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Antares Episode 6

By Leo Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849182584 It’s always difficult to go into too much plot detail on a concluding chapter for fear of spoiling the earlier books, so I’ll keep this relatively brief. This concluding chapter from the current Worlds Of Aldebaran series offers a slight change of pace as story elements are tied up […]

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Frankenstein Underground

By Mignola, Stenbeck & Stewart  Publisher: Dark Horse ISBN: 9781616557829 Hellboy creator Mike Mignola brings Frankenstein’s monster firmly into the fold with this excellent exploration of the creature’s tortured and troubled struggle to live some sort of life. Wanted by the French collector of grotesques, the Marquis Adoet de Fabre, Frankenstein’s monster is hunted in […]

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Wayne Shelton Volume 3: The Contract

By Denayer, Cailletau & Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849182690 Wayne Shelton is quite a daring series in that the lead character is, quite deliberately, an old fashioned action hero type who, although still capable, is ever-so-slightly past his prime. He has aged with grey around the temples, and he’s not quite up-to-speed with computers […]

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Obelix & Co

By Goscinny & Uderzo Publisher: Orion ISBN: 9780752866529 When I was a child a trip to the library meant a beeline to the low-lying shelf that, if you were lucky, would have an Asterix book or two. I discovered many a fantastic tale there, and years later I’ve steadily been rediscovering them by buying the […]

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Red Baron Vol 3: Dungeons & Dragons

By Veys & Puerta Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849182522 Veys and Puerta continue their alternative telling of Manfred Von Richthofen’s life, and his singular abilities, in this third volume where we at last get to see the Baron settling into his very conspicuous bright red plane. Now recruited to a new fighter squadron with an emphasis […]

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Asterix & The Missing Scroll

By Ferri & Conrad Publisher: Orion ISBN: 9781510100459 It’s another welcome return for Asterix and Obelix in this latest adventure by the new creative team of Jean-Yves Ferro and Didier Conrad. On this occasion the tale involves Caesar writing his memoirs based around his time warring in Gaul, and although a major hit with the […]

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