Carlo Collodi's tale of a big-nosed puppet originally ended not with a block of wood becoming a real boy, but with its hero dangling from a noose. French comics artist Winshluss leaves his robot child hanging beneath a giant lollipop on a hill for a good quarter of his largely dialogue-free adaptation, as regimes fall, fake prophets rise and a pizza delivery girl is saved from torture at the hands of seven dwarves. It's a grim, puerile and rather brilliant update, combining chaotic, inked panels and gorgeous full-colour paintwork to great effect. Pinocchio, designed as a killing machine, is plunged from crisis to crisis by a series of greedy men and women, his story interrupted by a tortured detective, a grieving couple and Jiminy the cockroach. They at first detract from the main narrative, but Winshluss pulls things together admirably. Under his real name of Vincent Paronnaud, Winshluss collaborated with Marjane Satrapi on the film Persepolis, but this first English edition of his graphic novel underlines his claims to be taken seriously in his own right.