Powers of X #2 review

Jonathan Hickman is writing two fortnightly X-Men books, with each informing the other. And a pattern is emerging. House of X is a fun comic, Powers of X is the homework. And so it is that today’s issue of Powers of X ran the gamut from intriguing to dull, proving occasionally hard work. The first, […]

Event Leviathan #3 review

In Superman’s Fortress of Solitude, the self-proclaimed ‘world’s greatest detectives’ gather to solve the mystery of Leviathan, the shadowy figure who’s been taking down the planet’s most powerful security and criminal organisations. Some time earlier, Jason Todd, the anti-hero known as the Red Hood, is leaping off a city roof, chased by those same superheroes […]

Dear Justice League review

Superman is opening his Metropolis Mailbag. Once upon a time, that meant a literal sack of handwritten letters but today the post arrives faster than a speeding bullet, directly on to Superman’s mobile phone. Oops. Oh well, not even a Justice League member can win them all. At the Hall of Justice, after a run-in […]

Future Foundation #1 review

In an ideal world Marvel would wave a magic wand and the Power Pack kids would be de-aged and reunited to star in a new comic. We’re not getting that but Future Foundation does give us a couple of them, now Julie Power, aka Lightspeed, has joined brother Alex as joint head of Reed Richards’ […]

Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds #2 review

Last issue Cliff Steele’s car went off a cliff and this time, to the surprise of precisely no one, he’s back in a robot form, courtesy of Keeg, the negative being who shares Larry Trainor’s body. It’s a little basic, but has potential. The sleeping Larry pops some strange critters. Everyone chases them around Dannyland. […]

House of X #2 review

Wow. Things just got very interesting in the latest X-Men revamp. Last week’s Powers of X #1 featured a page Marvel have been calling ‘the most important scene in the history of the X-Men’. Big words, but you know what? Writer Jonathan Hickman really has given us a massive game-changer. While not the full ‘everything […]

Batman Secret Files #2 review

In the late 1990s and early 2000s the Secret Files and Origins specials from DC Comics were an occasional treat. Sure, their mix of short strips and Who’s Who-style feature pages didn’t always make for brilliant, essential reads, but the gem-to-clunker ratio made them worthwhile buys. And now here’s Batman Secret Files #2, a tie-in […]

Justice League Dark Annual #1 review

Very soon, on beginning this Justice League Dark Annual, I realised that it’s a stealth Swamp Thing Special. Very soon, I didn’t care. Because this is an absorbing, affecting, great-looking read which works as a one-off, while feeding into DC’s current crossover, Year of the Villain. Not that the other characters who weave in and […]

Powers of X #1 review

Ten years ago, as his dream of a peaceful coexistence for mutants and humans is forming, Charles Xavier meets a young woman. Today, on the new mutant refuge of Genosha, Mystique bargains with Charles Xavier and Magneto over a memory stick. A hundred years from now, mutants and humans are at war. And after a […]

History of the Marvel Universe #1 review

If ever a Marvel comic has had more concepts in a single issue, I’d be surprised. Eternals. Inhumans. Abstracts. Mutants. The list goes on. But story? Not so much. There’s nothing, really, to review in terms of fresh narrative. This isn’t an organic tale, more incidents tagged together to make a timeline. As the title […]