Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #4 review

What is it about covers homaging Silver Age 80pp Giants that I never get tired of them? This example from Kryptonite Spectrum creators W Maxwell Prince and Martín Morazzo is delightful and nicely reflects the nuttiness inside. Mind, the nuttiness is controlled, perfectly meshing into the overall storyline, which has Superman testing new varieties of […]

Justice Society of America #11 review

Next issue is the finale of this 12-issue maxi-series and I’m expecting that to be a big package of loose ends. Why? Because this penultimate chapter is a crash bang wallop climatic action issue full of marvellously crowded splash pages and spreads. In the blue corner we have the JSA, battling to protect newest member […]

Absolute Power 2024 FCBD Special Edition #1 review

D-list supervillain Clock King – so rubbish he was in Justice League Antarctica – are inducting an even more obscure player into a government programme, watched by bad Batman android Failsafe. Haywire is informed that he’s now working for Amanda Waller – who has managed to buy up all the supervillain prisons – and helping […]

The Flash #7 review

What a difference an artist makes. Mike Deodato Jr isn’t around this time after handling the first six issues of the latest Flash run. Filling the breach is Ramon Perez, whose art is mostly pretty good, but so far off the established style of the series that it’s jarring. Where Deodato crowded the pages with […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #20 review

Several years ago, the Flash of Earth 0, Barry Allen, is exploring the Multiverse. He’s looking for someone in particular. And he spots him, very, very briefly. David Sikela, Boy Thunder, Superman’s shortlived sidekick from a parallel Earth who faded back into Hypertime. That was years ago, but Barry pimps a Cosmic Treadmill so Superman […]

Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent #5 review

It’s the penultimate issue of Jon Kent’s mini-series and he has a big decision to make. Does he leave the alternate universe version of his father to his mission to keep his Earth safe by keeping everyone under his thumb? Or does he join Batman’s rebel group, formed after something snapped in Superman following the […]

Legion of Super-Heroes 2023 animation review

At a time when the Legion of Super-Heroes are once again without a comic series, a new feature-length cartoon starring them gets my attention. The fact it features Supergirl, another favourite without a comics spotlight, as our PoV character makes it an immediate watch. The feature opens with a pre-credits origin of Supergirl, showing her […]

Lazarus Planet: Next Evolution #1 review

And the Lazarus Planet spin-offs keep on coming. For weeks DC has been putting out anthologies, with at least four stories per issue showing us the effects of the magical Lazarus Resin spewed out across the earth by a crossover event. And some of the issues have been pretty decent reads. This one, though, is […]

Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #4 review

I’ve said many a time that I’m a sucker for Crisis ‘porn’. Give me heroes from different realities battling a multiversal madman out to destroy/reset/turn everything fuchsia and I’m there. And so far I’ve been enjoying this latest go-round, knowing it’s leading to a reset which, fingers crossed, might bring us a few needed treats […]

Dark Crisis #1 review

This issue, a Titan DIES! Or, if it’s Tuesday, it must be Crisis. Let’s pretend the previous 17 or however many Crisis events we’ve enjoyed or endured since the Crisis on Infinite Earths happened were fluffy affairs, because this is the Dark Crisis! Which means that the villains stand in the shadows. Well, so far… […]