Comic Reviews

Sam Wilson and Steve Rogers Come Together In GENERATIONS: THE AMERICAS

Throughout the course of Marvel’s GENERATIONS, our heroes have traveled to different lands and they’ve had a chance to meet their heroic counterparts and inspirations. Now, two of Marvel’s most iconic characters are about to…


The Black Hood: The Bullet’s Kiss – Swierczynski, Gaydos (Dark Circle)

Given the amount of hyperbole – acclaimed writer, superstar artist – and mutual back-slapping that adorns the cover and litters both introduction and afterword of The Black Hood – The Bullet’s Kiss, you find yourself expecting…


Star Wars: Doctor Aphra Volume 1: Aphra – Gillen, Walker, Deering, Fabela & Star Wars: Volume 5: Yoda’s Secret War – Aaron, Thompson, Larroca, Laiso (Marvel)

When I was a bairn and wanted to play Star Wars with my mates we never got very far. Everyone spent ages arguing over who was gonna be Han Solo. Luke was a nice lad…


The Mighty Thor: The Asgard / Shi’ar War – Jason Aaron, Steve Epting & Russell Dauterman (Panini / Marvel)

Every single time I see The Mighty Thor emblazoned on the cover of a book, my inner jukebox automatically starts playing that old Manfred Mann tune The Mighty Quinn but substitutes a lot of the…


Thunderbolts: No Going Back – Jim Zub, Kurt Busiek, Sean Izaakse, Jon Malin, Scott Hanna, Mark Bagley & Matt Yackey (Marvel)

Everyone loves a bad guy or girl made good. Stories of individual redemptive journeys and atoning for past misdemeanours and sins always seem far more believable than those of rosy cheeked, blue eyed, muscles bound…



Amazing Spider-Man: Worldwide: The Osborn Identity – Dan Slott, Stuart Immonen & Giusepe Camuncoli (Panini / Marvel)

Ahab had his white whale, Holmes had Moriarty and Peter Parker has Norman Osborn.  Having fought past the point of physical and nervous exhaustion and beyond the point of all rationality over and over again,…


Gamora: Memento Mori – Nicole Perlman, Marco Checchetto & Andres Mossa (Marvel)

There was time, not all that long ago, when the Guardians of the Galaxy didn’t exist and its members travelled their own paths and, more often than not, left chaos, destruction and misery in their…



The Punisher: End of the Line – Becky Cloonan, Steve Dillon, Laura Braga & Matt Horak (Panini / Marvel)

The last round has been chambered and the end is near as Frank makes everyone face the final curtain… That’s right boys and girls, the Punisher is back to finish what he started in On…


Spider-Gwen: Long Distance – Jason Latour, Tom Taylor, Robbi Rodriguez & Rico Renzi (Marvel)

It’s holiday time for Gwen Stacy and in Long Distance she’s spending what’s traditionally one of the happiest weekends of the year for millions of alternate reality Americans with her family from another world, that…


Inhumans vs. X-Men – Charles Soule, Jeff Lemire, Leinil Francis Yu, Javier Garron & Kennneth Rocafort (Panini / Marvel)

It was only a matter of time until the uneasy truce, reached following the death of Cyclops and the destruction of one of the two Terrigen clouds circling the globe, between mutants and Inhumans broke…