The Avengers #1 review

Brian Bendis’s New Avengers is my least favourite flavour of Avengers, and here’s a new volume of what was once my preferred Marvel team looking very Brian Bendis… and I rather like it. I picked it up because it’s a light week for me, but also cos I was intrigued as to what the heck […]

Captain Britain 50th Anniversary Special #1

October 1976 was one of the most exciting times for a young Marvel fan in the UK. After years of black and white reprints of US characters we were being gifted our very own hero, in full colour! Even as a 12-year-old I could see how derivative Captain Britain was – part Thor, part Spidey, […]

Sorcerer Supreme #1 review

The Scarlet Witch is now Sorcerer Supreme? Well that’s a turn-up for the books… but how? Well, Dr Doom nicked the title and powers from Dr Strange at the conclusion of a Marvel Event, then the next Marvel Event ended with Victor Von Doom sacrificing his life to revive goddaughter Valeria Richards after he – […]

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 […]