Superboy #26 review

It’s Superboy #26, a comic I was determined not to buy, but you know how Santa is, leaving behind things he read on the way over from the North Pole. I didn’t want to support this decidedly uneven series any longer due to its replacing the lead character with a darker version. Kon El is […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #21 review

There’s a real sense of doom around current Legion issues. It’s not just that the 31st century universe is being torn apart by the Fatal Five, it’s the real-world knowledge that an end is coming. That the series is being cancelled in a couple of months, to be replaced by a future Justice League series. […]

Red Hood and the Outlaws Annual #1

Once upon a time Roy Harper was Green Arrow’s tech guy. Today he’s the anti-hero known as Arsenal and Green Arrow is the last person he wants to see. Ollie Queen, though, turns up on the hidden island HQ of Roy, Jason Todd and Princess Koriand’r of Tamaran – aka Red Hood and Starfire – […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #20 review

The new Fatal Five’s attack on the United Planets continues, with members vying to see who can kill the most Legionnaires. On the world where Sun Boy died, FF leader Tharok, controlling a Promethean Giant, bids to stomp out his Legion opposite Phantom Girl’s life, prompting her to fade away … Meanwhile, two Legionnaires are […]

Red Hood and the Outlaws #19 review

Red Hood has gone missing and it’s up to Arsenal and Starfire to find him. But can they reach the mystical realm of the All Caste with the mysterious Essence out to stop them? Oh, that was fun, I’ve always wanted to write DC solicitations copy. But I also like writing reviews. And this issue […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #18 review

There’s no let-up for the Legion after the horrors of last issue. On Earth, the team’s shattered HQ is besieged by a mob whose members assume they’re behind the failure of quark technology that has thrown the United Planets into chaos. On the unknown world where Sun Boy died, Invisible Kid, Polar Boy and Phantom […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #17 review

The joke among longtime Legion fans when it was announced that classic artist and writer Keith Giffen was returning to the 31st century was, how long until he kills his hated Karate Kid yet again? Well, here he is, co-plotting with continuing writer Paul Levitz and no martial artists die. That’s the good news. The […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #16 review

It’s Shrinking Violet and Chameleon Boy vs Validus as the search for the new Fatal Five continues. The pair visit prison planet Takron Galtos with colleague Lightning Lass to see if the giant with mental lightning really is still imprisoned in impregnable inertron, or if there’s been a bait and switch. Back on Earth, the […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #15 review

An eerie voice wakes sleeping Legionnaire Glorith and bids her follow their words. In a daze, she enters a glowing cloud and finds herself in Barcelona, and attacked by a mob whose members want to burn her for the witch that she is. Back at headquarters the next morning, pals Dragonwing and Chemical Kid are […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #12 review

The Legion are invited to dinner – and guess who’s on the menu? One look at Dominator chief Primus Dom – acres of fat and massive, sharp teeth – and most of us would be terrified. Not the Legion, though. First to turn defiance into action is Dream Girl, who bypasses the ‘junky locks’ to […]