Justice League International #8 review

With several JLI members out of action after a bomb attack on the UN, Batman calls in help – Batwing, Batman Inc’s good man in Africa. After visiting his old friend Vixen in hospital he helps Booster Gold take on Lightweaver, one of the villains behind the atrocity, as he attacks the unit. Blows and […]

Supreme #63 review

At last, the comic you’ve dreamed about is here! The Supreme Story of the Year … Given that the last issue of Supreme appeared in 2000, Image Comics might like to call this The Supreme Story of the Millennium. Whatever anyone else is calling it, I’m calling this an unexpected treat – Alan Moore’s final […]

Action Comics #8 review

Oh. My. Word. If there’s a page in this week’s comics more likely to make you jump out of your chair than the full-page shot of Superman flying towards the reader, I don’t wish to see it. Here I’ll show you … no, I’m not sure you’re ready. Get a stiff drink, bear with me […]

Avengers vs X-Men #1 review

It’s coming …. That’s what massive, intrusive blurbs on Marvel covers have been telling us for months, and now it’s here. The Phoenix Force is at the centre of Marvel’s big 2012 crossover, in which Earth’s Mightiest Heroes fight the Children of the Atom. The prize is Hope Summers, supposed mutant messiah, the woman expected […]

PREVIEW REVIEW Jack Hammer: Political Science

Private detective Jack McGriskin has been hired to find a tech firm’s missing employee. He finds him all right – dead. The company pays him and says to let the case lie, but he wants answers. And he finds them in this sharp mash-up of hard-boiled crime and superheroics. Superheroics? Yep, as well as being […]

Legion: Secret Origin #6 review

It’s the final issue of this expanded look at the origins of the Legion of Super-Heroes and it’s confirmed that the figure behind the attacks on team benefactor RJ Brande is the Time Trapper. This issue starts with him influencing United Planets Security Directorate member Mycroft to take out Brande, but it turns out Brande isn’t alone […]

Avengers #24.1 review

Longstanding Avengers powerhouse the Vision was ripped in two by teammate She-Hulk, while she was under the influence of his mad missus, the Scarlet Witch. Now he’s back, repaired by Iron Man, and understandably confused. Why would Wanda, his beloved wife, do this? Iron Man has no answers. He seeks out She-Hulk and she’s thrilled […]

Superman #7 review

Alien overlord Helspont sends a powerful robotic ‘thrall’ to Metropolis to assess Superman and finds him worthy; worthy of enlisting him in his quest to make Earth Daemonite territory. When he finally meets Superman himself, he can’t understand something (click on image to enlarge): And with that one moment, showcasing a defiant hero, proudly wearing […]

The New Deadwardians #1 review

Chief Inspector George Suttle is the last of a dying breed. The only murder squad detective in the Metropolitan Police of 1910, he’s not had a lot to do since Londoners changed. A zombie apocalypse decades previously means most people are beyond being murdered – they’ve either succumbed to the zombie plague or taken The […]

Avengers vs X-Men #0 review

And here it is, the beginning of Marvel’s summer event, Avengers Vs X-Men. The focus here is on the two team associates set to be at the centre of each side’s ire: Scarlet Witch, who removed the powers of thousands of mutants, killing many; and Hope Summers, the teenager able to jump-start new mutants, and […]