Blue Beetle #7 review

The cover promises fun, and by gum, that’s what we get inside as Blue Beetle Jaime Reyes and Booster Gold go on a quest to help Blue Beetle Ted Kord get himself together. Literally. It’s an old school quest, the kind of thing the Justice League would occupy themselves with every other month in the […]

Hyperion & the Imperial Guard #1 review

It says issue #1 on the cover, but inside it’s number 121 of the adventures of the Present’s Greatest Super-Teens. For this isn’t the debut of a new team book, it’s the finale or, as the story title puts it, ‘Coda’. Yes, after the Shi’ar Empire’s ‘youngest legion of the Imperial Guard’ enjoy their greatest […]

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 […]

The Amazing Spider-Man #1 review

It’s a brand new day for Spider-Man. Another. And it begins with a dream. Peter and Mary Jane atop a high spire in New York City. A rude awakening is provided by his and Robbie Robertson’s new roommate, Fred Myers, playing video games insanely loudly at 5am. Myers, like Peter, does some of his best […]