Superman #21 review

In Metropolis, Hector Hammond, the most powerful psionic in the world, is at the centre of a tug of war. Helpess in an induced coma, S.T.A.R. Labs have him. The H.I.V.E. Queen wants him. A lab researcher who’s been taken over by H.I.V.E. begins infecting others and soon they’re making away with Hammond. Over in […]

The Flash #21 review

Here’s an encounter I’ve been waiting for since DC rebooted their comics universe, the first meeting between the Flash, Barry Allen, and Kid Flash, Bart Allen. It comes about because someone is killing people connected to the Speed Force and Barry wonders if the Teen Titan knows anything. Bart though, doesn’t feel like listening to […]

Age of Ultron Book 10 AI review

Reeling from the events of the Age of Ultron, Hank Pym looks back on his beginnings and re-embraces life as a costumed adventurer. And that’s it, really. This is a prelude to the upcoming Avengers AI series, in which Hank Pym leads a bunch of robotic types as they … well, I dunno. This comic […]

Batman/Superman #1 review

It’s several years ago and Metropolis-based Wayne Enterprises staff are being murdered. Hoping for a lead, young Daily Star reporter Clark Kent tracks down billionaire contemporary Bruce Wayne in Gotham. Suspicious of the stranger, Bruce refuses to discuss the matter, leaving Clark sitting in a gloomy park. Later, in Metropolis, Batman catches Catwoman acting strangely, […]

Supergirl #21 review

The image that opens this issue’s story, Be Careful What You Wish For, is an arresting one – Supergirl on a space motorcycle. She’s borrowed it – well, nicked it, actually – from super-scientist Dr Veritas to answer a deep space distress call. It isn’t said, but presumably it allows her to save her yellow […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #21 review

There’s a real sense of doom around current Legion issues. It’s not just that the 31st century universe is being torn apart by the Fatal Five, it’s the real-world knowledge that an end is coming. That the series is being cancelled in a couple of months, to be replaced by a future Justice League series. […]

Age of Ultron #10 review

The Avengers fight the Intelligentsia, a spaceknight turns into Ultron, Hank Pym defeats said mad robot with a computer virus and psychology, the Age of Ultron is averted. And time breaks. Thus concludes another Marvel event. Or rather, ‘concludes’. The main focus of the story, the alternate world created by Ultron, is tied up, but […]

Batman #21: Zero Year review

One of the biggest problems with DC’s New 52 revamp is the insistence that pretty much all our heroes’ exploits fit into a five-year period. When it’s a character whose story has basically begun again, such as Wonder Woman or the Flash, there’s no problem – stuff happened, but we have little idea what said […]

Superman Unchained #1 review

There are no chains from which Superman breaks free in this issue. A better title would be Superman Unfolded, by virtue of the worst gimmick any DC comic has ever offered the world. Worse than stick-on Lobo. Worse than cardboard Bat heads. Worse, even, than plastic ‘diamonds’ that wreck every other comic around them. It’s […]

Adventures of Superman #5 review

Breezy, that’s the word for this fifth instalment of DC Digital’s Superman title. Writer Joshua Hale Fialkov and artist Joëlle Jones present a day in the life tale which sees Lois and Clark battling for the Daily Planet front page, even though the most exciting thing in the diary is the Metropolis Dog Show. With […]