Green Lantern #14 review

There’s an awful lot going on in this Absolute Power tie-in, and it’s awfully good. Yes, I sound like an Enid Blyton character, but I loved this comic. There’s so much happening courtesy of writer Jeremy Adams and it’s beautifully presented by penciller Fernando Pasarin, inker Oclair Albert, colourist Romulo Fajardo Jr and letterer Dave […]

Absolute Power: Task Force VII #3 review

The Justice Society were attacked in New York by one of Amanda Waller’s power absorbing androids. The Amazo absorbed Jesse Quick’s speed, and the energy and shadow powers of Jade and Obsidian, prompting the rest of the team to flee to Coast City in the hope of harnessing help from Green Lantern Hal Jordan. The […]

Green Lantern #12 review

Ooh, soppy cover alert! Still, Hal Jordan and Carol Ferris are one of my favourite comic book couples. I’ve followed their deeply weird relationship since I was a little kid reading Silver Age Green Lantern comics. Hal loved Carol but Carol loved Green Lantern and he couldn’t possibly just let her know how convenient that […]

Green Lantern #11 review

Things start with a bang as United Planets head Lord Premier Thaaros reacts to the government of Planet Zamaron turning down his offer of membership. There goes the world’s central power battery, putting paid to the Star Sapphires… presumably. On Earth, Carol Ferris seems to be settling. The woman can’t stop inwardly mooning over Hal […]

Jay Garrick: The Flash #6 review

This mini-series, part of DC’s Golden Age project – a mini-line of books starring Justice Society characters – gets a tad meta in its final issue as villain Dr Elemental uses a familiar phrase. So yes, Judy Garrick, aka The Boom, Jay’s no-longer displaced super-speed daughter, has been kidnapped by the stinker. Otherwise known as […]

Jay Garrick: The Flash #5 review

We start with The Flash and The Boom under attack by a STAR Labs secretary who has shown her true colours. And they’re shiny. Learning that it’s offspring Judy who robot controller Dr Elemental really wants to get his hands on, Jay decides a father-daughter trip is called for. And it involves seeing his own […]

Jay Garrick: The Flash #4 review

STAR Labs has been a part of DC Comics lore for a long time. I remember its introduction way back in the Seventies’ Superman #246 as a Metropolis scientific research facility. Over the years we learned there were branches all over the globe, and while it’s usually been a friendly place, occasionally dark science has […]

Jay Garrick: The Flash #3 review

In the 1940s, Jay Garrick and his Justice Society colleagues find out what super (mad) scientist Dr Elemental can do. Today, Jay and daughter Judy wonder whatever happened to the bad guy, who vanished from the public memory along with Judy when she was stolen and hidden away in an insidious limbo. She’s only just […]

Jay Garrick: The Flash #2 review

Jay Garrick is remembering things that were long forgotten. Not things that faded from memory, as things do – things that were deleted. Such as a 1941 Justice Society mission to Germany to track down the fabled Spear of Destiny held by Adolf Hitler. No one expected the Ro-Bear. Today, Judy Garrick, teenager speedster recently […]

Jay Garrick: The Flash #1 review

I’m surprised this six-issue mini-series, part of DC’s New Golden Age initiative, isn’t called The Flash and The Boom, because Jay’s daughter Judy is very much in the picture. And if you’re asking, ‘who?’, you missed the recent Stargirl and the Lost Children series, in which we first met teenage speedster Judy Garrick. Lost in […]