Adventure Comics #1 review

Back as a regular title after a quarter of a century, Adventure Comics proves more fun than expected. There’s an airy feel to Geoff Johns’ script for the lead strip, Superboy, which I appreciate after the complexities/clutter of the current Green Lantern storylines. This is a simple tale of the newly resurrected Conner Kent beginning […]

Inferno #1 review

The second of four in DC’s Red Circle event, Inferno has the survivor of an explosion on an ocean liner unable to remember who he is and muttering the name of someone who seems not to exist. A flashback features a woman and someone unseen being lovingly doomy. An attack causes the mysterious chap to […]

The Hangman #1 review

The first of DC’s latest attempt to make something of Archie Comics’ Red Circle characters and concepts, this one-off brings us the heroic origin of the Hangman, aka Dr Robert Dickering. AKA Dr Bob. Stop snickering at the back – writer J Michael Straczynski inherited the name and deserves praise for working past the silly […]

Doom Patrol #1 review

They’re back, the world’s strangest heroes – Robotman, Negative Man, Elasti-Woman (she’s grown up!) and the world’s dodgiest leader, the Chief. As we join them, he’s sent the Patrol on a mission to stop evil scientist Amanda Beckett from hatching a batch of monster men. Alongside the classic Silver Age team are newer recruits Grunt […]

Amazing Spider-Man #601 review

After the last several issues of Spidey, with big battles involving Norman Osborn and Doctor Octopus, this is a quieter, day in the life issue. Of course, this being a slice of Peter Parker’s life there are moments of action – here a jewel snatch, there a blaze – but it’s the out-of-costume moments that […]

Superman #690 review

I’ve been praising this book to the heavens recently for its blend of rich characters and lush artwork. This month DC lets me down. Half the book is taken up with a wordless battle between Atlas and Steel. One page is the same panel repeated four times . . . sorry, that’s unfair, two of […]

Justice Society of America #29 review

The newest team in comics meets the oldest as writers Bill Willingham, Matt Sturges and artist Jesus Merino take over the JSA’s creative reins. There’s no huge tonal shift, this is the same team Geoff Johns has been writing for the last decade or so (right down to no one remembering that Power Girl is […]

Batman: The Brave and the Bold #7 review

The regular DCU has Batman believed dead while lost in limbo. In the Johnny DC all-ages line, Batman is alive and loving it. The latest issue of the TV spin-off begins with Batman and Greek hero the Olympian battling Wonder Woman headache Circe. That’s strictly pre-credits, though, with the bulk of the issue featuring a […]

Wonder Woman #34 review

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, how to win over a reviewer – begin the book with cute snow beasties. Here we see that Aaron Lopresti draws polar bears every bit as well as he draws albino gorillas. The heck with Wonder Woman action figures, I want a Lopresti plush (a bear, that is, not a plush of Aaron Lopresti […]

Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds #5 review

Several Legionnaires die but that’s OK cos more arrive to beat the villains and then everyone goes home. Superboy Prime dies, but it turns out he’s just gone back to a reborn Earth Prime to live in his basement, scare his parents and whine about comics. White Witch gets a black makeover and a new […]