Green Arrow Industries #1 review

In this Flashpoint one-shot there’s no super-heroic Green Arrow. Only dashing Ollie Queen, a businessman who’s hit on the idea of using tech confiscated from super-villains, developing it into even more terrifying weapons and selling it on to governments. Nice guy. Well, he thinks so. His security chief, Roy Harper, isn’t so sure. He thinks […]

Project Superman #1 review

Lt Neil Sinclair, patriot. He’s volunteered for Project Superman, General Sam Lane’s attempt to create a super-soldier to protect America from rogue metahumans. We first meet him 30 years ago, when he’s jumped to the front of the queue due to a number of run-ins with paranormals. Prone to quoting zen proverbs, and sporting what look […]

Lois Lane and the Resistance #1 review

Would someone please give DC Comics a clue? Or better still, an atlas? Anyone looking at the expository panel on the first page of this Flashpoint tie-in could be forgiven for thinking that the United Kingdom is a synonym for England. It ain’t. The UK is ‘The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’. […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #14 review

The Legion of Super-Heroes’ efforts to stop the reborn Legion of Super-Villains’ reign of terror continue in entertaining, if occasionally infuriating, style. The entertainment comes mainly from the action and interaction between the rich mix of characters on both sides of the morality line. There’s Professor Harmonia Li’s brushing off of Dream Girl with unknown powers when […]

Grodd of War #1 review

As Aquaman holds forth over continental Europe, and Wonder Woman bestrides the UK, Super-Gorilla Grodd rules over the entire continent of Africa. But, as the witty opening to this story makes clear, while the rest of the world cowers from Atlanteans and Amazons, few people even know his name. Clever as the opening is, […]

Tiny Titans #41 review

The super-speedster Titans decide to have a race, five times round the world, losers buy the lemonade. Blue Beetle is all set to make some moolah with his lemonade stand, but some stupid alien backpack has forgotten to pack the fruit. Raven makes sure she’s out of the way of the ‘Flash mob’. And Wonder […]

Legion of Doom #1 review

The Legion of Doom is a name that warms the cockles of a generation, the fans who followed Luthor, Sinestro and their dastardly acquaintances on the Challenge of the Super Friends cartoons. Me, not so much – I don’t think those shows ever reached British TV. Still, the high quality of Flashpoint tie-ins to date […]

Deadman and the Flying Graysons #1 review

One of the particular pleasures of Flashpoint is its global reach. Usually in comics heroes visit other countries solely to watch them getting blown up. While it’s true this changed reality crossover has plenty of devastation – the French are drinking more than the odd bottle of Evian, while millions of Brits have swapped eating […]

Wonder Woman and the Furies #1 review

Wonder Woman and Aquaman, a match made in mythology. The heirs to fabled kingdoms, willing to undertake a marriage of state to strengthen their realms in the eyes of a world they’re rejoining after thousands of years apart. She the finest of the Amazons, he the greatest son of Atlantis. But when the leaders of […]

Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown #1 review

Like Frankenstein’s creation, this comic is the sum of many parts. Most obviously, there’s the monster himself, from the Spawn of Frankenstein strip in Phantom Stranger via the more recent Seven Soldiers event. The Creature Commandos hail from Weird War Tales, which also hosted the GI Robot who shows up here. More surprisingly, Captain Nathaniel Adam (Captain […]