Klarion #1 review

Created by Jack Kirby, Klarion is a young warlock from the other dimensional realm of Witch-World. This debut issue sees him travel to a multiversal New York where he gets a job as a cook at the Moody Museum, said to be a haven for wizards on the downlow. Soon he’s befriended teenage oddballs Rasp […]

Batgirl #35 review

It’s the first week of Barbara Gordon’s new life as a postgrad in Gotham’s buzzing Burnside area and it’s not going too well. Her bank account is overdrawn, her research funding hasn’t come through, she’s fallen out with Black Canary and her computer has been stolen. What’s a Batgirl to do but investigate, and the […]

Action Comics #35 review

It’s two months since Superman defeated Brainiac in the far reaches of space, pushing him into a black hole. He’s spent the time since flying back to Earth, the Doomsday virus vanishing as a beard appears. It’s not a happy return as a Waynetech satellite on the outskirts of the atmosphere blasts him with a […]

Thor #1 review (2014)

Thor the God of Thunder Rode his mighty filly … … oh, hang on, now Thor is the filly! Don’t thump me, Just ‘aving a larf. I’m not anti- a female Thor. As a huge Valkyrie fan I’m intrigued as to which woman worthy of wielding Mjolnir gets to go by the name of Thor. […]

Gotham Academy #1 review

It’s the first day of term for Mia ‘Maps’ Mizoguchi and second-year scholarship student Olive Silverlock is assigned to show her around posh boarding school Gotham Academy. Olive has been dating Maps’ big brother and fellow pupil Kyle and is trying to break up with him; something happened over the summer, apparently involving her mother, […]

Superman: Doomed #2 review

It’s been a long time coming. Civilisations have risen and fallen in the time the Superman: Doomed storyline has taken. But here it is, the final confrontation between the monstrously transformed Superman and the Collector of Worlds, Brainiac. To say this storyline has been uneven is to understate massively. Good chapters have been followed by […]

Booster Gold: Futures End #1 review

Gotham by Gaslight. No-good brigands scour the streets for their next mark. They come across a strangely dressed fellow in a rubbish tip. Victim? Hardly. It’s a time-tossed Booster Gold, wondering what’s plucked him from the 21st to the 19th century. He’s not there long, mind, as he’s soon zapped back to the present day, […]

Teen Titans: Futures End #1 review

The five-years-later set Futures End weekly has teased that something awful happened to the present day Teen Titans. Buy this in the hope or expectation of details and you’ll be disappointed. Pick it up with an open mind and you’ll get a fun tale of teenage heroes righting wrongs in an uncertain future. There’s a […]

Supergirl: Futures End #1 review

It’s five years from now and Supergirl is gone, supplanted by a Cyborg Supergirl who can barely remember ever being human. She’s united with the Cyborg Superman in a quest to find a world that can be transformed into a new Krypton, complete with ‘upgraded’ inhabitants. As cosmic upcyclers, they’ve failed so far, but Cyborg […]

Batgirl: Futures End #1 review

Two years from today, Barbara Gordon gets married.Two years from today, Barbara Gordon becomes a widow.Five years from today, she is Bete Noir, the Beast of Gotham, running a trio of Batgirls. She’s cleaned up most of the city’s crime, and now the teacher Barbara modelled the Beast on is back in Gotham: Bane – […]