By Dany & Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849184144 Always welcome, as far as I’m concerned, is another book written by Jean Van Hamme. This new Cinebook offering falls under their Expresso collection for self-contained or two-part stories. The tale itself involves a plane crash in a South American jungle (no Marsupilamis, though, I’m afraid) […]
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The Magic Order: Book One
By Millar & Coipel Publisher: Image ISBN: 9781534308718 The first thing that strikes you about this book is the sheer abundance of Netflix logos all across it. And with good reason. The digital behemoth has snapped up Mark Millar’s increasingly varied set of stories and set him loose on yet more, so although the comics […]
Trent Vol 4: The Valley Of Fear
By Rodolphe & Leo Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183949 Somewhere up in the frozen Canadian north a railway construction camp is trying to make its way through some uneven terrain, including blasting a tunnel through a mountain. Dangerous work at the best of times, but the work crew are spooked by a string of bad luck […]
Peterloo: Witnesses To A Massacre
By Polyp, Schlunke & Poole Publisher: New Internationalist ISBN: 9781780264752 Cartoons and comics are a powerful way of commenting on news and current affairs through satire and wry observation. Equally, they’re also very effective at conveying historical events. As a teenager I picked up the manga Barefoot Gen, a story about a child’s life in […]
Distant Worlds Episode 2
By Leo & Icar Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183765 Opening with the party of travellers moving further across the colonised planet Altair-3, some of the group are attempting to understand the previous inhabitants of this world while Paul still seeks word of his father. The alien Stepanerk, known as Mr Step, continues to prove more than […]
Lesser Spotted Animals 2
By Martin Brown Publisher: David Fickling Books ISBN: 9781788450393 Getting any child interested in the natural world can only be a good thing, but there’s far more to the animal kingdom than lions, tigers and bears. In his first book Martin Brown introduced us to a host of lesser known creatures in the hope that […]
