Adventure Comics #529 review

With tutors Night Girl, Bouncing Boy and Duplicate Girl taken out by Cosmic King, it’s up to the Legion Academy students to defend Legion of Super-Heroes HQ. And while they do a fine job, a sacrifice is the price they pay for victory. It’s satisfying to see the trainee heroes finally cut loose after months […]

Legion of Super-heroes #15 review

Star Boy’s multiversal energies are used by Professor Harmonia Li to open the gate to her homeworld of immortals, currently under attack by the Legion of Super-Villains. Thom and Harmonia stay behind to maintain the portal while the rest of the heroes fly through, along with Oan spirit Dyogene. On the other side of the […]

Adventure Comics #528 review

It’s Graduation Day for Legion Academy students Nightwind, Power Boy, Lamprey and Crystal Kid but celebrations are muted in some quarters. Most of the younger students are deflated, angry or both at the fact that after years of training, none of the graduates are off to the Legion of Super-Heroes. They’re leaving Montauk Point, outside […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #14 review

The Legion of Super-Heroes’ efforts to stop the reborn Legion of Super-Villains’ reign of terror continue in entertaining, if occasionally infuriating, style. The entertainment comes mainly from the action and interaction between the rich mix of characters on both sides of the morality line. There’s Professor Harmonia Li’s brushing off of Dream Girl with unknown powers when […]

Adventure Comics #527 review

I always had mixed feelings about Comet Queen. When she appeared in the Eighties, the first thing I noticed about her was the visual, and I was rather taken by her smooth lines, that weird flaming head, the big grin. Then she opened her gob and I wanted to reach for the duct tape. Comet Queen’s Valley […]

Adventure Comics #526 review

It’s another split book month, with the first feature concluding the Academy students’ trip to the planet Phlon, and the second focusing on XS, super-speed Legionnaire from a lost universe. ‘First Hints’ has Chemical Kid enlisting Gravity Kid, Dragonwing and Glorith to cover up the fact that his father had dealings with the criminal Taurus […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #12 review

It’s the Legion of Super-Heroes vs the Legion of Super-Villains in an action-packed instalment. Given that LSV leader – well, tyrant, actually – Saturn Queen has only recently begun gathering her troops I was expecting a longer preamble prior to any meaningful confrontation, but here we have the new LSV surprised by the 31st century’s […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #11 review

Following on from this month’s Legion of Super-Villains #1, Lightning Lass, Sun Boy, Phantom Girl, Wildfire, Ultra Boy, Tyroc and Colossal Boy help with the clean-up after Saturn Queen’s destruction of the prison on Takron-Galtos. Along with such old ‘friends’ as Tyr, we meet two new would-be LSV members, Fume and Frost. Elsewhere on the […]

Adventure Comics #524 review

Superman isn’t the only character grounded this week. Over in the 31st century, the new students at Legion Academy have some privileges revoked by instructor Duplicate Girl after a spot of tomfoolery last month. But Chemical Kid isn’t having it – credit card problems indicate that something’s not right with his father, so he grabs […]

Legion of Super-Villains #1 review

Wonderful as it is, one thing the revived Legion of Super-Heroes has been lacking is powerful, compelling foes. Well, here they are, in the latest version of the Legion of Super-Villains. Chief among them is Saturn Queen, always a super-hypnotist, but rarely as focused as she is today. Her powers augmented by a mysterious blue […]