Green Lantern #39 review

And the pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right? Am I the only person unable to remember which coloured lantern does what, who the players are and why we should believe any of this mythology when none of it was […]

Secret Six #8 review

I’ve loved Day in the Life issues since the Eighties, when they were a speciality of the New Teen Titans, so any time a writer wants to throw one my way, it’s fine by me. And that’s what Gail Simone does here, providing a breather after the seven-part epic that kicked off this series. It’s […]

Dark Reign: Fantastic Four #2 review

Reed Richards is looking at alternate worlds to see where it all went wrong with the Superhero Registration Act. Little does he know that Sue, Johnny and Ben are at the mercy of his alternate world viewer, which seems to be throwing them from reality to reality. And Franklin and Valeria are cool. Seriously cool. […]

Batman: Battle for the Cowl – Man-Bat #1 review

I was surprised when Man-Bat popped up as one of Robin, Nightwing and Oracle’s Network operatives in the recent Gotham Gazette: Batman Dead one-shot. Last time I looked he was a tragic anti-hero rather than a trusted ally, but there he was. This comic explains what he was doing on Gotham’s streets, battling dull street […]

Irredeemable review #1

This comic from Boom! opens with a bang as a superhero and his family face the fury of the Plutonian, hero turned villain. It continues with his terrified longtime teammates interrogating one of their own – the Plutonian’s sidekick, Samsara – for as much information as possible on a man they never truly knew. There’s […]

Commissioner Gordon #1 review

An attack by Mr Freeze on Gotham City helps Jim Gordon accept that Batman is dead and leads his police force to rededicate itself to the protection of Gotham’s citizens. Those are the bones of the issue, the meat is a fast-moving, efficient script from Royal McGraw which shows us that Gordon doesn’t always need […]

Superman #686 review

The Worlds of New Krypton mini-series is up and running as Superman’s home for the new year, so Superman’s home book gets some new stars. The Guardian and Mon-El step up to watch over the City of Tomorrow and this issue represents the ground floor of their tenure. And as depicted by penciller Renato Guedes […]

Oracle: The Cure #1 review

This is branded with the Battle for the Cowl banner but aside from being set in current Gotham City, it so far has little to do with the current Bat-books storyline. Which is fine by me, as I can’t recall Barbara Gordon having a book to herself since a Batgirl special, just before the Crisis, […]

Justice League of America #31 review

Here we go again. It’s the end of the Justice League. Happens every five years or so, everyone frowns, has a minor fall-out and swears never to gather again. And they don’t, until the next crossover comes along. This time, though, the JLA isn’t ending, it’s merely getting a few different members added to replace […]

Wonder Woman #30 review

Finally. It’s Part 5 of Rise of the Olympian and at last the Olympian does indeed rise. It happens in a fine sequence that shows Zeus at his creepy best, laying down the law about what type of champion the reborn Achilles will be (I’m assuming it’s the Achilles of classical Greece, following a comment […]