The New Champion of Shazam #1 review

It’s more than 70 years since Mary Marvel had her own comic book, and she’s looking fresh thanks to illustrator Evan ‘Doc’ Shaner. She also sounds fresh in Josie Campbell’s script, narrating her heroic journey to date. Current DC continuity has Mary Bromfield as one of seven foster kids, but here she goes out on […]

Dark Crisis #3 review

The latest version of the Justice League is dead and despair is everywhere. The heroes who might take up the League’s mantle are having a wallow. The heroes who want to take up the slack are being condemned by their self-appointed leader. That’s Black Adam speaking. He reckons the good guys need to show the […]

Superman: Space Age #1 review

It’s 1985 and Superman is preparing for the end. Something is happening and he’s not fighting, he’s saying his goodbyes. Flashback to 1963 and a young Clark Kent can’t wait to leave Smallville and make his mark on the world. Jonathan Kent tells his son about his time fighting in the Second World War – […]

Ant-Man #1 review

It’s 60 years since Hank Pym was ‘The Man in the Ant Hill’, star of a one-off suspense short in Tales to Astonish #27. Either reader response was great or someone at Marvel saw potential, but plainclothes boffin Hank Pym soon returned… as a superhero. It’s safe to say Hank has had his ups and […]

Detective Comics #1062 review

Evan Cagle’s moody cover, featuring a swanky new logo by Darran Robinson, is a declaration of intent. This new run of Detective Comics is going to be all about the melodrama – a play with music. The music arrives in the first scene, on the stage of an opera house in darkest Gotham. There’s an […]

Dark Crisis: Young Justice #2 review

Last issue Impulse, Superboy and Robin vanished from the Justice League’s memorial service. They appeared in what was apparently their past and soon began questioning its reality – someone seemed to be deliberately trying to keep them too busy to think. At the end of the issue, Wonder Girl Cassie Sandsmark appeared in classic YJ […]

Justice League vs the Legion of Super-Heroes #4 review

So here were are, two thirds the way through a series titled Justice League vs the Legion of Super-Heroes and the only sense in which the teams are at odds is that they seem to be vying for the Most Useless trophy. The League wins. But only just. Batman is the only Leaguer actively confronting […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #5 review

Let’s start with a round of applause for the cover. It’s delightful, with smiling heroes, a dastardly villain, a dizzying view of Metropolis and a glowing Super-symbol – it’s a complicated composition, beautifully executed in full-colour by Dan Mora. The heroes aren’t smiling as we rejoin them in the latest episode of the ‘Devil Nezha’ […]

Dark Crisis: World Without a Justice League – Superman #1 review

Dark Crisis: World Without a Justice League – Superman. That’s a bit of a mouthful as titles go, but it does make clear what’s going on with the two stories in this Dark Crisis spin-off. Two? Yep, because as well as a main strip starting Superman and Superboy, there’s a back-up centring on Aquaman and […]

Superman: Son of Kal-El #13 review

There’s some very good news for Superman 2 Jon Kent this month. We’ll get there, but first, the lead-up. We open with Jon’s fella, Jay Nakamura, exposed as the madly masked master of The Truth, the alternative online news source. After Jay expresses a desire to get away from the unwanted attention Jon flies him […]