Teen Titans #10 review

In San Francisco Bay, supervillain Black Manta tries to kill the mother of his son. But if she dies, Lucia isn’t going down easily.  While she’s been living in the heart of the US, she’s from the other-dimensional realm of Xebel, with hard water powers similar to those of its most famous daughter, Mera. The […]

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Teen Titans #23 review

As a change from all the DC number ones, here’s the penultimate issue of the New 52 Teen Titans. OK, the logic of that sentence wandered off pretty quickly, but I wrote this review assuming it was the final issue… it’s a great final issue. Hopefully next month’s actual final issue will be as good. […]

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Convergence: Supergirl Matrix #1

Years ago, Lex Luthor was an Australian clone of himself. And Supergirl was a shapeshifting, telekinetic blob.  It sounds daft, but the situation was played straight in the Superman titles of the time, and it made for good drama. This Convergence tie-in, though, sees writer Keith Giffen play the scenario for cheap – but funny […]

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Futures End #44 review

We’re getting to the end of Futures End and things really hot up here. Brainiac has detached New York, enclosed it in a dome and is taking it somewhere. Can Superman and a ragtag Justice League somehow save the day? That would be telling – this comic is set five years in the future, so […]

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