Graphic novel news

Read Grovel's latest graphic novel review - The Sandman Presents: Thessaly - Witch for Hire by Bill Willingham and Shawn McManus.

If you can't get enough of graphic novels on paper, there's always the web. British artist Neil McTaggart is publishing his graphic novel, Refuge, in parts over the next few months, with a new section promised every week. Click on the image or link below to sample the first part of chapter 1, and keep up with updates via his blog.

Refuge

UK fans of Dark Horse's Star Wars: Clone Wars series can keep up with the happenings between Episodes II and III courtesy of Titan Books. The seventh volume in the series, When They Were Brothers is out now. Read Grovel's review here.

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If you've been waiting for Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons's The Originals to come out in paperback, your moment has come. Like a sci-fi version of Quadrophenia, Gibbons pushes the gang violence of the Mods and the Rockers into a futuristic world of hoverbikes and pleasure domes.

Click here to read our review of The Originals

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You can usually count on something a little bit different from the imagination of Grant Morrison and Vimanarama shouldn't disappoint. Teaming up with Philip Bond, an old favourite of ours from his Deadline days, Vimanarama awakens ancient evil under a corner shop in Bradford, coupling sci-fi high jinx with Bollywood romance and melodrama.

Look out for a full review, coming to Grovel very soon.


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If you're keeping up with the Y: The Last Man series better than we are, you'll want to know about volume six of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra continuing series, Girl on Girl. Two years have passed since the catastrophe that wiped out every male on the planet except Yorick and his monkey. Having crossed the USA in search of answers they finally get some, but then the source of their immunity disappears across the Pacific. What can they do but follow?

Read our review of the first volume: Y: The Last Man - Unmanned

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Titan Books has released its latest range of UK graphic novels reprinted from the DC Comics stable.

Top of the list comes The OMAC Project, the latest volume in the Infinite Crisis storyline, which examines how Batman's secret spy satellite falls into the hands of a cabal of super-villians lead by Lex Luther. Expect a full review here soon. Also featuring the Dark Knight is the highly acclaimed Batman: Under the Hood, which sees a new but somewhat less forgiving vigilante hit Gotham's streets.

Superman: In the Name of Gog and Superman: True Brit are both Superman yarns previously available in hardback but with very different feels to them. In the Name of Gog sees Superman simultaneously battling with his toughest adversaries yet, while Lois Lane gets all shirty about a reunion with childhood flame Lana Lang; while True Brit examines what might have happened if Superman's space ship had landed in England rather than Kansas, with part of the writing credit attributed to Monty Python's John Cleese. You'll find Grovel's review of the book here.

If you prefer DC's smaller hitters, Catwoman: When in Rome sees the feline femme fatale head over to Italy to work on a robbery, where she runs into a few old friends; while Teen Titans: The Future is Now, the fourth volume in this popular series, pits the young superheroes against their future selves.

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Read Grovel's latest graphic novel review - Buja's Diary.

Read Grovel's latest graphic novel review - Late Bloomer by C. Tyler.