World’s Finest: Teen Titans #2 review

Aqualad and Wonder Girl, they have a thing going on. When Garth turns up at Donna’s New York apartment one morning and a stranger answers the door, he fears Donna has a thing with someone else too. He needn’t have worried. It’s not Donna who’s smitten by Mal – Bumblebee Karen Beecher is positively swooning. […]

Knight Terrors: Shazam! #2 review

Mary Marvel is having a very bad dream. Sent into a supernatural sleep by new villain Insomnia, she’s confronted by a horrific version of brother Billy, a Shazam who’s more Black Adam than the Captain. But having been freaked out in the first half of this micro-series tying into the Knight Terrors event, Mary has […]

Superman 2023 Annual #1 review

It’s a day in the life of Metropolis as seen through the eyes of the Daily Planet’s crew of top investigative reporters. But it’s not the usual people looking at the usual things. Acting editor Lois Lane wants new attitudes, fresh insights. A good reporter is a good reporter and even if they don’t have […]

House of Wonders Book One: Skycruiser review

We begin at a travelling circus. Soon, our hero Josh finds that Tiny and Tank aren’t the only members of his circus family keen to protect him from space soldiers who are hunting him. Apparently Josh didn’t know he was living with more than the average group of sideshow freaks. Tiny and Tank take him […]

Justice Society of America #5 review

How’s that for a cover? I’ve moaned – sorry, noted – that previous cover images have been a tad washed out but the bright reds and blues, with sunshine peeping in, lend this one a different, happier feel. And the composition by Mikel Janín is a treat, a soaring shot worthy of many a classic […]

Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent #6 review

It’s the final issue of Jon Kent’s mini-series and it goes out not with a bang, but a ‘choom‘. That’s the sound made by Cyborg’s teleportation device, returning Jon to his own Earth before he achieves his avowed aim of liberating the Injustice world from its dictatorial Superman. And it was all going so well. […]

Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor #1 review

Lex Luthor is dying. In the course of plotting against Superman he’s poisoned his body beyond any cure… at least any cure he can find. But can Superman help? It’s a given that a hero as compassionate as Superman would attempt to save his worst enemy – on condition that if he succeeds, Luthor answers […]

Knight Terrors: Action Comics #1 review

DC’s summer Halloween event continues with a look at what’s happening to the rest of the Super Family while Superman and Supergirl fight the effects of new villain Insomnia’s supernatural sleeping sickness. But first – sigh – Power Girl. What’s she doing back in Action? I thought that with a new series coming up which […]

Podcast Plugtime – Treasurycast

Who remembers the Marvel Treasury Editions of the Seventies? I remember them being advertised in the Marvel UK weeklies, but I never saw them in the shops. Happily, comics shops and eBay mean it’s relatively simple to find them in readable condition, even though they can be pricey. So it is that I recently got […]

Tales of the Titans #1 review

Longtime fans may do a double take on seeing the first issue of this four-part mini-series. And well we might… Not only has artist Nicola Scott homaged George Perez’s composition for Starfire’s spotlight issue of the 1982 Tales of the New Teen Titans mini-series, but the editors and production department have recreated the cover furniture […]