Adventures of Superman: Book of El #3 review

Catapulted into a far-flung future and determined to find his way home, Superman has been waylaid by a version of computer tyrant Brainiac. The young man fighting alongside Superman outside the Fortress of Solitude is descendant Ronan Kent, who has a diluted Kryptonian power set but all the family grit. And inside the stronghold, Jimmy […]

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, […]

JSA #13 review

After a year-long introduction to the new Justice Society of America series that’s set today, writer Jeff Lemire, artist Gavin Guidry and friends take us back to 1940 for a look at the team’s beginnings. And that means dropping in on the various heroes who will form the group. There’s Green Lantern Alan Scott meeting […]

Batman and Robin Year One #12 review

The cover by illustrator Chris Samnee and colourist Matheus Lopes is a thing of joy, and that’s what we get in the final issue of a maxi-series that’s been a total treat. Yes, there’s serious business in the peculiar shapes of Clayface and Two-Face preparing to pour poison into Gotham Bay… … and the barely […]

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 […]

Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton #5 review

Krypto has found his way to Kansas, but the first people who make his super-ears perk up aren’t Jonathan, Martha and Clark Kent. We don’t learn the victims’ names, just that they’re in trouble from a woman with a gun. Bullets are no match for Krypto now his powers have kicked in. He does have […]

Titans #28 review

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel… bored. Last week DC KO #1 told us Darkseid is coming and Earth will become a suburb of Apokolips. You know the kind of thing, hot, lots of demons. While heroes and villains battle in Skartaris, the not-so-lost-world-of-the-Warlord, to become the champion […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #44 review

Batman and Superman are on a case, but there’s something else that needs superhero attention, so the Caped Crusader has dispatched Robin to look into it. It seems that like me, Superman remembers that Ardora is the name of Lex Luthor’s space wife – long story – so that’s obviously a Lex link, meaning the […]

Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum: #3 review

New varieties of Kryptonite have arrived on Earth, and rather than toss them into the sun, Superman has been testing them on himself to determine their effects. Having survived the chaos caused by the first two, Superman is… Superboy. Cobalt Kryptonite has taken years off him, and while he awaits the results of Batman’s attempts […]

DC KO #1 review

Talk about a new title announcing itself. The cover to DC KO #1 shows heroes fighting inside the book’s excellently designed logo, and on turning the page you see the full, suitably messy image itself from artist Javi Fernández and colourist Alejandro Sánchez. Happily, it lacks is the horrible fonts used by letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, […]