The Hypernaturals #1 review

The Hypernaturals are the Quantinuum’s protectors. The team has existed, with various line-ups, for 100 years, but the latest version – the 21st – has vanished on their debut mission. Can former members Bewilder and Thinkwell, and new kids Shoal and Halfshell, find them … and the billions of ordinary people they teleported across space […]

The Hypernaturals preview review

Having served a long tour as Marvel’s masters of the cosmic, writers Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning fetch up at Boom! Studios for a new superhero sci-fi series. We’re in the 100th year of the Quantinuum and Earth’s greatest heroes, the Hypernaturals, are in their 21st iteration. Sent to investigate a cosmic storm threatening the […]

DC Universe Presents #6: Challengers of the Unknown

Brought together for a reality TV show, a group of minor celebrities are on their way to the Himalayas when a weird face in the window of their jet presages a crash. They awaken in the land of Nanda Parbat, but not before Challengers producer June Robbins has a dream in which a horrific version […]

New Mutants #37 review

I love it when comic books do holiday issues. This week DC tackles St Valentine’s Day in Batman: the Brave and the Bold #16, while Marvel takes up the love theme in New Mutants #37. But while I adored the former, I didn’t love the latter. The idea of lava lass Magma going on a […]

Lois Lane and the Resistance #1 review

Would someone please give DC Comics a clue? Or better still, an atlas? Anyone looking at the expository panel on the first page of this Flashpoint tie-in could be forgiven for thinking that the United Kingdom is a synonym for England. It ain’t. The UK is ‘The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’. […]

Wonder Woman and the Furies #1 review

Wonder Woman and Aquaman, a match made in mythology. The heirs to fabled kingdoms, willing to undertake a marriage of state to strengthen their realms in the eyes of a world they’re rejoining after thousands of years apart. She the finest of the Amazons, he the greatest son of Atlantis. But when the leaders of […]

Adventure Comics #524 review

Superman isn’t the only character grounded this week. Over in the 31st century, the new students at Legion Academy have some privileges revoked by instructor Duplicate Girl after a spot of tomfoolery last month. But Chemical Kid isn’t having it – credit card problems indicate that something’s not right with his father, so he grabs […]

Annihilators #1 review

I hate this title. Seriously. I can’t spell it, I keep having to cut and paste the thing into the text. Also, like The Invaders, it doesn’t sound very superheroic. It’s a good read, though. Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning continue to guide us through Marvel’s Cosmic Corner following the cancellations of Nova and the […]

Adventure Comics #523 review

It’s the first day at Legion Academy for Glorith, apprentice to former Legion of Super-Heroes member the Black Witch. Dispatched from the Sorcerer’s World to Earth, she’s being called, says the Witch, by her ‘dark destiny’. There’s nothing like sending a girl off with a kindly word! Poor Glorith is either a bit dim or […]

DC Universe Holiday Special 2010 review

DC aren’t kidding when they call this one a ‘holiday’ special. Usually these giants are full of Christmas cheer, with perhaps the odd nod to Hanukkah. Not the 2010 edition, which arrives with an attractive, but two-weeks-late, Thanksgiving Day cover by Matt Haley. Every one of the six stories centres on a different holiday, with […]