Film review: Supergirl (2026)

Having not been a fan of the Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow mini-series there was a chance I wouldn’t bother seeing the adaptation at the cinema. But, as a huge Supergirl fan, that was never very likely. I mean, I enjoyed the 1984 Helen Slater film, it was daft fun! As for this year’s model, I […]

The Flash #34 review

If you’ve developed a new super power but can’t understand it, who you gonna call? Mr Terrific, the smartest man in the world his opinion. That’s Flash Wally West’s answer, it helps that he works for him… well, takes a salary, he’s rarely at the TerrificTech complex. There’s a lot of superheroing to be done. […]

Superman #39 review

Judge this book by Dan Mora’s stupendous cover and just buy it, OK. Because yes, this comic does feature Superboy Prime trapped in a landscape of different genres and it is ridiculously entertaining. It’s not Prime – he prefers to be called CK these days – using his reality punching power to explore, though; he’s […]

New Titans #36 review

Nothing says ‘Bold New Era’ like a new headquarters, and that’s just what the New Titans have after a few issues spent getting the latest version of the team together. Well, it’s new to them, but not the DC Universe. Happy Harbor has been a haven for heroes since the dawn of the Silver Age, […]

Podcast Plugtime – Magazines and Monsters: The Brave and the Bold #115

When is a team-up not a team-up? When one half of the team is doing all the work. In this case, handling the heavy lifting is the Atom who, in his other identity as Ray Palmer, is in Gotham Hospital one day when Batman arrives – on a stretcher. He is, to all intents and […]

Superman Unlimited #14 review

That’s a scary young Superboy Jon Kent looming over older version Tomorrow Man in Taurin Clarke’s terrific cover illustration, just look at the levels of detail. Can the interiors possibly match the cover? The issue opens with the newest heroes of Metropolis interrupting an attempted tech theft by Superman’s old foe Professor Thaddeus Kilgrave. Big […]

Aquaman #18 review

Oh dear me, that’s a pretty poor cover given the talent of John Timms. Aquaman and Green Lantern look like butterbeans with wigs on. Hair and chin in Hal Jordan’s case – did Timms think it was going to be Alan Scott guest starring in this issue? Turn the page and we find that Aquaman […]

Podcast Plugtime – Long Live the Legion! Starring Star Boy

There’s a new Legion of Super-Heroes series coming soon from DC. We don’t know what the make-up of the team will be yet, but it’s a safe bet one member will be Star Boy. After all, the kid who controls gravity has been on every version of the team to date – original, Reboot, Threeboot, […]

The Fury of Firestorm #3 review

Firestorm is out of control, experimenting on the folk of a small town. It makes sense that the Justice League would intervene. It doesn’t make sense that despite having known various versions of Firestorm for years, the heroes come in without a plan. The voiceover belongs to Martin Stein, the original other half of the […]

Action Comics #1099 review

Superboy is powerless, his abilities drained by a weapon wielded by Epoch, the Lord of Time. And now he’s struggling to adjust to life as a regular Earth teenager. As well as dealing with pain, he has the likely return of Epoch, who vanished after Superboy was blasted by his hi-tech armour, to fret about. […]