X-Men Regenesis #1 review

Wolverine is rebuilding Professor Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters on the East Coast. Cyclops is remaining on Utopia island on the West. Here’s where a couple of dozen mutants decide where their future lies. The awkwardly named X-Men: Regenesis is set just prior to the end of last week’s Schism #5, and shows us why […]

Supernatural #1 review

I’m not a big fan of TV tie-ins, but the idea of a Supernatural story set in the city where I live tickles me. After all, Edinburgh doesn’t get much in the way of visits from imaginary folk. We had the X-Men fighting Proteus, and Batman turned up as part of The Scottish Connection. That’s […]

X-Men Schism #5 review

The most fearsome Sentinel ever is trudging towards Utopia and all Cyclops and Wolverine can do is attack one another. Admittedly, the former is trying to stop the latter from blowing up the godforsaken rock that has become the ‘mutant homeland’, but the fight’s about more than that; it’s the culmination of the philosophical gulf […]

Hawk & Dove #2 review

While Hawk and Dove fight to keep Washington DC safe from Alexander Quirk’s Monsters of Mass Destruction, super-criminal Condor kills rival Osprey so his powers can turn a psycho into a Swan … … spotting a pattern? Yup, everyone’s a bird. And everyone has a variation on the same costume: Hawk and Dove, Condor and […]

Justice League International #2 review

Now that’s a fantastic cover – a well-conceived image, finely executed by Aaron Lopresti and coloured in unusual tones by Hi-Fi Design. Inside Justice League International #2 we have the continuation of the battle with the mystery giant in Peru, and things don’t go too well. Circumstances see leader Booster Gold take the tough decision to […]

Huntress #1 review

The Huntress is in Naples, out to stop a shipment of drugs reaching Gotham. It turns out the contraband on a boat isn’t just illegal substances, it’s women. After fighting her way past some goons she gets the ladies out and blows up the boat. While the local crime boss takes out his unhappiness on […]

The Fury of Firestorm, the Nuclear Men #1 review

Ronnie Raymond is Firestorm. And Jason Rusch is Firestorm. And together they’re Fury. Oh dear. One of my favourite concepts in comics – kid with crappy home and school life becomes a colourful, fun superhero- is blown apart as instead of one likeable Firestorm, we get two idiot ones. First there’s Jason Rusch, whose prejudices […]

The Savage Hawkman #1 review

Carter Hall has had enough of being Hawkman. He drives to a remote spot, blasts and burns his costume and buries it. But the alien Nth Metal contained within the outfit isn’t done with him. Manifesting as a phoenix, it burns Carter. Next thing he knows he’s waking in his apartment, naked. A visit from […]

Justice League Dark #1 review

Super-heroine the Enchantress is broken. Gone mad, her gnarled form hurls hideous spells at the Justice League of America. Elsewhere, simulcra of her former host, June Moone, walk into the path of motorway traffic, dying horribly. Watching from afar, tarot reader Madame Xanadu tells alien madman Shade the Changing Man that only specialists can repair […]

Flash #1 review

Police scientists Barry Allen and Patty Spivot are on a date at a tech symposium when a masked gang bursts in and gasses the guests. Too fast to be affected, Barry changes into the Flash to battle the baddies. Most get away but he manages to grab one and throw him safely into a building […]