Outsiders #7 review

Years ago, Elijah Snow, The Drummer, Ambrose Chase and Jakita Wagner discuss Planetary business. They’re succeeding in keeping the world strange, and safe. Elijah feels so on top of things that he’s not only ready to retire and pass the Fourth Man role to Jacinta, he’s planning to reveal the secrets of reality to the […]

The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries #5 review

When Batman summons Mystery Incorporated to a spooky old house they’ve been to previously, the gang are surprised to find he’s brought a friend along. The Caped Crusader is in a good mood, tickling Scooby-Doo and complimenting Fred’s driving… The young detectives, though, are a tad wary, having encountered scientist Kirk Langstrom in his Man-Bat […]

Shazam #11 review

It’s a big day for the Shazam gang as a social worker calls to assess the suitability of the foster kids and the Vasquezes to be a legal family. Well, all the kids except Mary who, having recently turned 18, is no longer in the care system. Not that this stops her from throwing herself […]

Absolute Power 2024 FCBD Special Edition #1 review

D-list supervillain Clock King – so rubbish he was in Justice League Antarctica – are inducting an even more obscure player into a government programme, watched by bad Batman android Failsafe. Haywire is informed that he’s now working for Amanda Waller – who has managed to buy up all the supervillain prisons – and helping […]

DC’s Spring Breakout! #1 review

Filling the desert that is the fifth week, here’s a 90pp anthology starring the usual suspects. Such as Harley Quinn who, remarkably, wasn’t in a recent edition. Here she breaks King Shark out of Belle Reve prison for some birthday fun, only to get caught up in shenanigans across the DC Universe. It’s typical Harley […]

Superman: House of Brainiac #1 review

Back in the Nineties Triangle Era of weekly Superman comics, an event storyline would most likely get a tie-in comic. Team Superman, Supergirl and Team Luthor, that kind of thing. So it seems appropriate that the latest big Superman story, which conspicuously calls back to the Triangle days, gets a bumper issue with three short […]

The Flash #8 review

There are a lot of superheroes in this issue, as Flash Barry Allen leads the young Flashes in a race across the world to tackle multiple incursions of extradimensional menaces. But my big hero is his wife, Iris Allen. Yes, it’s Amanda Waller, ubiquitous in current DC books, and equally annoying in every one. Here […]

Green Arrow #11 review

Oh dear, this isn’t a very successful issue. Well, unless unconvincing threats and dizzyingly dull exposition is your thing. If you’ve come in late, the past ten issues have seen, first, Oliver Queen bouncing around time as mysterious forces tried to keep him from his loved ones. It turned out that Suicide Squad showrunner turned […]

Nightwing #113 review/Nightwing #300 review

Yes, it’s the 300th issue of a comic book called Nightwing…I’m taking DC’s word for it, as comic book maths rarely makes sense. There’s immediately something to celebrate with Bruno Redondo’s tremendous cover image, which I believe is a nod to a well-known artist who did flick-strip style work. I read something on Twitter, looked […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #26 review

Magical imps Mr Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite felt impelled to flee to Earth after a sinister figure, powerful even by their reality-altering standards, killed off a bunch of Justice League fans. They’ve implored Superman, Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder to get ready because ‘something’s coming’. The heroes aren’t impressed as Bat-Mite bids to get everyone […]