Justice League: The Atom Project #6 review

It’s the finale to a series that has shown a certain consistency – it’s been consistently disappointing. I won’t repeat points made in previous reviews, optimism has kept me buying – let’s see if my fantastically open heart is rewarded. What’s been going on? Amanda Waller stole super powers from lots of heroes. The heroes […]

Justice League: The Atom Project #1 review

There’s a guy on a train, furtively moving forward as air force personnel question transport staff about someone they’re looking for. As they get close, he takes drastic action. Escape doesn’t look to be on the cards today, though. Flashback to three weeks earlier, when Ray and fellow Atom Ryan Choi were catching up with […]

Poison Ivy/Swamp Thing: Feral Trees #1 review

Well here’s a surprise, a team-up of two DC characters that isn’t linked to an event book. It’s a done-in-one that can be enjoyed on its own. And I did enjoy it. A lot. Both connected to the Green, our hero and anti-heroine are drawn to a place where dark events are occurring. For example. […]

The Bat-Man: First Knight #3 review

It’s 1939 and the hidden crimelord known as The Voice is continuing their plan to take over Gotham city. Reanimating corpses and turning them into hulking lackeys, they’re killing civic leaders, creating a power vacuum they can step into. That’s the plan, anyway. But two men stand against him – lawman Commissioner James Gordon and […]

The Bat-Man: First Knight #1 review

It’s 1939, the world is still reeling from the ‘The War To End All Wars’ and another World War is on the horizon. The vile teachings of fascists are touching a nerve in a United States only just coming out of the Depression. And in a Gotham ruled by gangsters, city leaders are being murdered […]

Action Comics #1050 review

There are two ways to do a special number issue – an anthology of stories by creators not identitied with the series, or a big event. Here we have the latter, as Lex Luthor puts a rather powerful genie back in the bottle – public knowledge of Superman’s secret identity. How does Lex manage the […]

Action Comics 1049 review

In his cell on Stryker’s Island, John Corben aka Metallo, receives an unwanted visitor. Working for Lex Luthor is the last thing war-weary Corben wants. Unfortunately, Lex knows where Corben’s sister lives. Meanwhile, at Metropolis Zoo, Superman is fighting to stop New Gods Orion, Kalibak and Desaad – watched by arch schemer Metron – kidnapping […]

Action Comics #1048 review

It’s Visiting Day in Metropolis. Businessman and part-time supervillain Lex Luthor drops in on John Corben, aka Metallo, the man with the kryptonite heart. Lois Lane takes houseguests Osul and Otho-Ra to see the critters at the city zoo, which isn’t meant to be a prison… While Lois is beckoning an old pal to join […]

Generations Forged #1 review

Heroes and villains lost in time. Unlikely team-ups. Angry gods. Reality rewritten. On the one hand, so far as Generations Forged goes, you’ve seen it all before. On the other GIANT cosmic hand, the aforementioned story points come up again and again for good reason – they’re guaranteed crowd pleasers when brought out by a […]

Lois Lane #12 review

Over the last few months I’ve moaned a bit about the freewheeling nature of this maxi-series; plotlines that seemed fundamental to the story vanished for months at a time. Well, they’re back: the reporter killed by Russians? Out in the open. The corruption in Washington? Exposed. The hotel cleaner threatened with deportation? Welcome after all. […]