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Neptune Episode 2

By Leo Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781800441002 There’s no hanging around with this one as Leo throws us straight into the mysterious alien vessel alongside Kim and Marie. Confronted immediately by a swarm of robots acting like aggressive antibodies, their own defensive technologies are swiftly thinned. By the time they reach the central section the two […]

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Blab! Volume 1

By Various Publisher: Dark Horse ISBN: 9781506735245 Well, what a mixed bag this is. It may be an anthology title, and that, by definition can incorporate many things, but this, unfortunately, feels like a lot of filler. I’ll start with the good bits. Noah Van Scriver gets two bites at the cherry here offering a […]

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Neptune: Episode 1

By Leo Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781800440913 Well, this was an unexpected treat. There I was thinking we had received all we were going to get from the Worlds of Aldebaran books. And then along comes this. An alien craft has approached Earth, but, mysteriously, it contains the remains of human occupants. Stranger still, it appears […]

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Once Upon A World: A Bedtime Book Of Bible Stories

By Robert Duncan Publisher: Lion Children’s Books ISBN: 9780745979939 This book is from CCGB member and Goliath of the pen, Robert Duncan.  Many years ago, way back in 1976, he wrote and illustrated a book retelling tales from the Bible. It did rather well and, together with a 1987 reprint, sold over 80,000 copies. Now […]

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Trent Vol 8: Little Trent

By Rodolphe & Leo Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978189183987 There has been an inexplicable charm running throughout all of this series that stands it apart from other comic tales. Perhaps it is down to its pacing, or maybe the maturity of the subject matter, or it could be the melancholy undercurrent of a man in a […]

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