years. 'Bye Bye Birdie' is her first graphic novel for adults, and it's as great as you'd expect it to be. A man goes on a date with a woman, but things don't turn out how he expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408075X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Barasui|title=Strawberry Marshmallow: v.1|rating=4
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|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…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oivind Hovland 140128339X|title=Trial Mera: Tidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Error: The Aviated Efforts of Jean Babtiste de BomberaqueStephen Byrne
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|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…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oivind Hovland 1401286399|title=A Day in the Life of AlfredSuper Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|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, coming back from work and falling asleep at home. Is it Alfredhe was patching up the dams, but 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, 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 appears nobody ever talks can't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and the efforts to himcorrect the climate, can it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808855</amazonuk>Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosalind Penfold168369015X|title=DragonslippersManfried the Man: This is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like|rating=5|genre=A Graphic Novels|summary=So, a five star book where we can predict the entire plot, and at times foretell just what people in it say. It's a damning indictment of things that that is even possible. This book lives by its subtitle – ''this is what an abusive relationship looks like''. Rosalind meets a man who seems nigh-on perfect – they seem to fall in love with ease, and she gets on very well with his four children from an earlier marriage. Then odd occurrences start 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>}} {{newreviewNovel|author=Brian Wood Caitlin Major and Becky Cloonan |title=Demo: v. 1|rating=5|genre=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>}} {{newreview|author=Will Eisner|title=The DreamerKelly Bastow
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|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…
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey TurnerColfer_Illegal|title=The Comic Strip History of the WorldIllegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin
|rating=5
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|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?
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{{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
|rating=3.5
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|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>
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{{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=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=At his local high school, our hero Yoshi just cannot work out why the girls are not attracted to him. It might have something to do with his brash, foot-in-mouth approach, or just bad luck, but whatever, he turns to the stereotypical local babe-magnet. Except the hunk is not exactly what he seems. The main girl, the prettiest, bitchiest object of desire, is not what she seems either. And further girls on the horizon can only bring out jealousies, problems, and everything else you might expect.|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 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=35
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|summary=I deliberately did not re-read the first volume in this seriesThere's a man who has an ice cream van. In summer, or even [[Zombie-Loan by Peach-Pit|my review what there is of summer, he uses it]], before planning this review – wishing instead to see how obvioussell ice creams, how immediateThat's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and how penetrable our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the second part could be as roof light up and rotate, playing a standtune, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve -alone readwill be the van's last trip. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. You Dying profession, they say. There's even a tarmac now that can thank me for being so brave laterde-ice itself, but the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a world where the B2116 doesn't need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0759528365</amazonuk>
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