Secret Six #15 review

Guest writer John Ostrander gives us a look at how Deadshot’s past has affected his present, via a chat with onetime confessor Revd Richard Craemer. It’s a smart tale, showing us that while Floyd Lawton seems one of the saner Suicide Squad members, he’s a deeply damaged soul. As a fan of Ostrander’s exemplary Suicide […]

Ambush Bug Year None #7 of 6 review

The ‘7 of 6’ business is the funniest thing about this issue. Followers of this mini have waited nearly a year since issue #5, with DC Executive Editor Dan DiDio refusing to tell the fan press why the delays with #6. That’s his right – DC may owe the fans an explanation but we’ve no […]

World’s Finest #1 review

‘Your two favorite heroes, Superman and Batman, in one adventure!’ That was the idea behind the old World’s Finest series. Poor Robin never rated a mention. Still, there’s a Robin in the first issue of this mini series teaming the second stringers of the Superman and Batman family, and while I used to love Tim […]

Detective Comics #858 review

The Batwoman, who she is and how she came to be. That’s the premise of the new story arc in Detective and thank the Lord – it’s been a couple of years since Kate Kane began swooping around Gotham, I’m ready to know why she took up the mantle of the Bat. This first part […]

The Last Days of Animal Man #6 review

It’s the final issue of this future-set storyline which has seen Buddy Baker struggling to deal with fading powers and fraught family relationships while being targeted by new villains. Last issue ended with Buddy being thoroughly stomped by Mirror Master’s daughter Prismatik and the brutish Bloodrage. This issue he saves the day in a clever […]

Wonder Woman #37 review

The first image in this issue took me right back to the Seventies and the cover to issue #246, with Diana in bed as a mystic force attends her. The shot is almost certainly a coincidence, but one I enjoyed. What follows is one of the best scenes Gail Simone has written since she took […]

Power Girl #6

There are no boob jokes this month, which is how it should be as by now it’s obvious Power Girl’s biggest asset is her gift for friendship. If Mary Tyler Moore were a Kryptonian, she’d be Power Girl. For Peege is the single woman trying to make a new start in the big city while […]

Supergirl #46 review

I really enjoy the Supergirl comic. Could we please have one? For this book is now so tightly tied into the New Krypton sequence that Kara is almost a bystander in her own book, This issue Kara’s flying around with Flamebird and Nightwing in the World Against S-Shield With an X Through It crossover, fighting […]

The Brave and the Bold #28 review

Look at that gorgeous cover by Jesus Saiz. The fastest man alive and the Second World War’s most famous fliers, racing towards the reader. So how disappointed am I that when Barry Allen lands in the past there are just a few speed feats and no actual flying? Not a HAWKAAA-AAA to be heard. Not […]

DCU Halloween Special ’09 review

Halloween specials are always mixed bags, full of more tricks than treats. But DC has another crack at scaring the bejabbers out of us with ’13 all-new tales of terror’. That would be hype, as some of the tales are played strictly for laughs and are none the worse for it. On the whole, though, […]