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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark Zuehlke and Claude St AubinEdel Rodriguez|title=The Loxleys and ConfederationWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=3.54

|summary=There is a huge hole We're in childhood, and we're in my history knowledge where North America is concernedCuba. SlowlyThe revolution has happened, and Castro, from an opening first thought of as a saviour of sheer ignorance, having never studied it whatsoever at schoolthe country, I've got has proven himself a small grip on things like the Civil WarCommunist, the foundations of the USA and not done nearly enough to create a few other thingslevel playing field for all. But that means nothing as far as this book is concernedWell, for that huge hole is Canadathose hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. No, I didnOur narrator's family weren't have in the happiest of places here, an inkling about how it was trying uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to unifysome minor pro-Communism skirmish, just such as Angola) and the American Civil War was in full pelt just across the border. I didn't know what was there before Canadafather being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, if you see what I meansuccess being frowned upon. The story does have some things in common with that of their southern neighbours – European occupancy being slowly turned into a list of states as we know them now, slowly spreading into the heart of mother gets the continent couple jobs with the help party to ease some of the railways etc; native 'Indians' being 'heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the way'; past trading agreements to either maintain or try to improve on; and so on – but kind of course it also had the British vs French issue. But did heat forcing you know how an American President getting shot at the theatre had a bearing on the story? Or out of the Irish? Like I said, a huge hole…kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992150892</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero|title=Children of Lucifer: Modesty Blaise|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=Out of ninety-five diverse comic strip stories, the publication of this book leaves just the last three yet to be presented in these fabulous large format paperbacks. So if you haven’t yet met with the sassy brunette with her curves and her great crime-solving mind, and of course with her Willie, this is the last-but-one chance for you to do so. And if you have any interest in quick little action tales, or even dated kitsch, for both apply here, then you should eagerly be on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jon MorrisKia Ahankoob|title=The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=As much as I like comics – Gold Lion and I do, whether superhero ones or not – I have to admit one thing, namely that the villains in them are a bit pants. What is The Penguin but the world's worst Mafioso, with a hobby of waddling along like his pet birds? Where else do you win an Oscar of all things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell in a vat of random chemicals and changed colour, and got mardier as a result (although recently he's become a nanotech genius – but let's not go there)? And what is it with the gimp in the see-through plant pot because he is the embodiment of cold? And that's just some of the better-known enemies of ''Batman'', one Tournament of the better goodies. You can imagine how awful the baddies related to the bad goodies can be. And if you can't, this is the perfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749329</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Siobhan Dowd and Emma Shoard|title= The Pavee and the Buffer Girl|rating= 5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=When Jim's family halt at Dundray, his heart grows heavy. A new Buffer school for this Pavee boy to attend. Jim doesn't like school. He doesn't like Buffers. And you know, you couldn't really blame him because the distrust and suspicion is mutual. Prejudice against the Traveller community is strong and when Jim and his cousins turn up on their first day, it's to stares and muttered insults from the pupils and condescension from the teachers. Within days, Moss Cunningham and his gang have accused Jim of stealing a CD - he did no such thing - and have begun a campaign of threats, bullying and worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370049</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nathan Hale|title=One Trick Pony|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=Forget the moon being made of cheese, here the Earth looks like it's a huge dollop of the finest Swiss stuff. Horrid, giant insectoid alien things have taken over, and they have zapped anything technological they can find – pumping a blob of something over it, and turning whatever turns up in the resulting spheres into sand, or carting it off to larger ships. Our heroes belong to a travelling caravan of a village, keeping intact as much human knowledge as they can (think a digital version of those readers in ''Fahrenheit 451''), but they've left their compatriots behind to go exploring. They'll never expect to find a magical, wondrous, robotic horse, though – which is where their problems begin…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419721283</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Bobby Joseph and Joseph Samuels|title=Scotland YardieSentinels|rating=4.5

