Nightwing Rebirth #1 review

This latest DC Rebirth one-off isn’t what I expected, but it’s precisely what it should be. I expected Dick back as Nightwing from the get-go, his Grayson adventure behind him, off to the land of entertaining footnotes. But that’s not what writer Tim Seeley and artist Yanick Paquette give us – this is a smart […]

Batgirl #49 review

Barbara Gordon’s mind has been hacked. Can computer expert pal Frankie rescue Batgirl by going into her head and enlisting a hopefully neutered evil AI as her guide? Yeah, it’s comics goes Tron again. But wait… this is rather good. Writers Cameron Stewart and Brenden Fletcher use the conceit to give us a closer look […]

Batgirl #43 review

Well, I’ve been campaigning/nagging for her comeback for years now, and finally the Velvet Tiger returns to print. Created by Barbara Randall Kesel and Trevor Von Eeden to battle Batgirl in the Eighties, she’s not been seen for a couple of decades, but I liked that gal. For one thing, she was a cat-villain, and […]

Batgirl #38 review

The Batgirl of Burnside is a thing. The hipsters are wild about her, she’s the queen of social media. And Barbara Gordon has begun to enjoy the attention, revelling in being asked for autographs and selfies. Old friend and former crimefighter Black Canary, aka Dinah Lance, is singularly unimpressed. She thinks Babs has regressed to […]

Batgirl #35 review

It’s the first week of Barbara Gordon’s new life as a postgrad in Gotham’s buzzing Burnside area and it’s not going too well. Her bank account is overdrawn, her research funding hasn’t come through, she’s fallen out with Black Canary and her computer has been stolen. What’s a Batgirl to do but investigate, and the […]