Wonder Woman: Amazon. Hero. Icon review

So Wonder Woman has a new costume. Been there, done that, as this latest coffee table book dedicated to the Amazing Amazon proves. Robert Greenberger’s Wonder Woman: Amazon. Hero. Icon, among other things, shows how the costume has changed since its 1941 debut. Sometimes it’s even been tossed out altogether, during the Mod period, for […]

The Flash #3 review

I’m not at all keen on Francis Manapul’s cover image, which is irrelevant to the issue, murkily executed and saddled with rubbish copy. Inside, things are somewhat happier, as the Reverse-Rogues from the future return to arrest Barry Allen for a crime he hasn’t yet committed and Captain Boomerang finds that his bounce back from […]

Action Comics #890 review

Another year without Superman in Action Comics. Weep. Another Blackest Night tie-in. Wail. What, more Lex Luthor? Gnashing of teeth. Those would be the reservations. The five-star casino hotel would be the way Paul Cornell and Pete Woods execute the beginning of their Lex Luthor series. Having tasted Green Lantern-style power during recent cosmic shenanigans, […]

Wonder Woman #600 review

Wonder Woman gets a #600th issue and George Perez marks the big number rather cleverly on his marvellously cheery cover. It’s appropriate the book’s former writer artist has the cover assignment here, as this issue marks the end of the era he kicked off in 1987 and the beginning of a new one. Well, so […]