By Tome & Janry Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849181938 Spirou and Fantasio is rapidly becoming a firm favourite in our house, combining some excellent humour with some first-class cartooning. In this story we get to go to Moscow although in Spirou and Fantasio’s case it’s somewhat reluctantly. They’re rapidly mixed up with the KGB, the Russian […]
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100 Bullets: Brother Lono
By Azzarello & Risso Publisher: Vertigo ISBN: 9781401245061 I’d originally presumed this was a prequel, or at the very least a parallel tale, to the main 100 Bullets story arc, but Lono appears to be bearing many physical and emotional scars at the beginning of this book, one of which directly links to the bloody […]
Clifton Vol 7: Elementary, My Dear Clifton
By Rodrigue & de Groot Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849181983 I was really pleased to see another Clifton book was coming out – it's been a while now. If you've not come across him before, Clifton is a British ex-Secret Service operative who now offers regular assistance to Scotland Yard in the solving of its more […]
Hellboy In Hell Vol 1: The Descent
By Mignola & Stewart Publisher: Dark Horse ISBN: 9781616554446 So, Hellboy’s dead. But the story doesn’t end there. As a creature from the pit Hellboy now finds himself descending into the abyss and having to confront gargantuan monstrosities and the Hellish politics of the suddenly timid lords that rule there. This involves allying himself with […]
Alone Vol 1: The Vanishing
By Gazzotti & Vehlmann Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849181969 This is a relatively new, and award-winning, series focusing on five children who awake to find that everyone they know and love – in fact, everyone in the city – has mysteriously disappeared, leaving them to fend for themselves. The children are made up of a talented […]
Cartoons On Demand
By Royston Robertson Publisher: Royston Robertson ISBN: 9781304954664 Royston’s got another book out chockablock with cartoons largely based around wry observations on modern life, or, to be more exact, technology. Royston’s a prolific gag cartoonist with regular work appearing in Prospect, The Spectator, Reader’s Digest and Private Eye, which is either testament to his cartooning […]