|summary=Things are grim When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in Londonthe hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. 'People Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of coloureight countries led by Myriad' can no longer stand at a bus stop or cross the road without white cops shooting them down, s children and planting drugs and guns on them. Heaven help them if their satnav leads them past certain corrupt coppersdescendants. But obviously one it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the problems there is that there are no black police, so eight countries went to encourage their growth Boris has built Jamaica a prison, war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and borrowed their finest – Scotland Yardiefinding the cost of war too high, a dreadlocked and heavily-armed skunkhead rastasolution is proposed. It's purely thought Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to a PR exercise, but Yardie knows differentsingle combat tournament. When you add on a mystery regarding a new chain The winner will take possession of chicken shops, all the rings and become the nasty cops, he has his work cut outsupreme ruler of Duniva. Seen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861662512</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary Telford and Louise VerityPat Grant|title=Sins|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=Is there enough new to say about the seven deadly sins? We've seen them all shown to us, from school age and up to the movie ''Se7en'', which we sincerely hope was NOT shown to anyone at school age. We can each recount them all, having been long familiar with them, even if we probably can't pin down when they were actually set in stone without help. Similarly, is there anything new in the world of fairy tale? We know the tropes - characters identified by their status or gender (the woman, the husband), a clear set The Grot: The Story of rules to obey, and a moral as strong as, if not stronger than, the formulae involved. Well, this volume demands we decide the answer to those questions as being positive ones, and if it's not always definitive in the writing here that there is something new, rest assured there will be something in the imagery that will definitely strike one as fresh...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843516624</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Bessora, Barroux and Sarah Ardizzone (translator)|title=AlphaSwamp City Grifters

|summary=''It felt like there was boiling water inside my head. To cool it down, I had to leave…'' Those words aren't spoken by AlphaEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the narrator of this graphic novel, but they might have beenpunk bands. Living in Abidjan, on There are three pedallers at the south coast front of Cote d'Ivoire in Africa, he is determined the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to get out to go the ferry across the swamp to ParisFalter City, and where a relative's hair salon mother and her two sons aim to set up a much better lifeyoghurt factory. It's not just the boiling water You could say that is causing him to jump out the frying pan into yoghurt would be the unknown fireonly culture around, but the fact that his wife for this is a really rough-and son went already-ready dump of a place, and he's trying to follow but everyone is interested in their footstepssmall things that grow. ''Your feet become your headFor the only money to be had – the only fortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that – well, the use of it is never really made clear. Your body obeys them'' he observes at one point during Once there, the ordeal two brothers set themselves each up with a guide – but there are people smugglers galoreLippy, the more forward-thinking, industrious of the two, with a besuited gent, and blind chance to also obey along Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of the two will come off the way…worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911370014</amazonuk>1603094660

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hurk|title= Ready for Pop|rating= 4.5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=LondonLun Zhang, The mid-sixties. In what appears to have been a murder attemptAdrien Gombeaud, Britain's greatest pop sensation 'Vic Vox' has been left a foot tall – the effects of a 'shrink drug' administered by assailants unknown. As Detective Chief Inspector Ladyshoe Ameziane and his team at Scotland Yard try to find who did it and why, comedian Tubs Cochran prepares himself for his big come-back show. Can he keep his old fashioned comedy instincts relevant enough to entertain a new generation? Will Vic Vox's big rivals, 'The Small Pocks' be given a boost in Vic Vox's absence? And will June Scurvy get her hit Edward Gauvin (or maybe nottranslator) new single featured on the show they're all waiting for…''Ready for Pop''!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662504</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Bantock|title=Griffin and Sabine 25th Anniversary EditionTiananmen 1989: An Extraordinary Correspondence|rating=4|genre=General Fiction |summary=Oh Griffin and Sabine, where have you been all my life? I've loved epistolary novels and ones that take the narrative two-and-fro of letters and bring us closer to the sender than any omniscient narrator can hope to do. I've still got the childlike love of picking at an envelope stuck in a book to pull out a sheet of something else – not only is there the wonder at the handmade construction of something so bluntly and undeservedly called 'a book', but there is the frisson of being the first person to see this artefact ever. So how have I never seen this book before, and its cycle of sequels, concerning the correspondence between two completely different people?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>145215595X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jeremy Haun and Jason A Hurley|title=The BeautyOur Shattered Hopes

