Batman #13 review

After several issues, we finally get to see the makeshift Suicide Squad in action as Punch & Jewelee, the Ventriloquist and Bronze Tiger bid to help Batman out of a tough situation. The Caped Crusader is slumped before Bane, the criminal’s ally Psycho Pirate and the traitorous Catwoman. At the start of the issue, married […]

Batman #12 review

Batman is fighting his way across Bane’s Santa Prisca stronghold. Dozens of thugs stand in his way but he’s determined to snatch Psycho Pirate from him and take him back to the US. He wants the mind-mangling villain to restore the sanity he stole from troubled young heroine Gotham Girl. That’s what’s happening in the pictures. […]

Batman #10 review

Batman is flying over the South American state of Santa Prisca. He wants the villainous Bane to hand over Psycho Pirate so he can undo mental damage done to young superheroine Gotham Girl. But Bane isn’t having it and with the resources of an entire country at his command, the Batplane is blown out of […]

Batman Rebirth #1 review

Alfred is pruning the fruit trees at Wayne Manor when teenager Duke Thomas arrives. Bruce is in Gotham, dealing with the latest plot by Calendar Man Julian Day – he releases spores which could spell doom for the city of Batman doesn’t kill them. He does, in spectacular style, but once Day is behind bars […]

Superman: American Alien #4 review

I’ve not been following this latest look at Superman’s early years – I’ve read that story too many times. Reading a précis for this issue, though, I saw that it was another take on the first meeting of Clark Kent and Lois Lane. Given that I’ve not seen a lot of Lois lately, why not […]

Batman Eternal #51 review

So, last week we had the big reveal as to just who’s been bedevilling Batman and friends for the last few issues … Cluemaster. Apparently there was a lot of grumbling after Batman Eternal #50 that Stephanie Brown’s dad isn’t a big enough name to be the mastermind who’s brought Gotham City down around Batman’s […]

Action Comics #38 review

I’ve read Superman stories stories previously that dipped their toe into the horror waters. There was that time he met Dracula and Frankenstein’s Monster. The business with Batman and vampires. A ghost at the Tower of London. But this, this is something different. It’s proper nailbiting, disturbing horror as the ‘Smallvillains’ storyline continues with Superman […]

Action Comics #27 review

Last time, Superman rescued Lana Lang and her engineering colleagues from a raging beastie which emerged from a hole in South America. He let everyone think he’d […]

Action Comics #26 review

A monster has emerged from the ground in South America and the people are in a panic. Electrical engineer Lana Lang grabs a security guard’s dropped gun and fires at the beast. She’s scared, but excited. Onto the scene comes Superman, having traced the tectonic disturbances he felt in Metropolis. Man battles monster, until a […]

Batman/Superman #1 review

It’s several years ago and Metropolis-based Wayne Enterprises staff are being murdered. Hoping for a lead, young Daily Star reporter Clark Kent tracks down billionaire contemporary Bruce Wayne in Gotham. Suspicious of the stranger, Bruce refuses to discuss the matter, leaving Clark sitting in a gloomy park. Later, in Metropolis, Batman catches Catwoman acting strangely, […]