Titans: Beast World #5 review

A million beast men are raging across the world. The Titans want to save them. Amanda Waller, who finally steps out the shadows and onto global TV screens, has other ideas. Among the viewers are the Titans, minus Beast Boy, seemingly killed by human black hole Chunk – tossed at him by Waller, who claims […]

Titans #7 review

Well, I’ve given up trying to keep track of the Beast World storyline running through Titans, Titans: Beast World and various specials. There are editorial notes aplenty telling us such and such happens before or after such and such, but the comics come out so frequently that I simply shrug and give thanks I’m not […]

Superman #10 review

Yee-haw! Or maybe Yee-FWOAR! Who knew Superman would suit cowboy cosplay so well? Our hero is as smokin’ as the barrel of a Colt 45 on Jamal Campbell’s instant classic cover. And that’s a brilliant tagline, too! But can the interiors live up to this image? Yes they can. Writer Joshua Williamson and artists Bruno […]

Jay Garrick: The Flash #4 review

STAR Labs has been a part of DC Comics lore for a long time. I remember its introduction way back in the Seventies’ Superman #246 as a Metropolis scientific research facility. Over the years we learned there were branches all over the globe, and while it’s usually been a friendly place, occasionally dark science has […]

Ultimate Spider-Man #1 review

Peter Parker has a pretty good life Certainly the recent loss of his Aunt May in terror attack was a blow, but he does have… … Uncle Ben? At home, he’s loved by wife Mary Jane and kids Richard and May. At work, the Daily Bugle Old Guard is being forced out. Dark days are […]

Titans: Beast World #4 review

The world is being overrun by crazed animal people, transformed by little Starros made from a super-sized Beast Boy. The heroes are doing what they can, and so are the villains. Well, some of them, anyway. It’s Giganta, longtime enemy of Wonder Woman and occasional girlfriend of all-new Atom Ryan Choi. Ryan’s not in this […]

Action Comics #1061 review

Bizarro is back. But he’s not the simple reverse Superman he’s always been. He has a new tool in his kit. Magic. One of the few weapons Superman has no defence against. The artificial being tells Superman how, six weeks previously, he found himself on Zerox, the Sorcerers’ World. Reacting to Bizarro’s attack on guards […]

Does This Trade Dress Make Me Look Phat?

You may know the name Xum Yukinori. A professional artist and regular contributor to CBR’s The Line It Is Drawn feature, he regularly impressed with his imagination, humour, knowledge, graphic design skill and ability to homage pretty much any Silver or Bronze Age artists you care to name. And here’s an art book collecting contributions […]

Shazam! #7 review

This issue the newly christened Captain fights not one, but two powerhouses. There is, of course, Black Adam, right there on Dan Mora’s dramatic covers, while in the opening sequence there’s a surprise new character. While Cap uses his newly boosted wisdom of Solomon to deal with Bizarro Marvel, over Kahndaq Black Adam encounters the […]

Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville #5 review

It’s another busy day in Smallville. Bea and Tora’s beauty parlour is hit by arson, supposedly friendly supervillains decide to rob the town blind, a new friend turns out to be an old enemy and the cannibal plague continues. Who started the blaze isn’t obvious, but Bea’s employee Tam reckons it’s her supervillain crush Honey, […]