Jay Garrick: The Flash #6 review

This mini-series, part of DC’s Golden Age project – a mini-line of books starring Justice Society characters – gets a tad meta in its final issue as villain Dr Elemental uses a familiar phrase. So yes, Judy Garrick, aka The Boom, Jay’s no-longer displaced super-speed daughter, has been kidnapped by the stinker. Otherwise known as […]

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 […]

Jay Garrick: The Flash #5 review

We start with The Flash and The Boom under attack by a STAR Labs secretary who has shown her true colours. And they’re shiny. Learning that it’s offspring Judy who robot controller Dr Elemental really wants to get his hands on, Jay decides a father-daughter trip is called for. And it involves seeing his own […]

Jay Garrick: The Flash #4 review

STAR Labs has been a part of DC Comics lore for a long time. I remember its introduction way back in the Seventies’ Superman #246 as a Metropolis scientific research facility. Over the years we learned there were branches all over the globe, and while it’s usually been a friendly place, occasionally dark science has […]

Jay Garrick: The Flash #3 review

In the 1940s, Jay Garrick and his Justice Society colleagues find out what super (mad) scientist Dr Elemental can do. Today, Jay and daughter Judy wonder whatever happened to the bad guy, who vanished from the public memory along with Judy when she was stolen and hidden away in an insidious limbo. She’s only just […]

Titans: Beast World Tour: Metropolis #1 review

That title needs a colonoscopy… Who’s scheduling DC Comics these days? Last week the Beast World ‘event’ kicked off and here’s an anthology with three stories showing what happened after Beast Boy went Starro, throwing off spores that turn people into creatures. Except editorial notes in all three tales tell us: ‘This story takes place […]

Jay Garrick: The Flash #2 review

Jay Garrick is remembering things that were long forgotten. Not things that faded from memory, as things do – things that were deleted. Such as a 1941 Justice Society mission to Germany to track down the fabled Spear of Destiny held by Adolf Hitler. No one expected the Ro-Bear. Today, Judy Garrick, teenager speedster recently […]

Jay Garrick: The Flash #1 review

I’m surprised this six-issue mini-series, part of DC’s New Golden Age initiative, isn’t called The Flash and The Boom, because Jay’s daughter Judy is very much in the picture. And if you’re asking, ‘who?’, you missed the recent Stargirl and the Lost Children series, in which we first met teenage speedster Judy Garrick. Lost in […]

The Flash #796 review

It’s the finale to the One-Minute War storyline with the whole of the Flash Family united in fighting back against the Fraction. The Speed Force-tapping extraterrestrials have landed on Earth and frozen the populace as a precursor to stealing the planet’s resources. The speedsters’ efforts to reclaim the world – their powers mean they’re free […]

The Flash #793 review

Flash Gordon had 14 hours to save the Earth. The Flash Family have maybe a minute… Earth is under seige as alien conquerors The Fraction enact their plan to steal the planet’s resources, killing the population along the way. Their connection to the Speed Force means the World’s Greatest Superheroes are too slow to have […]