By Moore and O'Neill Publisher: Top Shelf/Knockabout ISBN: 9780861662302 He makes you work hard, does Alan Moore. So infused are the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen books with literary and movie references that you have to run to keep up, and although you might feel smug at spotting one or two, chances are there’s as many […]
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Thorgal Vol 15: The Cage
By Rosinski & Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849181860 After years of being separated from his family, not even remembering who he once was, Thorgal is now returning home, but what he doesn’t know is what he’ll find there, if anything at all. With the assistance of Galathorn from volume 3 Thorgal is sent on […]
Sabretooth Swordsman And The Mayhem Of The Malevolent Mastodon Mathematician
By Gentry & Conley Publisher: Dark Horse ISBN: 9781616551766 Couldn’t resist this one when I saw it advertised. A crazy combination of Dave Cooper and Geoff Darrow car-crashing with Joe Daly to give a vividly realised, absurdly entertaining, eastern action mash-up. It’s published as part of the Dark Horse Originals imprint, so it’s nicely presented […]
Spirou & Fantasio Vol 4: Valley Of The Exiles
By Tome & Janry Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849181570 They clearly had a lot of fun putting this one together. Following directly on from the previous book, Spirou & Fantasio find themselves in the impenetrable darkness of subterranean caverns after being engulfed by river waters. What they emerge to is a micro-climate sat snugly in a […]
The Massive Vol 2: Subcontinental
By Wood, Brown, Stewart, Erskine, Shalvey, Zezelj and Bellaire Publisher: Dark Horse ISBN: 9781616553166 The crew of the Kapital are continuing their search for their sister ship The Massive, elusively sitting at the edge of their radar – if indeed it’s there at all – and encountering the new world order following the environmental, social […]
Lucky Luke Vol 41: The Daily Star
By Morris, Fauche & Léturgie Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849181600 No, not the somewhat grotty British tabloid, but an Old West newspaper with a proprietor inspired by a real editor who went on to run America’s most influential newspaper. The Horace P Greeley of this book, we’re reliably reassured, is not intended be the same man, […]
