Legion Lost #1 review

The Legion of Super-Heroes are among the DC characters least affected by the New 52 shake-up … at least in one sense. For while the continuity continues unchanged from last month, there is a big status quo alteration as a third of the membership is cast out of the 31st century Legion comic and into […]

Demon Knights #1 review

I’ve seen tons of riffs on the Fall of Camelot, I guess we all have. But Demon Knights begins with a fresh look at the moment that the dead Arthur is wafted away to Paradise, as one of the book’s soon-to-be-stars breaks out of her assigned role with style, and maybe just a smattering of […]

Green Lantern #1 review

It’s been awhile since I dropped the Green Lantern titles, bored rigid by the Crayola Corps, but I’m always hoping for a new jumping-on point. And here it is. Sinestro as GL isn’t an enticing prospect, admittedly – waste of a perfectly good villain – but if it means getting to see Hal Jordan putting […]

Suicide Squad #1 review

The new Suicide Squad are in trouble. Captured by unknown assailants, they’re being tortured. The deal is simple – give up the secrets of the Squad, or die slowly and painfully. A scorching blade. Pincers to the face. Salt in a wound. Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Savant, King Shark, Black Spider, Voltaic and El Diablo… one […]

Mister Terrific #1 review

Mr Terrific may have been tweaked in DC’s New 52 Universe but one thing’s for sure – Michael Holt just can’t shut up about how clever he is. He saves Londoners from a small-time super-villain and it’s, ‘some people call me the third smartest man in the world”. He reminds himself in his narration that […]

Swamp Thing #1 review

Alec Holland is back from the dead, but he’s not the man he was. Saddled with memories of the plant elemental built on his essence after his corpse rotted in a Louisiana swamp, he just wants to forget – it’s confusing when you have feelings for ‘some woman with white hair’ whom you’ve never met. […]

Detective Comics #1 review

Wow. The last time I read a Batman story by Tony S Daniel I was underwhelmed. After Detective Comics #1, I’m thoroughly whelmed. I may just throw a parade. But first, there’s a review to be done. This is the first solo outing of the present day Batman in the New DC Universe, but we’re […]

Men of War #1 review

I was going to open this review with the qualifier that I’m not a big fan of war comics, not having read any regularly since DC’s last entries in the genre were cancelled two decades ago. Then I remembered that there haven’t really been many mainstream war comics since then. I know there have been […]

Static Shock #1 review

I’ve not read many comics with Static in them, just a handful of Teen Titans. Obviously a good kid, electrical powers, seems to use them to manipulate a flying disc. So here’s a chance for me to be pretty much the fresh reader whom the New 52 books hope to grab. Consider me ungrabbed. In […]

Green Arrow #1 review

One of the aspects of the New 52 books from DC that I’m appreciating is the extended scope of adventures. In the old days a hero was more likely to visit the dead planet Krypton than, say, Wales. When a country other than the USA did appear, it was usually there only to be blasted […]