Action Comics #1102 review

Well, I wasn’t planning on doing both Kingdom of Zod issues this week, but there’s one page in Action Comics #1102 that had me grinning madly, and I think it should be shared and gushed over. The set-up is that original Superboy Clark Kent and Supergirl Kara Zor-El managed to get into Booster Gold’s time […]

Action Comics #1100 review

Now that’s a cover worthy of an anniversary issue, so thanks to Ryan Sook for getting Action Comics #1100 off to a super start. Just look at those Supermen of different eras – there’s no New 52 fella, what a shame – and details such as the Lexcorp-sponsored racing car and visual pun of the […]

Podcast Plugtime: Digging for Kryptonite – Supergirl in the Bronze Age

You know I love Supergirl. From the original Silver Age series by Otto Binder, Jim Mooney and co to the current book by Sophie Campbell via the excellence of Sterling Gates and Jamal Igle, Kara has had some fantastic runs. And the Daring New Adventures of Supergirl has a very special place in my heart. […]

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 […]

DC Finest – Superman: Kryptonite Nevermore review

So, who’s been enjoying the DC Finest collections? Introduced last year, they’re DC’s answer to Marvel’s Epic Collections – thick, good-looking paperbacks collecting runs of series at an excellent price. I’ve bought five so far, and love them all, but my favourite is this just-out Superman collection. Kryptonite Nevermore is the overall title for a […]

Action Comics #1081 review

The Phantom King, Xa-Du, has returned from exile in time to rally the Phantom Zone escapees who have been causing havoc across the galaxy. The Super Family are primed to hunt them down, even Mon-El, despite the temporary solution around his fatal vulnerability to lead being less effective with every minute that passes. The Daxamite […]

Action Comics #1080 review

The Phantom Zone criminals who attacked Earth have been defeated, but others have spread out into the universe. And they’re the worst of the worst. The likes of Jax-Ur, whose illegal experiments with rocket ships saw space travel outlawed, leading to one escape route from exploding Krypton being fenced off. Sadistic man-hater Faora Hu-Ul. And […]

Action Comics #1079 review

How often do you read a superhero comic and find the hero facing the biggest of threats but failing to call in help. Not so here, as not only do the resident members of the Super Family step up when the Phantom Zone prisoners escape into our solar system, but the Justice League are on […]

Action Comics #1078 review

Jon Kent is facing one of his father’s old foes, Grax. The alien conqueror is crowing, knowing that the Sun is being drained to fuel the creation of mass in the Phantom Zone. That plot was the work of Aethyr, a crazed godlike being who, nevertheless, has just been defeated by Superman. The Man of […]

Action Comics #1077 review

Superman has escaped from doomed Krypton and is back in the Phantom Zone in the present day. The mad god Aethyr has been altering the reality of the ghostly realm, creating mass and giving its ethereal inhabitants physical form. Superman comes across old friend Mon-El seemingly saying a prayer. Bringing the Man of Steel up […]