Superman: Doomed #2 review

It’s been a long time coming. Civilisations have risen and fallen in the time the Superman: Doomed storyline has taken. But here it is, the final confrontation between the monstrously transformed Superman and the Collector of Worlds, Brainiac. To say this storyline has been uneven is to understate massively. Good chapters have been followed by […]

Booster Gold: Futures End #1 review

Gotham by Gaslight. No-good brigands scour the streets for their next mark. They come across a strangely dressed fellow in a rubbish tip. Victim? Hardly. It’s a time-tossed Booster Gold, wondering what’s plucked him from the 21st to the 19th century. He’s not there long, mind, as he’s soon zapped back to the present day, […]

Teen Titans: Futures End #1 review

The five-years-later set Futures End weekly has teased that something awful happened to the present day Teen Titans. Buy this in the hope or expectation of details and you’ll be disappointed. Pick it up with an open mind and you’ll get a fun tale of teenage heroes righting wrongs in an uncertain future. There’s a […]

Supergirl: Futures End #1 review

It’s five years from now and Supergirl is gone, supplanted by a Cyborg Supergirl who can barely remember ever being human. She’s united with the Cyborg Superman in a quest to find a world that can be transformed into a new Krypton, complete with ‘upgraded’ inhabitants. As cosmic upcyclers, they’ve failed so far, but Cyborg […]

Batgirl: Futures End #1 review

Two years from today, Barbara Gordon gets married.Two years from today, Barbara Gordon becomes a widow.Five years from today, she is Bete Noir, the Beast of Gotham, running a trio of Batgirls. She’s cleaned up most of the city’s crime, and now the teacher Barbara modelled the Beast on is back in Gotham: Bane – […]

Justice League United: Future’s End #1 review

In the recently debuted Justice League United series, Miiyahbin Marten has just discovered her super-powers and hasn’t yet adopted a superhero identity. Five years in the future she’s Equinox, Canada’s greatest hero. And she has a great new villain: ‘Great’ as in fun, not impressive. It’s the Polargeist, making a polar heist! Equinox makes short […]

Green Arrow: Futures End #1 review

I dropped off Green Arrow shortly after the team of Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino came on the book. Their work was impressive, their direction assured, but not really my cup of tea. Still, new Green Arrow Emiko Queen’s involvement in the Futures End series – co-written by Lemire – intrigued me enough to pick […]

DC Digital Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #11 review

Like, zoinks, this series just gets better and better. Mystery Incorporated teams up with the Super Friends when the Hall of Justice is invaded by seven ghosts. Seven rainbow-themed ghosts. And one of them has zapped Superman away. The world’s greatest super-heroes fear a crime wave should news get out that the Man of Steel […]

Action Comics: Futures End #1 review

It’s 2019 and Clark Kent is living in Ethiopia, trying to bring new life to dead ground. He’s retired from being Superman and is relying on the skills he learned on his parents’ Smallville farm. Thousands of miles away in Metropolis, people are getting super powers. A would-be suicide can suddenly fly. A petty crook […]

Justice League 3000 #9 review

I’m a couple of weeks late with this review. Then again, this comic is set in the 31st century, so maybe not. If you’re just coming in, this is the story of a reborn Justice League, freedom fighters against The Five, massively powerful villains who are taking over the universe. The initial issues were powered […]