Action Comics #1 review

Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound! These are the classic lines that have evoked Superman for generations, and all three are referenced in this first issue of Superman’s new beginning. And there’s more. A lot more, as Grant Morrison and Rags Morales […]

DC Retroactive 1980s Green Lantern #1 review

John Stewart saves the planet from nuclear missiles launched by the Shark, then gets down to the important business of the day – revealing his secret identity to his girlfriend, Tawny Young. Next morning he wakes to find that she’s not the woman he thought she was – the very talky Tawny has gone public […]

Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #1 review

He’s the Master of Kung Fu, but not even Shang Chi can stand against the power of … bedbugs. So he’s been infected with Spider-Man’s powers in a plot by the Jackal, and is having bad dreams. Dreams in which he attacks and eats Fat Cobra, one of the mystical champions known as the Immortal […]

Gambit and the Champions #1

Behind a cracking cover from David Yardin we have another escapee From The Marvel Vault, a Gambit-starring story that had been gathering dust before the company’s move to new quarters last year. Well, ‘story’ may be exaggerating – Marvel had artwork from the late George Tuska, but no script. Scott Lobdell has supplied that, leading to what […]

Secret Avengers #16 review

Deep under Cincinnati, something stirs. It’s a hidden city established, and abandoned, by the Secret Empire, and the Secret Avengers are investigating particles of Von Doom radiation, the telltale sign of the bad doctor’s time technology. The place seems deserted, but the heroes – Super-Soldier Steve Rogers, the Beast, Black Widow and Moon Knight – […]

Justice League #1 review

Say hello to the New DC Universe. Tweaked costumes, younger heroes, different relationships …. it’s bound to be a bumpy ride, but that’s not so bad in the superhero genre. DC kicks off with its big guns book, hoping the traditional combination of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash and the rest draws us in … […]

Flashpoint #5 review

It’s the end … and the beginning. DC’s summer event closes the door on one chapter of the DC Universe and begins a new one, as the Flash, Barry Allen, changes the timeline. A lot of this issue is fighting of the kind we’ve gotten used to over the past few months. Amazons attack, Atlanteans […]

Teen Titans #100 review

It’s the fight no one demanded, Superboy Prime vs the Teen Titans. Time and time again Prime has been defeated, placed in an ‘ultimate prison’, depowered, whatever … but he keeps coming back. DC writers just love him, with this month’s fan being JT Krul. He’s allied Prime with a Legion of Doom comprising villainous […]

Batman Incorporated #8 review

Twenty years ago DC Comics brought out Digital Justice, in which a computerised Batman takes on a Joker virus. Or so Wikipedia tells me – I never read the book. The Tron-like set-up, and the promise of computerised art, just put me off. I’m no fan of video games so stories centred on such realms […]

Justice Society of America #54 review

Jay Garrick, by a graveside, is joined by the villainous Per Degaton. They don’t fight, they’re here to mourn. We flash back to learn the story behind the coffin Stupidly named god D’arken has leeched power from the JSA and is on the rampage. The full complement of members show up, but even with the […]