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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fashion BeastEdel Rodriguez|authortitle=Alan Moore and Malcolm McLarenWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey

|summary=Meet DollWe're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. She seems to fit in with The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the world she aspires to – she country, has an androgynous look and proven himself a sharp tongueCommunist, and doesn't seem not done nearly enough to hold many create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of the people around her in much deferencetaking his time away. HoweverOur narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as someone else is very quick he would probably be shipped off to point outsome minor pro-Communism skirmish, she is only a cloakroom attendantsuch as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, however swanky and in vogue the nightclub she works at might benot liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. That same someone else The mother gets her firedthe couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, howeverbut in this sultry island country, yet for every door that shuts… As she becomes an overnight modelling sensation, and finds her new boss a very singular individual.it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1592912117</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreview|title=The Weirdo Years 1981-'91Frontpage|author=R CrumbKia Ahankoob|ratingtitle=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Books are better than magazines – discuss. Certainly for the connoisseur of the contents of culturally important titles from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s it must be a lively debate. I remember my collection of ''New Worlds'' editions and how often the editors would take us through a long novel over seven or eight parts, then dump a 'sorry, due to space requirements this last part of what you've cherished for months is abridged – but wait for the novel version soon' on us. Is it better to be a completist, and witness everything the original editors deemed worthy (or just had lying around) or should we cherry-pick The Gold Lion and note the best? This hefty hunk Tournament of book goes for the latter, anyway, taking [[:Category:Robert Crumb|R Crumb]]'s output for the ''Weirdo'' comic, as edited by R Crumb, then someone else, then Mrs R Crumb, and giving us everything, warts and all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662253</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Hartlepool Monkey|author=Wilfrid Lupano and Jeremie MoreauSentinels

|summary=OK, I'll get the obvious pun over and done When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with – this graphic novel features a lot of monkeying around. It focuses on the village of Hartlepool, and the people who populated the small settlement on low cliffs overlooking the North Seadifferent powers, each with its couple of pubs own strength and not much else. It looks at what might have happened whenweakeness, as folklore has itin the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a storm put paid to a French ship dynamic and when prosperous society. Each power is contained within a monkey washed up ashore afterwards the natives took it for a Napoleonic spy, tried magical ring belonging to find invasion plans from one 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 hanged it as the enemyeight countries went to war. Here Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the poor creature cost of war too high, a solution is even shaved so it shows respect proposed. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to the court-martiala single combat tournament. Here too are some lovely choice lines The winner will take possession of vernacular delivered in spite about all the French rings and become the English, and here too is a guest appearance by someone with a much more modern outlook than the ridiculous Hartlepool residentssupreme ruler of Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861662261</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Hartlepool MonkeyPat Grant|authortitle=Wilfrid Lupano and Jeremie MoreauThe Grot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters

|summary=OKEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, I'll get and that includes the obvious pun over and done with – this graphic novel features a lot of monkeying aroundpunk bands. It focuses on There are three pedallers at the village front of Hartlepool, and the people who populated Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the small settlement on low cliffs overlooking ferry across the North Seaswamp to Falter City, with its couple of pubs where a mother and not much elseher two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. It looks at what might have happened when, as folklore has itYou could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for this is a storm put paid to a French ship really rough-and when -ready dump of a monkey washed up ashore afterwards place, but everyone is interested in small things that grow. For the only money to be had – the natives took it for a Napoleonic spy, tried only fortunes to find invasion plans be found in Falter City – come from italgae, gunk and hanged other crud that – well, the use of it as the enemyis never really made clear. Here Once there, the poor creature is even shaved so it shows respect to two brothers set themselves each up with a guide – Lippy, the courtmore forward-martial. Here too are some lovely choice lines thinking, industrious of vernacular delivered in spite about the French and the Englishtwo, and here too is with a guest appearance by someone besuited gent, Penn with a much more modern outlook than ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of the two will come off the ridiculous Hartlepool residents.worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861662261</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreview|title=Celtic Warrior: The Legend of Cu ChulainnFrontpage|author=Will Sliney|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Queen Maeve wants the Brown Bull of Cooley and the lands of Ulster. With an army of 10Lun Zhang,000 menAdrien Gombeaud, she marches to try to take them by force. The only man who stands between her Ameziane and her goal is Cú Chulainn, the legendary hero. Can he save his country from the evil enchantress?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847173381</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=Big Nate Compilation 3 Tiananmen 1989: Genius Mode|author=Lincoln Peirce|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=They say you should live your life like an adventure, and Big Nate certainly does that, even if it is only four panels at a time, meaning the full plot of the story can take a week or more to come out. For Big Nate is a star of an American newspaper comic strip, and this, believe it or not, is his tenth collection. We learn from this all about his friendships at school, his relations with his teachers and father, and just what a soppy thing his most unmasculine dog can be. Here are comics, baseball and laziness, as every American kid knows them. Luckily for us, though, Big Nate travels well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007515642</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell|title=The From Hell CompanionOur Shattered Hopes

