Green Lanterns #23 review

It’s back to school for Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz as they’re summoned to Mogo for Green Lantern training. Simon has already had some lessons, so he’s on the advanced course. Jessica is well up for boosting her knowledge and fighting techniques, but after learning on the job with, first, the Justice League, then Simon, […]

Booster Gold/The Flintstones Special #1 review

Booster Gold is going on a date in Gotham and out to impress. Sadly, he’s got just $200 to his name and that isn’t enough to buy even a rat meat dinner. Rat meat? Yep, Booster is back home in 25th-century Gotham City and, well, I’ll let this terrific splash spread put you in the […]

Convergence: Speed Force #1

Can you hear me Tony Bedard? Because I’m clapping. Applauding you for the single best Convergence tie-in of the week. If anyone hasn’t read it, here’s the gen… The Flash, Wally West, is speeding to Gotham City to answer a Justice League alert. He’s taken kids Iris and Jae along with him because he reckons […]

Batgirl #19 review

Batgirl’s entry for DC’s month of surprising gatefold covers suggests she may have to murder pesky brother James Gordon Jr. He’s the guy who’s been sniffing around Gotham hatching lunatic plans to terrorise his father, mother and sister. Without revealing who he was, he even took Barbara’s roommate Alysia out on a date, and gifted […]

Batgirl #0 review

Here’s the DC New 52 origin of Batgirl. Bang goes the daft-but-charming costume party business, in comes a moment of desperate bravery during a tour of Gotham police headquarters. It’s still the same old Barbara Gordon, though: bright, bold, with a few good self-defence moves and the element of surprise – well, what massive thug […]

The Ray #4 review

The Ray is down and almost out. If he’s going to save girlfriend Chanti from the reality warping wannabe film director Thaddeus Filmore, Lucien’s going to have pull something big out of the bag. Which he does, unsurprisingly. What is surprising is the way he cleans up after the events of the last few issues, […]

Batgirl #4 review

“Oh Barbara, get over it. Really, it’s beyond tiresome. An assault put you in a wheelchair, but you’ve had a miracle cure. Stop whining about it. Sure, there are still thousands of wheelchair users in the world, but you’re not betraying them by regaining the use of your legs – you never asked to be […]

DC Universe Presents: Deadman #1 review

Caught between life and death, Boston Brand enters the bodies of people in times of crisis, helping them find the right path. At the same time the former circus aerialist, selfish and arrogant in his lifetime, is finding his own way – to redemption That’s the set-up for this five-part mini-series within a series, by […]

Legion of Doom #2 review

Heatwave continues his bid to break out of flying prison the Hall of Doom, aided by Eel O’Brien, the stretchable stinker who hates to be known as Plastic Man. They battle unofficial prison guards Atomic Skull and Animal Man, and find out who’s controlling the executing Amazo android that put paid to KGBeast, Slipknot and […]

Abin Sur: The Green Lantern #1 review

Abin Sur has always been a bit of a nobody to me. He’s the dead Green Lantern, the chap who existed only to pass on his ring to Hal Jordan. Here, after 50 years and about a zillion flashbacks in which all he does is die, the maguffin becomes a character. For in the reality […]