Doomed #3 review

Star Labs intern Reiser isn’t having a great day. He’s having to dog-sit his aunt’s annoying pooch, still hasn’t got a girlfriend … and has taken to turning into a rampaging, destructive monster after cleaning a lab at the Metropolis research facility. Things improve when fellow apprentice Jayne – who doesn’t know about his transformations […]

DC Digital Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman #45, #46, #47 review

College students Alicia, Jody and Nancy are exercising on a beach when Wonder Woman appears and races champion runner Jody. She gives no quarter, lecturing the young women on why she’s better than them, in the opening chapter drawn by Irene Koh and coloured by Wendy Broome. Then evil otherworldly counterpart Superwoman shows up, to […]

Superman/Wonder Woman #20 review

Superman has burst into the White House, furious that the US Government has torn his hometown apart in the wake of his other life as Clark Kent being revealed to the world. The authorities have kidnapped his Daily Planet colleagues and Smallville neighbours. Wonder Woman isn’t going to let them stay behind bars. And the […]

Batman #43 review

New villain Mr Bloom is front and centre this month as replacement Batman Jim Gordon investigates the plant patches that have been bringing street thugs super-powers… and death. Their maker meets Gotham gang boss the Penguin to talk about his business, and things don’t go well for either party. Elsewhere, Batman is confronted by local […]

Batman/Superman #23 review

I do love Superman and monsters. It rarely fails to make me happy. In a nice diversion from the general gloom of the Truth sequence in the Superman books, writer Greg Pak gives us a nice side story in which the stakes are stacked, but the fun is foremost. Ukur, the Beastmaster of Subterranea – […]

Action Comics #43 review

The continuation of the Hard Truth storyline opens with Superman attacking police officer Binghamptom. He’s been provoked by the authorities’ assaults on his neighbours, but it doesn’t look good as Jimmy Olsen captures everything on camera and automatically uploads it online. And then, Binghamptom stands revealed as one of the shadow monsters who have been […]

Retro review – Adventure Comics #306, the debut of the Legion of Substitute-Heroes

Polar Boy. Night Girl. Chlorophyll Kid. Stone Boy. Fire Lad. They debuted in ‘The Legion of Substitute Heroes’ in 1963’s Adventure Comics’ #306. If you’ve not read it, the tale sees an assortment of new heroes who fail to gain entry to the Legion – mostly because the members were a bunch of illogical snots […]

DC Comics Bombshells #3 review

It’s 1940 and Kara and Kortni are the newest Night Witches, members of Russia’s air division, training to take on the forces of Hitler. They’ve come to Moscow from the country home where Mother told them about witches and the dangers of the forest, and Father spoke of physics and the wonders of space. Kortni […]

Ms Marvel #17 review

It’s the end of the world as she knows it – and Kamala Khan feels far from fine. The people of Jersey City are panicking, her brother has been kidnapped by evil Inhumans and everyone is looking to Ms Marvel to save the day. The 16-year-old feels, understandably, overwhelmed. Thank goodness, then, that Captain Marvel shows […]

Batgirl Annual #3 review

Now there’s a cover that teases. The first meeting of Barbara Gordon and Dick Grayson since he was supposedly killed by Lex Luthor and went undercover with the super-secret Spyral organisation. Dick is in Gotham with partner Helena Bertinelli for some old spy guff. Kidnapped diplomats, secret weapon, blah blah. Babs is investigating the same […]