Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #11 review

In which Jimmy appeals for help against the intergalactic tyrant who’s trying to steal the wife he doesn’t want… … all heck breaks loose… … and Lex Luthor makes Jimmy’s brother Julian sweat. Recognise that big blue alien? Possibly not, because last time he appeared he looked like this. It’s the big bruiser from the […]

Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #10 review

Mad as a box of frogs, that’s this mini-series. The plotting is all over the shop, jumping all over the place in time and space, the spotlight shifting constantly from person to person. One minute we’re with Jimmy’s brother Julian, the next we’re following failed super-villain Porcodillo… occasionally Jimmy himself is the focus. The big […]

Justice League Dark #21 review

The Parliaments of Life are at war with one another. The Red, the Green, the Grey, the Divided and the Rot are vying to rule Earth. The Green is manifesting flowers in corpses but it’s the Rot which is announcing itself with the most sickening style, taking over hordes of humans in Los Angeles. Detective […]

Jimmy Olsen #7 review

Behind another irresistible cover by Steve Lieber – its Charles M Schulz meets Jimmy’s Silver Age – we get more quirky, compelling vignettes centred on Superman’s Pal and his Pals. There’s Jimmy Olsen’s Shrink, Dr Lorelei Liu, who wants to find the ‘real’ Jimmy (that’s her in the last two panels). Jimmy Olsen’s brother and […]

Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #2 review

Last month’s opening instalment of Jimmy Olsen’s new series was a hoot, a hugely enjoyable look at the madness of life as Superman’s Pal. This time we get more of the same. And something more… More of the same is the division of the book into four chapters: the prehistory of Metropolis with Jimmy’s ancestor […]

Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #1 review

It’s just another day in Metropolis. Citizens go about their business, Superman stands by to protect them, the Daily Planet staff gather all the news that’s fit to put out across several platforms… but high above Metropolis, Jimmy Olsen is jumping out of a spacecraft. Without a parachute. He’s not without resources, though, having had […]

Superman: Leviathan Rising Special #1 review

Ms Leone, the secret Kingpin of the Metropolis Mob, is out shopping. Passing on Jimmy Olsen’s latest book of photography, and Wonder Woman’s self-help volume, she considers a tome on the Justice League. A mystery man appears and offer to buy it for her. What he really wants, though, is knowledge. Later, Clark Kent tells […]

Detective Comics #1003 review

‘Atomic batteries to power and gyro-sphere to ignition.’ Now there’s a line that will resonate with longtime fans, updating the Batman TV series’s dialogue signalling the Batmobile was about to hit the road. Mind, it’s not a car Batman and Robin are taking for a spin, it’s a new version of the Bat-Gyro, that Golden […]

Supergirl #29 review

Supergirl is taking a break from her desperate quest to find the truth behind Krypton’s destruction. She’s on the lovely planet Tavaar, but while companions Krypto and Z’ndr Col are romping in a river, Kara is unable to relax, her head reeling from everything she’s been through of late. Z’ndr, who was sent to spy […]

Supergirl #28 review

With Supergirl and the Omega Men out to bring him down, space scumbag Harry Hokum decides to send in the clones. Imperfect duplicates of Supergirl possessing part of her powers. Kara has faced terrible odds plenty of times but her quest to learn the truth behind Krypton’s destruction, supposedly at the hands of Rogol Zaar, […]