Shazam! #10 review

Dan Mora’s wonderful cover promises good things – just look at that cutaway shot of the Shazam Family’s new house, with all sorts of fun things happening. Inside things are actually crazier as the new property Rosa and Victor Vasquez have managed to finance for them and their foster kids proves even busier than that […]

The Flash #7 review

What a difference an artist makes. Mike Deodato Jr isn’t around this time after handling the first six issues of the latest Flash run. Filling the breach is Ramon Perez, whose art is mostly pretty good, but so far off the established style of the series that it’s jarring. Where Deodato crowded the pages with […]

Green Arrow #10 review

Green Arrow has agreed to help Amanda Waller retrieve the secrets of Sanctuary, the disastrous superhero therapy centre which aimed to help Heroes in Crisis. Waller being a homicidal megalomaniac these days, Ollie’s not exactly in her corner, he aims to rescue the last hero she recruited/coerced into going into sanctuary – Ollie’s ward Roy, […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #25 review

Twenty-five issues. How often does a comic book of the high quality we’ve seen in World’s Finest over the last two years manage to continue being published? But here’s writer Mark Waid and guest artist Steve Pugh with an extra-length celebration story and, wouldn’t you know it, it’s thoroughly entertaining. The surprise is that instead […]

Superman #12 review

Holy role reversal, Luthor takes to the streets of Metropolis in his power suit to save the citizens while Superman dons a nifty lab suit to attack their problems from another direction. Their problems are Dr Pharm, a cloud of green kryptonite tweaked to kill regular human beings and Lex’s mad mother Leticia. The first […]

Justice Society of America #9 review

This book is a lot more interesting than Mikel Janín’s cover hints at. It’s a nice shot of Mr Terrific, but it’s pretty difficult to work out who’s in those little balls. And once again, the colour palette is weirdly bathroom based. The image does deserve points for being a fair representation of what’s inside, […]

The Outsiders #5 review

This is an oddball issue. The Outsiders – Luke Fox, Kate Kane and Drummer – spend an evening at a party, supposedly to catalogue the monsters of New York. The hostess? Natalia Knight, the enigmatic Nocturna, a Batman villainess who once convinced Kate, aka Batwoman, that they were both vampires, and, apparently, preyed upon her […]

Action Comics #1063 review

On the Bizarro World, imperfect duplicates of Superman, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and all their friends do the opposite of people of Earth. On the Bizarro World, people sit on the floor to dine while their pets perch at the table. On the Bizarro World people vacation at the beach in wintertime and stay at […]

The Bat-Man: First Knight #1 review

It’s 1939, the world is still reeling from the ‘The War To End All Wars’ and another World War is on the horizon. The vile teachings of fascists are touching a nerve in a United States only just coming out of the Depression. And in a Gotham ruled by gangsters, city leaders are being murdered […]

Shazam #9 review

Fun, fun, fun, that’s what we have behind Dan Mora’s excellently dramatic, superbly coloured cover Boy blogger Billy Batson finds himself being interviewed by Gotham City TV personality Jack Ryder and things get tricky. After the show, though, Jack shows a much kinder side, though his cynicism rankles Billy. And on the drive home, Jack […]