Batman #100 review

It’s his greatest triumph. After a full-on battle with his arch foe, he lives to fight another day. Happy Birthday, dear Joker… Batman may as well not be in this book, for how effective he is. Batgirl looks good, reviving her Oracle persona. Nightwing, his memories restored, gives the Joker’s goons a good kicking. Red […]

Superman: Man of Tomorrow #16 review

Clark Kent doesn’t need a lot of sleep but when it’s been a week without sweet dreams, he’s feeling the strain. Taking a morning off to clear his head, Clark doesn’t need his super-senses to pick up on a frighteningly familiar burst of air and crack in reality. BOOM. Darkseid, ruler of Apokolips, has come […]

Empyre: Avengers #1 review

I’ve not read the Avengers regularly for years – too many characters I’ve no fondness for, storylines that drag on. But having read the series for most of the Bronze Age, I could not resist a cover that features the call to arms, while nodding to those brilliant ‘the old order changeth’ issues. Illustrator Steve […]

Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #12 review

This final issue may bag a footnote in comics history as the first DC title to acknowledge the Covid-19 quarantine. If there’s any justice, though, it will be remembered as the perfect conclusion to a simply wonderful maxi-series. I’ve praised past issues a lot, and when you love chapters of a limited series, there’s always […]

Superman: Man of Tomorrow #11 review

After several issues of short tales by different writers, Robert Venditti, whose stories with penciller Paul Pelletier lit up the first six issues of this DC Digital First series, is back for what looks to be another several-issue sequence. Well, that’s what the final page indicates; the previous 15 give us a complete story that […]

Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #11 review

In which Jimmy appeals for help against the intergalactic tyrant who’s trying to steal the wife he doesn’t want… … all heck breaks loose… … and Lex Luthor makes Jimmy’s brother Julian sweat. Recognise that big blue alien? Possibly not, because last time he appeared he looked like this. It’s the big bruiser from the […]

Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #10 review

Mad as a box of frogs, that’s this mini-series. The plotting is all over the shop, jumping all over the place in time and space, the spotlight shifting constantly from person to person. One minute we’re with Jimmy’s brother Julian, the next we’re following failed super-villain Porcodillo… occasionally Jimmy himself is the focus. The big […]

Superman: Man of Tomorrow #4 review

Swamp Thing, Solomon Grundy… Superman’s met a fair few muck monsters in his time, so you wouldn’t expect a new one to give him nightmares. And yet… Clark has learned that all four attacks took place on land owned by one Albemarle Bryce, a tycoon with wealth to rival Lex Luthor. So it’s off to […]

Superman: Man of Tomorrow #3 review

It’s no fun at Schott Toys any more. The workers are already disheartened because their boss went bonkers and became criminal crafter the Toyman and now Winslow Schott is aiming his ire at them. In the shape of dinosaurs. Clark Kent smells a story and seeks out Lex Luthor, who recently bought Schott Toys. Lex […]

Superman: Man of Tomorrow #2 review

For a place that bills itself as the City of Tomorrow, Metropolis sure is a backwards town. That’s the point a character makes in Against the Odds and I agree – citizens are protesting against the very possibility of a legal casino, convinced it will make their lovely, quiet hometown, where crime is unknown, a […]