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 […]

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 […]

Superman: Son of Kal-El #18 review

It’s the final issue of Jon Kent’s series, but if you’re expecting loose ends to be wrapped up, forget it, with story threads continuing into the upcoming Action Comics #1050. Chief among them, the threat of new villain Red Sin, who last issue blasted Jon and took away his powers. It’s not stated how until […]

Superman: Son of Kal-El #17 review

Father and son, Superman and Superman 2, have been reunited after too long apart, and Clark and Jon have some catching up to do. As it turns out, Clark doesn’t catch Jon. Son is faster than Dad this time (‘The cape must have slowed me down’, says Clark to his equally be-caped son). Race over, […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #8 review

Interdimensional orphan David Sikela, newly discovered by Superman, Batman and Robin, has been taken under the wing of the latter’s team of tyros, the Teen Titans. They’re training him in his new super powers, and while things are going well… … one Titan has concerns. Later, David is deposited with Superman, who feels an affinity […]

Superman: Son of Kal-El #16 review

Here we have a Day in the Life issue, showing what Jon Kent does when he’s not bringing down national governments. He begins by scanning the solar system for signs of his Dad who, in this story, hasn’t yet come back from Warworld. Then it’s a round of good deeds. Jay also checks in with […]

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 […]

Superman: Son of Kal-El #15 review

It’s the finale to the story that’s been the backbone of this book since it began last year, as Superman 2, Robin, Jay Nakamura, Dreamer and the Revolutionaries take the fight to Bendix. The ruler of Gamorra has been kidnapping young people and turning them into post-human super-weapons for sale to the highest bidder. He’s […]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #6 review

The Superman, Batman and Robin team-ups in the original World’s Finest Comics made me a little sad. Sure, the stories were great, but they always came with the splash page legend: ‘Your two favourite heroes together’. Couldn’t they count? Superman and Batman, yes, they had the big mastheads, but Robin makes three. Here, Dick Grayson […]

Superman: Son of Kal-El #14 review

In which Lois Lane exposes Henry Bendix’s trade in superhuman living weapons to the world. The Gamorran leader prepares for a siege. Young Superman Jon Kent’s new allies the Revolutionaries get a talk on heroism. Another hero joins the campaign to topple Bendix. And Jay acquits himself rather well in his first outing as superhero […]