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 […]

JSA #1 review

It’s a new start for the Justice Society of America. Since last we saw them there’s been a reorganisation, with some members out, others returning and a new leader. This new series begins with a quick recap of the history of the team before we join some of the current members in St Roche, once […]

Poison Ivy/Swamp Thing: Feral Trees #1 review

Well here’s a surprise, a team-up of two DC characters that isn’t linked to an event book. It’s a done-in-one that can be enjoyed on its own. And I did enjoy it. A lot. Both connected to the Green, our hero and anti-heroine are drawn to a place where dark events are occurring. For example. […]

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 […]