|summary=Don't we all just want that one little fillup to our looks I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – that tuck there, those pounds or wrinkles vanished, that little tweak to make us more sexually attractive and virile? Well, if you catch The Beauty, you will indubitably end up, someone in what colloquial language the second half of their teens has itother priorities, ''fit''you know. But The Beauty is not to be caught as in a passing fad or itinerant beautician, but as a sexual disease. And itI certainly didn's hit half t know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the population – most birth of those willingly. You feel feverish with itthe Tank Man image, but itI didn's taken off big timet know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and Big Pharma is happy with I didn't know more than a spit about the situationpeople involved on either side. Some violent anti-Beauty activists arenThis book is practically flawless in giving a general browser't, so special police units exist regarding it, but they, s context for the Powers That Be, and the underground scientists working against the disease are only going to be swamped when The Beauty shows its true face…whole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1632155508</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter O'Donnell Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Enric Badia RomeroKit Seaton|title=Modesty Blaise - Ripper JaxWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=43|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=Is there any stopping Modesty Blaise? WellDiana, inasmuch as there are only ten stories left that have not been anthologised in these lovely reprints, yes – just three books to gobeing unique on her island, by my reckoning. That reckoning should be quite accurate, if I can be immodest, for there is the victim of a lot that is routine about these storiesof taunts, and claims of nepotism. They all had three panels a day, six days a week (with one dayIt's output only her unique status, and her mother being less relevant to the story for those papers that didn't carry the comic on weekends)Queen, for twenty-one weeks. But rest assured there is also a lot that is unusual about Modesty and has her outputwith any standing at all, including her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a never-ending variety to strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the locationsisland, to however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the manner World of the baddy's crimeMen, and to this Diana is the action Modesty and her Willie are forced to undertake to win the dayheroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. And nobodyA shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but nobody, has undertaken so much action and come out looking so attractive…the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298588</amazonuk>1401282555

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jens Harder1401286208|title=AlphaBlack Canary: DirectionsIgnite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee|rating=3.5

|summary=SoMeet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, people might still ask meand seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, why do I turn she is desperate to graphic novels – arenfind her voice. But it't visual books with limited writing s actually more suited to young people? Yeaha case of her voice finding her, right – try pawning this off on juvenile audiences and the semi-literateas when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. If you can't kill that cliché off with pages such as these I don't know what will workYou could almost call it a weapon, or a power. I know the book isn't designed But in order for her to be call herself a message to people in the debate about the literary worth of graphic novelssuperhero, but one side-effect of it is surely an engagement with that argument. What it is designed there has to be is a complete history whole path of everything else steps for her to take – and in covering every prehistoric moment, it does just that, and absolutely brilliantly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662458</amazonuk>one of which will be into her past…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcel Ruijters and Laura Watkinson (translator)1401280048|title=HieronymusBatman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose

|summary=This The young man called Bruce Wayne is a book for those who find it amusing that very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he's a biography billionaire at the age of someone who has been dead 500 years is called 'unauthorisedeighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to do charitable deeds. This is But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a book where criminal, he goes too far as far as the detail is in authorities are concerned, and gets given the devil most unlikely stretch of community service instead – people pissing cleaning in the street; home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the locals baiting blind people armed with cudgels in Nightwalkers, a pit with a piggang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, often failing to whack the beast and hitting their colleagues by mistake; farting demons visiting murder the sleeperowner. This is a book for those who don't mind a spot Can he get close to one of them and get the truth of ribaldrytheir schemes, an affront to religious piety or suchlike in their graphic novels. Whether or not this is will the manipulative Madeleine be a book step too far for those seeking a biography of Hieronymus Bosch remains to be seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662466</amazonuk>the young do-gooder?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean-Patrick Manchette, Max Cabanes and Doug Headline1401283292|title=FataleHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh

|summary=PlayHarleen Quinzel is new in town. It's a weird verb – it can mean many different things. Aimee intends She always, to play – me, seems new in town, even if she's already put paid to several men playing at being huntersbeen around a long time, but for she always has a different game in mind. Arriving at a very insular little town she scopes the big-wigs outfresh attitude, watching them over the bridge table and across the golf tees, and, seeing them bicker about seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each other at both play and work, she knows she can play with themtime. But what might happen, given these undefined rules, if they chose to play as a team against her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782766820</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Des Taylor|title=Scarlett Couture|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=What, here she is new in the real worldtown, would be and the least likely cover for town is Gotham City. Expecting a secret agent but that of superyear-model? Apart long furlough from the advantage of everyone thinking you were gormlesslife with her mother, there is the implausible clothing she finds her gran dead and having herself with no option but to run around after baddies in high heels to considerstay with a bunch of drag queens. But the world of comics isn't the real worldShe also finds school is a drag, and so you have to ask the opposite – what would be she also finds the most visually appealing band of secret agents, if not for a whole cabal of them working undercover as bimbo-looking models? The Showroom neighbourhood is one such, and its main agent is Scarlett Couture, daughter of being redeveloped by a male cop large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a female fashionista-cum-agency bossbig impact on her life. Looking wonderful One is incredibly easy for her a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at night – but sometimes saving the world is quite a bit tougher…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760628</amazonuk>lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason Quinn and Naresh Kumar140128339X|title=World War TwoMera: Against the Rising Sun (Campfire Graphic Novels)Tidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne

