Superman #33 review

Metropolis is buzzing about the new hero who made the scene last issue. At the Daily Planet editorial conference, Perry White asks all the right questions: Yeah, what’s with the long hair? As for the cape, Ulysses gets one later. Sort of.Perry sets his team off to explore the story from various angles, with Lois […]

Superman #32 review

And here it is, the much-hyped debut of the new Superman creative team. The wraparound cover sends the message that writer Geoff Johns and penciller John Romita Jr are out to inject energy into this book. While the image-to-image chest symbol blurring doesn’t come off, stopping after the first few Superman figures, and his calves […]

Uncanny Avengers #5 review

The promise of the Wasp back on an Avengers team put this book straight to the top of my reading list. Comic-book-killed in some crossover awhile back, she returned last year, and here she is – strain and on John Cassaday’s cover you can see Jan perched on Cap’s bath mat – flanked by fellow […]

Uncanny Avengers #1 review

With the Avengers/X-Men war over, Captain America begins putting a new team together. His first potential recruit, Havok, proves useful when Avalanche attacks New York City, declaring that the mutants are back. Lives are saved but Avalanche, whose brain is operated on by an unseen figure at the start of the issue, escapes. At the […]

Avengers Vs X-Men #12 review

And so it goes. Another Marvel event ends, this one with several bangs and the odd whimper. The bangs, you’ll be unsurprised to hear, come as the Scarlet Witch and Hope Summers join forces to attack Cyclops. He’s turned Dark Phoenix and is popping up across the globe to rain fire from the sky, cause […]

Avengers vs X-Men #11 review

The Phoenix Five are now two. Cyclops and Emma Frost share the cosmic power that can shape reality, and while they started out by changing the world for the better, the Phoenix entity is corrupting them. With the aid of brain scrambler supreme Professor Charles Xavier, the united Avengers and X-Men confront them, demanding that Cyclops stand […]

Avengers vs X-Men #7 review

‘No more Avengers.’ When Cyclops uttered those words at the end of last issue, we knew big things were coming this time. After all, he has the reality-changing power of the Phoenix, and his words echoed those of Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, when she removed the powers of almost every mutant on Earth. Let’s […]

Avengers Vs X-Men #6 review

The Phoenix Force has touched five members of the X-Men, giving them the power to change the world. It’s a week after the end of last issue, and Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Magik and Colossus have spent the intervening time doing good. They’ve fed the hungry, stopped wars, ended the energy crisis and they plan […]

Avengers vs X-Men #5 review

The Avengers and the X-Men are fighting on the moon, with Hope Summers the prize. She’s plugged into the Phoenix Force, which the former team fears will destroy the Earth and the latter believes will restore Mutantkind. Iron Man and Giant Man create a giant robot to disrupt the Phoenix, as it crosses space on […]

Secret Avengers #22 review

It’s a changing of the guard. New creative team, new members, new threats. Secret Avengers #22 sees Captain America hand over the reigns of the Avengers’ covert ops team to Hawkeye and recruit Captain Britain to join Valkyrie, Black Widow, Beast and Ant-Man. Their first mission takes them to Pakistan, where a frightened young mother has […]