‘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 […]

The Flash #4 review

Wally West has lately been finding his perceptions changing. Members of his Rogues Gallery are showing up in powerful new forms. People are being kidnapped by space bubbles. Extra-dimensional aliens have been appearing. Jai West has been getting emotional in the school basement. Barry Allen is in a fug and has shut himself away. Max […]

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 […]

Justice Society of America #8 review

The Justice Society indulge the new Huntress’ desire to make the team a place where villains can improve their reputation, by checking her list to see if naughty can become nice. Green Lantern Alan Scott isn’t convinced teen hothead Red Lantern of Russia has what it takes, what with the multiple murders and all. Still, […]

Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Knight #3 review

Last issue we learned that Krampus declaring war on Man wasn’t in character. While he looks fearsome, he was traditionally Santa Claus’s winter pal, playing mischievous tricks on naughty children in the run-up to Christmas. But a misunderstanding led Santa to banish him to a weird limbo and now, hundreds of years later, it seems […]

Superman #9 review

Superman is sick, poisoned by green kryptonite in the latest twist in the vendetta against Lex Luthor by Dr Pharm and Mr Graft. Lois Lane sits by her unconscious husband’s floating bedside, trying to get through to him with get well messages. She’s putting on a brave face but it’s tough. The Man of Steel […]

World’s Finest: Teen Titans #6 review

Last issue the Teen Titans fell foul of a new hero team… or, at least, a hero team in their own minds. For Haywire, Artemis, Toyboy and the Ant like to get rough, even lethal, in the cause of crimefighting. The clue’s in the name – Terror Titans. They caught Robin, Wonder Girl, Speedy, Bumblebee, […]

Outsiders #2 review

New associate Kate Kane persuades Outsiders Luke Fox and Drummer to investigate a storm that’s been raging in the ‘Enlil Triangle’ since the first day of the new millennium. When she was a young cadet, ex-Army Kate encountered a sea monster while on an observation mission to the area, named for a Mesopotamian god. Today […]

Fire and Ice: Welcome to Smallville #4 review

Well, I have been enjoying this mini-series starring the JLI’s best gal pals, with its offbeat look at life as a C-list superhero. The set-up is that Superman has asked Fire and Ice to take a time out in his hometown after one mess-up too many. Sure, that’s leaning into the Superdickery trope, but I […]

Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Knight #1 review

Silent Knight? Isn’t that an old DC adventure character? Appeared in early issues of The Brave and the Bold, was a past life of Hawkman and possible ancestor of Jonathan Kent? Well, he doesn’t appear in the first issue of this seasonal mini-series but it has that anything can happen feel, so who knows? I […]