Super Sons #10 review

The family has moved to Metropolis but Jon Kent and dad Clark are back in the countryside, with their friends Damian and Bruce Wayne.  They’re testing Jon’s powers, which are kicking in by the day.  The kind-hearted Superboy wants his pal to share the experience of flight, providing a poignant moment.  A few weeks later, […]

Read More Super Sons #10 review

Superman #35 review 

The first family of Metropolis are on Apokolips and in big trouble. Superman has been dragged into Lex Luthor’s scheme to save his skin, pegged as the prophesied saviour of Apokolips. Lois has been co-opted into the Female Furies, where survival depends on remaining in Granny Goodness’s bad graces.  And Jon? He’s alone in the […]

Read More Superman #35 review 

Wonder Woman #34 review 

Having learned that she has a twin brother, Wonder Woman has located Jason in Greece, and it turns out that parentage isn’t the only thing they share.  They have questions. Diana wants to know why, given his foster father Glaucus told him of his background, he never sought out Diana. Jason wants to know why their […]

Read More Wonder Woman #34 review 

Superwoman #16 review

The mysterious Midnight has stolen Steel, sucked John Henry Irons through one of the mini-black holes that have popped up around Metropolis. When it tried to get Lois Lane, though, it failed. The injured Lois has managed to drag herself to the Steelworks, to warn Lana Lang, Superwoman, of the threat. There, she shocks Lana’s […]

Read More Superwoman #16 review

Supergirl #15 review

It’s a quiet day for Supergirl. Well, quiet in that there’s no supervillain to fight. It’s pretty turbulent in terms of emotions, as she deals with the ramifications of recent events. Her birth father, Zor-El, corrupted and recreated as the Cyborg Superman, attacked National City. She took him out and sent him into custody, but […]

Read More Supergirl #15 review

DC Disassembled?

There’s not been much interesting comics news of late. I’ve been waiting… and waiting… for an announcement on new series for the Legion of Super-Heroes and Justice Society of America.  Instead, today, DC gave us this.  My first reaction? Oh Lord, no.  If I’m in the mood, I can enjoy some Brian Michael Bendis. His […]

Read More DC Disassembled?

Captain America #695

Steve Rogers is back. He’s trying to restore Captain America’s good name after a Nazi Steve Rogers took over North America.  He turns up in a small town he saved from Nazi types ten years earlier in Marvel time, shortly after he emerged from his decades-long nap in a block of ice. He’s surprised to […]

Read More Captain America #695

Superman #34 review

Lex Luthor has been teleported against his will to Apokolips, where followers of the missing Darkseid believe he’s the dark lord’s successor. Lex’s robots on Earth have enacted a protocol that sends Superman after him along with, inadvertently, wife Lois and son Jon. Unfortunately, they’ve been split up by the Mother Box technology, scattered across […]

Read More Superman #34 review

DC House of Horror #1 review 

Baby Kal-El crashes in Kansas and kills Jonathan and Martha Kent.  A girl goes on a murder spree, possessed by the spirit of Wonder Woman.  A Gotham City worker slaughters his wife, egged on by a spectral Harley Quinn.  Bruce Wayne is taunted by the voice of the Joker, the one villain he can never […]

Read More DC House of Horror #1 review