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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]]==Graphic novels==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan Moore and Kevin O'NeillEdel Rodriguez|title=NemoWorm: Heart of IceA Cuban American Odyssey|rating=34

|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The Nemo here is merely the daughter revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the great Captain Nemocountry, as defined by Jules Vernehas proven himself a Communist, although given that heritage there is more than and not done nearly enough talent in her bloodline to create a level playing field for piracy and adventureall. HereWell, fleeing a royal those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family that has just been lootedweren't in the happiest of places here, Nemo turns an uncle refusing to her 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's logbooks being watched and journalswatched, and decides there is unfinished not liked for his successful photography business in the southern polar wastes, success being frowned upon. But while she's off looking for more edifying actionThe mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, others are off looking for revenge on her…it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861661834</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cassandra Clare and HyeKyung BaekKia Ahankoob|title=The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel, Volume 1: The Manga (Manga Edition)Gold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels|rating=3.54

|summary=Meet Tessa Gray. Summonsed to London to be When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with her brother after living its own strength and weakeness, in Americathe hope they would complement each other and collaborate, she has no idea what she creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is going contained within a magical ring belonging to be in forone of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. A kidnap Enmities grew out of them and training at the hands of two witches is only the start of it as she is forced eight countries went to find the truth about the world about her – about war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the two different kinds cost of supernatural beingswar too high, and a solution is proposed. Each of how they constantly fight against each otherthe eight countries will send their greatest warriors, and about her own unique originknown as sentinels, character and destiny that makes her more than to a pawn in this battlesingle combat tournament. You might have met Tessa before, but not like this – for this is The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the manga adaptation supreme ruler of the seriesDuniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502252</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joff WinterhartPat Grant|title=Days The Grot: The Story of the Bagnold SummerSwamp City Grifters

|summary=Meet Daniel BagnoldEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the punk bands. He is There are three pedallers at the front of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, where a mother and her two sons aim to set up a surlyyoghurt factory. You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, sullen, modern teenager, permanently in for this is a black hoodie, with long, lanky hair really rough-and almost -ready dump of a monobrowplace, who one would call very quiet were it not for the metal music but everyone is interested in small things that forms almost his only interestgrow. He has been forced For the only money to spend be had – the summer, not only fortunes to be found in Florida with his absent father's new familyFalter City – come from algae, but with his librarian mother Sue, his best friend gunk and his shyness. He doesn't want muchother crud that – well, and neither the use of it would appear does his mother – although she knows she has to get him some posh shoes for her cousin's weddingis never really made clear. This book is about their relationship Once there, the two brothers set themselves each up with a guide – Lippy, the more forward-thinking, industrious of the two , with a besuited gent, Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of them and the dog that completes two will come off the household – worse as they make their own way in tellingthis dystopian, devastating and humorous manner.semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224090844</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David NytraLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=The Secret of the Stone FrogTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=It's come to my I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention recently that Knockabout books, with their growing library of graphic titles, have no intention when it was playing out – someone in being at all literary – not for them the gently observant characterisation second half of some original graphic novelstheir teens has other priorities, you know. Instead they seem to have 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 wilful regard venue for going even further than their house name suggests – wildpolitical protest, wacky and not afraid to present an upsetting image. With Krent Able they have I didn't know more than a spit about the collaborator who will surely help them live up to that ethos like no otherpeople involved on either side. Taken from This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the ''Stool Pigeon'' musical magazine, with some extra cartoons, are these strips whole season of depravity, death protests back in unlikely ways and revolting selections of body parts and fluids1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861661796</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert R Crumb Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Aline CrumbKit Seaton|title=Drawn TogetherWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=43|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=This book isDiana, as it says several timesbeing unique on her island, is the collected works victim of the world's only comic-strip creating husband-a lot of taunts, and-wife partnershipclaims of nepotism. While this is to ignore the work Joyce does to co-write some of Harvey PekarIt's titlesonly her unique status, there certainly is not a couple such as this. Over several decades of workand her mother being Queen, we see just how joined that has her with any standing at the hip they areall, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. Most of Perhaps too strong for the panels are drawn by him - R - with Aline drawing herself on top of his inked backgrounds. Later onisland, their self-created titles are split, with him doing half however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the pagesWorld of Men, and her own opus on this Diana is the other half - by this time she had had works out under her own nameheroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. But so close are the couple A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in each other's intimate worksa running race, they are never very far but the survivor she drags from the edge of the framewaters is only going to disturb a lot more...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861661788</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hunt Emerson and Kevin Jackson1401286208|title=Dante's InfernoBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee|rating=43.5

