Bodies #1 review

Four detectives. Four time periods. Four bodies.Or is it only one body, appearing at different points in the same London street – 1890, 1940, 2014 and 2050? That’s the high concept in Si Spencer’s new Vertigo series, but it’s not the only reason to check it out. Each vignette features authentic dialogue that will delight […]

Star Spangled War Stories #1 review

After the sales disappointment of New 52 titles Men of War and GI Combat, DC bravely makes another foray into the war genre. The USP here is that the star of Star Spangled War Stories is a zombie. Now, I’m not the biggest zombie fan, but I am a follower of writers Justin Gray and […]

Storm #1 review

Welcome to your first ongoing series, Storm. Hope you survive the experience. Actually, the old X-Men catchphrase doesn’t apply in this debut issue, as Storm is so powerful, so self-assured, there seems little she can’t handle. Certainly the thugs who don’t like her interfering – that is, saving lives – in their small state of […]

Batman #33 review

As the Zero Year storyline concludes, Batman is finally face to face with the Riddler, but it’s Edward Nygma who has the upper hand. The Riddler has a proposition – if Batman correctly answers 12 riddles, a dozen weather balloons won’t rain death down on Gotham’s citizens. Even if Batman succeeds, the city isn’t safe […]

Superman #33 review

Metropolis is buzzing about the new hero who made the scene last issue. At the Daily Planet editorial conference, Perry White asks all the right questions: Yeah, what’s with the long hair? As for the cape, Ulysses gets one later. Sort of.Perry sets his team off to explore the story from various angles, with Lois […]

Robin Rises Omega #1 review

Batman’s ongoing quest to bring Damian Wayne back from the dead spins off into a special as DC starts counting down to the the return of Robin. Will it be Damian by Batman’s side when the story ends at the turn of the year? It certainly seems so, given how long the sequence has been […]

Supergirl #33 review

A wonderful last page. That’s what this finale to the Red Daughter storyline has. I whooped, I smiled. Writer Tony Bedard has delivered on his promise to put some light into Kara’s life He does it literally, as well as metaphorically, as Kara uses the power of Earth’s yellow sun to best Worldkiller-1, the sentient […]

Teen Titans #1 review

New direction, more attitude, in your face. That’s the tagline for this first issue of a new Teen Titans volume. That, and the preview that ran in DC titles last week, had me expecting to be annoyed by this issue. Well, doesn’t ‘attitude’ equal ‘annoying’? It certainly did when attitude was zeitgeisty. Happily, the title […]

New Suicide Squad #1 review

A new chapter in the Suicide Squad story begins with a new number one. Events segue so smoothly from the last issue of the previous run that if you didn’t see the cover copy, you’d not notice. Still, if it helps sales and gets attention on the work of new creative team Sean Ryan and […]

Superboy #33 review

Apparently tasked with closing out this Superboy run by cleaning up the mess made by following a rotten concept (Superboy as conflicted living weapon) with a worse one (a replacement Superboy who’s an out and out killer), Aaron Kuder has fun. In short, killer Superboy Jon has been confronted by conflicted Superboy Kon at NOWHERE, […]