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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=A1 AnnualFrontpage|author=Dave Elliott (editor) |rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's perhaps a little surprising how few comics anthologies there are on the shelves of regular bookstores. The whole world of sequential art is so fragmented the choices to be made are infinite, everyone who comes into some renown soon wishes for a self-published collection of his favourites or her friends' work, and there definitely is too much out there for anyone in the audience of comix to fully grasp without some kind of editorial spoon-feeding. One such editor is Dave Elliott, whose A1 Comics has been collating what it deems the world's greatest since 1989, but even with that pedigree it's only now that full hardbacks of their greatest hits are being launched – hardbacks such as this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760164</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewEdel Rodriguez|title=Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore|author=Lance Parkin|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=I don't think that I ever saw [[:CategoryWorm:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]] when I lived in Northampton, and I don't think I coincided with the publication of ''Maxwell the Magic Cat'' in the local newspaper. So I missed out on the memorable frame of someone else who is six foot two, albeit a generation older and looking so hirsute he would seem to be afraid of scissors. But I certainly would not have been alone in not recognising him for what he is. How many Northampton housewives flicked past the daily panels of ''Maxwell'' in complete ignorance of who Alan Moore actually is? – With no idea that the years he spent drawing that cartoon for £10 a week – later to be £12.50 – were just him gearing up to be the biggest man of letters in the comic book world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781310777</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Briony Hatch|author=Ginny Skinner and Penelope Skinner |rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Briony Hatch. She's a fourteen year old schoolgirl, with a few too many curves for the trendy set, and want-away hair, who is fixated on the ghost who acts as romantic male lead in her favourite series of fantasy books, about a beautiful, feisty female, swashbuckling exorcist. But when the books finish, just at the same time as her parents divorce, it looks like the beginning of the end. Mum and Briony settle into the abandoned bungalow belonging to the latter's great-uncle and aunt, only for the girl to find a horrid malaise come over her. Has the books' conclusion done so much damage as to leave her wishing to retire from life, or can she find the ghost of a hope somewhere?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907536140</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Fashion Beast|author=Alan Moore and Malcolm McLarenA 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 herself at school -can this 'boy' get the girl? Additionallyisland, why is Lily so resistant to any sort however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of harmMen, and who are the strange people who are trying to find her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484085957</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Millar and Leinil Yu|title=Superior|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Former basketball star Simon Pooni this Diana is now in a wheelchair and blind in one eye - at the age heroine of 12yet another Wonder Woman origin story. Mutliple sclerosis has left him A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in this statea running race, praying for a cure. Then a talking monkey named Orman appears to him and offers him but the survivor she drags from the chance waters is only going to become disturb a real life version of movie superhero Superior - for a week. But what will happen when the week ends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857685945</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Geoff Johns and Doug Mahnke|title=Green Lantern Volume 1: Sinestro|rating=4lot more.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, and this caught my eye.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1401234550</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hannah Eaton1401286208|title=Naming MonstersBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara 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 The young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and her faithful Willie land up suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at a jungle hospital, only to find the people providing it age of eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with useful drugs are also creating their own much worse drugs nearby; find the Mafia just legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to do charitable deeds. But one man away from taking over Australia – and therefore give him night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a male criminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and female tag team back-up; and stumble into gets given the wicked games most unlikely stretch of a pair of corrupt, evil billionaires community service instead – cleaning in the Alpshome for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There is no lethe learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-up in figure bank account contents they can, and murder the global shenanigans, owner. Can he get close to one of them and get the daring-dotruth of their schemes, or will the whipcrack action – and we wouldn’t want it any other way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686941</amazonuk>manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill1401283292|title=NemoHarley Quinn: Heart of Ice|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The Nemo here is merely the daughter of the great Captain Nemo, as defined by Jules Verne, although given that heritage there is more than enough talent in her bloodline for piracy and adventure. Here, fleeing a royal family that has just been looted, Nemo turns to her father's logbooks and journals, and decides there is unfinished business in the southern polar wastes. But while she's off looking for more edifying action, others are off looking for revenge on her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661834</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBreaking Glass|author=Cassandra Clare Mariko Tamaki and HyeKyung Baek|title=The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel, Volume 1: The Manga (Manga Edition)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's been around a long time, for she always has no idea what a very fresh attitude, and seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is going to be new in fortown, and the town is Gotham City. A kidnap Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and training at the hands herself with no option but to stay with a bunch of two witches drag queens. She also finds school is only a drag, she also finds the start of it as she whole neighbourhood is forced to find the truth about the world about her being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – about the but she also finds two different kinds of supernatural beings, and of how they constantly fight against each other, and about her own unique origin, character and destiny characters that makes will have a big impact on her more than a pawn in this battlelife. You might have met Tessa beforeOne is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, but not like this the other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for this is the manga adaptation of the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502252</amazonuk>violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joff Winterhart140128339X|title=Days of the Bagnold SummerMera: Tidebreaker|rating=4|genreauthor=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Daniel Bagnold. He is a surly, sullen, modern teenager, permanently in a black hoodie, with long, lanky hair 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 with his absent father's new family, but with his librarian mother Sue, his best friend and his shyness. He doesn't want much, Danielle Paige and neither it would appear does his mother – although she knows she has to get him some posh shoes for her cousin's wedding. This book is about their relationship – the two of them and the dog that completes the household – in telling, devastating and humorous manner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090844</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Nytra|title=The Secret of the Stone FrogStephen 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 queen, and could now work in fashion My thoughts were it not for scars due to a car crashtaken over by you, and Faith wishes for the vicarious life of pop stardomI felt sick, and itas if I was in love.''s no spoiler to report who and what they find will disappoint them. ChastitySlowly, the most sarcastically-named character in comixhowever, is happy enough destroying herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661737<everyone – our artist/amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicolas de Crecy|title=The Celestial Bibendum|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Diego is new to town. He's a seal, on crutchesher husband, but don't raise an eyebrow at that - you won't have enough left two children and two cats – gets 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 form the family they and Gina all of this is the devil (a dwarf in check dungarees, of course), who wants Diego for his own purposes..would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661753</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt KindtColfer_Illegal|title=RevolverIllegal|author=Eoin 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 summer, what there is of summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, That's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a world where costumed vigilantes have been outlawed Gritting Van and former superheroes are either retired or working for our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the governmentroof light up and rotate, playing a tune, whether the murder of his former teammate leads van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the outlaw Rorschach to investigatevan's last trip. What he finds could change The council has sent the worldletter about his services no longer being required. Global warming.Dying profession, they say.There's even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a world where the B2116 doesn't need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1852860243</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Ray Fawkes|title=One Soul|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=When reading this it soon becomes very clear we're reading not one, but nineteen, stories. With each page divided into a regular 3x3 grid there are eighteen images Move on each double page spread, and every one shows an episode, or a beat, of a different character's life in turn, from being a babe-in-arms to death. However, the way they join up - everyone'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 DNA.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1934964662</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Historical Fiction Reviews]]