Teen Titans #45 review

Deathstroke tried to murder the Teen Titans. Damian Wayne has quit as Robin. Batman has ordered the Titans to disband. Red Arrow and Kid Flash aren’t ready to stop doing good, though. The archer, Emiko, has deduced that evil techie Gizmo is behind the mercenary Deathstroke’s attack of them. Not too far away, remaining ex-Titans […]

Hawkman #27 review

It’s the 1940s. Hawkman, Hawkgirl and the rest of the Justice Society of America are battling their arch foes. They’ve tracked down the Injustice Society to their latest hideout in Austria and it’s all-out war. It’s Carter and Shayera, Green Lantern, Wildcat, the Flash and Sandman vs Per Degaton, Vandal Savage, the Gambler, Brain Wave, […]

Shazam! #14 review

BECAUSE NO ONE DEMANDED IT! He’s back. Superboy Prime, Last Son of an Earth long vanished from the multiverse, back to ruin another story. This current Shazam! series may not feature my favourite take on the Marvel Family, but it’s had its moments. Here, though, as he ends his lengthy story, writer Geoff Johns falls […]

Batman: Three Jokers Book 1 review

Bad luck comes in threes. Certainly, that seems to be the case when three atrocities are committed at the same time, with the Clown Prince of Crime witnessed at the scene of each. A popular comedian known for his loud Hawaiian shirts is murdered. The Moxon crime family is slaughtered en masse. And three John […]

The Flash: Fastest Man Alive #10 review

It’s another two-story issue of this DC Digital First weekly and, refreshingly, there are no instances of Barry Allen being late for a meeting with Iris West. Yes, this was a regular thing in the Silver Age but instances of superhero-related tardiness six or eight times per year are a lot easier to take than […]

The Flash: Fastest Man Alive #8 review

This week’s DC Digital First Flash offering from the editorial office of Andrew Marino features two eight-page stories, both written by Dave Wielgosz, and while they’re different in tone to one another, they’re both pithy, punchy, satisfying reads. Artist David LaFuente draws the first, Rain on Your Own Parade, in which two people aren’t at […]

Shazam #12 review

Freddy Freeman is unimpressed by the quality of enemies Billy Batson is fighting as the supercharged hero Shazam. Freddy says that with the power at his command, Shazam should be thinking bigger, prompting Billy to go looking for more impressive villains. And soon, he’s face to sackcloth face with Batman’s scariest scoundrel, the Scarecrow. Of […]

The Flash: Fastest Man Alive #6 review

This is the greatest page you will find in comics this year. Such fun! As for what’s causing the Flash to have a day in which many of life’s truths are turned on their head, it’s one of his classic villains… well, the second version of one. That’s not giving everything away as Barry Allen […]

Hawkman #23 review

Hawkman and Hawkgirl are falling. And then, a memory… in a past life, Carter Hall is Dr Carlo Salón, a quack going door to door in 17th-century plague-ridden Seville, counting the dead. No matter how many houses he visits, how often the stench of death gets through his beak-mask, Carlo never gets sick. One just-bereaved […]

The Flash: Fastest Man Alive #1 review

Covid-19 put paid to a cruise I was meant to be taking this month but thanks to this DC Digital First debut, I get to go on holiday. My companions? Iris West, Barry Allen… and King Shark. Scary. The issue opens in media res, with Barry, in his superheroic identity as The Flash, facing a […]