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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]]==Graphic novels==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=WinshlussEdel Rodriguez|title=PinocchioWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4.5

|summary=ImagineWe're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, if you willand Castro, Disney's film first thought of Pinocchio had been animated by as a crew saviour of artists hell-bent on sabotaging the prospect. Painterly frames of beauty would be rare in amongst grittycountry, grimyhas proven himself a Communist, shadowy images of nightmarish content, which took it upon themselves and not done nearly enough to break into black and white, or sepiacreate a level playing field for all. The prologue might have a character forcing Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his cat to join in at Russian Roulettetime away. Geppetto would be accompanied Our narrator's family weren't in the leviathan, in one happiest of the rare tuneful segmentsplaces here, by a penguin playing an uncle refusing to be the piano. And this after good soldier the proud inventor was trying country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to sell Pinocchio as a prototype robotic supersome minor pro-weaponCommunism skirmish, just such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his wife was putting Pinocchio's most distinctive feature successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to a most unexpected use...ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861661729</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aviv RatzinKia Ahankoob|title=Dreams The Gold Lion and Everyday Life|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Well, thank you, Aviv Ratzin - you've provided me with the one book I'm least capable of summarising for a review. I can't begin to pithily precis the plot, or describe the happenings in any quick, snappy way. To give the gist Tournament of the surreal, scattershot whimsicality cannot do the contents justice in any way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808871</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Allen Ginsberg|title=Howl: A Graphic NovelSentinels|rating=4.5

|summary=I first came across Howl as a short film animating one of Ginsberg's When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own recordings of it. If memory servesstrength and weakeness, it was a scratchy, jazzy piece, full of spiky, spunky shapes in the hope they would complement each other and movementscollaborate, creating a dynamic and low on colourprosperous society. Now for 2011 and for Penguin Modern Classics' first ever 'graphic novel' comes Each power is contained within a very different animation. OK, the real moving animation is only magical ring belonging to be seen in the movie Howl, but to call this merely an illustrated companion to the film is to be very unflatteringone of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141195703</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lesley Fairfield|title=Tyranny|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=As Tyranny shakes her - But it didn''I '''TOLD''' you not to eat! You are '''TOO''' fat!'' - Anna thinks backt quite work out like that. She used to take joy in lifeRivalries developed. She used to dream Enmities grew out of a bright future - a career, boyfriends, children - but it all them and the eight countries went wrong when she hit pubertyto war. She wasn't keen on on Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the curves cost of her newwar too high, more womanly bodya solution is proposed. When she looked in Each of the mirroreight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, she didn't see an hourglass figure developing; she saw fat and flabto a single combat tournament. Deaf to The winner will take possession of all the warnings of her parents and her boyfriend, she listened to Tyranny rings and entered into become the desperate, downward cycle supreme ruler of anorexiaDuniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406331139</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David PetersenPat Grant|title=Mouse GuardThe Grot: Legends The Story of The Guardthe Swamp City Grifters

|summary=To start withEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, I have never heard of Mr Petersen and his Mouse Guard franchisethat includes the punk bands. But I'm often up for an introduction There are three pedallers at the front of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, where a fantasy cycle, mother and I always relish being welcomed her two sons aim to an author by set up a yoghurt factory. You could say that yoghurt would be the most esotericonly culture around, unusualfor this is a really rough-and-ready dump of a place, quirky and short routebut everyone is interested in small things that grow. My first entry For the only money to be had – the His Dark Materials world was [[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. Once Upon there, the two brothers set themselves each up with a Time in guide – Lippy, the North by Philip Pullman|a collector's spinmore forward-off]]thinking, and I'm just as likely to start industrious of the Twilight seriestwo, if everwith a besuited gent, Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with the latest brief whimsybright red hair. And for those But which of a similar mind-set, the two will come off the worse as they make their own way in this collection of tales from the pens of guest writers and illustratorsdystopian, serves as an oddsemi-shaped doorway on to this particular universe.Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857681427</amazonuk>1603094660

