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Action Comics #4 – Review

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: Man of Steel, meet Man in Steel. The Review: I’ve become a bit wary of DC’s backup and co-features over time.  The fact they hang on to a bigger, stronger storyline definitely poses some drawbacks.  Only rarely do they have a charm and intrigue of [...]

JLA: The Age of Wonder – Review

By: Adisakdi Tantimedh (writer), Galen Showman & P. Craig Russell (artists), Dave McCaig (colorist) The Story: I say, up in the sky!  It’s a bird, it’s a plane—oh, wait, those don’t exist yet. The Review: I wasn’t sure how to classify these DC Comics Presents books.  Even though they’re released as “issues,” they really represent [...]

Action Comics #3 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales (penciller), Rick Bryant (inker), Gene Ha (guest artist), Brad Anderson & Art Lyon (colorists) The Story: Corrupt people rabidly spouting nonsense on TV—what will fiction think of next? The Review: Anybody who’s read much of Superman has wondered this question at some point: which is the real alter-ego, Superman [...]

Action Comics #2 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales & Brent Anderson (pencillers), Rick Bryant (inker), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: We’re no Guantanamo, but we’ve got ways of making an alien in a T-shirt talk. The Review: One thing Morrison does consistently well is place characters into unusual situations, and when it comes to iconic superheroes, that [...]

Young Justice Episode 10 – Review

By: Andrew R. Robinson (writer) The Story: Good luck!  Try not to get us involved in World War III, hm? The Review: From the start, this show has aimed for a more sophisticated, mature kind of tone, which is still something of an oddity for American cartoons.  While the creators’ efforts to produce that kind [...]

Action Comics #1 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales (penciller), Rick Bryant (inker), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: If he falls, a Superman has to get up, dust his jeans off, and hit even harder. The Review: For those of you desperately attempting to push back the memories of Grounded into the far-flung recesses of your brain, don’t [...]

Action Comics #900 – Review

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: Lex Luthor is about to bring fun, love, and joy to all the people of the universe—the crazy part is I am being totally serious right now. The Review: Say what you like about Superman: he can be overly naïve, overbearingly preachy, arguably antiquated, and [...]

Action Comics #899 – Review

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Jesus Merino (artist), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: My, those are some big black balls you’ve got there, Lex Luthor. The Review: It’s been a long, wild journey we’ve had, following Superman’s arch-nemesis on his quest for ultimate power.  He’s faced off against some of the baddest of the baddies in [...]

Action Comics #898 – Review

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Pete Woods (artist), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: Something went severely amiss in Larfleeze and Lex Luthor’s upbringing, as they seriously need to learn to share. The Review: As far as I know, the guest star is a feature exclusive to television shows and comics.  In television, the guests have pull [...]

All-Star Superman (Film) – Review

By: Dwayne McDuffie (writer), Sam Liu (director), Bruce Timm (producer), James Denton, Christina Hendricks, & Anthony LaPaglia (voice actors) The Story: How does Superman spend his last days?  Shuffleboard probably isn’t on the bucket list. The Review: Anyone who has ever tried to adapt anything into film will come across a lot of challenges: how [...]

Action Comics #897 – Review

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Pete Woods (artist), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: It’s the World’s Un-Finest!  Can the world’s greatest mind keep up with the world’s sickest wit?  Yes and no, honestly. The Review: In the DCU, there can be no two personalities more complex and inscrutable than Lex Luthor and the Joker.  Either one [...]

Action Comics #896 – Review

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Pete Woods (artist), Brad Anderson (colorist), Nick Spencer (feature writer), RB Silva (feature penciller), DYM (feature inker), Dave McCaig (feature colorist) The Story: Lex Luthor enlists the Secret Six to get him out of a tight spot.  But things aren’t so cut and dry when they’re facing Vandal Savage, who just [...]

Action Comics Annual #13 – Review

by Paul Cornell (writer), Marco Rudy & Ed Benes (art), Val Staples & Jason Wright (colors), and John J. Hill (letters) The Story: A young Lex Luthor finds himself the unwilling “employee” of Darkseid and, in the back-up, the disciple of Ra’s Al-Ghul. What’s Good: First things first: this issue is $4.99, but it’s a [...]

