GUEST POST Constantine #18 review by Colin Smith

Why can’t the cool be distilled from the challenging, the attitude from the provocation, the pleasurable shiver from the unnervingly taboo, the comfortingly lad-thrilling from the tragic and the confounding? Why not John Constantine, super-magician? Skill, a cunning change of genre and a clear sense of purpose can transform even the most unsettling of characters […]

Superboy #33 review

Apparently tasked with closing out this Superboy run by cleaning up the mess made by following a rotten concept (Superboy as conflicted living weapon) with a worse one (a replacement Superboy who’s an out and out killer), Aaron Kuder has fun. In short, killer Superboy Jon has been confronted by conflicted Superboy Kon at NOWHERE, […]

Superboy #30 review

Superboy gets another new creative team in the shape of writer Aaron Kuder and artist Jorge Jimenez Moreno and that’s the only reason I’m back buying this frustrating series. Kuder – currently wowing fans with his art on Superman over in Action Comics – showed promise as a writer with last year’s Parasite special. And […]

Stormwatch #30 review

It’s a day in the life of Stormwatch. The real Stormwatch, the team who bumped the first New 52 version out of continuity having been themselves despatched. Where, I don’t know, as I jumped off the book around the time they arrived with writer Jim Starlin. Throwing out the entire cast of an under-performing book […]

Superboy #24 review

Psycho Pirate has revealed himself to Superboy as the man behind the weird goings on at a city school. His Medusa Mask gives him enough power to keep Superboy calm while he explains that Kon’s new friend, Dr Psycho, has been using him, getting close enough to tap into his psi powers and begin taking […]

Superboy #23 review

Superboy and Dr Psycho are investigating a school where an unknown psychic is driving people crazy. As we join our hero, he’s being attacked by the entire student body, apparently made over into monsters. Even trusty pal Krypto is affected, with the Superdog crazed and on the attack. But Superboy finds a way to turn […]

Superboy #20 review

Like this week’s Suicide Squad, the 20th issue of Superboy features a new writer. Justin Jordan jumps on board to continue the Dr Psycho story from two issues back that was so rudely interrupted by … no, I don’t want to talk about it. The best thing that happens this time is that Superboy heads […]

Superboy #19 review

The best superhero origins can be expressed in a sentence. Superman – rocketed to Earth from the exploding planet Krypton. Spider-Man – teenager bitten by a radioactive spider gains amazing powers. Superboy – clone created from the genetic material of the present day Superman, Lois Lane and an unknown donor by a time travelling madman […]

Superboy #16 review

In which Superboy, Superman and the Justice League fight to take the Fortress of Solitude back from Kryptonian con man H’el. At stake, the survival of Planet Earth. This is down the line superhero fun. I nearly typed ‘big dumb superhero fun’ but it really isn’t – writer Tom DeFalco is at his best here, […]

Superboy #15 review

Superboy is dying after being assaulted by supposed Kryptonian H’el. Superman takes him to the Fortress of Solitude where scientific advisors Cyborg and Dr Veritas puzzle over Superboy’s three strands of DNA. They’re breaking down, leading Superman to suppose that his Kryptonian armour might boost Superboy’s healing the way it did his own, years ago. […]