Six months ago, I reviewed ‘Superman’ #700, which had the prologue for Grounded, the new story in which Superman decided he needed to connect with ordinary people and so began to walk from the East Coast of America to the West. I quite liked it.

Let me be clear from the off, this is a very high quality comic. It’s very well written and exceptionally well drawn.

‘Superman’ #700 marks the launch of a new direction for Superman, under the aegis of J. Michael Straczynski, who’s kept himself busy, but is probably still best known as the creator of Babylon 5.

… Bolton Wanderers Nil.

Check it out dude, it’s the Mighty Thor.

This issue wraps up Volume 1 of ‘Supreme Power’ J Michael Straczynski’s free reinterpretation of ‘Squadron Supreme’. It’s also the last issue of the book to come out under Marvel’s Max imprint before moving to the Marvel Knights line…

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.

Produced for roughly one handful of peanuts, in Canada, by the Sci-Fi Channel a couple of years ago this was designed to act as a pilot for a television series.

Supreme Power’ #1 is not quite the stellar first issue one might expect from the man who has recently been setting the comics world afire with the brilliance of his ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ run, but it’s an arresting and accomplished beginning for an ongoing

JMS’ run on ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ has been consistently superb and the latest issue – #51 in new money, #492 in old – marks the beginning of a new arc in the book. It is thus a great jumping on point for all you slack-jawed stragglers.

The thirtieth issue of this new numbering of Marvel’s original Spidey series saw Babylon 5 creator J Michael Straczynski take over the scripting.

It’s a long time ago now, Babylon 5. One of the most compulsive TV projects of the nineties has had little press since it finished shortly before the decade of its manufacture…