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Wednesday, June 30, 2004Latest review - Smallville
Read Grovel's latest graphic novel review - Smallville by Clint Carpenter, Michael Green, Mark Verheiden, Oclair Albert, Adam DeKraker, Tom Derenick, Renato Guedes, John Paul Leon, Roy Allan Martinez, Mark Morales, Trish Mulvihill, Kilian Plunkett and Norm Rapmund.
 Sunday, June 27, 2004Latest review - The Changers Book 2: Our Obligation to the Future
Read Grovel's latest graphic novel review - The Changers Book 2: Our Obligation to the Future by Ezra Claytan Daniels.
 Monday, June 21, 2004Latest review - Star Wars: Clone Wars Volume 2
Read Grovel's latest graphic novel review - Star Wars: Clone Wars Volume 2 (Victories and Sacrifices) by Haden Blackman, John Ostrander, Brian Ching, Jan Duursema, Tomas Giorello, Curtis Arnold, Dan Parsons and Joe Weems.
 Saturday, June 19, 2004Last Transmet from Titan
Titan Books is publishing the last volume of Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson and Rodney Ramos's Transmetropolitan in the UK. Due out in a week or so, One More Time collects issues 55 to 60 of the monthly comic. The book is already available in the US from DC Comics. Click the relevant link to order from Amazon (UK/US).
 Thursday, June 17, 2004Latest review - Orbiter
Read Grovel's latest graphic novel review - Orbiter by Warren Ellis, Colleen Doran and Dave Stewart.
 Tuesday, June 15, 2004Graphic Classics - Robert Louis Stevenson
The ninth volume in the Graphic Classics series examines the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, best known for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - characters recently re-popularised in Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The book includes an adaptation of the tale as a comic, along with other Stevenson stories including The Bottle Imp and The Suicide Club. Head for Graphic Classics for more information or order from Amazon (US/UK).
 Monday, June 14, 2004Latest review - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Bad Rap
Read Grovel's latest graphic novel review - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Bad Rap by Max Allan Collins, Gabriel Rodriguez and Ashley Wood.
 Friday, June 11, 2004Aliens vs. Predator - new graphic novel
The hype surrounding the upcoming film has spawned an Aliens vs. Predator graphic novel - Thrill of the Hunt - due from Dark Horse on 11 August. Dark Horse promises it won't be a direct reworking of the movie though.
"Our story takes place a few hundred years in the future," comments writer Mike Kennedy, "as opposed to the contemporary setting of the film. Both stories will support and complement each other without giving each other's secrets away." Click here for the full press release.  Pre-order from Amazon.com Thursday, June 10, 2004Out of this world
Warren Ellis at his sci-fi best is responsible Orbiter, a first contact story, with Colleen Doran providing the artwork. The space shuttle Venture returns to Earth, 10 years after it went missing, with only an alien refit and an insane pilot to help piece together what happened. Out in the UK later this month from Titan Books.
 Order from Amazon: UK/US GCPD
Despite taking place in Batman's home stomping ground of Gotham City, and as a result having to include superheroes to some extent, the real star of Ed Brubaker's Gotham Central: In the Line of Duty is Gotham's much maligned Police Department. With or without Batman, these front-line officers are there to keep the streets free of crime in this collection of the first five issues of the monthly comic series, now out in the UK from Titan Books.
 Order from Amazon: UK/US Superman, Batman and the Justice League
DC Comics' most famous superheroes are getting an outing in the UK courtesy of Titan Books. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (UK/US) sees the duo battling against enemies and friends as President Lex Luthor accuses Superman of crimes against humanity, while JLA: Rules of Engagment (UK/US) sees DC's heroes reunited to fight an extra-terrestrial nightmare.
  More Transformers
Titan Books continues its reprinting of all things Transformers with Transformers: Treason, collecting issues 31-32 and 35-37 of the original US comic into one volume, due out on the 25 June.
 Pre-order from Amazon: UK/US Wednesday, June 09, 2004Comics Creators on Spider-Man
Thanks to the recent film and its upcoming sequel, Marvel's Spider-Man remains one of the most successful comics franchises of the moment. If you're at all interested in Spidey or the comics industry as a whole, Tom DeFalco, himself a writer of the character, has been behind the scenes to interview a host of the artists and writers who've helped to shape the character over the years. Starting with Stan Lee and working right through to Brian Michael Bendis, no self-respecting Spidey-fan should be without Comics Creators on Spider-Man. Due out on 8 July, click on the links below the image to pre-order.
 Order from Amazon: UK/US Something for the kids
Titan Books has a couple of titles out that could help encourage your children into graphic novels. Scooby-Doo and the Creepy Cruise is a collection of short stories featuring the canine star of TV and film, while the Big Bratty Book of Bart Simpson (click here for the US version) is a similar affair featuring the yellow-hued denizens of Springfield.
  Tuesday, June 08, 2004Latest review - Tell Me SomethingMonday, June 07, 2004In the Shadow of No Towers
It looks like Art Spiegelman is going to steal the limelight from all other graphic novel releases in September, with his personal account of the destruction of the World Trade Center. Spiegelman, who was in his native New York at the time, has spent the last couple of years working on this - his first major comic project since Maus. To be released on the 7th September, nearly three years to the day that the towers fell, expect great things from this highly anticipated book from one of comics' most respected auteurs.
 Order from: Amazon.com/Amazon.co.uk Latest review - Lone Wolf and Cub 7: Cloud Dragon, Wind Tiger
Read Grovel's latest graphic novel review - Lone Wolf and Cub 7: Cloud Dragon, Wind Tiger by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima.
 Thursday, June 03, 2004The Washington Post on Will Eisner
The Washington Post has published a lengthy feature on the graphic novelist Will Eisner (registration required).
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