Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #45 review

A team-up between the Joker and Luthor, what could be more traditional for World’s Finest? Superman and Batman, it’s your two favourite foes together. Very together, as it turns out… The book starts with no action, but lots of entertainment, as Superman and Batman relax in Gotham’s Batcave with a bowl of popcorn – the […]

Action Comics #1075 review

Hey, here’s a surprise, a bonus big issue to mark 25 issues since the previous Not Really an Anniversary Issue. And isn’t that a lovely cover from illustrator Clayton Henry and colourist Tomeu Morey? Inside, there’s no surprise when it comes to the quality of the first strip, it’s another exciting episode in the 12-part […]

Superman #12 review

Holy role reversal, Luthor takes to the streets of Metropolis in his power suit to save the citizens while Superman dons a nifty lab suit to attack their problems from another direction. Their problems are Dr Pharm, a cloud of green kryptonite tweaked to kill regular human beings and Lex’s mad mother Leticia. The first […]

Superman #8 review

Telekinetic bad boy The Chained continues his vendetta against Lex Luthor and while the Super Family do a good job fending him off, a secret revealed could shake one member to the core. Superman #8 – legacy number 851 – begins with a look back to the childhood of The Chained, and the day young […]

Superman #7 review/Superman #850 review

Yes, Superman #7 is otherwise known as Superman #850, it’s a legacy numbering thing – add up the various series and DC counts 850 comics solo-starring Superman. But don’t try this at home – what with mini-series and so on it may not work. What does work is Joshua Williamson’s script, which continues the ongoing […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #12 review

Supergirl and Robin go on a date. There a monkey on the loose. That’s all it takes to spark one of the best DC comics we’ll get this year. Writer Mark Waid is a master when it come to depicting superheroes with personality, building off classic characterisations and adding insights that, while logical, haven’t been […]

Dark Crisis: Big Bang #1 review

‘I’m looking for the man who murdered me’, Flash Barry Allen tells Kid Flash Wallace on the splash page. The line makes for a dramatic opening, but it’s a tad defused when, a couple of pages later, we get this. I admit, I can’t remember how Barry came back from the dead about 15 years […]

Blue & Gold #4 review

Booster and Beetle’s new venture, Blue & Gold Restoration, is open for business. In a promotional exercise, the boys meet a TV reporter. Getting on to the subject of how the boys became friends, the accounts differ. They do, though, agree on who they were facing. And that’s the set-up for a thoroughly enjoyable issue […]

Infinite Frontier #4 review

In the Hall of Heroes, things are getting weird with Captain Carrot and Machinehead. In the White House of Earth 23, President Superman and multiversal visitor Batman – the Thomas Wayne of another parallel – are getting to know one another. On Earth 0 – the regular DC Universe world – Director Bones of the […]

Infinite Frontier #2 review

In which Agent Chase turns up at the Hall of Justice to annoy Superman and Batman with some rather reasonable questions. The usually savage Thomas Wayne Batman tells President Superman that he’s mellowed. Obsidian learns that it’s not just his sister Jade who has vanished from the superhero community. The recently resurrected Roy Harper begins […]