|summary=It seems incredibly right, on only the third page of this text, Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that the Divine Comedy should be transferred her policeman father will not allow her to the black try and whitefollow in his footsteps, cartoonish side of the graphic novel format. Our venturing hero encounters the 'leopard of malice and fraud'seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, the 'lion of violence and ambition' and the 'she-wolf of avarice and incontinenceis desperate to find her voice. But it', and leaves bemoaning ''living in s actually more a world case of symbolism''her voice finding her, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could see the beasts illustrated and captioned by name curving alongside their bodyalmost call it a weapon, just as Hogarth may have displayed them, but no, Emerson goes down the path that is less cartoonish and less newspaper comic strip, and lets the picture and script stay or a bit more separatepower. But later on he is delving into the more blatant, and immediatein order for her to call herself a superhero, by dressing The Furies up as multiple Maggie Thatchers. The good thing about this book is there is reason has to be a whole path of steps for everything in it - from the examples of artwork I have described, her to the fact both creators claim it to have been 'influenced by childhood reading take – one of MAD magazine', and a reason the publisher of this untouchable classic is known as Knockabout Books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661699</amazonuk>which will be into her past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Grant Morrison1401280048|title=SupergodsBatman: Nightwalker: Our World in the Age of the SuperheroThe Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose

|summary=Consider the super-hero comic. Borne out of The young man called Bruce Wayne is a need to create cheap very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and franchise-friendly content for newspapers in America, itsuchlike – reminding him he's grown into a billion-dollar industry, with Hollywood jumping on billionaire at the bandwagon age of several major characters now their FX have finally caught up eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the printed pagelegacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to do charitable deeds. Disposable? - once upon But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a timecriminal, yet now collectable to he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and gets given the tune most unlikely stretch of a million dollars or morecommunity service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. Frivolous? There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten- probablyfigure bank account contents they can, yet not exclusively now, if ever soand murder the owner. At one point here, they are just Can he get close to one product of them and get the infinitely powerful imaginary system each truth of us carries in our braintheir schemes, and at or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the other 'ethereal, paperyoung do-thin constructs of unfettered imagination'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546671</amazonuk>gooder?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eddie Campbell1401283292|title=The Lovely Horrible StuffHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|rating=43.5

|summary=MoneyHarleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in amongst all the cliched things it doestown, even if she's been around a long time, makes for peciluar detail for she always has a graphic novelist like Eddie Campbell very fresh attitude, and seems to include look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is new in a book about ittown, and the town is Gotham City. He has to make himself Expecting a company to qualify for creating a Batman strip to earn ityear-long furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and has herself with no option but to pay $4 to buy $1 to draw (- then claim the tax back on the purchase to save himself some stay with a bunch of it)drag queens. It causes friction when his daughter earns too muchShe also finds school is a drag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and when his wife's dad spends too much in uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a legal pursuit to have morebig impact on her life. In One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the second half of this book it causes other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a journalistic piece of non-fiction as he takes singular graffiti tag and a look at Pacific islanders mind for violence and chaos, who used man-sized stone discs as currency.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1603091521</amazonuk>calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maarten vande Wiele140128339X|title=ParisMera: Tidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne

|summary=In Meet Mera. She's the category latest in a line of graphic novels not to be seen reading in public, Paris is way up thereyoung women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. With a gaudy pink and silver glitz coverHer father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a lot of blowjobs and sex insidehunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, itMera's not one for mother, the daily commuteterritory's warrior queen, is long dead. But, even though itMera doesn's subject matter is merely t fancy the unlikely choice of cosseting or the rags-fella involved at all and is, in fact, trying to-riches-to-rags tale get Xebel out from under the cosh of three Parisian starletsAtlantean power, it is certainly worth a decent perusalfor Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. Hope was a juvenile beauty queenSo when she overhears her father request that her intended go to the world of us air-breathing humans, and could now work in fashion were it not for scars due kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to a car crash, get the quest (and Faith wishes the promised throne) all for the vicarious life herself. But of pop stardomcourse, and it's she has no spoiler to report who and idea what they find kind of person she will disappoint them. Chastitymeet, and how hard it will be to get the most sarcastically-named character in comix, is happy enough destroying herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661737</amazonuk>job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicolas de Crecy1401286399|title=Super Sons: The Celestial BibendumPolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|rating=3.54