|summary=It is Meet Mera. She's the latest in a truth universally acknowledged that if you want to judge line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, the worth king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera''Star Trek'' TV seriess mother, you judge the theme tune. Itterritory's incontrovertible that they went downhill in unisonwarrior queen, after allis long dead. It Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all and is also a truth universally acknowledged that , in fact, trying to get Xebel out from under the same applies to ''Doctor Who''cosh of Atlantean power, for the opening credits have definitely had their ups and downs over recent yearsXebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. But you can also define So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to the entertainment value world of a series through us air-breathing humans, and kill the companions. Or at least you can with the 11th Doctor comic versionsAtlantis heir, which decided she rushes off to pick up a Token Smart, Ballsy, Ethnic one, a bizarre, mercurially disembodied robot-type-with-limited-vocab one, get the quest (and, er, a cod David Bowie one who relives the entire Ziggy Stardust lyric sheet through his witterings. I know, right? No hopepromised throne) all for herself. But can you give up hope with the geniusof course, energeticshe has no idea what kind of person she will meet, effervescent and witty Doctor around?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782763031</amazonuk>how hard it will be to get the job done…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Serge le Tendre, Regis Loisel and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)1401286399|title=Super Sons: The Quest for the Time Bird|rating=2.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In order to defeat a vengeful god, who is within days of getting out of his prison – a sacred conch shell – several things must happen. First, the conch must be united with the witch powerful enough to sustain the incantation keeping him locked up. Then she must use her helpers to endure great danger and find the information she seeks in the most perilous of places for knowledge of the ultimate part of the puzzle – the Time Bird. All this calls for heroes, but in the world of fantasy anyone can call themselves a hero – from the witch's own buxom daughter, Pelisse, to an old warrior called Bragon that the girl is forced to unite with and fight alongside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782763627</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPolarShield Project|author=Alejandro Jodorowsky, Nicolas Fructus Ridley Pearson and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)|title=Showman Killer: Heartless HeroIle Gonzalez

|summary=A long way awayIt's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in terms need of both time and spacea huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the most perfect assassin rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is formed helping out, of course – genetically bredfirst, adept at magical transformations, with he was patching up the most athletic and deadly abilitiesdams, and with the complete lack of emotion needed. All but now he will ever seek is 's mining the highest price asteroid belt for the best job – a job rare dust that will's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, now the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and againintolerance for being newcomers, force him but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. But it can't possibly have anything to meet do with what looks like sabotage of the most unusual people…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178276139X</amazonuk>flood barriers and the efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jamie Hewlett, Alan Martin and others168369015X|title=21st Century Tank Girl|rating=3.5|genre=Manfried the Man: A Graphic NovelsNovel|summaryauthor=I sometimes wonder, when keying in book reviews, if ISBNs are not constructed by design instead of the formal accident that is supposed to create them. Surely it's intentional that this book has 666 in its code – it's the most devilishly brash, ugly Caitlin Major and foul-mouthed comic around, and people who like that kind of thing will like this. Especially as this book is a return to waaay distant form, and waaay distant creative partnerships, with the original artist Jamie Hewlett back on board. It's time to cuss and roll once more…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782766618</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Derf Backderf|title=TrashedKelly Bastow

