Batman and Robin #14 review

Gotham City, 1892, and ritual follows the death of a man. Gotham City, 2024, and Batman and Robin are enjoying a night on the town. Gotham City, 2024, the next evening, and Bruce and Damian Wayne are not enjoying a night on the town. The tuxedos are itchy and Oracle says there’s a chance of […]

Action Comics #1070 review

A few years ago DC added a back-up strip to Action Comics, around the time that Supergirl lost her ongoing title (again). And since then I’ve regularly suggested Supergirl take the spot as a nod to where she started, back in the Silver Age. And now, 694 issues since she departed her solo series in […]

Justice Society of America #12 review

… or, as it should say on Mikel Janín’s terrific cover, Stargirl 25th Anniversary Special. Because that’s what this final issue of the limited series is – not the epilogue to the lengthy story we’ve followed over the last few years, but a love letter to Courtney Whitmore. I’m not inclined to moan too much […]

DC All In Special #1 review

Flip books. How I hate them. You’re reading a comic and you get to the middle and have to turn it upside down, usually for no good reason. It’s just a gimmick. DC All In Special does have a decent excuse for the chapters starting from opposite ends of the book, meeting in the middle […]

Absolute Power #4 review

Amanda Waller’s power is no longer absolute. The superheroes have broken out of her prison on the island of Genosha. The Brainiac Queen has been defeated. And Superman Jr Jon Kent has been freed from cybernetic servitude, giving the depowered good guys a very powerful asset. A two-pronged plan is hatched. The heroes will break […]

Absolute Power: Task Force VII #7 review

It’s the final issue of the Absolute Power tie-in series and the moody cover by Pete Woods lets us know that this one one is a bit different. The previous numbers have involved world dictator Amanda Waller’s Amazo assault squad chasing down Justice Leaguers who escaped being flung into her metahuman prison. But look at […]

Outsiders #11 review

What if you threw a Crisis and nobody came? That pretty much sums up the final issue of Outsiders, one of the most brazenly confusing comics I’ve ever read. I never covered the last issue because it was also a headscratcher, one I gave the benefit of the doubt. Surely the double-sized final issue would […]

Action Comics #1069 review

It’s the conclusion of Superman’s intergalactic boxing bout… well, boxing is understating it as punches are thrown, but so is an axe. The point is that the Man of Steel is being forced to fight other extraterrestrials, but ones with a more brutal attitude to puglisim. Luckily he has two official seconds… and an unofficial, […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #31 review

Years ago, the Justice League of America members gathered in their space base 22,300 miles above the Earth to watch a celestial event. ‘Wow’ is speedily followed by Pow! It’s Leaguer against Leaguer, the attackers’ faces tainted by the telltale tones of Eclipso, the man who was hero and villain. How did it come to […]

Absolute Power: Super Son #1 review

Amanda Waller used Jon Kent as a tool against other heroes in her war on metahumans. Infected by the Brainiac Queen, he hunted down his friends, but now he’s free, recovering on Paradise Island. Jon’s belief that all cyber corruption is gone proves to be wrong. He relives things he did while under control of […]