Supergirl #42 review

‘It all ends here’ says the blurb on Carmine Di Giandomenico and Ivan Plascencia’s dramatic cover image, to which I say, thank goodness. This book has been a cheerless affair for many an issue, even DC have lost faith in it, refusing to release the final issues in print – a rotten slap in the […]

Ghosts #1 review

The nights are drawing in – hey, it’s nearly July! – so the latest DC Digital First offering is just the ticket, reviving a long-running mystery book with a tale tailored to today’s tastes. For rather than an anthology of shorts, Ghosts gives us a single story of the Spectre, the super-spook created by Jerry […]

Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace #7 review

… or more properly, Etta Candy: Agent of ARGUS #1, because while Diana gets a good showing in this DC Digital First comic, this isn’t her story. Etta Candy, a supporting player in Diana’s adventures since the Golden Age, steps up to show us just what she can do. Andrea Shea’s tale begins with Wonder […]

Suicide Squad #6 review

Fight scene choreography is something I have trouble with; either a lot of artists are less than excellent at it or, more likely, I’m terrible at parsing the visuals. If that’s the problem, Bruno Redondo is the solution. That is stunning artwork. There isn’t a panel in which I don’t know what’s going on. There’s […]

Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #11 review

In which Jimmy appeals for help against the intergalactic tyrant who’s trying to steal the wife he doesn’t want… … all heck breaks loose… … and Lex Luthor makes Jimmy’s brother Julian sweat. Recognise that big blue alien? Possibly not, because last time he appeared he looked like this. It’s the big bruiser from the […]

Green Lantern 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1 review

Eighty years of emerald entertainment! Well, if you ignore the eight years or so between the last Golden Age appearance of original GL Alan Scott and Silver Age successor Hal Jordan… but why be picky, it’s 80 years since Alan debuted in All-American Comics #16, sparking a heroic legacy that shows no sign of ending? […]

The Flash Annual #3

It may be a Flash Annual but the star of the show here is one of his most famous Rogues, Captain Boomerang. Recently released from prison after earning a pardon, we join him as he’s being interrogated by a couple of government agents about a recent run-in with the new Task Force X, which mostly […]

Superman #22 review

What with the Covid-caused delay to comics, it feels as if Superman has been fending off Mongul’s latest attack on Earth for ever. Happily, the space conqueror hasn’t reached us, we’re still unvanquished, and here’s the Man of Steel back and raring to go. Seriously, this is among the best battles with Mongul I’ve read; […]

Dark Nights: Death Metal #1 review

Here’s Sgt Rock talking about turds. That’s cool and funny, apparently. Here’s The Batman Who Laughs. Again. Here’s a world ruled by said Joker/Bruce Wayne mix, full of his dark Bat-Knights and Groblins and an emaciated Swamp Thing and a defiant Wonder Woman and a mysterious prisoner in robes… … hey, those robes aren’t purple! […]

The Flash: Fastest Man Alive #8 review

This week’s DC Digital First Flash offering from the editorial office of Andrew Marino features two eight-page stories, both written by Dave Wielgosz, and while they’re different in tone to one another, they’re both pithy, punchy, satisfying reads. Artist David LaFuente draws the first, Rain on Your Own Parade, in which two people aren’t at […]