DC Universe Presents #13: Black Lightning and Blue Devil

I do enjoy a good pair of mismatched heroes. Green Lantern/Green Arrow; Power Man/Iron Fist; Blue Beetle/Booster Gold before they became a two-headed idiot … now here’s Blue Devil and Black Lightning, making their DC New 52 debuts. I expected light-hearted supernatural stuntman and streetwise gangbuster bouncing off one another. Instead I got two gritty […]

Superboy #12 review

Dragged out for a night on the town by new landlady Dallas Sorrentino, Superboy meets her posse and finds he doesn’t like alcohol. He likes the thugs who threaten Dallas even less. And as for their boss, moneylender Kavi is a full-on devil woman, bewitching the Clone of Steel with her mind powers. She’s not […]

Giant-Size Atom #1 review

And that has to be the best use of a ‘Giant-Size’ tag since the infamous ‘Giant-Size Man-Thing’. The Atom even gets to be a giant here, well, relatively, in one of several coups de science Ray Palmer comes up with as he battles evil boffins The Colony. Before he was so rudely interrupted, by being […]