Batgirl #43 review

Well, I’ve been campaigning/nagging for her comeback for years now, and finally the Velvet Tiger returns to print. Created by Barbara Randall Kesel and Trevor Von Eeden to battle Batgirl in the Eighties, she’s not been seen for a couple of decades, but I liked that gal. For one thing, she was a cat-villain, and […]

Justice League 3001 #3 review

The Justice League of the 31st century could be happier. Having fought to liberate the world of Wodin Twelve from Starro’s mind control, it turns out their ancient foe has been commissioned by galactic authorities to bring order to the chaotic planet. Team manager Ariel Masters is in an even worse mood – she’s somehow […]

Superman #43 review

Superman wakes up in Lois Lane’s apartment to find he’s been asleep for more than a day. He’s more concerned about being seen naked by Lois, Jimmy and Condesa than the fact he’s being blackmailed by the latter’s supposedly former boss, computer criminal Hordr. Obviously, Lois’ place is hardly shielded against a crook with all […]

Doomed #3 review

Star Labs intern Reiser isn’t having a great day. He’s having to dog-sit his aunt’s annoying pooch, still hasn’t got a girlfriend … and has taken to turning into a rampaging, destructive monster after cleaning a lab at the Metropolis research facility. Things improve when fellow apprentice Jayne – who doesn’t know about his transformations […]

DC Digital Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman #45, #46, #47 review

College students Alicia, Jody and Nancy are exercising on a beach when Wonder Woman appears and races champion runner Jody. She gives no quarter, lecturing the young women on why she’s better than them, in the opening chapter drawn by Irene Koh and coloured by Wendy Broome. Then evil otherworldly counterpart Superwoman shows up, to […]

Superman/Wonder Woman #20 review

Superman has burst into the White House, furious that the US Government has torn his hometown apart in the wake of his other life as Clark Kent being revealed to the world. The authorities have kidnapped his Daily Planet colleagues and Smallville neighbours. Wonder Woman isn’t going to let them stay behind bars. And the […]

Batman #43 review

New villain Mr Bloom is front and centre this month as replacement Batman Jim Gordon investigates the plant patches that have been bringing street thugs super-powers… and death. Their maker meets Gotham gang boss the Penguin to talk about his business, and things don’t go well for either party. Elsewhere, Batman is confronted by local […]

Batman/Superman #23 review

I do love Superman and monsters. It rarely fails to make me happy. In a nice diversion from the general gloom of the Truth sequence in the Superman books, writer Greg Pak gives us a nice side story in which the stakes are stacked, but the fun is foremost. Ukur, the Beastmaster of Subterranea – […]

Action Comics #43 review

The continuation of the Hard Truth storyline opens with Superman attacking police officer Binghamptom. He’s been provoked by the authorities’ assaults on his neighbours, but it doesn’t look good as Jimmy Olsen captures everything on camera and automatically uploads it online. And then, Binghamptom stands revealed as one of the shadow monsters who have been […]

Retro review – Adventure Comics #306, the debut of the Legion of Substitute-Heroes

Polar Boy. Night Girl. Chlorophyll Kid. Stone Boy. Fire Lad. They debuted in ‘The Legion of Substitute Heroes’ in 1963’s Adventure Comics’ #306. If you’ve not read it, the tale sees an assortment of new heroes who fail to gain entry to the Legion – mostly because the members were a bunch of illogical snots […]