Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma #1 review

Mitch Shelley is back. Every time he dies, he returns with a new super power. In the past death has come with alarming frequency, as he found himself dragged into one battle after another. It’s a while since the heroes of the DC Universe have heard from him. He’s been taking a break. Sneaking off […]

Batgirl #1 review

Batgirl Cassandra Cain and assassin Lady Shiva have a mother-daughter chat. Murderous martial artists attack. And that, dear reader, is the capsule version of this debut issue’s story. It doesn’t sound compelling, Batgirl and Lady Shiva have done the dysfunctional dance previously, yet this is one of the best comics I’ve read in ages. The […]

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. […]

DC All In Special #1 review

Flip books. How I hate them. You’re reading a comic and you get to the middle and have to turn it upside down, usually for no good reason. It’s just a gimmick. DC All In Special does have a decent excuse for the chapters starting from opposite ends of the book, meeting in the middle […]

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 […]

Action Comics #1065 review

As House of Brainiac reaches part 3. Kara and Kon-El have escaped from the bottle jails in which the Coluan Conqueror placed them, only to find themselves tiny and powerless. Who ya gonna call? The Parasite and Livewire, similarly kidnapped from Metropolis as part of Brainiac’s scheme to steal the powers of metahumans good 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 #1058 review

After Clark Kent interviews Norah Stone, head of the anti-extraterrestrial society Blue Earth, her minder morphs into a Superman double and attacks him. Somehow the doppelgänger steals a portion of Superman’s strength and begins pummelling him, dragging him into the sky. But while the stranger has Clark’s power, he doesn’t have his experience. And that’s […]

Harley Quinn Romances #1 review

Now there’s a clever title for the annual giant love anthology from DC. OK, it took me a second to get it, as in the UK we don’t have Harlequin Romances, but it’s undeniably smart. As are the stories in this 86pp spectacular. OK, they aren’t all to my taste, but none are less than […]

Dark Knights Death Metal: Multiverse’s End #1 review

Hey, I got sucked in. After promising myself not to try any more Death Metal issues after not being impressed by the first, I couldn’t resist last week’s Speed Metal. And I loved it. It’s a slippery slope, though, and having heard this issue might be leading to the next DC reboot, I hit that […]