Action Comics #1070 review

A few years ago DC added a back-up strip to Action Comics, around the time that Supergirl lost her ongoing title (again). And since then I’ve regularly suggested Supergirl take the spot as a nod to where she started, back in the Silver Age. And now, 694 issues since she departed her solo series in […]

Absolute Power #4 review

Amanda Waller’s power is no longer absolute. The superheroes have broken out of her prison on the island of Genosha. The Brainiac Queen has been defeated. And Superman Jr Jon Kent has been freed from cybernetic servitude, giving the depowered good guys a very powerful asset. A two-pronged plan is hatched. The heroes will break […]

Absolute Power: Task Force VII #6 review

So far in this mini-series we’ve seen Amazos based on Superman, Aquaman, Green Lantern, the Flash and Batman. This issue it’s an Amazo with a hint of Wonder Woman, but having absorbed the Amazing Amazon’s god-given powers, there’s a problem. Amanda Waller’s robotic lackey is finding, like its brothers, that it’s absorbed more than just […]

Action Comics #1066 review

It’s 1066 but it’s not the Battle of Hastings, it’s the Battle of Brainiac as Superman, Superboy, Lobo and Silver Banshee fight for survival against the computer tyrant of Colu and his latest creation… … the Brainiac Queen. She’s just killed and eaten Brainiac’s army of Czarnians and now has her eye – and tongue […]

Superman: House of Brainiac #1 review

Back in the Nineties Triangle Era of weekly Superman comics, an event storyline would most likely get a tie-in comic. Team Superman, Supergirl and Team Luthor, that kind of thing. So it seems appropriate that the latest big Superman story, which conspicuously calls back to the Triangle days, gets a bumper issue with three short […]

Action Comics Annual #2023 #1 review

After almost three years at the writing helm of Action Comics, Phillip Kennedy Johnson wraps up his Warworld sequence with a battle royal played out across two worlds. Warworld orphan Othol-Ra, taken into the Kent-Lane household and given a new start, has been targeted by Janan al-Ghul, sole survivor of the ruling family of the […]

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 […]

Shazam! #4 review

The Captain has gone into space, having been told by Ted from Gorilla City that the Emperor of the Moon has plans to attack Earth. Which seems reasonable. After all, it’s Tuesday in the DC Universe. As it turns out, longtime Doom Patrol annoyance Garguax is being misrepresented in terms of his intentions. What he’s […]

Power Girl #1 review

It’s an exciting day for Power Girl. She has a brand new secret identity… … a brand new mission… … and a brand-new foe. Well, brand new to Power Girl. Older readers and back issue bin bargain hunters might recognise the name and costume colours – Amalak was a Silver/Bronze Age Superman villain and here’s […]

Action Comics Presents: Doomsday Special #1 review

One morning in Metropolis Supergirl tells cousin Superman, in his guise as mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, that she’s been dreaming about Doomsday. This prompts Clark to tell her what it was like being murdered by the Kryptonian killing machine. A little later, Supergirl is approached by Clark’s longtime Justice League friend J’onn J’onzz. He explains […]