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan StroudLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=The Amulet of SamarkandTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=In Eton Terrance there lives I never really followed the Usher familyevents of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, in a house above a basement flat where a gangster holds sway over a Polish "girlfriend"you know. After a bloodbath in thereI certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the Ushers expand downwardsarea had long been a venue for political protest, clearing and I didn't know more than a cavernous hole in their home where a staircase is due to gospit about the people involved on either side. This book is not the only crack practically flawless in proceedings, however, as we soon discover while witnessing giving a general browser's context for the fall whole season of this House of Usherprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848564163</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bryan TalbotLeigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=Grandville Mon AmourWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=4.53|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=The [[Grandville by Bryan Talbot|first book]] in this series didn't end particularly well for DI LeBrockDiana, being unique on her island, is the badger who works for Scotland Yardvictim of a lot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. At least the main problemIt's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, 'Mad Dog' Mastockthat has her with any standing at all, was sentenced her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to the guillotinebe a strong young woman. But in Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the prologue here he bursts out World of his quandaryMen, and once more causes problems for LeBrock - this time by slaughtering some Parisian prostitutesDiana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. Are they linked? What might their story be? And is there A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a darker part of running race, but the survivor she drags from the past yet waters is only going to come out of some secretive hiding place, and cause even disturb a lot more danger and peril?...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224090003</amazonuk>1401282555

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neville Colvin and Peter O'Donnell1401286208|title=Modesty BlaiseBlack Canary: Sweet CarolineIgnite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee

|summary=Meet Modesty BlaiseDinah Lance. You've had countless opportunities Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to meet her before, mind - she was daily try and follow in the London Evening Standard from 1963 to 2001his footsteps, and this seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, she is the eighteenth collection of desperate to find her comic stripvoice. SheBut it's actually more a feistycase of her voice finding her, unfettered femme fatale with as 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 bottomless fortune and weapon, or a great supply of both friends and enemiespower. We see these combine here But in four stories, when an enterprising gang of murderous blackmailers force Modesty order for her to become their enemycall herself a superhero, an old friend's name is used there has to dupe be a whole path of steps for her to take – one of which will be into letting go her criminal secrets from her past, and when a new-found friend, fresh from saving her life in a gliding accident, comes up against some hoodlums.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566735</amazonuk>past…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joshua Dysart, Cliff Chiang and Dave Stewart1401280048|title=Neil Young's GreendaleBatman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose

|summary=ItThe young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he's 2003a billionaire at the age of eighteen. Alaska is about Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to get rapeddo charitable deeds. But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and Iraqis killed, for gets given the sake most unlikely stretch of providing power community service instead – cleaning in the home for the USAviolent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. Which is ironicThere he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, as only before this is Sun Green a powerless young womangang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and after it - well, she might have a very different kind of powermurder the owner. A mystical sort Can he get close to one of girlthem and get the truth of their schemes, with or will the manipulative Madeleine be a great affinity to nature, step too far for the teenaged Sun has to first solve many blank spaces in her family tree, and work out her nightmares young do- which might include the strange man new to town.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848567863</amazonuk>gooder?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Garen Ewing1401283292|title=The Rainbow OrchidHarley Quinn: Adventures of Julius Chancer 2|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Oh to be popular - and the rainbow orchid certainly is. If, in fact, it exists at all. A collecting challenge for rare plants might hinge on its recovery, imperial British explorers would like to know the truth about it - and its presence on some mysterious ancient carved tablets hints at some mystical part it may once have played in a superweapon. Hence, where this book starts, everyone - from a film starlet, to a dashing explorer's assistant, to a plucky aviator, to an evil henchwoman of an overweight industrialist - is after it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140525047X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBreaking Glass|author=Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith Mariko Tamaki and Tony Lee|title=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic NovelSteve Pugh|rating=3.5

