Outsiders #11 review

What if you threw a Crisis and nobody came? That pretty much sums up the final issue of Outsiders, one of the most brazenly confusing comics I’ve ever read. I never covered the last issue because it was also a headscratcher, one I gave the benefit of the doubt. Surely the double-sized final issue would […]

Outsiders #7 review

Years ago, Elijah Snow, The Drummer, Ambrose Chase and Jakita Wagner discuss Planetary business. They’re succeeding in keeping the world strange, and safe. Elijah feels so on top of things that he’s not only ready to retire and pass the Fourth Man role to Jacinta, he’s planning to reveal the secrets of reality to the […]

The Outsiders #5 review

This is an oddball issue. The Outsiders – Luke Fox, Kate Kane and Drummer – spend an evening at a party, supposedly to catalogue the monsters of New York. The hostess? Natalia Knight, the enigmatic Nocturna, a Batman villainess who once convinced Kate, aka Batwoman, that they were both vampires, and, apparently, preyed upon her […]

Outsiders #2 review

New associate Kate Kane persuades Outsiders Luke Fox and Drummer to investigate a storm that’s been raging in the ‘Enlil Triangle’ since the first day of the new millennium. When she was a young cadet, ex-Army Kate encountered a sea monster while on an observation mission to the area, named for a Mesopotamian god. Today […]

Outsiders #1 review

Kate Kane has had enough of Gotham City and its constant wars. She needs to get away… somewhere nice? It turns out that a Gothamite is waiting for our Batwoman. Luke Fox, the hero known as Batwing. Batwoman is intrigued, but the no-superhero bit doesn’t last long – Luke has a Bat-snowsuit to hand as […]

Knight Terrors: Shazam! #2 review

Mary Marvel is having a very bad dream. Sent into a supernatural sleep by new villain Insomnia, she’s confronted by a horrific version of brother Billy, a Shazam who’s more Black Adam than the Captain. But having been freaked out in the first half of this micro-series tying into the Knight Terrors event, Mary has […]

The Flash #796 review

It’s the finale to the One-Minute War storyline with the whole of the Flash Family united in fighting back against the Fraction. The Speed Force-tapping extraterrestrials have landed on Earth and frozen the populace as a precursor to stealing the planet’s resources. The speedsters’ efforts to reclaim the world – their powers mean they’re free […]

The Flash #794 review

The Flash Family’s fightback against would-be world conquerors The Fraction continues. The heroes launched an assault on the aliens’ Earth HQ last issue and it was all going pretty swimmingly until Wally West was killed along the way. The surviving heroes aren’t giving up but having lost the element of surprise, the forces of The […]

The Flash #793 review

Flash Gordon had 14 hours to save the Earth. The Flash Family have maybe a minute… Earth is under seige as alien conquerors The Fraction enact their plan to steal the planet’s resources, killing the population along the way. Their connection to the Speed Force means the World’s Greatest Superheroes are too slow to have […]

The Flash #790 review

It’s all getting a bit heated in the latest issue of The Flash. Wally and Linda are hosting a barbecue for their pals, but the usual suspects are absent. Immediate family apart, there’s not a speedster in sight as the off-duty Fastest Man Alive serves up his sausages. Max Mercury is attempting one of his […]