Titans: Beast World Tour: Metropolis #1 review

That title needs a colonoscopy… Who’s scheduling DC Comics these days? Last week the Beast World ‘event’ kicked off and here’s an anthology with three stories showing what happened after Beast Boy went Starro, throwing off spores that turn people into creatures. Except editorial notes in all three tales tell us: ‘This story takes place […]

Fire and Ice: Welcome to Smallville #4 review

Well, I have been enjoying this mini-series starring the JLI’s best gal pals, with its offbeat look at life as a C-list superhero. The set-up is that Superman has asked Fire and Ice to take a time out in his hometown after one mess-up too many. Sure, that’s leaning into the Superdickery trope, but I […]

Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Knight #1 review

Silent Knight? Isn’t that an old DC adventure character? Appeared in early issues of The Brave and the Bold, was a past life of Hawkman and possible ancestor of Jonathan Kent? Well, he doesn’t appear in the first issue of this seasonal mini-series but it has that anything can happen feel, so who knows? I […]

Action Comics #1059 review

That’s a heck of a cover by Steve Beach, with not one, but two literal men of steel facing a bunch of bad guys. The barely restrained power, the determined expressions… excellent. Inside we learn that the people with their back to us are Blue Earthers – but not the garden variety Metropolis xenophobes, these […]

Titans: Beast World #1 review

Cult leader Brother Eternity is offering mankind a new future on the Moon of Titan. He’s sent ‘forevernauts’ to the surface and is live streaming their ‘giant leap into tomorrow’. Their adventure comes to an end when something they find in an ancient temple blasts them into, well, eternity, prompted by words spoken in Tamaranean […]

Superman #8 review

Telekinetic bad boy The Chained continues his vendetta against Lex Luthor and while the Super Family do a good job fending him off, a secret revealed could shake one member to the core. Superman #8 – legacy number 851 – begins with a look back to the childhood of The Chained, and the day young […]

Jay Garrick: The Flash #2 review

Jay Garrick is remembering things that were long forgotten. Not things that faded from memory, as things do – things that were deleted. Such as a 1941 Justice Society mission to Germany to track down the fabled Spear of Destiny held by Adolf Hitler. No one expected the Ro-Bear. Today, Judy Garrick, teenager speedster recently […]

Justice Society of America #7 review

Here’s an issue I enjoyed an awful lot. What got me most excited was the final page so it’s fair to warn you I’ll be showing that below – I don’t want to ruin any enjoyment if you’ve not yet read the book. The story opens in Los Angeles, with a new figure telling us […]

Green Lantern: War Journal #2 review

In which John Stewart is offered a job, Mom Shirley returns to the big city and a rather nasty bunch of aliens come calling. Again. Because if you caught the debut issue of the latest Green Lantern series you’d have seen Varron of the new United Planets GL Corps turn up at John’s family home […]

World’s Finest: Teen Titans #5 review

This flashback mini-series has been terrifically entertaining as it reframes the early years of DC’s premiere teen team. We’ve seen a slightly different line-up, new villains and a lot more tension than previously. And this issue those dodgy dynamics explode as the mystery bad guy who’s been forming a ‘Terror Titans’ in the background is […]