Doom Patrol #7 review

The Chief is back and he wants to lead the Doom Patrol again. Robotman isn’t keen. I see his point. And yet soon the Chief is getting a trial run as head honcho. Hang on though, look at that background. Who else had a concentric circles effect when using his power? Steve Dayton, Mento. He could […]

Batman ’66 Meets the Legion of Super-Heroes Chapter 1 review

Atomic batteries to power. Flight rings to speed’. And that title perfectly knits together the worlds of Batman ’66 and the Legion of Super-Heroes. The Caped Crusaders and the 30th century’s greatest super-teens come together to tackle two of their most dastardly villains… … OK, so one of them is Egghead, but he has his fans. […]

Booster Gold/The Flintstones Special #1 review

Booster Gold is going on a date in Gotham and out to impress. Sadly, he’s got just $200 to his name and that isn’t enough to buy even a rat meat dinner. Rat meat? Yep, Booster is back home in 25th-century Gotham City and, well, I’ll let this terrific splash spread put you in the […]

Silver Surfer #6 review

I’ve not been reading many Marvel Comics of late. Secret Wars wasn’t my cup of tea, providing a great opportunity to stop purchasing digitally day and date and finally use my Marvel Unlimited subscription. Civil War 2 pulling the line together again – well, more like strangling it – has seen me buying only books […]

Miracleman Annual #1 review

Having read the UK Marvelman stories as they appeared in the Eighties, then their US continuation as Miracleman, I’ve been able to avoid Marvel’s overpriced reprints. An annual of new material, though, that sounded good. Especially as one of the stories has a Grant Morrison script and art by Joe Quesada, and the other, work […]

Silver Surfer #1 review

I’ve never liked the Silver Surfer. Bit of a whiner. Not as bad as Pariah over at DC, but so far as the Marvel Universe goes, he has no peer.Dan Slott makes me like the Silver Surfer. More precisely, he makes me like ‘a’ Silver Surfer. Because this isn’t the super-sensitive, poutingly pompous, horribly heartbroken […]

FF #6 review

When a book is eye candy to the extent that FF has been to date, a bit of grit really stands out. The grit on Joe Quinones and Laura Allred’s luscious FF #6 pages is the dream Scott Lang has of murdered daughter Cassie, a grey squall on a tropical sea. The images stay with […]

FF #2 review

The Fantastic Four were only supposed to be gone for four minutes. As the deadline comes and goes, with no return of Ben, Johnny, Sue and Reed, the replacement FF get to know the Future Foundation kids. And a villain comes a-calling. This is more like it. After a slow introduction via Fantastic Four #1-2 […]

FF #1 review

With the Fantastic Four planning an expedition to unknown worlds, Reed Richards wants to make sure the Earth isn’t unprotected – even though the mysteries of time travel mean Mr Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch and the Thing are only going to be gone for four minutes. Plus, there are the trainee brainiacs […]