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 […]

Superman #32 review

Dan Mora’s cover is spectacular. Luthor, as imposing as he’s ever been. Superman unbowed, looking forward to the scrap. While I’ve been against the idea of Superman enjoying what’s being billed as a fight to the death, a cover isn’t really part of the story. Yes, sometimes they’re literal previews of scenes inside, but often […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #45 review

A team-up between the Joker and Luthor, what could be more traditional for World’s Finest? Superman and Batman, it’s your two favourite foes together. Very together, as it turns out… The book starts with no action, but lots of entertainment, as Superman and Batman relax in Gotham’s Batcave with a bowl of popcorn – the […]

Knightfight #1 review

On a day that’s not today, Batman is on his way to stop Professor Pyg and his Circus of Strange and free a bus full of hostages. On arrival, though, he finds the job’s been done. The Caped Crusader compares and contrasts. With four Gotham guardians, Batman wonders if the city still needs him. Today, […]

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 […]

Superman #30 review

‘Heh, I love evil monologues’, cackles Superboy Prime in part three of ‘Legion of Darkseid’. And that’s certainly what we get as this issue opens, with the corrupt Saturn Girl relaying her backstory for several pages. And whose voice did she hear? The dark god of Apokolips himself, it seemed, and he showed her a […]

Justice League Unlimited #10 review

The Time Trapper, nee Doomsday, is attacked in Hypertime by Darkseid’s Legion of Super-Heroes. Mortally wounded, he manages to get back to the Justice League Watchtower, where the heroes on hand try to help him. Some kind of auto-defence system won’t let the Flash, Steel. Black Lightning, Blue Beetle and Star Sapphire get near without […]

Superman #29 review

Now here’s a cover guaranteed to put this comic at the top of my reading pile – a devastated Superman mourning the loss of his old friends in the Legion of Super-Heroes. Artist Dan Mora has come up with the perfect tombstone for what looks like a headless Superman to stare at. Speaking of headless, […]

Justice League Unlimited #9 review

Time is out of joint. Which may be why this smart cover from series artist Dan Mora belongs on Justice League Unlimited’s next issue. At least that’s my theory, as, while we get the two trios shown in this chapter of the ongoing story, they don’t meet up. Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman appear only […]

Superman #27 review

Superman is seeing red. Literally. He’s been poisoned by red kryptonite and is finding it hard not to give in to the accompanying induced anger. His state has come to the attention of the immortal guardian of Metropolis, Marilyn Moonlight. Superman wants her to help find Pharm and Graft, mortal enemies of Lex Luthor who, […]