New Super-Man #1 review

In Shanghai, a youth chases another down the street. Bully and victim. So it’s a surprise when, a little later on, the bad boy saves the timid teen from a supervillain. Kenan Kong isn’t all bad. His better instincts take over when victim Luo Lixin is in proper danger, and while he’s soon back to […]

Sensation Comics featuring Wonder Woman #19 review (DC Digital)

Pilot Angel Santiago, diverted from her regular duties in Afghanistan for a PR-friendly visit to a girls’ school, gets caught up in a Taliban attack with male colleagues. It’ll take a real heroine to get the soldiers home… The latest Sensation Comics is a pacey, great-looking done-in-one from writer Amy Chu and artist Bernard Chang […]

DC Universe Presents #9 review

After 16 years apart, a father and daughter are reunited. Sounds touching, but when the father is immortal villain Vandal Savage and the daughter is FBI agent Kass Sage, expect sparks to fly. And they do, as an electrically powered inmate interrupts their meeting at Belle Reve prison. Kass is after insight into a serial […]

DC Universe Presents: Deadman #1 review

Caught between life and death, Boston Brand enters the bodies of people in times of crisis, helping them find the right path. At the same time the former circus aerialist, selfish and arrogant in his lifetime, is finding his own way – to redemption That’s the set-up for this five-part mini-series within a series, by […]

Supergirl #64 review

The conclusion to ‘Good-Looking Corpse’ begins with Supergirl in trouble, attacked by a mind-controlled Robin and Blue Beetle, and with an equally out-of-it Miss Martian standing by to empty her Kryptonian head. And while ickle Damian Wayne can’t do much against the Maid of Might, Jaime has some serious firepower in that scarab suit. Doing […]

Supergirl #63 review

Wow, the nurses in Metropolis really are crabby. Lois Lane inquires how Cadmus whistleblower Catherine, a patient at Metropolis’ St Idelson’s hospital, is doing, and gets a mouthful of attitude. Mind, when she checks in with Catherine and learns more on the dark goings-on at the genetics research facility, she gets something far worse than […]

Is it a bird, is it a plane … no, it’s a comic artist!

So there I was praising the artwork of Bernard Chang on Supergirl #62 when who should email to say hi from across the Atlantic than the man himself? He’d like to tell us what he’s up to this week, so here goes! SUPERGIRL artist Bernard Chang will be relocating his drawing table to the friendly confines of […]

Supergirl #62 review

Supergirl teams up with Blue Beetle, Robin and Miss Martian to foil the plans of the mysterious Alex. They fail. Still, it’s only part three, next issue’s continuation will likely see the Maid of Might take down Alex … or whoever he really is. There are further hints as to his nature this time, but […]

Supergirl #61 review

Supergirl’s in trouble, facing four of her deadliest enemies, and yet she beats the Parasite, Silver Banshee, Kryptonite Man and Metallo with ease. Watching from a distance is the mysterious, malevolent and all-round minging Alex, the inventor whose smartphone app, Flyover, meant he could send the villains against her. He reports back to his even more mysterious […]

Supergirl #60 review

Supergirl has four ne’er-do-wells to fight this month, and a new enemy pulling the strings who could prove more dangerous than any of them. For Parasite, Silver Banshee, Kryptonite Man and Metallo teleport in courtesy of a new phone app, Flyover, developed by a Harvard guy so far known only as Alex. The name’s appropriate in […]