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.

Is the status quo of an unmarried Clark and Lois in the DC reboot all that it seems?

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.

‘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.

Now into its ninth and penultimate season, belated showing on E4 in the UK, ‘Smallville’ is definitely not fresh produce.

‘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.

Writer Paul Levitz revisits the future of ‘Batman Beyond’ in a story that, in spite of being set in a dystopia, provides an upbeat and refreshing alternative to most of DC’s current books.

… Bolton Wanderers Nil.

Or ‘Thursday Comics’, for readers in the UK.

I love DC Comics…

Young Doomsdays in love.

A review of this week’s ‘Batman: Gotham Knight’, and a bit about ‘New Frontier’ and ‘Superman: Doomsday’ while we’re at it…

Who killed Superman? (Clue: For one time only the answer is not Geoff Johns.)

Sadly, Superman’s Return seems to have been eclipsed by the far-less-delayed reappearance of Captain Jack Sparrow…

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

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.

Three crossover titles out this week – House of M #1, Superman/Batman #20, and Marvel Team-Up #9.

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.

It’s time to spin the ‘Wheel of Rucka’ again. Will this highly variable writer deliver a good comic or a very, very bad one?

Yep, it’s this title again… already. What can we say? DC are throwing talent at this book, with interesting results…

Some ideas are as good or as bad as the execution. So much of ‘New Frontier’ sounds terrible in abstract – but in the hands of writer/artist/genius Darwyn Cooke, this may well be the superhero series of the year…

‘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…

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.

It looks like DC has got sick of being accused of having dropped the ball these last couple of years…

This impressive collection brings together short stories, fill-ins and one-offs written by Alan Moore for DC Comics in the mid 1980s…

‘Rush’ demonstrates, conveniently, all the strengths and weaknesses of the series as a whole and is thus a fine example of the series to pick in isolation.

While I enjoyed the first season of ‘Smallville’ I felt that its origins as a purpose-built ‘Buffy’ replacement were somewhat to in evidence…

This is your typical big anniversary issue of a comic book…

Some things are worth travelling for. Take this first Smallville DVD release, for instance, which is only technically available in Canada. It’s well worth finding a friendly importer to get your hands on one…

Looks like there’s some belt tightening going on at DC Comics, with the latest in an ongoing series of culls.

The UK Cartoon Network have been showing this excellent new series across the last few weekends and, as their Australian counterparts did earlier this year, have broadcast this pivotal two-parter before it has even been shown in the States…

Those of you who have read my self aggrandising biography in the ‘Who We Are’ section of this site will know that I’m writing a book on the TV series Smallville, and as such I buy Smallville-set comics like this for research…