|summary=Diego It's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is new in need of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to town. Herelocate in America's a sealbiggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, of course – first, on crutcheshe was patching up the dams, but donnow he't raise an eyebrow at s mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that - you won't have enough left to raise at what followss perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, when he is hounded by a singing professorial claque who go about grooming him the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being a very publicnewcomers, hopeful figurebut something else is much worse. Observing all A major bout of this food poisoning is hitting the devil (a dwarf in check dungarees, city. But it can't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of course)the flood barriers and the efforts to correct the climate, who wants Diego for his own purposes...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661753</amazonuk>can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Kindt168369015X|title=Revolver|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Sam. He has a rather dull life, with a materialistic girlfriend, and a job in the arse-end of celebrity journalism and a boss he can't stand. All of which is preferential to waking up and finding his home city under attack - munitions going off, skyscrapers burning and people falling from them. He ends up fleeing with said editor, only to wake the next day back in this world. He will indeed fall to being snatched from each reality in turn, at set times of day, forced to suffer consumerism in one, looting in another, basic pay raises here, producing Samizdat bare-bones journalism for survivors there. But always with enough time to ask Manfried the important questions - how, and why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401222412</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bill Willingham|title=FablesMan: Legends in Exile - Vol 01|rating=5|genre=A Graphic Novels|summary=Forced out of the Homelands by the evil Adversary, the characters in Fables have made their way to New York City. Those of them who look relatively human, at least. With Old King Cole as Mayor (in name, at least, despite his deputy Snow White running the show), Bigby Wolf as the Sheriff, and Prince Charming being, well, charming, towards every woman he can, these are characters you'll already know and love – but portrayed in a way that completely reinvigorates them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1563899426</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNovel|author=Alan Moore Caitlin Major and Dave Gibbons|title=Watchmen|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The Comedian is dead. In a world where costumed vigilantes have been outlawed and former superheroes are either retired or working for the government, the murder of his former teammate leads the outlaw Rorschach to investigate. What he finds could change the world...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1852860243</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ray Fawkes|title=One SoulKelly Bastow

|summary=When reading this it soon becomes very clear we're reading not one, but nineteen, stories. With each page divided into In a regular 3x3 grid there are eighteen images world where cats stand on each double page spreadtwo feet, go to work at call centres and every one shows an episodehave diminutive human beings for pets, or is Manfried. He's a beattypical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, of a different character's life in turndemanding more food than he can suitably eat, from but at the same time being a babe-in-arms to deaththe perfect companion for his owner, Steve Catson. HoweverTo such an extent that Steve, the way they join up who is getting known for his man- everyone's figurative moment comes at onceoriented thinking, at times is actually having nightmares about becoming the artistneighbourhood ''s heavy black ink makes all eighteen images coincide into one image - proves there is crazy man cat''. But when a separatewindow gets left open by mistake, individual tale around and behind the othersManfried goes missing, one which will end with the most delightful moral only thing for it is a massive and energised man- that the ability to be anything one imagines is in our DNA.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1934964662</amazonuk>hunt…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LucasHainsworth_Gina|title=The Lying Carpet|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=There is a room in a big old house where nothing moves but the insects. An empty chair sits Talking to one side, a stone statue of a girl called, and representing, Faith, the other. In between is a tiger rug. What potential is in that for the setting of a charming book? What potential indeed...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390177</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGina|author=Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot|title=Dotter of Her Father's EyesOttilie Hainsworth

