Category: Richard Friend

New Super-Man #1 review

In Shanghai, a youth chases another down the street. Bully and victim. So it’s a surprise when, a little later on, the bad boy saves the timid teen from a supervillain.  Kenan Kong isn’t all bad. His better instincts take over when victim Luo Lixin is in proper danger, and while he’s soon back to […]

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Wonder Woman #37 review

The Amazons are facing increasingly frequent attacks by man-eating metal birds of prey, attracted to Paradise Island looking for their commander, the God of War, and these days, that’s Wonder Woman. Diana has been missing the attacks, due to her preoccupation with Man’s World. As the latest assault occurs, she’s sparring with boyfriend Superman and rebuffing […]

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Wonder Woman #36 review

The Justice League gathers when water of tidal wave proportions kills thousands of people in Thailand and Ecuador. Wonder Woman finds Swamp Thing at one of the scenes of devastation and attacks, accusing him of mass murder. When Aquaman counsels calm, Diana explains that she just doesn’t know where her head is at… The new […]

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Forever Evil #6 review

It’s the penultimate issue of Forever Evil and things are rather heating up. Batman and a bevy of super-baddies led by Lex Luthor break into the fallen JLA satellite and battle the Crime Syndicate. The kidnapped Nightwing is found and he’s in a sticky position. And the mysterious Man in the Hood stands revealed. The […]

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Forever Evil #3 review

In which we learn what happened to the Justice Leagues after the Trinity War, find out whether Vic Stone can survive being dumped by his cyborg parts, watch Ultraman tear through Black Adam, see Deathstorm and Power Ring take on the Rogues and view the beginnings of an anti-Crime Syndicate. As unambitious event books go, […]

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Forever Evil #2 review

The Crime Syndicate has taken over the Earth. The members of the Secret Society are putting down opposition. The Justice League has vanished. Will anyone emerge to defend the people? Step forward the Teen Titans and … Lex Luthor? The former run into CS members Johnny Quick and Atomica and it doesn’t go well, as […]

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Forever Evil #1 review

The Crime Syndicate of Earth 3 are taking over the world and their first step is to set the prisoners free – the super-prisoners, anyway. They’re building up the existing Secret Society of Super-Villains as they seek not power for power’s sake – they already have immense power – but because they believe this Earth […]

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Justice League #13 review

What a difference a few months makes. It’s not that long ago that Wonder Woman was attacking her Justice League teammates for the very suggestion that they might help with what she considered private business. But here she is, persuaded that the rest of the League should assist her in finding a lost tribe connected […]

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