Titans #28 review

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel… bored. Last week DC KO #1 told us Darkseid is coming and Earth will become a suburb of Apokolips. You know the kind of thing, hot, lots of demons. While heroes and villains battle in Skartaris, the not-so-lost-world-of-the-Warlord, to become the champion […]

Titans #25 review

Pete Woods’ striking cover, an acknowledged homage to Frank Quitely’s JLA: Earth Crime Syndicate image, is a fitting way to trail the conclusion to the current storyline. For months, master mercenary turned oddball obsessive Deathstroke has been building his own Crime Syndicate, comprising longtime Titans foe Mammoth, a back-from-the-dead Terra, an amped-up Clock King, a […]

Titans #19 review

Trying to summon a boom tube to reach the Justice League Unlimited Watchtower, Caitlin Snow is pleased by a rare display of Big Apple manners. Over the next few days, she’s feeling on the outs among socialising superheroes. Some super-folk who aren’t all in with the new League set-up are the Titans, who are eschewing […]

Titans #16 review

If ever a comic book merited a Bold New Direction cover blurb, this is it. For in one issue we have a new base for the team… … one member gone, another leaving, a former member rejoining… … and demon’s daughter Raven tearing up over a satellite? As for that zoo – why is the […]

Absolute Power: Task Force VII #7 review

It’s the final issue of the Absolute Power tie-in series and the moody cover by Pete Woods lets us know that this one one is a bit different. The previous numbers have involved world dictator Amanda Waller’s Amazo assault squad chasing down Justice Leaguers who escaped being flung into her metahuman prison. But look at […]

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 […]

Absolute Power: Task Force VII #5 review

Barry Allen is on the run, being pursued by an Amanda Waller Amazo android who’s stolen speed from the Fastest Men and Women Alive. All but one. It’s caught up to the Flash, but it can’t hold onto him. The android had assumed that the minute it became super fast it would gain a connection […]

Absolute Power: Task Force VII #4 review

The focus shifts again in the mini-series allied to the Absolute Power event book, this time showing a band of freedom fighters bidding to strike back against Amanda Waller’s global power grab. Hiding in the Maze of Owls under Gotham City are Nightwing, Robin, the Ray, Miss Martian and Voodoo. While Dick Grayson and Tim […]

Absolute Power: Task Force VII #3 review

The Justice Society were attacked in New York by one of Amanda Waller’s power absorbing androids. The Amazo absorbed Jesse Quick’s speed, and the energy and shadow powers of Jade and Obsidian, prompting the rest of the team to flee to Coast City in the hope of harnessing help from Green Lantern Hal Jordan. The […]

Absolute Power: Task Force VII #2 review

If you’re planning on ruling Earth in the DC Universe you can’t ignore Atlantis, kingdom of Aquaman, ruler of the Seven Seas. Amanda Waller, in her vendetta against the planet’s metahumans, has tasked one of her super power-stealing Amazos with getting the Atlanteans on side. He’s codenamed Depth Charge, and while he’s speaking words of […]