Superman #5 review

Superman wants to move his battle with the Eradicator away from the crowded streets of Metropolis. He also needs to ensure his wife Lois, and son Jonathan, are safe. There’s no time to both get his family someplace they aren’t in danger, and then find a battlefield. So he takes them to the Moon. And into […]

Superman Rebirth: #1 review

Superman is dead. At his tomb in Metropolis, another Superman waits. Below it, Lana Lang plans to take the remains of her friend, bury him in Smallville by his parents. When Lana is confronted by a familiar stranger, a plan is set in motion – bring a newly dead hero back to life. I like […]

Batman/Superman #31 review

A dying Superman wants to say his goodbyes, and ensure his work carries on. So it’s off to Gotham for something of a twofer – tell Batman what’s up, and ask the world’s greatest detective for help in finding Supergirl. He arrives to find Batman in a scrap with a bunch of minor villains and […]

Superman/Wonder Woman #22 review

In this great issue! Lois bitches at Lana. Lana punches Lois. Superman decks Flash. Superman terrifies a prisoner transport team by ambushing them in their chopper. Wonder Woman follows up by slapping them with their sword. The pair kidnap the Parasite from the chopper. Wonder Woman smashes the chained villain in the kisser. Superman kicks […]

Superman/Wonder Woman #20 review

Superman has burst into the White House, furious that the US Government has torn his hometown apart in the wake of his other life as Clark Kent being revealed to the world. The authorities have kidnapped his Daily Planet colleagues and Smallville neighbours. Wonder Woman isn’t going to let them stay behind bars. And the […]

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 […]

Batman/Superman #18 review

Superman has his own Joker, an adversary who doesn’t want to rule the world so much as watch him suffer. And how do you make an invulnerable man hurt? By attacking the people who matter to him. Not just friends, but those he’s saved over the years, folk who have gone on to make more […]

Superman #31 review

The Superman Doomed story continues in splendid form this issue, as writer Scott Lobdell bows out as series writer. His biggest dangling plotline is the problem with Lois, currently a secret psychic puppet of Brainiac. Here she messes up efforts to cure Superman of the Doomsday virus by having him leave Lex Luthor’s prison-turned-hero-hospital. An […]

Superboy #19 review

The best superhero origins can be expressed in a sentence. Superman – rocketed to Earth from the exploding planet Krypton. Spider-Man – teenager bitten by a radioactive spider gains amazing powers. Superboy – clone created from the genetic material of the present day Superman, Lois Lane and an unknown donor by a time travelling madman […]

Superman #18 review

In which Superman is questioned by the US Senate, Cat Grant lays out her plans for her blog with Clark Kent, and Orion enters the picture. It’s Orion who opens the issue, letting off steam while saving a planet of ‘cowards’ from rampaging monsters, as he answers a summons from his father, Highfather. Then we […]