|summary=If there's one person able to produce 'This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a worthwhile potted history dog – so drove the length of James Joyce's daughterthe country, Brighton to Grimsby, it should be Mary M Talbot. She's to pick up an eminent academic, Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and her father was a major Joycean scholarone working eye. Both females had parents with Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the same names too - James dog – eats something she shouldn't and Nora, both took to the stage when younger after going to dance schoolcauses a mess, but so it's the contrasts between them this volume subtly picks out rather than any similaritiesnot a great start, in a dual biography painted by one person we know by now as more than able to produce a delightful graphic novel - [[:Category:Bryan Talbot|Bryan Talbot]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096087</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peter O'Donnell|title=Modesty Blaise: Live Bait|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're back in but then begin the gritty yet glamorous world tribulations of Modesty Blaise - at leasttraining, as gritty status and glamorous as you could get in the Evening Standard daily comic strip in the late 1980sbehaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. Titan have had a mammoth undertaking to reproduce all the original strips in handy large-format graphic novel compendia, and this latest covers three storiesAnd then, all of which I consider greater in depth than those in the other volume Ilife with Gina begins to feel like too much – 've reviewed - [[Modesty Blaise: Sweet Caroline by Neville Colvin and Peter O'Donnell|Sweet Caroline]]I felt weird about you because you were always there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686682</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patricia McKissack My thoughts were taken over by you, Frederick L McKissack Jr and Randy DuBurke|title=Best Shot I felt sick, as if I was in the West|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary='We're going to do the real West, Natlove. You're as real as the rest of 'em - Bat Masterson, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill, the Earps.' So says a publisher to a lowly railroad porterSlowly, Nat. But if this guy's as real as the rest of those famous nameshowever, why does his not trip off the tongue? Is it purely because as the most famous African-American cowboy, he still was not allowed to be as famous as he should?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0811857492<everyone – our artist/amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Garen Ewing|title=The Rainbow Orchid: Adventures of Julius Chancer v. 3|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Here we are, then, ten years after the debut of this graphic novel on the Internether husband, two children and finally the print trilogy is complete. At last we can see if our hero Julius, his chums, the shady Government people, and his enemy’s beautiful assassin aide who remains impossible to shrug off, manage two cats – gets to get anywhere near form the fabled titular plant in its secret Himalayan location, family they and just how important it has been for Gina all those many people left back in Englandwould have wanted. It’s been a rollercoaster ride, and it’s been worth it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405255994</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary Crew and Shaun TanColfer_Illegal|title=The ViewerIllegal|rating=4|genreauthor=Confident Readers|summary=The story concerns a young lad who loves scavenging and exploring. Finding a Hellraiser-styled box of tricks contains a Viewmaster-type machine, he puts it to his eyes Eoin Colfer and sees something a lot more serious than, say, a Thunderbirds episode in thirty 3D images, which was all I ever saw in mine. Instead, Tristan sees nothing but death and destruction, and a compelling sense of - well, something.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0734411898</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Art Spiegelman|title=MetaMAUSAndrew Donkin

|summary=Before Ebo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn't know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the Holocaust was turned into [[The Boy in same thing. So Ebo has to attempt the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne|a child-like near-fable for all]], and before it was same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the focus of superb history books such as [[Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder|this]]Sahara Desert, it became a family saga of a father relating his experiences get himself to a sonTripoli, who then drew it all - featuring animals not humans - [[Maus by Art Spiegelman|Maus]]. To celebrate one of the most dangerous cities in the twenty-five years since world, and then, we have this brilliant look back at try to cross the creation of an equally brilliant volumeMediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670916838</amazonuk>And, even if he makes it, how will he find his sister?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry ThompsonMiller_Batman|title=TintinBatman: Dark Knight III: Herge The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and His CreationBrian Azzarello

|summary=A confessionBatman is not playing ball. If thereHe's one book I'm been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not likely to read, it's that which everyone else is readingthe baddies he usually biffs. If it turns into a hugely popular film for all the left-wing chattering classes to rave over, But then thathe's just more grist to my mill not Batman – Ihe'll always have s a chance to catch she, and she finally comes up on it later on, even if I never take with the news that opportunity. I'm not alone Batman died in acting like this – see a friend and colleague's similar admission when reviewing [[White Teeth by Zadie Smith]]her hands. But at leastElsewhere, Lara, through the medium daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to the graphic novelminiaturised city of Kandor, the book reviewing gods have conspired last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to let me see just what I'm missing, fly about in visible blue pants. What with this adaptationSuperman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a sulk, by Italian artistsand Batman dead, there would appear to be little in the way of a hugely successful help for the world should anything nasty happen – and therefore delayable – novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815257</amazonuk>but then, of course, something nasty does happen… s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey TurnerWeeks_Gritterman|title=The Comic Strip Big Fat Book of KnowledgeGritterman|author=Orlando Weeks

