Dial B for Blog

The excellent Professor Alan Middleton was kind enough this week to invite me onto his Quarter Bin Podcast to talk about one of my favourite series of the Bronze Age, the Adventure Comics revival of the Dial H For Hero concept. Did anyone else out there read it? Here’s a link to the episode, […]

Astonishing X-Men #14 review

I’m a sucker for new X-Men line-ups. And the one that’s assembling in the latest Astonishing X-Men series has real promise. The set-up, established last issue, is that after a period of being evil – not his fault, honest – Alex Summers aka Havok – wants to lead a new team of mutants, doing good […]

Adventures of the Super Sons #1 review

‘The boys are back in town’ proclaims Dan Mora’s scrappily energetic cover, and DC isn’t kidding. Damian Wayne and Jon Kent return to publication after the editorially driven cancellation of their regular series and are more fun than ever. From the slightly meta opening… … to the electrifying final page, writer Peter J Tomasi and […]