Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace #4 review

The bad people have gathered. Black Manta, Cheetah, Captain Cold, Lion-Mane, Scarecrow, Two Face and Killer Croc are breaking bread with the Penguin. He has a suggestion. Years ago, Wonder Woman was enjoying a team-up. Today… And things get worse. But this series from DC Digital First gets better and better. In a tight 16 […]

The Passing of Pasko and Superman #331

This week brought the sad news that longtime DC Comics writer Martin Pasko has died. He began as a regular ‘letterhack’ in the DC letter columns, went on to pen hundreds of tales for the company and later moved into TV, working on the likes of Roseanne and The Twilight Zone. His screenwriting and comic […]

Metal Men #6 review

That’s a striking cover. No Metal Men stretching and pounding elemental foes. Just Platinum, looking out at us, her mirror, as she applies lipstick, apparently for the first time. There’s a climatic moment in the classic Powell and Pressburger film when a young nun, driven mad by Himalayan isolation, embraces the womanhood she’s been forced […]

Lois Lane #10 review

Now things get interesting. I enjoyed the first couple of issues of this maxi-series a lot, but as the months passed my grasp of what the story actually was became less firm. I wasn’t sure there was a story there at all. Subplots that seemed important vanished for months on end. Characters would come on […]

Superman: Man of Tomorrow #4 review

Swamp Thing, Solomon Grundy… Superman’s met a fair few muck monsters in his time, so you wouldn’t expect a new one to give him nightmares. And yet… Clark has learned that all four attacks took place on land owned by one Albemarle Bryce, a tycoon with wealth to rival Lex Luthor. So it’s off to […]

Hawkman #23 review

Hawkman and Hawkgirl are falling. And then, a memory… in a past life, Carter Hall is Dr Carlo Salón, a quack going door to door in 17th-century plague-ridden Seville, counting the dead. No matter how many houses he visits, how often the stench of death gets through his beak-mask, Carlo never gets sick. One just-bereaved […]

Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace #3 review

Superheroes on holiday, that’s something I love to see. A change of scene, a chance to see the person behind the costume unwind, sun, sand and sea… monsters!? Sea monsters attacking some of the brave warriors of Gorilla City, to be precise. And they don’t strike during Diana’s date with Steve Trevor, but a few […]

Coffee and comics?

Well, here’s a nice surprise! Blendly, a company which allows coffee fans across the UK and in Europe – whether home or business customers – to create their own blend from beans grown all around the world, sent me a couple of sample packs. And it turns out they’re from Wakanda. Well, that’s what it […]

The Green Lantern Season Two #3 review

Hal Jordan’s been sent to Earth by the Guardians of the Universe, where’s he ‘waiting for a bad guy to break cover’. Looking for something to do in the meantime he answers a call from old Air Force associate Herc Stone. Hal wants to rescue his friends so agrees to take the X-300 for a […]

Superman: Man of Tomorrow #3 review

It’s no fun at Schott Toys any more. The workers are already disheartened because their boss went bonkers and became criminal crafter the Toyman and now Winslow Schott is aiming his ire at them. In the shape of dinosaurs. Clark Kent smells a story and seeks out Lex Luthor, who recently bought Schott Toys. Lex […]