"In the conversation about young superheroes, John Allison should be rightup in there with the very best writers and artists that comics has to offer. Ithink I've recommended every volume of Bad Machinery as part of 'Best ComicsEver' thus far, but there's a dashed good reason - it's a blinding good comic.Six schoolchildren somehow fall into parts of a mystery in each volume,bickerin' and banterin' it fierce before eventually somehow winding things uptogether and solving the problem - which sometimes turns out to have been'ghosts'. In volume 4, we get to see a new boy come to school, who seems a bitlonely, a bit weird, but who one day becomes everybody's best friend. Only oneof Allison's hexad see through this veil: Shauna, the one with the mostcommon-sense and conscience in her head. But really, the mysteries in BadMachinery take a firm second place to the more interesting part of any HardyBoys or Nancy Drew-style story: the characters. These are such fun, recognisablecharacters, who feel like kids, act like kids, make mistakes like kids and thensolve supernatural mysteries. Er... like kids. Give his site a look, and see howquickly the whole thing wins you over." - Comics Alliance