John Layman (W/L), Karl Mostert (A), Dee Cunniffe (C)

It looks like Layman has thrown himself into the wild possibilities that go with cross-temporal shenanigans, and the slick, Quitely-tinged artwork by emerging South African star Mostert seems a perfect fit for the irreverent romp. And with the ferocious Future Police on his tail, Sean has to somehow repair the damage he’s caused – which turns out to be harder than it sounds. This rollicking sci-fi action comedy from writer/letterer John Layman ( Chew, Eleanor and the Egret) and the art team of Karl Mostert and Dee Cunniffe tells the tale of Sean Bennett, who thinks it can’t do any harm to pop back in time and fix a few of the things he’d like to change about his life.Īs you’ll probably guess from the title of the book, when he gets back to the present day he finds that his efforts have been what you might call, at best, a partial success. But when you’re a lab technician working on a prototype time machine, the consequences could go a whole lot further than a bit of illicit photocopying and a few biros in your back pocket… Most jobs dangle some sort of temptation in front of you. We’re going to predict this here and now… this is doubtless going to be one of 2020’s most acclaimed books and if you’re in London on Friday February 7th you really need to get down to Gosh! Comics for the signing and launch party. It’s a premise we’ve seen before in comics in the pages of Sandman and Kingdom of the Wicked but, in this instance. Exploring the Juvenilia of the Bronte siblings Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne, it’s an exploration of the fictional world the children imagined between them and asks what happens to it when its creators grow up? This week sees her latest and eagerly anticipated graphic novel Glass Town debut via Jonathan Cape. Can it really be six years since Isabel Greenberg won the Breakout Talent category in our 2013 Broken Frontier Awards? Whether it’s been for her original graphic novels like The Encyclopedia of Early Earth and The One Hundred Nights of Hero, her micropublished comics including Dreadful Wind and Rain and Tall Tales and Outrageous Adventures, or her books for younger readers like Athena: The Story of a Goddess, her collaboration with sister Imogen, Greenberg’s work has been a constant favourite here at BF in the intervening years.

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