By Derib & Job Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183185 Yakari is a great series for younger readers that explores the interior of American through the experiences of a Native American boy and his tribe. The tribe themselves live a harmonious life with nature around them, but sometimes that balance is distorted and Yakari seeks to understand […]
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Lucky Luke Vol 53: Nitroglycerin
By Morris & Lo Hartog Van Banda Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849182546 In Nitroglycerin Lucky Luke has trouble coming from all directions as two competing railroad companies find themselves at loggerheads. To gain an advantage one opts for an underhand game of espionage and violence to thwart the other. To make matters worse, Luke is charged […]
Evil Emperor Penguin Strikes Back
By Laura Ellen Anderson Publisher: David Fickling Books ISBN: 9781910989876 There’s an image, on the back cover of this second collection, that brilliantly sums up this book. It’s a unicorn (called Keith) with a rainbow arcing out of his bum, with a cute abominable snowman upon his back gleefully shouting “TO THE LAIR OF EVIL!”. […]
Spirou & Fantasio Vol 11: The Wrong Head
By Franquin Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183130 The latest Spirou and Fantasio adventure takes a leap back to an earlier Franquin exploit where something rum is going on at Fantasio’s house. He’s suffered a break-in but the only thing that appears to have been taken are some simple passport photos. To perk him up Spirou suggests […]
Spirou & Fantasio Vol 10: Virus
By Tome & Janry Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849182973 Hot on the trail of a story about mysterious goings-on at an Antarctic research centre, Fantasio gets through a security cordon at the docks to investigate an impounded cargo ship that has travelled directly from there. The reason for the cordon is down to the ship being […]
Tree Mail
By Brian Smith & Mike Raicht Publisher: Dark Horse ISBN: 9781506700960 Here’s a quirky one. Rudy is a frog living on Popomoko Island. The frogs all join the Croaker Battalion, but Rudy has always been fascinated by the Air Delivery Corps, deliverers of envelopes and parcels to the island’s residents. The fact the Flight Corps […]