Action Comics #1073 review

Behind the poster-worthy cover by illustrator Clayton Henry and colour artist Tomeu Morey, the Phantoms serial continues, with this chapter opening on Jor-El inventing the Phantom Zone projector. Superman muses on the dichotomy that while his father inadvertently spared Zone prisoners death as Krypton exploded, turning people into living ghosts, stuck in a realm of […]

Green Arrow #17 review

Who wants an epilogue to Green Arrow’s Absolute Power adventure, tying things up in a bow? It begins with Green Arrow hunting down Waller’s henchpeople, Peacemaker and Peacewrecker. Then he visits the newly imprisoned Amanda Waller. Popping up to the new JLA Satellite. Ollie tells the core members that in pretending to betray them to […]

Action Comics #1072 online

Superman recalls a bittersweet moment from his boyhood, when a ship from the stars brought an explorer to Earth, a young man circumstances led him to believe was his big brother. Today, Superman and Mon-El are reunited in the Phantom Zone, to which the Man of Steel has come to learn what twisted three inmates […]

Superman #19 review

Things I like to see in a Superman comic include: An intriguing opening. Fun at the Daily Planet. Action. And mystery. So who is the Time Trapper this week? In past stories the embodiment of Entropy has been revealed as a Controller, Glorith, Lori Morning, Cosmic Boy… heck, probably Sugar & Spike and Ace the […]

Nightwing #118 review

Finally, the Heartless story ends. And it does so in the best issue of Nightwing in ages, as writer Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo, Taylor’s artist partner for the best part of it, say goodbye to Dick Grayson. For now, at least – given their obvious affection for our hero and his world, I can’t […]

Titans #16 review

If ever a comic book merited a Bold New Direction cover blurb, this is it. For in one issue we have a new base for the team… … one member gone, another leaving, a former member rejoining… … and demon’s daughter Raven tearing up over a satellite? As for that zoo – why is the […]

Batman & Robin Year One #1 review

It’s opening night for the Batman and Robin team. Before they hit the streets, though, Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth discuss the sense in Batman taking on the recently orphaned Dick Grayson as sidekick Robin. Before long, the heroes who will come to be known as the Dynamic Duo are driving from stately Wayne Manor […]

Batman and Robin #14 review

Gotham City, 1892, and ritual follows the death of a man. Gotham City, 2024, and Batman and Robin are enjoying a night on the town. Gotham City, 2024, the next evening, and Bruce and Damian Wayne are not enjoying a night on the town. The tuxedos are itchy and Oracle says there’s a chance of […]

Action Comics #1070 review

A few years ago DC added a back-up strip to Action Comics, around the time that Supergirl lost her ongoing title (again). And since then I’ve regularly suggested Supergirl take the spot as a nod to where she started, back in the Silver Age. And now, 694 issues since she departed her solo series in […]

Justice Society of America #12 review

… or, as it should say on Mikel Janín’s terrific cover, Stargirl 25th Anniversary Special. Because that’s what this final issue of the limited series is – not the epilogue to the lengthy story we’ve followed over the last few years, but a love letter to Courtney Whitmore. I’m not inclined to moan too much […]