Adventures of Superman: Book of El #3 review

Catapulted into a far-flung future and determined to find his way home, Superman has been waylaid by a version of computer tyrant Brainiac. The young man fighting alongside Superman outside the Fortress of Solitude is descendant Ronan Kent, who has a diluted Kryptonian power set but all the family grit. And inside the stronghold, Jimmy […]

Adventures of Superman: Book of El #2 review

Hurled a thousand years into the future during an invasion of Earth, Superman finds people in need of help. At the side of his distant descendant, Superman rescues the little person – a green light construct – with a massive show of power. His priority now is to get back to his own time, defend […]

Batman and Robin #17 review

We’re deep into the ‘Memento’ serial and things are hotting up. At Arkham Tower to question Scarecrow Jonathan Crane about a legendary plant which may be connected to what he believes is a copycat killer homaging long-ago crimes, Batman has been caught up in a riot. Robin isn’t at his side because Damian is volunteering […]

Batman and Robin #14 review

Gotham City, 1892, and ritual follows the death of a man. Gotham City, 2024, and Batman and Robin are enjoying a night on the town. Gotham City, 2024, the next evening, and Bruce and Damian Wayne are not enjoying a night on the town. The tuxedos are itchy and Oracle says there’s a chance of […]

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 #1059 review

That’s a heck of a cover by Steve Beach, with not one, but two literal men of steel facing a bunch of bad guys. The barely restrained power, the determined expressions… excellent. Inside we learn that the people with their back to us are Blue Earthers – but not the garden variety Metropolis xenophobes, these […]

Green Lantern: War Journal #2 review

In which John Stewart is offered a job, Mom Shirley returns to the big city and a rather nasty bunch of aliens come calling. Again. Because if you caught the debut issue of the latest Green Lantern series you’d have seen Varron of the new United Planets GL Corps turn up at John’s family home […]

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 […]

Knight Terrors: Action Comics #2 review

The Knight Terrors micro-series continues. Once again we have two strips with one set-up; new villain Insomnia has forced the world into a deep sleep and is searching their dreams for something called The Maguffin Stone. Hang on, sorry, it’s the Nightmare Stone. But that’s not important right now – Insomnia motivates the tales starring […]

Knight Terrors: Action Comics #1 review

DC’s summer Halloween event continues with a look at what’s happening to the rest of the Super Family while Superman and Supergirl fight the effects of new villain Insomnia’s supernatural sleeping sickness. But first – sigh – Power Girl. What’s she doing back in Action? I thought that with a new series coming up which […]