Retro review: Action Comics #454

This isn’t a (very) late review, it’s a look at a recent facsimile edition, saving this website from a pretty dull fifth week of comics. There’s no obvious reason Action Comics #454 is getting the reprint treatment – there’s no big character debut, or anniversary – but I’m told people are amused by the glorious […]

DC Finest – Superman: Kryptonite Nevermore review

So, who’s been enjoying the DC Finest collections? Introduced last year, they’re DC’s answer to Marvel’s Epic Collections – thick, good-looking paperbacks collecting runs of series at an excellent price. I’ve bought five so far, and love them all, but my favourite is this just-out Superman collection. Kryptonite Nevermore is the overall title for a […]

DC Retroactive 1970s Superman #1 review

Superman’s having a bad week in this DC Comics Retroactive special. Criminals are popping up when they shouldn’t, doing things that are beyond them – Metallo’s flying, Bizarro am speaking perfect English, that sort of thing. Lois Lane is annoyed at Superman paying attention to Lana Lang, Supergirl and Van-Zee think their Kryptonian cousin is super-cranky, Clark Kent’s colleagues […]