New Challengers #1 review

Trini Alvarez. Robert Brink. Moses Barber. And… ‘Krunch. Just Krunch’? Four adventurers living on borrowed time, ready to face the challenges of the Unknown. Here we go again. DC returns to the Challengers of the Unknown concept but without the original team. Instead we get a quartet of new characters gathered by, it seems, one […]

Superman Special #1 review

Jon Kent can’t sleep. There’s a wooden leg looking at him from across his bedroom, reminding him of a promise he and his father made. They’ve not broken it, but neither have they fulfilled it. Months ago, they were stranded on Dinosaur Island, a strange realm of monsters that may be in the past, or […]

Justice League: No Justice #1 review

In space, the Green Lantern Corps are having no luck repairing the Source Wall, broken by the Justice League in the recent Dark Multiverse case and now spewing forth all kinds of insidious energies. On Earth, an invasion by Brainiac is being tackled by the League, the Titans, Teen Titans and Suicide Squad, as the […]

Flash #46 review

Wally West’s head is spinning. As he regains more of his pre-Flashpoint memories, the more out of touch with his new reality he becomes. A worried Barry Allen calls in some experts. In the future, Eobard Thawne and Hunter Zolomon, dark reflections of Barry and Wally, are trying to agree on how best to find […]

Action Comics Special #1 review

It’s the last hurrah for Dan Jurgens on Action Comics. And ‘hurrah’ is the last reaction you’ll get from me – I’ve been a big fan of his latest run as writer, and occasionally artist, on Superman. Good on DC, though, for letting Jurgens say goodbye with an extra-sized special. The 30pp Last Will […]

DC Nation #0 review

It’s Free Comic Book Day this weekend, and to celebrate DC has produced an all-new book showcasing their biggest storylines of the summer. OK, while it’s gratis as a digital download, it’s not quite free in shops, but 25 cents for a book of this quality is nothing to sneeze at. And it […]

Scooby-Doo Team-Up #37 review / DC Digital Scooby-Doo Team-Up chapters #73 and #74 review

The ghosts of Krypton are haunting Midvale, so who you gonna call? Mystery Inc! Having worked with Fred, Velma, Shaggy, Daphne and Scooby-Doo previously, Supergirl knows she can trust them with her secrets. The spectral figures from Argo City disappear as unexpectedly as they pop up, but before the gang can get down to […]

Justice League of America #29 review

It’s the final issue of Justice League of America, and boy, is it packed. It starts of millions of years in the past and ends with the promise of a bright new future. In between we get so many great moments – a massive development for Killer Frost, the return of a very obscure DC […]

The Terrifics #3 review

Metamorpho, Phantom Girl, Mr Terrific and Plastic Man must start coming to terms with the fact that a strange accident has bound them together. If one of them strays more than a mile from the others, theorises resident scientist Mr Terrific, they’ll explode ‘in a flash of dark energy’. Given the three male heroes haven’t […]

MAD #1

As a kid in the Seventies I loved MAD. The paperback reprints of the original Fifties stuff looked so good, with such lunatic energy, that it didn’t matter that I’d never heard of Gasoline Alley or Smilin’ Jack. At the same time I was buying the British version, which mixed the US material with original […]