The Friday Review: The Birthday Riots
By Alasdair Stuart
A stagnant political landscape provides the context for Nabiel Kanan's shifting portrayal of a middle class British family wrestling to match up to expectations, and a man confounded by his own drive to succeed.

The Friday Review: Flesh Colored Horror
By Rob Vollmar
To complement Rob Vollmar's recently launched series of essays on manga, Ninth Art presents a review of the collected early works of acclaimed and accomplished Japanese horror writer Junji Ito.

Movie Review Special: From Hell
By Hugh Hancock
In the week the movie FROM HELL comes out on Region 1 DVD, Hugh Hancock offers a few words of warning to fans of the book who might want to place this DVD alongside it on their shelves.

The Friday Review: Tomorrow Stories Volume One
By John Fellows
The imagination of Alan Moore. The creative minds of some of the industry's finest talents. Is this America's best anthology? Ninth Art checks out the tomorrow people.

The Friday Review: A Distant Soil: The Gathering
By Alasdair Stuart
Colleen Doran's science fiction saga A DISTANT SOIL is one of comics' most intelligent and engaging longform serials. Ninth Art looks back to where the story began.

The Friday Review: Berlin: City of Stones
By John Fellows
What are comics capable of? In the hands of a creator as accomplished as Jason Lutes, it seems comics can build entire cities, right from the tallest building to the smallest dream. Wilkommen bei Berlin.

The Friday Review: Kingdom Come
By John Connors
Ninth Art revisits the end of the universe; Alex Ross and Mark Waid's epic mid-90s miniseries that aimed to provide a capstone to the history of DC's superhero world.

The Friday Review: Ship of Stone
By Alasdair Stuart
Enki Bilal and Pierre Christin present an atmospheric tale of dread and discontent in the small coastal village of Trehoet. This isn't your average trip to the seaside.

The Friday Review: Finder: Sin-Eater
By Zack Smith
In the first two collections of Carla Speed McNeil's FINDER, a patchwork city forms the chaotic backdrop for one of the finest works of science fiction in recent years. Ninth Art takes a closer look.

The Friday Review: Grrl Scouts
By Steve Parker
Life's a riot for the GRRL SCOUTS on the mean streets of Freak City as their drug dealing brings them into conflict with corporate America and the sinister Brotherhood of the Cracker. Join Jim Mahfood's hip-hop anti-heroines as they fight for their right to party.

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