Trinity 3 review

The lead story sees the JLA, minus a certain three heroes, battles Konvikt and Graak, they don’t do very well, Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman show up expecting to save the day, and the former gets a good thumping. Graak continues to be ridiculously annoying with his stupid speeches bigging up Konvikt and the JLA […]

Birds of Prey 119 review

This issue sees the return of Black Canary to the book, after she was dragged away by the JLA and Green Arrow editorial offices and stripped of the dimensions she’d gained under writers Chuck Dixon and Gail Simone. It’s a temporary, yet triumphant, return, with a nice cover appearance – courtesy of Stephane Roux – […]

LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES 42

In which the Legion get new costumes and actually don them, despite having no idea who put the order in for them. I’m guessing Kid Calculus, or whatever we’re meant to call that Morr’ssey reject. Other than Star Boy’s, I’m not actually keen on them – Saturn Girl’s Binary look, in particular, is an ambomination, […]

Trinity 2 review

Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are plunged into individual strangeness as the world changes around them – a new planetary system is being born over Metropolis; Batman finds himself in a future-gothic Gotham; and Wonder Woman fights robots. OK, I couldn’t see that much had changed around Wondy, but what the heck, it led to […]

CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI13 2 review

In which the Skrulls invade Avalon, Faiza manifests powers, Pete gets some naging from the missus, Captain Britain is ‘seemingly’ dead, the Black Knight splits, John the Skrull is not worthy, Spitfire deems herself not worthy and Britain’s magical talismen are melded into a ruddy great chain. Mind, at the start of his career Captain […]

Action Comics 866 review

This issue begins with a flashback to Krypton, showing us the day Kandor became a bottle city. It’s a new spin on the traditional Silver Age telling of the tale – rather than being simply zapped, shrunk and bottled, Kandorians are attacked by killer robots, soldiers Zod and Ursa try to protect the populace and […]

The secret origin of Jezebel Jet

Currently making a big impact – on Bruce Wayne at least – in Grant Morrison’s Batman RIP storyline, is fashion model Jezebel Jet. She appeared from nowhere, captured Bruce’s interest very quickly, saw through his secret ID and is now his confidante. Almost as if she’s a mind manipulating telepath. Meanwhile, over in Grant Morrison’s […]

Amazing Spider-Man 561

And this is how to wrap up a story – Dan Slott, Marcus Martin and crew, you just hit the jackpot – or rather, we readers did, courtesy of said creators. Spidey’s battle with Paper Doll comes to a satisfying conclusion, with our hero just avoiding a permanently squished arm while saving the villain’s life […]

Robin/Spoiler Special 1

Spoiler having been revealed to have survived War Games in Robin 174 this month, here’s a one-off focusing on Stephanie Brown. Yes, Stephanie, not Stephanie and Tim – the title’s a misnomer, with Robin not even appearing in the second story, bar one panel. Which is fine by me; much as I like Tim Drake […]

All-New Atom 24

After a few issues of Ryan Choi tackling sub-atomic monsters from his own blood, the focus shifts here to Silver Age Atom villain Chronos. He’s appeared a few times in this run, variously as an ally and antagonist. Here, though, he’s all-bad, as he claims that the longterm correspondence between SA Atom Ray Palmer and […]