Green Lantern/Green Arrow: World’s Finest Special #1 review

Hal Jordan and Ollie Queen are the hard-travelin’ heroes driving around the United States, ‘finding America’. What they find here is the super-villain Deathstroke, trying to impress a secret organisation by killing Green Lantern and Green Arrow. Of course, putting two veteran Justice Leaguers in the ground isn’t as easy as surprising them with a […]

Action Comics #1058 review

After Clark Kent interviews Norah Stone, head of the anti-extraterrestrial society Blue Earth, her minder morphs into a Superman double and attacks him. Somehow the doppelgänger steals a portion of Superman’s strength and begins pummelling him, dragging him into the sky. But while the stranger has Clark’s power, he doesn’t have his experience. And that’s […]

Steelworks #1 review

John Henry Irons, genius engineer and sometime superhero Steel, has an announcement to make. He plans to make a better Metropolis, a safer city. Too many times the ‘City of Tomorrow’ has been razed by powerful, malevolent threats. Too many times the people have lost everything, from property to lives. But now, with access to […]

Harley Quinn Romances #1 review

Now there’s a clever title for the annual giant love anthology from DC. OK, it took me a second to get it, as in the UK we don’t have Harlequin Romances, but it’s undeniably smart. As are the stories in this 86pp spectacular. OK, they aren’t all to my taste, but none are less than […]

Lex Luthor/Porky Pig #1 review

Porky Pig is the big man in town, boss of a Wall Street cryptocurrencies firm. Until everything goes (pork) belly up. He’s lost it all to a hacking scandal. Money. Position in society. Girlfriend. He contemplates suicide, but can’t go through with it. Meanwhile, in Washington, greedy industrialists Dr Sivana and Professor Ivo are likewise […]