Graphic Novels

Just beyond the final breath of our years, lies a field ... The field on the Edge of the Woods. To the north, The Great White Wall, a beacon of hope on a remorseless landscape, and to the south ... The Woods, the dark twisted closet of the world ... a place that never forgives, and never forgets.

Meet Antimony Carver- a precocious and preternaturally self-possessed young girl, studying at gloomy Gunnerkrigg Court – a very British boarding school, albeit one which includes robots, body-snatching demons, forest gods, and the odd mythical creature! Now follow Antimony through her orientation year at Gunnerkrigg Court: the people she meets, the strange things that happen, and the things she causes to happen as she and her new best friend, Kat, unravel the mysteries of the Court and deal with the everyday trials of growing up. The popular and multiple award-winning webcomic by British writer Tom Siddell is collected in print for the first time!

Science has become an outmoded concept, in its place magic is born as a power source in the world of Shannara where Elves, Gnomes, Trolls and Dwarves, even men have tried using it to bring order to that world. In Terry Brooks' tale The Sword of Shannara, Brona a druid was lured by a dark and evil power known as Ildatch wanting to overthrow the other races and make them his slaves, but the druid Allanon had other ideas for enlisting the help of Shea Ohmsford, of the Shannara
Elves to recover the great sword of truth and defeat the warlock lord.

Continuing from the last volume, Malus Darkblade this time is on a new quest to reclaim his soul and wreak vengeance on the demon Tz'arkan who put him in this awful predicament in the first place. This second helping sees Malus journey to the glass tower of the warlock Sithras Elgol, taking with him a band of men who battle, yet fall to their deaths at the sorcerer’s mercy, though Malus still stands alive and well, shouting obscenities at the one who stands in his way, Sithras. He knows only too well of Malus's ruthlessness and his quest for riches, but also he knows of his soul, lost and yet soon to be regained. To do so, he tells Malus to take the warp gem as it will reunite his soul to be one with his body again. Another thing he needs are the runes carved on Sithras's back, but he takes both things in a manner in keeping with his sinister personality.

The graphic novel, drawn with the use of a computer has the look of both natural and computer media to get the overall effect showing how slick it is even though there are parts that look painterly. The novel is easy reading whether or not the reader is clued up on the Warhammer world, and it will leave the reader waiting to get to the next volume.