‘Twas the ‘Mite Before Christmas #1 review

Giant issues are great, I read lots of stories, often featuring obscure characters and find some gems. Giant issues are terrible, I read lots of stories, often featuring obscure characters, and find far too few gems. But this issue features a real diamond, a tale so good it sparked the punning title for 2023’s festive […]

Action Comics Annual #2023 #1 review

After almost three years at the writing helm of Action Comics, Phillip Kennedy Johnson wraps up his Warworld sequence with a battle royal played out across two worlds. Warworld orphan Othol-Ra, taken into the Kent-Lane household and given a new start, has been targeted by Janan al-Ghul, sole survivor of the ruling family of the […]

Action Comics #1059 review

That’s a heck of a cover by Steve Beach, with not one, but two literal men of steel facing a bunch of bad guys. The barely restrained power, the determined expressions… excellent. Inside we learn that the people with their back to us are Blue Earthers – but not the garden variety Metropolis xenophobes, these […]

Superman #8 review

Telekinetic bad boy The Chained continues his vendetta against Lex Luthor and while the Super Family do a good job fending him off, a secret revealed could shake one member to the core. Superman #8 – legacy number 851 – begins with a look back to the childhood of The Chained, and the day young […]

Green Lantern: War Journal #2 review

In which John Stewart is offered a job, Mom Shirley returns to the big city and a rather nasty bunch of aliens come calling. Again. Because if you caught the debut issue of the latest Green Lantern series you’d have seen Varron of the new United Planets GL Corps turn up at John’s family home […]

Action Comics #1058 review

After Clark Kent interviews Norah Stone, head of the anti-extraterrestrial society Blue Earth, her minder morphs into a Superman double and attacks him. Somehow the doppelgänger steals a portion of Superman’s strength and begins pummelling him, dragging him into the sky. But while the stranger has Clark’s power, he doesn’t have his experience. And that’s […]

Superman #6 review

Lex Luthor has been stabbed in prison and lies between life and death. An angry Superman is not in the mood for messing about when robbers strike. Lois Lane feels like she’s in prison as filling in for absent Daily Planet Editor Perry White keeps her away from her first love, investigative journalism. Superman learns […]

Action Comics Presents: Doomsday Special #1 review

One morning in Metropolis Supergirl tells cousin Superman, in his guise as mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, that she’s been dreaming about Doomsday. This prompts Clark to tell her what it was like being murdered by the Kryptonian killing machine. A little later, Supergirl is approached by Clark’s longtime Justice League friend J’onn J’onzz. He explains […]

Knight Terrors: Action Comics #2 review

The Knight Terrors micro-series continues. Once again we have two strips with one set-up; new villain Insomnia has forced the world into a deep sleep and is searching their dreams for something called The Maguffin Stone. Hang on, sorry, it’s the Nightmare Stone. But that’s not important right now – Insomnia motivates the tales starring […]

Knight Terrors: Action Comics #1 review

DC’s summer Halloween event continues with a look at what’s happening to the rest of the Super Family while Superman and Supergirl fight the effects of new villain Insomnia’s supernatural sleeping sickness. But first – sigh – Power Girl. What’s she doing back in Action? I thought that with a new series coming up which […]