By Mézières & Christin Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183291 As I type this, the Valerian movie has been out for a week, so chances are more people than ever before are aware of the name, if not the source material. If you’ve not yet reached for a copy of one of the books then there’s no […]
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Mooncop
By Tom Gauld Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly ISBN: 9781770462540 For me, the best comedy is the understated stuff. The gags that don’t shout in your face, or are designed just to elicit a wry slime rather than a belly laugh, using subtlety and a respectful nod to the reader. Tom Gauld’s Mooncop is built on […]
The Survivors (Quantum Anomalies) Episode 4
By Leo Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183468 The fortunes of Marie and Alex go from bad to worse as their captors force them into a temporal rift, where they find themselves trapped along with their would-be rescuers, the Holorans Antac and Selkert. Not knowing just how far in to the future they’ve been flung the alien […]
Mezolith Book 2: Stone Age Dreams & Nightmares
By Haggarty & Brockbank Publisher: Archaia ISBN: 9781608868315 Rather pleasingly, Haggarty and Brockbank’s Mezolith has returned with another collection of tales set in Stone Age Britain. The tales further expand on the beliefs and experiences of the Kansa tribe, and young Poika in particular as he prepares to leave boyhood behind. This book, along with […]
Namibia: Episode 5
By Rodolphe, Leo & Marchal Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183307 With the 1950s just over the horizon, Kathy Austin and Vladimir are stealing into the heart of the Namibian base that they understand to be the home of extraterrestrial invaders of Earth, all made possible by a second race of beings keen on assisting the natives […]
The Best We Could Do
By Thi Bui Publisher: Abrams Comicsarts ISBN: 9781419718779 I’m a little too young to remember the Vietnam war and its aftermath, but not the slew of retrospective and gung-ho movies and comics that followed it. Pretty much all of these seemed to focus on a small group or an individual who valiantly took the fight […]
