Superman #37 review

Just imagine you suddenly found yourself a superhero in the DC Universe, what would you do? Knuckle down in the day-to-day while waiting for the inevitable supervillain to show up? Or tour the weird and wonderful sites the comic book world has to offer. The latter, obviously, which is exactly how Superboy Prime prefers to […]

Superman #36 review

Superboy Prime is ready for his close-up. With Superman off somewhere in the wake of DC KO, he’s ready to hold the fort in Metropolis. The lifelong comics fan has interacted with his heroes in the Earth 0 realm several times and made a right pig’s ear of it – think insults and mass murder. […]

DC KO #5 review

It’s the finale to DC’s latest event, and Superman is in trouble. Well, he’s dead, killed by Lex Luthor. But that’s only one Superman. It turns out that the ‘games night’ flashbacks we’ve been seeing as asides while heroes bashed each other in a cosmic clash to become the King Omega weren’t the flashbacks they […]

Superman #35 review

‘Hope’ has been the watchword for Superman for a long time now, and while the Man of Steel doesn’t appear as an active participant in this issue, hope is everywhere. While Superman is away at the DC KO festivities, Superwoman Lois, Superboy Prime and a very human Superman robot are fighting their way past Darkseid’s […]

Superman #34 review

The cover says this is a DC KO tie-in, which it is to an extent, but more than that it’s a continuation of the Darkseid’s Legion storyline. And I am loving it. The issue opens with a flashback to the day Superman and Fortress of Solitude major domo Kelex assessed a new line of Superman […]

DC KO: Red Hood Vs The Joker #1 review

You know the routine by now. Three rounds, combatants die, come back, die again. Along the way we get action scenes that are even more over the top than are the norm in superhero comics, and if we’re very lucky, a few insights into character. Red Hood Vs The Joker #1 follows the pattern to […]

Superman #33: Lex Luthor vs The Demon

The DC KO event rumbles continue with Superman’s greatest enemy, Lex Luthor, battling Arthurian nightmare Etrigan the Demon. Lex is there because his ego says he should be the King Omega, the all-powerful tournament survivor who will go head to head against Darkseid. But surely a creature of Hell is above – or below – […]

DC KO: Superman vs Captain Atom #1 review

A pretty brutal fight, that’s what this cover by Jorge Corona and Sarah Stern shows. The colouring is heated, the rendering of the figures scrappy. It’s perfect. Inside, the art is generally smoother, Sean Izaakse’s style is at times as glossy as Captain Atom’s skin. But when the visuals are in fight mode, it’s intense. […]

DC KO #2 review

Earth’s superheroes are trying to kill each other in the hope a sole survivor will inherit enough power to stop Darkseid, the evil god who’s lately become even more godly, though his evil levels seem about the same. Last issue, the opening round of a tournament helpfully organised by a talking Apokoliptian firepit sparker – […]

Knightfight #1 review

On a day that’s not today, Batman is on his way to stop Professor Pyg and his Circus of Strange and free a bus full of hostages. On arrival, though, he finds the job’s been done. The Caped Crusader compares and contrasts. With four Gotham guardians, Batman wonders if the city still needs him. Today, […]