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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]]==Graphic novels==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Jonathan Stroud|title=The Amulet of Samarkand|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When you summon a demon the last thing you want is for you to lose power over it <!- for the shoe to end up on the other foot. Especially when the demon shifts shape and is currently an eight-legged spider. That's what's happened to young Nathaniel, having summoned Bartimaeus for a task of vengeance. But perhaps it's worst of all when you have to rely on the same demon's help to protect you from an even greater evil Remove - the wicked intent of a fellow man.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563706</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Denise Mina and Antonio Fuso|title=A Sickness in the Family|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In Eton Terrance there lives the Usher family, in a house above a basement flat where a gangster holds sway over a Polish "girlfriend". After a bloodbath in there, the Ushers expand downwards, clearing a cavernous hole in their home where a staircase is due to go. This is not the only crack in proceedings, however, as we soon discover while witnessing the fall of this House of Usher.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848564163</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bryan Talbot|title=Grandville Mon Amour|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The [[Grandville by Bryan Talbot|first book]] in this series didn't end particularly well for DI LeBrock, the badger who works for Scotland Yard. At least the main problem, 'Mad Dog' Mastock, was sentenced to the guillotine. But in the prologue here he bursts out of his quandary, and once more causes problems for LeBrock - this time by slaughtering some Parisian prostitutes. Are they linked? What might their story be? And is there a darker part of the past yet to come out of some secretive hiding place, and cause even more danger and peril?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090003</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neville Colvin and Peter O'DonnellEdel Rodriguez|title=Modesty BlaiseWorm: Sweet Caroline|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Modesty Blaise. You've had countless opportunities to meet her before, mind - she was daily in the London Evening Standard from 1963 to 2001, and this is the eighteenth collection of her comic strip. She's a feisty, unfettered femme fatale with a bottomless fortune and a great supply of both friends and enemies. We see these combine here in four stories, when an enterprising gang of murderous blackmailers force Modesty to become their enemy, an old friend's name is used to dupe her into letting go her criminal secrets from her past, and when a new-found friend, fresh from saving her life in a gliding accident, comes up against some hoodlums.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566735</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joshua Dysart, Cliff Chiang and Dave Stewart|title=Neil Young's GreendaleA Cuban American Odyssey

|summary=ItWe's 2003re in childhood, and we're in Cuba. Alaska is about to get rapedThe revolution has happened, and Iraqis killedCastro, for the sake first thought of as a saviour of providing power for the USA. Which is ironiccountry, as only before this is Sun Green has proven himself a powerless young womanCommunist, and after it not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours- well, she might have a very different long speeches of his were kind of powertaking his time away. A mystical sort Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of girlplaces here, with a great affinity an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to naturesome minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the teenaged Sun has couple jobs with the party to first solve many blank spaces ease some of the heat, but in her family treethis sultry island country, and work it remains the kind of heat forcing you out her nightmares - which might include of the strange man new to town.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848567863</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garen EwingKia Ahankoob|title=The Rainbow Orchid: Adventures Gold Lion and the Tournament of Julius Chancer 2Sentinels

|summary=There are some people who don't even need their name on their booksWhen Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, for the contents are so obviously each with its own strength and uniquely theirs. Will Eisner is one such personweakeness, for in the esteem hope they would complement each other and renown his artwork collaborate, creating a dynamic and pioneering work in the graphic novel form prosperous society. Each power is held under is rightfully his contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and his alonetheir descendants. IBut it didn'm t quite sure I could recognise a page work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of his black them and the eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and white inkwork, ruinous stalemate and his easily drawn but realistic charactersfinding the cost of war too high, more easily than any other sequential artista solution is proposed. That trademark signature on Each of the covereight countries will send their greatest warriors, surely the most well-known in 'comic strips' outside Mr Disney's empireas sentinels, is hardly necessaryto a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0393328120</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera Pat Grant|title=Dark EntriesThe Grot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters

