Phantom Lady #1 review

Years ago, in Metropolis’ Suicide Slum, crusading reporter Harry Knight and his wife were executed by a mob boss. Today their daughter Jennifer fights crime as the superheroine Phantom Lady, armed with a black light ray which can cause dense fog, manifest hard light objects and extend to form a ‘shadow slide’. Flash back six […]

National Comics #1: Looker review

When you don’t show up on film, and burst into flames in sunlight, fashion model isn’t the easiest career. So mannequin turned vampire Emily Briggs tells the world she’s been struck down by a form of Lupus and swaps the catwalk for a talent agency named Looker. She rarely appears in the daytime, but at night? That’s another […]

Justice League International Annual #1 review

JLI members Batwing, Godiva and Guy Gardner save hostages in Africa, but back in Washington DC, team leader Booster Gold isn’t entirely happy with how the mission went. He’s hoping rookie members Blue Beetle and the Olympian will usher in a new era of glory. We learn why each has signed up before all heck […]

Justice League #12 review

The Villain’s Journey ends as the Justice League takes down David Graves. Green Lantern is the only hero not fooled for a second by the demons pretending to be the ghosts of their loved ones, and he leads an attack on the bad guy. The other MVP here is League liaison Steve Trevor, far from […]

Educating Kara – Bring on Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 9th Grade

Kara Zor-El enjoyed one of her best runs in comics in 2009’s all-ages title Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade. Landry Q Walker and Eric Jones reinvented the Girl of Steel for today, as a spunky youngster dealing with all the typical school problems – fadeaway super-powers, evil best friends, that sort of thing. […]

Avenging Spider-Man #11 review

Peter Parker and his Aunt May meet at the gravestone of their beloved Ben on the anniversary of his killing. Husband, uncle, inspiration – the immediate pain of his passing is gone, but the sorrow lives on. Yet the sorrow stems from the good memories of a man who helped his wife and nephew find […]

I, Vampire #12 review

Just look at Clayton Crain’s cover – Midnighter, Apollo and Jack Hawksmoor attack as vampire lord Andrew Bennett readies to bite on-off lover Mary, Queen of Blood. Horror meets sci-fi superheroics in a beautiful, intriguing design, superbly rendered, and topped by a lovelymagenta logo. Well, you can judge this book by that cover, because here […]

Batman Incorporated #3 review

Batman revives his underworld alter ego, hustler Matches Malone, to pump Gotham lowlives for information on the Leviathan organisation that serves Talia al-Ghul. Along the way he flirts with chanteuse Lumina Lux, and her need for a knight in shining armour lands Matches in big trouble. Damian, meanwhile, kicks against Batman’s grounding of Robin by […]

Amazing Spider-Man #692 review

I’ve been away from Amazing Spider-Man for a few months – too many extended storylines, new costumes, the $3.99 price point … but I do like an anniversary issue, and this one marks 50 years since Amazing Fantasy #15 saw Peter Parker gain his powers. I like the main figure of Spidey on Humberto Ramos’s […]

Supergirl #12 review

Supergirl finally reaches out to Superman to learn what he knows of Krypton’s fate and it turns out that he’s learned one or two interesting things. First, that the comatose Kara orbited Earth’s sun for quite awhile prior to landing on Earth, explaining why she was so powerful on emerging from the pod that brought […]