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 […]

Outsiders #6 review

When this series was announced, ‘Outsiders’ seemed a bit of a random title, a nod to a well-liked comic series to get people to try it. But with this issue it becomes clear that, actually, Luke Fox, Kate Kane and Drummer are Outsiders. At least that’s what they become when Lucius Fox’s attempts to unlock […]

Ape-ril Special #1 review

Comic readers love apes. And chimpanzees. DC has known this for decades, relying on gorillas on covers to give individual issues a sales boost during the Silver Age of Comics. So here’s the latest example of gorillas amidst the comic shop shelves, an Ape-Ril Special that is, appropriately enough, bananas. I was expecting an 80pp […]

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 […]

Wesley Dodds: Sandman #1 review

Cards on the table. I’ve never read the acclaimed Sandman Mystery Theatre run. I do have them all, and have enjoyed the first storyline, but haven’t yet got to the rest. Maybe I should rush this review… As it turns out, while there are references to the Matt Wagner/Steven T Seagle/Guy David series, you don’t […]

Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 review

Loads of heroes fight loads of villains. The darkness inside Pariah jumps from Deathstroke to Nightwing. Black Adam shares his power to enable the heroes to resist corruption by Pariah’s darkness The newly amped Dr Light and the Flashes do… something. And the new multiverse of multiverses stands. In the aftermath, the back-from-the-not-quite-dead Justice League […]

Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #5 review

Deathstroke and his amped-up army of bad guys continue to rampage across Earth 0. Pariah keeps on with the ranting about bringing back the infinite multiverse. So far, so issue #1-4 of this latest reality-bending DC mini-series. But, as the cover indicates, something new happens – the Justice League returns. It’s at that point that […]

Tim Drake: Robin #1 review

It’s funny, everything about this comic screams ‘Young Adult’ but it’s about a guy having a midlife crisis. Tim Drake has packed in college, bought a houseboat, dumped his girlfriend and is experimenting with his sexuality. He may still be a teenager, but Tim’s always been mature for his years. As we join him in […]