Superman #39 review

Well, it’s taken a few issues, but Geoff Johns and John Romita Jr have come up with a Superman story that had me smiling from beginning to end. Last issue saw our hero defeat super-creep Ulysses with a new manifestation of his heat vision that left him with no powers for a day. Then he […]

Superman #38 review

This is the issue I’ve been waiting for. DC teased that Superman was getting a new super-costume. Then they let us know he was getting a new super power. But they kept the issue’s real Big Moment under their hat. Finally … Ulysses gets a haircut. The lank, blond locks are incinerated as Superman’s new […]

Superman #37 review

I always knew Ulysses was a stinker. Part five of the Men of Tomorrow story sees him admit to Superman that he doesn’t want to save millions of discontented Earth people by transporting them to his adopted planet – he wants to feed them to his world’s core, as fuel. His captive, Superman, is horrified, […]

Captain America #1 review

After years of super-serious, super-spy action, the Captain America series tries a new direction – Jack Kirby craziness. The relaunched Marvel Now! title looks back for inspiration to the Seventies, when Cap’s co-creator wrote and drew the adventures of the Sentinel of Liberty, and far-out was the order of the day. While incoming writer Rick Remender emulates The King’s […]

Amazing Spider-Man #692 review

I’ve been away from Amazing Spider-Man for a few months – too many extended storylines, new costumes, the $3.99 price point … but I do like an anniversary issue, and this one marks 50 years since Amazing Fantasy #15 saw Peter Parker gain his powers. I like the main figure of Spidey on Humberto Ramos’s […]

Amazing Spider-Man 588 review

This is part 4 of 4 of the Character Assassination storyline, but it’s more than that; it’s the wrapping up of the first batch of plotlines since Brand New Day began bringing us an almost weekly Spidey book. That’s over 40 issues and editor Steve Wacker and his assistants deserve a big spider-tracer on the […]

Amazing Spider-Man 573

Whoa, a little heavy on the brow, nose and jaw there, Mr Romita. Norman Osborn looks less like the Green Goblin than the Pink Platypus. Cover apart, John Romita Jr provides first class pencils this issue, as he has in the other five parts of New Ways to Die. Kudos, too, to inker Klaus Janson […]