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 […]

Superman/Batman #75 review

I’ve written a couple of posts in praise of the most recent storyline, with Lex Luthor taking advantage of a planet’s suspicion of Superman to sow the seeds of a future revenge plot. Knowing the story would culminate in this extra-length 75th issue, with the Legion of Super-Heroes guest starring, I was rather excited. I’m […]

Power Girl #15 review

I hate super-characters whose names are acronyms. S.T.R.I.P.E., O.M.A.C., M.O.D.O.K. . . .Oh, hang on, I love M.O.D.O.K.Let’s call the large-headed one the exception that proves the wotsit. Dunno why, it just annoys me. Luckily I didn’t know the villain of the last two issues was named C.R.A.S.H. until near the end of this month’s […]

Avengers Academy #3 review

The first six issues of this series are being narrated by the new characters who make up the student body. It’s a smart way to give us an insight into the newcomers, and change the perspective on the Avengers’ aim to ensure these troubled teens don’t turn to crime. In the spotlight this month is […]

Supergirl #55 review

Amy Reeder debuts as cover penciller and provides a striking piece, inked by Richard Friend and coloured by Guy Major. The visualisation of Bizarrogirl as a bizarre reflection of Kara Zor-El is perfectly captured. It also serves to sell the essence of this issue – two beings who share so much, but can never understand […]