|summary=[[:Category:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]] will always be synonymous I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with two major books much attention when it was playing out – [[Watchmen by Alan Moore someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and Dave Gibbons|Watchmen]] hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and From Hell, his look at the Whitechapel Murders. While birth of the latter may appear to many to be a greatTank Man image, galumphing graphic novel loosely about Jack I didn't know how the Ripperarea had long been a venue for political protest, you ainand I didn't seen nothing yetknow more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This volume book is his illustrator [[:Category:Eddie Campbell|Eddie Campbellpractically flawless in giving a general browser's]] look at proceedings, and context for a book that would appear to have no actual Moore input the whole season of protests back in it, he provides a welter of words for it1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861661842</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennie Wood Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Jeff McComseyKit Seaton|title=FlutterWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=53|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=When fifteen-year-old Lily moves to yet another new townDiana, being unique on her island, she falls for is the victim of a girl who isnlot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. It't interested in s only her. Lilyunique status, thoughand her mother being Queen, that has a trick up her sleeve - she's a shapeshifter. She turns herself into a boy so that she can have a chance with Saffron. As Jesseany standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she starts has clearly fought to build be a new life strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for herself at school -can this 'boy' get the girl? AdditionallyWorld of Men, why and this Diana is Lily so resistant to any sort the heroine of harmyet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, and who are but the survivor she drags from the strange people who are trying waters is only going to find her?disturb a lot more...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1484085957</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Millar and Leinil Yu1401286208|title=Superior|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Former basketball star Simon Pooni is now in a wheelchair and blind in one eye - at the age of 12. Mutliple sclerosis has left him in this state, praying for a cure. Then a talking monkey named Orman appears to him and offers him the chance to become a real life version of movie superhero Superior - for a week. But what will happen when the week ends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857685945</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Geoff Johns and Doug Mahnke|title=Green Lantern Volume 1: Sinestro|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I've never been a Green Lantern fan - I've tried the series a couple of times in the past but seem to have picked bad times to give it a go. However, I've heard some good things about DC Comics recently so wanted to try a few of the New 52 books, which relaunched all of the publisher's ongoing monthlies, Meg Cabot and this caught my eye.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401234550</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hannah Eaton|title=Naming MonstersCara McGee

|summary=''Monsters are all around us'', we are toldMeet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, and Fran should know. She opens each chapter of her episodic story here seemingly lumbered with being a new monster – a golemcheerleader at school, an incubus, or perhaps something less well knownshe is desperate to find her voice. But there are subtly monstrous events in it's actually more a case of her voice finding her life , as well – an alleged boyfriend with 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 measly attitude, a fake mediumweapon, or a summer of retaking GCSEs, and more – as well as the biggest, blackest, visitation – something that should bring succour, family and friendship but cannot be handledpower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190843421X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon|title=Preacher Volume 1: Gone To Texas|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Reverend Jesse Custer is losing his faith But in God - but he's about order for her to find out that He existscall herself a superhero, and He isn't all that He's cracked up there has to be. After one incredible event, Jesse's life is turned upside down, and he sets out on a road trip that will lead him whole path of steps for her to try and get answers from God himself - if Heaven's angels, and the Saint take – one of Killers, don't cut him down first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1563892618</amazonuk>which will be into her past…

