Action Comics #977 review

Clark Kent is back at the Daily Planet and super-speed typing is once again the order of the day. Perry White has held the front page for Clark’s latest scoop, while Lois Lane is keen to get back home to son Jon. There’s a change of plan. Lois and Clark are happier than ever, yet […]

Retro Review: Wonder Woman #134 (November 1962)

Wonder Woman is taking a good, hard look at herself when she gets a shock. The face vanishes and Diana tells herself she imagined it, besides, she has a date with hunky Steve Trevor. He’s come to take her to an amusement park, which he reckons will relax the busy superheroine. Why she chooses to […]

X-Men Gold #1 review

The war with the Inhumans behind them, the X-Men have moved to New York City. Literally moved the mansion to Central Park. The idea is that they’re no longer hiding from the rest of humanity, making it less likely they’ll be feared and hated. It also makes stopping the latest alien attack more convenient. What […]

Superman #20 review

It’s a lovely spring day in Hamilton County. Jon Kent is seeing if he can fly. He can’t. Clark Kent is causing people to,look up, up in the sky as Superman. And Lois Lane Kent White Smith (long story) is getting used to being plain old Lois Lane Kent once more. Back Indoors, the […]

Booster Gold/The Flintstones Special #1 review

Booster Gold is going on a date in Gotham and out to impress. Sadly, he’s got just $200 to his name and that isn’t enough to buy even a rat meat dinner. Rat meat? Yep, Booster is back home in 25th-century Gotham City and, well, I’ll let this terrific splash spread put you in the […]

Titans Annual #1 review

Eight people in a locked room. No one knows how they got there. Confusion turns to paranoia. Accusations are made. Secrets emerge. No, it’s not 1997 sci-fi thriller Cube, it’s the 2017 Titans Annual as writer Dan Abnett continues to stir the DC Rebirth mystery meat pot. He’s been at it over a year now, […]

Batgirl Annual #1 review

Everything old is new again as Batgirl and Supergirl meet for the first time. The occasion is a visit to Project Cadmus, to find a psychic who’s pleading with Kara for help. I like that Babs is as cynical as me about the obviousness of the trap Kara is being dragged into. Actually, ‘cynical’ is […]

Teen Titans #6 review

The big deal this issue is the addition of new Aqualad Jackson Hyde to the book. He’s front and centre on the main cover by penciller Khoi Pham and colourist Jim Charalamipidis. He shares the spotlight on Chris Burnham and Nathan Fairbairn’s variant with Starfire. And the story officially starts, with the title and credits, […]

Action Comics #976 review

Ever read a comic that goes exactly where you expect it to… and you couldn’t be happier? That’s me and Action Comics #576, which wraps up the Superman Reborn story arc and along with it, the short, rollercoaster lives of the New 52 Superman and Lois Lane. But they’re not gone – the Lois and Clark […]

Retro Review – Adventure Comics #280 (1961)

One of the fun aspects of Silver Age Superboy was his habit of meeting heroes and heroines we’d already seen him encounter for the very first time as an adult. Batman, Green Arrow, Lois Lane, Supergirl and, in Adventure Comics #280, less than two years after her debut in Superman #129, Lori Lemaris. Reading this splash […]