Friday, 7 August 2026
Cinebook: Harry Dickson 3 -The Red-Eyed Vampire
Authors: Luana Vergari and Doug Headline, from a story by
Jean Ray; illustrated by Onofrio Catacchio
Age: 12 years and up
Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Number of pages: 56 colour pages
£10.99 inc. VAT
ISBN: 9781800441880
Please consider buying direct from the publisher –it helps them survive!
https://www.cinebook.co.uk/harry-dickson-eyed-vampire-p-4602.html?osCsid=u2fncsc7lqqukd59gc321v1v06
Harry Dickson’s skills were instrumental in getting blood-thirsty killer ‘the Red-Eyed Vampire’ arrested. The detective is invited to the small German town where the murderer was from to witness his execution. However, he cannot help but wonder whether somebody else was controlling the ‘Vampire’ before abandoning him.
When an attempt is made to break into the condemned man’s cell the night before his death, Dickson knows that the investigation is not over yet …
Yes, it is the classic and very delightful “Detective solves the case and catches the murderer but…” plot. Will Dickson find out what was going on and whether someone or…some thing was behind Ebenezer Krank controlling things? You will need to buy this book to find out and I will admit I spotted Sherlock Holmes in panel 1 page 5….IT WAS HIM!!!
Onofrio’s art is the sexiest four colour eye candy I have seen in a long time. The characters the scenes all work so well that, yes, I did go through it twice (liar –it was three times). And.. colour wise the work of Ooshima makes things even more incredible looking –I’m sure I’ve mentioned Ooshima’s work in a previous review?
Add the story into the mix (which would not have existed without the script based on an original story by Jean Ray) and you have everything you need for a quiet night in reliving the era when you were no real detective unless you had a trench-coat, an assistant, smoked a pipe and had a concealed weapon (rightly it should be a Webley revolver but then again Americans insist that it should be a “snub-nosed 38” –so common).
Love it. I think I am inspired to watch Rathbone and Bruce’s Sherlock Holmes and The Scarlet Claw later!
Charcoal..... Nothing to do with barbecques
22 pages
Black and White
£8.00
Labbat is back!
Charcoal is a long awaited new book written and illustrated by the mystery comic pro people are guessing about but never guess right. Then again if you held up a photo of him people would still look blankly and ask "Is it...."Charcoal is a classic drawing medium made from carbon It lets artists create deep blacks, soft shades, and bold lines. It is great for quick sketches, portraits, and big landscape drawings. Why am I telling you this? To show of that I did art at some point in my life and I wanted to0 show off dammit!
"Footie is Life"
"Corporal Religion"
"Angel's Share"
and more. ("more" is NOT a clue....?) For lovers of street level Independent comics and zines this one is for you!
pssst! his real name was mentioned in a post recently about favourite artists
pssst! his real name was mentioned in a post recently about favourite artists
We Are All Trump....it's satire, baby!
Ben R Dilworth
21pp
A4
Black and white (printers could not get a bright enough orange so,,,)
£10.00 UK (non UK countries prices are on the store front)
He is the GREATEST President the United States has ever known!
He has made the United States Truly respected around the world!
He has created world peace!
The most beautiful women in the world WANT him!
He makes $2234,992,000per minute!
He lives in a golden palace that was formerly bland and white.
He is President Trump......
...uh, he's currently sleeping face down in a plate of classic American bacon and eggs.
Yes, Black Tower does do satirical cartoon stuff. Hey, if I sell a book anywhere I still have to pay US taxes. So I have a "voice". Well, in case of any legal ramifications or potential drone strikes on the old Tower I have to give full credit to Ben Dilworth. He dunnit I am just an innocent publisher.
Prepare for what some have called "***** hilarious!" (I am not talking about my or anyone else's hairline -we are talking....TRUMP! And you know....we are all Trump. Except me. Yay. Go me!
Thursday, 6 August 2026
Cinebook; The Bank 3 - The Baron's Accounts
Authors: by Pierre Boisserie and Philippe Guillaume; Illustrated by Julien Maffre
Age: 15 years and up
Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Number of pages: 56 colour pages
£10.99
ISBN: 9781800441903
https://www.cinebook.co.uk/bank-barons-accounts-p-4606.html
REMEMBER: buying from the publisher means they get sales money to carry on publishing.
1857. It has been five years since Baron Haussmann began his colossal endeavour: remodelling Paris into a modern capital. The city is at the centre of such a storm of real estate speculation that not every means employed to ensure the success of an investment stays within the confines of the law.
In the middle of this financial free-for-all, a new generation of Saint-Huberts will clash, the children of Charlotte and those of Christian, two branches seemingly unable to escape the hatred the sister and the brother have for each other.
Volume 2 was out last December (2025) which is why I could not remember what was going on. I checked the stats to find when volume 2 came out and realised that people are not just checking Cinebook title reviews for 2025 but going back as far as 2020. In quite high numbers, too. Anyway, uh, yeah. Oh tright. Review.
