100th Anniversary Fantastic Four #1 review

It’s the 100th anniversary of Marvel Comics, which means it’s the 100th anniversary of the Fantastic Four. OK, it’s not quite 2061 yet, but this comic imagines what our grandkids – or more likely, us, pickled heads in a cryogenic crockpot – will be reading then. The Fantastic Four is no longer Reed Richards, Sue […]

Captain Marvel #15 review

Kelly Sue DeConnick did something amazing. She made me like Carol Danvers for the first time in years, wiping away the obnoxious personality grafted onto her in the Civil War event and replacing it with a good-hearted humanity. So even though I was left flat by the first issue of Infinity – my last, bet […]

Black Lightning: Year One 1 review

DC’s Year One brand is back and Black Lightning’s the star. Truth be told, I didn’t have high hopes for this, having never been a huge Jefferson Pierce fan. I read a few issues of his original title in the Seventies, but the short-lived series was never a favourite. He joined Batman’s Outsiders but was […]