Podcast Plugtime: Digging for Kryptonite – Justice For Pete Ross

Before Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen there was Superboy’s Best Friend Pete Ross. The only person besides Ma and Pa Kent to know Superboy was also Clark Kent, following a fateful camping trip. But did he tell Superboy what he’d found out, maybe ask for the odd free flight? He most certainly did not. Pete spent […]

DC’s Kal-El-fornia Love #1 review

As a journalist who’s written thousands of punning headlines, I have to say that this DC giant has one of the worst titles I’ve ever come across. Happily, the cover illo by Bernard Chang is pretty nice, and the actual logo treatment is great, very early Seventies romance mag… but how are the contents? Here’s […]

Justice League: Dark Tomorrow Special #1 review

It’s been a busy week, I’ve only just got to my second comic, Justice League: Dark Tomorrow Special #1, and this is how it begins. How does ‘Now’ work in the context of a non-place in between time periods? Happily, things quickly improve, with a cracking double-page spread of DC time cop Waverider being chased […]