"I don't want to go. I don't want to be a stokebroker like father" Hey, kid: "I don't want to go to school cuz they are all morons" never got someone out of school so excuse me if I laugh out loud!
I tend to find wordy books boring but this one was fun as it is not just wordy! We have murders! We have sex! We have corruption! No Trumps in sight! ahem. Anyhow, the does-not-want-to-be-a-stockbroker -or "The rag doll"-has a few twists and turns to navigate until he finally takes the step that makes him a stock broker. Never saw that coming!
The story is interesting and has more to it than I tyhought it mightr. The art is good and the colour work by Delf is atmospheric. I think people tend to forget the colourists and just see the artist's name. Colourists do a great deal and can even cover up imperfections in art. So if you want a break from men and women in gaudy costumes, from horror or sci fi then The Bank ought to suit you.
I need to find volumes 1 and 2 and remember what happened!
Wednesday, 5 August 2026
Special Globe Guard 1
32pp
A4
Black and White
£10.00 UK -online store will list international prices
The Special Globe Guard (SGG) a world-wide network of super heroes and adventurers who can be called upon whenever an overwhelming threat -Global or local- rises. The UK section is headed by war veteran Captain Samson Tornado and apart from a few over boisterous members to contend with everything seems to be as quiet as it can be.
Out of the blue Spellcaster appears and warns of a hostile fascist take over of a parallel Earth. Not something the SGG would deal with but in this case it is claimed that the Dark Lord Kaos has resurrected two of Tornado's war time enemies and they are planning a massive attack on the SGGs Earth.
Determined to deal with his old enemies Tornado heads off for the war torn Earth with Spellcaster and a small team... but everything is not what it seems.
This volume contains a preview of Black Tower Super Heroes vol. 2 No. 2: The Ultimate Game!
Cinebook: Scotland Episode 1
Authors: LEO & Rodolphe; illustrated by Bertrand Marchal
Age: 15 years and up
Size: 18.4 x 25.7 cm
Number of pages: 48 colour pages
£7.99 incl VAT
ISBN: 9781800441897
Please buy direct from the publisher so every penny goes
back to them!
https://www.cinebook.co.uk/scotland-episode-p-4605.html?osCsid=u2eu9ao9vp2d3q73aogvq3h9s5
After her exhausting mission in Amazonia, Kathy Austin is off to Scotland on holiday. She intends to take possession of a house her great-aunt bequeathed her. Unfortunately, she finds the house ruined, burned down a few weeks earlier – and it also appears that the police find the circumstances of the old lady’s death a tad … strange.
While the locals blame the ghosts and goblins that haunt the moors, Kathy soon discovers signs that point to a very different explanation: ‘crop circles’ of ... alien origin?!
I have to admit that I was not looking forward to this. Not sure why but you get a book and you read it, right (I pint this out to all those You Tube comic vloggers who show a neatly mylar bagged comic and then ask their viewers "Is this any good? What's the story like?" I keep shouting "open the ***** book and read it moron!"). Anyway, I sat down and read it.
I was pleasantly surprised.
The story was a lot more like the old movies whjere someone inherits a castle/mansion and the l;ocal village is all talking about odd things going on...and odd things do seem to be going on. Being asked out to dinner by everyone including the village Bobby (police constable) is not that odd if you are young and attractive like Kathy but based on her previous adventures you do look at these things suspiciously!!
There is DEFINITELY a murder. If I remember the law correctly and things you must never do to people....yeah, that's murder (no spoilers!)
The scenes and art are as good as you would expect from Marchal and the colour work by Sebastien Bouet adds to the atmosphere and really layers the eye candy on. The story? Oh, come on -it's Leo and Rodolphe what are you expecting?
After Africa and the Amazon wee little Scotland shows it can be jkust as mysterious as anywhere!
Highly Recommended
Tuesday, 4 August 2026
The Return opf the Gods:Twilight of the Super Heroes and..The Green Sky
Paperback
A4
Black & White
331 Pages
Price: Reduced to £21.89
Prints in 3-5 business days
Earth’s heroes and crime-fighters are going about their daily tasks –fighting a giant robot controlled by a mad scientist’s brain, attackers both human and mystical -even alien high priests of some mysterious cult and their zombie followers and, of course, a ghost and a young genius lost in time.
Pretty mundane.
But psychics around the world have been sensing something. A "something" that sends feelings of sheer terror through their psyches.
There is a huge alien Mother-ship near the Moon. Undetected by deep-space radar and other instruments, only a few on Earth have sensed it and they cannot penetrate the hull but only feel psychic screams and....worse.
And then it begins: strange orange spheres isolate and chase some of Earth’s heroes who then vanish into thin air –are they dead? An attack by an old foe or foes -?
Black, impenetrable domes cover cities world-wide.
Then it becomes clear to those within the domes what is going on: Alien invasion of Earth!
A war between the Dark Old Gods and the pantheons that followed!
Warriors from Earth’s past having to battle each day and whether they die or not they are back the next day!
No one suspects the driving force behind the events. One single evil guiding events. Events that could cause destruction and chaos throughout the multiverse.
