Avengers Academy #10 review

I’ve been wanting to see more lessons at Avengers Academy, and that’s what we get this month, with classes in Rudiments of Magic, Applied Chemistry, Extraterrestrial Culture, Anger Management and Superhuman Ethics. The guest teachers are Dr Strange and The Protector, though they’re only around for a panel or two. The real learning comes courtesy […]

Giant-Size Atom #1 review

And that has to be the best use of a ‘Giant-Size’ tag since the infamous ‘Giant-Size Man-Thing’. The Atom even gets to be a giant here, well, relatively, in one of several coups de science Ray Palmer comes up with as he battles evil boffins The Colony. Before he was so rudely interrupted, by being […]

Secret Six #31 review

The ‘get out of Hell free’ card from this series’ first arc takes centre stage in a new three-parter as the team descends into the Pit. It’s not a united unit, though, with one member staying behind, and the rest out to catch the associate who’s stolen that very useful pass. Let’s name names. Ragdoll […]

Their Greatest Adventure – Save the Doom Patrol!

Since 1963 the World’s Strangest Heroes have been beating the odds. Brought together by the mysterious Chief, Negative Man, Elasti-Girl and Robotman were the Doom Patrol. The heroes created by Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani not only risked their lives for the world, they’ve given them, voluntarily dying at the end of their original run […]

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Justice League: Generation Lost #20 review

Jaime Reyes, the Blue Beetle, was shot through the head at the end of last issue. But that’s not important right now. Because this issue steps away from current events to provide a one-stop-shopping insight into the mind of the man who shot Beetle, Maxwell Lord. We learn that his father was a pharmaceuticals executive […]

Power Girl #21 review

How things change. When Judd Winick came on as writer I said I didn’t want this book to continually tie into his other comic, Justice League: Generation Lost. But as the months have passed, the books have become more and more intertwined. And I love it. While odd scenes are repeated from title to title, […]

Amazing Spider-Man #655 review

If you’ve read my review of this week’s Fantastic Four #588 you’ll know I’m not a great fan of silent ‘comic’ stories. So when I opened Amazing Spider-Man, featuring the funeral of Marla Jameson, and noted the lack of dialogue and narrative, I wasn’t too hopeful. There’s no denying that the art is gorgeous, Marcos […]

Fantastic Four #588 review

It’s the final issue of the Fantastic Four and there’s not a great deal to say. You’d think there would be, as this issue covers the month following the loss of the Human Torch in the Negative Zone. But writer Jonathan Hickman goes the gimmick route, presenting a silent story. Want to hear how Susan […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #10 review

I can’t resist a ‘smashed logo’ cover and this is a spiffy spin on the concept from Yildiray Cinar, Wayne Faucher and Hi-Fi. There’s a real sense of power, of the momentum of the giant lizard as it lunges at Chameleon Boy. You won’t recognise the lizard, but if you’ve been paying attention to this […]