Action Comics #895 – Review

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Pete Woods (artist), Brad Anderson (colorist), Nick Spencer (back-up writer), RB Silva (back-up penciller), DYM (back-up inker), Dave McCaig (back-up colorist) The Story: Lex Luthor has a brilliant new scheme to use the Black Lantern energy domes for his own purposes.  The immortal Vandal Savage isn’t too stoked about Lex Luthor’s [...]

Action Comics #894 – Review

by Paul Cornell (writer), Pete Woods (art), Brad Anderson (color), and Rob Leigh (letters) The Story: Lex meets Death and tries to worm his way back into the world of the living. What’s Good: If it wasn’t clear before, it sure is now: Paul Cornell gets Lex Luthor.  Even clearer is the fact that this may [...]

Comics You Should Be Reading

Welcome to a new feature here at WCBR, which will hopefully resurface periodically. Here we highlight series that we reviewers feel are not getting the readers, or the attention, that they deserve.  These are books that we’ve been particularly enjoying.  These are DC/Marvel books that should be in the top ten, or at least the [...]

Action Comics #892 – Review

by Paul Cornell (writer), Pete Woods (artist), Pere Perez (artist), Rob Leigh (colorist) The Story: Lex Luthor continues his quest for complete control of everything, after having tasted true power as an Orange Lantern.  However, being so determined to gain domination brings much resentment in the form of super villains.  Lex surely has his work cut [...]

Superman: The Last Family of New Krypton #1 – Review

By: Cary Bates (writer), Renato Arlem (artist), Allen Passalaqua (colorist), Rachel Gluckstern (assistant editor), Mike Carlin (editor) The Story: What would have happened if Jor-El, Lara and Kal-El all escaped the destruction of Krypton? What’s Good and What’s Not So Good: Right off, I really enjoyed Arlem’s art. He puts rich texture and detail onto [...]

Action Comics #891 – Review

by Paul Cornell (writer), Pete Woods (pencils & inks), CAFU (pencils), BIT (inks), Brad Anderson (colors), and Rob Leigh (letters) The Story: Lex Luthor fights Mister Mind for control of his own fantasies. What’s Good: It’s always a pleasure to read a comic that feels wickedly smart and it’s even more special when this comic [...]

Superman: War of the Supermen #2 – Review

By: Sterling Gates & James Robinson (writers), Eduardo Pansica (artist), Wayne Faucher (inker) The Story: General Lane has turned New Krypton into a pile of rubble, killing almost all the Kryptonians on it. Zod’s navy is on its way to Earth for retribution. Kal-El is the only person standing in their way. What’s Good: The [...]

Blackest Night #7 – Review

by Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (pencils), Oclair Albert & Joe Prado (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors), and Nick J. Napolitano (letters) The Story: The nature of the white light of creation stands revealed. What’s Good: How high can a single cliffhanger ending raise the overall experience of an entire issue?  That’s often a question I [...]

Green Lantern #51 – Review

by Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (art), Randy Mayor (colors), and Rob Leigh (letters) The Story: Parallax returns to battle the Black Lantern Spectre. What’s Good: This is a really, really fun issue.  A lot of this is thanks to the twists and turns that Johns provides with the emotional spectrum.  One such twist, involving [...]

Green Lantern #50 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (artist), Christian Alamy, Rebecca Buchman, Tom Nguyen, Mark Irwin, Doug Mahnke (inkers) The Story: The newly reinforced armies of light are making good headway against the black lanterns, but black lantern Spectre is still there, and nothing they do will stop him. So it’s time to pull out the [...]

Adventure Comics #6 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Francis Manapul (artist), Brian Buccellato (colorist) The Story: The Boy of Steel, Part Five: In this 30-page issue, Luthor has the drop on Superboy, who is then forced to gather rare and difficult ingredients for something very surprising that Luthor is doing. In the meantime, Conner’s journal gets filled up with [...]

Adventure Comics #3 – Review

By Geoff Johns and Michael Shoemaker (writers), Francis Manapul and Clayton Henry (artists), Brian Buccellato and Brian Reber (colorists), Elizabeth V. Gehrlein (editor) The Story: If issue #1 was the set-up and issue #2 was the boy-finds-girl, then issue #3 is really the buddy story. Conner (Superboy) and Tim Wayne (Red Robin) are best friends [...]

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