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The Survivors (Quantum Anomalies): Episode 1

By Leo Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849182171 It’s a welcome return for Leo’s Worlds of Aldebaran series as he spins out a new humanist story set in the same universe as Kim Keller’s adventures but taking us down a different path entirely. A spacecraft is on route to Aldebaran to deliver thousands of colonists when it […]

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Swamp: On The Road Again & Swamp: Top Of The Heap

By Gary Clark Publisher: Swamp Productions Pty.Ltd ISBN: 9780994197801 & 9780994197818 Gary Clark’s been hard at work putting together two new collections of Swamp cartoon strips for our amusement, combining current strips and a section of strips stretching back to the early days of Swamp life. In fact, those latter strips are rather interesting (as […]

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Mirabilis: Year Of Wonders – Winter (Volume 1)

By Morris and Hartas Publisher: Print Media ISBN: 9780956712110 Originally serialised in the now defunct British comic The DFC, this is a grand concept that merges history, literature, fairytales, magic, horror, science fiction, myths and legends, and a smattering of steampunk too. All of this strange phenomena begins to appear when a green comet is […]

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The Best Of Britain’s Political Cartoons 2014

Edited By Tim Benson Publisher: Scribe ISBN: 9781922247643 The year, again, seems to slip past swiftly, but twelve months is a long time and it’s easy to forget those individual incidents that punctuate each day’s news. Fortunately, that’s a good thing, because each page of The Best Of Britain’s Political Cartoons offers a snapshot into […]

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Red Baron Vol 2: Rain of Blood

By Veys & Puerta Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849182119 Using an intriguing art style and a fictional take on a real historical figure, the first volume certainly hooked me in. Puerta is audaciously combining digital painting with manipulated period photography to generate an immersive and atmospheric tone that further blurs the lines between fact and fiction. […]

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Recounting Streets

By Juan Berrio Publisher: Kettledrummer Books/Diabolo Ediciones ISBN: 9788415153665 City-life has a unique vibrancy that makes it the ideal backdrop to many an unfolding drama across a dozen genres. Juan Berrio has attempted to bring the city into the centre stage, often making the streets and the buildings as much a part of the tales […]

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