  {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell1401280048|title=Modesty Blaise - Batman: Nightwalker: The Girl In The Iron MaskGraphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose

|summary=n this volume our globe-trotting heroine Modesty and her faithful Willie land up at The young man called Bruce Wayne is a jungle hospital, only to find the very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people providing it with useful drugs are also creating their own much worse drugs nearby; find the Mafia just one man away from taking over Australia – bystanders, paparazzi, and therefore give suchlike – reminding him he's a male and female tag team back-up; and stumble into billionaire at the wicked games age of a pair of corrupteighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, evil billionaires in the Alpshe wants to do charitable deeds. There is no let-up But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in the global shenaniganspursuit of a criminal, he goes too far as far as the daring-doauthorities are concerned, or the whipcrack action – and we wouldn’t want it any other way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686941</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill|title=Nemo: Heart of Ice|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The Nemo here is merely gets given the daughter most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the great Captain Nemo, as defined by Jules Verne, although given home for violent criminals that heritage there is more than enough talent in her bloodline for piracy and adventureArkham Asylum. HereThere he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, fleeing a royal family that has just been lootedgang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, Nemo turns to her father's logbooks and journals, and decides there is unfinished business in murder the southern polar wastesowner. But while she's off looking for more edifying actionCan he get close to one of them and get the truth of their schemes, others are off looking or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for revenge on her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661834</amazonuk>the young do-gooder?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cassandra Clare and HyeKyung Baek1401283292|title=The Infernal DevicesHarley Quinn: Clockwork Angel, Volume 1: The Manga (Manga Edition)Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh

|summary=Meet Tessa GrayHarleen Quinzel is new in town. Summonsed She always, to London to be with her brother after living me, seems new in Americatown, even if she has no idea what she is going to be in 's been around a long time, for. A kidnap and training at the hands of two witches is only the start of it as she is forced to find the truth about the world about her – about the two different kinds of supernatural beingsalways has a very fresh attitude, and seems to look out of how they constantly fight against those large eyes at everything anew each other, and about her own unique origin, character and destiny that makes her more than a pawn in this battletime. You might have met Tessa beforeBut here she is new in town, but not like this – for this and the town is the manga adaptation of the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502252</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joff Winterhart|title=Days of the Bagnold Summer|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Daniel BagnoldGotham City. He is Expecting a surly, sullen, modern teenager, permanently in a black hoodie, year-long furlough from life with longher mother, lanky hair she finds her gran dead and almost a monobrow, who one would call very quiet were it not for the metal music that forms almost his only interest. He has been forced to spend the summer, not in Florida herself with his absent father's new family, no option but to stay with his librarian mother Sue, his best friend and his shynessa bunch of drag queens. He doesn't want muchShe also finds school is a drag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and neither it would appear does his mother uncaring corporation – although but she knows she has to get him some posh shoes for also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her cousin's weddinglife. This book One is about their relationship a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at night – the two of them a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and the dog that completes the household – in tellingchaos, devastating and humorous manner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090844</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Nytra140128339X|title=The Secret of the Stone FrogMera: Tidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne

|summary=ItMeet Mera. She's come to my attention recently that Knockabout booksthe latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, with their growing library the king of graphic titlesXebel, have no intention sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in being an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, is long dead. Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all literary – not and is, in fact, trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, for them the gently observant characterisation Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of some original graphic novelsAtlantean masters. Instead they seem So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to have a wilful regard for going even further than their house name suggests – wildthe world of us air-breathing humans, wacky and not afraid kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to present an upsetting image. With Krent Able they have get the quest (and the collaborator who will surely help them live up to that ethos like no otherpromised throne) all for herself. Taken from the ''Stool Pigeon'' musical magazineBut of course, with some extra cartoons, are these strips she has no idea what kind of depravityperson she will meet, death in unlikely ways and revolting selections of body parts and fluids.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661796</amazonuk>how hard it will be to get the job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert R Crumb and Aline Crumb1401286399|title=Drawn TogetherSuper Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=This book It's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – isin need of a huge flood barrier, as it says several timesbuilt on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, the collected works of the worldforcing many people to relocate in America's only comic-strip creating husband-and-wife partnershipbiggest exodus for decades. While this Superman is to ignore helping out, of course – first, he was patching up the work Joyce does to co-write some of Harvey Pekardams, but now he's titles, there certainly is not mining the asteroid belt for a couple such as thisrare dust that's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Over several decades of workInland, in Wyndermere, we see just how joined at the hip they refugees from the coast aresuffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. Most A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the panels are drawn by him - R - city. But it can't possibly have anything to do with Aline drawing herself on top what looks like sabotage of his inked backgrounds. Later on, their self-created titles are split, with him doing half the pages, flood barriers and her own opus on the other half - by this time she had had works out under her own name. But so close are efforts to correct the couple in each other's intimate worksclimate, they are never very far from the edge of the frame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661788</amazonuk>can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hunt Emerson and Kevin Jackson168369015X|title=Dante's InfernoManfried the Man: A Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow|rating=4.5

