Green Lantern: Galactic Slam #1 review

That’s a pretty dramatic cover from Cian Tormey and Romulo Fajardo Jr, and the stakes are high in this DC KO tie-in featuring Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, but the actual story is soufflé light. And I’m very much not complaining. The issue opens with Kyle, Superboy Kon-El and bounty hunter pal Odyssey fighting Darkseid’s parademons […]

Action Comics #1092 review

The action starts with Superboy attempting to save a Smallville neighbour who’s restored a classic biplane… badly. The rescue seems straightforward, but Clark is at the beginning of his heroic career and learning his trade – so mistakes happen. Happily, the Boy of Steel comes through and we catch up with him a few days […]

Justice League: Dark Tomorrow Special #1 review

It’s been a busy week, I’ve only just got to my second comic, Justice League: Dark Tomorrow Special #1, and this is how it begins. How does ‘Now’ work in the context of a non-place in between time periods? Happily, things quickly improve, with a cracking double-page spread of DC time cop Waverider being chased […]

The Question: All Along the Watchtower #6 review

It’s the final face-off between the Question and the Cyborg Superman. As the last issue of this mini-series opens the latter, Hank Henshaw, wants to destroy the Justice League Unlimited Watchtower, while the former, Renee Montoya, just wants to stay alive. Expelled into space, she’s saved when Blue Beetle Ted Kord – supposedly under the […]

The Question: All Along the Watchtower #5 review

Cyborg Superman and his merry band of bad guys and possessed heroes have taken over the JLU Watchtower. And he’s going to blow it to smithereens… just because. The countdown is on, the satellite will explode within the hour unless Question Renee Montoya can save the day. And to do that she must take down […]

The Question: All Along the Watchtower #4 review

The Question, Renee Montoya, was tasked with using her detective skills to find out who has been interfering with the Justice League Watchtower. And she’s cracked it! The Cyborg Superman has escaped from the Phantom Zone and used his ability to meld with machinery to bring the tech to life, surprising and incapicating most of […]

The Question: All Along the Watchtower #1 review

Who watches the supermen? Renee Montoya, the cop turned Question. Life in Gotham City having gone to hell (again!), she’s accepted Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman’s offer to be marshal of the new Justice League Watchtower, hangout for every one of Earth’s heroes. She certainly looks the part. There’s a specific mission attached to the […]

Action Comics #1069 review

It’s the conclusion of Superman’s intergalactic boxing bout… well, boxing is understating it as punches are thrown, but so is an axe. The point is that the Man of Steel is being forced to fight other extraterrestrials, but ones with a more brutal attitude to puglisim. Luckily he has two official seconds… and an unofficial, […]

Alan Scott: The Green Lantern #6 review

It’s the end of the mini-series telling us about the early days of the DC Universe’s Golden Age Green Lantern, who was recently retooled as a gay man. The book opens with the Justice Society having joined Alan and boyfriend-turned-enemy Red Lantern to battle mutual enemy Crimson Host. After a short tussle on the streets […]

Alan Scott: Green Lantern #4 review

If this issue’s cover had a blurb it’d be ‘ALL-OUT EXPOSITION ISSUE’ because it’s flashback time for villain of the piece Red Lantern. He’s captured Green Lantern Alan Scott in our hero’s own apartment and is telling him that His Love Was a Lie. Yes, Alan’s long lost love is the Red Lantern, he’s not […]