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 […]

Superman #14 review

The Brainiac Superman knows has gathered versions of himself from across time and space. He wants something to fill a gap he’s identified. Is it the creature he’s been building with the energies of super-beings from all over Metropolis and the muscle of the last survivors of Lobo’s homeworld? Or is it something other than […]

Action Comics #1065 review

As House of Brainiac reaches part 3. Kara and Kon-El have escaped from the bottle jails in which the Coluan Conqueror placed them, only to find themselves tiny and powerless. Who ya gonna call? The Parasite and Livewire, similarly kidnapped from Metropolis as part of Brainiac’s scheme to steal the powers of metahumans good and […]

Superman: House of Brainiac #1 review

Back in the Nineties Triangle Era of weekly Superman comics, an event storyline would most likely get a tie-in comic. Team Superman, Supergirl and Team Luthor, that kind of thing. So it seems appropriate that the latest big Superman story, which conspicuously calls back to the Triangle days, gets a bumper issue with three short […]

Green Arrow #11 review

Oh dear, this isn’t a very successful issue. Well, unless unconvincing threats and dizzyingly dull exposition is your thing. If you’ve come in late, the past ten issues have seen, first, Oliver Queen bouncing around time as mysterious forces tried to keep him from his loved ones. It turned out that Suicide Squad showrunner turned […]

Superman #13 review

House of Brainiac continues, with most of the Super Family bottled by Brainiac and dragged into outer space. The conqueror from Colu sicced the last citizens of the planet Czarnia on Metropolis, along with his droid warriors, and the hit and run caught the heroes off guard. Superman, though, has an idea as to who […]

Action Comics #1064 review

Oh, now this is great! Not enough review for you? OK, a few details. It’s Saturday in Metropolis, Lois is having a rare day off and she has yoga on her mind. Yep, Superman is on patrol but soon he’s on the scene as Clark, the epitome of Hot Dork. He’s ready to show off […]

Green Arrow #10 review

Green Arrow has agreed to help Amanda Waller retrieve the secrets of Sanctuary, the disastrous superhero therapy centre which aimed to help Heroes in Crisis. Waller being a homicidal megalomaniac these days, Ollie’s not exactly in her corner, he aims to rescue the last hero she recruited/coerced into going into sanctuary – Ollie’s ward Roy, […]

Superman #12 review

Holy role reversal, Luthor takes to the streets of Metropolis in his power suit to save the citizens while Superman dons a nifty lab suit to attack their problems from another direction. Their problems are Dr Pharm, a cloud of green kryptonite tweaked to kill regular human beings and Lex’s mad mother Leticia. The first […]