|summary=The producers of Dark EntriesEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the latest hit reality TV show, are worriedpunk bands. Yes There are three pedallers at the six housemates are there, present and correctfront of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, where a mother and are ready her two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. You could say that yoghurt would be scared witless en route to the one way outonly culture around, for this is a really rough-and the brilliant prize that might await them somewhere in the merry-go-round ready dump of horror a place, but everyone is interested in small things that is their new homegrow. They are already being scared witless, by phantoms - but that's nothing For the only money to do with be had – the TV producers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dean Hale, Shannon Hale and Nathan Hale |title=Calamity Jack|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''I was born only fortunes to scheme''be found in Falter City – come from algae, declares our hero Jack. With flashbacks we see the young lad gunk and a pixie friendother crud that – well, larking about for revenge or small profit. But when his mother's bakery gets more and more into the red, the size use of the profit has to increaseit is never really made clear. And when you add in revenge against Once there, the local crime lord - two brothers set themselves each up with a giant of a man guide – Lippy, the more forward- so does the size of the target thinking, industrious of the jape.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587426</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Crumb|title=Robert Crumb's Book of Genesis: All 50 Chapters|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In the beginning was the picture. Just think of all the countless religious imagestwo, both inside and outside religious establishmentswith a besuited gent, designed to convey the message to those who could not readPenn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. Art and religion have always been linked, But which is probably one of the main reasons I stayed an atheist - I hated art at school, and drawing a man on a donkey, something two will come off the worse as they make their own way beyond my skillsin this dystopian, was not a task I appreciated, hence my dislike of both subjects.semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224078097</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy DelisleLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=PyongyangTiananmen 1989: A Journey in North KoreaOur Shattered Hopes

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth HindsLeigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=King LearWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel

|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=Hound me out of town in a most appropriate mannerDiana, but I do not like King Lear. For mebeing unique on her island, even as is the victim of a trained actorlot of taunts, the language is too dense and rich, the set-up too archly unfeasible to create the great tragedy it's thought to beclaims of nepotism. To my mind the acclaim and esteem in which itIt's held is only mirrored by its own over-longher unique status, over-blown blustering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763643440</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Hughes|title=Thomas Wogan is Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Welland her mother being Queen, 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, her with a strange array of animals (a bat, a toadany standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a sea urchinstrong young woman...) Perhaps too strong for the island, all waiting however – 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 every Wonder Woman origin story, and Gris Grimly, outstanding illustrator, known has her quickly leaving home for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]. Poe's ''Tales the World of Death Men, 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 Diana is destined to unravel a conspiracy the heroine of revolution, treason, and propaganda of potentially global reachyet another Wonder Woman origin story. 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 shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in 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 coursesrunning race, but as with the best meals even survivor she drags from the smallest dishes can have the most depth. We start with the entire life cycle - rise, fall, rise, fall - of waters is only going to disturb a hobo feeding pigeons in the parklot more. Obviously he hasn't been doing that all his years - 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0393328147</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Eisner 1401286208|title=A Family MatterBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee

|summary=Some sons, some daughters, even a shy, semi-abandoned great nephew, are all gathering Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow 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 familyfootsteps, is this one about to get too radioactive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328139</amazonuk>}} [[Category:Science Fiction]]{{newreview|author=Jonathan Luna and Joshua Luna |title=Girls Volume 1: Conception|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Ethan, we see seemingly lumbered with being a great, broad comic stroke or sixcheerleader at school, she is not the best when it comes desperate to girls. Letting his mouth run away with him too often, he is not very successful at relationshipsfind her voice. But let us look at what happens when he drives away from an altercation at the local bar, and sees it's actually more 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 case of Huntingtonher voice finding her, a man tempered by bitterness encountered as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a youthweapon, trained by skills honed with an apparent need or a power. But in order for vengeance. He's out crusadingher to call herself a superhero, when he learns just the beginning there has to be a whole path of the story steps for her to take – one of what is wrong in Nottinghamshire. Returning, he meets John Little, and soon falls which will be into the robbing/giving cycle we know and love him for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406308870</amazonuk>her past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle 1401280048|title=Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic ClassicsNovel|author=Marie Lu, Volume 17: Science Fiction ClassicsStuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose

|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?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shaun Tan 1401283292|title=The ArrivalHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|rating=3.5

