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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie ThrashEdel Rodriguez|title=Honor GirlWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=''It's camp. It's supposed to be fun.''<br>''Well excuse me for not having the time of my life.'' That simple piece of dialogue is the key to this autobiographical graphic novel. Why is Maggie not happy at camp? Forget the way she's isolated by being a sleep-walker, and ignore the fact she's from a different state to every other girl around, and practically only there to obey her mother's family tradition – she's all of a sudden become an ace shot on the rifle range, and can boss the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performance. But those aren't enough for Maggie to feel settled and like she's enjoying her summer, and anyway they do come with their own problems. No, the bigger problem is something else – the fact that she seems to be falling in love with one of the counsellor campers, there to look after the welfare of the younger inmates – being potentially a lesbian is a shock to our narrator. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763687553</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Duncan Watson and Brian Bicknell|title=Ratchwood Dilemma|rating=3.5

|summary=WellWe're in childhood, this is a singular book and make no mistakewe're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first part thought of as a saviour of the trilogy led us in quite bewildered steps from country, has proven himself a hive mind crash-landing at Roswell Communist, and infecting not done nearly enough to create a scientistlevel playing field for all. Well, through a religious espouser being shot live on TV and the death those hours-long speeches of Judas, right up to some his were kind of godhead having to better taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the existence happiest of whatplaces here, you knowan uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the more commonly perceived Godfather being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, had left us withsuccess being frowned upon. I think. Here we start The mother gets the couple jobs with an A&E case where one the party to ease some of a pair of twins is left in near-vegetative statethe heat, but one advisor suggests that before the crash or whatever that caused the problem in this sultry island country, it remains the first place there might have only been one person. We see a man with the ability to snatch people kind of heat forcing you out of space/time – in a world where that can happen who knows how stable anyone or anything or anywhen might be? And what might any slight imbalance in the universes mean?kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524666513</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Burne Hogarth and Rob ThompsonKia Ahankoob|title=Tarzan - And The Gold Lion and the Lost Tribes (Vol. 4) (The Complete Burne Hogarth Comic Strip Library)Tournament of Sentinels|rating=4.5

|summary=Normally I turn against the most popular. If there's a book series that I know isWhen Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, sayeach with its own strength and weakeness, seven volumes longin the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, I shrug creating a dynamic and let people enjoy itprosperous society. I've been bitten too often Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by series you think are complete being extended, for one, and the originatorMyriad's death too often never puts the full stop youchildren and their descendants. But it didn'd expect on thingst quite work out like that. But some franchises are much longer, but too important Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went to ignorewar. Take, for example, Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the series (cost of series) surrounding Tarzanwar too high, a solution is proposed. Unless fully in Each of the knoweight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, you to a single combat tournament. The winner will be surprised at just how many films there were back in take possession of all the day. I'm not going to count up rings and become the number supreme ruler of official books he was inDuniva. He was also in comic strips, as you might expect, but for my sins they've never crossed my path until here. But boy isn't this just a wonderful way to see what I was missing…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781163200</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark Zuehlke and Claude St AubinPat Grant|title=The Loxleys and ConfederationGrot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters|rating=3.54

|summary=There is a huge hole Everything in my history knowledge where North America is concernedthis world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the punk bands. Slowly, from an opening There are three pedallers at the front of sheer ignorance, having never studied it whatsoever at school, I've got a small grip on things like the Civil War, Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the foundations of ferry across the USA swamp to Falter City, where a mother and her two sons aim to set up a few other thingsyoghurt factory. But You could say that means nothing as far as yoghurt would be the only culture around, for this book is concerneda really rough-and-ready dump of a place, for but everyone is interested in small things that huge hole is Canadagrow. No, I didn't have an inkling about how it was trying For the only money to unify, just as be had – the American Civil War was only fortunes to be found in full pelt just across the border. I didn't know what was there before CanadaFalter City – come from algae, if you see what I mean. The story does have some things in common with gunk and other crud that of their southern neighbours – European occupancy being slowly turned into a list of states as we know them nowwell, slowly spreading into the heart of the continent with the help use of the railways etc; native 'Indians' being 'in the way'; past trading agreements to either maintain or try to improve on; and so on – but of course it also had the British vs French issueis never really made clear. But did you know how an American President getting shot at Once there, the theatre had two brothers set themselves each up with a bearing on the story? Or guide – Lippy, the Irish? Like I said, a huge hole…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992150892</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero|title=Children of Lucifer: Modesty Blaise|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=Out of ninetymore forward-five diverse comic strip storiesthinking, the publication industrious 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 two, with the sassy brunette a besuited gent, Penn with her curves and her great crime-solving mind, and of course a ballsy young teenaged girl with her Willie, this is the last-but-one chance for you to do sobright red hair. And if you have any interest But which of the two will come off the worse as they make their own way in quick little action talesthis dystopian, or even dated kitsch, for both apply here, then you should eagerly be on board…semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>1603094660

