The Friday Review: Death: The High Cost Of Living
By Ben Wooller
With the SANDMAN franchise chugging ever onwards, and with writer Neil Gaiman back on the comic racks, Ninth Art looks back to the very first - and arguably best - SANDMAN spin-off.

The Friday Review: Pubo
By Nick Brownlow
Leland Purvis, the hugely innovative creator of VOX, edged towards the mainstream with his tale of a renegade genetically engineered man running amok among the talking animals of the forest. But not that mainstream. Ninth Art tracks down PUBO.

The Friday Review: American Splendor: The Life And Times Of Harvey Pekar
By Frank Smith
On the day the critically acclaimed movie goes on wider release in the United States, Ninth Art goes back to the source material for a Pekar primer, and discovers that ordinary life can be a complicated thing.

The Friday Review: Squadron Supreme
By Brent Keane
Classic hero analogues and world-changing supermen; they're familiar staples in today's comics, but Mark Gruenwald's maxiseries was one of the first of its kind. So how does it measure up in the eyes of the modern reader?

The Friday Review: Get Your War On
By Nick Brownlow
War. What is it good for? Well, it's good for a laugh, judging by David Rees's low-fi clip-art commentary on America's war on terror. Ninth Art is in the house for what may be the most seen webcomic in the world.

The Friday Review: The Interman
By Zack Smith
As the summer draws to a close, there's time to squeeze in just one more blockbuster, and this one's got it all; action, adventure, exotic locales, fisticuffs and swordplay. Ninth Art goes global with THE INTERMAN.

The Friday Review: Supreme: The Story Of The Year
By Brent Keane
The notion of Alan Moore working on a Rob Liefeld character may be too terrifying for some readers to contemplate - yet in SUPREME, the wary reader will discover that Moore found the perfect vehicle to resume his deconstruction of the superhero.

The Friday Review: Persepolis - The Story Of A Childhood
By Rob Cave
Most of us will never experience life under the heel of a truly fundamentalist regime. In Marjane Satrapi's astonishing memoir, she takes the reader just close enough to really appreciate that gift.

The Friday Review: Orbiter
By Craig McGill
Space remains a place of infinite mystery - and in ORBITER, one of those mysteries makes its way back to Earth. Ninth Art boldly goes where Warren Ellis and Colleen Doran have gone before.

The Friday Review: Mail Order Bride
By Zack Smith
The classic romantic tale is always supposed to end with a wedding. Here's a story that begins with one, but it's a long way from romantic. Ninth Art discovers a clash of cultures and a clash of expectations in Mark Kalesniko's MAIL ORDER BRIDE.

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