Action Comics #1078 review

Jon Kent is facing one of his father’s old foes, Grax. The alien conqueror is crowing, knowing that the Sun is being drained to fuel the creation of mass in the Phantom Zone. That plot was the work of Aethyr, a crazed godlike being who, nevertheless, has just been defeated by Superman. The Man of […]

Action Comics #1077 review

Superman has escaped from doomed Krypton and is back in the Phantom Zone in the present day. The mad god Aethyr has been altering the reality of the ghostly realm, creating mass and giving its ethereal inhabitants physical form. Superman comes across old friend Mon-El seemingly saying a prayer. Bringing the Man of Steel up […]

Justice League Unlimited #1 review

It’s a brand new day for the heroes of the DC Universe, as the Justice League becomes the umbrella organisation under which all heroes are invited to operate, as Flash tells first-timer Air Wave. The missions doled out by Red Tornado in this debut issue include an attack by War Wheels in South Africa… … […]

Batman & Robin Year One #2 review

When I was a kid in the Seventies, Mad Magazine had a feature, Scenes We’d Like To Seen, in which tired tropes of popular culture would be subverted. The second issue of DC’s latest Batman mini-series has something of that ilk. They’re a cynical bunch, but I believe this is how the good folk of […]

Action Comics #1075 review

Hey, here’s a surprise, a bonus big issue to mark 25 issues since the previous Not Really an Anniversary Issue. And isn’t that a lovely cover from illustrator Clayton Henry and colourist Tomeu Morey? Inside, there’s no surprise when it comes to the quality of the first strip, it’s another exciting episode in the 12-part […]

Action Comics #1074 review

Tossed down a time tunnel by the demon Aethyr, Superman finds himself in his own past, on the planet Krypton. Without his powers under the Red Sun, his biggest hope of escape is to have the artificial power wristbands he’s been wearing powered up. Luckily, Superman knows of a scientist who may be able to […]

Action Comics #1073 review

Behind the poster-worthy cover by illustrator Clayton Henry and colour artist Tomeu Morey, the Phantoms serial continues, with this chapter opening on Jor-El inventing the Phantom Zone projector. Superman muses on the dichotomy that while his father inadvertently spared Zone prisoners death as Krypton exploded, turning people into living ghosts, stuck in a realm of […]

Action Comics #1072 online

Superman recalls a bittersweet moment from his boyhood, when a ship from the stars brought an explorer to Earth, a young man circumstances led him to believe was his big brother. Today, Superman and Mon-El are reunited in the Phantom Zone, to which the Man of Steel has come to learn what twisted three inmates […]

Batman & Robin Year One #1 review

It’s opening night for the Batman and Robin team. Before they hit the streets, though, Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth discuss the sense in Batman taking on the recently orphaned Dick Grayson as sidekick Robin. Before long, the heroes who will come to be known as the Dynamic Duo are driving from stately Wayne Manor […]

Action Comics #1070 review

A few years ago DC added a back-up strip to Action Comics, around the time that Supergirl lost her ongoing title (again). And since then I’ve regularly suggested Supergirl take the spot as a nod to where she started, back in the Silver Age. And now, 694 issues since she departed her solo series in […]