Action Comics #1070 review

A few years ago DC added a back-up strip to Action Comics, around the time that Supergirl lost her ongoing title (again). And since then I’ve regularly suggested Supergirl take the spot as a nod to where she started, back in the Silver Age. And now, 694 issues since she departed her solo series in […]

Absolute Power: Task Force VII #7 review

It’s the final issue of the Absolute Power tie-in series and the moody cover by Pete Woods lets us know that this one one is a bit different. The previous numbers have involved world dictator Amanda Waller’s Amazo assault squad chasing down Justice Leaguers who escaped being flung into her metahuman prison. But look at […]

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, […]

Absolute Power: Super Son #1 review

Amanda Waller used Jon Kent as a tool against other heroes in her war on metahumans. Infected by the Brainiac Queen, he hunted down his friends, but now he’s free, recovering on Paradise Island. Jon’s belief that all cyber corruption is gone proves to be wrong. He relives things he did while under control of […]

Absolute Power: Task Force VII #6 review

So far in this mini-series we’ve seen Amazos based on Superman, Aquaman, Green Lantern, the Flash and Batman. This issue it’s an Amazo with a hint of Wonder Woman, but having absorbed the Amazing Amazon’s god-given powers, there’s a problem. Amanda Waller’s robotic lackey is finding, like its brothers, that it’s absorbed more than just […]

Absolute Power: Task Force VII #5 review

Barry Allen is on the run, being pursued by an Amanda Waller Amazo android who’s stolen speed from the Fastest Men and Women Alive. All but one. It’s caught up to the Flash, but it can’t hold onto him. The android had assumed that the minute it became super fast it would gain a connection […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #30 review

There’s trouble in Paradise in this flashback tale, prompting Diana, princess of the Amazons, to summon some new friends from Man’s World. While Batman surveys the scene, Superman and Robin head off to find the Amazon midwife Magala, believing she may have a clue or two. But when they arrive Magala is near hysterical, babbling […]

Green Lantern #14 review

There’s an awful lot going on in this Absolute Power tie-in, and it’s awfully good. Yes, I sound like an Enid Blyton character, but I loved this comic. There’s so much happening courtesy of writer Jeremy Adams and it’s beautifully presented by penciller Fernando Pasarin, inker Oclair Albert, colourist Romulo Fajardo Jr and letterer Dave […]

Absolute Power: Task Force VII #4 review

The focus shifts again in the mini-series allied to the Absolute Power event book, this time showing a band of freedom fighters bidding to strike back against Amanda Waller’s global power grab. Hiding in the Maze of Owls under Gotham City are Nightwing, Robin, the Ray, Miss Martian and Voodoo. While Dick Grayson and Tim […]

Absolute Power: Task Force VII #3 review

The Justice Society were attacked in New York by one of Amanda Waller’s power absorbing androids. The Amazo absorbed Jesse Quick’s speed, and the energy and shadow powers of Jade and Obsidian, prompting the rest of the team to flee to Coast City in the hope of harnessing help from Green Lantern Hal Jordan. The […]