Assaulted on all fronts can Earth’s defenders succeed or will they fail...is this truly the end?
The Cross-Earths Caper: Part II of the Invasion Earth Trilogy
Paperback,
A4
Black & White
107 Pages
Price: £12.00
Prints in 3-5 business days
Following the events on Neo Olympus and the Boarman invasion of Earth, many heroes and crime-fighters have withdrawn from activity. Some are trying to recover from injuries while others are fighting the mental scars left by the events.
But things have to go on. As heroes from other parallels who helped during the recent events return home, members of the Special Globe Guard are shocked at the sudden appearance of Zom of the Zodiac. Never a sign of good things a-coming!
Very soon, a group of heroes mount a rescue mission and find that a quick rescue mission can turn sour equally quickly. As they overcome one challenge the the heroes become lost between parallel Earths and face new threats.
Sometimes one Earth just is not enough. The complete story published in issues 7-10 of Black Tower Adventure now in...one handy dandy book!
A4
B&W
124pp
£15.00
It all began in 1987 and the Black Tower Universe has seen alien attacks, heroes kidnapped to be put into the middle of a war of the gods.
Despite the deaths and losses the heroes -crime fighters, super powered and members of the magical union have come back but now unaware that alien races are escaping through the Sol system and that a mysterious space fleet is heading towards the inner planets, they find themselves trapped or distracted.
The Many Eyed One is finally coming.
The Multiversal Council has quarantined Earth and forbidden any to help.
The evil has spread and there is treachery striking at the very core of Earth's defenders
A4
B&W
126pp
£15.00
Following on from events in Green Skies V. 3 Part I the Clone Zone Boyz are increasing in number while those who created them, the Vampirons, continue to plot and await the arrival of their 'God' -The Many Eyed One.
The Druid finds that his physical and mental state are deteriorating and even the Rev. Merriwether cannot help him.
Shockingly, the Clone Zone Boyz claims someone close to Merriwether and this leads him to team up with two 'unsavoury' characters.
In space Krii and Tyn hrrn face a seemingly unstoppable enemy.
On The Moon the Selenites and representatives of other worlds meet and decide that Johnny Apollo, the Z-Man, is the only one who can lead the counter invasion fleet.
With the enemy striking Mars and then the Moon things look grim
A4
B&W
208pp
£16.00
The gathered Sol Defence fleet is prepared to make its final stand led by Johnny Apollo the Z Man. If it fails to halt the invaders then the doomsday weapon will be detonated and destroy the entire Sol System.
Meanwhile, unaware of the threat in space, Jack Flash, the Avenger and others prepare for a final show down with the Many Eyed One; a final confrontation they know they do not have the power to win.
Is this Humanity...the Earths...final day?
woven into The Green Skies is the story of the harbinger of destruction: the story of Varik Dann -The Man Who Walked Through a Door and Into Another World
Varik Dann is but one character as we follow the attempts of heroes and adventurers as well as the military as they try to confront the Clone Zone Boys with no idea of who or what is behind them. And in space the very existence of not just the Earth but the solar system rests on efforts to stop an alien invasion fleet and if it cannot be stopped them there will be no conquest: the entire solar system will be destroyed by a doomsday device.
Black Tower Super Heroes 2/2 -Thye Ultimnate Game
Story Terry Hooper-Scharf
Art Terry Hooper-Scharf, Thorroe Prey, P. Beard, Tomas Scharf
- Pages
- 188
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- A4 (8.27 x 11.69 in / 210 x 297 mm)
- £15.00 UK see online store for outside UK price
The mystical traveller of the realms, The Thinker, meets a stranger while travelling along the Path of Counter Actuality. But this stranger is a different type of traveller: he is Illuyanka and he has been charged with on sworn duty –to destroy specific Earths in the multiverse.
Finding that Illuyanka is partial to gambling the Thinker risks all by challenging him to a cosmic game pitting heroes against various challenges: they lose then their Earth dies. The Thinker has no doubt that with all of his knowledge he can win. But Illuyanka is not what he seems.A story that throws in as many super heroes and villains as you could ever want plus an Earths parallel crossing storyline that will have you wondering who the real bad guy is!
Black Tower Super Heroes 2/1 -WEREWOLVES
86pp
A4
Black and white
£10.00 UK
The Prof, investigator of the paranormal, encounters two werewolves in Castle Park...and Devilina who has a "sort of" message for him. Kotar, Sabuta, Lady Silana, Tarot and others deal with new werewolf activity and Dr Lycaon is granted access to the labs at the HQ of the explorer/adventurer group The Questors. Lycaon believes he is close to a serum that will cure the curse of lycanthropy but someone or something is trying to stop him. Meanwhile in space Freelancer delivers justice to the Central Galactic Council after its betrayal (see The Green Skies) and on Earth the equally treacherous Council of Light meets its fate. Will Lycaon succeed with his cure or does the increased werewolf activity even in the halls of one of the UKs most secret buildings indicate that the cure is too late?
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