|summary=It Harleen Quinzel is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie story of any renown will not remain simply a zombie storynew in town. Before you can say ''the risen undeadShe always, to me, seems new in town, even if she'' it will become s been around a series of bookslong time, inspiring othersfor she always has a very fresh attitude, and/or lead seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is new in town, and the same story being published in many different guisestown is Gotham City. HereExpecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, then, on its way she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to Hollywood, stay with a bunch of drag queens. She also finds school is Jane Austen’s story of Lizzie Benneta drag, she also finds the feisty young woman trying to ignore Mr Darcy while fighting off the ''manky unmentionables'' whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – at least but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her life. One is until a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the hidden truths open up to herother someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, just as the soft soils of Hertfordshire do to yield their once-human remains. And this time it’s in graphic novel form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Millar and John Romita Jr140128339X|title=Kick-AssMera: Tidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne

|summary=Meet DaveMera. The average Joe personifiedShe'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, he sits at home with his internet connection, his comics collection, his dadthe king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and very little contact with anyone else. He is a typical loner teenagerhunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, nearly friendlessMera's mother, wears glasses at school - especially around the hotterritory's warrior queen, mature biology teacher who for some reason seems to have maths sums on her blackboard..is long dead. Until one day he decides to emulate Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the comics fella involved at all and is, in his collection. The only superheroes in his world are those whose colourful adventures he follows on the page - why not fact, trying to get his own costume mucked up, and go and fight crime?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565356</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Phoebe Reeves Murray|title=Ghost: Blood and Fire|rating=1.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Young Jennifer Rhys has been orphaned by Xebel out from under the evilDark Angels. They can possess people and bite off their handscosh of Atlantean power, andtherefor Xebel's something about living tattoos which you can take out royalty are merely puppets of boxesand paste into your skinAtlantean masters. After growing up in an adolescentpsychiatric ward, So when she will grow up to go on and confront them andfulfil overhears her destiny. Or something like father request that. Between her intended go to the huge amount world ofpoorly drawn charactersus air-breathing humans, and kill the leaden proseAtlantis heir, and she rushes off to get the disappointingpictures of computerized 3-D models, I got lost a few times quest (andcouldn't summon the interest to work out what was going on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808863</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Eisner|title=Life on Another Planet|rating=2.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=There are some people who don't even need their name on their books, promised throne) all for the contents are so obviously and uniquely theirsherself. Will Eisner is one such personBut of course, for the esteem and renown his artwork and pioneering work in the graphic novel form is held under is rightfully his and his alone. I'm quite sure I could recognise a page she has no idea what kind of his black and white inkworkperson she will meet, and his easily drawn but realistic characters, more easily than any other sequential artist. That trademark signature on how hard it will be to get the cover, surely the most well-known in 'comic strips' outside Mr Disney's empire, is hardly necessary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328120</amazonuk>job done…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera 1401286399|title=Dark EntriesSuper Sons: The PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=The producers It's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of Dark Entriesa huge flood barrier, the latest hit reality TV show, are worriedbuilt on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. Yes But the six housemates are thererising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, present and correct, and are ready forcing many people to be scared witless en route to the one way relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, and the brilliant prize that might await them somewhere in of course – first, he was patching up the merry-go-round of horror that is their new home. They are already being scared witlessdams, by phantoms - but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that's nothing to do with perfect for blocking the TV producerssolar energy from making further polar ice melt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dean HaleInland, Shannon Hale and Nathan Hale |title=Calamity Jack|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''I was born to scheme''in Wyndermere, declares our hero Jack. With flashbacks we see the young lad refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and a pixie friend, larking about intolerance for revenge or small profit. But when his mother's bakery gets more and more into the redbeing newcomers, the size of the profit has to increasebut something else is much worse. And when you add in revenge against the local crime lord - a giant of a man - so does the size of the target A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the japecity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587426</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Crumb|title=Robert CrumbBut it can's Book of Genesis: All 50 Chapters|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In the beginning was the picture. Just think t possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of all the countless religious images, both inside flood barriers and outside religious establishments, designed to convey the message efforts to those who could not read. Art and religion have always been linked, which is probably one of correct the main reasons I stayed an atheist - I hated art at schoolclimate, and drawing a man on a donkey, something way beyond my skills, was not a task I appreciated, hence my dislike of both subjects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224078097</amazonuk>can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Delisle168369015X|title=PyongyangManfried the Man: A Journey in North KoreaGraphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow