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Morris|title=The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=As much as I like comics – and I do, whether superhero ones or not – I have to admit one thingLun Zhang, namely that the villains in them are a bit pants. What is The Penguin but the world's worst MafiosoAdrien Gombeaud, 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 Ameziane and changed colour, and got mardier as a result Edward Gauvin (although recently he's become a nanotech genius – but let's not go theretranslator)? 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 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. Tiananmen 1989: 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 YardieShattered Hopes

|summary=Things are grim I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in Londonthe second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn'People t know of colour' can no longer stand at a bus stop or cross the road without white cops shooting them down, weeks of protests and planting drugs hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and guns on them. Heaven help them if their satnav leads them past certain corrupt coppers. But obviously one the birth of the problems there is that there are no black policeTank Man image, so to encourage their growth Boris has built Jamaica I didn't know how the area had long been a prisonvenue for political protest, and borrowed their finest – Scotland Yardie, I didn't know more than a dreadlocked and heavily-armed skunkhead rastaspit about the people involved on either side. ItThis book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's purely thought context for the whole season of as a PR exercise, but Yardie knows different. When you add on a mystery regarding a new chain of chicken shops, and the nasty cops, he has his work cut outprotests back in 1989. Seen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861662512</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary Telford Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Louise VerityKit Seaton|title=SinsWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=43|genre=Short StoriesTeens|summary=Is there enough new to say about Diana, being unique on her island, is the seven deadly sins? victim of a lot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. WeIt've seen them all shown to uss only her unique status, from school age and up to the movie ''Se7en''her mother being Queen, which we sincerely hope was NOT shown to anyone that has her with any standing at school age. We can each recount them all, having been long familiar with them, her naysayers declare – even if we probably can't pin down when they were actually set in stone without helpthough she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. Similarly, is there anything new in the world of fairy tale? We know the tropes - characters identified by their status or gender (Perhaps too strong for the womanisland, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the husband), a clear set World of rules to obeyMen, and a moral as strong as, if not stronger than, this Diana is the formulae involvedheroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. WellA shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, this volume demands we decide but the answer to those questions as being positive ones, and if it's not always definitive in survivor she drags from the writing here that there waters is something new, rest assured there will be something in the imagery that will definitely strike one as freshonly going to disturb a lot more...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843516624</amazonuk>1401282555

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bessora, Barroux and Sarah Ardizzone (translator)1401286208|title=AlphaBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee|rating=43.5

|summary=''It felt like there was boiling water inside my headMeet Dinah Lance. To cool it down, I had Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to leave…'' Those words aren't spoken by Alpha, the narrator of this graphic novel, but they might have been. Living try and follow in Abidjanhis footsteps, on the south coast of Cote d'Ivoire in Africaand seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, he she is determined desperate to get out to go to Paris, and a relativefind her voice. But it's hair salon and actually more a much case of her voice finding her, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better lifethan any opera singer. It's not just the boiling water that is causing him You could almost call it a weapon, or a power. But in order for her to jump out the frying pan into the unknown firecall herself a superhero, but the fact that his wife and son went already, and he's trying there has to be a whole path of steps for her to follow in their footsteps. ''Your feet become your head. Your body obeys them'' he observes at take – one point during the ordeal – but there are people smugglers galore, and blind chance to also obey along the way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370014</amazonuk>of which will be into her past…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Hurk1401280048|title= Ready for Pop|rating= 4.5|genre= Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic NovelsNovel|summaryauthor=London, The mid-sixties. In what appears to have been a murder attempt, 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 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 rivalsMarie Lu, 'The Small Pocks' be given a boost in Vic Vox's absence? And will June Scurvy get her hit (or maybe not) new single featured on the show they're all waiting for…''Ready for Pop''!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662504</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Bantock|title=Griffin Stuart Moore and Sabine 25th Anniversary Edition: An Extraordinary CorrespondenceChris Wildgoose

|summary=Don't we all just want that The young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one little fillup to our looks – that tuck therehe can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, those pounds or wrinkles vanishedpaparazzi, that little tweak to make us more sexually attractive and virile? suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at the age of eighteen. WellFeeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, if you catch The Beauty, you will indubitably end up, in what colloquial language has it, ''fit''he wants to do charitable deeds. But The Beauty is not to be caught as one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a passing fad or itinerant beauticiancriminal, but he goes too far as far as a sexual disease. And it's hit half the population – authorities are concerned, and gets given the most unlikely stretch of those willinglycommunity service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. You feel feverish with itThere he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, but it's taken off big timea gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and Big Pharma is happy with murder the situationowner. Some violent anti-Beauty activists aren't, so special police units exist regarding it, but they, Can he get close to one of them and get the Powers That Betruth of their schemes, and or will the underground scientists working against manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the disease are only going to be swamped when The Beauty shows its true face…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1632155508</amazonuk>young do-gooder?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero1401283292|title=Modesty Blaise - Ripper JaxHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|rating=43.5

