Written by Joshua Williamson | Art by Various | Published by DC Comics So here we are, the rather arbitrarily chosen issue number seven, the final part of the mini-series we were told would shatter everything we knew about previously shattered universes and multiverses. Overall it’s been consistently decent, but has lacked that certain something […]
Written by Mark Waid | Art by Dan Jurgens, Norm Rapmund | Published by DC Comics Dark Crisis as an event has been a bit hit and miss, both the main series and the various spin-offs. It has, though, maintained a respectable entertainment level overall, and of course the end game of all this has […]
Written by Mark Waid, Sina Grace, Marv Wolfman, Alex Segura | Art by Clayton Henry, Dean Haspiel, Jack Herbert, Fico Ossio | Published by DC Comics Move over Batman, there’s a new flavour of the month in town. Superman’s having a good time of it right now. He’s just finished a mammoth storyline featuring Mongul […]
Written by Christopher Cantwell | Art by Lan Medina | Published by Marvel Comics Don’t know about you, but I reached a saturation point with Norman Osborn some time ago. Although a great villain, as originally conceived and created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko nearly 60 years ago, writers have struggled to do anything […]
Written by Dan Jurgens, Jerry Ordway, Roger Stern, Louise Simonson | Art by Various | Published by DC Comics It’s hard to explain now, thirty years on, just what a huge event The Death of Superman was. It grew far beyond anything DC Comics could have imagined. It all started with that same old thing […]
Written by Joshua Williamson | Art by Daniel Sampere | Published by DC Comics We are now approaching the endgame, and the stakes are as high as they will be. The entire Multiverse is at stake, and we are now in very familiar Crisis territory. The cover is superb, really evoking those mid-80s days when […]
Written by Jed Mackay | Art by Federico Sabbatini | Published by Marvel Comics I must be honest; I’ve not been keeping up with Moon Knight in his own book at the moment. Only so many hours in the day after all. I love the character, though, and when I saw this Annual it grabbed […]
Written by Various | Art by Various | Published by DC Comics Although the 80-page giants generally have been pretty good, especially the wave of books we had celebrating various character anniversaries, DC of late have struggled a little with the anthology books. I should say it’s not just DC, but as once upon a […]
Written by Dan Slott | Art by Mark Bagley, John Dell | Published by Marvel Comics First things first. This isn’t a first issue. Yes, I know it says Issue 1 on the front, but normally that’s to tell new readers it’s a book you can safely jump aboard as a newbie. This isn’t one […]
Written by Joshua Williamson | Art by Daniel Sampere | Published by DC Comics The Multiverse is, it seems, dying. DC seem to be ripping up all of the Dan Didio restructuring of the DC Multiverse and returning things to closer to how they were pre-New 52, pre- Final Crisis, Pre- every Crisis. Joshua Williamson […]
Written by Bruce Campbell | Art by Eduardo Risso | Published by DC Comics This is one of those projects that surely started with just a tagline. Something like ‘what if we had Sgt Rock fight Nazi zombies, and have Bruce Campbell write it.’ That’s ‘take my money’ territory right there, and personally I couldn’t […]
Written by Chris Burnham, Paul Dini, Stephen Langford | Art by Chris Burnham, John McCrea | Published by Image Comics Ah, Creepshow. People of a certain age, like me, have fond memories of the 1982 film Creepshow. How couldn’t you, it was a tongue-in-cheek horror film written by Stephen King, directed by George Romero, and […]
Written by Mark Waid | Art by Mahmud Asrar | Published by DC Comics I wish I wasn’t such a sucker for books like this but c’mon, who can’t resist picking up a book called this, with a cover like this, and featuring the blurb ‘father vs son for the fate of the DCU’. That […]
Written by Joshua Williamson | Art by Daniel Sampere | Published by DC Comics And there you have it. DC had been pushing this event more than most, promising that it would be of huge significance going forward. Well, we’ve heard that quite a few times of late, so it’s fair to say that the […]
Written by Various | Art by Various | Published by Marvel Comics This comic obviously doesn’t really exist. There is no Amazing Fantasy #1000, it exists only in the heads of the Marvel marketing department. Spider-Man’s 60th anniversary, however, does exist, and he’s one of a handful of characters that forced his way into mainstream […]
Written by Roy Thomas | Art by Dave Wachter | Published by Marvel Comics Let’s be honest, these new stories that slot into old continuity have been very hit and miss. They get a lot of goodwill from the nostalgia crowd (guilty as charged) but don’t always do enough to really merit their existence. Although […]
Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson | Art by Marco Finnegan | Published by Dynamite Entertainment I must be on something of a subconscious James Bond kick at the moment. I’ve just finished re-watching the Daniel Craig Bond films, and then this book caught my eye. Dynamite’s had the rights to do James Bond for a […]
Written by Joshua Williamson | Art by Daniel Sampere, Daniel Henriques, Danny Miki | Published by DC Comics The best way to describe this book is the comic book equivalent of a summer popcorn action movie. Doesn’t lend itself to a whole lot of navel gazing analysis, but there are a lot of explosions, action […]
Written by Mark Russell | Art by Mike Allred | Published by DC Comics A new Superman number one issue? Oh, go on then. One with a connection to the fabled Crisis on Infinite Earths? Definitely go on then. Mark Russell writing and Mike Allred drawing? You had me at Superman. This book genuinely intrigued […]
Written by Chip Zdarsky | Art by Marco Checchetto | Published by Marvel Comics I can’t remember the last time I reviewed a Daredevil book which, on the face of it, is unusual. Daredevil is one of my top three Marvel characters, and one I’ve been a huge fan of since the late 70’s/ early […]
Written by Joshua Williamson | Art by Daniel Sampere | Published by DC Comics I enjoyed the first issue of this book but did say in my review of that one that it was very much the introduction issue, so story took second place to establishing all the pieces on the board. It was still […]
