One-Star Squadron #5 review

On the one hand, this is a well put-together comic book. The pacing is good, the characters make sense, a mystery is solved satisfactorily. But don’t read it if you’re already having a bad day. Because yet again, kids, writer Mark Russell takes some of the DC Universe’s lesser-known heroes and drenches them in despair. […]

Action Comics #1041 review

Superman starring in Action Comics is what the logo promises, but while Superman is in this issue, our leading man is Midnighter. Because this is the issue in which we catch up with what the Authority veteran has been up to while Superman has been surviving Mongul’s gladiatorial arena, slowly inspiring the Warzoon to believe […]

Justice League Vs Legion of Super-Heroes #2 review

In the 21st century, Legion of Super-Heroes member Gold Lantern wonders what’s happened to the rest of his team. Having come back 1000 years to warn the Justice League of America about the threat of the Great Darkness, everyone has vanished but him. In the 31st century, the members of the Justice League wake up […]

Action Comics #1039 review

Trapped on Warworld, his powers inhibited by red sun radiation, Superman is learning what it means to be a fighter in Mongul’s arena. Later, one of the other fighters tells Clark that his approach is going to get him killed. Elsewhere in the tombs of Warworld, Omac and Natasha Irons – who accompanied Superman on […]

Superman: Son of Kal-El #7 review

Well, there’s a cover. New Superman Jon Kent protesting against climate change with a bunch of equally earnest kids, including boyfriend Jay. Actually, forget the ‘earnest’ bit, after his improved performance last time I’m back to trusting Jay not one bit. Oh, and there’s Aqualad… and is that a sea monster? Anyway, the cover reminds […]

Justice League vs The Legion of Super-Heroes #1 review

In the 31st century, the Legion of Super-Heroes have been warned that a Great Darkness is coming. Today, it arrives. On a different ‘today’, in the 21st century, a Justice Leaguer also feels something dark pulling at her. And if there were any doubts the incidents were connected… Soon – in a very relative sense […]

One-Star Squadron #2 review

Minute Man isn’t a big name among superheroes. A legacy hero, he depends upon the Miraclo drug created by Rex Mason for his vigour, but unlike the original Hourman he doesn’t get 60 minutes of strength – the clue’s in the name. A minute of super powers isn’t going to get you into the Justice […]

Superman: Son of Kal-El #6 review

A rare medical condition afflicts some people with ‘face blindness’, an inability to recognise folk from one meeting to the next. This might explain why Lois Lane couldn’t connect the dots between Clark Kent and Superman when he took his glasses off and changed clothes. It turns out things are worse than that for Lois… […]

Superman: Son of Kal-El 2021 Annual #1 review

Superman is visiting Lex Luthor in prison after a recent sting operation by the Justice League has him awaiting trial. The Man of Steel foresees a problem getting his arch enemy into the courtroom. Some time later, Superman has left Earth on a mission to liberate the prisoners of Warworld. In his absence, teen son […]

One-Star Squadron #1 review

If you’re Superman, you get to save the universe every other week. If you’re Minute Man, you get… ‘Who?’ Red Tornado is running the Metropolis branch of Heroz4U, a hero hotline which puts low-powered metahumans in touch with people who need help. The thing is, Reddy was a longtime Justice League member, what’s he doing […]