|summary=A man gathers a last memento or two before taking his suitcase Harleen Quinzel is new 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 landtown. Once arrivedShe always, he finds strangeness everywhere - the foodto me, the languageseems new in town, 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 of Edgar Allan Poeeven if she's Short Stories|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=Sobeen around a long time, if I were to mention someone who was born 200 years ago this seasonfor she always has a very fresh attitude, and who changed the world with their writing, who would you think seems to look out of first? Charles Darwin, probablythose large eyes at everything anew each time. But those of a slightly different bent might just have mentioned someone else - someone at the forefront of all things arcanehere she is new in town, horrific and thrilling when it comes to fictionthe town is Gotham City. Someone who lost his birth and foster Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother both to tuberculosis before he was ever twenty. Someone who had most unusual circumstances surrounding his death, she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to best Agatha Christie vanishing for stay with a while, and most bunch of the detectives in the fiction he helped inspiredrag queens. Someone called Edgar Allan Poe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955285682</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki|title=Skim|rating=4|genre=Teens |summary=Skim She also finds school is a slightly overweightdrag, 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 also finds the usual school cliques. We meet her initially trying out whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a witch, large and beginning uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a strange, secretive relationship with big impact on her hippy art teacher, Miss Archerlife. Then One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, after the suicide of the ex-boyfriend of one of the girls other someone she only meets 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 night – a lad with Miss Archer leaving the school, which drops Skim into a morbid depressionsingular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, isolating her even further from those in her class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406321362</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Herman140128339X|title=I Like My JobMera: Tidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne

|summary=If youMeet Mera. She've ever been faced by too many Post-Its at s the same time, or latest in a performance review, or copious yards line of errant electrical cabling all round your workspace - and especially if you've been left with an apologetic pineapple young women intent on your desk - this is a book fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for youthemselves. Here Her father, the office life is king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after 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. ItMera's a black and white worldmother, 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, thatterritory's where we embark. B warrior queen, is for boat, pushing off in the darklong dead... And so begins Neil Gaiman Mera doesn's adventure through t fancy the cosseting or the (unreliable) alphabetfella involved at all and is, in fact, trying to get Xebel out from under the company cosh of two children and their gazelle. They do battle with monstersAtlantean power, hunt for treasure, and get into all manner Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of scrapesAtlantean masters. What awaits them So 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 she overhears her father request that her intended go to India to represent his family at a wedding. He hates it. The Indians on the flight are brashworld of us air-breathing humans, noisyand kill the Atlantis heir, unmanneredshe rushes off to get the quest (and the promised throne) all for herself. The city he arrives in is a sprawlingBut of course, noisy, pollutedshe has no idea what kind of person she will meet, impoverished mess. Everywhere people think Mandy is a daft name and he should have stuck how hard it will be to his name of birth, Mandeep. But he is American by choice, and finds nothing appealing about get the prospect of four weeks in New Delhi.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>8183281362</amazonuk>job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Delisle1401286399|title=Burma ChroniclesSuper Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=What we have here are a male househusband and artistIt's the near future, and his MSF doctor wife, and their life every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in Burma or Myanmar for roughly need of a yearhuge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. We get But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to see the life relocate in the countryAmerica's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, from the racks of bootleg softwarecourse – first, to the animation class he leads, to their efforts to get into was patching up the lush country clubsdams, to their baby being adored by every passing girl. We see but now he's mining the state of asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the countrysolar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, with its horrid drugsin Wyndermere, HIV/AIDS the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and malaria problemsintolerance for being newcomers, hidden beyond but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the gentle Buddhist retreatscity. We see the DelislesBut it can' interaction t possibly have anything to do with this singular country - what looks like sabotage of the censored press, flood barriers and the fact efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues 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>it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Siddell168369015X|title=Gunnerkrigg CourtManfried the Man: OrientationA Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow

|summary=While having used the internet In a world where cats stand on two feet, go to work at call centres and have diminutive human beings for several years now I have never needed to use the favourites option much – there pets, is Manfried. He's a routine typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at the same time being the perfect companion for my comings and goings online his owner, Steve Catson. To such an extent that I can handleSteve, who is getting known for his man-oriented thinking, and I donis actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''crazy man cat''t think I regret losing out on a regular visit to any particular site much. The downside of this is that But when a lot of online graphic novels have probably passed me window gets left open bymistake, and Manfried goes missing, as I habitually don't form the habit of clicking to them. It's only thing for it is a relief then that one very wellmassive and energised man-acclaimed example, Gunnerkrigg Court, has come to my attention in book form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184856175X</amazonuk>hunt…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rod SerlingHainsworth_Gina|title=The Twilight Zone: The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Talking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|summary=One ''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of the benefits of growing up when I didcountry, as opposed Brighton toGrimsby, say, just a year or two earlier, was that home VHS coincided to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with the first attempts to have round-the-clock TV in Britainsome mange and one working eye. Why not? The channels struggled to provide enough programming first night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a budgetmess, just as they do to this dayso it's not a great start, but one thing they did give usthen begin the tribulations of training, delightfullystatus and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. And then, was the life with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''The Twilight ZoneI felt weird about you because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as if I was in love.'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the family they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587914</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley HughesColfer_Illegal|title=Bye Bye BirdieIllegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin|rating=45

|summary=Ah, who Ebo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn't love Shirley Hughes? We've all read and cherished [[Alfie]] and [[Dogger]] over know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thing. So Ebo has to attempt the yearssame dangerous journey himself. 'Bye Bye Birdie' is her first graphic novel for adultsHe must cross the Sahara Desert, get himself to Tripoli, one of the most dangerous cities in the world, and it's as great as you'd expect it then try to becross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. A man goes on a date with a womanAnd, even if he makes it, but things don't turn out how will he expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408075X</amazonuk>find his sister?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=BarasuiMiller_Batman|title=Strawberry MarshmallowBatman: Dark Knight III: v.1|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Strawberry Marshmallow is a slice-of-life manga by Barasui that follows the day to day lives of sixteen year old Nobue, her twelve year old sister Chika, and Chika's friends Miu and Matsuri. The little girls try to solve problems and help each other out, but things don't always go well. Leading to a slow paced, heart warming manga that's basic premise is 'cute girls do cute things in cute ways'. Sounds exciting doesn't it? Don't be fooled! ''Strawberry Marshmallow'', like most slice-of-life manga and anime is full of gentle, subtle and slightly obscure humour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1598164945</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaster Race|author=Oivind Hovland |title=Trial Frank Miller and Error: The Aviated Efforts of Jean Babtiste de BomberaqueBrian Azzarello|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We open with a long, slow aerial shot, up the driveway of a chateau buried in the French countryside, focussing in on the family (father, mother, daughter, son) that live there. All except this cannot happen, as yet, for this is long before the age of powered flight and such a shot is impossible. It is up to the son in that family, one Jean Babtiste de Bomberaque, to pursue that dream and make it true3.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808847</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Oivind Hovland |title=A Day in the Life of Alfred|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Witness Alfred, getting up, getting ready for work, finding himself low on toothpaste again, going to work, working, coming back from work and falling asleep at home. Is it Alfred's fault, or the world's, that in all that routine, 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

|summary=SoBatman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, a five star book where we can predict and not the entire plot, and at times foretell just what people in it saybaddies he usually biffs. ItBut then he's a damning indictment of things that that is even possible.  This book lives by its subtitle not Batman – he''this is what an abusive relationship looks like''. Rosalind meets s a man who seems nigh-on perfect – they seem to fall in love with easeshe, and she gets on very well finally comes up with his four children from an earlier marriagethe news that Batman died in her hands. Then odd occurrences start Elsewhere, Lara, the daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to happen – he declares her work getting in turn his way, he possibly drinks a bit too much, he sees flirting in her shop-talk technologies concerned with other men. And things escalate shrinking and escalateexpanding life to the miniaturised city of Kandor, and – you know every stagethe last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. She suffers What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a guilt tripsulk, before suffering physical violenceand Batman dead, discovering affairs, getting back with him, then finding there would appear to be little in the right kind way of help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007216882</amazonuk>for the world should anything nasty happen – but then, of course, something nasty does happen… s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan Weeks_Gritterman|title=Demo: v. 1The Gritterman|author=Orlando Weeks

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