Justice Society of America 15

Now here’s a mess of a cover. It shows Gog and the JSA having a ruckus in front of a Big Purple Head (write your own gag here), but I had to work to make it out. It’s due to painter Alex Ross’ colouring, mainly, a mass of pink hues. It’s also the composition, with […]

Justice League of America 21

Ooh look, this has one of Dan Didio’s brand, spanking new Sightings banners across the top. That means it’s important . . . . . . OK, ‘important’ seems to equate to ‘start grabbing readers for a crossover’ with this being a Final Crisis prologue; which is fine, but why not just put Final Crisis […]

Huntress Year One 1

While I’d still rather see a Huntress tale set in the now, rather than another origin, this was a really nicely done comic. There were some superb bits of dialogue and narration from Ivory Madison, while Cliff Richards’ art popped.Basically, we had another look at Helena’s crime family being offed, and saw that after her […]

Batman Confidential #17 review

It seems ages since DC announced All-Star Batgirl and it’s still not here. But should it turn up one day, I’ll be amazed if it’s more fun than this issue by Fabian Nicieza and Kevin Maguire. Part one of five, The Cat and the Bat is a straightforward chase scene involving Batgirl, in the early […]

Legion of Super-Heroes 41

LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES 41 This just gets better by the issue. Jim Shooter continues his run on scripting duties – or rather, pleasures, he’s obviously enjoying himself – while new artist Francis Manapul shows up for the cover before letting former Ms Marvel and upcoming Wonder Woman artist Aaron Lopresti strut his fill-in stuff. And […]

ACTION COMICS 864 Awww, this just brought a big old smile to my face. Silver Age nostalgia meets 21st century (what else?) action. The story has Lightning Lad (my, that fella just won’t grow up!) dropping Superman off in the 21st century and staying for a reminisce in the Fortress of Solitude. They’re sitting in […]

TEEN TITANS 58 In which the Terror Titans storyline continues. Having captured Kid Devil, Clock King and co set their sights on Miss Martian for reasons that will feed into the Final Crisis Dark Side Club storyline. Miss Martian isn’t going down without a fight, though – especially as her evil alternate future self is […]

Skrull Kill Interest

I forget when it was announced that Marvel were having a big Avengers-led crossover centred on infiltration of the Marvel Universe by the Skrulls, but the first evidence was revealed in New Avengers 31, in June last year. That issue ended with Elektra revealed to be a Skrull. Oh how dramatic, a woman who once […]

The Twelve 1

The 12 being the first post-OMD work from writer J Michael Straczynski, with artist Chris Weston. I didn’t have high hopes for this, the idea of a bunch of World War Two lesser lights being frozen in time and reawoken today sounded a tad ‘been there, done that’ but the promise of Weston on art, […]

Oh just look at that gorgeous Nick Cardy cover – colourful teenage heroes fighting with a smile on their faces. And there’s a Cardy sketch gallery at the back – lush stuff. As for the unashamedly 1963-set story itself, original Titans writer Bob Haney has a whale of a time reviving the hokey Sixties dialogue, […]