Knight Terrors: Night’s End #1 review

First off, why does the core story of this DC summer event play out in so many differently titled books? We’ve had Knight Terrors: First Blood, four issues of plain ol’ Knight Terrors, and now this. It should have been simply six issues called Knight Terrors. Anyway, Insomnia, who sent pretty much the whole world […]

Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 review

Loads of heroes fight loads of villains. The darkness inside Pariah jumps from Deathstroke to Nightwing. Black Adam shares his power to enable the heroes to resist corruption by Pariah’s darkness The newly amped Dr Light and the Flashes do… something. And the new multiverse of multiverses stands. In the aftermath, the back-from-the-not-quite-dead Justice League […]

The Other History of the DC Universe #3 review

I’ve never liked Katana. I’m good with sword-slinging barbarians, but superheroes? Not so much – good guys shouldn’t kill, and if you’re only slapping someone with the flat of your sword, what’s the point of carrying a deadly weapon? Katana did seem popular with readers of Batman and the Outsiders in the early Eighties, with […]

The Other History of the DC Universe #1 review

… or, the Life Story of Black Lightning. ‘1972-1995: Jefferson Pierce’ is the official title of Book One of 12 Years a Slave writer John Ridley’s DC Black Label project, which looks at the DC Universe through the eyes of the marginalised. Future issues will focus on Teen Titans Mal and Karen Duncan, Gotham cop […]

Batgirl #47 review

Barbara Gordon wants nothing more than a quiet night in on her own. A moment of calm gives her a chance to reassess her priorities. A peaceful few hours? Good luck with that. The Joker. The monster who crippled her years previously, ending her career as Batgirl. Thing is, though, Barbara Gordon didn’t fold after […]