Batman and Robin #10 review

‘The Return of Bruce Wayne begins here!’ yells the blurb on Frank Quitely’s grabby cover. Hmm, wonder how it’ll all end? Never mind, no one doubts the original Batman will be back soon. Meanwhile, I’m relishing the Dick/Damian partnership, which gets better with each outing. Forget their chalk and cheese personalities there’s a real affection […]

The MystIc Hands of Doctor Strange #1 review

Marvel’s latest Super Issue homaging its Seventies black and white magazine line features Dr Strange in four tales, three of which are very much of ‘their’ time, all of which are different enough from current stories to justify their inclusion. Kieron Gillen’s piece, in which Strange tackles an offbeat cult leader out to remake the […]

Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton #1 review

And so it begins, the three-issue mini that promises to cap the year-long storyline that has seen thousands of super-powered, earth-hating Kryptonians populating a new world on the far side of the sun. Given the set-up, my impression was that we’d see epic encounters between the New Kryptonians and the powers of the wider DC […]

Girl Comics #1 review

I’m not too sure how to approach Marvel’s latest anthology series. The fact it’s being sold on the back of being by all-girl creators suggests I search for a ‘female sensibility’. On the other, that would be like holding Girl Comics to a different standard to other superhero comics, which usually have a male bias […]

Adventure Comics #8 review

The waiting’s nearly over. Soon the Legion of Super-Heroes get their own book again. Two books, in fact – for a while, at least. Before that they’re guesting in a big Superman event for which this issue of Adventure Comics provides three prologues. The first story features the Legion in the 31st century as a […]

Justice League: Cry for Justice #7 review

I like a big stupid blockbuster as much as the next person. Massive disasters, bombastic dialogue, it’s all good . . . except when the story can’t get from point A to point B without characters who are Too Stupid Too Live. And that sums up every hero in this book. Green Lantern, the Atom, […]

Fantastic Four #576 review

The Fantastic Four battle the soldier scientists of A.I.M. when both discover a new undersea realm. That’s the basics of this issue’s story, the second of writer Jonathan Hickman’s Prime Elements four-parter. The specifics left me with mixed feelings. I enjoyed the first third of the book hugely, as Sue sets up the mission and […]

Thunderbolts #141 review

It’s a Siege tie-in so the Thunderbolts are off to Asgard to purloin the fabled Spear of Odin. No one’s actually sure what it does, but when Norman Osborn tells the bad boys ‘steal’, they steal – though not until they’ve had their transport craft downed by Hogun the Grim. Luckily they’re near the Asgardian […]

Wonder Woman #41 review

And I have to write about this on my blog, but not because it’s awful. This is a wonderful comic, as two of DC’s foremost femmes fight and neither one comes off looking like a pillock. It’s traditional for an otherwise star to get a slightly worse showing when they’re guesting, but Diana proves a […]

Superman #697 review

Behind a lovely Cafu cover featuring the slobberiest Krypto ever, it’s bits of Legionnaire business all round. The Espionage Squad finally reveals itself to Mon-El; police colleagues, the deli guy, a hover-cam . . . future teens all. But we still don’t learn what Chameleon Boy, Tellus, Starman, Sensor Girl, Matter-Eater Lad, Element Lad and […]