By Marvano Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849181358 As the void between today and the Second World War grows wider it does seem that there's an increasing amount of tales associated with it bordering on the absurd and the comical. There's a danger there that the grim realities of those years get lost in grandiose heroic fiction […]
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Valerian & Laureline Vol 4: Welcome To Alflolol
By Mézières and Christin Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-133-4 Here's an interesting science fiction concept for you. What should we do if the human race discovers an uninhabited planet and settles in to reap the natural resources for two hundred years only to discover that the native population have been off travelling and now want their […]
Largo Winch vol 8: Shadow
By Francq and Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-075-7 Largo's facing his biggest threat to date, having been out-manouvered to such a degree that he and the W Group are in serious trouble. The W Group has been backed into a corner and it's Group Administrator appears to be deeply involved, while Largo himself finds […]
Sticky Monsters
By John Kenn Mortensen Publisher: Square Peg ISBN: 9780224095761 Cartoonists are, by nature, habitual doodlers, but John Kenn Mortensen takes this a step further. His day job is writing and illustrating children's TV shows, but when he's not doing that he draws cartoons of monsters…on rectangular yellow Post-it notes. There are no gags here, although […]
Nowt So Daft…
By Kieran Meehan Publisher: Meehan Cartoons ISBN: 978-0-9573082-1-3 Here's a little collection of single gag cartoons I came across online. Kieran Meehan is a syndicated cartoonist and member of the Canadian chapter of the National Cartoonists Society. The cartoons themselves are very much in the Far Side school, so expect the inevitable devils, Neolithic imbeciles […]
Largo Winch Vol 7: Golden Gate
By Francq and Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-069-6 A slight change of pace for this Largo tale, and one that brings us to another arm of the W Group. This one involves a TV production company, a TV network, and some brazen tax avoidance, and, bizarrely, Largo's friend Simon who has somehow landed the […]