|summary=Is there any stopping Modesty Blaise? Harleen Quinzel is new in town. Well, inasmuch as there are only ten stories left that have not been anthologised in these lovely reprintsShe always, yes – just three books to gome, by my reckoning. That reckoning should be quite accurateseems new in town, even if I can be immodestshe's been around a long time, for there she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is a lot that new in town, and the town is routine about these storiesGotham City. They all had three panels Expecting a dayyear-long furlough from life with her mother, six days a week (she finds her gran dead and herself with one day's output being less relevant no option but to the story for those papers that didn't carry the comic on weekends), for twenty-one weeksstay with a bunch of drag queens. But rest assured there She also finds school is a drag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a lot large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her life. One is unusual about Modesty and her output, including a nevercivil-ending variety to the locationsminded lass called Ivy, to the manner of the baddy's crime, other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and to the action Modesty a mind for violence and her Willie are forced to undertake to win the day. And nobody, but nobodychaos, has undertaken so much action and come out looking so attractive…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298588</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jens Harder140128339X|title=AlphaMera: DirectionsTidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|rating=4.5

|summary=SoMeet Mera. She's the latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, people might still ask methe king of Xebel, why do I turn to graphic novels sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – arenafter all, Mera't visual books with limited writing more suited to young people? Yeahs mother, right – try pawning this off on juvenile audiences and the semi-literateterritory's warrior queen, is long dead. If you canMera doesn't kill that cliché off with pages such as these I don't know what will work. I know fancy the cosseting or the book isn't designed fella involved at all and is, in fact, trying to be a message to people in get Xebel out from under the debate about the literary worth cosh of graphic novelsAtlantean power, but one side-effect for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of it is surely an engagement with that argumentAtlantean masters. What it is designed So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to be is a complete history the world of everything else – us air-breathing humans, and kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the quest (and in covering every prehistoric momentthe promised throne) all for herself. But of course, it does just thatshe has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and absolutely brilliantly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662458</amazonuk>how hard it will be to get the job done…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcel Ruijters and Laura Watkinson (translator)1401286399|title=HieronymusSuper Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=This It's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a book for huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have put even those who find it amusing that a biography of someone who has been dead 500 years is called 'unauthorisedconstructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. This Superman is a book where helping out, of course – first, he was patching up the detail is in dams, but now he's mining the devil – people pissing in asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the street; the locals baiting blind people armed with cudgels solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in a pit with a pigWyndermere, often failing to whack the beast refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting their colleagues by mistake; farting demons visiting the sleepercity. This is a book for those who donBut it can't mind a spot possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of ribaldrythe flood barriers and the efforts to correct the climate, an affront can it? Four young children begin to religious piety or suchlike in their graphic novels. Whether or not this is a book for those seeking a biography of Hieronymus Bosch remains to be seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662466</amazonuk>piece together clues that it can…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean-Patrick Manchette, Max Cabanes and Doug Headline168369015X|title=FataleManfried the Man: A Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow|rating=34.5

|summary=PlayIn a world where cats stand on two feet, go to work at call centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, is Manfried. ItHe's a weird verb typical frisky but shy pet – it forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can mean many different things. Aimee intends to play – she's already put paid to several men playing at being hunterssuitably eat, but she has a different game in mind. Arriving at a very insular little town she scopes the big-wigs outsame time being the perfect companion for his owner, watching them over the bridge table and across the golf teesSteve Catson. To such an extent that Steve, andwho is getting known for his man-oriented thinking, seeing them bicker is actually having nightmares about each other at both play and work, she knows she can play with thembecoming the neighbourhood ''crazy man cat''. But what might happenwhen a window gets left open by mistake, given these undefined rulesand Manfried goes missing, if they chose to play as the only thing for it is a team against her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782766820</amazonuk>massive and energised man-hunt…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Des TaylorHainsworth_Gina|title=Scarlett Couture|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=What, in the real world, would be the least likely cover for a secret agent but that of super-model? Apart from the advantage of everyone thinking you were gormless, there is the implausible clothing and having Talking to run around after baddies in high heels to consider. But the world of comics isn't the real world, and so you have to ask the opposite – what would be the most visually appealing band of secret agents, if not for a whole cabal of them working undercover as bimbo-looking models? The Showroom is one such, and its main agent is Scarlett Couture, daughter of a male cop and a female fashionista-cum-agency boss. Looking wonderful is incredibly easy for her – but sometimes saving the world is quite a bit tougher…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760628</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGina|author=Jason Quinn and Naresh Kumar|title=World War Two: Against the Rising Sun (Campfire Graphic Novels)Ottilie Hainsworth

