Superman #17 review

The Absolute Power tie-in storyline continues with Superman and Zatanna having fled the Fortress of Solitude, which was under attack by the forces of eeeeevil Amanda Waller, and searching for reinforcements. Finding other heroes from across the Multiverse means treading The Dark Roads, led by the Map of Mordru. But first they have to find […]

Absolute Power #2 review

Resistance is futile! It’s a sci-fi cliche, but not one the heroes who have escaped Amanda Waller’s power-sapping Amazo androids believe. They’re gathered in Superman’s Fortress of Solitude and making plans to take the world back from ‘The Wall’. First order of business, choose a leader. As the veterans argue among themselves, a hero from […]

Superman #16 review

The Man of Steel is pretty much the Man of Flesh as this issue begins, his powers taken, his flesh pierced by bullets. Amanda Waller’s world coup has taken out most of the heroes, but while Superman is down, he isn’t out, with two of the best surgeons on the planet looking after him. Elsewhere, […]

Absolute Power #1 review

In which deep fake images of superheroes attacking members of the public have the world’s citizens turning on them and putting them in hospital. Heroes who aren’t being attacked chat gloomily on Batman’s secret channel. And finally, Amazos attack! The public are uniformly stupid. The superheroes are naive. Amanda Waller is the cleverest master manipulator […]

Superman #15 review

So there. I was yesterday, moaning about the surfeit of purple tones on House of Brainiac covers, and here’s one blazing with green. And I love it, Rafa Sandoval’s simple image of an intense Superman in the face of the computer tyrant’s dying spacecraft is a winner. It helps that the white and green logo […]

Superman #14 review

The Brainiac Superman knows has gathered versions of himself from across time and space. He wants something to fill a gap he’s identified. Is it the creature he’s been building with the energies of super-beings from all over Metropolis and the muscle of the last survivors of Lobo’s homeworld? Or is it something other than […]

Absolute Power 2024 FCBD Special Edition #1 review

D-list supervillain Clock King – so rubbish he was in Justice League Antarctica – are inducting an even more obscure player into a government programme, watched by bad Batman android Failsafe. Haywire is informed that he’s now working for Amanda Waller – who has managed to buy up all the supervillain prisons – and helping […]

Superman #13 review

House of Brainiac continues, with most of the Super Family bottled by Brainiac and dragged into outer space. The conqueror from Colu sicced the last citizens of the planet Czarnia on Metropolis, along with his droid warriors, and the hit and run caught the heroes off guard. Superman, though, has an idea as to who […]

Superman #12 review

Holy role reversal, Luthor takes to the streets of Metropolis in his power suit to save the citizens while Superman dons a nifty lab suit to attack their problems from another direction. Their problems are Dr Pharm, a cloud of green kryptonite tweaked to kill regular human beings and Lex’s mad mother Leticia. The first […]

Superman #11 review

‘Lena Luthor vs the Revenge Squad’ is what last issue’s next issue blurb told us to expect this month. That’s the Lex Luthor Revenge Squad, not the Superman Revenge Squad as tradition would dictate. As it is, we don’t see Lex’s long-lost daughter take on Dr Pharm, Mr Graft and their not-so-merry band of rogues, […]