Batman #43 review

New villain Mr Bloom is front and centre this month as replacement Batman Jim Gordon investigates the plant patches that have been bringing street thugs super-powers… and death. Their maker meets Gotham gang boss the Penguin to talk about his business, and things don’t go well for either party. Elsewhere, Batman is confronted by local […]

Batman #42 review

Just massively entertaining. That’s what this second outing for Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s new Batman is. It’s hard to remember that I don’t like the idea of a RoBatman when the reality is so much fun. This issue features a new Batmobile, a Bat-app, good advice from Maggie Sawyer and Julia Pennyworth, a fresh […]

Batman Eternal #51 review

So, last week we had the big reveal as to just who’s been bedevilling Batman and friends for the last few issues … Cluemaster. Apparently there was a lot of grumbling after Batman Eternal #50 that Stephanie Brown’s dad isn’t a big enough name to be the mastermind who’s brought Gotham City down around Batman’s […]

Batman Eternal #48 review

Batman Eternal is in the home straight, with the Batman Family fighting souped-up villains at various points around Gotham. Jason Bard has realised he was wrong about Commissioner Gordon and tries to get the Mayor to sign a release form. The Penguin sparks a riot in Blackgate Prison – where Gordon’s incarcerated on a trumped-up […]

Batman #38 review

Batman isn’t quite at his wits’ end dealing with the latest attack on Gotham by the Joker, but for once he doesn’t have a plan. In Endgame’s fourth chapter, the Clown Prince of Crime’s madness virus is claiming more and more victims, and if a cure isn’t found, death is the end. It seems death […]

Batman #36 review

The Justice League members have been Jokerised. Ingenuity and gadgets have seen Batman take out Wonder Woman, the Flash and Aquaman, and there’s a plan in place for Cyborg, but Superman, he’s another matter. As this second part of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Endgame story opens, Batman is fighting for his life. Under the […]

Superman Unchained #9 review

An alien armada is fast approaching Earth, one so powerful there may be only thing that could stop them – the death of Superman. Lex Luthor has given the Man of Steel a vial of solar fuel which, when injected in the vicinity of the invasion force, will make him explode with unimaginable power. Batman […]

Wytches #1 review

It’s a new beginning for Lucy and Charlie Rooks and daughter Sailor. A horrific event has made Sailor an outcast, so the family have moved far away, to a house in the woods. Sailor’s first day at school is marked by a potential friend asking the question she feared: And things just get worse from […]

Batman #34 review

After the long look back at Gotham that was Zero Year, this issue catches the book up to the events of DC’s weekly Batman Eternal series while introducing a new madman to the mythos. The Meek is wandering Gotham, murdering the patients of Dr Leslie Thompkins, not because of her link to Batman but because […]

The Wake #10 review

Last issue ended with the two story strands of this series drawn together, as 23rd-century woman Leeward met the 21st century’s Lee Archer. Was the latter a ghost? A hologram? Somehow still alive after 200 years? This issue we get answers, lots of them, as writer Scott Snyder and artist Sean Murphy bring their aquatic […]