|summary=Meet GuyIn a world where cats stand on two feet, go to work at call centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, is Manfried. He's a French-Canadian animatortypical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, leaving home for a short stay in the capital of one of the world's most intriguing, unknown and alien cultures - Pyongyang, North Korea - so demanding more food than he can work on a TV cartoon co-production. Forced to stay in one of suitably eat, but at the same time being the three official hotels designed perfect companion for foreignershis owner, so Steve Catson. To such an extent that the locals and people such as he do not have to mixSteve, he see glimpses of the unique socialist dictatorshipwho is getting known for his man-oriented thinking, stunning views of is actually having nightmares about becoming the buildings forced through the poverty, and thousands of unreadable facesneighbourhood ''crazy man cat''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224079905</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gareth Hinds|title=King Lear|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Hound me out of town in But when a most appropriate mannerwindow gets left open by mistake, but I do not like King Lear. For me, even as a trained actor, the language is too dense and richManfried goes missing, the set-up too archly unfeasible to create the great tragedy only thing for it's thought to be. To my mind the acclaim is a massive and esteem in which it's held is only mirrored by its own overenergised man-long, over-blown blustering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763643440</amazonuk>hunt…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David HughesHainsworth_Gina|title=Thomas Wogan is DeadTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|summary=Well''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of the country, with a title like thatBrighton to Grimsby, need I bother to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with a plot summarysome mange and one working eye. Why not? A man has a day out in MorecambeThe first night at home, then Gina – the next thing he knows hedog – eats something she shouldn's in the ultimate waiting room, with a strange array of animals (t and causes a batmess, so it's not a toadgreat start, a sea urchin...)but then begin the tribulations of training, status and behaviour all waiting forhumans must go through with their dogs... well And then, somethingthe life with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. YupMy thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as you didnif I was in love.''t need telling Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, he's deadtwo children and two cats – gets to form the family they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095580888X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris GrimlyColfer_Illegal|title=Tales of Death Illegal|author=Eoin Colfer and DementiaAndrew Donkin

|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan Poe, master of the gothic horror short story, Ebo is twelve years old and Gris Grimly, outstanding illustrator, known all alone. His sister left for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman Europe months ago and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]. Poenow he doesn's ''Tales of Death and Dementia'' are shown off at their very best in this editiont know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bryan Talbot |title=Grandville|rating=4So Ebo has to attempt the same dangerous journey himself.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A dead body found in rural England leads D I LeBrock to urban FranceHe must cross the Sahara Desert, where he is destined get himself to unravel a conspiracy of revolutionTripoli, treason, and propaganda one of potentially global reach. What is the truth behind most dangerous cities in the fall of a famous tower under air attack a few years ago? Why are so many suspicious suicides coming world, and then try to attention? cross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And , even if he makes it, how will LeBrock be helped or hindered by he find his being, as his name suggests, a badgersister?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224084887</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Eisner Miller_Batman|title=Minor MiraclesBatman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|ratingauthor=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=This short story collection starts with two appetisers before getting on with two main courses, but as with the best meals even the smallest dishes can have the most depth. We start with the entire life cycle - rise, fall, rise, fall - of a hobo feeding pigeons in the park. Obviously he hasn't been doing that all his years - he's been keeping his dignity intact, with a huge amount of chutzpah Frank Miller and more. Next, a smart Alec defeats the older kids on the stoop with a bit of canny street wisdom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328147</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Eisner |title=A Family MatterBrian Azzarello

