Comic Reviews


Count Crowley Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter #4 – David Dastmalchian, Lukas Ketner, Lauren Affe & Frank Cvetkovic (Dark Horse Comics)

All good things must come to an end, even Count Crowley Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter. This fourth, and final, issue is, for the time being at least, Jerri Bartman’s curtain call. Having involuntarily become a…


A Priest, a Minister and a Rabbi walk into a bar…

From comics legend, New York Times Best-Selling Graphic Books writer and Eisner Award Hall of Fame inductee Paul Levitz (Brooklyn Blood, Legion of Super-Heroes) and artist Simon Fraser (Kingsman: The Red Diamond, Doctor Who) comes Unfinished Business, a…


Event Leviathan: Checkmate Emerges From the Shadowy Corners of the DC Universe…

The results of the Event Leviathan miniseries established a new world order among the espionage agencies of the DC Universe, now united under the single banner of the mysterious Leviathan! Leviathan has agents and acolytes all over…


Doctor Who: Thirteenth Doctor: Time Out of Mind – Jody Houser, Roberta Ingranata, Giorgio Sposito, Valeria Favoccia, Enrica Eren Angioline and Tracey Bailey (Titan Comics)

We all know by now that the Thirteenth Doctor has a thing for New Year’s Day, rather than necessarily Christmas – the decisions of TV execs have given her that slot, shifting her out of…



TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: URBAN LEGENDS Unveils its Long-Lost Comic Book Finale…

IDW Publishing is proud to announce that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Urban Legends, their monthly comic book series reprinting the incomplete TMNT series originally released from 1996 to 1999, will finally be  concluded with an all-new story running…


Daredevil: No Devils, Only God – Chip Zdarsky, Lalit Kumar Sharma, Jorge Fornes, Jay Leisten, Jordie Bellaire & Java Tartaglia (Marvel)

Faith is a curious thing. It can be the crucible upon which individuals are forged and the rock on which they’re broken, a vessel of hope and one of destruction and a reason for success…


Hellboy Winter Special – Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Scott Allie, Mark Laszlo, Leila Del Luca, Andrea Mutti, Dave Stewart, Michelle Madsen, Clem Robins & Lee Loughridge (Dark Horse Comics)

As the last echoes of Christmas begin to fade and with the New Year still in its infancy, the cold, dark embrace of Winter serves as a timely reminder that ghosts, ghouls, spectres and the…


Things get weird at Dark Horse…

From the world of the Eisner Award-winning Black Hammer series comes a bizarre, sci-fi adventure origin story! Black Hammer writer and co-creator Jeff Lemire and acclaimed artist Tyler Crook (Harrow County, Manor Black) bring the next story from the…


Star Wars: Tie Fighter – Jody Houser, Roge Antonio, Michael Dowling & Juan Gedeon (Marvel)

Now this is an interesting development! I have mentioned in previous missives from Darth Marv’s Tower that the one seemingly unavoidable flaw that is always present in a great many Star Wars comics is the…


Journey to Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker: Allegiance – Ethan Sacks & Luke Ross (Marvel)

It’s not like the new Star Wars film, Rise of Skywalker, needs any more hype, but if you feel the need for an appetiser, then this bright and breezy romp may well fit the bill….