Action Comics #0 review

It’s already set five years in the past of the current DC Universe, but for zero month Action Comics goes just that little bit further back. To the week Clark Kent got a job at the Metropolis Daily Star while looking like a tramp. The week he moved into his first apartment. The week Superman […]

DC Universe Presents #9 review

After 16 years apart, a father and daughter are reunited. Sounds touching, but when the father is immortal villain Vandal Savage and the daughter is FBI agent Kass Sage, expect sparks to fly. And they do, as an electrically powered inmate interrupts their meeting at Belle Reve prison. Kass is after insight into a serial […]

Dial H #1 review

We begin with two losers. Nelson Jent, not yet 30 and smoking himself to death after a run of bad luck. And Darren Hirsch, healthier in body but mixed up with a very bad crowd. When Darren is beaten up by thugs working for his boss, XN, Nelse runs into an old phone box to […]

Justice League: Generation Lost #22 review

In which Blue Beetle is alive and kicking, Batman and Power Girl arrive for the final battle and Max Lord puts his endgame into action. As predicted here – well, pretty much everywhere – Jaime Reyes survived Max Lord’s bullet to the head thanks to his extraterrestrial armour. Reunited with a hysterically happy Justice League, […]

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 […]

Justice League: Generation Lost #19 review

Dustin Nguyen channels legendary movie graphic designer Saul Bass for this stark cover, which is certainly going to shift a few units. Another Blue Beetle dead at the hands of Max Lord? Say it ain’t so. This issue’s opening flashback takes us back to Blue Beetle Jaime Reyes talking to pals Paco and Brenda about […]

Adventure Comics #523 review

It’s the first day at Legion Academy for Glorith, apprentice to former Legion of Super-Heroes member the Black Witch. Dispatched from the Sorcerer’s World to Earth, she’s being called, says the Witch, by her ‘dark destiny’. There’s nothing like sending a girl off with a kindly word! Poor Glorith is either a bit dim or […]

Superman/Batman #79-80 review

Once upon a time DC’s editors were safe in assuming that their readership turned over every five years. That’s why the same storylines showed up again and again in the Golden and Silver Ages: Superboy gets a big brother, Lois gains super-powers, a new hero comes between Batman and Robin, Wonder Woman shrinks … That […]

Superman/Batman #78 review

This issue opens with shocking scenes as Superman and Batman are seen engaging in brutal conflict. The narration doesn’t shy from letting us know things aren’t as they seem, and we’re soon shown that the fights are the imaginings of two boys engaging in a game of ‘Who would win’? And that’s basically it for […]

Knight and Squire #2 review

I can’t remember the last time, while reading a comic, that I paused at every other panel to share a moment with my non-comics reading pal Steve*. That’s how it was with this issue, which sees Beryl – Squire in civvies – on hand as a newsagent sends a rubbish supervillain packing. It seems that […]