Legion: Secret Origin #2

Assassination attempts – you wait forever for one, then three come along at once … Someone really doesn’t like RJ Brande. He’s only just getting over one attempt on his life when two more come. Once again, though, the billionaire industrialist is protected by Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad and Cosmic Boy, who he’s decided to organise as a Legion […]

Legion: Secret Origin #1

The future starts here. Like Batman and Green Lantern, the Legion of Super-Heroes is a series barely changed by DC’s Flashpoint event. With the New 52 experiment bringing new readers to comics, it makes sense, then, to go back and address the origins of the 31st-century team. As a longtime fan, though, having seen the origin […]

Supergirl #67 review

Professor Anthony Ivo, criminal scientist. He’s been causing headaches – and much, much worse – for DC’s heroes since the Silver Age. Here he sees out Supergirl’s current title in random mad genius mode, not the scariest of threats but enough to give Supergirl a few problems. The surprise is that he’s actually trying to […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #16 review

And so ends another chapter in Legion history, as the Legion of Super-Heroes mops up the last members of the Legion of Super-Villains and the sacrifice of one hero destroys the blue being behind recent calamities. One long-running mystery that’s resolved is the identity of the little blue god. The evidence pointed towards Krona, ancient […]

Supergirl #65 review

It’s just another day in Metropolis. Lois Lane is chatting to a bagel-barmy teenager on the tram when robotic flying monkeys attack. Supergirl and Starman swoop in to save the day, but not before the critters’ young target, Charlize, has gone from hysterical to gibbering wreck to comatose. Before you know it, Supergirl is undercover as Linda […]