Absolute Power #1 review

In which deep fake images of superheroes attacking members of the public have the world’s citizens turning on them and putting them in hospital. Heroes who aren’t being attacked chat gloomily on Batman’s secret channel. And finally, Amazos attack! The public are uniformly stupid. The superheroes are naive. Amanda Waller is the cleverest master manipulator […]

Absolute Power: Ground Zero #1 review

And here it is, the start of the event I’ve been dreading – the culmination of DC’s murdering of Amanda Waller as a character. In the next few months we’re going to have a lot of comics focusing on her war on superheroes. The only reason to think we might have an enjoyable time is […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #28 review

…or should that be Dimensions’ Finest, as a gaggle of imps drop onto Earth Prime? Before that happens, the cliffhanger from last issue is picked up as Jimmy Olsen, having proven himself Earth’s Mightiest Warrior, must face the unnamed Imp-Killer. Unfortunately, the powers Jimmy had last time are gone. But, good news! While Mr Mxyzptlk […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #27 review

When I was a kid, reading elderly DC comics inherited from a neighbour, there was a house ad that caught my eye. It featured Superman being smashed into a wall by a massive ginger beardy fella in a mini-skirt. Take a look. Zha-Vam. Sounds a bit like Shazam. I wanted to know more about this […]

Absolute Power 2024 FCBD Special Edition #1 review

D-list supervillain Clock King – so rubbish he was in Justice League Antarctica – are inducting an even more obscure player into a government programme, watched by bad Batman android Failsafe. Haywire is informed that he’s now working for Amanda Waller – who has managed to buy up all the supervillain prisons – and helping […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #26 review

Magical imps Mr Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite felt impelled to flee to Earth after a sinister figure, powerful even by their reality-altering standards, killed off a bunch of Justice League fans. They’ve implored Superman, Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder to get ready because ‘something’s coming’. The heroes aren’t impressed as Bat-Mite bids to get everyone […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #25 review

Twenty-five issues. How often does a comic book of the high quality we’ve seen in World’s Finest over the last two years manage to continue being published? But here’s writer Mark Waid and guest artist Steve Pugh with an extra-length celebration story and, wouldn’t you know it, it’s thoroughly entertaining. The surprise is that instead […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest 2024 Annual review

I’ve been looking forward to this one since it was announced – a bunch of World’s Finest-adjacent characters in their own stories. First we have Mr Mxyzptlk, Bat-Mite and their Just-Us League of Imps meeting at the Fifth Dimensional Hall of Just-Us. Mxy has an agenda to discuss but no one is listening. I just […]

Shazam! #7 review

This issue the newly christened Captain fights not one, but two powerhouses. There is, of course, Black Adam, right there on Dan Mora’s dramatic covers, while in the opening sequence there’s a surprise new character. While Cap uses his newly boosted wisdom of Solomon to deal with Bizarro Marvel, over Kahndaq Black Adam encounters the […]

World’s Finest: Teen Titans #6 review

Last issue the Teen Titans fell foul of a new hero team… or, at least, a hero team in their own minds. For Haywire, Artemis, Toyboy and the Ant like to get rough, even lethal, in the cause of crimefighting. The clue’s in the name – Terror Titans. They caught Robin, Wonder Girl, Speedy, Bumblebee, […]