|summary=It seems incredibly right, In a world where cats stand on only the third page of this texttwo feet, that the Divine Comedy should be transferred go to the black work at call centres and whitehave diminutive human beings for pets, cartoonish side of the graphic novel formatis Manfried. Our venturing hero encounters the 'leopard of malice and fraudHe's a typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at the 'lion of violence and ambition' and same time being the 'sheperfect companion for his owner, Steve Catson. To such an extent that Steve, who is getting known for his man-wolf of avarice and incontinence'oriented thinking, and leaves bemoaning is actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''living in a world of symbolismcrazy man cat''. You could see the beasts illustrated and captioned But when a window gets left open by name curving alongside their bodymistake, just as Hogarth may have displayed them, but no, Emerson and Manfried goes down the path that is less cartoonish and less newspaper comic stripmissing, and lets the picture and script stay a bit more separate. But later on he is delving into the more blatant, and immediate, by dressing The Furies up as multiple Maggie Thatchers. The good only thing about this book is there is reason for everything in it is a massive and energised man- from the examples of artwork I have described, to the fact both creators claim it to have been 'influenced by childhood reading of MAD magazine', and a reason the publisher of this untouchable classic is known as Knockabout Books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661699</amazonuk>hunt…

 {{newreview|author=Grant MorrisonFrontpage|title=Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Consider the super-hero comic. Borne out of a need to create cheap and franchise-friendly content for newspapers in America, it's grown into a billion-dollar industry, with Hollywood jumping on the bandwagon of several major characters now their FX have finally caught up with the printed page. Disposable? - once upon a time, yet now collectable to the tune of a million dollars or more. Frivolous? - probably, yet not exclusively now, if ever so. At one point here, they are just one product of the infinitely powerful imaginary system each of us carries in our brain, and at the other 'ethereal, paper-thin constructs of unfettered imagination'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546671</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|authorisbn=Eddie CampbellHainsworth_Gina|title=The Lovely Horrible Stuff|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Money, in amongst all the cliched things it does, makes for peciluar detail for a graphic novelist like Eddie Campbell to include in a book about it. He has to make himself a company Talking to qualify for creating a Batman strip to earn it, and has to pay $4 to buy $1 to draw (- then claim the tax back on the purchase to save himself some of it). It causes friction when his daughter earns too much, and when his wife's dad spends too much in a legal pursuit to have more. In the second half of this book it causes a journalistic piece of non-fiction as he takes a look at Pacific islanders who used man-sized stone discs as currency.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1603091521</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGina|author=Maarten vande Wiele|title=ParisOttilie Hainsworth

|summary=In ''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the category length of graphic novels not the country, Brighton to be seen reading in publicGrimsby, Paris is way to pick up therean Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one working eye. With a gaudy pink and silver glitz coverWhy not? The first night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a lot of blowjobs and sex insidemess, so it's not one for a great start, but then begin the daily commutetribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. ButAnd then, even though it's subject matter is merely the unlikely choice of the rags-life with Gina begins to-riches-to-rags tale of three Parisian starlets, it is certainly worth a decent perusalfeel like too much – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. Hope was a juvenile beauty queenMy thoughts were taken over by you, and could now work I felt sick, as if I was in fashion were it not for scars due to a car crashlove.'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, and Faith wishes for the vicarious life of pop stardomher husband, two children and it's no spoiler two cats – gets to report who form the family they and what they find will disappoint them. Chastity, the most sarcastically-named character in comix, is happy enough destroying herselfGina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661737</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicolas de CrecyColfer_Illegal|title=The Celestial Bibendum|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Diego is new to town. He's a seal, on crutches, but don't raise an eyebrow at that - you won't have enough left to raise at what follows, when he is hounded by a singing professorial claque who go about grooming him for being a very public, hopeful figure. Observing all of this is the devil (a dwarf in check dungarees, of course), who wants Diego for his own purposes...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661753</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewIllegal|author=Matt Kindt|title=RevolverEoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin

