The Amazing Spider-Man #1 review

Hey, it’s The Amazing Spider-Man #1, I’ve not reviewed one of those since 2018! I liked that one, but quickly fell off the series – too many gangsters. So how’s the latest debut issue? Pretty great, actually. I was grabbed from the opening scene, vignettes of Peter Parker interviewing for a new job, starting with […]

Fantastic Four #3 review

With the Fantastic Four separated and without access to their money, Johnny Storm, in his brand new secret identity of Jonathan Fairweather, has taken a job in a big box store. Deciding to do something about the lousy pay and conditions, the Human Torch pays Merrill a visit, not realising they met years ago when […]

Secret Invasion #1 review

Good news. I’m as bright as Nick Fury. That’s Nick Fury Jr, but still. I can’t tell you why or it’d spoil a plot point that comes way halfway through this first issue, but I know how impressive I am This comic is impressive too. I wasn’t expecting much – yet another new Marvel release […]

She-Hulk #4 review

Ben Grimm is in Jen Walters’ corner on Jen Bartel’s attractive cover and that’s the case inside the book too. Unfortunately, our favourite gamma-irradiated attorney doesn’t actually need the Thing to do any clobberin’ on her behalf. The fist belongs to Titania, recovering super-villain and frenemy of She-Hulk. The pair recently decided that their own […]

Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #1 review

You can go home again. Steve Rogers is starting a new period in his life, but to do that he’s going back to the beginning. Having neglected the civilian side of him for a long time, Cap wants to get back in touch with where he came from, remind himself what his mission is all […]

She-Hulk #2 review

The first issue of this mini-series was really rather good, and it ended with Jen Walters’ former Avengers teammate Jack of Hearts turning up at her apartment. Last time She-Hulk saw him he’d just been killed… This time Jack tells Jen he left the Avengers because he feared his tendency to absorb her gamma radiation […]

She-Hulk #1 review

Jennifer Walters has been through some changes over the past few years, but today she’s back to basics – a lawyer whose gamma-irradiated blood can take her from mouse to magnificent in seconds. It’s not all sunshine. Constant time out for superhero shenanigans has stalled Jen’s legal career, meaning she’s back to Square One, about […]

Fantastic Four #25 review

Since at least Jim Shooter’s tenure as Editor-in-chief in the Seventies, Marvel Comics has been built on the illusion of change. A shocking romance here, a change of identity there, the destruction of the Savage Land, No More Mutants… pretty much everything gets reversed, but it’s often fun while it lasts. There’s one corner of […]

Iron Man #1 review

That’s ‘Iron Man’. No ‘Invincible’, ‘International’ or ‘Infamous’. Really, Iron Man needs an adjective. On the basic of this issue, I suggest ‘The Understated Iron Man’… The cover promises a big slugfest with his greatest foes, but inside, all we get are two pages of Terrax the Tamer that may as well be marked ‘obligatory […]

Fantastic 4: Antithesis #1 review

‘A new story from a classic era’ is how Marvel describes this four-issue mini-series and based on the first instalment, this could prove a classic itself. So far as meeting the criteria of the quote goes, ‘new’ it most certainly is, and as for ‘classic era’, that’s fair – the costumes and presence of toddler […]