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Hive, The

The second volume in Charles Burns’ trilogy of teenage heart-break, comics and a vivid, post-apocalyptic, Tintin-inspired nightmare

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Drawn Together

The lives of Robert and Aline Crumb are laid bare, exposed in graphic detail, in this autobiography of an unconventional relationship

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Magic Flute, The

P. Craig Russell’s opera without music: a graphic adaptation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute

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Are You My Mother?

Alison Bechdel moves from her father to her mother in this sort-of sequel to her autobiographical novel Fun Home

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Batman Versus Bane

Familiarise yourself with the origin of Bane in preparation for The Dark Knight Rises

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Superior

Mark Millar and Leinel Yu transform a 12-year-old boy with multiple sclerosis into the most powerful man on earth

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Adamtine

Hannah Berry’s creeping horror is set on a train stuck between stations. Not to be read by late night commuters

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Supergod

Warren Ellis extrapolates what superheroes might be like if they were created and controlled by the world’s richest and most powerful countries