|summary=Some sons, some daughters, even a shy, semi-abandoned great nephew, are all gathering in the home of a ninety year old stroke victim for what may be his last birthday celebrationBatman is not playing ball. It seems like they are all licking their lips at the thought of a future inheritance. WeHe've heard before of a nuclear familys been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, is this one about to get too radioactive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328139</amazonuk>}} [[Category:Science Fiction]]{{newreview|author=Jonathan Luna and Joshua Luna |title=Girls Volume 1: Conception|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Ethan, we see with a great, broad comic stroke or six, is not the best when it comes to girls. Letting his mouth run away with him too often, baddies he is not very successful at relationshipsusually biffs. But let us look at what happens when then he drives away from an altercation at the local bar, and sees a gorgeous - and very naked - young woman standing in the middle of the road.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1582405298</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tony Lee and Sam Hart |title=Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood (Heroes & Heroines Graphic)|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Here, Robin Hood is the Earl of Huntington, a man tempered by bitterness encountered as a youth, trained by skills honed with an apparent need for vengeance. He's out crusading, when not Batman – he learns just the beginning of the story of what is wrong in Nottinghamshire. Returning, he meets John Little's a she, and soon falls into she finally comes up with the robbing/giving cycle we know and love him for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406308870</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=H. Gnews that Batman died in her hands. WellsElsewhere, Jules VerneLara, Arthur Conan Doyle |title=Graphic Classics, Volume 17: Science Fiction Classics|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=So, an introduction. The Graphic Classics collection is a series whereby the best in genre fiction, from sources both highly likely and remarkably unexpected, is collected daughter of Superman and dressed up for us in graphic novel form. This seventeenth edition, a belated best-of sci-fi volume, is their first foray into full colourWonder Woman, and is headlined by a version of The War of the Worlds. The supporting material ranges from a one-page strip to thirty-page stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0978791975<encouraging Ray Palmer/amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shaun Tan |title=The Arrival|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A man gathers a last memento or two before taking his suitcase in hand, saying farewell Atom to turn his wife technologies concerned with shrinking and daughter at the train station, and leaving for the docks to get the boat expanding life to the promised land. Once arrived, he finds strangeness everywhere - the food, the language, the immigration procedures, and the lodgings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0439895294</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Edgar Allen Poe, Various, Dan Whitehead (Editor) |title=Eye Classics: Nevermore - A Graphic Novel Anthology miniaturised city of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=So, if I were to mention someone who was born 200 years ago this seasonKandor, and who changed the world with their writing, who would you think last vestige of first? Charles Darwin, probably. But those of a slightly different bent might just have mentioned someone else - someone at the forefront of all things arcane, horrific and thrilling when it comes Kryptonian existence not to fictionfly about in visible blue pants. Someone who lost his birth and foster mother both to tuberculosis before he was ever twenty. Someone who had most unusual circumstances surrounding his death, to best Agatha Christie vanishing for a while, and most of the detectives What with Superman sitting idle in the fiction he helped inspire. Someone called Edgar Allan Poe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955285682</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki|title=Skim|rating=4|genre=Teens |summary=Skim is a slightly overweight, goth, witch-wannabe teenage girl going to an all girls High School in Toronto in the 1990's. The book takes the form exposed Fortress of her diary entries, painfully honest, and very realistic with words crossed out and re-written at times. We see her tortured teen life and how she faces issues of suicide, depression, first love and being something of a mis-fit amongst the usual school cliques. We meet her initially trying out being Solitude having gone into a witchsulk, and beginning a strangeBatman dead, secretive relationship with her hippy art teacher, Miss Archer. Then, after the suicide of the ex-boyfriend of one of the girls at Skim's school, those there would appear to be little in charge at the school go on an overdrive way of moral-boosting, supportive exercises to help all for the girls cope. This coincides with Miss Archer leaving the school, which drops Skim into a morbid depression, isolating her even further from those in her class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406321362</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Herman|title=I Like My Job|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=If you've ever been faced by too many Post-Its at the same time, or a performance reviewworld should anything nasty happen – but then, or copious yards of errant electrical cabling all round your workspace - and especially if you've been left with an apologetic pineapple on your desk - this is a book for you. Here the office life is all delegating thiscourse, blah blah talk about that, and hanging far too much on the one guy who seems to be most with-it when it comes to the computers. It'something nasty does happen… s a black and white world, on the whole, where you always get what you generally expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408576X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Gaiman and Gris GrimlyWeeks_Gritterman|title=The Dangerous AlphabetGritterman|author=Orlando Weeks

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