The New 52 hits UK newsagents with an anthology featuring Justice League, Action Comics and Green Lantern.

At long last, ‘Action Comics’ #1 is here. Which is something, considering the last time that legitimately could be said was in 1938.

‘DC Universe Presents’ is the latest UK title to reprint US comics for the UK newsstand, and with one great story and two quite good ones it represents very good value for your three quid.

If Grant Morrison’s introduction is to be believed, the comics chosen for DC’s ‘The Black Casebook’ – a collection of Batman issues from the 50s and 60s which influenced Morrison’s run – are generally unpopular among Batman fans, owing to their supernatural and sci-fi content.

‘Final Crisis’ is more like the Elgin marbles than it is like a traditional comic book…

Bruce Wayne RIP?

Grant Morrison’s take on one of Image’s most recognisable properties crossbreeds the two most notable previous ‘eras’ of the book to incendiary effect.

Well, I never expected that.

As 2006 begins, now is the last chance we’ll have to round-up all those things that Shiny Shelf should have reviewed in 2005 but, due to the constraints of time and competence, didn’t get around to. ..

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

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

What rocked Shiny’s world in the last twelve months? The answers are unlikely to surprise you.

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…

“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 [...]

This is Grant Morrison’s last story arc writing ‘New X-Men’. Unsurprisingly, he isn’t going quietly…

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

I love weeks like this, when there are two comics you want to read first. Two comics that in almost any other week, in almost any other situation you’d read before doing anything else…

Please, somebody help me… please…

While sister title ‘Uncanny X-Men’ has changed writers and haemorrhaged artists with alarming frequency in recent years ‘New’ has, despite its own artist-related troubles, pursued a steady course.

Er… is this book supposed to be making sense yet? I sincerely hope not, because if it is then I’m being slow on the uptake.

PVC clad Glaswegian supervillains massacre superheroes then escape straight off the comic’s page? If you hadn’t read the name ‘Grant Morrison’ on the cover of this issue of The Filth, you’d pretty soon guess who the writer was from the contents…

Vertigo has hit a modest purple patch recently, or at least there have been more Vertigo titles that I’ve bothered to pick up.

Cassandra Nova has already stolen Charles Xavier’s body and laid waste to the Shi’ar Empire, and now she’s heading for Earth to destroy all mutantkind. Can the X Men save the day against such implacable odds?