Secret Six #36 review

Take it from me, Blake. Good don’t last. But messed up, that goes on forever. At the behest of Bane, the Secret Six are in Gotham to kill Batman’s loved ones. They tried to coerce Penguin into helping, but he’s been at this game longer than any of them, and has tipped off their mutual […]

DC Retroactive 1980s Wonder Woman #1 review

Dr Psycho and the Silver Swan are up to their old tricks, bidding for power and love as each, in their own way, fixates upon Wonder Woman. The book opens with an Amazing Amazon rescuing a little girl from a speeding car, and it’s obvious this isn’t the Amazing Amazon – this heroine is just too rough […]

Superman #714 review

Thank you! Thank you Chris Roberson for ending the Grounded storyline in such a way as to leave Superman with a great big smile on his face. Lisa Jennings, the teacher who’s been shadowing Superman on his trip across America, finally makes herself known, endangering Lois to get his attention. Bad move. Superman’s in no […]

Genecy #1 review

An escaped slave becomes the emissary of an ancient god, gaining the power that may one day set his people free. That’s the basic story of Genecy #1, an attempt to tap into the sense of wonder elicited by such works as Star Wars, Superman the Movie and Jim Starlin’s Thanos stories. Certainly there are […]

Justice Society of America #53 review

The government wanted superheroes nowhere near the town of Monument Point. More than a mile below it, the JSA and the Challengers of the Unknown learn the what while, on the surface, Wildcat and Green Lantern learn the why. It’s all to do with an ancient god who absorbs metahuman powers, setting him up as the final foe to be […]

DC Retroactive 1970s Justice League of America #1 review

Longtime DC comics editor Julie Schwartz was known for a number of things – reviving the Golden Age characters, pioneering parallel worlds, stories packed with scientific facts, tales based on unlikely cover images … but who know he was a keen housebreaker (click on images to enlarge)? That’s what happens when heroes come to visit […]

DC Retroactive 1970s Green Lantern #1 review

Hal Jordan meets a relative of Abin Sur who arrives on Earth in a parallel to the incident which saw Hal named Green Lantern of Sector 3814. Green Arrow must track down a mad archer who shoots both Black Canary and a grasping lawyer. They’re the strands which writer Denny O’Neil plays with in this […]

DC Retroactive 1970s Superman #1 review

Superman’s having a bad week in this DC Comics Retroactive special. Criminals are popping up when they shouldn’t, doing things that are beyond them – Metallo’s flying, Bizarro am speaking perfect English, that sort of thing. Lois Lane is annoyed at Superman paying attention to Lana Lang, Supergirl and Van-Zee think their Kryptonian cousin is super-cranky, Clark Kent’s colleagues […]

Wonder Woman #613 review

It’s part 842 of the Odyssey story and the finish line is in sight. In this issue, Diana fights Nemesis, goddess of Exposition. Clad in Diana’s original form – the star-spangled heroine of the regular DC Universe – Nemesis battles the new model we’ve been following for the past year. And finally, readers get answers. […]

SPECIAL GUEST POST: Barbarian #3 review

Now this is an odd little comic. Starting out as your average hack-n-slash barbarian vs sharp-toothed, purple-skinned monsters tale, complete with retro sound effects (I’ll see your ‘koom!’ and raise you a ‘rraar!’ and a ‘thawack!’), manga-style visuals and the odd hacked-off limb, it morphs into a cautionary sci-fi story where the big, scary monsters are actually saccharine-sweet, peace-loving veggie good […]