Green Arrow #17 review

Who wants an epilogue to Green Arrow’s Absolute Power adventure, tying things up in a bow? It begins with Green Arrow hunting down Waller’s henchpeople, Peacemaker and Peacewrecker. Then he visits the newly imprisoned Amanda Waller. Popping up to the new JLA Satellite. Ollie tells the core members that in pretending to betray them to […]

Superman #19 review

Things I like to see in a Superman comic include: An intriguing opening. Fun at the Daily Planet. Action. And mystery. So who is the Time Trapper this week? In past stories the embodiment of Entropy has been revealed as a Controller, Glorith, Lori Morning, Cosmic Boy… heck, probably Sugar & Spike and Ace the […]

DC All In Special #1 review

Flip books. How I hate them. You’re reading a comic and you get to the middle and have to turn it upside down, usually for no good reason. It’s just a gimmick. DC All In Special does have a decent excuse for the chapters starting from opposite ends of the book, meeting in the middle […]

Superman #18 review

Superman hates magic. That’s the point that’s being rammed home again and again as he searches for the Map of Mordru with Justice League friend Zatanna. And now the heroes have found the demonic document, but it’s in the hands of someone who very much isn’t a friend. Neron. The devil from the depths of […]

Green Arrow #15 review

‘Action-packed’ is a fair way to describe this issue. ‘Green Arrow-packed’, less so. As with last issue, Ollie Queen is barely in his own book. Sure, his son Connor Hawke is around and dressed in a Green Arrow outfit, but no one buys this book for Connor Hawke. It’s a shame we don’t spend much […]

Superman #17 review

The Absolute Power tie-in storyline continues with Superman and Zatanna having fled the Fortress of Solitude, which was under attack by the forces of eeeeevil Amanda Waller, and searching for reinforcements. Finding other heroes from across the Multiverse means treading The Dark Roads, led by the Map of Mordru. But first they have to find […]

Green Arrow #14 review

What is Oliver Queen up to? He’s publicly allied himself with Suicide Squad chief turned dictator Amanda Waller, helping her oppress his fellow superheroes. He’s not out hunting heroes – the souped up Amazo androids are doing that – but he is passing on their secrets and cataloguing the weapons ‘The Wall’ has stolen from […]

Superman #16 review

The Man of Steel is pretty much the Man of Flesh as this issue begins, his powers taken, his flesh pierced by bullets. Amanda Waller’s world coup has taken out most of the heroes, but while Superman is down, he isn’t out, with two of the best surgeons on the planet looking after him. Elsewhere, […]

Superman #15 review

So there. I was yesterday, moaning about the surfeit of purple tones on House of Brainiac covers, and here’s one blazing with green. And I love it, Rafa Sandoval’s simple image of an intense Superman in the face of the computer tyrant’s dying spacecraft is a winner. It helps that the white and green logo […]

Action Comics #1066 review

It’s 1066 but it’s not the Battle of Hastings, it’s the Battle of Brainiac as Superman, Superboy, Lobo and Silver Banshee fight for survival against the computer tyrant of Colu and his latest creation… … the Brainiac Queen. She’s just killed and eaten Brainiac’s army of Czarnians and now has her eye – and tongue […]