Astonishing X-Men #31 review

Abigail Brand, Agent of B.O.R.E.D., is retreating from a Brood-bashing mission when something or other goes wrong, sending her plunging into Earth’s orbit in an escape pod. Luckily the X-Men have six minutes to save her. Which they do, before confronting a mystery at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf. No, the mystery isn’t how the heck […]

Justice League: Cry For Justice #4 review

This issue, Green Arrow gets his groove back. Having stood by last issue and allowed Green Lantern and Atom to torture Clayface for information, this time he remembers that he’s meant to be a caring kinda guy and tells them to cut it out. GL and Atom tell him where to shove it, the latter […]

Sex and the Superhero #1 review

More accurately, that would be Sex and the Gay Superhero, as all the metahumans in here are pretty darned queer, from the terribly camp Cosmic Man to the so-macho-he’s-even-camper Pink Storm. There’s also Captain Avenger, the hero you could take home to your mother, sole female Lady Web and the hilariously named Street Diver. Individually […]

Blackest Night: Titans #2 review

I’m being sparing in following the Blackest Night crossovers, as the core concept of zombiefied DC heroes and villains isn’t an immediate grabber for me. But which old New Teen Titans fan could resist this cover, and the promise that where baby Robert goes, dad Terry Long can’t be far behind. And who knew that […]

Batman: The Brave and the Bold #9 review

Don’t tell Secret Six fans, but here’s Catman going through a whole issue of a comic without stripping down to his tighty whities. Mind, this is a DC all-ages book and this isn’t the same version of Catman – this is a Catman who’s just starting out, and keen to get in Batman’s good graces […]

Wonder Woman #36 review

In which Diana attacks Giganta, Achilles the Olympian and Egg Fu lookalike Alkyone enter a marriage of convenience, and Wonder Woman and Nemesis finally have that conversation. The opening conflict with Giganta isn’t a great credit to Wonder Woman, as Diana vents her considerable frustrations on her old foe, who wasn’t actually doing anything heinous. […]

Dark X-Men: The Confession #1 review

‘I’m the worst.’‘No, I’m the worst.’‘TAKE ME!’ Scott Summers and Emma Frost have been keeping secrets from one another. He’s been sending teenagers off to murder the X-Men’s enemies, she’s been bedding down with Norman Osborn’s cabal. But today they share their darkest, dirtiest doings, in cheesy back and forth mental confessions. And, twisted pair […]

Justice League of America #37 review

Bridging the gap between Dwayne McDuffie’s prematurely curtailed JLA run and James Robinson’s regular series debut has been Len Wein. Yup, Len Wein, Seventies wunderkind, long absent from DC and Marvel. Can he cut it in the modern DC Universe? Too bloomin’ right he can. The last three issues of JLA are certainly old-fashioned in […]

Superman: Secret Origin #1 review

When I was a young Superman fan I was thrilled to learn that Clark Kent’s Earthday – the date of his arrival from Krypton – was June 18 . . . my birthday. This comic wipes out that piece of magic and reassigns the event to December 1. Knowing writer Geoff Johns’ love of the […]

M.O.D.O.K. Reign Delay #1

George Tarleton, aka MODOK, former head (ho ho) of AIM, has fallen on hard times. He’s unable to pay his minions and super-villain patron Norman Osborn hasn’t given him a plum position in his HAMMER organisation. Finally, sick of MODOK’s needy girlfriend-style answerphone messages, he makes him head of operations in . . . Erie, […]