Justice League of America #38 review

Another day, another Justice League of America relaunch. Writer James Robinson and penciller Mark Bagley are the latest creatives bidding to bring back the glory days and they begin with a bang as one of the team’s scariest foes, Despero, attacks the most recent incarnation. Robinson would get a demerit for here killing off another […]

Mighty Avengers #30 review

Face front True Believer, this one has it all! Why doesn’t Marvel use this classic Stan Lee line any more? It’s corny as heck, certainly, but occasionally it’s just perfect. Take Mighty Avengers #30, in which writers Dan Slott and Christos Gage ensure all sorts of pleasing things happen: Various members go ape, or at […]

Uncanny X-Men #516 review

The X-Men have renamed Magneto’s downed Asteroid M, now floating off San Francisco, Utopia. ‘This is our homeland now people. And we treat it as such’ says Scott Summers, Cyclops, as he has his lackeys prepare arms. Subtle. Why Scott is so keen to gather all mutants on a crap old rock, with no shops, […]

Batgirl #3 review

Stephanie Brown, former Spoiler and onetime Robin, takes on the Scarecrow, a villain who has proven a huge headache for Batman and Robin on numerous occasions. Here, despite being half his size, never mind that she’s hallucinating from his latest toxin, she takes him out. Hard. Possibly this has something to do with the fact […]

Secret Six #14 review

Too many comics these days promise a graphic novel-length saga that’ll knock our socks off, but after building the adventure, bungle the payoff. Not Gail Simone in this fifth instalment of Depths, which has seen the DCU’s motley mercenaries fighting for, and against, a modern day slaver. And more frighteningly, the dark beast Grendel, who […]

Doctor Voodoo: Avenger of the Supernatural #1 review

There’s an article in the back of this bumper-sized issue by comics writer and Comic Buyers Guide critic Tony Isabella from the early Seventies, heralding the next big thing from Marvel, Jericho Drumm aka Brother Voodoo. Stan Lee ‘wanted to make sure this character did not become a black Dr Strange’. So in his Strange […]

Batman and Robin #5 review

Nine-tenths of this book could have been rubbish but I’d still have loved it for the one page that made me grin from ear to ear. The page that had Jason Todd show sidekick Sasha/Scarlet that he’s a redhead who used to dye his hair to look more like Dick. Bye bye black-haired street kid […]

Astonishing X-Men #31 review

Abigail Brand, Agent of B.O.R.E.D., is retreating from a Brood-bashing mission when something or other goes wrong, sending her plunging into Earth’s orbit in an escape pod. Luckily the X-Men have six minutes to save her. Which they do, before confronting a mystery at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf. No, the mystery isn’t how the heck […]

Justice League: Cry For Justice #4 review

This issue, Green Arrow gets his groove back. Having stood by last issue and allowed Green Lantern and Atom to torture Clayface for information, this time he remembers that he’s meant to be a caring kinda guy and tells them to cut it out. GL and Atom tell him where to shove it, the latter […]

Sex and the Superhero #1 review

More accurately, that would be Sex and the Gay Superhero, as all the metahumans in here are pretty darned queer, from the terribly camp Cosmic Man to the so-macho-he’s-even-camper Pink Storm. There’s also Captain Avenger, the hero you could take home to your mother, sole female Lady Web and the hilariously named Street Diver. Individually […]