DC Digital – Adventures of Superman #50 review

In the here today, renumbered tomorrow comic book market of 2014, a 50th issue is worth noting. A great 50th issue is something to celebrate. I may yet throw a parade for this done-in-one tale by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro – it’s the most amusing, charming story of Superman and Lois Lane in years.Not […]

Detective Comics #30 review

Writer/illustrator Francis Manapul and writer/colourist Brian Buccellato begin their run by introducing a new woman into Bruce Wayne’s life. Elena Aguila is smart, attractive, a suitable new business partner for Bruce and perhaps eventually, more. She arrives on page 1. Guess what happens to her by page 22?And it was all going so well … […]

DC Comics – The Now 52!

We knew DC were bringing back the 3D covers this September, but I have to say, now that more details of the annual gimmick ‘celebrating’ 2011’s arrival of the New 52 have landed, I’m left scratching my head. It’s The Now 52. Every series is going to leap ahead to its 52nd issue, showing us […]

Batwoman #25 review

Several years ago, it was lights out in Gotham when the Riddler pulled the plug on the power grid. Home from military academy for the funeral of her Uncle Phillip, Kate Kane refuses her dad’s request to stay home and let someone else be the hero. She sneaks into the city on a ‘borrowed’ motorbike […]

Trinity of Sin: Phantom Stranger #11 review

As is often the case with event storylines, the best work appears around the edges, in crossovers. I had my reservations a couple of weeks back, but DC are playing fair in that while an engaging, worthwhile read, this issue doesn’t look to be essential to the Trinity War storyline in the Justice League books. […]

Batgirl #22 review

Barbara Gordon comes back from a night of crimefighting to find she’s forgotten that she’s meant to be going on a date. At the front door, bearing a bouquet, is Ricky, whose one attempt at being a car thief cost him a leg. Now he’s cleaned up his act and getting to know Babs. If […]

Earth 2 #0 review

DC’s New 52 initiative is one year old. More than four dozen new and revamped books came and since then, a few have gone and been replaced. The overall success of the line-wide relaunch (commercial, if not always creative) is celebrated this month with a slew of ‘zero issues’ – stories set before we joined […]

Justice League #12 review

The Villain’s Journey ends as the Justice League takes down David Graves. Green Lantern is the only hero not fooled for a second by the demons pretending to be the ghosts of their loved ones, and he leads an attack on the bad guy. The other MVP here is League liaison Steve Trevor, far from […]

Batman Incorporated #3 review

Batman revives his underworld alter ego, hustler Matches Malone, to pump Gotham lowlives for information on the Leviathan organisation that serves Talia al-Ghul. Along the way he flirts with chanteuse Lumina Lux, and her need for a knight in shining armour lands Matches in big trouble. Damian, meanwhile, kicks against Batman’s grounding of Robin by […]

Batman #11 review

It’s Batman vs Owlman in the finale to the Court of Owls storyline. Lincoln March, now claiming to be Thomas Wayne Jr, snares Batman and drags him into the sky to show off his version of Gotham – a twisted reflection of the one Bruce Wayne knows. Batman takes a fair few knocks, but finally […]