|summary=For those people who think graphic novels are rubbishIn a world where cats stand on two feet, go to work at call centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, this is the epitome of that baseless argument. Its subject is junk, it's trash, it's landfill, and garbageManfried. ThatHe's not a verdict on its qualitiestypical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, which are great and fine onesdemanding more food than he can suitably eat, but its very topicat the same time being the perfect companion for his owner, Steve Catson. Straight from schoolTo such an extent that Steve, our author was actually a bin who is getting known for his man for a few seasons – riding on the back of something like Betty-oriented thinking, is actually having nightmares about becoming the garbage van featured hereneighbourhood ''crazy man cat''. It's But when a job nobody wants in all honestywindow gets left open by mistake, and Manfried goes missing, of course – but the book only thing for it is fine enough to actually make the subject something most people should read about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419714546</amazonuk>a massive and energised man-hunt…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke PearsonHainsworth_Gina|title=Hilda and the TrollTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|summary=War books and anti-war books''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of the country, in my mindBrighton to Grimsby, have a lot in common to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and only a couple of easy things need be changed to turn one to the otherworking eye. This is dressed as an anti-war bookWhy not? The first night at home, but here is Gina – the lead character surviving against all odds dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a mess, so it's not a great start, but then begin the platoon whittled down several times while he tribulations of training, status and his few friends behaviour all humans must go strong; here he is overcoming all kinds of difficulty and adversity and still coming out the other end; here he is doing proper heroic deeds – or his colleagues saving the day at the last minute – and the war carries onwards towards its inevitable endthrough with their dogs. The difference perhaps is in And then, the minutiae of what those difficulties and deeds need be, life with the anti-war book having a simple honesty Gina begins to feel like too much – ''I felt weird about them and their overall worth that the gung-ho, militaristic piece would patently lackyou because you were always there. And when My thoughts were taken over by you face the guts , and gore of the kind of warfare on these pagesI felt sick, you donas if I was in love.'t really expect jingoism and 'hoo-rah!' attitudes. NoSlowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, even if the DNA is pretty much the sameher husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the result here is definitely, grimly family they and firmly anti-warGina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297609769</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe SuggColfer_Illegal|title=Username: EvieIllegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet EvieEbo is twelve years old and all alone. She's surprisingly unwelcome and alienated at school – His sister left for a trendy Europe months ago and attractive girl, nobody at all seems to have any time for her, apart from the geeky card-collecting boy with the milk-bottle glasses on now he doesn't know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the bussame thing. Perhaps it So Ebo has something to do with her father's thatched house – after allattempt the same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the Sahara Desert, she must be a witch to live there. It's not that she would wish get himself to live thereTripoli, with nobody else around, and the memory one of her deceased mother. But luckily someone is choosing a place for her –her father is able to put all his work into a cyber-world for her, the E-Scape, which is close to most dangerous cities in the perfect world. All that remains is to programme the humans to be her friends, and make then try to cross the connection Evie has with them and them with her in return to be of mutualMediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And, confirmingeven if he makes it, happy benefit. But someone else has entered the E-Scape, and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Evie's tentative happiness…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>how will he find his sister?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael B Jackson, Martin Brennan and Simon BisleyMiller_Batman|title=13 CoinsBatman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello

|summary=Batman is not playing ball. He''For s been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the love of money is the root of all kinds of evilbaddies he usually biffs.But then he's not Batman – he' Theres a she, I've done it – quoted and she finally comes up with the Bible news that Batman died in a reviewher hands. It's certainly pertinent in Elsewhere, Lara, the world daughter of this graphic novelSuperman and Wonder Woman, where is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to the fallen angels have one get-out clause they have been seeking since those very lapsarian events. They turned a little section miniaturised city of chain holding their leader eternally captive into the titular coinsKandor, which can influence the human holders last 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 sheer evila sulk, but might just cause an open war on Heavenand Batman dead, whether they or there would appear to be little in the best way of help for the holy on earth use them all. The best of the holy world should anything nasty happen – but then, offspring of the good angelscourse, are culled as a routine, but not one – John Pozner, who of course has no idea of his place in the celestial circle of life…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178276061X</amazonuk>something nasty does happen… s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= StrefWeeks_Gritterman|title=J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan: The Graphic NovelGritterman|author=Orlando Weeks|rating=45

|summary=HereThere's a quiz question for you – despite the uniform seventy year copyright rule, which work man who has been the sole recipient of an endless extension ice cream van. In summer, what there is of summer, he uses itto sell ice creams, courtesy of an ex-Prime Minister? The answer is obvious now at least, as this is one such volume. ItThat's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a very readable Gritting Van and pleasant variant our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on J M Barriethe roof light up and rotate, playing a tune, whether the van's original stage version and novel regarding Peter Pan, which of course helps and always gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will now help be the Great Ormond Street Childrenvan's Hospitallast trip. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, they say. And for There's even a boy who never grows uptarmac now that can de-ice itself, at 111 years old but the Gritterman isn't sure that hewants to live in a world where the B2116 doesn's in spritely good healtht need gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780272901</amazonuk>