New Suicide Squad #17 review

Her Majesty’s Government wants its own version of the Suicide Squad. UK super-team the Victory Vs have gone down, so one Mr Ashemore is despatched to Belle Reve Penitentiary on a factfinding mission. Task Force X director Amanda Waller gives him a tour of the facility, where different cell blocks represent a super-prisoner’s readiness to serve […]

Batman/Superman #29 review

The World’s Finest heroes are on the moon, trying to learn who murdered a giant space explorer. Alien assassin Lobo is watching them, his interest unknown. A second giant arrives, this one alive, and the pair surmise it’s the father of the female corpse. Green Lantern tech ‘borrowed’ by Batman allows Superman to communicate with […]

Scarlet Witch #3 review

Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, is on a magical mystery tour, trying to learn why magic is dying. Noting that the land-based aspects of Ireland’s economy seem to be under mystical attack, she travels to the no-longer Emerald Isle, where she’s joined by her friend Agatha Harkness, witch nanny turned ghostly sarcasm machine. Wanda traces […]

Action Comics #49 review

There’s a moment in this comic that pretty much sums up my reaction to the continuation of the Truth storyline, which features a depowered Superman lost in a world of grumpy people. Thank you, Justice League. This is a frustrating issue. There’s loads of talent on display, from writer Greg Pak to co-writer and layout artist Aaron […]

Superman: Lois and Clark #4 review

It’s several years ago and Lois and Clark Kent are visiting the post-Flashpoint Metropolis for the first time. Clark is all about how much darker it is than the city they knew, but Lois has a different perspective. Despite his beard, Lois being a brunette again and their being older than their counterparts on this world, the […]

Justice League 3001 #8 review

It’s 3001, do you know where your heroes are? Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Ice, Guy Gardner, Fire, the Flash and Batgirl are undercover on Takron Galtas, prison planet and seat of galactic dictator Lady Styx’s empire. Their Justice League teammates having been massacred by her massively powered lackeys, the Scullions, the survivors are keeping their heads […]

Superman #48 review

Can we stop now? How’s that for a pithy review? OK, it’s pretty rubbish, but honestly, I read this issue, enjoyed the odd moment, but had to force myself to get through it. This comic has been on an upswing of late, with writer Gene Yang and artist Howard Porter showing chemistry in the Mythbrawl […]

Adventures of Supergirl #1 review

Talk about strange sports stories. The National City Sharks football game has some unplanned entertainment – Supergirl vs Rampage. Maid of Might against Orange Ogress. They’re going at it like Billy-O, because while Kara would always prefer to talk things out, Rampage seems to have left her vocabulary at home. It’s the first chapter of […]

Captain Marvel #1 review

Carol Danvers. She loves trouble. So her taking a desk job as commander of Alpha Flight Space Station – Earth’s first line of defence against threats from outer space – is puzzling. But, she wants to get away from home for awhile, take time out from the hurly burly of her everyday heroic life. And […]

New Avengers #5 review

It’s the year 20XX and the Avengers are in trouble. Those who aren’t dead, that is. Reality warping member Demiurge – nee Wiccan, nee Asgardian – is possessed by the wizard Moridun and killing his friends as a warm-up for the end of the world. Survivors Marvel Woman, Iron Mariner, King Hulk, Collapsar and Captain […]