Sinister Sons #1 review

Korg is a space orphan convinced he’s the son of Green Lantern’s greatest – or at least, pinkest – enemy, Sinestro. Lar-Zod knows he’s the son of Superman’s beardiest bad guy, General Zod. Korg wants to leave the world of Xela where he’s just killed space Fagan, Nagaf (see what they did there?), and take […]

Teen Titans: Beast World #6 review

After a couple of months of comics in which a plague of Starro spores have been proving a massive threat to everyone on Earth, the Titans save the day with surprising ease. Nightwing has an idea to undermine Amanda Waller’s plan to kill a million humans who have been transformed into beasts – cure them […]

Titans: Beast World #5 review

A million beast men are raging across the world. The Titans want to save them. Amanda Waller, who finally steps out the shadows and onto global TV screens, has other ideas. Among the viewers are the Titans, minus Beast Boy, seemingly killed by human black hole Chunk – tossed at him by Waller, who claims […]

Titans: Beast World #4 review

The world is being overrun by crazed animal people, transformed by little Starros made from a super-sized Beast Boy. The heroes are doing what they can, and so are the villains. Well, some of them, anyway. It’s Giganta, longtime enemy of Wonder Woman and occasional girlfriend of all-new Atom Ryan Choi. Ryan’s not in this […]

Titans: Beast World #1 review

Cult leader Brother Eternity is offering mankind a new future on the Moon of Titan. He’s sent ‘forevernauts’ to the surface and is live streaming their ‘giant leap into tomorrow’. Their adventure comes to an end when something they find in an ancient temple blasts them into, well, eternity, prompted by words spoken in Tamaranean […]

Power Girl #1 review

It’s an exciting day for Power Girl. She has a brand new secret identity… … a brand new mission… … and a brand-new foe. Well, brand new to Power Girl. Older readers and back issue bin bargain hunters might recognise the name and costume colours – Amalak was a Silver/Bronze Age Superman villain and here’s […]

Knight Terrors: First Blood #1

Longtime Justice League foe Dr Destiny, aka John Dee, gets a taste of his own medicine as a pleasant dream turns into a living nightmare. At the Hall of Justice, super-ghost Deadman is worried by decidedly bad vibrations around Superman and Wonder Woman. Inside, Batman is alarmed by an alarm, one connected to the presence […]

Action Comics #1055 review

The Metallo storyline that’s occupied the Superman feature over the last few months morphs into a Cyborg Superman storyline, as Hank Henshaw’s latest incarnation heaps trouble on the Super Family. It turns out he’s the one who instructed Metallo to turn the anti-alien protestors of Metropolis into a rampaging ‘Necrohive’. Having declared himself, the Cyborg […]

Action Comics #1054 review

The battle between Metallo and the Super Family continues in the new Action Comics anthology. The opening page is a picture of intensity as Warworld refugee turned Kent family member Otho looms over a burning car. Beside the car, a burning man, a member of the anti-extraterrestrial Blue Earth movement. Feeling threatened, the immature Otho […]

Lazarus Planet: Alpha #1 review

A magical soup is spewing into Earth’s weather systems, threatening disasters while changing the powers of superheroes. That’s the elevator pitch for the first issue of DC’s latest event, the launchpad for several new series and directions. Behind the enchanted storm is the Devil Nezha, and while he’s almost a spent force this issue, his […]