Justice Society of America #41 review

Any less long-in-the-tooth DC fans out there willing to tell me what they’re making of the constant cameos from obscure characters in James Robinson’s recent scripts? I love it when we’re reminded that Naiad is still around, or Faust. Or, as in this second part of the current back and forth JLA/JSA team-up, Yellow Peri […]

The New Avengers #2 review

Earth’s Mightiest Heroes united against a common threat! On that day the Avengers were born to fight the foes that no single hero could withstand! So goes the legend attached to hundreds of Avengers stories. It’s dramatic, concise and challenges creative teams to come up with stories worthy of the brightest and best. And on […]

SPECIAL GUEST REVIEW Marvel Her-oes #4

Her-Oes graduates to its fourth and sadly final issue as Janet, Namora and Jen end one adventure together and draw up plans for future ones. The issue begins with the heroic triumvirate using their unique abilities to defeat Moonstone and her yellow-clad (and fashionably blind) henchmen at Namora’s mansion. While Namora and Jen fight with […]

Amazing Spider-Man #638 review

Almost 100 issues after Marvel erased Spider-Man’s marriage, the furore’s pretty much died down. While a few diehards still protest the business – and I don’t blame them, One More Day wasn’t a great story – most readers have managed to move on and simply enjoy a seriously good comic book. So why start picking […]

I’m just popping over to Comic Book Resources …

… for a little article on DC’s all-ages titles and why I’d like to see a Wonder Woman title attempted. If you’ve the time and interest, give it a read. Thanks! Here’s the link

Power Girl #13 review

The opening panel of this debut issue by new creative team Judd Winick and Sami Basri has Karen referring to her complicated past – survivor of a parallel Krypton, and all that. My initial reaction is, give it a rest. That storyline’s been done to death, Can’t we just ignore the convolutions of Power Girl’s […]

Dazzler #1 review

Ah Dazzler, she never had a chance. Debuting as the Disco Dazzler in 1980, long after the musical fad had died, saddled with shocking eye make-up, a glitterball around her neck and roller skates. Sent against some of Marvel’s toughest villains – Dr Doom, the Enchantress, Galactus – in order to prove she had what […]

Zatanna #1 review

The bad: Zee’s too busty. The good: Everything else. This is a stylish little comic, as the first-ever Zatanna ongoing debuts. The backwards-talking magician shows a terrifically conceived mystical mob boss and his band of demons what’s what after they begin to strike at the mortal world. And apart from the introduction of presumably supporting […]

Avengers #1 review

Wow. This comic really does lack the ‘wow!’ factor. It’s positioned as the beginning of a bold new age for the Marvel Universe, the Heroic Age, but it feels like just another Brian Bendis Avengers book. Admitedly, the stakes are higher than has often been the case, as Kang the Conqueror warns of a threat […]

Superman #698 review

There’s some kind of comic book law that says that as soon as a writer divests themselves of teething problems on a book, they’re off it. At the moment it’s happening with Gail Simone on Wonder Woman, and here it is again with James Robinson. In my review of last issue I mentioned that I […]