Secret Origins #2 review

Last month Superman had the cover, this time it’s Batman, next month it’s Wonder … er, Green Lantern. So much for my theory that DC’s traditional Big Three were the opening acts for this origin anthology. Not to worry, the images we are getting are certainly winners, though I’d prefer group shots including the other […]

Superman #31 review

The Superman Doomed story continues in splendid form this issue, as writer Scott Lobdell bows out as series writer. His biggest dangling plotline is the problem with Lois, currently a secret psychic puppet of Brainiac. Here she messes up efforts to cure Superman of the Doomsday virus by having him leave Lex Luthor’s prison-turned-hero-hospital. An […]

Nightwing #30 review

Well, that was horrible. It’s the final issue of Nightwing, but not really. In the ‘grand’ tradition of Justice League United #0 being #1 by any other name, this is actually Grayson #1, or #0 if we have to be all Marketing about it. Yes, we see exchanges between Nightwing and Batman about what Dick’s […]

Supergirl #31 review

Supergirl is no longer the newest Red Lantern. As this issue opens she’s accompanying Guy Gardner and co as they try to track down the newcomer, hoping to recruit her before rival Atrocitus. She finally finds the latest Lantern, whose confusion and background has her manifesting her red energy to judge every citizen of the […]

Justice League #30 review

‘Lex Luthor saves the world’. That’s the Daily Planet headline following the routing of the Crime Syndicate. The Justice League’s stock has fallen in the public eye, so should they accept the newly feted Lex Luthor’s request to allow him to join? As he says, he is now one of the world’s greatest superheroes. He’s […]

Forever Evil #7 review

It’s the last issue of DC’s latest event and … does anyone still care? Forever Evil #7 has been delayed by a few months, it wasn’t that great in the first place and we’ve seen how the big plot points were resolved. Luthor saves the world? Check. Nightwing still alive and with a new mission? […]

Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #1 review

One of my favourite comics of the Seventies and early Eighties, Master of Kung Fu featured Shang Chi, son of Fu Manchu, in psychologically complex, ornately drawn yarns. Since then Marvel has lost the rights to use Sax Rohmer’s villain and original characters, but Shang Chi, being a creation of Steve Englehart and Jim Starlin, […]

Action Comics #31 review

What do you do on the day after Doomsday? If you’re Superman, you begin having violent fantasies about being a monster, or tearing Lex Luthor apart. Disturbed by what he’s feeling and hoping a rest will sort him out, Superman retreats to Alaska, where he’s reunited with superdog Krypto. But the dark feelings only escalate …Labelled Superman Doomed: […]

Superman Doomed #1 review

I was there when Doomsday killed Superman. I was bored. Thump. Bash. Wham. A lot of splash pages and a lot of bruises and blood. Not a great story – the great story came in between the dull Death of Superman and the rather rubbish Resurrection. It featured the four claimants to the Superman name […]

Superman/Wonder Woman #8 review

After his Alaskan sojourn in Action Comics #31, and his changing metabolism having barred him from the Fortress of Solitude, Superman has retreated to his Metropolis apartment. There he sits in the dark, brooding. A concerned Wonder Woman tracks him down and is perturbed – but not frightened – by the changes the Doomsday virus […]