By Marty Mulrooney
Following the success of last year’s 2009 AMO awards, it only seemed fair to make them an annual tradition. This year, things are a little different: we’ve expanded our award categories to encompass a wider range of great products from the past year. So, without further ado, here are AMO’s top picks of the best films, games, books, graphic novels and music CD’s of 2010!
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By Marty Mulrooney
I Don’t Want To Kill You by Dan Wells is the third and final book in the John Cleaver trilogy. Protagonist John Cleaver finally has Mr Monster under control. Taking place a short time after the events of the previous book, John has become obsessed with hunting down an elusive female demon known only as Nobody and will stop at nothing to kill her. The scariest 16-year-old sociopathic mortician in modern literature is back and this time, he means business.
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By Marty Mulrooney
Floodland is a children’s fantasy novel published by Orion Children’s Books in 2000. The debut novel of Marcus Sedgwick, it won the Branford Boase Award in 2001 for being an outstanding first published novel. Having recently reviewed Sedwick’s latest book White Crow, I decided it would be interesting to start at the beginning and see how Floodland holds up ten years later.
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By Marty Mulrooney
John Hicklenton was a cult British comics artist best known for his work on 2000 AD and Judge Dredd. He recently died aged 42 after suffering from Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis for 10 years. An award-winning film documenting his art and life entitled Here’s Johnny was shown on More4 in 2008. 100 Months is Hicklenton’s last complete work, which he worked on right up until his death at Dignitas in Zurich in March 2010.
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Martin Mulrooney
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