JSA #1 review

It’s a new start for the Justice Society of America. Since last we saw them there’s been a reorganisation, with some members out, others returning and a new leader. This new series begins with a quick recap of the history of the team before we join some of the current members in St Roche, once […]

Poison Ivy/Swamp Thing: Feral Trees #1 review

Well here’s a surprise, a team-up of two DC characters that isn’t linked to an event book. It’s a done-in-one that can be enjoyed on its own. And I did enjoy it. A lot. Both connected to the Green, our hero and anti-heroine are drawn to a place where dark events are occurring. For example. […]

Action Comics #1073 review

Behind the poster-worthy cover by illustrator Clayton Henry and colour artist Tomeu Morey, the Phantoms serial continues, with this chapter opening on Jor-El inventing the Phantom Zone projector. Superman muses on the dichotomy that while his father inadvertently spared Zone prisoners death as Krypton exploded, turning people into living ghosts, stuck in a realm of […]

Action Comics #1072 online

Superman recalls a bittersweet moment from his boyhood, when a ship from the stars brought an explorer to Earth, a young man circumstances led him to believe was his big brother. Today, Superman and Mon-El are reunited in the Phantom Zone, to which the Man of Steel has come to learn what twisted three inmates […]

Nightwing #118 review

Finally, the Heartless story ends. And it does so in the best issue of Nightwing in ages, as writer Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo, Taylor’s artist partner for the best part of it, say goodbye to Dick Grayson. For now, at least – given their obvious affection for our hero and his world, I can’t […]

Titans #16 review

If ever a comic book merited a Bold New Direction cover blurb, this is it. For in one issue we have a new base for the team… … one member gone, another leaving, a former member rejoining… … and demon’s daughter Raven tearing up over a satellite? As for that zoo – why is the […]

Batman & Robin Year One #1 review

It’s opening night for the Batman and Robin team. Before they hit the streets, though, Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth discuss the sense in Batman taking on the recently orphaned Dick Grayson as sidekick Robin. Before long, the heroes who will come to be known as the Dynamic Duo are driving from stately Wayne Manor […]

Batman and Robin #14 review

Gotham City, 1892, and ritual follows the death of a man. Gotham City, 2024, and Batman and Robin are enjoying a night on the town. Gotham City, 2024, the next evening, and Bruce and Damian Wayne are not enjoying a night on the town. The tuxedos are itchy and Oracle says there’s a chance of […]

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 […]

Justice Society of America #12 review

… or, as it should say on Mikel Janín’s terrific cover, Stargirl 25th Anniversary Special. Because that’s what this final issue of the limited series is – not the epilogue to the lengthy story we’ve followed over the last few years, but a love letter to Courtney Whitmore. I’m not inclined to moan too much […]