Teen Titans Academy #6 review

This issue Red X… … doesn’t appear, isn’t mentioned, may as well not exist. This issue features a handful of The Roy Harper Academy students having a summer holiday adventure after taking a day trip outside New York. This issue is just great, because as well as the absence of Red X, it’s also without […]

Titans Academy 2021 Yearbook #1 review

Here’s a different kind of summer annual, A batch of short stories giving us a closer look at some of the new students being trained by the classic Titans, framed as a high school yearbook. The cover is presumably emulating a yearbook – I dunno, I’ve never seen one here in the UK – with […]

Teen Titans Academy #3 review

There’s one big problem with this latest attempt to recapture the Titans magic, and that’s the Titans themselves. The senior ones, I mean. The new kids who’ve been around just a couple of months are starting to shine as individuals and gel as a group, here taking on the Suicide Squad without a second thought […]

Teen Titans Academy #1 review

Term begins at the Roy Harper Titans Academy, the DC Universe’s brand new school for ‘gifted youngsters’. I’m not being snarky, the phrase is right there in the splash page legend for this Future State spin-out, which tells us that Nightwing, Donna Troy, Cyborg, Starfire, Raven and Beast Boy are ready to mentor the next […]

The Flash #759 review

Professor Zoom is up to his old tricks. He’s taken over the body of Barry Allen because he wants to be The Flash. So after running around doing good deeds, he seeks out the recently-returned-to-reality Bart Allen. After a warm-up race, Zoom-Flash tracks down three of the Rogues he’s been working with; he’d told Golden […]

The Flash #757 review

When I was a kid there were certain images that recurred in comics, cool visuals that made me smile, or awed me, or just reminded me about the world of DC. Superman opening his Fortress of Solitude with a giant key. The Legion floating through a rainbow of time. The Venn diagram of Earths One […]

Green Lantern 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1 review

Eighty years of emerald entertainment! Well, if you ignore the eight years or so between the last Golden Age appearance of original GL Alan Scott and Silver Age successor Hal Jordan… but why be picky, it’s 80 years since Alan debuted in All-American Comics #16, sparking a heroic legacy that shows no sign of ending? […]

Superman: Man of Tomorrow #2 review

For a place that bills itself as the City of Tomorrow, Metropolis sure is a backwards town. That’s the point a character makes in Against the Odds and I agree – citizens are protesting against the very possibility of a legal casino, convinced it will make their lovely, quiet hometown, where crime is unknown, a […]

Superman: Man of Tomorrow #1 review

One evening in the big city, Clark Kent is trying to get wife Lois to join him for supper, but she’s busy with a story. A power outage breaks the relative calm of the Daily Planet city room. Up on the roof, Lois watches as Clark rushes off to investigate in his other identity of […]

Aquaman #39 review

Atlantis has been raised from the sea, a subconscious wish by Aquaman acted on by magical metal. The surface world is deeply suspicious and Amanda Waller has sent the Suicide Squad to bomb Atlantis back under the water. And if some people die… …actually, despite being criminals, not all the Squad members – specifically Harley […]