|summary=Meet SamEbo is twelve years old and all alone. He has a rather dull life, with a materialistic girlfriend, and a job in the arse-end of celebrity journalism His sister left for Europe months ago and a boss now he candoesn't standknow where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thing. All of which is preferential So Ebo has to waking up and finding his home city under attack - munitions going off, skyscrapers burning and people falling from themattempt the same dangerous journey himself. He ends up fleeing with said editormust cross the Sahara Desert, only get himself to wake Tripoli, one of the next day back most dangerous cities in this the world. He will indeed fall to being snatched from each reality in turn, at set times of day, forced and then try to suffer consumerism in onecross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And, looting in anothereven if he makes it, basic pay raises here, producing Samizdat bare-bones journalism for survivors there. But always with enough time to ask the important questions - how, and whywill he find his sister?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401222412</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bill WillinghamMiller_Batman|title=FablesBatman: Dark Knight III: Legends in Exile - Vol 01The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello|rating=3.5

|summary=Forced out of Batman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the Homelands by the evil Adversarybaddies he usually biffs. But then he's not Batman – he's a she, and she finally comes up with the characters news that Batman died in Fables have made their way to New York Cityher hands. Those of them who look relatively humanElsewhere, at least. With Old King Cole as Mayor (in nameLara, at leastthe daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, despite is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his deputy Snow White running technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to the show)miniaturised city of Kandor, Bigby Wolf as the Sherifflast 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, and Prince Charming beingBatman dead, wellthere would appear to be little in the way of help for the world should anything nasty happen – but then, charming, towards every woman he canof course, these are characters you'll already know and love – but portrayed in a way that completely reinvigorates them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1563899426</amazonuk>something nasty does happen… s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Moore and Dave GibbonsWeeks_Gritterman|title=WatchmenThe Gritterman|author=Orlando Weeks

|summary=The Comedian is deadThere's a man who has an ice cream van. In a world where costumed vigilantes have been outlawed and former superheroes are either retired or working for the governmentsummer, the murder what there is of his former teammate leads the outlaw Rorschach to investigate. What summer, he finds could change the world...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1852860243</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ray Fawkes|title=One Soul|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=When reading this uses it soon becomes very clear weto sell ice creams, That're reading s not onehis vocation though, but nineteen, storiesit does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a Gritterman. With each page divided into a regular 3x3 grid there are eighteen images The fibreglass 99s on each double page spread, the roof light up and every one shows an episoderotate, or playing a beattune, of a different characterwhether the van's life in turn, from being a babegritting or selling ice creams. Tonight -inChristmas Eve -arms to death. However, will be the way they join up - everyonevan's figurative moment comes at once, at times the artist's heavy black ink makes all eighteen images coincide into one image - proves there is a separate, individual tale around and behind the others, one which will end with the most delightful moral - that the ability to be anything one imagines is in our DNAlast trip.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1934964662</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Lucas|title=The Lying Carpet|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=There is a room in a big old house where nothing moves but council has sent the insects. An empty chair sits 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 indeedletter about his services no longer being required.Global warming..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390177</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot|title=Dotter of Her Father's Eyes|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=If there's one person able to produce a worthwhile potted history of James Joyce's daughterDying profession, it should be Mary M Talbotthey say. SheThere's an eminent academic, and her father was even a major Joycean scholar. Both females had parents with the same names too tarmac now that can de- James and Noraice itself, both took to but the stage when younger after going Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to dance school, but it's the contrasts between them this volume subtly picks out rather than any similarities, live 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]]world where the B2116 doesn't need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096087</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Peter O'Donnell|title=Modesty Blaise: Live Bait|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're back in the gritty yet glamorous world of Modesty Blaise - at least, as gritty and glamorous as you could get in the Evening Standard daily comic strip in the late 1980s. Titan have had a mammoth undertaking Move on to reproduce all the original strips in handy large-format graphic novel compendia, and this latest covers three stories, all of which I consider greater in depth than those in the other volume I've reviewed - [[Modesty Blaise: Sweet Caroline by Neville Colvin and Peter O'Donnell|Sweet CarolineNewest Historical Fiction Reviews]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686682</amazonuk>}}