All-New Atom 25

Ryan Choi loses his book, as sales once more prove the enemy few can beat (ahem! Spider-Girl, Manhunter, Blue Beetle), but wins the day. Well, to an extent. The long-running storyline in which Ivy Town residents are thrown into a world in which time runs differently and scary worms eat people gets a conclusion of […]

Astonishing X-Men 25 review

Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi take over the writing and art assignments from Josh Whedon and John Cassaday and the difference is immediate. Where the previous creative team went for epic adventure – mad robots, interplanetary warfare – here we have a murder mystery. And it’s a great one. Newly ensconced in San Francisco, the […]

YOUNG AVENGERS PRESENTS 6: HAWKEYE

Oh boo hiss, here’s a missed opportunity. The final issue of this mini series focuses on Kate Bishop, who took up the mantle of Clint Barton when he was temporarily disassembled. Now he’s back, and he decides to test her in an archery contest. If he outshoots her, he gets back his name and bow […]

Mighty Avengers 15 – review

A couple of months ago we learned that Yellowjacket had been replaced by a shape-shifting, secretively invading Skrull. Eek. Here’s how it happened . . . Hank Pym had a barny with Jan, she walked out, he shagged a supposed student, she wormed all his secrets out of him, bashed him with big green fists […]

Madame Xanadu 1 review

I’ve been rather excited since hearing the former hostess of Seventies DC mystery book Doorway to Nightmare was getting an ongoing Vertigo book. In the words of Olivia Newton John, now we are here, and boy, was it irritating. For the first few pages, at least. As we meet Madame Xanadu, rather than sitting in […]

Superman 677 review

Starman writer James Robinson joins the Superman books with this issue and reminds me why I like his work too much. He gives us a sympathetic hero, standout supporting characters and intriguing antagonists. The hero is, of course, the guy with his name on the cover. As we join him, he’s showing off Krypto to […]

Comic Art Now review

Comic Art Now By Dez Skinn Ilex, 192pp, £20 As The Beano celebrates its 70th birthday and The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man fill cinemas, a legend of British comics is out to show there’s more to comic art today than schoolboys with catapults in the UK and superheroes in the US. Dez Skinn wantADVERTISEMENTs […]

Trinity 3 review

The lead story sees the JLA, minus a certain three heroes, battles Konvikt and Graak, they don’t do very well, Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman show up expecting to save the day, and the former gets a good thumping. Graak continues to be ridiculously annoying with his stupid speeches bigging up Konvikt and the JLA […]

Birds of Prey 119 review

This issue sees the return of Black Canary to the book, after she was dragged away by the JLA and Green Arrow editorial offices and stripped of the dimensions she’d gained under writers Chuck Dixon and Gail Simone. It’s a temporary, yet triumphant, return, with a nice cover appearance – courtesy of Stephane Roux – […]

LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES 42

In which the Legion get new costumes and actually don them, despite having no idea who put the order in for them. I’m guessing Kid Calculus, or whatever we’re meant to call that Morr’ssey reject. Other than Star Boy’s, I’m not actually keen on them – Saturn Girl’s Binary look, in particular, is an ambomination, […]