Doctor Fate #14 review

New Doctor Fate Khalid Nassour is tying up loose ends – a door into the realm of the dead, left open when he returned from the afterlife. A djinn having followed him through and tried to burn down New York, Khalid must make sure no more horrors enter our world. Guiding him – well, more […]

Dr Fate #12 review

Trouble is relative. New Dr Fate Khalid Nassour has died, come back to life and saved the world, but this is the scariest day of his life – he’s about to be thrown out of medical school for his continual absences. We know he’s not had a choice – when you’ve been drafted into a war between […]

Dr Fate #5 review

Now there’s an eye-catching cover, the latest in a series by artist Sunny Liew. Inside Liew’s subject is less whimsical, but the art is just as worthy of your time. Working with writer Paul Levitz, Liew presents a consistent, compelling world for Dr Fate. Or rather, worlds, as the book tends to move between the […]

Doctor Fate #1 review

It’s raining in New York. A storm is battering the streets. And the old gods are stirring… Medical student Khalid Nassour is in the Brooklyn Museum, being beckoned by a disembodied voice to don an ancient artefact – the golden helmet of Fate. He thinks he’s having some kind of unwanted drugs trip, but if […]

World’s Finest #32 review

Comics can be so surprising. I’d never have guessed that the best Lois Lane story I’ve read in years would feature the Earth 2 Red Tornado version. Because while I don’t like Lois being slaughtered at the Daily Planet, I hate the idea of her being denied heaven, forced to be an android warrior, and learning that […]

Worlds’ Finest: Huntress/Power Girl #19 review

Power Girl has two big problems: her powers are switching off at random times, and her tech company’s been stolen from her. As this issue opens, Karen is tackling the second of those issues by diamond hunting at the bottom of the ocean, getting the funds to pay lawyers to win Starr Industries back. As […]

Earth 2 #15.1 – Desaad #1 review

Desaad’s been featuring in Worlds’ Finest for awhile, matching wits and weapons with Power Girl and Huntress. The Apokolips sadist stars in this Villains Month one-shot, all three characters are on the cover – so obviously, it’s solicited as an Earth 2 tie-in, a great way to ensure the people most interested in the special […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #23 review

As things have fallen apart for the Legion over the past few months, I held onto the hope that the final issue wouldn’t let us down, that some weird story choices would be reversed, or revealed to have a greater purpose. I was sure that of the apparently dead Legionnaires, Sun Boy would return via […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #22 review

Comic Book Rule 12a: the closer a series is to cancellation, the better it gets. So it is that the penultimate Legion of Super-Heroes of this run is a better than average issue, featuring some seriously good moments in a chapter that entertains from start to finish. It’s not perfect, but it feels more like […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #21 review

There’s a real sense of doom around current Legion issues. It’s not just that the 31st century universe is being torn apart by the Fatal Five, it’s the real-world knowledge that an end is coming. That the series is being cancelled in a couple of months, to be replaced by a future Justice League series. […]