By Thelwell Publisher: Methuen SBN: 414 66500 4 OK, I'm cheating on this one, but it's new to me. My sister-in-law's been living in Hong Kong for the best part of three decades and her son has been visiting us. One of his tasks while here was to sort out the piles of boxes she […]
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Lucky Luke 23: A Cure For The Daltons
By Morris & Goscinny Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-034-4 Doctor Otto Von Bratwurst is over from Europe offering a cure for criminality, but at the US Institue of Science they're having none of it. So it is agreed that the Doctor will head out to the den of desperation that is the West to find the […]
Wilson
By Daniel Clowes Publisher: D&Q ISBN: 987-1-77046-007-2 Wilson thinks he's a great guy. He's in tune, he's incisive, he's curious and he's thoughtful. He's also arrogant, rude, patronising, self-centred and narrow-minded. He's more than a caricature or a stereotype but at the same time he's so shallow you wouldn't get your feet wet if you […]
Thorgal Vol 8: Wolf Cub
By Rosinski & Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-036-8 Thorgal is returning home so Aaricia can give birth to their child in the house in which she was born. However, on their journey they encounter Vikings from the south with an ambitious leader who wants Thorgal to accompany them on a raid to Northumbria. Thorgal […]
Betelgeuse Vol 3: The Other
By Leo Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-036-8 The final book in the second Aldebaran story arc opens with Kim and her small party of survivors regaining their strength and planning their next move. Kim goes to visit this planet's river-based Mantris, the version of the mysterious alien being she met on Aldebaran, only for it to […]
A Carrot For Iznogoud
By Tabary & Goscinny Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-021-4 18 months ago I'd not heard of Goscinny's Iznogoud, but as a lifelong fan of Asterix I was keen to try it – and it was good. I was a little disappointed at the brevity of the stories (several to a book) rather than a full blown […]
