Absolute Power 2024 FCBD Special Edition #1 review

D-list supervillain Clock King – so rubbish he was in Justice League Antarctica – are inducting an even more obscure player into a government programme, watched by bad Batman android Failsafe. Haywire is informed that he’s now working for Amanda Waller – who has managed to buy up all the supervillain prisons – and helping […]

The Wrong Earth #3 review

Two superheroes and two supervillains of parallel worlds have swapped places. Dragonflyman of Earth Alpha is getting used to Earth Omega, while Dragonfly of Earth Omega… well, you get the picture. The device that saw them accidentally move worlds is a magic mirror belonging to their number one foe, named, funnily enough, Number One. There’s […]

Too Lobo for Heretical Jargon

Image borrowed from Chris Sims’ Invincible Super-Blog The second episode of Jimmy Trapp’s Heretical Jargon podcast sees Jimmy and me chatting about current comics, orphaned superheroes, Peanuts, favourite creators and characters, Martian Manhunter … and we find out what happens when one of us dares to express dislike for Lobo.I’ve never been on a podcast before, so I’d […]

Word balloon busting

Jimmy Quentin Trapp of the Heretical Jargon Podcast has asked me on the show this coming Saturday to talk comics. Well, I shall do my best. It’d be great if you tuned in, and maybe took part too – details here.

An explosion of Pedro the cat!

Here’s Steve, my chum, reviewing this week’s comic covers in a short bit of YouTubeness. It’s ever so serious. I try to keep quiet, though it’s only proper that he plugs this blog often.

An Explosion of Alpha Flight – Steve looks at the week’s comic covers

I still haven’t persuaded Steve to look inside, mind you!