Wonder Woman 75th Anniversary Special #1 review

If you don’t know anything about a comic, can you blame it for failing to live up to your expectations? In this case, I think so. The title, Wonder Woman 75th Anniversary Special, heavily implies we’re getting a salute to the Amazing Amazon’s remarkable comics history. The original logo had me expecting at least a […]

Secret Six #7 review

What’s the collective noun for mystics? Whatever is it, we need it for Secret Six #7, as pretty much all of DC’s magic-based heroes and villains hold a council of war. The problem? Black Alice, teenage sorceress and Secret Six member. We knew she borrowed power from magical users but it seems there’s a previously […]

Secret Six #4 review

Last issue we saw how the new Secret Six members were coping with hiding out from Mockingbird in suburbia. This time we see how they got there. Blame some unavoidable production schedule shuffling after the just-launched book went awol for months. Happily, last issue was a hugely entertaining done-in-one, and this issue follows suit. Both […]

Convergence: Nightwing and Oracle #2 review

When we left Dick and Barbara, they’d been challenged by the Hawkman and Hawkwoman of another reality to fight for the survival of their world. Dick was battling in the streets as Nightwing, while Barbara plugged into her computer skills to become Oracle again, for the first time in far too long. The conflict continues […]

Convergence: Nightwing and Oracle #1 review

If Barbara Gordon and Dick Grayson used Facebook, they might define their relationship status as ‘complicated . Their love for one another is obvious – this Convergence micro-series sees them working as crimefighting partners, with massive affection for one another, and faith in each other’s crimefighting abilities. On the other hand, Dick can’t decide to […]

Secret Six #1 review

What is the secret? That’s the question on which this debut issue turns, as writer Gail Simone brings a fresh take on her superb Secret Six series to DC’s New 52 line. Fan favourites Catman and Black Alice are present and perhaps a little different, along with Strix from Birds of Prey, the Ventriloquist from […]

Batgirl: Futures End #1 review

Two years from today, Barbara Gordon gets married.Two years from today, Barbara Gordon becomes a widow.Five years from today, she is Bete Noir, the Beast of Gotham, running a trio of Batgirls. She’s cleaned up most of the city’s crime, and now the teacher Barbara modelled the Beast on is back in Gotham: Bane – […]

Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman #1 review

After more than 50 years, Wonder Woman returns to Sensation Comics – and this time it’s digital! Writer Gail Simone and artist Ethan Van Sciver have Oracle summon Wonder Woman to Gotham after Batman’s villains put the city’s heroes out of action. And courtesy of Amazon armourer Io, Diana has some new tricks. I’ve […]

Batgirl #22 review

Barbara Gordon comes back from a night of crimefighting to find she’s forgotten that she’s meant to be going on a date. At the front door, bearing a bouquet, is Ricky, whose one attempt at being a car thief cost him a leg. Now he’s cleaned up his act and getting to know Babs. If […]

The Movement #1 review

In Coral City, police officers Whitt and Pena threaten to arrest a young couple on trumped-up charges, but say they’ll let them go if the girl ‘gives us a little peek’. They’re stopped in their tracks on being surrounded by a crowd wearing identical masks, filming them on camphones. Their captain is angry when local […]