The Multiversity: Ultra Comics #1 review

Well, that was a trip. It may also have been a trick. It’s difficult to know with Grant Morrison’s Multiversity project, which sees an armload of comic books combine to make us question what it means to invest – financially and emotionally – in the art form. This penultimate book – next month everything wraps […]

Justice League United: Future’s End #1 review

In the recently debuted Justice League United series, Miiyahbin Marten has just discovered her super-powers and hasn’t yet adopted a superhero identity. Five years in the future she’s Equinox, Canada’s greatest hero. And she has a great new villain: ‘Great’ as in fun, not impressive. It’s the Polargeist, making a polar heist! Equinox makes short […]

Justice League United #3 review except it’s really #2, blame DC, OK?

The origin of the latest Justice League rattles along nicely, with answers gained as to what alien tech is doing hidden in the wilds of Canada, and the nature of Ultra the Multi-Alien. Plus, we finally catch up with the cold open of issue #0. Green Arrow, Stargirl, J’onn J’onnz and Animal Man meet Sardath, […]

Batman/Superman #10

Superman and Ray Palmer must shrink down into the Batman’s body when a microscopic alien presence puts him in a coma. We’ve all seen the Fantastic Voyage bit transposed to comics. Writer Jeff Lemire avoids the usual ‘we’re being attacked by blood cells’ cliches by going the other route for an Atom story – having […]

Forever Evil: ARGUS #3 review

Set during the Forever Evil event, this mini-series follows agent of ARGUS Steve Trevor as he tries to protect a world without Justice Leagues from the Crime Syndicate of Earth 3. Figuring that his best bet is to free the heroes from wherever they’ve been imprisoned, Steve makes a deal with the Morai – the […]

Earth 2 #8 review

Qurac, Bialya … it doesn’t matter which continuity we’re in, or what the dimensional plane, DC is never short of a Middle Eastern country that hates the US. The latest, Dherain, debuts in this issue. Its chief feature isn’t the futuristic towers that dominate the landscape – it’s the citizens’ tendency towards ludicrously expository dialogue. […]

DC Universe Presents #13: Black Lightning and Blue Devil

I do enjoy a good pair of mismatched heroes. Green Lantern/Green Arrow; Power Man/Iron Fist; Blue Beetle/Booster Gold before they became a two-headed idiot … now here’s Blue Devil and Black Lightning, making their DC New 52 debuts. I expected light-hearted supernatural stuntman and streetwise gangbuster bouncing off one another. Instead I got two gritty […]

All-New Batman: The Brave and the Bold #11 review

In the DC New 52, Jonah Hex has decamped to Gotham City. In the Johnny DC line, he’s there too (click on image to enlarge). Don’t expect saloon girls coming to sticky ends, though. This being an all-ages book the story centres on Ra’s al-Ghul, a giant robot and an earthquake machine. It’s the latter […]

Batman: The Brave and the Bold #12 review

There’s been a break-in at the House of Mystery. Who ya gonna call? Why, Batman and Zatanna, of course, the detective and the magician. The House’s proprietor, Cain, greets the pair, and introduces his brother Abel … transformed into a tree. Changing him back is easy for Zee, but the big question is: who did […]

All-New Batman: The Brave and the Bold #7 review

Given that Green Lantern Alan Scott was operating in Gotham City for decades before Batman debuted, I’ve often wondered if the older hero had any influence on the younger? Here we find out, courtesy of the all-ages Batman team-up book. For anyone thinking this tale can’t possibly count in terms of ‘real’ continuity, I spotted […]