Wonder Woman #613 review

It’s part 842 of the Odyssey story and the finish line is in sight. In this issue, Diana fights Nemesis, goddess of Exposition. Clad in Diana’s original form – the star-spangled heroine of the regular DC Universe – Nemesis battles the new model we’ve been following for the past year. And finally, readers get answers. […]

SPECIAL GUEST POST: Barbarian #3 review

Now this is an odd little comic. Starting out as your average hack-n-slash barbarian vs sharp-toothed, purple-skinned monsters tale, complete with retro sound effects (I’ll see your ‘koom!’ and raise you a ‘rraar!’ and a ‘thawack!’), manga-style visuals and the odd hacked-off limb, it morphs into a cautionary sci-fi story where the big, scary monsters are actually saccharine-sweet, peace-loving veggie good […]

Legion of Doom #2 review

Heatwave continues his bid to break out of flying prison the Hall of Doom, aided by Eel O’Brien, the stretchable stinker who hates to be known as Plastic Man. They battle unofficial prison guards Atomic Skull and Animal Man, and find out who’s controlling the executing Amazo android that put paid to KGBeast, Slipknot and […]

Power Girl #26 review

Last month regular writer Judd Winick ended his current association with Power Girl with a story that paid tribute to Karen Starr, as a hero and a person. If the next two issues of the series, fill-ins before the post-Flashpoint DC Universe wipes out this book, were stinkers, we could easily pretend the comic ended […]

DC Retroactive 1970s Batman #1 review

The still of the Gotham night is broken by a new threat to the citizenry, the Terrible Trio, cheering a bored Batman up no end. The Fox, the Shark and the Vulture have stolen the MO of the Silver Age villains of the same name, and they manage to outwit Batman twice before the Gotham […]

SPECIAL PREVIEW REVIEW: Princeless #1 review

Postmodern takes on fairy tale tropes aren’t new. In comics there’s Fables, the big screen gave us Enchanted and Tangled, TV had The Charmings and the musical stage, Into the Woods. That doesn’t mean there’s no room for another entry in the mini-genre, especially when it’s as good as Princeless #1, which is barbed yet […]

Supergods review

SUPERGODS: Our World in the Age of the SuperheroBy Grant Morrison Jonathan Cape, 444pp, £17.99 HALFWAY through his memoir, Scottish comic book writer Grant Morrison – he’s just about to revamp Superman from the ground up for DC Comics – mentions going on holiday to Kathmandu. When he was there, he claims, beings from a […]

Legion of Super-heroes #15 review

Star Boy’s multiversal energies are used by Professor Harmonia Li to open the gate to her homeworld of immortals, currently under attack by the Legion of Super-Villains. Thom and Harmonia stay behind to maintain the portal while the rest of the heroes fly through, along with Oan spirit Dyogene. On the other side of the […]

DC Retroactive 1970s Wonder Woman review

‘Groovy’ is the buzz word used to describe this callback to Wonder Woman’s days as globetrotting adventurer Diana Prince. After reading the issue, that’s not the first term that springs to mind. As the Sixties ended, plunging sales led to a radical revamp for Wonder Woman. Bereft of her powers, she used martial arts and […]

Daredevil #1 review

Look Ma, no ninjas! Matt Murdock’s back in New York City, fighting villains in court and on the street. In this debut issue’s opening salvo he saves the day when a surprise supervillain crashes a Mafia wedding, finds that it’s not easy being an attorney when your secret identity’s a bust and is attacked by […]