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Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, The

An ambitious fictional biography of a comics artist from Singapore, which tracks the history of comics alongside the political history of the county

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Distant Worlds: Episode 2

The second book in the five-part Distant Worlds series sees Paul continuing to search for his father, though the journey becomes more difficult as he’s forced to separate from the safety of his scientific expedition

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Hobo Mom

Charles Forsman relinquishes control of illustration in this charming but heart-breaking story about an unconventionally fractured family

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Letter to Survivors

A post-apocalyptic wasteland separates families holed-up in nuclear bunkers, but luckily, the postal service remains, to read letters into the survivors’ ventilation shafts. A surreal, sci-fi satire from 1981, translated from its native French

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Judge Dredd: Cold Wars

Judge Dredd returns to the Sov Bloc to revisit some old haunting grounds, as Dredd classic The Apocalypse War echoes from the past

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IAN 2: Lessons of Darkness

The second instalment of IAN adds a little more darkness to the story, as it asks questions of whether its android protagonist is fit to operate with humans in dangerous situations

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Traces of the Great War

An anthology of short comics that personalise the impact of World War I, with stories about how it shaped the lives and landscapes of what was left behind

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Parallel Lives

Olivier Schrauwen heads off into the future, exploring what humanity (and his own ancestors) might be like in thousands of years time