Review: To End All Wars: The graphic anthology of the First World War

This collection of 20+ stories about the first world war leans more towards the melancholic, the satirical, the weird and even the accusatory rather than the heroic.

The quality of the storytelling and artworks varies enormously. Where one story might be confusingly told without enough context and using art where it's not always possible to easily distinguish between the characters - another will be perfectly judged on all counts.

Overall, despite its faults, this is a worthwhile collection because of variety of stories it attempts to tell. There are stories of heroic elephants, of cats bringing peace, of the other side, of media barons, of disease, of pioneering women, of the colonial experience and welsh poets.

Verdict: Absorbing and moving.