Titans #21 review

Well this is annoying. After a run that never really found its feet – to be polite – Titans gets good just as the book is effectively being cancelled. With Starfire, Wonder Girl, Batman and Cyborg heading for the JLA, Raven and Beast Boy back with the Teen Titans and Flash sidelining himself after the […]

Blackest Night: The Power of Shazam #48 review

With one magic word . . . meh. Billy Batson, sister Mary and pal Freddy Freeman shared The Power of Shazam! for almost 50 issues in the 1990s in a thoroughly entertaining, thoughtful superhero comic book. The writer and cover artist was Jerry Ordway, currently back doing some great work for DC, so the prospect […]

Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #2 review

Having come back from the dead, Wonder Woman is susceptible to the will of demon guy Nekron, so at the close of Blackest Night #5 she became a Black Lantern. This issue takes place immediately after that, with possessed Diana engaged in a vicious, bloody fight with Atlantean queen Mera. Along the way she kills […]

Doom Patrol #6 review

After two issues of Blackest Night, in which a dark figure wears the flesh of the dead, here’s an issue about a dark figure who wears the flesh of the dead . . . Negative Man. But that’s where the similarities between the founding Doom Patrol member and zombies-come-lately the Black Lanterns end. For Larry […]

Siege: Embedded #1 review

Nasty Norman Osborn and pals are off to invade Asgard; Volstagg is sad that he accidentally killed thousands of humans, but is more hungry than sad; journalists are pro and anti-Osborn . . . again; I paid $3.99 for 22 pages of pleasant but inessential story and art from Brian Reed, Chris Samnee and Matthew […]

Siege #1 review

And here it is, the four-part series we’re told will end the reign of Norman Osborn in the Marvel Universe. In an echo of the event which ignited the Initiative – superheroes being blamed for the destruction caused by super-villains – the Asgardian Volstagg is tricked into unleashing godly forces to fry a stadium full […]

Blackest Night: Weird Western Tales #71 review

The cover boasts that this comic features Jonah Hex, Scalphunter, Super-Chief, Bat Lash and Firehair and yes indeedy, all are in here. But only Hex gets any real play, with the others being simply heart-hungry Black Lanterns. I have to say, though, that even as an infernal creature Bat Lash is damned dapper. The protaganist […]

JSA All-Stars #2 review

Liberty Belle and Hourman take on Icicle and Tigress in Turkey as they search for antiques and a killer. That’s the bare bones but writer Jen Van Meter gives us far more as the JSA’s husband and wife team get their own strip. We gain an insight into Jesse Chambers’ childhood and learn that Rick […]

Blackest Night: Suicide Squad #67 review

The Blackest Night event is pretty much the expected bloated crossover, but so far as one-off tie-ins are concerned, raising comics from the dead is a splendid idea. So here’s Suicide Squad #67, for which we’ve been waiting since 1992. With the Squad’s most popular member, Deadshot, running with the Secret Six these days, it […]

The Dare Detectives 1.1 and 1.2 by Ben Caldwell review

Reformed bad girl Maria Dare, hulking farmboy Toby Taylor and cynical bunny Jojo are the hottest crimefighting team in Chinatown. In these two fat digests they’ve lost their detective license but remain determined to fight the good fight, rescuing a crack team of chefs from the bewitching Madame Bleu and her gang – hardboiled pandas […]