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 […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #7 review

Surprise surprise, the two China-set plotlines begun last issue are linked – the polluting fire raging in the Xinjiang region is the work of the future cultists running amok in the urban area. Thankfully, Legionnaires are at both sites and ready to fight. Holding back the fire are Element Lad, Sun Boy and Chemical Kid, […]

Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child #1 review

New Orleans. Post-Hurricane Katrina. Grad student Dominique Laveau finds her pals disemboweled, escapes death by werewolf when snakes spring from her brow, then falls into the grave of legendary voodoo queen and namesake Marie Laveau. She has visions of the massacre of the latest of Marie’s successors and her court, and is attacked by a […]

Batman #7 review

The Court of Owls story goes on. And on, and on, spreading its wings through the entire Batman Family of titles. And Jonah Hex. And likely Tiny Titans, if it weren’t being cancelled – well, there is a Talon in there! The Talon in here’s an entirely different guy, though, and Batman discovers just who […]

Wonder Woman #7 review

If you’ve no attachment to the Wonder Woman legend, I can see that this comic could go down well. It’s full of relationships that get more interesting by the page, clever moments of action and unexpected revelations. As a longtime fan of Diana, I enjoyed the introduction of two more of her relatives, Eros, a […]