Spider-Man Holiday Spectacular #1 review

Now that’s a Christmas cover, worthy of a Seventies Treasury Edition. Just looking at Luciano Vecchio’s superhero snowball slugfest fills me with simple joy. And the warm fuzzies continue inside as writer Rainbow Rowell and a quartet of artists – including Vecchio – tell a tale of a very Spidey Christmas. It’s set in, basically, […]

One World Under Doom #6 review

Well, that looks painful. Victor Von Doom takes Reed Richards apart on Ben Harvey’s creepy cover. Dr Doom rips Mr Fantastic apart inside the issue too, but with words rather than metal gauntlets. The Latverian dictator and longtime Fantastic Four foe has taken over the world. Having become Sorceror Supreme when he was key to […]

New Champions #6 review

The latest teen superheroes of the Marvel Universe are in trouble. They’ve gathered as the New Champions and been getting to know one another, but the nearest thing they have to a leader, Liberty, has vanished, spirited away by supposed ally Monte, and the young heroes haven’t been able to find her. Luckily one of […]

The Amazing Spider-Man #1 review

Hey, it’s The Amazing Spider-Man #1, I’ve not reviewed one of those since 2018! I liked that one, but quickly fell off the series – too many gangsters. So how’s the latest debut issue? Pretty great, actually. I was grabbed from the opening scene, vignettes of Peter Parker interviewing for a new job, starting with […]

This week I also read…

… not much, Steve and I are on a seven-night voyage sailing from Southampton, UK, to Boston, US. Well, that was the plan, but predicted bad weather in the Atlantic turned it into a ten-day cruise from Southampton, UK, to New York, US. Bang went our planned dinner with Dr Anj of Supergirl Comic Box Commentary fame, […]

New Champions #1 review

A lovely day in San Francisco for veteran supervillains the Brothers Grimm is rudely interrupted by unfamiliar figures. Soon they’re very familiar with the quartet of teenage heroes calling themselves The New Champions. With the bad guys in the paddy wagon, the kids go home for the evening, three to their birth parents… … one […]

Uncanny X-Men #5 review

The nightmare that is Sarah Gaunt has Rogue at her mercy, and the leader of the X-Men’s Louisiana team’s mind is shocked back to six months previously. That day, the subject was elecution. The memory is painful, but the Now is even worse, Rogue having been maimed by the monstrous woman who wants to murder […]

Avengers Assemble #1 review

There’s a new group of Avengers in town. Captain America is gathering heroes for a secondary squad of Earth’s mightiest heroes and first up are the Wasp, Photon and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu. Or is it Master of the Ten Rings? He uses the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s magical hoops at least as much as […]

Ultimate Spider-Man #1 review

Peter Parker has a pretty good life Certainly the recent loss of his Aunt May in terror attack was a blow, but he does have… … Uncle Ben? At home, he’s loved by wife Mary Jane and kids Richard and May. At work, the Daily Bugle Old Guard is being forced out. Dark days are […]

G.O.D.S. #1 review

G.O.D.S. it’s long Oh, you want more? Well, the first issue of Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti’s new Marvel series is pretty entertaining, certainly more to my taste than most Hickman-led books. For one thing, the comic story isn’t constantly interrrupted by dull infographics. For two, we meet an engaging new lead character. Sure, he […]