Avengers Vs X-Men #6 review

The Phoenix Force has touched five members of the X-Men, giving them the power to change the world. It’s a week after the end of last issue, and Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Magik and Colossus have spent the intervening time doing good. They’ve fed the hungry, stopped wars, ended the energy crisis and they plan […]

Shade #9 review

This issue features superheroes, supervillains, gods, monsters and a gentleman thief in conversation with an Irish Gypsy. And if the latter were all this chapter of Shade’s world tour contained it would still be one of the best reads of the week. For Shade is one of comics’ unique characters, a man whose silver tongue […]

Legion Lost #10 review

The Legion Lost team get back to the future, but it’s a future too far. A time bubble liberated from their enemy, Harvest, takes the heroes a few years beyond 3012, where they find … no one. A catastrophe has devastated the Earth and the populace is nowhere to be seen. Legion Clubhouse provides no […]

Batman and Robin #10 review

In Gotham City, taking a course of acupuncture means getting into an iron maiden. And if you’re a would-be supervillain calling yourself Terminus, it’s going to be a hi-tech model transforming you into a man-mountain able to go up against Batman. Who Terminus began as, and what his beef is, we don’t learn this time. […]

Batman #10 review

Batman confronts the Court of Owls, but its members have confronted their own mortality – rather than face the judgment of Batman, they’ve taken their own lives. With a big dollop of ‘apparently’. Batman follows the clues, and his gut instincts, to Willowwood, an old Gotham hospital for kids with mental problems, where he finds […]

Jedidiah Starr #1 review

Jedidiah Starr – the name screams ‘space cowboy’. And that’s what we get in the first issue of this new series from View Comics, as a stranger moseys into town – after waking up in a crater. Jedidiah isn’t his real name. He’s a starman, a man who fell to Earth, named after her father by […]

Worlds’ Finest #2 review

In the present, Huntress and Power Girl, refugees from Earth 2, battle radioactive man Hakkou in Japan. They don’t know what he wants, but suspect he has connections to Apokolips. In the past, the heroines put together their new lives on Earth 1, as they conclude that the Darkseid sent packing by the Justice League […]

Dark Avengers #175 review

And Jeff Parker surprises me again. Which is surprising in itself – after years of stylishly stalwart service writing such Marvel titles as Agents of ATLAS and Thunderbolts, constantly delivering original spins on old tropes, I should expect the unexpected. Like here. The cover tells us that Thunderbolts has become Dark Avengers, with Norman Osborn’s […]

Harbinger #1 review

Eighteen-year-old Peter Stanchek is on the run. His life dominated by psychic powers he can barely control, he’s flitting from city to city to escape the man known as Tull. Accompanying Peter is Joe Irons, who’s also unable to fit into society, but it’s not powers that’s his problem, it’s a schizophrenic illness. Medication helps, […]

Earth 2 #2 review

This issue looks set to sell well after the publicity surrounding the new Alan Scott’s sexual orientation. But the news that the latest Green Lantern is gay is probably the least interesting thing about this comic. All that happens with Alan is that he’s reunited with fella Sam in China, and has a surprise for […]