Superman #38 review

This is the issue I’ve been waiting for. DC teased that Superman was getting a new super-costume. Then they let us know he was getting a new super power. But they kept the issue’s real Big Moment under their hat. Finally … Ulysses gets a haircut. The lank, blond locks are incinerated as Superman’s new […]

Teen Titans #6 review

When it was announced that the new Power Girl was joining the Teen Titans, I was dubious. I remember Tanya Spears from Worlds’ Finest and liked her well enough, but she’s strong and invulnerable, and the Titans already have that in Wonder Girl. I like varied power sets. Boy, was I wrong. The arrival of […]

Supergirl #36 review

Having recently decided to make the best of life on Earth, Kara is making real efforts to integrate. She’s taken a job in a coffee shop, doing her own laundry, getting the shopping and basically trying to fit in. A tough day at work – why are coffee steamers sooo delicate? – isn’t helped when […]

Teen Titans #1 review

New direction, more attitude, in your face. That’s the tagline for this first issue of a new Teen Titans volume. That, and the preview that ran in DC titles last week, had me expecting to be annoyed by this issue. Well, doesn’t ‘attitude’ equal ‘annoying’? It certainly did when attitude was zeitgeisty. Happily, the title […]

Supergirl #29 review

Supergirl is a Red Lantern. She’s embraced the power of the ring, given in to her rage. In her maddened state she may destroy the earth, but one hero stands against her … the Silver Banshee?Yep, Kara’s erstwhile flatmate progresses from conflicted adversary to full-on good guy here, giving in to her own dark side […]

Supergirl #28 review

Supergirl and Lobo are fighting at underground science station the Block. Kara is angrier than ever before, bitter that Earth seems to have nothing to offer but pain. The fight goes worldwide when Block boss Shay Veritas expels the pair to stop the facility and its inhabitants from becoming collateral damage (though lurking demon Blaze […]

Supergirl #27 review

Space mercenary Lobo is dead, killed by an out-of-control Supergirl. His corpse – which hasn’t shown the Czarnian tendency to heal instantly – is being opened up on the dissection table at Dr Shay Veritas’s Block research facility. Veritas is watching her lookalike assistants from behind an observation glass, along with Kara, who’s appalled at […]

Action Comics #27 review

Last time, Superman rescued Lana Lang and her engineering colleagues from a raging beastie which emerged from a hole in South America. He let everyone think he’d […]

Supergirl #26 review

It’s new creative team time, as writer Tony Bedard and artists Yildiray Cinar and Ray McCarthy bid to steer the unsteady ship that is Supergirl into calmer waters. Well, eventually, anyway – we know that the next storyline has Supergirl give in to rage and become a Red Lantern, the idea of Red Lanterns writer […]

Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #1 review

He’s the Master of Kung Fu, but not even Shang Chi can stand against the power of … bedbugs. So he’s been infected with Spider-Man’s powers in a plot by the Jackal, and is having bad dreams. Dreams in which he attacks and eats Fat Cobra, one of the mystical champions known as the Immortal […]