Tag Archive | "DC Comics"

Blackhawks and Dark Justice Leagues….

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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Justice League Dark #2 By Peter Milligan and Mikel Janin The various magical types lurking at the edges of this new DC universe are slowly coming together here in Justice League Dark. Slowly. In fact, in what looked promisingly like a Vertigo-esque title last month gathering together lots of really good characters, we have an [...]

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The Shade #1

Sunday, October 23, 2011

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The Shade #1 By James Robinson and Cully Hammer DC Comics A DC New 52 number 1, but only sort of, since it actually came out in month 2 of the whole DC reboot thing. But it’s not part of that whole reboot thing at all, not so far as I can see. This is [...]

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DC The New 52: Batman and Wonder Woman. DC gets its icons just right

Saturday, October 22, 2011

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Batman # 2 By Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo DC Comics Well, issue 1 impressed greatly, with even Capullo’s art getting a thumbs up. And here’s issue 2 doing exactly the same. The story has bite, intrigue, a setup of a new major threat to Batman and Gotham; The Court Of Owls. And it does [...]

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DC52: Batwoman #2

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

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Batwoman #2 J.H. Williams III, W. Haden Blackman The second issue of JH Williams III and Haden Blackman’s Batwoman proves to be as compelling as the first (reviewed here), opening with a brilliantly kinetic fight sequence, which includes some fabulous double-page splashes of Williams’ amazing artwork. Instead of the normal sequence of square-ish panels they [...]

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DC The New 52: Demon Knights and Superboy….a yes and a no….

Monday, October 17, 2011

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Demon Knights #2 By Paul Cornell and Diogenes Neves Paul Cornell set up what is all too easy to refer to as Justice League Medieval really well last issue, with a group of DC’s magical and historical characters coming together in the Dark Ages. And this issue does well to carry that on, with the [...]

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DC The New 52: Issue 2s – Green lantern continues to surprise me….

Sunday, October 16, 2011

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Green Lantern #2 By Geoff Johns, Doug Manke and Christian Alamy Green Lantern #1 surprised me by how much I really loved what I was reading. And oh my word, much to my surprise, Geoff Johns really makes something very enjoyable and readable here in issue 2. It made me think about the four DC [...]

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DC The New 52… more issue 2s…. Deathstroke, Suicide Squad and Frankenstein.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

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Here we are again with the second issues of some of the DC New 52 series. After really enjoying quite a few more of the first issues far more than I thought I might, I’m now following up the initial thrills of the new with a look at the second issues I said I’d be [...]

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DC52: Detective Comics #2

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

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Detective Comics #2 Tony S Daniel, Ryan Winn, Sandu Florea This second issue opens in Bruce Wayne mode, with him climbing a rock wall – which is in his enormous office at his company. Fellow businessman Hugh Marder swings by to talk about a possible merger with his own company, sees the climbing wall and [...]

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DC 52 – time for those all important issue 2s…

Monday, October 10, 2011

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A whole bunch of us have been enjoying (or sometimes regretting, but mostly enjoying) the huge DC New 52 relaunch of the main DC universe, and we posted up our thoughts on a huge swathe of those first issues throughout September. But there is one vitally important question, which Richard asked of the reviewers last [...]

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DC The New 52 – Swamp Thing and O.M.A.C. number 2s….

Saturday, October 8, 2011

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O.M.A.C. #2 By Dan Didio, Keith Giffen Oh, this is so much fun, so much doing everything right. It’s just a shame that it’s the poorest performing of all the new 52. Maybe Didio, as publisher, will extend it a stay of execution, or possibly, more likely, he’ll have to fall under the wheels of his [...]

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DC The New 52…. straight into month 2… A is for Action and Animal Man

Saturday, October 8, 2011

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Action Comics #2 By Grant Morrison and Brent Anderson So Lex Luthor on this new DC world is just as driven, just as ruthless as he’s always been, just this time round it’s back to square one, with Luthor having to brutally torture the young, jeans clad Superman for information. But who, or what is [...]

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DC: The New 52 ….. the number two test.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

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Okay, 52 titles down with the DC revamp / reboot / re-whatever. We’ve made it to the end of a very, very successful month. Titles have been selling out all over, second, thired (even fourth) prints have been announced. I imagine DC are very, very happy with the response. Throughout the month, I’ve been banging [...]

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DC The New 52 – this is the end….. till tomorrow

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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All-Star Western #1 By Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti and Moritat Another Vertigo style book finds a home at the new DC, and a very good book it is. It’s a bit of a team-up, with Jonah Hex washing up in Gotham of the 1880s, a man out of place in the urban jungle, working alongside [...]

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DC52: Flash!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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The Flash #1 By Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato Okay, simple, one-word review for The Flash? Fun. That’s my over-riding emotion from this, my first look at any comic of the scarlet speedster in I don’t know how many years: fun. I had a big soft spot for Flash when I was a kid; he [...]

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Aquaman…. my review gets eclipsed by Ty Templeton

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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Aquaman #1 By Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis Now, I’ve written about Aquaman before. I wasn’t very nice about him. And it seems I’m one of those people Geoff Johns is talking to in Aquaman #1. Because this isn’t so much a first issue as a series of moments and a big bit of Geoff [...]

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