Justice League International #6 review

After five months of the Signal Masters storyline, which culminated in the new JLI sending the godlike Paraxxus packing, it’s time for some downtime. For the heroes, though, that doesn’t mean sitting around – it means cleaning up loose ends around the globe – giant robots, citizen bombers, that sort of thing. This issue, then, […]

Justice League International #5 review

A recent edition of John Siuntres’ excellent Word Balloon podcast saw Marvel ‘architect’ Matt Fraction talk about the difficulty of writing 20-page comics. It’s not just a matter of cutting two pages from a 22pp story, apparently … Which confused me. As a kid raised in the days when all comics had just 17pp of story, 20pp […]

Legion of Super-heroes #15 review

Star Boy’s multiversal energies are used by Professor Harmonia Li to open the gate to her homeworld of immortals, currently under attack by the Legion of Super-Villains. Thom and Harmonia stay behind to maintain the portal while the rest of the heroes fly through, along with Oan spirit Dyogene. On the other side of the […]

Booster Gold #45 review

Booster’s in trouble. Stranded in an altered world, with no friends, facing the beast that once maimed him … it’s not good. But he manages to escape Doomsday, and save an innocent bystander. As it turns out, the bystander is his first heroic ally in the world of Flashpoint, though the hero doesn’t learn this […]

Adventure Comics #527 review

I always had mixed feelings about Comet Queen. When she appeared in the Eighties, the first thing I noticed about her was the visual, and I was rather taken by her smooth lines, that weird flaming head, the big grin. Then she opened her gob and I wanted to reach for the duct tape. Comet Queen’s Valley […]

Booster Gold #44 review

Booster Gold and robotic sidekick Skeets are in Coast City, investigating the enigma-ridden blackboard that appeared in time master Rip Hunter’s secret lab a few issues back. They’re looking for Green Lantern but find themselves attacked by a military machine which mistakes Booster for the enemy – an Atlantean attacker. Atlantis at war with the surface world? […]

Justice Society of America 23 review

Oh nasty Isis . . . really, she’s back from the dead and getting her revenge on Felix Faust for his actions in the Black Adam mini series which followed 52. Which I never read, as I’m not keen on the way he’s been presented over the last few years as an anti-hero, when he’s […]

Birds of Prey 119 review

This issue sees the return of Black Canary to the book, after she was dragged away by the JLA and Green Arrow editorial offices and stripped of the dimensions she’d gained under writers Chuck Dixon and Gail Simone. It’s a temporary, yet triumphant, return, with a nice cover appearance – courtesy of Stephane Roux – […]