Batman & Robin: Year One – Dynamic Duos #1 review

Well, that was quick. A little under a year since Batman & Robin Year One #12, and here’s a second maxi-series. And I couldn’t be happier to see it, writer Mark Waid and artist Chris Samnee’s creative cross-pollination has produced some great comics. And we have another one here. As the title makes clear, DC […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #51 review

It’s Superman, Batman and Robin fighting dinosaurs and lizard men in the lost world of the Warlord! I expect you’re sold. If not, I’ll mention there’s a story in here, too. Yes, it’s a slim one to explain why the World’s Finest heroes are in Skartaris, but it’s there. They’re looking for a missing airman. […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #44 review

Batman and Superman are on a case, but there’s something else that needs superhero attention, so the Caped Crusader has dispatched Robin to look into it. It seems that like me, Superman remembers that Ardora is the name of Lex Luthor’s space wife – long story – so that’s obviously a Lex link, meaning the […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #36 review

The villain has been revealed. Jason Woodrue, the Floronic Man, is behind the disease which ravaged the Atlantean citizens of Tritonis, framing the populace of Poseidonis. And he has Batman and Robin, who have been investigating alongside Superman, under his green thumb. As for the Man of Steel, he’s in magical chains cast by Ronal, […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #12 review

Supergirl and Robin go on a date. There a monkey on the loose. That’s all it takes to spark one of the best DC comics we’ll get this year. Writer Mark Waid is a master when it come to depicting superheroes with personality, building off classic characterisations and adding insights that, while logical, haven’t been […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #7 review

We begin at the end. The end of the world – an alternate Earth where a pair of scientists save their son by sending him away in a rocketship. Arriving on the main DCU Earth, it causes a panic in the sky Really though, this is a job for Superman. The Man of Steel grabs […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #3 review

We first see Batman, Superman and Billy Batson in hell, thanks to the wicked wizard Felix Faust. Across the world, the Doom Patrol follow a lead on the tomb of The Devil Nezha, who’s behind various villains – including Faust – attacking prominent heroes. And in ancient China, Supergirl and Robin bid to learn how […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #2 review

After a violent encounter with Metallo’s red kryptonite cocktail, Superman is left with a life-threatening morphing condition. Happily, Negative Man of the Doom Patrol is able to use his alien energy to dampen down the Man of Steel long enough for a specialist to step in. Dr Niles Caulder, creator of the Patrol, doesn’t find […]

Superman: Son of Kal-El #6 review

A rare medical condition afflicts some people with ‘face blindness’, an inability to recognise folk from one meeting to the next. This might explain why Lois Lane couldn’t connect the dots between Clark Kent and Superman when he took his glasses off and changed clothes. It turns out things are worse than that for Lois… […]

Nightwing #81 review

It seems rude, I try not to, but I can’t help it. Usually, when reading a new comic, I find myself stopping to make notes. A word here, a sentence there, just in case I decide to give it a shout-out here. Not with the new Nightwing. Since writer Tom Taylor, illustrator Bruno Redondo and […]