Amazing Spider-Man #600 review

In Spider-Man #400, Aunt May died. In issue #600, she’s getting married. That’s comics, folks. Yup, it’s the big day, May Reilly Parker is getting hitched to J Jonah Jameson Sr and all hell’s breaking loose as every mechanical object in New York gains a mind of its own. And that mind belongs to Dr […]

Captain Britain and MI13 #15 review

Ah, this was a bittersweet book. The final issue of my favourite Marvel series, but chocful of great things – reunions, endings and new beginnings. The main story sees the dismantling of the threat from Dracula and his cohort, due to a combination of trickery, force and courage. Alongside that are the resolutions to good […]

Disney, Warners, SOMEONE make these movies

Over the last few years there’s been an explosion in superhero movies, what with The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Hulk, Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four and so on. What there haven’t been are many action-packed films for the younger set or, even better, the whole family. There was The Derivatives – sorry, The Incredibles, about a […]

X-Factor #46 review

This title got a lot of publicity last month due to Rictor and Shatterstar snogging after many years or hints and fan speculation. They’re still snogging as we join them this issue. That doesn’t make them interesting, though. Layla Miller is interesting and happily she gets lots of play here, in a terrific scene with […]

Superman/Batman #62 review

It’s years since I read this book, having gotten tired of stories that were nutty without being entertaining. And the back and forth narration, with Superman and Batman constantly mancrushing, was excruciating. But the promise of a Supergirl/Robin team-up was too tasty to resist. That would be the Tim Drake Robin, around the time Kara […]

Action Comics #879 review

Behind another moody but lifeless Andrew Robinson cover, Flamebird and Nightwing continue their mission to bring down rogue Kryptonians. The main points of interest this time are a change in Flamebird’s status quo as her links to the gods of old Krypton are made manifest, Lois Lane realising her father isn’t dead and the mystery […]

Titans #15 review

It’s the return of Tempest, and he’s fighting his friends the Titans? How’d that happen? It doesn’t. Taking the idea of a symbolic cover to the extreme, Angel Unzueta and Wayne Faucher give us a moment representative of the insides only in so much as the interior features a) Tempest and b) the ocean. Still, […]

Blackest Night #1 review

Around the time Superman died battling Doomsday, seven million citizens of Coast City were murdered by alien warlord Mongul. The world dedicated a day in Superman’s memory, but when it turned out he wasn’t so much deceased as growing out his hair, the world decided the Coast Citizens could have the memorial day instead. But […]

Uncanny X-Men: First Class #1

One of the purest pleasures at Marvel over the last few years has been the X-Men: First Class series, telling new stories of the original gifted youngsters’ earliest years. Smart superheroing without the ‘everyone hates us’ business that came to infect the team after the Uncanny, nee All-New, All-Different (if you ignore Cyclops, Marvel Girl […]

Wednesday Comics #1 review

After the terrific 52, the turgid Countdown and the I’ve-still-not-gotten-through-the-thing-but-God-Rita-is-annoying Trinity, DC’s latest experiment in weekly publishing takes a traditional turn. Wednesday Comics, as its title suggests, is a throwback to the US comics section of old – full-colour, lavishly illustrated strips to be enjoyed by all the family. OK, so there’s no humour in […]