‘Infinite Crisis’ #3 is another confused and confusing issue of the potboiling mini-series.

If I go for too long without reading a satisfying Batman comic, my flesh begins to itch…

Unsurprisingly, this is a comic that gets it almost entirely right…

I was, I’ll admit it, really quite moved by the final page of ‘Infinite Crisis’ #1 the appearance of Kal-L, the Golden Age Superman, the first, best, character in super hero comics and the progenitor of the whole of this medium’s primary genre.

After months and months of the set up burbling away in the background, much of it rather humdrum and offputting, the first actual issue of Infinite Crisis is here.

I like it.

‘The Wintermen’ is an odd fit for Wildstorm – a thriller in the ‘Gorky Park’/'Archangel’ mould…

Altogether now: ‘T-E-E-N, T-I-T-A-N-S…’

ABC titles without Alan Moore have been problematic…

Hard Times in the Big Easy…

By getting Frank Miller and Jim Lee together, the first book in DC’s new ‘All Star’ line certainly lives up to its name…

This latest issue is a storming return to form that not only ranks up there with the psychogeography one-shot ‘The Game of Cat and Mouse’ but retroactively enlivens a particularly fine story arc.

If yellow is the colour of fear in the spectrum of emotion… what are puce, aquamarine, indigo and lavender?

The Harrowing has begun. Here are our first frontline reports…

Getting a lot of things wrong can add up to make a right.

To make up for the recent drought, here’s a random round-up of last week’s comics, in alphabetical order, to keep you going.

The most ungainly retcon in history sits at the heart of this wibbling mess of an issue and the cliffhanger ending is probably the worst I’ve ever read.

Some kind of error has meant that this issue of ‘Batman’ has gone out with Judd Winick’s name on the cover when he didn’t write that which is inside it.

It’s quite hard for me to express just how bad, and just how fundamentally wrong headed, ‘Green Lantern: Rebirth’ # 1 is.

Mean spirited retro-grade trash, written to a shopping list….

My name’s Wally West, I’m The Flash, the fastest man alive…

Grant Morrison has a tendency to talk big about his work, but he can afford to – as a writer he has a tendency to takes comics, both mainstream superhero titles and more personal books, into new areas…

Jeph Loeb continues to demonstrate his remarkable grasp of DCU characters: I’m starting to believe that he could even make ‘Wonder Woman’ work, although naturally writing ‘Wonder Woman’ is not a fate I would wish on anybody…

To my great alarm and not inconsiderable shock, I now live in a town without a comic shop…

Well, that was all a bit of a waste of time, wasn’t it?

It’s a consistently funny, constantly surprising riot of in-jokes, familiar designs and glorious character moments if you’re a late twentysomething manchild.

Death in comic books isn’t often impressive or affecting. It’s rarely even noticeable and it’s so innately reversible, defeatable and manipulatable that it doesn’t have any meaning at all.

Anyone expecting an Eddie Campbell ‘Batman’ comic set in historic London to have a ‘From Hell’ level of intensity and complexity is going to be a bit disappointed by ‘The Order of the Beasts’…

After the cliffhanger ending to the first volume, and all the sound and thunder of the Jim Lee ‘Coup D’etat’ issue, ‘Sleeper’ returns for its second ’season’ with an issue that is just deliriously great…

“DA FUG!”
‘Seaguy’ is by Grant Morrison, and that means something. What it means is that it’s the work of one of the mere two writers in the whole history of comics who can even begin to be argued to be writers of the first rank full stop. It’s the work of someone about whom using [...]

I’m not sure what I expected a Brian Azzarello ‘Superman’ comic to be like, but I didn’t expect it to be like this.

How fast it all goes wrong…

This book has had a bit of good press, so let me now redress the balance: I’ve given it three issues to impress me and, well, do I look impressed?

‘Gotham Knights’ has been a blighted title since its inception. With issue #50, a change of approach has arrived…

In theory, the combination of indie-comics creators with big mainstream properties is a win-win deal. This isn’t necessarily how it always works…

I read this latest issue of ‘Detective Comics’ under what are perhaps the ideal conditions for reviewing a mainstream comic…

My initial doubts about ‘Plastic Man’ – whether it would sustain itself over the long haul – have quickly vanished over the course of issues #2 and #3…

A tale of two series: one faded bestseller, and one under-selling critical hit. Can this crossover revive the fortunes of both?

‘Godfall’ is an idea we’ve seen before, but creators Turner, Kelly and Caldwell add enough twists to the story to make it work in its own right…

After a couple of issues mostly comprised of big long punch-ups, this issue of ‘Superman/Batman’ provides the payoff – and it’s more than I was expecting…

I do hope we’re not boring you, but here comes another round of fulsome praise for the latest work of Grant Morrison…

Clearly something of a coup for DC here, as it relaunches one of its best-loved characters with a writer/artist of Kyle Baker’s credentials…

I have to say, I’m very sad to see the end of Cameron Stewart’s run on ‘Catwoman’…

‘Human Target’ has become one of the easiest monthly books to pick up without knowing anything about it beforehand – it is dense, involving and brilliant…

After Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee’s award winning ‘Hush’, DC have decided to maintain momentum on the main Batbook by bringing in the entire team behind the Eisner-winning Vertigo title ‘100 Bullets’…

Michael Chabon’s comic book debut is here…

This could be the shape of things to come: the first issue of ‘Tom Strong’ to be written by someone other than Alan Moore…

Old ‘Superboy’ comics are rubbish. The ‘Superboy’ TV series is rubbish. Prequels are usually rubbish. So why is ‘Smallville’ actually good?

It is rare that a master of their craft gets a chance to deliver an entirely appropriate farewell to their art.

Over a third of the way into his story, writer Brian Azzarello and artist Eduardo Risso check in on six of their characters in these short stories…

Reaching as it does the dizzying heights of ‘almost readable’ and ‘bearably mediocre’ this is by far and away the best issue of Ben Raab’s disgracefully merit free run on ‘Green Lantern’.