Happy Birthday Krypto!

Oh all right, I’ve no idea when Krypto was born, but as he debuted in Adventure Comics 210, cover dated March 1955, that means he’s 54 this month – about a million in dog years. How sweet that Clark-Kent-who-is-secretly-Superboy can’t wait to ‘romp’ with his newfound friend! And how surprising, given that even for an […]

Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade 2 review

My gosh, having not been seen since the mid-Seventies, Lex Luthor’s kid sister is back in this week’s Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade issue 2. This Johnny DC version doesn’t seem to have Lena’s traditional psychic powers – I don’t think she knows Linda Lee is Supergirl, though she has a subplot she’s […]

Black Lightning: Year One 1 review

DC’s Year One brand is back and Black Lightning’s the star. Truth be told, I didn’t have high hopes for this, having never been a huge Jefferson Pierce fan. I read a few issues of his original title in the Seventies, but the short-lived series was never a favourite. He joined Batman’s Outsiders but was […]

Amazing Spider-Man 582 review

Spidey battles Molten Man for the life of Harry Osborn as the latter’s estranged wife Liz tries to get their frankly vile little boy, Normie, to safety. Me, I’d throw him at his Uncle Mark’s lava-dripping arse. Unusually since the dawn of Brand New Day, this is a single setting issue, with no subplots. But […]

Secret Six 5 review

Another month, another issue of one of DC’s most consistent books. I was afraid the company’s Faces of Evil linewide stunt would derail the ongoing Get Out of Hell Free card storyline, but all it means is a Deadshot solo cover by Andrew Robinson, along with his narrative PoV. It doesn’t tell me anything I […]

Words fail Wonder Man

So, Im reading the Avengers: Galactic Storm trade, volume 1, and there’s a story from Wonder Man issue 7. There’s a great fight with Captain Atlas of the Kree, Simon wins, then we get this scene: Anyone know what dialogue went missing?

Cosmic Size Fantastic 4 1 review

Reed and Ben bring something nasty back from a pocket dimension, necessitating a two-day quarantine for the FF and kids Franklin and Valeria, who soon notice that their elders are acting jolly oddly. That’s your basic story from Cary Bates and Bing Cansino and it’s absorbing enough. What really had my attention more, though, was […]

Great moments in comics

Citizen Steel takes the phrase ‘comic strip’ a tad too literally in Justice Society of America 22 . . .

Avengers: The Initiative 20 review

Writers Dan Slott and Christos Gage start wrapping up the current storylines of a book that’s gotten better with every issue. This comic was, hands down, the finest thing to come out of Civil War and almost justified the waste of paper that was Secret Invasion. Month after month we’ve had intrigue, action, suspense, twisted […]

Superman 683 review

Behind one of Alex Ross’s constipated elderly Superman covers, here’s the penultimate part of New Krypton and events crank up a gear as the JSA, JLA, Starfire and Steel confront Superman over the small matter of Kandorians murdering Earth policemen and generally stomping carelessly around the planet. Superman tries to evoke the Code of Dibs […]