Standoff: Assault on Pleasant Hill Omega #1 review

Baron Zemo is out to get the upper hand in Standoff: Assault on Pleasant Hill Omega. He’s dispatched Kraven the Hunter to trap Cosmic Cube kid Kobik in the hope of reshaping reality to match his Nazi worldview. A young-again Steve Rogers rallies the various Avengers teams to take on the dozens of super-villains just […]

Wonder Woman #0 review

For Wonder Woman readers, DC’s Zero Month means a trip back to Diana’s childhood, and harsh lessons from an Olympian. The story opens with the 12-year-old princess of Themyscira stealing a harpy’s egg to make her birthday cake. She hands the egg to her mother, because on Paradise Island, says Hippolyta, ‘you need to present […]

Men of War #1 review

I was going to open this review with the qualifier that I’m not a big fan of war comics, not having read any regularly since DC’s last entries in the genre were cancelled two decades ago. Then I remembered that there haven’t really been many mainstream war comics since then. I know there have been […]