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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Green Lantern #2 review

Back on Earth after years as a sky-rider of the spaceways, Green Lantern Hal Jordan is trying to rebuild his life on Earth. First and foremost, that means he needs a paying job. He’s sold toys, he’s pushed insurance, even driven a truck, but flying is where Hal’s heart is. And so he’s back at […]

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The Flash #800 review

‘A celebration of Wally West’ is what the copy atop Taurin Clarke’s slick cover illustration promises, and while this anniversary issue doesn’t always keep the focus on the third hero to ride the thunderbolt, it’s a cracking anthology. Most recent writer Jeremy Adams kicks off the issue with a villain tale, but for once it’s […]

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Green Lantern #1 review

A lot has happened since last time Hal Jordan was an Earth-based Green Lantern. After the disappearance of the Guardians of the Universe, new galactic government the United Planets have taken over the Green Lantern Corps. They’ve declared Sector 2814 a liability and reassigned Earth’s Lanterns. Hal isn’t happy, and has quit in protest. We […]

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The Flash #798 review

With just two full issues to go before his stint on the book ends, writer Jeremy Adams adds to the legacy of The Flash with a new member of the family. OK, it was pretty obvious to anyone who’s been reading comics for more than five minutes that mystery speedster Wade from the last couple […]

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The Flash #797 review

Wally and Linda West’s twins Irey and Jai are well into the idea of being superheroes. What they’re less keen on is being attacked by arch-foes out for revenge before they’ve actually fought for the first time. That’s what happens when their uncle Ace – the current Kid Flash – agrees to babysit them for […]

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