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Largo Winch Vol 9: The Price Of Money

By Francq & Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849181129 Largo's not afraid to be the public face of the W Group – what with his past exploits he's hardly been that successful at staying under the radar anyway – so this book opens with Largo taking part in a television interview about the nature of […]

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The Massive Vol 1: Black Pacific

By Wood, Donalson, Brown & Stewart Publisher: Dark Horse ISBN: 9781616551322 Now here's an original idea. A near future Earth is stricken by environmental disaster after environmental disaster, causing enormous human suffering and major ecological catastrophes. Societies are collapsing or have collapsed, and for the survivors the coming months and years are uncertain. The story […]

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Thorgal vol 14: Giants

By Rosinski and Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849181563 Thorgal made life difficult for himself a few volumes ago when his only intent was to remove himself from the machinations of the gods. Instead he's ended up being manipulated by Kris because the result of those actions was the loss of all his memories of […]

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The Manara Library Vol. 1

By Milo Manara Publisher: Dark Horse ISBN: 9781595827821 Milo Manara is an Italian cartoonist with a wonderfully detailed drawing style and is perhaps best known for the erotic nature of much of his work. Dark Horse have set about collecting his stories into some lovingly presented hardback volumes that retain the European album size and […]

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Valerian & Laureline Vol 5: Birds Of The Master

By Mezieres & Christin Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849181525 Valerian and Laureline have crash landed on a planetoid and although they've survived they are in dire straits and making the best of it in an inflatable raft. What's quickly apparent is that they are far from the first to have crashed here as they stumble upon […]

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Reset

By Peter Bagge Publisher: Dark Horse ISBN: 9781616550035 So what with the recent release of Other Stuff we’re rather spoiled for all things Bagge at the moment. Whereas Other Stuff is a collection of lesser known stories and strips Reset is presented as an original graphic novel and all new to boot (although, cheekily, it […]

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