Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns #1 review

Santa Claus is coming to town, and that town is Gotham. Again. Last year writer Jeff Parker and a team of artists, led by Michele Bandini, brought us a terrific team-up between Father Christmas and the Justice League. And here’s the sequel, with Lucas Ketner replacing a busy-in-Santa’s-workshop Bandini. Happily, the visual quality remains high, […]

Action Comics #1077 review

Superman has escaped from doomed Krypton and is back in the Phantom Zone in the present day. The mad god Aethyr has been altering the reality of the ghostly realm, creating mass and giving its ethereal inhabitants physical form. Superman comes across old friend Mon-El seemingly saying a prayer. Bringing the Man of Steel up […]

Justice League Unlimited #1 review

It’s a brand new day for the heroes of the DC Universe, as the Justice League becomes the umbrella organisation under which all heroes are invited to operate, as Flash tells first-timer Air Wave. The missions doled out by Red Tornado in this debut issue include an attack by War Wheels in South Africa… … […]

Batman & Robin Year One #2 review

When I was a kid in the Seventies, Mad Magazine had a feature, Scenes We’d Like To Seen, in which tired tropes of popular culture would be subverted. The second issue of DC’s latest Batman mini-series has something of that ilk. They’re a cynical bunch, but I believe this is how the good folk of […]

The Question: All Along the Watchtower #1 review

Who watches the supermen? Renee Montoya, the cop turned Question. Life in Gotham City having gone to hell (again!), she’s accepted Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman’s offer to be marshal of the new Justice League Watchtower, hangout for every one of Earth’s heroes. She certainly looks the part. There’s a specific mission attached to the […]

Uncanny X-Men #5 review

The nightmare that is Sarah Gaunt has Rogue at her mercy, and the leader of the X-Men’s Louisiana team’s mind is shocked back to six months previously. That day, the subject was elecution. The memory is painful, but the Now is even worse, Rogue having been maimed by the monstrous woman who wants to murder […]

Action Comics #1075 review

Hey, here’s a surprise, a bonus big issue to mark 25 issues since the previous Not Really an Anniversary Issue. And isn’t that a lovely cover from illustrator Clayton Henry and colourist Tomeu Morey? Inside, there’s no surprise when it comes to the quality of the first strip, it’s another exciting episode in the 12-part […]

Black Lightning #1 review

The new Justice League Unlimited is up and running and Black Lightning has volunteered for a rather intriguing role. Helping Jefferson Pierce scout new metahumans needing help to deal with their powers is youngest daughter Jennifer, the superheroine Lightning. And aiding on the home front is ex-wife Lynn, owner of a good listening ear. As […]

Action Comics #1074 review

Tossed down a time tunnel by the demon Aethyr, Superman finds himself in his own past, on the planet Krypton. Without his powers under the Red Sun, his biggest hope of escape is to have the artificial power wristbands he’s been wearing powered up. Luckily, Superman knows of a scientist who may be able to […]

Batgirl #1 review

Batgirl Cassandra Cain and assassin Lady Shiva have a mother-daughter chat. Murderous martial artists attack. And that, dear reader, is the capsule version of this debut issue’s story. It doesn’t sound compelling, Batgirl and Lady Shiva have done the dysfunctional dance previously, yet this is one of the best comics I’ve read in ages. The […]