Jay Garrick: The Flash #4 review

STAR Labs has been a part of DC Comics lore for a long time. I remember its introduction way back in the Seventies’ Superman #246 as a Metropolis scientific research facility. Over the years we learned there were branches all over the globe, and while it’s usually been a friendly place, occasionally dark science has […]

Jay Garrick: The Flash #3 review

In the 1940s, Jay Garrick and his Justice Society colleagues find out what super (mad) scientist Dr Elemental can do. Today, Jay and daughter Judy wonder whatever happened to the bad guy, who vanished from the public memory along with Judy when she was stolen and hidden away in an insidious limbo. She’s only just […]

World’s Finest: Teen Titans #6 review

Last issue the Teen Titans fell foul of a new hero team… or, at least, a hero team in their own minds. For Haywire, Artemis, Toyboy and the Ant like to get rough, even lethal, in the cause of crimefighting. The clue’s in the name – Terror Titans. They caught Robin, Wonder Girl, Speedy, Bumblebee, […]

Jay Garrick: The Flash #2 review

Jay Garrick is remembering things that were long forgotten. Not things that faded from memory, as things do – things that were deleted. Such as a 1941 Justice Society mission to Germany to track down the fabled Spear of Destiny held by Adolf Hitler. No one expected the Ro-Bear. Today, Judy Garrick, teenager speedster recently […]

World’s Finest: Teen Titans #5 review

This flashback mini-series has been terrifically entertaining as it reframes the early years of DC’s premiere teen team. We’ve seen a slightly different line-up, new villains and a lot more tension than previously. And this issue those dodgy dynamics explode as the mystery bad guy who’s been forming a ‘Terror Titans’ in the background is […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #20 review

Several years ago, the Flash of Earth 0, Barry Allen, is exploring the Multiverse. He’s looking for someone in particular. And he spots him, very, very briefly. David Sikela, Boy Thunder, Superman’s shortlived sidekick from a parallel Earth who faded back into Hypertime. That was years ago, but Barry pimps a Cosmic Treadmill so Superman […]

Jay Garrick: The Flash #1 review

I’m surprised this six-issue mini-series, part of DC’s New Golden Age initiative, isn’t called The Flash and The Boom, because Jay’s daughter Judy is very much in the picture. And if you’re asking, ‘who?’, you missed the recent Stargirl and the Lost Children series, in which we first met teenage speedster Judy Garrick. Lost in […]

World’s Finest: Teen Titans #4 review

Wally West has invited a couple of pals home to Nebraska for the weekend – Roy Harper and Garth. Parents Mary and Rudy are welcoming, but what they don’t know is that their son is Kid Flash and his pals are teen archer Speedy and aqua lad Aqualad. Cue a weekend of hanging out, hijinks […]

Batman and Robin #1 review

Last time Batman and Robin shared a title they were at one another’s throats, but today things are different. It doesn’t take long for them to beat White Rabbit, one of the more minor villains in the Gotham Rogues’ Gallery, but they don’t find out on whose behalf she was hijacking one of the city’s […]

World’s Finest: Teen Titans #3 review

The Teen Titans are a popular bunch. So popular that an entire con has been organised to honour them. Attendees weren’t expecting their heroes to turn up, but they do, and Kid Flash proves a whiz at ensuring everyone gets a great selfie. Wonder Girl, meanwhile, is a tad nonplussed to find she’s the subject […]