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 […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #18 review

It’s the secret origin of the World’s Finest team. Again. The original story saw Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne bang heads while on a cruise ship. Decades later the legend had it that they ran into one another on a case involving jewel thief Magpie, a D-lister whose only point of interest is her lameness. […]

World’s Finest: Teen Titans #2 review

Aqualad and Wonder Girl, they have a thing going on. When Garth turns up at Donna’s New York apartment one morning and a stranger answers the door, he fears Donna has a thing with someone else too. He needn’t have worried. It’s not Donna who’s smitten by Mal – Bumblebee Karen Beecher is positively swooning. […]

World’s Finest: Teen Titans #1 review

Several years ago, the newly formed Teen Titans save a couple of teenagers from being burned as sacrifices. Later, though, it’s ace archer Speedy who’s feeling burned as Robin has a pop at him for having camera drones at the scene. Cue teen tensions. Later, the members with mentors let them know how things are […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #13 review

Where’s Metamorpho? That’s the question on Dan Mora’s unusual cover, with its animation vibe – I can just hear the Hanna-Barbera running sound effects as Superman and Batman, complete with wildly flapping utility belt, run across the world, searching for the Element Man. Below, Metamorpho grins as he lives his best life. Someone who isn’t […]