The Hypernaturals preview review

Having served a long tour as Marvel’s masters of the cosmic, writers Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning fetch up at Boom! Studios for a new superhero sci-fi series. We’re in the 100th year of the Quantinuum and Earth’s greatest heroes, the Hypernaturals, are in their 21st iteration. Sent to investigate a cosmic storm threatening the […]

Men of War #1 review

I was going to open this review with the qualifier that I’m not a big fan of war comics, not having read any regularly since DC’s last entries in the genre were cancelled two decades ago. Then I remembered that there haven’t really been many mainstream war comics since then. I know there have been […]

Justice Society of America #52 review

The action is on two fronts as Mr Terrific learns who’s behind his incredible shrinking intellect, while the rest of the JSA bring in specialists to discover what’s beyond the secret door under Monument Point. The news is bad for Terrific as he learns that the stranger who nobbled his noggin is dead, a suicide. […]

DC Universe Holiday Special 2010 review

DC aren’t kidding when they call this one a ‘holiday’ special. Usually these giants are full of Christmas cheer, with perhaps the odd nod to Hanukkah. Not the 2010 edition, which arrives with an attractive, but two-weeks-late, Thanksgiving Day cover by Matt Haley. Every one of the six stories centres on a different holiday, with […]

Reign in Hell 1 review

Having given a lot of attention to its space heroes over the last few years, DC gives its supernatural sector a shot at greatness. The guiding light in hell is writer Keith Giffen, who helped make Marvel’s cosmic crew popular again with the Annihilation series. He’s joined by penciller Tom Derenick and, in what I […]