These books are the cream of the crop - the absolute best in class graphic novels that no serious collector should be without. We liked them so much, we gave them our prestigious maximum overall award of five stars. Graphic novels just don’t get any better than this.
If you thought from the first volume of Scalped that the series was going to be about the book’s lead character Bad Horse, you’ll be surprised by this second volume. But then surprises are part of the joy of this superior ongoing story of life in a Native American reservation. Bad Horse certainly appears but [...]
It’s easy to dismiss Star Wars as a sci-fi fairy tale for kids. However, one of the wonderful things about the extended Star Wars universe is that there’s truly something for everyone. While the films were always intended for a family audience, there are elements outside the movies that have taken the spirit of the [...]
Maus is one of the most famous of recent graphic novels. Winner of the prestigious Pulitzer prize for literature, it’s the harrowing true story of a Jewish holocaust survivor, retold to his son decades later.
The story has two main threads. The first is the true story of Holocaust survivor Vladek Spiegelman’s experiences as a young [...]
UPDATE: Now available in paperback in the US
We know that mice are at the bottom of the food chain but how do they survive? Well, according to David Petersen’s medieval fantasy, they’ve developed a sophisticated organisation of villages and towns, with well-known and well-defended paths between them. The towns are hidden and secret, and to [...]
If there’s one thing that we don’t like about Jason’s body of work, it’s that there simply isn’t enough of it, and it doesn’t last long enough. The Last Musketeer is a case in point - it’s a truly wonderful story, perhaps Jason’s finest to date, but you’ll have read it in half an hour.
Jason [...]
Most of us have done things in our past that we regret. But Moses Stone, a bounty hunter turned sheriff, appears to have rather more skeletons in his closet than most. When an almost mythical bounty hunter called El Diablo stalks into his town and murders a group of men apparently guilty of little more [...]
The third volume in Gilbert Hernandez’s Love and Rockets series is nothing short of a triumph of graphic storytelling. The bulk of the book is taken up with a story called Poison River, which tracks some of the defining moments of Luba’s life: the foundation of her relationship with her cousin Ofelia and her stormy [...]
It could probably be argued that the choice of title for this enormous graphic novel was asking for trouble - the project ended up taking Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell 10 years to see it through to fruition. However, it’s actually a reference to one of the letters the Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper [...]
If you’ve made it this far through Ennis and Dillon’s epic nine-volume Preacher series, we’re sure you don’t need us to persuade you to purchase this final volume. Featuring the last eight issues of the monthly comic, this book contains Jesse’s showdown with everyone - Cassidy, the Saint of Killers, Herr Starr and God himself.
Naturally [...]
If ever there was a good argument for creating comics as finite series, rather than the never-ending cycle of many superhero titles, Preacher is it. In this penultimate volume Ennis ties up loose ends, leaving only Custer’s showdown with Cassidy, Starr and God left to cover in the final chapter.
Regular readers will be perfectly aware [...]
