Titans: Titans Together #4 review

Wonder Girl and Starfire are demonstrating their abilities to a high school science class via the medium of violence. The teacher is talking about the theories behind the powers. Not everyone is impressed. While Raven was singularly uninterested in the demo, she is struck by the pain she feels in the schoolgirl. Following her home, […]

Swamp Thing: New Roots #1 review

‘The beet goes on’ – terrible pun, brilliant story. DC’s daily Digital First programme rolls out another winner with Swamp Thing: New Roots #1, whose story debuted in Swamp Thing 100-page Giant #1 last year. One of the big benefits of stories being scooped out of anthologies and given a showcase is that covers originally […]

‪Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium #1‬ review

It’s the future. A young woman has an audience with the President. Rose and the Thorn. Ordinary woman and her split personality ‘sister’, a crazed vigilante who’s begun to suspect she’s immortal. Rose, who has been the dominant personality for years due to drug treatment, is terrified that the Thorn is about to re-emerge. It’s […]

Nightwing #50 review

Nightwing has been shot through the head. Not (Night)winged, properly shot. Some time later, we see Dick Grayson’s new life. He’s couch surfing without asking permission. Drinking, gambling and fighting for fun. Ignoring the entreaties of the woman who cares most for him in the world. And burning his superhero bridges. Literally. So yeah, this […]

Green Arrow #45 review

Roy Harper is dead. The hero known as Arsenal was murdered at Sanctuary, the therapy home for superbeings set up by Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. Roy’s friends say goodbye to the onetime Speedy, including Bird of the Navajo tribe which raised the future hero after his father was killed. Oliver Queen can only recall […]