Batgirl #14 review

While the X-Men are having problems with just one Dracula, Batgirl and Supergirl take on 24 in this entertaining done-in-one issue. Mind, they aren’t the scariest of Draculas, being easily dispatched with an amusing bit of equipment provided by the hapless science student, Newton, who gives them pseudo-life. The biggest threat they pose to Steph […]

Adventure Comics #518 review

The Legion of Super-Heroes strip continues to fill in details around the team’s earliest years. ‘Whispers of Doom’ is a prelude to ‘The Stolen Super-Powers’ from Adventure Comics #304, with odd details changed. So it is that we get an appearance by Dream Girl some time before she met the Legion, as she predicts that […]

Amazing Spider-Man #641 review

Delayed by a week, possibly due to its extra-length, here’s the conclusion to the One Moment in Time storyline, in which we see what happened with the Peter Parker/Mary Jane Watson relationship in the changed continuity of the last couple of years. And my conclusion? Ermmm … … imagine that Confusion were a person and […]

Outlanders: Infinity Breach review

I don’t normally review science fiction books, but Outlanders: Infinity Breach is written by friend of the blog Rik Hoskin (I hope you saw the review of his rather neat story in the recent Superman 80pp Giant) and there’s certainly a crossover with superhero comics in terms of themes and sensibility. For one thing, Infinity Breach is […]

Freedom Fighters #1 review

They’ve had a couple of limited runs and now the Freedom Fighters are let loose in an ongoing series. This first outing is a busy wee thing, with three separate threats sorted before we even get to what looks like being the first featured storyline. The mini-adventures provide a fine showcase for the players’ characters […]

Avengers: The Children’s Crusade #2 review

How do you solve a problem like Magneto? That’s the question in the second issue of this mini-series starring the Young Avengers. Having learnt twin members Wiccan and Speed – his kinda, sorta grandsons – are planning to find their mystic mother, the Scarlet Witch, the Mutant Master of Magnetism wants in. After all, he […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #4 review

When a feature has been running as long as has the Legion of Super-Heroes, it’s unlikely readers are going to agree on a single high point. Yet there seems to be widespread agreement that the Great Darkness Saga – in which Darkseid was reborn in the 30th century – is it. It takes a brave […]

Wonder Woman #602 review

Lord, that’s one scowly superheroine on Dan Kramer and Michael Babinski’s cover. I really didn’t feel like reading this book, it looks so bloomin’ unfriendly. While I’m used to a determined, warrior Diana, this image shows a woman with no heart, no soul … not someone I want to know. Inside, Diana is more like […]

Dracula: The Company of Monsters #1 review

Even if I wasn’t a sucker for a Dracula book, the ever-entertaining Kurt Busiek’s name alone would get me to try this first issue. Busiek has provided the story, with the script coming from novelist Daryl Gregory. This initial chapter alternates the dark history of 15th-century European monarch Vlad Tepes with a day in the […]

Superman: Secret Origin #6 review

It’s a weird time to be a Superman fan. No Superman strip in Action Comics, and a stranger in tights and cape in his eponymous book. Thank heaven, then, for the final issue of this comic, which I’d assumed came out months ago, and I’d missed. Thank heaven, because it’s the best single Superman story […]