The Flash #27 review

Wally West hates time travel. Something always goes wrong, he says. He’s not wrong, which may be why I love time travel stories. This one, part of the DC KO nuttiness, but apart from the DC KO nuttiness, is pure pleasure. We have Impulse, Bart Allen, time tossed to Siberia while trying to stop Darkseid […]

The Flash #26 review

DC KO is coming, and Impulse isn’t going to sit back. He has an idea to beat Darkseid that doesn’t involve a contest of champions. It comes after a discussion with the other members of the Flash family. There’s cousin Wally, his daughter Irey, Jay Garrick and Maxwell Crandall – the Flash, Thunderheart, the Golden […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest 2025 Annual #1 review

Annuals come in various shapes and sizes. They may be all reprints, as in the Silver Age. Or one-off stories featuring special creative teams – remember that time Mongul messed up Superman’s birthday? Or part of a linewide crossover, a la Atlantis Attacks or Armageddon 2000. Occasionally they’re the conclusion of a big storyline in […]

Challengers of the Unknown #1 review

I love the Challengers of the Unknown, those adventurers who live ‘on borrowed time’. It’s been a while since they’ve had a book, so this mini-series went straight onto my Must Buy list. They’ve had a few minis over the last few decades but never earned an ongoing, so here DC Editorial pushes the nuclear […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest 2024 Annual review

I’ve been looking forward to this one since it was announced – a bunch of World’s Finest-adjacent characters in their own stories. First we have Mr Mxyzptlk, Bat-Mite and their Just-Us League of Imps meeting at the Fifth Dimensional Hall of Just-Us. Mxy has an agenda to discuss but no one is listening. I just […]

Iron Man #1 review

That’s ‘Iron Man’. No ‘Invincible’, ‘International’ or ‘Infamous’. Really, Iron Man needs an adjective. On the basic of this issue, I suggest ‘The Understated Iron Man’… The cover promises a big slugfest with his greatest foes, but inside, all we get are two pages of Terrax the Tamer that may as well be marked ‘obligatory […]