|summary=Who doesn't like a nice comic, eh? There's something so accessible about the lovely picture and text combosa man who has an ice cream van. In summer, and facts are far from dull when they come via speech bubbles, don't you think? Taking full advantage what there is of this factsummer, Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner havehe uses it to sell ice creams, for some timeThat's not his vocation though, been creating factual books but it does keep him going whilst he waits for children which pass on their insight winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and Important Information through the medium of comicsour narrator becomes a Gritterman. Now for the first time, you can collect 3 of their titles in one simple volume. Combining the previous reviewed [[The Comic Strip History of fibreglass 99s on the World by Sally Kindberg roof light up and Tracey Turner|History of rotate, playing a tune, whether the World]] and [[The Comic Strip History of Space by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|History of Space]] with van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the van''Greatest Greek Myths''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808242</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kevin O'Neill and Alan Moore|title=s last trip. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=So much for council has sent the League of Extraordinary Gentlemenletter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Of the three main protagonists available for this adventureDying profession, one and a half are female! Anyway, Bram Stokerthey say. There's Minaeven a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, Woolfbut the Gritterman isn's Orlando and Allan Quartermain are t sure that he wants to live in London at the height of the swinging 60s, amidst rumours that a new attempt at birthing an Antichrist is about to occur. Certainly, world where the evil theyB2116 doesn've faced the last several decades will soon get a new face..t need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661621</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Winshluss|title=Pinocchio|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Imagine, if you will, Disney's film of Pinocchio had been animated by a crew of artists hell-bent Move on sabotaging the prospect. Painterly frames of beauty would be rare in amongst gritty, grimy, shadowy images of nightmarish content, which took it upon themselves to break into black and white, or sepia. The prologue might have a character forcing his cat to join in at Russian Roulette. Geppetto would be accompanied in the leviathan, in one of the rare tuneful segments, by a penguin playing the piano. And this after the proud inventor was trying to sell Pinocchio as a prototype robotic super-weapon, just as his wife was putting Pinocchio's most distinctive feature to a most unexpected use... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661729</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aviv Ratzin|title=Dreams and Everyday Life|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Well, thank you, Aviv Ratzin - you've provided me with the one book I'm least capable of summarising for a review. I can't begin to pithily precis the plot, or describe the happenings in any quick, snappy way. To give the gist of the surreal, scattershot whimsicality cannot do the contents justice in any way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808871</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Allen Ginsberg|title=Howl: A Graphic Novel|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I first came across Howl as a short film animating one of Ginsberg's own recordings of it. If memory serves, it was a scratchy, jazzy piece, full of spiky, spunky shapes and movements, and low on colour. Now for 2011 and for Penguin Modern Classics' first ever 'graphic novel' comes a very different animation. OK, the real moving animation is only to be seen in the movie Howl, but to call this merely an illustrated companion to the film is to be very unflattering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141195703</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lesley Fairfield|title=Tyranny|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=As Tyranny shakes her - ''I '''TOLD''' you not to eat! You are '''TOO''' fat!'' - Anna thinks back. She used to take joy in life. She used to dream of a bright future - a career, boyfriends, children - but it all went wrong when she hit puberty. She wasn't keen on on the curves of her new, more womanly body. When she looked in the mirror, she didn't see an hourglass figure developing; she saw fat and flab. Deaf to the warnings of her parents and her boyfriend, she listened to Tyranny and entered into the desperate, downward cycle of anorexia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331139</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Petersen|title=Mouse Guard: Legends of The Guard|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=To start with, I have never heard of Mr Petersen and his Mouse Guard franchise. But I'm often up for an introduction to a fantasy cycle, and I always relish being welcomed to an author by the most esoteric, unusual, quirky and short route. My first entry to the His Dark Materials world was [[Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman|a collector's spin-off]], and I'm just as likely to start the Twilight series, if ever, with the latest brief whimsy. And for those of a similar mind-set, this collection of tales from the pens of guest writers and illustrators, serves as an odd-shaped doorway on to this particular universe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681427</amazonuk>}} {{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 - 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 bookNewest Historical Fiction Reviews]] 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>}} {{newreview|author=Neville Colvin and Peter O'Donnell|title=Modesty Blaise: 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>}}