Green Lantern #0 review

So here’s the debut of DC’s latest Green Lantern, Simon Baz. We meet him on September 11, 2001, a young boy watching the Twin Towers atrocity on TV with his family. As the years pass, we see the climate of suspicion facing Arab Americans. And then it’s today, and Simon has stolen a van and […]

Green Arrow #0 review

Several years ago, nineteen-year-old Ollie Queen is working as a glorified office boy on his father’s oil rig, in the latest chance he’s been given by his magnate dad to prove he’s not a feckless pillock. Unfortunately, he is a feckless pillock, and in this zero month special celebrating one year of the New 52 […]

Action Comics #0 review

It’s already set five years in the past of the current DC Universe, but for zero month Action Comics goes just that little bit further back. To the week Clark Kent got a job at the Metropolis Daily Star while looking like a tramp. The week he moved into his first apartment. The week Superman […]

The Phantom Stranger #0 review

Each of DC’s zero month issues features a Who’s Who in the New 52! page, summing up what’s known about the characters in each book. So far I’ve found the World’s Finest and Earth 2 entries nice and straightforward. The Phantom Stranger’s, though, gets rather coy: ‘What little is known about the Phantom Stranger remains […]

World’s Finest #0 review

In the first issue of Earth 2 we saw how Supergirl and Robin were bumped from their own world to Earth 1, where they refashioned themselves into Power Girl and the Huntress. Here, as part of DC’s zero month, we see their earliest days as crimefighters, and how they met. I enjoyed this from beginning to end, […]

Earth 2 #0 review

DC’s New 52 initiative is one year old. More than four dozen new and revamped books came and since then, a few have gone and been replaced. The overall success of the line-wide relaunch (commercial, if not always creative) is celebrated this month with a slew of ‘zero issues’ – stories set before we joined […]

Preview review – Seventh Dimension of the Devil #1

Told by her Dad that she’s the last, best hope in a battle between God and the Devil, 11-year-old Julie freaks. Understandably. But running away from a prophecy isn’t a luxury she has, as the forces of evil come calling close to home. She’s forced to do some growing up and soon she’s taking on […]