Graphic novel news

If you live in the UK there's a plethora of new books just arriving on the shelves via Titan Books. Highlights include Ghost in the Shell via Dark Horse, the beginning of Andy Diggle's run on Swamp Thing, the 15th anniversary hardback edition of Grant Morrison and Dave McKean's Batman: Arkham Asylum, the comic adaptation of the Constantine movie, and Darwyn Cooke's re-imagining of the Silver Age DC Superheroes in The New Frontier.

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Read Grovel's latest graphic novel review - Superman: Birthright by Mark Waid, Leinil Francis Yu and Gerry Alanguilan.

Neil Gaiman has announced that the Radio 3 adaptation of his graphic novel, The Comical Tragedy or Tragical Comedy of Mr Punch, will be broadcast on Thursday March 3rd at 10pm (GMT). Radio 3 is available both over the airwaves (if you live in the UK) and via the internet (if you don't). Even better, if you miss it the broadcast, the programme should be available on The Wire's website for the rest of the month.

Read Grovel's latest graphic novel review - In My Darkest Hour by Wilfred Santiago.

If you fancy a bit more romance in your comics, try A Strange Day from Origin Comics. Written by Damon Hurd and drawn by Tatiana Gill, the graphic novella follows two teenagers who meet while skipping school in order to buy a Cure album, and end up spending the rest of the day together.

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Comic Book Resources has a nice collection of images from the forthcoming film Constantine, based on the John Constantine character from the Hellblazer series, originally created by Alan Moore in Swamp Thing.

Titan Books has published the fourth volume in the reprinted series of classic Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future stories from British sci-fi comic Eagle. In Marooned on Mercury, Dare and his space-faring colleagues crash land on Mercury and find themselves up against its indigenous rocky population, as well as usual Dare adversary Mekon. If you're new to Dan Dare you might want to check out our review of the first volume - Voyage to Venus Part 1.

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Read Grovel's latest graphic novel review - Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best III.

Re-issued yesterday by Pantheon, Posy Simmonds's Gemma Bovery takes our coveted book of the month slot.