|summary=It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you want to judge the worth of a ''Star TrekThis is what happened.'' TV series, you judge the theme tune. It's incontrovertible that they went downhill in unison, after all. It is also An artist decided she needed a truth universally acknowledged that dog – so drove the same applies length of the country, Brighton to ''Doctor Who''Grimsby, for the opening credits have definitely had their ups to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and downs over recent yearsone working eye. But you can also define the entertainment value of a series through the companions. Why not? Or The first night at least you can with home, Gina – the 11th Doctor comic versions, which decided to pick up dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a Token Smart, Ballsy, Ethnic onemess, so it's not a bizarregreat start, mercurially disembodied robot-type-with-limited-vocab onebut then begin the tribulations of training, status andbehaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. And then, er, a cod David Bowie one who relives the entire Ziggy Stardust lyric sheet through his witteringslife with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, and I knowfelt sick, right? No hopeas if I was in love. '' But can you give up hope with the geniusSlowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, energeticher husband, effervescent two children and witty Doctor around?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782763031</amazonuk>two cats – gets to form the family they and Gina all would have wanted.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Serge le Tendre, Regis Loisel and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)Colfer_Illegal|title=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>}}{{newreviewIllegal|author=Alejandro Jodorowsky, Nicolas Fructus Eoin Colfer and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)|title=Showman Killer: Heartless HeroAndrew Donkin|rating=45

|summary=A long way away, in terms of both time Ebo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and space, now he doesn't know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thing. So Ebo has to attempt the same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the most perfect assassin is formed – genetically bredSahara Desert, adept at magical transformationsget himself to Tripoli, with one of the most athletic and deadly abilitiesdangerous cities in the world, and with then try to cross the complete lack of emotion neededMediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. All And, even if he makes it, how will ever seek is the highest price for the best job – a job that will, now and again, force him to meet with the most unusual people…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178276139X</amazonuk>he find his sister?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jamie Hewlett, Alan Martin and othersMiller_Batman|title=21st Century Tank GirlBatman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello

|summary=I sometimes wonderBatman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, when keying in book reviews, if ISBNs are and not constructed by design instead of the formal accident that is supposed to create thembaddies he usually biffs. Surely itBut then he's intentional that this book has 666 in its code not Batman – ithe's a she, and she finally comes up with the most devilishly brashnews that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, Lara, ugly the daughter of Superman and foul-mouthed comic aroundWonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and people who like that kind expanding life to the miniaturised city of Kandor, the last vestige of thing will like thisKryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. Especially as this book is What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a return to waaay distant formsulk, and waaay distant creative partnershipsBatman dead, with there would appear to be little in the way of help for the original artist Jamie Hewlett back on board. It'world should anything nasty happen – but then, of course, something nasty does happen… s time to cuss and roll once more…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782766618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Derf BackderfWeeks_Gritterman|title=Trashed|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=For those people who think graphic novels are rubbish, this is the epitome of that baseless argument. Its subject is junk, it's trash, it's landfill, and garbage. That's not a verdict on its qualities, which are great and fine ones, but its very topic. Straight from school, our author was actually a bin man for a few seasons – riding on the back of something like Betty, the garbage van featured here. It's a job nobody wants in all honesty, of course – but the book is fine enough to actually make the subject something most people should read about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419714546</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Gritterman|author=Luke Pearson|title=Hilda and the TrollOrlando Weeks|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Hilda, a rather delightful small, blue-haired girl, is never far from an adventure. She is confident and excitable, brave and creative, and her stories are slightly mad, and very, very readable!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263788</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sven Hassel and Jordy Diago|title=Wheels of Terror: The Graphic Novel|rating=4

|summary=War books and anti-war books, in my mind, have There's a lot in common and only a couple of easy things need be changed to turn one to the otherman who has an ice cream van. This In summer, what there is dressed as an anti-war bookof summer, but here is the lead character surviving against all odds – the platoon whittled down several times while he and uses it to sell ice creams, That's not his few friends go strong; here vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he is overcoming all kinds of difficulty waits for winter when the van becomes a Gritting Van and adversity our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up and still coming out rotate, playing a tune, whether the other end; here he is doing proper heroic deeds – van's gritting or his colleagues saving the day at selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the van's last minute – and the war carries onwards towards its inevitable endtrip. The difference perhaps is in council has sent the minutiae of what those difficulties and deeds need beletter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, with the anti-war book having they say. There's even a simple honesty about them and their overall worth tarmac now that the gungcan de-hoice itself, militaristic piece would patently lack. And when you face but the guts and gore of Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a world where the kind of warfare on these pages, you donB2116 doesn't really expect jingoism and 'hoo-rah!' attitudes. No, even if the DNA is pretty much the same, the result here is definitely, grimly and firmly anti-warneed gritting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297609769</amazonuk>