Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns #1 review

Santa Claus is coming to town, and that town is Gotham. Again. Last year writer Jeff Parker and a team of artists, led by Michele Bandini, brought us a terrific team-up between Father Christmas and the Justice League. And here’s the sequel, with Lucas Ketner replacing a busy-in-Santa’s-workshop Bandini. Happily, the visual quality remains high, […]

Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Knight #3 review

Last issue we learned that Krampus declaring war on Man wasn’t in character. While he looks fearsome, he was traditionally Santa Claus’s winter pal, playing mischievous tricks on naughty children in the run-up to Christmas. But a misunderstanding led Santa to banish him to a weird limbo and now, hundreds of years later, it seems […]

Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Knight #1 review

Silent Knight? Isn’t that an old DC adventure character? Appeared in early issues of The Brave and the Bold, was a past life of Hawkman and possible ancestor of Jonathan Kent? Well, he doesn’t appear in the first issue of this seasonal mini-series but it has that anything can happen feel, so who knows? I […]

Unstoppable Doom Patrol #7 review

It’s the finale of the mini-series starring the World’s Strangest Heroes, and goodness me, there are a lot of them. We have the classic quartet, several generations of recruits, a few trainees and, by the end of this issue, even villains lending a hand. Classic nemesis General Immortus has given himself an upgrade, stealing the […]

Unstoppable Doom Patrol #5 review

A quiet morning in New Poplar, Illinois, is rudely interrupted when the Doom Patrol comes calling. And they’re not in a good mood. Happily, they’re not possessed and being forced to attacked regular folk. Nope, they’re possessed of information – mental marvel Mento has learned that the town is a front for the decidedly dodgy […]

Knight Terrors: Zatanna #1 review

As the cover makes obvious, the title of this DC summer event tie-in should be Knight Terrors: Zatanna and Robotman – Cliff Steele is as big a part of this as the Mistress of Magic. The issue begins where Knight Terrors: First Blood left Zee, with her facing an attack by the minions of Insomnia, […]

Unstoppable Doom Patrol #4 review

How freaky is Chris Burnham’s cover? The lady with the notepad – and extra heads – is the Doom Patrol’s resident psychiatrist Dr Syncho, earthly avatar of five ‘Fifth Dimension Entities’ collectively known as… well, let’s hear from the lady herself. The off-panel voice belongs to Degenerate, the first member of the Patrol’s field team […]

Unstoppable Doom Patrol #3 review

The Doom Patrol really do have to be unstoppable this month or their new mission of ‘saving the world by saving the monsters’ is dead in the water. Negative Man and Robotman are being chased by two Green Lanterns they try to get a new metahuman to the relative safety of their HQ. Their charge […]

Unstoppable Doom Patrol #2 review

Two things I love in comic books are Day in the Life issues and the Traitor Within the Legion trope. And with Unstoppable Doom Patrol #2 writer Dennis Culver and artist Chris Burnham give us a terrific twofer. The Day in the Life aspect sees us introduced to DP base The Shelter as new character […]

Lazarus Planet: Revenge of the Gods #3 review

The story so far: mad Greek deity Hera has killed Zeus and is sending gods and monsters to attack Earth, the idea being that this will get people worshipping the Olympians once more. No, me neither. Anyway, Wonder Woman made a deal to spare the Amazons, but Hera immediately reneged on it and the ladies […]